17 March 2019
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Now is Your Opportunity to Know God (TMF:1090)

Friday, March 22, 2019
Peace to Live By: Now is Your Opportunity to Know God (TMF:1090) - Daniel Litton
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       God saves us, but he doesn’t just do that and leave us alone to live life ourselves. He doesn’t leave us to just follow a list of rules from the Bible, or from a church. God gives us his acceptance, when we believe in him, so we can confidently live out our lives before him, by his power working within us. Today you may feel very sinful, very separated from God. But, this is now your opportunity to come to know God. This is your time. God welcomes people into his arms who want to have a relationship with him. He is not a mean, stern, or resisting God. No, he wants more people to come to know him. He already knows you, and he wants you to know him and have life through him. When Jesus was here on the earth, quite a long time ago, he died on the cross to provide a way for you and for me to come to know God. See, our sin separates us from God, and the only way we can know him is to have a payment for our sin. We cannot make it good ourselves, we cannot provide a sacrifice for all of our sins that makes us acceptable to God. We cannot do enough good to outweigh our bad. Our bad is not erased by our good.

Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 2 (TMF:1089)

Thursday, March 21, 2019
Peace to Live By: Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 2 (TMF:1089) - Daniel Litton
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       So, if you are living in a state of fear of God in view of what he might do to you for sin, you have an incorrect view of God. We are not live in a state of this kind of fear. Remember, Jesus said in John 15:16, “You did not choose me, but I chose you” (ESV). He chose us, as he just said, and loves us. Therefore, we love him in return. I want to take some time and talk to you out there who don’t know God yet—those of you who haven’t recognized his love. You may have been listening to what I have been talking about, and it may have sounded foreign to you. You may not have been familiar with anything I was saying. Or, perhaps, you’ve heard it many times, but you know, deep down, that you don’t have a personal relationship with God. You don’t feel his presence and acceptance, and you don’t feel he approves of you or your actions. You know you shouldn’t do the wrong things you do, your sins, and that you should turn to God, but you just haven’t yet made that decision. Well, today, I want to encourage you, whatever situation you are in, to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior.

Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 1 (TMF:1088)

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Peace to Live By: Our Relationship with God is Fearless, Part 1 (TMF:1088) - Daniel Litton
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       So the mercy and grace we receive from God is because of what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross, and not because of anything we have done. But going further, there is a fundamental difference between having a reverent fear of God versus having a fear of what he might do to us if we don’t comply with whatever we feel he wants us to do. Consider this passage, again, from John. In 1 John 4, John again states the following: ““Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us” (15-19, ESV). So, God’s view of us is that as Jesus is (who is perfect), so also are we living our lives in this world. He sees us as perfect.

God's Grace Empowers Us for Good Works (TMF:1087)

Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Peace to Live By: God's Grace Empowers Us for Good Works (TMF:1087) - Daniel Litton
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       See, by God’s grace he empowers us to do good works for the kingdom of God. In Romans, it says that we have “gifts that differ according to the grace given to us” (12:6, ESV). God empowers each of us to do different things. He gifts us each according to his grace toward us. And it is through these gifts that God gives us, that we show love for each other in the body of Christ. We show grace toward each other. We care about each other. We take care of each other. Speaking of love, the final point that I want to make is that our relationship with God, by grace, needs to be built on a foundation of love and not fear. Foundational to this is the fact that God has chosen to love us and to give us his grace; it is not that we chose God ourselves. 1 John 4:10 states, ““In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (ESV).

We are Not to Live in Condemnation (TMF:1086)

Monday, March 18, 2019
Peace to Live By: We are Not to Live in Condemnation (TMF:1086) - Daniel Litton
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       Well, if we have repented, we are not walking according to flesh, are we? We are walking according to the Spirit (see Romans 8:1, KJV). And so, we should not walk around feeling condemned all the time. We are to make use of God’s grace when we fail. And God uses his grace to enable us to accomplish good things for him, for the kingdom. It is written in 2 Corinthians, “"And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work” (9:8, ESV). See, by God’s grace he empowers us to do good works for the kingdom of God. In Romans, it says that we have “gifts that differ according to the grace given to us” (12:6, ESV). God empowers each of us to do different things. He gifts us each according to his grace toward us. And it is through these gifts that God gives us, that we show love for each other in the body of Christ. We show grace toward each other. We care about each other. We take care of each other.