Taking the Christian Life Seriously, Part 2 (TMF:1840)

Friday, April 29, 2022
Peace to Live By: Taking the Christian Life Seriously, Part 2 (TMF:1840) - Daniel Litton
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       The call to action here is simple, and it is for us to take the Christian life seriously. Paul thought the end was coming in his time. How much more are we closer to it nowadays! Jesus could return at any moment and call us up to be with him forever in the Rapture. Besides, we don’t know when we are going to die, when God is going to require our souls from us. So, either way, we should be taking the Christian life seriously and should be ready, as best we can be, if there were in fact to happen. Paul is correct: “salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.” Here we get a flashback, so to speak, of the second half of Romans chapter 6. That was where the Apostle Paul told us to “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions” (v. 12). And we said we don’t do that by trying harder, but rather by depending on God’s grace, his enabling power toward us who believe. Indeed, we have to believe that we can overcome sin to actually overcome it, remember?