01 November 2020
Two-Minute Features | 08 November 2020

The Current vs. the Future, Part 2 (TMF:1495)

Friday, November 06, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Current vs. the Future, Part 2 (TMF:1495) - Daniel Litton
(Tap or right-click link to download two-minute feature)

       There won’t be any shootouts, nor cemeteries, nor tombstones, but everybody is going to live forever. All there will be is life in the air. The Apostle Paul had something important to tell us regarding this life and how we see things. He told the church at Corinth, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known” (1 Corinthians 13:12, ESV). Several things are interesting about this verse, and we should know that he is comparing how we see things now, in this world, with how we are going to see things in the next life. We think we know a lot right now, but the reality is, is that we really don’t know much at all. We really have no idea of how much there is to know. Paul also told the Corinthian church later in time that he knew a man who had been to Heaven, and he was probably talking about himself. He said of this man, “he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter” (2 Corinthians 12:4, ESV).

The Current vs. the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1494)

Thursday, November 05, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Current vs. the Future, Part 1 (TMF:1494) - Daniel Litton
(Tap or right-click link to download two-minute feature)

       I think the more we become familiar with our current world, I think sometimes the more we cannot wait for the next one to come. We know and have become familiar with the effects of sin around us. What I want to talk about today is quite a bit different then what I have been talking about, and that is Heaven. The place that we are going to go to when we die, that is, if we are in personal relationship with Jesus, is going to be an awesome place. It’s not going to be old, but rather it will be new. It will be streets of gold instead of dust. There are going to be a lot of people there, and everyone is going to love Jesus and his ways. Everyone is going to be in perfect harmony with one another. There won’t be any shootouts, nor cemeteries, nor tombstones, but everybody is going to live forever. All there will be is life in the air. The Apostle Paul had something important to tell us regarding this life and how we see things. He told the church at Corinth, “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known” (1 Corinthians 13:12, ESV).

Gaining Eternal Life Today (TMF:1493)

Wednesday, November 04, 2020
Peace to Live By: Gaining Eternal Life Today (TMF:1493) - Daniel Litton
(Tap or right-click link to download two-minute feature)

       Anyone can gain eternal life today. Any person at the sound of my voice can enter God’s peace and rest today, and gain all the benefits that God bestows upon those who will accept his offer. Heaven is open to everyone who will believe in Jesus. God wants everyone to enjoy being with him forever and the enormous benefits that Heaven has to offer. But people have to make that choice; God can’t do it for us. If you would like to come into personal relationship with God today through Jesus Christ, and gain eternal life, and peace with God forever, then please follow my lead in this prayer: God, I come to you today separated from you. But I have decided I believe Jesus died for my sins on the cross, and that he rose from the grave, and I want to accept his death and resurrection for me. I want to start following your way of doing things, and leave my old life behind. So, Father, please change me from the inside out, and help me to become more like you want to be, more like Jesus. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Is there an Afterlife? (TMF:1492)

Tuesday, November 03, 2020
Peace to Live By: Is there an Afterlife? (TMF:1492) - Daniel Litton
(Tap or right-click link to download two-minute feature)

       Jesus said on one occasion to some people who didn’t believe in the afterlife, “And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong” (Mark 12:26, 27, ESV). You see, there really is an afterlife, and there really is a Heaven, and there really is a Hell. And people are going to both places. It is very important for you today to make sure you are going to go to the right place. It’s not worth spending an eternity forever in the future being tormented in every moment for the sake of holding onto sin and refusing to accept the truth—to accept Jesus as God. Yes, God sends people to Hell when the do not repent and turn to him, but didn’t you take part in that choice? God doesn’t want to send anyone to Hell. It is because a person does not believe and will not repent of his or her sin that the person ends up going there.

Our Works Will be Evaluated (TMF:1491)

Monday, November 02, 2020
Peace to Live By: Our Works Will be Evaluated (TMF:1491) - Daniel Litton
(Tap or right-click link to download two-minute feature)

       Jesus will evaluate our works at what is called the Judgment Seat of Christ. These works will be evaluated on whether they were done with right motive, or whether we did them with an ulterior motive, like the praise of our fellow brothers and sisters or even just to be seen by others. God will evaluate our thoughts, our words, and our behaviors to see how they line up with what he has taught us in his Word. That’s one reason why it’s important for us to watch what we are doing even when no one else is around or no one else knows our thoughts. God sees everything that is going on internally besides externally. Our hope when we initially get to Heaven is to hear our Lord say, “‘Well done, good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:21, ESV). And Jesus also said in Revelation 2:7, “To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God’” (ESV). Think of the best food you’ve ever ate, and this will be a hundred times better.