A Great and Encouraging Word‏

A Great and Encouraging Word.

TITUS 2:11-14

11. "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
12. Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we shouldlive soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
13. Looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our greatGod and Savior Jesus Christ,
14. Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people zealous for good works."

The appearance of the grace of God is to produce two results in lives of believers: first, we are to resist the evil temptations of this world, by living godly lives in this present age. Second, we are to look for Christ's return.

Great God and Savior Jesus Christ is one of the strongest statements of the deity of Christ in the New Testament.

Redeem means to purchase. With his death on the Cross, Christ paid the price to release us from the bondage of sin (Eph 1:7)
to which every unbeliever is a slave(Rom. 6:6,7,17,20).

God's purpose in redeeming is not only to save us from hell, He also wants to free us from sin so that we can produce good works that glorify Him (Eph. 2:8-18)