27 September 2026
Jesus Comes to Dwell Among Us, Part 1 (TMF:2975)
Friday, October 02, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
John chapter 1, verse 14: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me . ” ) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known” (ESV). In our own awareness of what we think we know, in that awareness Johns confirms that there is no question about it. God the Son came in human flesh, and permanently changed to take on human flesh for the rest of eternity. He said, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” That’s significant. By John’s time, there were some who proclaimed that Jesus was not in a human body after all.
Becoming A Child of God, Part 2 (TMF:2974)
Thursday, October 01, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
The right of becoming one of God’s children, indeed something we have chosen by our free-wills, our free-nature, is also shown by John to exemplify the love that the Father has toward us. This isn’t a physical, human birth, like the birth we first have when we arrive on this planet. In contrast, it is a spiritual birth. It’s a birth that’s brought about by God himself in the human’s action and will of believing. It’s a one-time process. The physical part, that rest of the whole picture, the taking off of our sin-natures, that part won’t be accomplished until later, as John said in his first epistle. This happens for us at The Rapture of the Church, which occurs before the end of days. This hope of our being made complete actualizes the purification of our souls, and indeed, we surrender to this in our life’s journey of sanctification. This obedience is what God desires of the human soul, that of avoiding those behaviors which would corrupt us.
Becoming A Child of God, Part 1 (TMF:2973)
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
What then, what does it mean to become a child of God? John speaks of us who believe having “the right to become children of God.” The Apostle John expounded on this point for us in his epistle of 1 John. There, in chapter 3, he writes, “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure” (1 John 3:1-3, ESV). The right of becoming one of God’s children, indeed something we have chosen by our free-wills, our free-nature, is also shown by John to exemplify the love that the Father has toward us. This isn’t a physical, human birth, like the birth we first have when we arrive on this planet. In contrast, it is a spiritual birth.
The Blinding Power of Sin, Part 2 (TMF:2972)
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
A few did, but the whole didn’t, and the power of darkness won over in their hearts. Even all the way through the beginning of The Book of Acts, even all the way up to Acts 7, the Jewish people rejected the message of the Messiah. It’s truly a sad state of affairs, heartbreaking for us to see, and one that had to break God’s heart, and continues to break his heart. Again, the Apostle Paul gives us a glimpse into this, when he writes the Roman believers, “Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes” (Romans 10:1-4, ESV). The double application of this makes itself known, that this just isn’t Paul’s thoughts, but the mind of the Spirit himself.
The Blinding Power of Sin, Part 1 (TMF:2971)
Monday, September 28, 2026
by Daniel Litton Listen to the Feature
Verse 10: “He [the true light] was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (ESV). The blinding power of sin—that’s what we are dealing with in this text. That’s the problem becoming visible. The light shown in the darkness, but the people didn’t all receive this light. The Nation of Israel as a group, as a collective group, rejected it. Some individuals believed, but the group as a whole, the group in a ‘big picture’ perspective, did not believe. John will tell us in his own Gospel at times that individuals, fellow Israelites, believed on Jesus when he spoke and they saw the things he did. Those in charge, though, we know that they’re not going to believe as a whole.