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From Titus 3:5 I want to look at a final, complicated, and devious way people are deceived into trusting in their works to save them, so that we can guard against this very popular but false gospel.

From Titus 3:5 I want to continue where we left off last week looking at various ways people are deceived into trusting in their works to save them so that we can guard against being inoculated against the gospel of grace.

From Titus 3:5 I want to consider two antithetical facts about salvation so that you understand how a person is saved, evaluate your own spiritual condition, defend the gospel of grace, and share the gospel with the lost.

I want to give you four different broad categories that relate to the love of God and specifically, His love toward unworthy sinners, which causes Him to save some, so that we can thank, praise, and obey Him for His wonderful love towards us.

From Titus 3:4 I want to point out five characteristics of the kindness of God, so you can understand God’s kindness better, be thankful for God’s kindness because it led you to salvation, and glorify God in your relationships with unbelievers realizing your salvation was all of God, and none of you.

From Titus 3:4 I want to consider four major points of doctrine that if understood, accepted, and believed, change your relationship to God, your eternal destiny, and your reason or living!

Once the grace of God has invaded our lives, it is very easy to become proud, puffed up, look down on other sinners, isolate ourselves from the unbelievers of the world, to malign them for not being as godly as we are. Spiritual pride can creep in along with an ungracious condemning attitude towards others if we don’t stop to remember what we also once were before God saves us from our sin. Let’s...

It is the grace of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the Word of God that puts to death the nine different sins mentioned in our text. As we look at each of these descriptions of the believer’s former life keep in mind that salvation makes these qualities a thing of the past. This doesn’t mean believers don’t sin any more, but they don’t live in unrepentant sin anymore like unbelievers do. The...

From Titus 3:3 you will see that Paul lists nine past lives of every believer that by God’s grace must be kept behind them, in order for God to be glorified, and the gospel and sound doctrine adorned by the church.

Jesus is the Savior who transforms people’s lives by His grace. Turn to Him! Look to Christ! Believe in Jesus, and follow Him now! If you have done that, then you will love His Word, His Church, His people, and His service. You will be motivated from within, to obey God’s will. It will be a joy to you. From Titus 3:1-2 we are considering seven specific godly pursuits that fit exactly into the perf...

From Titus 3:1-2 we are going to consider seven specific godly pursuits that fit exactly into the perfect bull’s eye of God’s will for your life, so you can strive to stay in the will of God, be blessed, and give God glory.

Biblical preaching is no easy task. And when you get to the delivery part, God requires that preachers preach in a certain way, His way, the biblical way, with a certain tone of delivery. From this text, I want you to see three major facets of biblical preaching, so if you are called to preach, you will do what God commands you to do, and if you are not called to preach, you will know what is requ...

Our text is a good new year’s text for it is foundational to Christian living. Doctrine is for living, not merely for knowing, and those who study doctrine merely to know truth but not practice is are like tadpoles with ugly swollen heads and tiny atrophied bodies and limbs. Many have strong opinions about what they believe is right, but fail to practice even the basic disciplines of the Christian...

Our text speaks of the appearing of Jesus Christ. God knows we need to know what the future holds and that is why there is so much about prophecy in the Bible. We need it and should never ignore it. Jesus’ any moment return for those who are His should be every believer’s longing and source of endless praise. When trials strike, the believer wishes Jesus would return. When they see wickedness in t...

Remember that this entire section addresses how saving grace transforms our lives as a testimony to the world of the saving power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Your life either is an advertisement encouraging people to repent and believe in Jesus Christ or a walking contradiction, giving Jesus’ enemies occasion to blaspheme His fair name because your life shows that the gospel has no power to cha...

From Titus 2:12 I want to show you two pitfalls the saving grace of God teaches us to deny, so we can live the kind of lives God instructs us to live and give Him glory.

The coming of the promised Messiah is what our text is about this morning. We are in an amazing section of the book of Titus, chapter 2:11-15. Many of the grand themes and doctrines of Christianity are packed into these few verses such as the grace of God, the first coming of Christ, the second coming of Christ, and what we are to be doing in the middle.

Only hell deserving, wicked, immoral, unrighteous, evil sinners with incurably wicked hearts receive God’s grace. And grace is given by God, to undeserving sinners, solely at His discretion, for His own eternal reasons, that are unknown to us. He saves some unworthy sinners by grace, and doesn’t save others. But whenever God sovereignly gives grace, it is always for a purpose and that is what we a...

From Titus 2:9-10, we see six different ways every person working under authority can be a blessing to others by being a positive testimony to the Word of God.

From Titus 2:9-10 I want to point out six ways that every person working under authority can be a positive testimony to the Word of God.

From Titus 2:7-8 I want to address four more qualities or character traits that every young man should make a conscious effort to pursue, so that those who hate Christ and Christianity will be put to shame and have no legitimate grounds of accusation against Christ, His Church, or the truth claims of Christianity.

From Titus 2:6-7 I want to point out and discuss three goals God wants all young men to strive for, so families are blessed, the church’s testimony and the gospel is not tarnished, and God is glorified.

We are in the midst of a very important section of Scripture, especially since our text is antithetical to much of what the world is promoting. In fact, our text for this morning is possibly the single most attacked text in all of the Bible. Our text is the text the world loves to hate the most because it gives us God’s expectations for women. And the world has a very different view about women, t...

From Titus 2:5 I want to address three more attributes or qualities that the older women are to be teaching the younger women, so that families can be blessed and so the Word of God will not be blasphemed.