25 April 2021
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The Formula to be Free from Sin (TMF:1600)

Friday, April 30, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Formula to be Free from Sin (TMF:1600) - Daniel Litton
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       Turn in your Bibles, or tap in your Bible apps on your mobile devices, to Romans chapter 6. We are pressing on, starting in verse 12: “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:12-14, ESV). I remember this exact series of verses in my beginning days as a Christian, when I was in the last half of high school and shortly thereafter. These verses were significant to me because I was seeking to align different areas in my life to look more like Christ, areas that I thought needed improvement in coming out of my old life--my old way of living. And as I recall it, the pastor I was studying under said this is the formula to be free from sin, to overcome sin in one’s life. And that’s true.

Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 4 (TMF:1599)

Thursday, April 29, 2021
Peace to Live By: Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 4 (TMF:1599) - Daniel Litton
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       There are Christians who struggle with the same sins for years, over and over, and they never gain victory over them. Their improvement is little to nothing. We have to consider ourselves “dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” We are alive in Christ; we have his power available to us to live life. But we have to use that power. Paul told the Philippians, “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13, ESV). We have to work it out; we have to let God work in us. I want everyone out there today to know, that anyone at the sound of my voice who doesn’t know Christ, who’s not familiar with his power, can have a relationship with him today. Yes, anyone can. Believe in Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross for the forgiving of your sins, and that he rose from the dead so we can identify in him, and have new life with him.

Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 3 (TMF:1598)

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Peace to Live By: Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 3 (TMF:1598) - Daniel Litton
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       Yes, God’s power still flows depending on what we do as Christians, and depending on what we do not do, our disobedience. Some of you are saying, “That’s not how God works. It has nothing to do with what we believe or do not believe.” You better rethink that. It does depend on that. I think the reason many of you out there have limited victory over sin in your life is because of unbelief. There are Christians who struggle with the same sins for years, over and over, and they never gain victory over them. Their improvement is little to nothing. We have to consider ourselves “dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” We are alive in Christ; we have his power available to us to live life. But we have to use that power. Paul told the Philippians, “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure” (Philippians 2:12-13, ESV). We have to work it out; we have to let God work in us.

Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 2 (TMF:1597)

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Peace to Live By: Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 2 (TMF:1597) - Daniel Litton
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       On the occasion that Jesus came to his hometown of Nazareth, the people there would not accept him as a teacher from God, or a prophet, because they knew who he was beforehand. They knew him before he was famous. And the Scripture records, “And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief” (Matthew 13:58, ESV). Do you get it? The people there, if they wanted to see the power of God flowing in their lives, they had to what? What did they have to do to see that power flowing? Well, they had to believe. They had to believe in the one whom God had sent. If they had believed in Nazareth, Jesus would have done many mighty works there, but the Scripture says “he did not do many mighty works there.” And it’s the same with us. Listen, this is important—probably the most significant thing I’m saying to help you today. If you don’t believe you are dead to sin, it limits and even prohibits God’s power from flowing in your life. It’s that simple.

Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 1 (TMF:1596)

Monday, April 26, 2021
Peace to Live By: Do You Believe You are Dead to Sin? Part 1 (TMF:1596) - Daniel Litton
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       We have to believe that truth, to let settle into our minds. This is a case where we see the supernatural working in our own lives. We have to believe we are dead to sin before we will have victory over sin. Our belief actually causes us to obtain victory. It’s that simple. It’s something supernatural that God does. What we think with our minds, matters. What we believe inside our minds about what we can and cannot do, affects us greatly. We have to accept the truth that we are dead to sin, as God tells us here in Romans, and that will enable us to gain successes over Satan. Our belief motivates our action, and it causes the supernatural power of God to flow in our lives. Note that. Don’t miss that last point.