Light on Life Podcast

Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty-One

So today, we are going to talk about growing into spiritual maturity. What is that? What is growing up spiritually? How do you know if you are making progress? How do you gauge it? You know a tape measure is a must when you need an accurate measurement. How long is that bolt that you need? About 4 inches? Maybe 5? If you need one that is exactly 4 inches, you’ll need an exact measurement. A random measurement is not effective when you need to be precise. Do you live your life randomly? Have you measured your maturity in Christ accurately? A random measurement is not good enough. The Bible teaches us that we are to measure our spiritual maturity. What are the marks of a mature Christian believer? A thankful heart, prayer, joy, fellowship, confidence in God’s salvation, partnership, growing and discerning love, and righteousness.1 So in today’s podcast, we are going to take a look at what Paul wrote about this subject as we look at “The Truth About What It Means to Be Spiritually Mature” all on this week’s Light on Life.

What’s the Spirit’s Number One Role in a Believers Life?

The Truth About What It Means to Be Spiritually Mature
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Thirty

Jesus followers everywhere hold His crucifixion on a cross for their sins and that God the Father raised Him from the dead three days later. They demonstrate faith in that truth by the lives that they live. Every departing missionary is an act of faith in the resurrection. When you forgive your enemy, feed the hungry, and defend the weak, you believe in the resurrection.1 When you pray to a God you cannot see, when you believe you receive from Him your need met, you believe in the resurrection. When you walk in love towards others, when you forgive your enemies, when you hold your tongue when other’s speak ill of you, you believe in the resurrection. These beliefs are essential but God wants you to understand the depth of it all. And so He gave in His Word some of the details about what happened after Jesus was crucified. Today, we are going to take a look at some of this as we focus on Why You Need to Understand the Crucifixion of Jesus, all on this week’s Light on Life.

#047: What Happens to a Person When They Die? [Podcast]

Why You Need to Understand Jesus Crucifixion
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Nine

In ancient times, the Lord, by God’s Spirit, arrested people’s attention via the use of miracles. You know miracles by definition is where God intervenes, by His great power, and stretched out arm, suspends the ordinary course of nature. One writer said that, ‘Religion had its beginnings with a sense of awe and power outside the visible world. The Spirit came to Samson and he demonstrated miraculous strength. The Spirit enabled Joseph to interpret puzzling dreams and to withstand the hostility of his brothers and sensual temptations in Egypt. The prophets declared the Spirit as righteousness and felt the Spirit within them. The Spirit enabled David to conquer one crisis after another. The Spirit of God devastated Saul of Tarsus and later cleansed and commissioned him to proclaim the gospel. Sustained by the Holy Spirit in the wilderness, Jesus came to His hometown of Nazareth and, standing up in the familiar synagogue, declared: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach” (Luke 4:18).’1 You see, it’s the Spirit, the Holy Spirit of God that’s the common denominator. That’s why in this podcast we will focus on ‘Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life’ all on this week’s Light on Life.

Why Your Will is A Powerful Help to Healing

Why God’s Spirit Is Vital for Your Life
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Eight

Have you ever wondered how the Holy Spirit can enter a human spirit? You know that’s what the Bible says. The Spirit of God will be with you and He will be in you. How can God’s spirit be in your spirit? A.W. Tozer offered this explanation. One quality belonging to the Holy Spirit, of great interest and importance to every seeking heart, is penetrability. He can penetrate matter, such as the human body; He can penetrate mind; He can penetrate another spirit, such as the human spirit. He can achieve complete penetration of and actual intermingling with the human spirit. He can invade the human heart and make room for Himself without expelling anything essentially human. The integrity of the human personality remains unimpaired. Only moral evil is forced to withdraw. The metaphysical problem involved here can no more be avoided than it can be solved. How can one personality enter another? The candid reply would be simply that we do not know, but a near approach to an understanding may be a simple analogy borrowed from the old devotional writers of several hundred years ago. We place a piece of iron in a fire and blow up the coals. At first we have two distinct substances, iron and fire. When we insert the iron in the fire we achieve the penetration of the fire by the iron. Soon the fire begins to penetrate the iron and we have not only the iron in the fire but the fire in the iron as well. They are two distinct substances, but they have co-mingled and interpenetrated to a point where the two have become one.1 The human spirit is the essential part of your being. And so in this podcast, we are going to talk about “Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You”, all on this week’s Light on Life.

Demonstrating the Glory of God

Why the Human Spirit of Man Is the Real You
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Seven

Having a strong spirit, that is being strong in the Lord is an oft quoted word of encouragement that has entered many an ear. Thank God for those who love us enough to lift us and encourage us. But, sometimes we need help with this strength piece. Minister Bob Russell wrote about a father who watched through the kitchen window as his small son attempted to lift a large stone out of his sandbox. The boy was frustrated as he wrestled with the heavy object because he just couldn’t get enough leverage to lift it over the side. Finally the boy gave up and sat down dejectedly on the edge of the sandbox with his head in his hands. The father went outside and asked, “What’s wrong, Son? Can’t you lift that rock out?” “No, sir,” the boy said, “I can’t do it.” “Have you used all the strength that’s available to you?” the father asked. “Yes, sir,” the boy replied. “No, you haven’t,” the father said. “You haven’t asked me to help you.”1 We all need help. We all need strength — the strength that only God can gives by grace. Thank God it’s available for you and me. So that’s why in this podcast, we are covering What It Means to Have a Strong Spirit, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How to Conquer An Ungodly Habit

What It Means to Have a Strong Spirit
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Encore Podcast: Light on Life Season 12 Episode 26

True liberty is found only in Jesus, a truth revealed in Romans. As we celebrate Independence Day here in the United States, the concept of freedom looms more pronounced than ever. The overturning of Roe V Wade a few years ago was a historic moment, sparking protests from those who saw it as an infringing on freedom of choice. But is the freedom to choose all there is to freedom? Romans 8:2 says, ‘For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.’ Only Jesus offers real liberty from sin and death. Why God’s Tremendous Liberty Is Only Found in Jesus, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

#S2-027: What It Means to Walk After the Spirit and Not the Flesh [Podcast]

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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Five

You may have read through the book of Galatians and read that Christ redeemed us from the Curse of the Law. You may may have wondered at the same time what that statement means. What is the Curse of the Law and what does it mean to be redeemed from it? Well, that’s what the scripture says and it certainly has to be good news if we can understand how to act on it! The idea of redemption takes us to Calvary. But, even reading the physical account of what happened on Golgotha’s hill doesn’t uncover what happened in the spirit realm. So much just cannot be understood by looking at the physical. You know, an artist can paint the physical hands and feet of our Lord, but he cannot paint the healing power of those hands and the godly walk of those feet. This same artist can paint the outward suffering of Jesus, but not the inward cause. He can paint the cross, the cursed tree, but not the curse of the law; the bearing of the cross, but not the bearing of the sins of His people; the cup of vinegar, but not the cup of wrath—the derision of His enemies but not the forsaking of the Father. Where is the artist who can paint one hand of Christ nailed to the cross and the other hand claiming an inheritance for believers? Or who can paint our Lord bruising the serpent’s head, conquering sin, death and the grave? The artist can only portray blood and water flowing from Christ’s side, but he cannot paint what the eye of faith sees in that blood: salvation and pardon.1 He cannot paint redemption. But, I am here to tell you today that what the artist can’t do, the Holy Spirit can do. That’s why we today we will take a look at the Good News! Why the Curse of the Law Is Powerless — all on this week’s Light on Life.

What Happens When An Adulteress Meets The Light Of The World?

Sickness is a curse — its not a blessing. You’ve been redeemed from the curse. That means you’ve been redeemed from sickness.
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Four

James chapter five has several references to praying for others, starting with the elders of the church praying. Unfortunately, countless Christians become selfish in their prayers. They pray for themselves and their families and care little about others. The moon is a lavish giver that owes all her beauty to her habit of giving. Suppose the moon should swallow up and keep to herself all the years of light which the sun gives her and should refuse to share them with us; what would the effect be? She would stop shining. The moment she stopped shining, she would lose all her beauty. All the beauty and the brilliancy of a diamond are caused by its reflecting, or giving away, the light which it receives. It is the same way with the moon. If it should stop shining, or giving away the light it gets from the sun it would hang up in the sky like a great, black, ugly-looking ball. All its brightness and beauty would be gone. Which would we rather be, as we pray: a black ugly ball in God’s sky, or a shining light, constantly giving of the light we so abundantly receive?1 Of course, the answer is obvious and that’s why we are talking about The Amazing Role of Praying Elders in the Church on this week’s Light on Life.

Seeing God: Is It Possible to Do?

If you are sick, that is so sick that you are homebound, the instructions are to call for the elders of the church and let them pray.
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Three

Would it be fair in your thinking to acknowledge that Jesus followers should be intense people of faith? We focus quite a bit on faith and that’s good and right – the Bible mentions faith and it’s synonyms over 500x. But, what about the adjective intense to describe our faith? Not just faith but intense faith. Would that adjective describe you? Oswald Chambers was a Scottish Baptist minister who wrote an extremely well-known devotional called ‘My Utmost for His Highest.’ On the subject of sanctification, he wrote the following. Chambers said, ‘sanctification means intense concentration on God’s point of view. It means every power of body, soul and spirit chained and kept for God’s purpose only. Are we prepared for God to do in us all that He separated us for? And then after His work is done in us, are we prepared to separate ourselves to God even as Jesus did? “For their sakes I sanctify Myself.”’1 I like that. Sanctification is an intense concentration on God’s point of view. What about faith? Shouldn’t the life of faith have an intense concentration on trusting God? Does that thought register in your thinking? Well, that’s what we are going to focus on in this podcast: Why It Pays To Live An Intense Life of Faith — all on this week’s Light on Life.

Why Doing the Word of God Is The Ticket to Success

The world is full of lackadaisical people. It’s unfortunate because the Christian life is anything but that. It is an intense life.
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Podcast: Light on Life Season Twelve Episode Twenty-Two

In last week’s podcast, we shared a victory testimony of God’s magnificent healing power as it relates to the deadly disease of addiction. In that episode, we pointed out some lessons we can learn from God’s dealings with others. That testimony that we examined was from a medical doctor who lived in the late 19th century and early 20th century. God healed her from a severe drug addiction. We are going to follow that same MO this week of looking for valuable lessons, but from a more modern perspective, a woman healed of cancer who lived [and in fact is still alive] during our day. A. W. Tozer said that because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.1 What does that statement mean? It means the wisdom of God holds the answers for everyone. And since the Word of God is the Wisdom of God, then, your answers, my answers, anybody’s answers are in the Bible. We just have to know where to look, and have revelation of how things operate. So, let’s get our faith pointed towards the Lord and let’s examine another testimony in the revelation light of God’s Word. How to Gain Victory Over Deadly Diseases, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

Why Your Powerful Victory Over Satan’s Wisdom Is Certain

Know that when your faith is tested by devils who want to dilute the abilities of your great God by casting dispersions upon His Word, know that in that hour, the Word of God — the Bible is your best friend..
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