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Introduction
If you have your Bibles and I hope you do or you can look on with someone, I invite you to turn with me to .
I titled this sermon, The Reason for Godliness.
Prayer
You guys are here probably by choice, but you are here at this school because you have felt the call on your life by God to preach his word or to pastor a church or to work in ministry in some capacity.
Whatever the case may be you are here for a specific reason, but we all have different backgrounds that we come from.
We all have one thing in common.
WE ALL NEED GRACE.
Grace defined as getting what you do not deserve.
God’s favor toward the undeserving.
We need more grace than you and I can imagine.
If there is no grace in your life, then it would not be possible to live a holy life.
Paul in this passage has talked quite a bit concerning grace and the importance it is for Titus to learn but also for us to learn today.
The question is, “Why are we to live godly lives?”
We are to live godly lives because
God’s Grace Comes to Us
Titus
God intervened!! God got involved.
Those seven words “for the grace of God has appeared” are some of the most exciting words to hear.
In the text before, Paul is giving Titus all these commands to do, and in the text before you is Paul giving the reason.
The reason is that God’s grace has been made available for all kinds of people.
Gods grace is not restrictive in any way.
Every person you come in contact with whether they are friend or enemy.
They bother you to you wish you were their friend.
Whether it is your boss that is not a kind boss to the president of the United States that you cannot stand.
God’s grace is made available to all different kinds of people.
It is the grace of God that has appeared in the gospel of Jesus Christ that brings salvation for all people.
Does This mean everyone gets saved?
Does this text this the idea of universalism?
No. Now depending on your beliefs you may interpret the word all differently, but in essence it still means all people groups.
This verse is showing us that you do not have to be a good person to receive God’s grace.
You do not have to be a certain social status because we all in this room are sinners before God in desperate need of a savior.
We need grace, and verse 11 shows that God’s grace has been made available to all different people groups.
Men, women, tall, short, athletic, nerdy, weird, popular, unwanted.
This text pushes us toward evangelism because grace has appeared to us, and we pray that God’s grace may come to others.
Grace has appeared to us, and let us not keep that to ourselves but tell that to everyone.
Because God’s grace is for all different people groups.
White people and black people.
Discrimination should not exist in the minds and hearts of believers because grace has not shown favorites to us but is for all people groups.
The Response for Grace
So like I said in the previous ten verses, Paul has been telling Titus to teach sound doctrine.
Older men and women are to act and influence the way younger men and women live.
Its those days with your parents when i mean you just disobeyed them all day.
You did not listen to anything they do.
You were grounded, spanked, and punished to the point where no more discipline could be added.
And they were mad at you because you were being mean to their friends.
But then you watch them be mean to their friends…how confused are you going to be when you got in trouble for being mean to your friends when they were mean also.
Here’s the point.
Paul has been telling Titus this because he wants ultimately for them to be living Godly lives.
Because God’s grace comes to us, we must respond to living as grace-receiving people.
If you look in the text, the word ungodliness is used.
Ungodliness means the characteristic of having no regard for God or a moral life.
(not caring about what God cares about)
Unbelievers would be considered having this characteristic.
They do not consider what God thinks or cares about.
Jerry Bridges in his book Respectable Sins says that ungodliness is the root of all sin.
As Paul is telling Titus to say no to ungodliness we must say no to ungodliness.
As men, we may struggle with anger, hatred for a brother, sexual lust, jealousy.
You may struggle with different sins, but the point is that as Lord willing future pastors or teachers of God’s Word, we must be training to renounce ungodliness in our lives.
The Grace of God teaches us to say no to ungodliness.
What does self-controlled mean?
You are self-disciplined.
You can exercise restraint.
When you have that piece of cake sitting in front of you.
When that 20 oz steak that you know you should not eat the whole thing.
When Christmas comes around and you know you are not suppose to get up late at night and go present searching around the house or open presents up early.
Being self controlled is saying “No I should not do this” “This does not please God”
But here’s the issue.
If our Christian lives were just meant on having self-control, we would very easily live lives based on rules and it would be all about self.
“I’ve made this many good decisions today.”
“I read my Bible four hours this morning.”
Whenever we should being living our lives depending on God.
The Christian life is one where we depend on God.
Godliness does not come out of human willpower, but it is relationship with God that results in a life honoring to God.
The grace of God in our lives gives us a chance to live a life that is pleasing to God.
Titus 2:12
What does upright mean?
mean having or showing a strict regard for what is morally right.
UPRIGHT implies a strict adherence to moral principles 〈a stern and upright minister〉.
In order to be upright.
In order to know what is morally right and adhere to moral principles, you need to be in God’s Word letting God communicate with you so you adhere to them.
Not out of a legalistic sense, but because the grace of God has appeared in your life.
“in the present age.”
That means now.
We who are believers need to be living a life of grace now.
We have no time to waste.
We do not need to start tomorrow.
Not Next week.
Not Next year.
When your parents tell you dinner is ready.
Do you wait?
When you go on vacation to a water park I am sure all of you take your time to get to each slide.
Of course not!
We need to act now.
But while in the present age, we wait for our blessed hope.
what is our blessed hope?Hint* its after the words blessed hopeOur hope.
What keeps us living on this life.
Our blessed hope is that in this world when life gets tough.
When we suffer persecution, when we are going through hard trials, Jesus is returning to get his people.
But until then..
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