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Two-Minute Features | 11 November 2018

God Wants Us to Remain Faithful to Him, Part 2 (TMF:1015)

Friday, November 09, 2018
Peace to Live By: God Wants Us to Remain Faithful to Him, Part 2 (TMF:1015) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul said we are to “continue in the faith, stable and steadfast.” So, obviously, once we have become saved, we never want to go back to our former manner of living—that way of living before we were saved, where we just did whatever we wanted to do and followed the ways of this world. Paul also said, “not shifting from the hope of the gospel.” That means we are always looking forward to the next life to come—to Heaven. This life is temporal and passing away. What can happen to a believer is that he or she may be lead astray by forms of teaching that are in error. Indeed, there are many Bible teachers out there in the world, and many of them don’t follow the truth behind God’s Word.

God Wants Us to Remain Faithful to Him, Part 1 (TMF:1014)

Thursday, November 08, 2018
Peace to Live By: God Wants Us to Remain Faithful to Him, Part 1 (TMF:1014) - Daniel Litton
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       And just as God displays and acts upon faithfulness toward his Word and the things that he promises us each individually, he expects us to remain faithful to him. Turn with me in your Bibles, or tap in your Bible apps, to Colossians chapter 3. Go to verse 21. We read: “And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister” (Colossians 1:21-23, ESV). See, God wants us, as believers, to remain faithful to himself and his Word. He wants us to remain steadfast in the truth that we have been taught by good Bible teachers, to remain true to those things that we know in our hearts to be true.

None of Us Have Displayed Complete Honesty (TMF:1013)

Wednesday, November 07, 2018
Peace to Live By: None of Us Have Displayed Complete Honesty (TMF:1013) - Daniel Litton
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       The following is written in Romans chapter 3, starting in verse 2: “The Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God. What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged” (Romans 3:2-4, ESV). So, it is true that each one of us as humans is dishonest. That is, none of us have ever displayed complete honesty in all things, at all times, and in every way. Because we have sin-natures, all of us have failed from time to time. Now, at times people may judge God as a liar, but any judgment brought against him is shown to be unjust. This again is because God is always true to himself, to his character.

Some Have Difficulty Understanding Faithfulness (TMF:1012)

Tuesday, November 06, 2018
Peace to Live By: Some Have Difficulty Understanding Faithfulness (TMF:1012) - Daniel Litton
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       God was faithful the Israelites in the past, to Jesus his Son, and is to us as Christians—always. For some of us, that’s hard to understand, how a person could stay truthful and honest and trustworthy at all times. If we grew up around untrustworthy people or an untrustworthy parent, you may have a particularly difficult time understanding faithfulness. If your mother or father promised you things as a child only to never fulfill those promises, that affected your childhood development. You may not trust most of the people most of the time. Maybe you were burned over and over again. Whatever others have done, you can rest on this one fact, and that is that God is always faithful. What he says in his Word he does; he never fails. Whatever he promises us, he stray true to fulfilling it. He is with us all the time, no matter what, and never leaves us. Truly, God is faithful.

God is Faithful & Always Stays True to His Word (TMF:1011)

Monday, November 05, 2018
Peace to Live By: God is Faithful & Always Stays True to His Word (TMF:1011) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, as I’ve stated beforehand, some us of are better at some of the fruits than others, and some of us need a lot of work in this or that area. I would say that we all have our weak points. There are those fruits that seem much harder for us to display and live out, and at times we may feel very weak in a certain area. But the good news is that God, through his Spirit, will help us to grow in all these areas as we yield to him and work with him to further develop our character. In discussing faithfulness I first want to talk about the fact that God is faithful. It is true that God always stays true to his word, no matter what. God was faithful the Israelites in the past, to Jesus his Son, and is to us as Christians—always. For some of us, that’s hard to understand, how a person could stay truthful and honest and trustworthy at all times. If we grew up around untrustworthy people or an untrustworthy parent, you may have a particularly difficult time understanding faithfulness.