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Two-Minute Features | 11 September 2022

Understanding But Not Doing (TMF:1935)

Friday, September 09, 2022
Peace to Live By: Understanding But Not Doing (TMF:1935) - Daniel Litton
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       When we don’t practice the word, we are like who one in the bathroom sees what issues we have in the bathroom mirror. We see the hair needs combed, the face needs shaved, the skin needs makeup, but then we just walk away. We are seers only. We understand the problems. It’s just, we don’t do anything about them. We just walk away. And in reality, we don’t know how to do anything about them. We just have an understanding of what the issues are. It would be like that even though we understand the hair needs combed, we don’t know that a comb exists. Though we understand the face needs shaved, we don’t know how to do it. Though we understand the skin looks ruff, we don’t realize there is this thing called makeup that, once applied, makes us look a whole lot better. Yes, knowledge of the issues doesn’t do us any good if we don’t know how to work through them, to work them out. Listen to what Jesus is saying today.

With Knowledge Comes Pride (TMF:1934)

Thursday, September 08, 2022
Peace to Live By: With Knowledge Comes Pride (TMF:1934) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s not miss that last part of the first sentence there. It says we become deceived when we are a hearer only, and not a doer. Why is this? Because of the core, basic fact that with knowledge comes pride. People think that if they are very knowledgable, that they then are better than most. They think they understand things through and through, and are a better person as a result. It’s not the person who knows, though, who is smart in God’s eyes, or anyone’s eyes really. It is the person who does. A whole entire church of people can understand the Word of God, the Bible, better than most. If they don’t know how to live, and I mean really live it, then they are deceived. Their knowledge has become a stumbling stone for them. When we don’t practice the word, we are like who one in the bathroom sees what issues we have in the bathroom mirror. We see the hair needs combed, the face needs shaved, the skin needs makeup, but then we just walk away. We are seers only. We understand the problems. It’s just, we don’t do anything about them. We just walk away.

Applying What We Receive (TMF:1933)

Wednesday, September 07, 2022
Peace to Live By: Applying What We Receive (TMF:1933) - Daniel Litton
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       James continues: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.” James just shared with us an important, pivotal, and key truth that we need to make certain that we understand. Remember, we have to “receive with meekness the word implanted.” We know, or should know by now, that just because we receive the word implanted, that doesn’t mean that it cultivates any fruit into our lives. I love to study. I like to read and reread the same things over and over. In fact, if it’s a particularly good book, I may read it fifteen to twenty times over in order to fully understand it. However, just because I may read it over and over, it isn’t going to do me any good if I don’t put its concepts into practice. If I don’t apply it, if I don’t practice it, I just know it. I become a hearer only, and not a doer.

Receiving The Word of God (TMF:1932)

Tuesday, September 06, 2022
Peace to Live By: Receiving The Word of God (TMF:1932) - Daniel Litton
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       The second half of this verse is kind of hard because it says we are to “receive with meekness the implanted word.” How do we receive something that is implanted? To me, that doesn’t make sense. In looking at other versions of the Scriptures, it is my conclusion that the verse would probably be more accurately read “receive with meekness the word implanted.” That makes more sense. We receive this word, and in receiving it, it is implanted into us. What word, though? James tells us that it’s the word “which is able to save your souls.” This must mean the Word of God. So, the verse shows us that the Word of God is powerful toward us, in that it has the ability to grow us out, to make us better when carefully studied and considered. This is our meekness, our obedience. James continues: “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.”

Surrendering Wantingness (TMF:1931)

Monday, September 05, 2022
Peace to Live By: Surrendering Wantingness (TMF:1931) - Daniel Litton
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       Therefore, all aggravation has its root in wants and cravings. How do we give up this aggravation, then? You give up aggravation by surrendering to an attitude of wantingness. Whatever want you have needs to be given up because a strong yearning for something to happen blocks out God’s power from flowing. Give up that wish for other people to treat you how you think they should. You will find that, in doing so, people will come to treat you better and better. For the person sitting in traffic, give up the desire to get to work in the fastest amount of time possible. If the wife wanting your husband to spend more time with you, decide you will enjoy the evening regardless of what he does. When your craving has been relinquished—the spiritual block as been removed—and what you really wanted can then come into your life. I know, it sounds backwards, but this is the best way to get what you want.