04 October 2020
Two-Minute Features | 11 October 2020

God is Easy to Get Along With (TMF:1475)

Friday, October 09, 2020
Peace to Live By: God is Easy to Get Along With (TMF:1475) - Daniel Litton
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       God is not going to force his gift of acceptance and salvation on anyone. So, I plead with you to make that choice today—to choose Jesus, to choose his love, and to realize he is not too hard to please. He doesn’t expect too much of us that we will never be able to make him happy. I believe God is more easy to get along with than we often believe that he is, and he wants to show that to you today. So, if you would like to accept Jesus as your personal Savior and Guide in life, then please follow my lead in this simple prayer. God, I have done many wrong things in my life. I have not lived up to your standards. But today I understand that Jesus can make me right with you. I want to accept his sacrifice on the cross for my sins I’ve done against you, and I do believe that he rose from the grave and is with you today in Heaven. I want to turn from trying to do things my way and accept you as my Guide. So, please, Father, start to change me, and make me to become like you want me to be, like Jesus. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Are You Willing to Turn from Your Sins? (TMF:1474)

Thursday, October 08, 2020
Peace to Live By: Are You Willing to Turn from Your Sins? (TMF:1474) - Daniel Litton
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       Anyone can come to God today through Jesus Christ. No matter who you are, no matter what you’ve done in your life, no matter how many sins you’ve committed against God or how big or small, you can come to God today and he will completely accept you. If you are willing to turn from your sins—the things that you know are wrong in your life—and come to God today, he will be more than willing to accept you. God receives people with open arms, and it is his desire to shed his love on people. But people have to be willing to let him in; they have to be willing to make the choice to come to him for forgiveness and acceptance. God is not going to force his gift of acceptance and salvation on anyone. So, I plead with you to make that choice today—to choose Jesus, to choose his love, and to realize he is not too hard to please. He doesn’t expect too much of us that we will never be able to make him happy. I believe God is more easy to get along with than we often believe that he is, and he wants to show that to you today.

Jesus Wants Everyone to Come to Him (TMF:1473)

Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Peace to Live By: Jesus Wants Everyone to Come to Him (TMF:1473) - Daniel Litton
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       The reality is that Jesus wants everyone to come to him with an open heart. He wants everyone to believe in him so that they can be saved from their sins and have eternal life with him forever. The fact of the matter is that when he came to earth, some 2,000 years ago, he died on the cross for the sins of the whole world, for every person who had ever lived at that time, and for every person who was to live in the future. By trusting in his sacrifice on the cross for sins, making a payment acceptable to God the Father for sin, anyone can be saved from God’s wrath to come in the future. You see, God requires every person who ever lives to have a payment for sin. Everyone, the Bible tells us, has sinned and fallen short of what God expects from us, how he expects us to live in our lives. The only sacrifice that is acceptable to him is Christ’s perfect sacrifice on the cross. Trusting in that sacrifice is the only way we can be made right with God. No other way will get us to Heaven; no other way is acceptable to God.

Why Did Jesus Go to the Cross? (TMF:1472)

Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Peace to Live By: Why Did Jesus Go to the Cross? (TMF:1472) - Daniel Litton
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       It is true that initially he asked the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane if he would let the cup of the cross pass from him. But God in essence told him that if he didn’t go to the cross that everyone in the world would be condemned. So, the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus, “who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2, ESV). Jesus went to the cross for us because he loved us. The Apostle Paul told the Thessalonians, “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word” (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, ESV). Jesus spent his life helping us by teaching us and giving light to the dark world, and then ultimately through the sufferings of the cross so that anyone can be saved from sin and its power. He loved us that much, and wants us to follow his example of obedience to the Father and serving our fellow man with all our hearts.

The Attitude of a True Servant (TMF:1471)

Monday, October 05, 2020
Peace to Live By: The Attitude of a True Servant (TMF:1471) - Daniel Litton
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       So, Jesus says that the one who is a servant is the one who is a slave. Now, obviously, a slave virtually had no say in what he was doing when he was working. He did whatever his master told him to do. That’s the true attitude of a servant. Paul told slaves in his day to work heartily. Remember what he said: “Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ” (Colossians 3:22-24, ESV). Rewards that we will receive in the future when we go to Heaven are further motivation for us to succeed and do a good job. Jesus himself obviously gave us the perfect example of one who served, and then who suffered greatly in his execution on our behalf.