04 July 2021
Two-Minute Features | 11 July 2021

Jesus is the Only Place You Can Find Life (TMF:1650)

Friday, July 09, 2021
Peace to Live By: Jesus is the Only Place You Can Find Life (TMF:1650) - Daniel Litton
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       Then Paul said, “So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.” Certainly, there is nothing that God has said that was wrong. All his ways are the right ways; they are the correct ways. It is his Word that one can live by and actually have life. A lot of you out there are looking for life today. You are currently in your sins, and you’ve you’ve haven’t come to Jesus. Well, I can tell you today that Jesus is the only place you are going to find life, to find real life. Sure, riches promise life, but they can’t deliver. Fame promises life, but it can’t deliver. Friends and spouses promise life, but they cannot give it. Think of all the people you know, Hollywood folks, those who have been rich, had fame, had a spouse, had all the friends in the world, and yet didn’t have life. They ended up killing themselves. Life was miserable.

People Learn to Ignore their Consciences (TMF:1649)

Thursday, July 08, 2021
Peace to Live By: People Learn to Ignore their Consciences (TMF:1649) - Daniel Litton
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       Sin can do this in a couple different ways. First, it deceives a person because they believe that things are not sin when they really are. An unbeliever, for instance, may believe that fornication, sexual activity with another outside of marriage, is in fact ok, that it is acceptable. Sin is deceptive. People learn to ignore the consciences, to go against what they know they ought to do, and as they continue to ignore their consciences, then they end up deceived. and as they continue to ignore their consciences, then they end up deceived. They no longer feel the normal feeling that this or that is wrong. The second way sin deceives a person is by the false belief that one may be acceptable before God by being good enough. Almost all of false religion is built on this premise. It is built on the idea that a person is good or can be good enough in order to make God happy. And that is great deception indeed. We were all there at one point or another. Paul was there, I was there, you were there.

The Commandment Makes Sin Come Alive (TMF:1648)

Wednesday, July 07, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Commandment Makes Sin Come Alive (TMF:1648) - Daniel Litton
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       And this what? Well, it causes sin to come alive; it causes the death, the feeling of conviction. People realize where they are sinning. They realize they are in the wrong, that God is against their behaviors. The goal, the hope is, that they feel bad. This bad feeling is necessary in order for them to turn from their sins and come to Christ. What is scary here is that Paul says, for him personally, and this applies to all, is that sin deceived him. Sin can do this in a couple different ways. First, it deceives a person because they believe that things are not sin when they really are. An unbeliever, for instance, may believe that fornication, sexual activity with another outside of marriage, is in fact ok, that it is acceptable. Sin is deceptive. People learn to ignore the consciences, to go against what they know they ought to do.

The Commandment Brings Realization of Sin (TMF:1647)

Tuesday, July 06, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Commandment Brings Realization of Sin (TMF:1647) - Daniel Litton
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       Next Paul says, verse 9: “I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good” (Romans 7:9-12, ESV). You see, the commandment, God’s Word, shows the sinner where he or she is wrong. It convicts a person of sin. Paul said, “the commandment came” and then what happened? He says, “sin came alive and I died.” Sin was made manifest by the presence of the commandment. The commandment made Paul realize, as it does many people today, how they are not living up to God’s standard. And this what? Well, it causes sin to come alive; it causes the death, the feeling of conviction. People realize where they are sinning. They realize they are in the wrong, that God is against their behaviors.

The Beginning & Consequence of Sin (TMF:1646)

Monday, July 05, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Beginning & Consequence of Sin (TMF:1646) - Daniel Litton
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       Then Paul says, “For apart from the law, sin lies dead.” We talked about this in Romans chapter 5, remember? In the comparison between Adam and Christ. Without any type of Law system, there is no law-breaking. Adam broke the law of God in the Garden of Eden. He broke God’s law. After Adam and Eve were banned from the Garden, there weren’t any more commandments. Yet, everyone born into the world would now have a sin nature. But there weren’t any more commandments until later. People were sinning, Adam and Eve and their descendants, all the way up until the Flood of Noah. Somehow I think the lack of commandments during this time somehow ties into the fact that God “regretted that he had made man on the earth” (Genesis 6:6, ESV). Next Paul says, verse 9: “I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me” (Romans 7:9, 10, ESV).