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Help for Today, Hope for Tomorrow
 
March-April 2016
Was Jesus Really Resurrected? 1
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 “Christ Our Passover Was Sacrificed for Us”
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 Will America Be Great Again?
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 Putting the New Into the New Man 34
God Is Calling  You to
 
Change  Your Life
 
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Beyond Today
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FEATURE ARTICLES
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 God Is Calling You to Change Your Lie
God wants you to change and start living His way. He reveals three essential steps to help you start and continue in this new life, steps requiring deep consideration and purposeful action today.
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 Are You Putting Off Your Salvation?
Even though they’ve come to understand the truth of God, many put off baptism for years. But is that really acceptable to God? Should you delay your baptism?
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 Was Jesus
Really 
 Resurrected?
Without the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our faith is futile. Do we have historical evidence that it actually happened?
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 Te Biblical Alternative to Easter
Are you letting religious traditions get in the way of a real, authentic relationship with God? The answer to this problem lies in the biblical festivals observed and taught by Jesus Christ Himself.
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 “Christ Our Passover Was Sacrificed or Us”
In 1 Corinthians 5:7, Paul wrote that “Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.” This statement holds profound meaning for Christians.
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 Will America Be Great Again?
We are in a grave moment in the world. Something is happening in America; people are worried the nation is nearing the point of no return. What is happening, and what does it mean?
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 Why Are You Called NowNot Later?
Jesus’ parable of the minas or pounds is puzzling to many people, but understanding it is key to grasp-ing what God wants to do with and in your life!
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 Putting the New Into the New Man
What did Jesus mean when He spoke of not put-ting a new patch on an old piece of cloth or new wine in new wineskins? His words carry deep meaning for us!
March-April 2016
STUDY SECTIONS
36 Mini-Study: False Predictions— How to Separate Truth From Counterfeits
What does the Bible teach about false teachers in the end time?
29 Questions and Answers
Answers to your questions about the Bible and Christian living
DEPARTMENTS
26 Current Events and Trends
An overview of events and conditions around the world
28 Letters From Our Readers
Readers of
Beyond Today
magazine share their thoughts
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ere in America the presidential nomina-tion process is in ull swing as voters choose which candidates will lead their parties in the November elections. As with most political campaigns, a common rerain is
“It’s time or a change!”
And it certainly is. Clearly many citizens are ed up and want and demand change. We couldn’t agree more. Yet the change people need most is one that ew really contemplate—and that’s the need to
change themselves
 as God desires.Most people don’t really think a lot about God. And those who do generally think they’re okay in His eyes. But is that really the case?When Jesus o Nazareth began His ministry, He came to a people who believed in God and generally thought they lived in a way pleas-ing to Him. But it clearly wasn’t enough. What did He tell them? Notice in Mark 1:14-15: “Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel o the kingdom o God, and saying, ‘Te time is ulfilled, and the kingdom o God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel’”
(emphasis added throughout). Likewise, on the day o Pentecost when the Church was miraculously ounded, notice what Peter told the assembled crowd:
“Repent,
 and
let every one o you be baptized 
 in the name o Jesus Christ or the remission o sins; and
 you shall receive the gif o the Holy Spirit” 
 (Acts 2:38). Te account continues, “And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying,
‘Be saved rom this perverse generation’” 
 (verse 40).Te messages o Jesus Christ and Peter echo God’s urging through the prophet Isaiah seven centuries earlier: “Seek the L󰁯󰁲󰁤 while He may be ound, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked orsake his way, and the unrigh-teous man his thoughts; let him return to the L󰁯󰁲󰁤, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, or He will abundantly pardon” (Isaiah 55:6-7). Notice the many commands in these ew verses:
Repent—believe in the gospel— be baptized—be saved rom this perverse  generation—seek the L󰁯󰁲󰁤
call upon Him— let the wicked orsake his way—return to the L󰁯󰁲󰁤.
Do you get the picture? In all three o these passages the listeners thought they were okay in God’s sight.
But they clearly weren’t.
God told them they had to
do something.
And that something was
change.Change
is a major theme o the Bible. It’s at the heart o the meaning o the words “repent” and “repentance,” mentioned more than 60 times in the Bible. Tese words mean to change direc-tion, to turn, to stop going in one direction and go in another, to change our think-ing, to change our actions—in short,
to change our lives.
Tis is what it means to
 orsake our own way and seek God.
Te apostle Paul described this change in Colossians 3:9-10 as nothing more than a total makeover o our lives: “You have
 put off the old man
 with his deeds, and have
 put on the new man
 who is renewed in knowledge according to the image o Him who created him.”He echoes those thoughts in Ephesians 4:22-24:
“Put off . . . the old man
 which grows corrupt according to the deceitul lusts, and
be renewed in the spirit o your mind,
 and . . .
 put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.” 
How about you? Are you telling yoursel that everything is okay in your relationship with God and that you’re all He expects you to be? Or maybe you need to realize, as explained in this issue,
it’s time or a change! 
EDITORIAL
Scott Ashley
Managing editor
 Time for a Change!
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