Titus
2:11–14 (NKJV) 11For the grace of God that brings salvation has
appeared to all men, 12teaching us that, denying ungodliness and
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present
age, 13looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our
great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14who 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.
In this
passage there are a few aspects of God’s grace: His redeeming Grace, His
reforming Grace, and His rewarding Grace.
In this
edition, we will simply look at God’s redeeming Grace.
Vs. 11
“Grace of God that brings salvation hath appeared to all men.
The grace of
God appeared when Jesus Christ came to earth.
John 1 –
Word became flesh and dwelled among us…
Galatians
4:4-5 (NKJV)
4But when the fullness of the time had
come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem
them that were under the law..
Jesus Christ
came to redeem – He came to pay the penalty of our sin that we might be freed
from their eternal consequences.
All sinners
– owe the penalty of their sin. In
other words … There is a price to pay for sin.
That price is death. Romans 6:23
says, “For the wages of sin is death..”
When an individual goes to work, the work they do earns them a wage, a
salary. When we are born, we are
sinners. This sinfulness earns us an
eternity separated from God in the Lake of Fire.
Yet, Jesus
came to pay that price. That is
redemption. When we place our faith in
His shed blood for our salvation he pays the penalty of our sin. It was taken upon him when he died on the
cross and as far as God is concerned what before said “guilty = you owe one
sinless life” that price has been paid as Christ redeemed us.
VS. 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.
His desire
was to pay the price of our sin and to conform us to his image. When we are bought with the price of Christ’s
blood he then begins to purify us as his own special people.
This will be
the focus in the next edition as we take a look at God’s reforming Grace.
Yet, I ask
you the question today. Have you placed
your faith in the blood of Jesus Christ that you might be redeemed from your
sins? Ponder this and look to Christ.
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