30 October 2016
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An Accountability Partner Helps When Needed (TMF:530)

Friday, November 04, 2016
Peace to Live By: An Accountability Partner Helps When Needed (TMF:530) - Daniel Litton
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       Number four, It may be necessary for some of you, especially those of you who have a real difficult struggle with sexual immorality or temptation, that you have an accountability partner who can help keep you accountable. The person should be a man, who of course is a Christian. You shouldn't pick a woman because she will not completely understand your thoughts like a man will. The man can relate because he is a man and has, to some degree, the same struggles. So, you can meet with this person, say, once a week, or every other week, as you are working to become better in this area. Once you get better, perhaps the meeting can move to once a month. But nonetheless, you should talk about your struggles and pray about them, and your friend should keep you accountable in following God's Word. Honesty is key in your meetings, or the meetings won't do you any good. James said in his epistle, “confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (James 5:16, ESV). Talking with others can help us with our problems, and prayer will definitely help us.

Playing the Role of Clark Kent Can Help Us (TMF:529)

Thursday, November 03, 2016
Peace to Live By: Playing the Role of Clark Kent Can Help Us (TMF:529) - Daniel Litton
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       Now, number three, what about in real life situations where, we are married, and we find a woman who is attracted to us (whether she be married or not)? How do we combat this? Or, for single men, what do we do when a woman is after us who isn’t right for us—that is, she don’t have our best interests in mind? I think a good and easy way to combat this is what I call playing Clark Kent. If you’ll remember from the old 1978 and 1980s Superman movies, Christopher Reeve had a great way of playing the role of Clark Kent. He would act like a bumbling fool, an unskilled man when it came to social skills, in order to throw everyone off. He didn’t want anyone possibly thinking that he could be Superman. So, we as men, whether married or not, when we find ourselves in the situation of a woman showing interest in us who we don’t want to show interest in us, we can act like a bumbling fool so that the girl will no longer be attracted to us. Just act unconfident, undesirable, and socially naive. This fixes the problem every time. Or, say something to the woman, something appropriate but but that makes you sound like a fool.

We Also Need to Keep Our Minds in Check, Part 2 (TMF:528)

Wednesday, November 02, 2016
Peace to Live By: We Also Need to Keep Our Minds in Check, Part 2 (TMF:528) - Daniel Litton
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       For it is written in James, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded” (James 4:7, 8, ESV). We cannot be double-minded in that we are serving sin and serving God at the same time. Jesus said we cannot serve two masters. We have to chose to be pure in our minds. If we resist Satan’s temptations, God promises that he will leave us alone, at least for the time being. A good way to combat the rouge thoughts that come into your mind is to memorize, or read to yourself, corresponding Bible verses when temptation comes. If we recite the verses to ourselves, we will have the ability to overcome the temptation. Remember? That's what Jesus did with Satan in the desert. When Satan tempted him, he came back at him with Bible verses that showed that Satan was wrong. We are to like Christ, and we can take Jesus as our model in this area. I would encourage you to make a list of Bible verses, perhaps a few pages, about sexual temptation, and then always have them ready when you need them.

We Also Need to Keep Our Minds in Check, Part 1 (TMF:527)

Tuesday, November 01, 2016
Peace to Live By: We Also Need to Keep Our Minds in Check, Part 1 (TMF:527) - Daniel Litton
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       But, number two, we also need to keep our minds in check, and having helped our sight already we are on a good start with this. And I am not talking about a gradual check, or a from time-to-time check, but I mean we need to keep close watch on our thoughts and make sure they are aligned with God's Truth. We should not freely entertain thoughts about other women that would be considered fornication or adultery. The Apostle Paul told us in Romans, “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:12-14, ESV). Our minds our one of our many members of our bodies. If we think wrong things in our minds, we will eventually become slaves to our wrong thoughts. Now, God looks at the heart of a person. The Christian life is not just about following a preset list of rules. Rather, we have to follow God with whole hearts, or wholeheartedly. We should not just let are minds run around to whatever lustful thoughts they want to think about. We have to keep our minds in check as men. Sure, it's difficult. God never said it wouldn't be hard. But he also promises us that he will help us with things like this.

We, as Men, Need to Keep Our Eyes in Check (TMF:526)

Monday, October 31, 2016
Peace to Live By: We, as Men, Need to Keep Our Eyes in Check (TMF:526) - Daniel Litton
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       So now that we've gone over so of the facts about the actual problems themselves, let's take a look at how we can combat sexual temptation and live good lives behavior God. I will note, number one, that we need to keep our eyes in check. If we don’t look at our fellow women in wrong ways, it will greatly help our minds not to think thoughts we shouldn’t. It is true that we come up with things with our imaginations, as I’ve already discussed, but I think more often than not men are thinking about women they know if real life. But if we, as men, never looked at women in wrong ways, we would never think about them in wrong ways, right? So, we can start here, by guarding our eyes against looking at the women we know in wrong ways. Remember, Jesus made this clear in Matthew chapter 5. He said, ““You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:27-28, ESV). So Jesus said that even looking at a women with lustful thoughts, or motives, is the same is committing the act in his eyes.