Beatitude #4- Satisfied in Righteousness, Part 3 (TMF:401)

Monday, May 09, 2016
Peace to Live By: Beatitude #4- Satisfied in Righteousness, Part 3 (TMF:401) - Daniel Litton
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       I want us to consider what the Apostle John stated in his epistle of 1 John. Turn over there, or tap there, to 1 John chapter 3. Let’s start in verse 4: “Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother” (1 John 3:7-10, ESV). We see that part of being a Christian, in our new nature, is to have the desire to do what is pleasing to God. We should want to do good and not to do evil. The Holy Spirit will convict us when we do wrong things, and He will give us a desire to want to do what is right in day-to-day life. Sin is easily identifiable through the reading of Scripture, and God the Holy Spirit reminds us of what he has said in his Word.