1 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 Good morning. How is everyone doing? 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:14,900 Once again, I want to Echo. Steve, thank you for being here 3 00:00:14,900 --> 00:00:19,000 this morning. Thank you for coming out this 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 morning. If you're turning your Bibles 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,600 back to the book of Titus will be back in Titus Chapter 2 once 6 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:38,500 again today. We'll say a quick prayer before 7 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:44,100 we begin and as we pray, join with me in praying for pastor 8 00:00:44,100 --> 00:00:45,900 Kyle. He's not feeling well this 9 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:49,200 morning. So that's why he is not here 10 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:57,600 Ministry to us this morning. So let's, let's take this, take 11 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,400 this time to go to the Lord and prepare our hearts for this 12 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,800 morning. Father, I praise you. 13 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:05,800 I magnify your worship, your name. 14 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:12,200 I give you glory and praise. Thank you for Thank you for this 15 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,600 opportunity that we have to come and to minister. 16 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,200 And Be with each other fellowship with one. 17 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,900 Another father is your word says and that we haven't forsaken 18 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:26,400 that father, we're here and we're, we're fellowship and 19 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,600 father were communing with one. Another father. 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,500 I pray that you will be with us today as we go through your 21 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:35,400 word. Lord. 22 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,600 I pray that you will speak speak through me. 23 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,000 May they not see or hear me but that may they see and hear you 24 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,100 father. And Lord, we all we all come 25 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:49,200 together. We come into agreement father, 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,400 praying for pastor Kyle that you would just strengthen him bless 27 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,800 him father and that he will be 100% on the manned up. 28 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,000 Pray! Amen. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,200 Amen. Okay. 30 00:02:03,700 --> 00:02:08,900 So Here we are in Chapter 2 of tadas. 31 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:12,700 We're going to be going over verses 11 and 12 this morning 32 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:24,200 quick recap we've seen in taught us In the first chapter where 33 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:29,800 Paul has he says, this is why I left you in Crete talking 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,600 toutatis there were two, two things, two instructions that 35 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,700 taught us was given by Paul and that those were that he would 36 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:42,200 set in order and what remained to be put in order. 37 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,700 And all the churches that Paul had established in Crete and to 38 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:51,400 that, he would appoint Godly Elders in each Church. 39 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:00,300 So that's that, that's the why Titus was left in Crete to up, 40 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:04,400 to put in order what's left to be put in order that Paul hadn't 41 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,700 had time to do? And to was a point Godly Elders 42 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:14,900 in every Church location and we found out in the end of chapter 43 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:16,900 1, why? That's so important, because 44 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,200 there had been some false teachings false teachers rising 45 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,200 up. Teaching erroneous teachings, 46 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,200 trying to get the people to follow as their word of God 47 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:36,000 says, Jewish myth trying to get people to still think they have 48 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:42,000 to abide by the Old Testament law, instead of Basking in the 49 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,700 grace of Jesus. And then in Chapter 2, he gets 50 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:54,400 into the teaching of sound. Sound Doctrine, and that what 51 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:59,000 that meant and what that look like for men and women for the, 52 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:03,400 for those that called themselves, the children of God, 53 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:10,000 there in these churches, the how that the these men and women 54 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:15,500 should should live. They men were to be 55 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:22,000 sober-minded, they were Supposed to be self-controlled. 56 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Sound in faith, love and steadfastness and women. 57 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Likewise, he says, irreverent and their behavior, not slaves 58 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:36,900 to Wine Not slanderers. And that both they were supposed 59 00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:41,200 to be teaching, the younger generations and then he spoke 60 00:04:41,300 --> 00:04:45,100 directly again to taught us that remember, Todd. 61 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,500 It's you are the model. You are to me the model and 62 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,600 verse in verse 7. Chapter 2, it says show 63 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,400 yourselves and all respect to be a model of good works and in 64 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,800 your teaching show integrity and dignity and in verse 8 it 65 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,900 follows and sound speech that cannot be condemned. 66 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:12,200 So taught us was going to be the model for these people in these 67 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,300 churches to follow and the model for the elders that he was going 68 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,100 to raise up in a point in these churches to follow. 69 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,500 So that's that kind of brings us to our to our text this morning 70 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,100 and in Titus, Chapter 2 in verse 11. 71 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:36,200 And 12 says, for the grace of God has appeared bringing 72 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,700 salvation, for all people training us to renounce, 73 00:05:40,700 --> 00:05:44,200 ungodliness and worldly, passions, and to live, 74 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:49,600 self-controlled upright and godly lives in the present age. 75 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:57,300 So TARDIS. Had given instruction of how 76 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,600 Christian men and women are supposed to look like what the 77 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,800 children of God are supposed to look like last week. 78 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,300 We heard about how we are, how we are supposed to present 79 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:16,600 ourselves and conduct ourselves as as employee as employees, in 80 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,300 our work environment. How that we're supposed to be 81 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,900 still, you know, have that? He has as Christian men and 82 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:28,900 women in the different areas of our life, whether it's at work 83 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:34,900 or at school, how wherever we are stage in life that we are to 84 00:06:34,900 --> 00:06:39,500 be subject to those that have authority in that in, you know, 85 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:45,000 workplaces and not to not to be occupied argumentative, not to 86 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:50,500 not to pilfer or or steel, you know, Tha more resources from 87 00:06:50,500 --> 00:06:52,800 the company. But we are, it says so in. 88 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:58,700 Anything it says, in verse 10, it says not pilfering, but 89 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:02,000 showing all good faith. So that in everything, they may 90 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:04,200 Adorn, the doctrine of God our savior. 91 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:07,900 So everything that that we are to do the men and women in our 92 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:13,700 workplaces, in our schools is to Adorn ourselves as children of 93 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:16,400 God, that people can clearly see that. 94 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:21,300 We are children of God and today in verses 11 and 12. 95 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,800 We get into Plaque, practical application. 96 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,000 Okay, this is what we are supposed to look like, how is 97 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,200 this accomplished? And that's what we're going to 98 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:37,300 get in. Today, in verse 11, it says, for 99 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:42,600 the grace of God has appeared bringing salvation for all 100 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:49,000 people, The grace of God is what makes it possible for you. 101 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:55,200 And I to live out Godly lives. The main, the main point for 102 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:58,900 today's lesson is through the grace of God. 103 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:03,400 We have been brought close to him and have been given the 104 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:10,600 ability to live Godly lives. So Tardis is has given the 105 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:16,100 instruction of men and women. Two employee employee and 106 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:20,100 employer relationships. How we're supposed to present 107 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:23,300 ourselves how we're supposed to live in a Godly manner? 108 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,300 How to as tadas was, put your supposed to be the model so that 109 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,000 those that you're teaching your leading or supposed to come 110 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,500 after you and they can model that we are supposed to be 111 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:41,400 modeling after Christ in our in our, in our lives, in our homes, 112 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,800 in our workplaces in And everywhere that we find 113 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:51,500 ourselves, we are supposed to be a model of what Jesus looked 114 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:58,200 like and we are able to do that through and only through the 115 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,800 grace of God. It is not. 116 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:04,600 We cannot do it on her own. We cannot do it just by trying 117 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,100 to be good enough. It is only through the 118 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:12,700 empowerment that you and I received through the grace of 119 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:15,000 God. Okay, ma'am. 120 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,100 Thank you in Second Corinthians chapter 13 verse 14. 121 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:23,400 It says, for the grace of Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the 122 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,800 communion of the Holy Spirit. Be with you all, I love this 123 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:32,300 verse because not only is it a beautiful illustration of the 124 00:09:32,300 --> 00:09:38,200 Trinity. It's also it reveals how each 125 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,800 person of the Trinity relates to us. 126 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:46,800 And we to them, we have the grace of Jesus because he came, 127 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,400 he lived, he modeled and he died for our Salvation. 128 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:55,800 He came and he did all that because we have the love of God, 129 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:58,500 the love of God. God loved us so much that. 130 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:03,300 He sent his own son to die for you and I to be that substitute 131 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:05,800 that we could never be on our own. 132 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 We can never be good enough. We could never do enough good 133 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:13,000 things. We cannot we could never say 134 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 enough. You know, he'll Mary's, we can 135 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,300 never do you know give enough money away. 136 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:25,000 We can never read our Bibles. We never pray enough to attain 137 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,200 Justification in the eyes of Father. 138 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:31,700 God. But Jesus came. 139 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:35,400 Why? Because God loved us so much 140 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:38,800 that he sent his son. Jesus, loved us so much that he 141 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:43,200 came and he died and then the Holy Spirit loves us so much. 142 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,800 According to James chapter 4, verse 5, that he's to the point 143 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:49,900 of envy and won't into fellowship with you. 144 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:55,300 And I So we have, we have all three elements of the Trinity. 145 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:57,900 The love of the Father, the love the sun and the love of the 146 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:02,400 spirit with us all. And when you relate this back to 147 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:08,800 here, you see that we have the grace of God which is all 148 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:14,300 encompassed in that we have. The love of God that sent his 149 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:17,400 son. We have Jesus, who has been a 150 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:24,100 model Paul was was has has had the Revelation then been knocked 151 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:31,700 down blinded bluntly by Jesus Christ, and sent on his mission. 152 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:37,600 He whence he goes and he plants these churches and he raises up 153 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:41,900 individuals like Timothy and Titus and others and he sends 154 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:47,100 them out in Print out as he sends them out to to continue 155 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:52,000 that Ministry to help extend a bluish and putting concrete what 156 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,800 Paul had started. And all because of the grace of 157 00:11:56,800 --> 00:12:02,300 God, it says that the grace of God has done several things in 158 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:05,700 these verses. The first one is says the grace 159 00:12:05,700 --> 00:12:11,000 of God has appeared. If you look over in your Bibles 160 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,600 to the Book of John. Chapter number 1. 161 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,500 The first thing, the great, the grace of God, it appeared first, 162 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:33,600 John chapter 1 verse number 1. It says, in the beginning was 163 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,600 the word and the Word was with God. 164 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:39,100 And the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God 165 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,300 and all things were made through him. 166 00:12:41,700 --> 00:12:46,100 And without him was not anything made, that was made in him, was 167 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:50,200 life, and the life was a lot of me in the line. shines in the 168 00:12:50,208 --> 00:12:54,700 darkness and the Darkness has not overcome it and then you 169 00:12:54,700 --> 00:13:00,300 skip forward to verse number 14, And it says, in the word became 170 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:05,200 flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen his glory glory 171 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:10,300 as the only son from the father, full of grace and truth, John 172 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:12,200 bore witness about him and cried out. 173 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,900 This was he of whom I said, he who comes after me ranks before 174 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:22,800 me because he was before me. And in verse 16, for for from 175 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:28,500 his fullness, we have all received Grace upon Grace. 176 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:37,000 So, here we see that Grace appeared when when Jesus came 177 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:42,000 and he became flesh. Jesus appeared Jesus gave us 178 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:51,600 Grace instead of law, a man. It says, in in verse 17, it 179 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,800 says, for the law was given through Moses, Grace and Truth 180 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:02,800 came through Jesus. So Moses gave us the law. 181 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:08,500 He gave us rules that were to produce a state of being 182 00:14:08,500 --> 00:14:13,900 approved by God, but it was a continual thing that needed to 183 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:19,400 be continually approved by God. There were sacrifices, that was 184 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:23,600 done twice a day. One at 6:00 in the morning, one 185 00:14:23,600 --> 00:14:29,900 at 6:00 in the evening, to make atonement to not Let me rephrase 186 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:35,100 that it was a continual sacrifice every day for the, the 187 00:14:35,100 --> 00:14:37,800 sins of Israel. And then on the day of 188 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:40,700 atonement, the one day of the year that the high priest was 189 00:14:40,700 --> 00:14:44,600 allowed into the holy place, he would go in and make the 190 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,000 atonement. And sprinkle the blood upon The 191 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:52,100 Mercy Seat of Christ in the in the holiest of holies and that 192 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:58,100 was to appease the Judgment of God upon Israel. 193 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:01,400 Why? Because they were sinful just 194 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,400 like you or not. You and I are sinful. 195 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,900 We're born in, in this sinful State, according to the word of 196 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:13,900 God. But just as Sin came into the 197 00:15:13,900 --> 00:15:18,400 World by one man, it says through Adam. 198 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:23,900 Justification comes through one man, and that's Jesus Christ. 199 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:27,800 Amen. So Moses gave us the law which 200 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,900 was rules producing this state to be approved by God. 201 00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:39,400 But Grace is eternal, it's Everlasting, and it's once and 202 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,600 for all amen. It's not something that has to 203 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,700 be earned. It's not a set of rules that we 204 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:49,000 have to live by about you can't do this or you're supposed to do 205 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,900 that. One of the one of the most 206 00:15:50,900 --> 00:15:56,500 freeing things I ever heard. I grew up in a very legalistic 207 00:15:56,700 --> 00:16:04,400 home, a very legalistic Church. A very legalistic, Framework in 208 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:09,100 my life and one of the most free and things I ever heard how to 209 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:11,100 administer. Say this, he said quit telling 210 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:14,200 people what they can't do and start telling people what they 211 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,600 can do, because those, a lot of things that in the word of God 212 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,900 Says, with it, what we can do, we can walk by faith. 213 00:16:21,900 --> 00:16:26,400 We can walk in love, we can walk in humility, we can love people. 214 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,500 We can treat people, right? And the thing is, when we start 215 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:35,200 doing all the things we Can there's less and less a pool of 216 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,200 the things that we're not supposed to do. 217 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,700 Amen. So it's not about rules and 218 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:44,100 regulations. It's about a relationship. 219 00:16:44,500 --> 00:16:48,600 I know that's, you know, a cliche, but it's true. 220 00:16:48,700 --> 00:16:52,200 It's a relationship that you and I have with Jesus Christ. 221 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:56,000 Amen. That's what gets us into this 222 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:00,500 grace. That we are approved by him 223 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:02,400 once. And for all it's not something 224 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,200 that Is continual, like, the daily sacrifices, or the day of 225 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:10,700 atonement. Jesus came once and he died and 226 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:13,800 he died for all, and when he died the word of God says sin 227 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:18,099 died. And now it's, you know, it's 228 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:20,599 salvation is free, Grace is free. 229 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,099 All we have to do is believe and accept that. 230 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:30,400 Amen. Let's, let's continue this. 231 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,100 Second thing, which I've already kind of touched on, is the grace 232 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:40,800 of God, brought salvation for all people, it released us from 233 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,800 the law. Let's look over to the Book of 234 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:48,000 Romans. Now, chapter number 7. 235 00:18:06,300 --> 00:18:09,500 Romans chapter 7, and we're going to look at verse number 1 236 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:16,400 through 6 at the moment. It says, or do you not know 237 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:20,500 Brothers for I am speaking to those who know the law that the 238 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:25,400 law is binding on a person only, as long as he lives for a 239 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,900 married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives. 240 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,100 But if her husband dies, she is released. 241 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:34,700 She is released from the law of marriage accordingly. 242 00:18:34,700 --> 00:18:39,900 She will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man, 243 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,700 while her husband is alive, but if her husband dies, she is free 244 00:18:43,700 --> 00:18:46,300 from that. Law and if she marries another 245 00:18:46,300 --> 00:18:51,300 man, she is not an adulterous likewise my brother's. 246 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:55,400 You also have died to the law through the body of Christ so 247 00:18:55,400 --> 00:19:00,000 that you may belong to one another to him who has been 248 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,900 raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God 249 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:07,500 for a while. We were living in the flesh are 250 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:12,400 sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our members 251 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,000 to bear fruit for death. But now, we are released from 252 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,500 the law having died to that, which held us captive. 253 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:24,900 So that we serve in the new way of the spirit. 254 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:28,000 And in the old way, the written law. 255 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:34,700 So we no longer serve the written law because Jesus came, 256 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:37,400 and he died to free us from that. 257 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:43,400 Now, we can live in, in the new way of the spirit. 258 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:51,500 Hey man, we live in the new way and how do we do that the grace 259 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:56,200 of God? We live, we live free and in 260 00:19:56,200 --> 00:20:00,000 this in the spirit by the grace of God. 261 00:20:00,500 --> 00:20:07,000 And why, why is that, is that we may bear fruit. 262 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:16,300 That verse 5, it says the work of the flesh brings death but 263 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,500 the things of the spirit brings life, amen. 264 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:26,900 So we have Salvation that they're grace of God appeared 265 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:34,400 through Jesus Christ. He gave us not only his life but 266 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:39,400 he gave us instruction. He gave us his model of what it 267 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,900 is or what we are supposed to look like. 268 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:45,500 And it brought salvation for all people. 269 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:50,200 We are no longer under the legalistic law of the Old 270 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,100 Testament. We are now under under grace, 271 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:58,100 Jesus said in John 16 verse 7, I believe. 272 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:03,700 He said it is more, is more important that I go away and 273 00:21:03,700 --> 00:21:07,800 stay. He says, it's better for you 274 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:10,800 that I leave. Because if I don't leave the 275 00:21:10,808 --> 00:21:15,600 Holy Spirit won't come. But if I leave, Jesus taught 276 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:19,200 them when I leave, I'm going to send the spirit which was 277 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,800 promised by my father. One version said, it's expedient 278 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,600 dial leave. So that the spirit will come. 279 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:33,600 Why? Because Jesus knew that, when he 280 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,300 left the Holy Spirit would come, which is our helper, our 281 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,600 comforter and went that those words. 282 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:45,600 According to John 14 means the one who walks alongside so it's 283 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,400 just as Jesus walked alongside men. 284 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:51,900 Now, we have the Holy Spirit who walks alongside of us. 285 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:55,200 Jesus said he was with us and will be in us. 286 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,700 Or holy the holy spirit is our God. 287 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:01,100 He is our leader. He is the one that leads us in 288 00:22:01,100 --> 00:22:04,900 this new way of the spirit and he does it through the 289 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,500 sanctification process. We are Justified because what 290 00:22:08,500 --> 00:22:14,700 Jesus did we are Justified, we just just as, we've never 291 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:19,500 sinned, we are clothed in Christ because of what he did and our 292 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,800 acceptance of him. And when father, God looks at 293 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,700 us, because we are clothed in Christ, he doesn't see us. 294 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:31,500 He sees only cry. He doesn't see him Perfection. 295 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:36,500 He sees sees Perfection. We can be a mess here on Earth. 296 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:42,400 We make mistakes, we mess up, we get mad, we say things, we 297 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:50,900 shouldn't we sin, but you know, Because we we are actively 298 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,600 engaged. All he sees is Jesus. 299 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:57,700 Hey man, it does it. Like Paul said, it doesn't give 300 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:03,200 us a free rein to sin. Hey man, it doesn't mean we can 301 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:08,300 just live any way we want, but when we accept Christ and we 302 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:12,000 start that discipleship process of becoming more and more like 303 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,200 him, like it says in 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 that we 304 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:20,600 are changed into his image from glory to glory or from from you 305 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,600 know step by step little bit by little bit with changed into the 306 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:29,500 image of Jesus. We are justified in a moment. 307 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,300 When we accept Christ, we are Justified. 308 00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:39,300 He sank he justifies us. Our sin is no more. 309 00:23:40,700 --> 00:23:46,100 He takes care of sin. But we had, we are Sanctified as 310 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,500 we go in this new way of the spirit. 311 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:54,400 According to Romans chapter 7 verse 6, it says that we now 312 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:59,500 serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of 313 00:23:59,500 --> 00:24:05,600 the written law. So now we are Justified once and 314 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:11,400 for all we don't have to continually do do the sacrifice 315 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,300 again. Came, and he died once. 316 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:20,700 And so we're Justified but every day we can get more and more 317 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:24,900 like Jesus every day. We can be more and more Godly. 318 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,300 Why? Because the grace of God, the 319 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:32,000 grace of God is not just some thing that it takes in a way. 320 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:36,200 Grace is an empowerment for us to walk out that salvation. 321 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:44,000 Amen, the third thing that the grace of God does Is it trains 322 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,700 us to renounce ungodliness. Let's look back over to the book 323 00:24:48,700 --> 00:25:02,600 of Titus child is 2:12. 324 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:10,200 The grace of God. It says that it trained training 325 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:14,200 us to renounce ungodliness And worldly, passions. 326 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:19,300 The word ungodliness means disloyalty to the king or 327 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:24,900 unrighteousness by virtue of not obey and worshiping God. 328 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:32,200 The word, the phrase worldly passions is desires or cravings 329 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:36,800 for what is forbidden in this corrupt age. 330 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:42,000 So the grace of God appeared through Jesus. 331 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:45,400 The grace of God, brings us salvation. 332 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:50,300 It, frees us from the written code of the law and now we are 333 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:54,200 in the law of the spirit, the new way. 334 00:25:54,700 --> 00:26:01,000 And and as we do this, as we walk being led and guided by the 335 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:06,000 Holy Spirit In Our Lady life, it helped teaches us to renounce 336 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,700 ungodliness and worldly passions. 337 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:14,500 So what is it doing? It is allowing us to become and 338 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:19,600 look like the men and the women and the people of God that Todd, 339 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,600 it's talked about here, that Paul talked about about toutatis 340 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,400 here that we went over. Over the last few weeks, the 341 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,800 grace of God, it appeared, it brought us salvation. 342 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,500 And now it's starting that training process so we can look 343 00:26:32,500 --> 00:26:36,800 like what Todd has chapter to the men and women that you and 344 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,900 the children of God are supposed to look like. 345 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:44,700 So it's leading us that way. So the the for thing it does it 346 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:49,400 trains us to live out what we're supposed to be. 347 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:56,000 It says training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly, 348 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:01,700 passions and to live, self-controlled upright and 349 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:08,600 godly lives in the present age. Men and women, both are supposed 350 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,600 to be self-controlled. In verse verse 2, I would have 351 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:19,600 men are supposed to be self-controlled in verse 5 352 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,100 older. Women are supposed to be 353 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:26,500 self-controlled in verse six, young men are supposed to be 354 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,700 self-controlled because most of the time young men are what 355 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:35,200 Stupid. As we as we were instructed. 356 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,300 Amen. Because and we talked about this 357 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:41,900 in homegroup that that you know, older me. 358 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:46,800 And when it have the ability it says here, let me find this 359 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:59,800 word. It was part of sober-minded. 360 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:04,600 I believe. Yes, it means the one of the 361 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:08,400 words in the meaning is circumspect of, which means the 362 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,800 ability to look at all the possible consequences. 363 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,300 And evaluate them. Young men don't have that 364 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:19,700 ability. Amen. 365 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,300 So yeah. Young men, stupid. 366 00:28:23,500 --> 00:28:27,100 Yeah. And most of the time we, you 367 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:30,600 know, we grow up and we're just still old and stupid, but 368 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,700 sometimes, we don't grow that, but yeah. 369 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:38,400 Men and women, young men, young women are supposed to be 370 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,600 self-controlled. We can't do that on our self. 371 00:28:41,900 --> 00:28:46,200 Amen. We it says that we have not been 372 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,100 given a spirit Fear, but of power and love. 373 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:59,000 And a sound mind that second Timothy 1:7, help me out 374 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:06,800 somebody. Yes, second Timothy 1, verse 7 375 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,400 for God, has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and 376 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:14,200 love and self-control. And we do this how through the 377 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:18,200 spirit of God in the new way. Why, and how through the 378 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:24,300 empowerment of the grace of God? So it gives us the ability to 379 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:27,500 make Godly decisions to be upright. 380 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:32,000 And this means to be a model just as like tadas and verse 7 381 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,500 here in Chapter 2, he is supposed to be a model. 382 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:38,900 We are supposed to be models of what Christians are supposed to 383 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:42,500 look like. And the result is that we can 384 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:47,700 live Godly lives and we can do it in the present age. 385 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,200 And we do it through the grace of God. 386 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,600 Through the grace of God, we can walk worthy in our world as we 387 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,300 wait for our Eternal Destiny of being with Jesus forever. 388 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:05,300 Amen. And well, we'll get into more 389 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:13,500 that next week. So the grace of God appeared in 390 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:17,800 the form of Jesus, his life, his teachings. 391 00:30:19,100 --> 00:30:23,900 His leadership. We have eyewitnesses that we can 392 00:30:23,900 --> 00:30:26,000 read what they wrote in the Bible. 393 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,100 We have their teachings based on the teachings of Jesus, how 394 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:36,400 Jesus lived. We have. 395 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,400 The knowledge that Jesus died for us. 396 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,400 Why? Because father God, loved us. 397 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:50,500 He sent his son. We have Jesus brings us Grace 398 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:55,000 because he loved us so much that he died for us and we have the 399 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,200 Fellowship of the holy spirit because he wants he Longs, he 400 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:06,400 Longs you look up, James chapter 4 and verse 5 and and study at 401 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,500 that scripture the Holy Spirit longs to the point of envying to 402 00:31:10,500 --> 00:31:16,900 commune with our spirit. So how do we do this? 403 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,700 What how do we apply this to our lives? 404 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:31,700 It's only in the result of closeness, you see? 405 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:41,100 Jesus said in John 10:10, He gives to mission statements in 406 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:45,800 that verse the first one is the mission statement of Satan or 407 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,000 adversary. He said, the thief comes only to 408 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:54,900 steal kill and destroy, but I've come to give you life and life 409 00:31:54,900 --> 00:32:00,200 to the for life more abundantly. You have to Jesus gives us two 410 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:04,000 distinct promises in his mission statement. 411 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,900 He came to give us life salvation but he also came to 412 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:14,900 give us life to the for Life abundantly it's totally up to 413 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:21,500 you and I, if we allow ourselves to live in the fullness of 414 00:32:21,500 --> 00:32:27,400 Jesus, We can be saved. We can be justified. 415 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:34,900 We can be on our way to heaven. But not, but not be living in 416 00:32:34,900 --> 00:32:39,100 the fullness of Christ. We can live miserable 417 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:45,800 unfulfilled lives. Depressed lives. lives of 418 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:50,700 frustration. If we want to. 419 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:59,300 Jesus gives us the ability to be stupid if we want to. obviously, 420 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:02,200 we weren't stupid enough because we brought come to him for 421 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:09,300 salvation, but if he We can be as close as close to him in that 422 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:11,000 in that daily walk as we want to. 423 00:33:14,500 --> 00:33:18,200 We can come, we can have salvation but but Jesus wants to 424 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,600 give us so much more he wants. He wants us to live to the fall. 425 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,200 He wants us to be that good Model A man. 426 00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:32,600 I mean if you live in and if you're always depressed, if you 427 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:38,800 are always Melancholy. If you're always, you know, what 428 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:41,400 was me? Or you always something's always 429 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:46,200 wrong. How does that attract people to 430 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:50,100 Christ? And I know, because I've been 431 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:52,900 there. I've been there. 432 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,100 Maybe I am. And it's only in that closeness. 433 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:08,500 That we have the ability to have that really self-control to make 434 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:15,199 that good Godly decisions. We should live out our lives in 435 00:34:15,199 --> 00:34:18,500 this self controlled manner because the grace of God that 436 00:34:18,500 --> 00:34:26,400 saves also instructs. So we can, we cannot truly claim 437 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,300 to be a recipient of Saving Grace with also without also 438 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:38,900 being a pupil of training Grace The grace of God appeared 439 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,199 bringing salvation. But it also appeared to train a 440 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,800 man. It brought us salvation. 441 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:54,699 We should be ecstatic for that. But we have to, we have to live 442 00:34:54,699 --> 00:34:59,800 our lives and walk at our lives daily, allowing the training of 443 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,100 Grace, amen. If we have that closeness, and 444 00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:09,300 which with Christ, and we can be as closer as we want to be. 445 00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:18,100 Jesus had had 12 disciples but only three in his inner circle. 446 00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:24,400 And now that three only one was was really, really close. 447 00:35:27,100 --> 00:35:31,400 The other 12 were one of them wasn't even really a disciple. 448 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:38,000 He was just in the mix. But the other, the other, the 449 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:43,200 other ones they were there, but they wouldn't allow to go in 450 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,800 certain places certain times. He only took Peter John and 451 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:54,000 James. Amen. so, We can be as close to 452 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,400 him as we want to be we can live out our lives with self-control. 453 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:05,200 We can live out our lives as a model for Christ which attracts 454 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,600 other people to him. Amen. 455 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:11,800 Amen. Saving Grace. 456 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:17,400 Teaches us to say no to sin and yes to Godliness but training, 457 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:25,000 Grace teaches us how to resist ungodliness and to embrace Godly 458 00:36:25,300 --> 00:36:28,800 and upright. Living, let's flip over to the 459 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:36,600 Book of Romans, their worship team wants to come were I'm 460 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:40,700 wrapping up. Book of Romans chapter number 6. 461 00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:12,500 We word, we read the first six verses of chapter 7 earlier and 462 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:15,100 this is what led up to those verses. 463 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:22,000 Romans chapter 6 verses 20 through III, it says, for when 464 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,700 you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 465 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:30,300 But what fruit will you getting at that time? 466 00:37:30,300 --> 00:37:34,700 From the things of which you are now ashamed for the things of 467 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:37,500 the, for the end of those things is death. 468 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:42,700 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become 469 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:48,300 slaves of God, their fruit, you get leads to sanctification and 470 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,100 his end. Eternal life. 471 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,200 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is 472 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,000 eternal life in Christ. Jesus, our lord. 473 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:07,000 The fruit is says the fruit of sin is death, and it brings 474 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:10,300 shame. But the grace of God. 475 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:19,700 Brings sanctification and eternal life. so, I encourage 476 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:28,000 you as we have walked through of what The children of God is 477 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:33,600 supposed to look like over the last few weeks, how men are 478 00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,100 supposed to conduct themselves, how women are supposed to 479 00:38:36,100 --> 00:38:39,000 conduct themselves, how we're supposed to conduct ourselves in 480 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,500 the work environment to be those, those models of what a 481 00:38:44,500 --> 00:38:46,200 Godly person is supposed to look. 482 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:52,900 Like, I encourage you to not only Embrace Saving Grace, but 483 00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,300 Embrace training, grace allow. All the Holy Spirit as you're in 484 00:38:57,300 --> 00:39:00,500 this new way, you're no longer under the written code. 485 00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:02,800 Now, you're in the new way of the spirit. 486 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,100 I encourage you to let the Holy Spirit, teach you, and to train, 487 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:14,600 you how to live in a Godly manner, in a model way that you 488 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:19,300 represent Christ. And that you represent a 489 00:39:22,700 --> 00:39:28,200 Welcoming environment for those around you to say hey I want 490 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:29,300 what you have. Amen.