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For the Maturity of the Christian (TMF:2909)

Thursday, July 02, 2026
Peace to Live By: For the Maturity of the Christian (TMF:2909) - Daniel Litton
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       This first area of maturity probably shouldn’t surprise us, for it is what Paul has been discussing specifically in chapters 3 and 4 in addressing the believers, when he has gotten down the basics of a godly life, and how that godly character in each individual is supposed to look, and really, how it’s not supposed to look. That’s what he had talked about. He summarized the whole section, remember, by telling us what we should “seek” and what we should “set [our] minds” on. That’s the two areas, what are actions actually are, what are desires really are, and what we think about in our minds. It is through these two areas that the rest of chapter 3 falls into place. And Paul spent a great deal of time telling us what behaviors shouldn’t be found in us, and any more if we were converted at an older age. He also spend a large section telling us what good attributes we should have—good character traits, and also how the marriage relationship is to work.