How Shall We Live?

SERIES: HONEY, HAMMER AND HOPE

MESSAGE: How Shall We Live?

TEXT: Malachi 3:16–4:6

DATE: December 29, 2024

MESSAGE BY: Pastor Tim Lewis

1. How have you loved us?
   (Mal. 1:1–6; Rom. 5:8; 1 John 3:16)

   1. I chose you.

   2. I recreated you.
      (1 Pet. 1:3–9, 18–19)

2. How have we despised your name?
   (Mal. 1:6–10, 14)

   1. You have not reverenced me.

   2. You have not honored me in your worship.
      (1 Cor. 11:17–22, 27)

   3. You have not rightly taught God’s word.
      (Mal. 2:5–9; 2 Tim. 2:15–18)

   4. You have been disloyal in your homes.
      (Mal. 2:11, 14–16)

3. How have we wearied the Lord?
   (Mal. 2:17)

   1. You act unjustly.

   2. You accuse the Lord of injustice.

4. How can we return to the Lord?
   (Mal. 3:7)

   1. Obey the Law of God?

   2. Respect one another.
      (Matt. 5:17–20, 7:12)

5. How do we rob God?
   (Mal. 3:8–12)

   1. By not giving your tithes.

   2. By not trusting in the Lord.
      (Luke 6:38)

6. What must we do?
   (Mal. 4:2, 4–6)

   1. Fear the Lord.

   2. Remember the Lord.

   3. Trust the Lord to change you.
      (Phil. 1:6, 9–11)