28 March 2021
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The Christian's Call to Growth (TMF:1580)

Friday, April 02, 2021
Peace to Live By: The Christian's Call to Growth (TMF:1580) - Daniel Litton
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       It definitely is true that people live in certain sins after coming to Christ when they don’t realize they are sins. All of us, listen, all of us to some degree, no matter who you are, even myself, are harboring areas in our lives that need improvement. Those things have registered in the forefront of our minds yet. That’s called Christian growth. The point here, in our text today, is that we should not willingly follow and live in anything that we have come to identify as sin. If we believe something is sin, we shouldn’t live in that sin. And that becomes a problem for certain individuals. For some people, the problem isn’t that they think they have sin and need to turn from it, for some the problem is that they don’t believe that what they are practicing is in fact sin. They don’t see anything wrong, for instance, in living with their partner before being married to that person. They think that’s ok.

Grace Abounding in Righteousness (TMF:1579)

Thursday, April 01, 2021
Peace to Live By: Grace Abounding in Righteousness (TMF:1579) - Daniel Litton
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       God’s grace is so great that any and all sin can be forgiven by him. Anyone who will willingly come to him can have all their sins blotted out. God takes the whiteout to your list of sins. Paul also said, back at the end of Romans chapter 5, that “as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness” (21, ESV). How does grace abound? How does God’s goodness abound to us? It abounds through righteousness. It abounds through us, as believers in Jesus Christ, living righteously. And see, there it comes again, we see that sin is not our friend. It’s not something we should be proud of, something we should want in our lives. We come to Jesus because we realize we have a sin problem, right? Definitely so. In no way, after coming to Christ, should willingly follow or live in anything that we have come to realize is sin.

Regardless of Sins, Anyone Can Know God (TMF:1578)

Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Peace to Live By: Regardless of Sins, Anyone Can Know God (TMF:1578) - Daniel Litton
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       Romans chapter 6, starting in verse 1: “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (1-2, ESV). Last week Paul had told us how “where sin increased, grace abounded all the more” (Romans 5:20, ESV). So, we can see that the greater the sin from us, the greater the grace from God. Note, however, that this is how any person, no matter how great your sin is, can come to God and become a Christian. One could say, “But you don’t know me. I’ve done a lot of bad things.” And those bad things you have done could even be in private. People may not know what all the bad things a person has done. Assuredly so. But that’s not the point. The point is that anyone, no matter what the sin, no matter how much it was done, no matter what you personally think, anyone can come into relationship with Jesus. Boy, that’s good news for us today.

Grace Gives Us Access to God (TMF:1577)

Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Peace to Live By: Grace Gives Us Access to God (TMF:1577) - Daniel Litton
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       Grace, though, grace gives us the ability to go up and be with God forever in eternity. Due to what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross and his resurrection from the dead, by depending on that accomplishment we can now go to be with him when we die. No more waiting room. No more delay. When we die, we get to be in God’s presence. Paul’s there now, and we will be there in the future. Again, another awesome truth from this great chapter in Romans. And anyone today can go to be with God when the leave this earth. Anyone who is willing to believe in Jesus for the forgiveness of his or her sins, anyone who is willing to do that can gain God’s life for them now, and a much, much better life for themselves in the future. If that’s something you want today, confess to God of your faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection on your behalf today.

Before Christ vs. After Christ (TMF:1576)

Monday, March 29, 2021
Peace to Live By: Before Christ vs. After Christ (TMF:1576) - Daniel Litton
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       Before Christ, death reigned. It reigned for Paul, as he just told us, and it reigned for us. Death had its way all the time. But before Christ literally came to the earth, there was no hope of becoming a new creation. No hope even existed of going to Heaven when people died. Rather, before Christ, people would have to go to a waiting place, which was in the same place where unbelievers would go, which had a great chasm that separated the believers from the unbelievers. Recall, Jesus talked about this in the story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, which is found in Luke chapter 16. People couldn’t be with Jesus. Grace, though, grace gives us the ability to go up and be with God forever in eternity. Due to what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross and his resurrection from the dead, by depending on that accomplishment we can now go to be with him when we die. No more waiting room. No more delay.