22 January 2017
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Wrong Attitudes- A Legalistic Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:570)

Friday, January 27, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Legalistic Mindset, Part 2 (TMF:570) - Daniel Litton
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       When each of us became saved, accepted Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior, we became completely accepted by God, among many other things. Since God imputed Jesus' righteousness and sacrifice for sins to our account, we were declared not guilty for all accounts of sin in our lives. When God looks at each one of us, he sees Christ's blood covering our sins. The Apostle Paul said that no one is made right with God, or accepted by him, by following a list of rules or laws. It is true that God still wants us to be pleasing to him, doing what is right in our day-to-day living. But this does not mean that we have to do a certain amount of good things before God will approve of us and look favorably upon us. God wants us to do good, and to seek to please him, but we are righteous no matter what. Even when we slip up and sin, God still accepts us. He does not withdraw from us and reject us. Jesus said, "behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20, ESV). This was written down for us also.

Wrong Attitudes- A Legalistic Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:569)

Thursday, January 26, 2017
Peace to Live By: Wrong Attitudes- A Legalistic Mindset, Part 1 (TMF:569) - Daniel Litton
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       Number one, let us look at having a legalistic attitude. Probably the chief way Satan gets people trapped into a legalistic mindset is through the twisting of Scripture, particularly wrong interpretations of verses and passages which make us scared into seemingly obeying God. Times also come when people may feel tempted to twist a verse or passage in the Bible because they want to justify their wrong behavior. Really, I think we’ve probably all done this on some scale one or more times in our lives. We can create rules for ourselves and even more so for others that God never made rules. We can make the Christian life so hard by looking at Scripture without love in view that we just make it a rigorous list of rules and regulations that we have to follow in order to be pleasing to God and help others. Which brings up my next point, which is another way Satan cultivates a legalistic attitude is get us to believe that we have to perform for God in order to be accepted by him. He gets us to believe that if we don't go through the motions and do enough good that God will not accept us. But this is a lie from Satan.

Intro to Wrong Attitudes Cultivated by Satan (TMF:568)

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Peace to Live By: Intro to Wrong Attitudes Cultivated by Satan (TMF:568) - Daniel Litton
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       As we go through each day of our life, our attitudes we exhibit on a daily basis are very important. These attitudes can help carry us along to successes in life, or if they are the wrong attitudes, they can end up dragging us down into thinking the wrong things. We then wont have successes in life because we are looking at things in our life in wrong ways. What we think in our minds matter. Now, don't be deceived, as they are definitely forces behind what we think. For the Christian and even the non-Christian, Satan is constantly seeking for ways to mess up the thoughts going through our minds. Satan knows that if he can get us to believe wrong things about ourselves and about the world we see around us, then he can have great successes in getting us to do nothing, or to do the wrong thing. Satan is full of lies, and wants us to believe his lies. In fact, Jesus called him "a lair and the father of lies" (John 8:44, ESV). But as Christians, our goal is to align our thoughts with Truth--God's Truth--and seek to eliminate wrong thinking from our minds, from our lives.

With God, There is True Freedom & Fulfilling Life (TMF:567)

Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Peace to Live By: With God, There is True Freedom & Fulfilling Life (TMF:567) - Daniel Litton
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       God has made it possible for you to live in true freedom, the freedom you were originally intended to live in. And not only are you able to live true life, a fulfilling life, but you will also be given eternal life. Since your sins will be forgiven, you will not have to face any of God's wrath to come in the future. If you would like to accept Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior today, and be set free from your sins, then just follow my lead in this prayer: God, I have done many things against you in my life. I have done things I am not proud of, things I deeply regret. I have done things the way that I have wanted to do them, and it has not turned out so great. But now, I want to accept your free gift of life now and eternal life in the future through Jesus Christ. I believe that you sent Jesus to the earth and that he died on the cross in my place, and that this action by Jesus, the blood He shed, now stands as the payment for my sins, which separated me and you. I believe that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day and that He is now in heaven with you. I want to surrender my life over to you. Father, please transform my life and make me become like Jesus. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen.

God Wants to Be in Relationship with Everyone (TMF:566)

Monday, January 23, 2017
Peace to Live By: God Wants to Be in Relationship with Everyone (TMF:566) - Daniel Litton
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       In closing today, it is important to remember that God wants all people to be in a personal relationship with him. Maybe today you're a young person who is not in a relationship with God, maybe you don't know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. Maybe you always wanted to follow good, you always wanted to along with the right crowd, but you never did. Perhaps you’ve gone far in the other direction—far away from God. Perhaps you feel you’ve dabbled in things that God couldn’t possible forgive you for. Well, today, I’ve got good news for you. God sent his Son, Jesus, to the earth 2,000 years ago and he paid the penalty for all people’s sins against God, as he was the perfect sacrifice for sins. Anyone, which includes you today, who believes in Jesus can be forgiven of all his or her sin against God—the wrong things we’ve done in this life—and can be set free from the dominant pull of sin. You don't have to carry the load and weight of your sins any longer. You don’t have to live doing the things that are wrong which you know are wrong. God has made it possible for you to live in true freedom, the freedom you were originally intended to live in. And not only are you able to live true life, a fulfilling life, but you will also be given eternal life.