Kingdom Life Training Center

Kingdom Life Training Center

KLTC is a discipleship training center based at Life Church GTR in Columbus, MS. The heart of our school is to learn together how to live a life under the rule and reign of God; and to receive the grace to live possessed by the love of God in Christ.

Episodes

  1. 10/21/2021

    Simple Gospel -- Week 4

    This week we start in 1 Timothy 1:5 and Titus 1-3 as we discuss the way that the simplicity of the gospel in Christ Jesus cleanses our conscience "from dead works" (Hebrews 9:14) and gives us His righteousness before the Father as a free gift. We must learn to allow Christ's Word to cleanse our conscience towards God and our neighbors. If we do not learn to "clothe ourselves in Christ" (Ephesians 4), and find our life in Him (Colossians 3), then we will constantly frustrate God's grace at work in our lives by trying to earn what Christ has already given for free. Scripture says "Woe to them that call evil 'good'" and this is true, but it also says "woe to them that call good 'evil'". We must learn to receive God's grace with a clean conscience, washed by the 'water of the Word' (Ephesians 5) and in 'washing of [baptsimal] regeneration' (Titus 3), so that we no longer call evil what God has called "good/beloved/righteous". As God says to the Apostle Peter "do not call what I have cleansed "unclean'", to which the Apostle later said "God has shown me that I should call NO MAN unclean" (Acts 10). We end our discussion on the conscience by talking about righteousness; and our need, not to have a will that is like God's but to have God's very own will through union with Him by faith. We need not try to purify our will, and to by our willpower do God's will. Rather, we are to "deny our self" with our will, and allow God to will for us. As He promises in Philippians 2, that "God is at work in [us] both to WILL and to DO of His good pleasure".  Hope you enjoy the gospel! And, tune in next week for a deeper dive into hebrews and romans as we talk about "righteousness"!

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KLTC is a discipleship training center based at Life Church GTR in Columbus, MS. The heart of our school is to learn together how to live a life under the rule and reign of God; and to receive the grace to live possessed by the love of God in Christ.