10 October 2021
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Anyone Can Have New Life in Jesus Today (TMF:1720)

Friday, October 15, 2021
Peace to Live By: Anyone Can Have New Life in Jesus Today (TMF:1720) - Daniel Litton
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       “I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:50-53, ESV). The good news today is that anyone can experience this process by the Spirit. Anyone can have new life in Jesus today. You can gain new life now, becoming born again, a new creature in Christ, and be indwelled by the Spirit. And this will lead to new life and physical bodies in the future, when we are ultimately with Jesus. By Jesus’ dying on the cross and resurrection from the dead, he has made all of this possible for you today. He is physically in Heaven today, we can be there with him too someday. Trust in Christ’s sacrifice on your behalf and you will enter real life today.

Our Transformation in the Future (TMF:1719)

Thursday, October 14, 2021
Peace to Live By: Our Transformation in the Future (TMF:1719) - Daniel Litton
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       For those of you who care about your appearance (which really should be all of all), there will be perfection. Total loss of excess weight and perfect physiques. Anyway, being sin-free is what we ultimately long for and want. That should be our desire that we currently have. To be able to please God fully, one hundred percent of the time. And all of this new life in our new body is a process the is brought about by the Holy Spirit. Note the famous passage of Scripture from the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15: “I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.” (1 Corinthians 15:50-53, ESV).

The Spirit Works Life in Us (TMF:1718)

Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Spirit Works Life in Us (TMF:1718) - Daniel Litton
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       The Spirit works life in us. He works out his fruit in us, which Paul talked about in Galatians chapter 5. He reinvents our characters. We are no longer hopeless but hopeful. We are no longer negative and complaining, but full of faith. He works brotherly and sisterly love in us. We find that we really love our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. The Spirit gifts us so that we can help our fellow members in our church in various ways. He works out our shining of lights before others, before those who don’t know God yet. All kinds of things exist, ways that produce life, that the Spirit works in us then. And the culmination of all of this is that at the time we die—at the time we leave this earth, or when we take part in the Rapture—we will ultimately be transformed into having a perfect, physical body, a body which is sin-free. For those of you who care about your appearance (which really should be all of all), there will be perfection. Total loss of excess weight and perfect physiques.

Our Bodies Remain Dead Because of Sin (TMF:1717)

Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Peace to Live By: Our Bodies Remain Dead Because of Sin (TMF:1717) - Daniel Litton
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       Paul also brings up the fact that even though the Spirit makes his home with us, our bodies still remain dead because of sin. Dead? What does that mean? This confirms what we learned in the last chapter, in Romans 7, about the fact that we still, even as Christians, retain the sin nature in our bodies. That’s what dead means. We don’t lose the sin-nature at the moment we become Christians. We still have the ability to sin surely, as I’m sure anyone can testify about us, and we still do and will sin unfortunately. Realistically, there are still sinful things we need to overcome in our lives after our conversation—sinful thought patterns, for instance, that we may not even recognize we have. We should appear to be growing in Christ. There should be a notable difference in us over time, which is another baseline test for those of you who are wondering. The Spirit works life in us. He works out his fruit in us, which Paul talked about in Galatians chapter 5.

The Two Benefits to Becoming a Christian (TMF:1716)

Monday, October 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Two Benefits to Becoming a Christian (TMF:1716) - Daniel Litton
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       Mainly, the two things are that we are new creations and indwelled by the Spirit of God, as I’ve been talking about. But Paul says here that anyone of which the Holy Spirit does not abide in their bodies does not even know God. That’s one way a person understands if he or she is truly born again. As Paul is going to tell us next week, “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God” (Romans 8:16, ESV). The Apostle John would put it this way: “And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us” (1 John 3:24, ESV). If you’re not sure if you’re really a Christian today, this is a good baseline test for you. We as Christians feel God’s presence, we sense his encouragement and help, we feel his conviction from time to time. We sense we are a believer by God’s presence. If you’re a seeker today listening, understand that other religions don’t offer this; they don’t offer their followers being in indwelled by God himself. This is definitely unique to Christianity.