28 May 2017
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You Can Have Peace within Your Family (TMF:660)

Friday, June 02, 2017
Peace to Live By: You Can Have Peace within Your Family (TMF:660) - Daniel Litton
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       Point number five is: You Can Have Peace within Your Family. Colossians 1:19-21 says, “You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you. And you husbands must be loving and kind to your wives and not bitter against them nor harsh. You children must always obey your fathers and mothers, for that pleases the Lord. Fathers, don’t scold your children so much that they become discouraged and quit trying.” (TLB). Basically, these three verses give you the formula for a peaceful household. So, there are four sub-points to note here. Sub-point one is that wives need to be willing to follow their husbands wherever they are leading. God has setup the household in such a way that the husband is the leader, the one person whom the wife and children are to follow. I understand that for some this may seem foreign, as our society has messed this one up quite a bit. But when a wife leads and the husband follows, that produces discord and a lack of peace—for the husband obviously because he has not been wired to follow his wife, and it causes perhaps unrecognized problems for the wife. She is not following the role God has designed for her in following her husband.

Christians Should Always Live in Peace (TMF:659)

Thursday, June 01, 2017
Peace to Live By: Christians Should Always Live in Peace (TMF:659) - Daniel Litton
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       We can only do so much to make peace with others who have something against us. The other person can sometimes have a pride issue on their part, and not want to let the personal offense go. Now, with Christians, there should not be an instance where you would not be at peace with another person. Life is more than whatever offense has occurred. When Paul was writing to the church at Philippi, apparently there were two Christians who didn’t have peace with each other because of some sort of disagreement that had occurred. But Paul told the whole church, “And now I want to plead with those two dear women, Euodias and Syntyche. Please, please, with the Lord’s help, quarrel no more—be friends again” (Philippians 4:2, TLB). A personal disagreement with another fellow Christian should not go so far that it’s known by the whole church. Remind yourself again of Colossians 3:15, “Let the peace of heart that comes from Christ be always present in your hearts and lives, for this is your responsibility and privilege as members of his body.” (TLB).

We Can Seek to Live at Peace with Everyone (TMF:658)

Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Peace to Live By: We Can Seek to Live at Peace with Everyone (TMF:658) - Daniel Litton
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       Especially in today’s world, it is true that with certain positions we hold, moral or whatever, unbelievers are going to label us as the problem and as dividers. But we can still love them in return when they get mad as us, and not return their anger with anger ourselves. God loves everyone in the world, and so can we. Sometimes it’s true that you’ve done everything you can to be at peace with a non-Christian, but the other person doesn’t want to have peace with you. That’s why Paul said, “Be at peace with everyone, just as much as possible” (Romans 12:18, TLB). Or, to look at the English Standard Version, it says “so far as it depends on you.” We can only do so much to make peace with others who have something against us. The other person can sometimes have a pride issue on their part, and not want to let the personal offense go. Now, with Christians, there should not be an instance where you would not be at peace with another person. Life is more than whatever offense has occurred.

You Can Live at Peace with Others, Part 2 (TMF:657)

Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Peace to Live By: You Can Live at Peace with Others, Part 2 (TMF:657) - Daniel Litton
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       With non-Christians as well, we can do our part at living in peace with all of them. Now living in peace with them doesn’t mean we agree with everything they believe about the world (as some would like to say it has to mean). It is true that times will come in our lives when certain individuals don’t like us for what we stand for or what we believe. But that’s ok. Jesus told us that was going to happen. But we can do our part to still be nice to others even when they are not nice to us. We can work to love others who don’t love us in return, or those whom we know have something against it. Especially in today’s world, it is true that with certain positions we hold, moral or whatever, unbelievers are going to label us as the problem and as dividers. But we can still love them in return when they get mad as us, and not return their anger with anger ourselves. God loves everyone in the world, and so can we.

You Can Live at Peace with Others, Part 1 (TMF:656)

Monday, May 29, 2017
Peace to Live By: You Can Live at Peace with Others, Part 1 (TMF:656) - Daniel Litton
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       Point number four is: You Can Live at Peace with Others. The Apostle Paul told us, “Don’t quarrel with anyone. Be at peace with everyone, just as much as possible” (Romans 12:18, TLB). We can definitely do our part when it comes to living at peace with other people, whether they be Christian or non-Christian. With our fellow Christians, there should never be an occasion where we don’t live at peace with someone. Even if we have a disagreement with a fellow brother or sister, it should not put a wedge between our relationship. As long as it isn’t a foundational doctrine or moral issue that’s causing the disagreement, we need to learn to be at peace with each other, and thereby sow harmony with each other in the body of Christ, with the people at our church. We need to learn to pass-by or let little and non-significant offenses go, and when there is a ‘real’ problem that we need deal with, we need to deal with it and not let it fester into a bigger, harder-to-deal-with problem.