11 July 2021
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Accepting Jesus Also as Lord (TMF:1655)

Friday, July 16, 2021
Peace to Live By: Accepting Jesus Also as Lord (TMF:1655) - Daniel Litton
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       When a person becomes a Christian then, at the moment he or she accepts what Jesus has accomplished for them by his death and resurrection, he or she what? Well, the person accepts Jesus as Savior. But the person also accepts him as Lord. Well, the person accepts Jesus as Savior. But the person also accepts him as Lord. What does that mean? It means that the person has decided to agree with God’s law. It means that those things the person used to question, or say weren’t sin, those things he or she is now saying, “Yes, I agree with God. That is sin and this is sin.” There has to be an identification of sin, to some level, to some degree, in order for a person to come into personal relationship with God. It is like the verse in Amos, which says, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3, KJV). Certainly there are things that the person doesn’t come to understand as sin right away at the moment he or she becomes saved.

What is the Sin-Nature Within Us? (TMF:1654)

Thursday, July 15, 2021
Peace to Live By: What is the Sin-Nature Within Us? (TMF:1654) - Daniel Litton
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       God’s law is sound, it is always correct. The issue for us is that we have broken God’s law. We cannot try to say that God’s law is immoral or wrong. If we do, we will lose out. God will win. And it isn’t that God’s law is causing us to sin either. What is causing us to sin? Yes, it’s that sin-nature that resides in us, that which we have inherited all the way back to Adam. What is the sin-nature? It’s that drive, the feeling, the other angel on our shoulder, telling us to question what God has said. It is to question God’s law. To say, “Did God really say this or that?” Or to say, “Yes, God said it, but he is incorrect in what he has said.” When a person becomes a Christian then, at the moment he or she accepts what Jesus has accomplished for them by his death and resurrection, he or she what? Well, the person accepts Jesus as Savior. But the person also accepts him as Lord.

God's Law is Sound, Always Correct (TMF:1653)

Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Peace to Live By: God's Law is Sound, Always Correct (TMF:1653) - Daniel Litton
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       A police officer may pull a person over for not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. And the person might say, “I slowed down enough to look both ways, and there was no traffic. I was acting safely when I didn’t come to a complete stop. That law is dumb.” That’s not the point, however. The point is that at the time you decided to drive, you agreed to follow the laws of driving. And, that being the case, the problem isn’t whether or not the law is correct or incorrect, the problem is that the motorist violated the law. And that’s why the person has been pulled over. It is true that sometimes human laws don’t make any sense because they have been created by secular people who do not follow God’s laws. What’s uncomfortable for us is that God is never in the wrong when he pulls a person over. God’s law is sound, it is always correct. The issue for us is that we have broken God’s law. We cannot try to say that God’s law is immoral or wrong. If we do, we will lose out.

God's Law Never Changes (TMF:1652)

Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Peace to Live By: God's Law Never Changes (TMF:1652) - Daniel Litton
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       I think as Americans we have come to learn to question our laws on a frequent basis. We elect politicians to change our laws when we don’t like them as they currently are. With God’s law, however, things are quite different. God’s law never changes. It was the same yesterday, it is the same today, and it will be the same tomorrow. Even coming from the Old Testament to the New Testament, God’s law never changed. You ever thought about that? What was sin in the Old Testament is still sin even today. Now, that’s not to say we have to keep the ceremonial parts of the Jewish Law in order to be clean before God. We don’t need to do that because of Christ. What was immoral back then, yup, it’s still immoral today. A lot of people don’t realize this fact. We may try to argue with the law, and say that the law is incorrect or stupid. I think for a lot of people this manifests itself in driving around town.

Released from The Ceremonial Requirements (TMF:1651)

Monday, July 12, 2021
Peace to Live By: Released from The Ceremonial Requirements (TMF:1651) - Daniel Litton
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       “Did that which is good, then [the law, the commandment], bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure” (Romans 7:13, ESV). We, as Christians, have been released from the ceremonial requirements of the Jewish Law. Now, some of you are thinking, “I have never followed the Jewish Law. I’m not a Jew; I’m a Gentile.” For most folks, that is true. We never followed the Jewish Law in our lives. We understand that God required the Israelites, however, before Christ to follow his Law in order to be approved by him, to be pleasing to him. Back then, if you were a follower of God, and you didn’t follow the law, you failed to follow it, you were at risk of God’s immediate judgment. Sometimes that judgment came from the hand of God himself, and sometimes it came in the form of governing from Israel as a Nation. Nevertheless, it was very important for the Jew to follow God’s Law to the ‘T.’