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.

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Revelation 22

Reading my personal devotion I just finished Revelation. What a lot information found in this book. The verses that jumped out at me are found below. But the whole chapter is exciting and a challenge.


Revelation 22:11-14
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filfthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give very man according as his work shall be.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

New Heaven New Earth

Revelation 21:1-4
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: (John speaking) for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God ut of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.


See Revelation 21 for all that will be in the new heaven and new earth.

Revelation 20:11-15

KJV
And I (John) saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

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My Word For The Year Is Focus

I was given a challenge at the beginning of the year to pick out a word and then write down everything I could and do that involves that word.

I chose the word focus.  I have ADHD so focusing on something for any length of time is a challenge in itself. But I got a notebook and began to write down the things I could focus on.  So far I am up to 57 things.

The last one I wrote down was to focus on the things that I do well. I thought that was a good one. Since I do have problems with focusing if I just focus on a few things and I do them well, then I am not going to be so frustrated. And the more I do them the better I will get at doing them. Sounds good to me.


So I am asking you to focus on the things you do best and see what happens.