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Walking and communion with God are not automatic. How then do you experience the reality of a personal relationship with God, or read your Bible and experience God’s presence? Put simply, how do you know God? These are huge questions that need serious discussion. Every Tuesday, Michael Durham of Real Truth Matters Ministries will lead in such a conversation. This podcast tackles the experiential side of Christianity with teaching, interviews, and question and answer episodes. If you want to ...
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The Truth Matters podcast is a production of Grace to You. In each episode, host Darrell Harrison sits down with a guest to discuss a resource from the Grace to You library—a book, sermon, or blog series from John MacArthur. Join them for a deep dive into why the resource was originally created, what it’s about, and what relevance it has for the church today.
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, join RTM evangelist and director Michael Durham alongside RTM associate evangelist Nate Freeman as they try to unravel the intricacies of the Holy Spirit's works in the Christian life. The focal point of their discussion lies in Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's teachings on the baptism of the Spirit and the sealing …
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to the Real Truth Matters Podcast with your host, Michael Durham! Joining Michael in the studio for the first time is special guest Nate Freeman, RTM associate evangelist, bringing a fresh perspective to the conversation. In this episode, we take a break from the current study of the assurance of salvation and embark…
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Send us a Text Message. This is part two of our study of the assurance of salvation. In our last episode, we laid down the premise that a great deal of the struggle with the lack of assurance is due to a lack of understanding and belief in justification by faith alone. If you have not yet listened to episode one of The Assurance of Salvation, go ba…
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Send us a Text Message. Many Christians struggle with assurance temporarily; some struggle off and on for years, and others struggle their whole Christian lives. Michael Durham deals with assurance in a way that diagnoses the cause of assurance struggles. He gets to the root cause of why a Christian grapples with God's acceptance. In this podcast, …
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Send us a Text Message. This episode discusses how to combat and cure our spiritual downturns. As already explained, all Christians suffer this malady from time to time. No one is exempt. Therefore, if we experience it, it stands to reason that we need to know how to see its end and experience recovery from spiritual declension. Please listen and s…
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Send us a Text Message. We have already looked at some of the causes and the root of not growing in grace but instead digressing. Spiritual declension is defined as any lessening of the heart’s fascination with Jesus Christ the Lord. In this episode on spiritual declension, we continue by learning how to detect it. It is essential to overcome spiri…
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Send us a Text Message. How is it possible for the child of God to turn away from following the Lord? How do sheep go astray? What makes people who have been loved by God, who has done nothing but good to them, drift in their love for Him? In this episode, RTM founder and director Michael Durham will answer these questions. There is one root from w…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you know why you suffer times of low devotion, a weak heart, and lukewarmness? There’s more to it than meets the eye. With this podcast, we begin a new topic we want to dive into for the next few weeks. That topic is spiritual declension. Now, what do those two words mean? Please listen as Michael Durham explains.…
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Send us a Text Message. There are two approaches to the Christian life that make up the majority of Christians. One is a reliance upon emotionalism, a philosophy that promotes the experience of feeling positive emotions is what is considered vibrant Christianity. The other approach is intellectualism, which believes that the Christian faith is most…
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Send us a Text Message. In our last episode, we looked at 1 John 2:24-28. John says there is an abiding message, which is Christ, who is the Gospel, and this message indwells and abides with you. Jesus equates Himself with His words. If you have the Word of God implanted within, then you have Christ within. But John also says that the Holy Spirit m…
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Send us a Text Message. The next biblical principle to maintain fellowship with our God is very crucial to the ability to experience God anytime. The principle is that you must keep your experience of truth up to date. In other words, you must often experience the power of the truth. You should be feeling its influence and impact on a very consiste…
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Send us a Text Message. The next principle for maintaining fellowship with God. It is keeping your focus eternal, in other words, having and maintaining an eternal perspective and not an earthly or temporal focus. John gives us the two spectrums of human perspective, and these are the only two. Either you have a temporal view of life, meaning a vie…
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Send us a Text Message. As we continue to learn how to maintain fellowship with God, a fifth principle stated in 1 John is to keep brotherly love up to date. Loving the brethren helps us to walk in the light. Loving brothers and sisters in Christ assist you to love God more. Because you experience fellowship with God, you love the brethren, but bec…
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Send us a Text Message. When loving obedience is given to the Lord Jesus, then fellowship with Him is experienced. The very act of obedience is a kind of communion with God. It is you expressing your love and faith in Him. It is you telling Him that you see Him for what He is, absolutely and altogether beautiful and faithful. That is communion and …
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Send us a Text Message. The Apostle John demonstrated in his First Epistle that if we quickly and consistently confess our sins, meaning we agree with God, then the blood of Christ removes the stain of our sins. This leads us to another question we want us to explore in this episode. If we are already justified, meaning declared judicially right wi…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode focuses on how to maintain fellowship with God. Suppose you have learned how to enter into fellowship with God; you’ve listened to this podcast, and your communion with God has been helped. How do you maintain it? There are external as well as internal forces working against your walk with God. These things are …
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Send us a Text Message. An important ingredient for fellowship with God is transparency. All relationships must be based on honesty if they are to thrive. You need to try to impress the Lord with a pseudo-spirituality, a spirituality that you are pretending to have. We all have issues with sin. We are not to act as if we don't, but we are to acknow…
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Send us a Text Message. Since it has been so long since we’ve dealt with the topic, this episode reviews what we have learned thus far about how to have fellowship with the living God. For a refresher, please go back to season two and listen to episodes 25-30.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. If revival is the renewal of healthy New Testament Christianity, then one question remains. How do you experience revival? How can you return to a place of vibrancy in your relationship with the Lord Jesus? In this episode, we outline three biblical mandates that, if believed and experienced, will lead you back to spiritual …
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Send us a Text Message. Revival is a return to normal New Testament Christianity. It is to walk in the Spirit consistently. In this episode, Michael Durham considers the indicators that evidence that a believer or a church needs revival. God wants His children to walk in the experience of their inheritance in Christ. But all of us know that we do n…
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Send us a Text Message. We try to find a more biblical view of revival in this episode. One of the prevailing reasons revival is not occurring is the unbiblical attitudes about revival. Some have an idea that revival is a great evangelistic campaign, and others believe in humanistic formulas to be the key to having a revival. And others consider re…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we discuss special moves or outpourings of God on His people. Many call these movements of God’s Spirit working in powerful ways revivals. The word revival has come to mean different things to different people. It is highly imperative that we rightly define the word so that confusion does not reign. It is al…
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Send us a Text Message. How do you know if God is leading you on a specific path? Well, do not despair. The Lord is too kind to leave us to a guessing game. The Bible gives six markers or identifiers that mark the way of the Lord. You could say these six markers are six tests, tests by which we see if something is God’s will or not. So don’t panic;…
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Send us a Text Message. How do you know if God is leading you on a specific path? Well, do not despair. The Lord is too kind to leave us to a guessing game. The Bible gives six markers or identifiers that mark the way of the Lord. You could say these six markers are six tests, tests by which we see if something is God’s will or not. So don’t panic;…
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Send us a Text Message. Does God still speak personally to us, or was that something for just the Apostles and no longer viable? In this episode, Michael Durham, explains that God still does speak subjectively. However, to hear God speak is not a physical, but spiritual reality, which requires the spirit of a man to be trained and developed in the …
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Send us a Text Message. Too many times, we do not experience the Word, Jesus Christ when we read His word. How can we change this? How can you start reading the Bible and it connects you with the One who authored it? That is what today’s edition of the Real Truth Matters podcast is all about. Please join us and learn that we must not make the funda…
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Send us a Text Message. The Bible is God’s heart expressed to us, and that is where the Bible plays another huge role in our lives. Not only does it provide us the only revelation of God, who He is, and what He is like, but it also gives us doctrinal instruction that teaches us how to relate to the Lord and have fellowship with Him. It also serves …
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Send us a Text Message. Sometimes prayer requires more of you than at other times. There is a prayer that requires grit, a determination that will not relent. So often, the Lord tests our endurance by delays in granting the answer that we are seeking. Some have prayed for years for things they desired to see, and some have died without seeing their…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of the RTM podcast, Michael Durham deals with our Lord Jesus' answer to the request for Him to teach His disciples how to pray. The Lord's answer is the best teaching on prayer you can read. Books on prayer are wonderful, and we ought to be grateful for them and read them. But no book on prayer says as much a…
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Send us a Text Message.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. God's wounds are necessary if we are to be made whole.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. As Real Truth Matters moves to a new location, we have selected to play these previous episodes. This episode is about God wrestling with Jacob.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. In our last episode, we discussed how to have fellowship with God. The first thing essential is to be real and transparent with God. Any kind of duplicity or artificiality will shut down the conscious awareness of fellowship. This episode examines the next means of cultivating fellowship with God. And that is developing a co…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Michael Durham explains what is essential to have ongoing fellowship with God. If you have ever asked yourself why God seems to be distant, then this and the following episodes are crucial for you to hear.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. It seems fitting to think that if we are to have fellowship with God, we need to know what it is so we can see if we are experiencing it or not. In this episode, Michael Durham defines fellowship with the Almighty from several key New Testament passages. Fellowship with God can occur on two different levels. One level is not…
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Send us a Text Message. We all know that the death of Christ is essential to being right with God. However, it is also the basis of our ongoing fellowship with the Lord. Christ's death plays a considerable role in our communion with the triune God. Listen as Michael Durham explains.由Michael Durham
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Send us a Text Message. We are looking at how to walk and maintain fellowship with God. In last week’s episode, we opened up 1 John 1 and heard the Apostle John say that we can have the same kind of fellowship with God as he and the other apostles enjoyed. The accessibility of God is an overlooked topic. Fellowship with God is not held out and is o…
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Send us a Text Message. Is it possible for a person to consistently walk with God? Can they maintain a relationship with God and never lose fellowship with Him? Most answer no because such seems impossible, but it isn't as difficult as it sounds. Christ has removed the impossibility, and He extends to all His followers true friendship and genuine c…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, George Müller gives an interview, sort of, where he explains his faith and how any believer can grow in faith. Actually, Michael Durham reads a portion from Müller's biography that shares excellent remarks concerning faith. So share this episode with others and listen for yourself.…
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Send us a Text Message. We have learned that there are two kinds of faith, the grace of faith and the gift of faith. However, today, we are going to hear that for the grace of faith, there are three degrees or levels of it. No one starts with a complete faith that rests fully in the Lord. Faith must be tested and stressed for it to grow. The discip…
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Send us a Text Message. How do you know that you trust God? Is there any way to gauge faith, to be sure that you trust Him? There are many biblical examples of people who thought they had faith in God when in the end, it proved that they didn’t. Peter is an example of this. With all of his heart, he believed that he really had faith in Christ and w…
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Send us a Text Message. In last week’s podcast, we began a discussion of the fight of faith. The fight of faith is the battle to believe what God has revealed objectively and subjectively. Using Abraham’s Genesis 17 encounter with God, the first two stages of the fight of faith were explained. In this episode, Michael Durham continues by showing th…
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Send us a Text Message. Does faith make life easy, comfortable, and prosperous? If you have faith, does that mean you will be able to defeat all antagonists and put down all difficulties quickly? And if you should struggle to believe God does that mean you are unbelieving? The answer to these questions is the same. The answer is, no, not at all. Th…
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Send us a Text Message. How does faith increase if it does increase? Every Christian is genuinely concerned that their faith is vital and vibrant. If it is impossible to please God without faith, then it is a serious concern that our faith is healthy. However, faith is a living thing, and therefore it is not like a product that can be manufactured …
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Send us a Text Message. How does faith increase if it does increase? Every Christian is genuinely concerned that their faith is vital and vibrant. If it is impossible to please God without faith, then it is a serious concern that our faith is healthy. However, faith is a living thing, and therefore it is not like a product that can be manufactured …
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Send us a Text Message. There are two kinds of biblical faith stated in the Scriptures. The two kinds of faith are the grace of faith and the gift of faith. In this episode, Michael Durham explores each of these kinds of faith from the Bible. The grace of faith is stated in Romans 12, and the gift of faith is found in 1 Corinthians 12.…
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Send us a Text Message. Today, there are many faith teachers with differing opinions about faith. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the final of three, explainin…
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Send us a Text Message. Today, there are many faith teachers with differing opinions about faith. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the second of three, explaini…
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Send us a Text Message. Today, there are many faith teachers, and they are varied in their opinions. There are almost as many ideas about faith as there are teachers. Radical ideas concerning faith are rampant. Therefore, never has an hour existed where an exact definition of faith is more needed than now. This episode is the first of three, explai…
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