28 July 2019
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Believing You Have Plenty of Time, Part 2 (TMF:1185)

Friday, August 02, 2019
Peace to Live By: Believing You Have Plenty of Time, Part 2 (TMF:1185) - Daniel Litton
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       You see, the problem is that God said we’re all going to die. It’s just a statement of fact. Unless the Rapture happens in our lifetime, each of us, at the sound of my voice, is going to experience physical death—we’re going to die. An obstacle for us is that we really don’t feel like we’re going to die. We certainly don’t live like we’re going die. We think life will just carry on and on and then someday, when we’re elderly, we’ll die. And certainly, for some of us, that will be true. But not for all of us. I was like this when I was younger. I heard Pastor Jim Custer tell the Gospel many times at the end of his sermons, but it took many times—probably eight to ten times—for me to really accept it. I remember on other occasions, before this, hearing the truth and thinking, “Yeah, that’s true. But nobody lives like this.” And I also remember thinking, “I’ll just wait and accept this another time.” And that’s what Satan does. He gets people to put off salvation for another time, in hopes that that ‘nother’ time will never come.

Believing You Have Plenty of Time, Part 1 (TMF:1184)

Thursday, August 01, 2019
Peace to Live By: Believing You Have Plenty of Time, Part 1 (TMF:1184) - Daniel Litton
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       Often God does not provide immediate punishment to people for the wrongs they do. And yet, he is keeping track of every wrong each individual does to be reckoned with in the future. Any person who does not have a payment for their wrongs done by Christ will in fact be guilty of all the wrongs they’ve done. Christ sacrifice on the cross for sin is the only acceptable payment to God for sin in the whole world. And so this leads to Satan’s deception toward individuals. He tries to convince people who believe the truth of the Gospel that they have plenty of time to give themselves to God. He tries to get them to put off accepting Christ’s sacrifice for them. He says, “You don’t have to worry about this right now. You’ve got plenty of time. You’re not gonna die anytime soon.” And so people become deceived, and they don’t give their lives over to God by accepting Jesus. They just kick the can down the road and decide that, even though they feel this is true, they’ll deal with it some other time.

Deceived by Delayed Punishment, Part 2 (TMF:1183)

Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Peace to Live By: Deceived by Delayed Punishment, Part 2 (TMF:1183) - Daniel Litton
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       So, a person who fornicates, for instance, while they may not see God’s hand against them now for this sin, God will judge them in the future for it. Indeed, God is keeping track of everything everyone does. And he doesn’t forget sin, let it slide by, or grade on a curve. People are responsible for every sin they do whether or not they realize it or not. Let’s consider this concept a little bit further. A person driving on the roadway may be in a hurry and decide he or she is going to run a red light. The person looks around first, sees no cops around, and decides to run the red light. And let’s say the person is successful in doing so. The person is not seen by a cop and there are no consequences for this action. The person feels he got away with it. And often this is how people think. They think that if there is not immediate punishment, that they ‘get away’ with whatever it is. But that’s not how it works with God.

Deceived by Delayed Punishment, Part 1 (TMF:1182)

Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Peace to Live By: Deceived by Delayed Punishment, Part 1 (TMF:1182) - Daniel Litton
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       It’s also true that there is a sense in Satan’s statement where, in saying “You will not surely die,” he was playing off the fact that the physical death that was to come upon the humans would not occur immediately. In other words, both Adam and Eve ate, and they didn’t die physically. It would take years for them to actually, physically die. And here, we see another tactic that Satan uses to deceive people. He tells them to sin and that it will not harm them. Often since immediate punishment doesn’t come for a sin, people think they can sin at will and not face any consequences. But that is where they are gravely mistaken. For the unbeliever, every sin committed in this life will be judged in the future by God. So, a person who fornicates, for instance, while they may not see God’s hand against them now for this sin, God will judge them in the future for it. Indeed, God is keeping track of everything everyone does.

Satan Challenges What God Said, Part 2 (TMF:1181)

Monday, July 29, 2019
Peace to Live By: Satan Challenges What God Said, Part 2 (TMF:1181) - Daniel Litton
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       First, Satan starts with the only part of what he said that is not true. That’s right, the beginning here is the only part of Satan’s statement where he lied. He said, “You will not surely die.” He lied to Eve, and went against what God had said, in fact, challenging what God had said. He basically said that God is a liar, for God had said that in the day they ate the fruit they would die. Recall that the Apostle Paul had told us God cannot lie (see Titus 1:2, ESV). It’s impossible for him to lie. If God ever lied, even just one time, he would be undermined and, again, lose his authority. But really, in part here, it was not only true that eating the fruit would cause physical death, but it would also cause spiritual death—which is really the larger of the two issues. Spiritual death meant separation from God, and that was exactly what Satan wanted to accomplish.