How Shall We Live?

How shall we live was part of my Pastor's message yesterday. And his message was taken from Malachi 4. The last book of the Old Testament.

Verse 4 was the key thought and it reads (KJV) "Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statues and judgements."

Now we don't live under the law any more but by grace of God. But the law was to show God's people the Israelites a standard of living. God knew that no one could keep all these laws but they given as an example of how God wanted His people to live.

The law that the Pastor was talking about and the Bible verse is found in Exodus chapter 20:1-17 and we know them as the Ten Commandments. These Commandments today have been taken mostly public places. But I thought it would be good to review them.

1. Thou shat have no other gods before me. (TV, computers, spots.) Those would be our gods of today and there are other things that if they come before God they are gods.

2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.  Thou shall not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

3. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; (or misuse His Name) for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in in them is, and rested the seventh day: where fore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

5. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

6. Thou shalt not kill.

7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

8. Thou shalt not steal.

9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's hours, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Some of the things mentioned we don't have today as they did when these commandments were written. But we have other things in our time that could replace the things that are different.

So how shall we live? Loving the Lord and trusting in Him that He knows what is going to happen in our lives and have a high standard of living so that we can please the Lord.