19 September 2021
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God Will Lead Us in His Timing (TMF:1705)

Friday, September 24, 2021
Peace to Live By: God Will Lead Us in His Timing (TMF:1705) - Daniel Litton
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       We need to be able to differentiate between what the Spirit of God wants from us and what Satan and his demons are trying to convey to us. This is something we have to do; it is a choice that we have to make. When we trust in God, he will lead us where we are supposed to go. However, sometimes he doesn’t let us in what that’s going to be until it’s time for us to know. Sometimes God doesn’t work ahead like we have often wanted to do. Nevertheless, he tells us what we are to do when the time is right. That’s why we can lie down at night and sleep sound even if we don’t have our answer yet, because we know that at the right time God will lead us in the right direction. Most of the time God just wants us to focus on our current day. And if we try to work ahead, we don’t have the grace we need to do that. God doesn’t give us extra grace in advance, but he gives us what we need right now only. This is walking according to the Spirit. We walk according to the flesh at the moment we try to do things how we want to do them, when we want to do them, in trying to work ahead.

Following the Spirit vs. Random Rules (TMF:1704)

Thursday, September 23, 2021
Peace to Live By: Following the Spirit vs. Random Rules (TMF:1704) - Daniel Litton
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       We still have temptations to sin, but our overall drive is to want to please God. We depend on God to pick up where we lack, and we do what we feel he wants us to do. Now, walking by the Spirit isn’t just not doing certain sins, and it’s not just randomly obeying different commandments from the New Testament in a legalistic fashion. Rather, it is following what we feel God wants us to be doing with our lives, where we feel he is leading us, doing what he has gifted us to do. Remember those spiritual gifts passages? We are going to talk about this later in Romans. God gifts each of us differently to do certain things in life, and that’s what he want us to be doing, to be focusing our time on. We need to be able to differentiate between what the Spirit of God wants from us and what Satan and his demons are trying to convey to us. This is something we have to do; it is a choice that we have to make. When we trust in God, he will lead us where we are supposed to go.

How We Lived Under the Old Man (TMF:1703)

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Peace to Live By: How We Lived Under the Old Man (TMF:1703) - Daniel Litton
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       We can say no to lust, to lying, to stealing, to unforgiveness, whatever it is, whatever sin we consider, we have the free choice now to not practice that sin. Before, back at the time we were unbelievers, we were slaves of sin. We couldn’t stop sinning even if we wanted to. At the end of the day, we would justify whatever wrong we were doing. We would look a woman in a lustful way, and say, “Ah, I’m just a man and that’s the way it is. That’s the way nature works.” Or, we would steal something from the place we worked, and say, “Ah, I work hard for them and they owe it me. It’s alright to take it.” Or, we would lie, and then say, “Come on, everyone lies. Just be wise about it and don’t get caught, and everything will be fine.” That’s how we were. What does it mean then to walk according to the Spirit? For sure, walking according to the Spirit means that we obey what God has outlined in his Word. We don’t practice the things that God says are sin. Because of our faith in Jesus and the fact that we are new creations indwelled by the Spirit of God we really lose our desire to want to sin.

Our Performance vs. Christ's Performance (TMF:1702)

Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Peace to Live By: Our Performance vs. Christ's Performance (TMF:1702) - Daniel Litton
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       That’s what Christ does for people. He wipes their slates clean. And even for people who have already accepted him, as John said in the verse we read a little bit ago, God can even wipe away the Christian’s sin. Of course, this doesn’t mean we should sin at will due to the fact we can escape mental and emotional consequences of it, but it just means that we can live truly free from condemnation. If you stop and think about, being truly free from condemnation means that regret goes out the window. We don’t have to feel regret for past sins because the Christian life is not about our performance, but rather our trusting in Christ’s performance for us. We are to walk according to the Spirit versus according to the flesh in our lives. And what does this reap for us? Paul says we can fulfill the righteous requirement of the law. So, God’s moral law, which never changes, can be fulfilled in us through living by the Holy Spirit. We can effectively and successfully say no to sin in our flesh.

Freedom from Guilt: OT vs NT (TMF:1701)

Monday, September 20, 2021
Peace to Live By: Freedom from Guilt: OT vs NT (TMF:1701) - Daniel Litton
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       A think a good example of this is David’s sin with Bathsheba. There was no way for David to get truly free from the guilt brought about by everything that went down because he was living in the time before Christ. God hadn’t made the no condemnation package available back then. We are so fortunate and blessed by God today by what Christ has accomplished for us. By their flesh then back then, and even people today, by their flesh they cannot fulfill the righteous requirement of the Jewish Law. In today’s day and age, for those who are in right relationship with God through Jesus, no matter what a person has done, he or she can be free from any and every sin. It’s a truly radical and transformative thing. When we preachers say that anyone can come to Jesus and have the burden lifted from their shoulders, we’re not kidding. That’s what Christ does for people. He wipes their slates clean. And even for people who have already accepted him, as John said in the verse we read a little bit ago, God can even wipe away the Christian’s sin.