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Titus 2:11-15
Introduction
Story of John Newton…
The date is *July 24, 1725*, a baby is born to a commander of a merchant ship and his godly wife.
*Seven years* later the young lad would mourn the death of his mother and at eleven, he went to sea with his father and made six voyages with him before his father would retire’
*In 1744* at the age of 18 the young man was pressed into service on a man-of-war, the H. M. S. Harwich.
Finding conditions on board intolerable, he deserted but was soon recaptured and publicly flogged and demoted from midshipman to common seaman.
Through a chain of events he became the servant of a slave trader and was brutally abused.
*Early in 1748* he was rescued by a sea captain who had known his father.
The rough seaman would ultimately became captain of his own ship, one which plied the slave trade.
Although he had had some early religious instruction from his mother, he had long since given up any religious convictions.
However, on a homeward voyage, while he was attempting to steer the ship through a violent storm, he experienced what he was to refer to later as his “great deliverance.”
He would record in his journal that when all seemed lost and the ship would surely sink, he exclaimed, “Lord, have mercy upon us.”
For the rest of his life he observed the anniversary of *May 10, 1748* as the day of his conversion, a day of humiliation in which he subjected his will to a higher power.
In *1750* he married Mary Catlett, with whom he had been in love for many years.
By *1755*, after a serious illness, he had given up seafaring forever.
\\ He came to know George Whitefield, evangelistic preacher, and leader of the Calvinistic Methodist Church.
Newton became Whitefield’s enthusiastic disciple.
During this period he also met and came to admire John Wesley, founder of Methodism.
In *1764* he became the pastor of the Anglican Church.
Ultimately he would be best know for his hymn writing and work as an Abolitionist with William Wilberforce.
This former slave trading agnostic seamen would during his yeas as a pastor put on paper a hymn that summarized his life and has become the best known and loved hymn of all time – *Amazing Grace*.
What is this Amazing Grace that can transform lives?
Unmerited love of God bestowed on rebellious sinners.
Titus 2:11-15
This book is full of Grace! (1:4; 2:11; 3:7, 15)
Letter to Titus, Paul’s spiritual son
1A.
Sovereign Grace (2:11) - “Grace of God”
1B.
It is God who chooses us! (Titus 1:1)
*Ephesians 1:4* just as *He chose us* in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
2B.
How can I know if I am one of the elect?
*John 6:37* All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
3B.
If you want to come, then come!
*Revelation 22:17* And the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!"
And let him who hears say, "Come!"
And let him who thirsts come.
Whoever *desires*, let him take the water of life freely.
Amazing grace!
(how sweet the sound) \\ That saved a wretch like me! \\ I once was lost, but now am found, \\ Was blind, but now I see.
\\ 2A.
Seeking Grace (sovereign)
1B.
God is the seeker
He had His eye on you long before you had your eye on Him.
*Romans 5:8* But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
*1 John 4:19* We love Him because He *first* loved us.
2B.
Man does not seek God
*Romans 3:11 *There is none who understands; There is *none* who seeks after God.
The only reason you sought Him is because He first sought you.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, \\ And grace those fears relieved; \\ How precious did that grace appear, \\ The hour I first believed!
3A.
Saving Grace (2:11) (sovereign, seeking)
1B.
The need for saving grace (Ephesians 2:1-3)
You were dead (2:1)
You were devilish (2:2a)
*John 8:44* "You are of /your /father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do…
You were disobedient (2:2b)
*Isaiah 53:6* All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way…
You were depraved (2:3)
Ø Sinful nature
*Psalm 51:5* Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
Ø Man needs more than culture and cultivation; More than reformation and revival
Ø Man needs regeneration!
*John 3:3* Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
2B.
The nature of saving grace (Ephesians 2:4-5, 8-9)
You have been saved by God (2:4-5)
Ø Not example
Ø Not education
Ø Not encouragement
Ø Not environment
Ø Only God can raise the dead!
Ø Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, a gift for the guilty.
Saved by Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ alone!
(2:8-9)
Ø Can never mix works and grace!
*Romans 11:6* And if by grace, then /it is /no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.
But if /it is /of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
4A.
Securing Grace (1:2) – “Eternal life” (sovereign, seeking, saving)
1B.
Eternal life explained
*John 5:24 *Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has *everlasting* *life*, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
*John 11:25* Jesus said to her (Martha), "I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
26 And whoever lives and believes in Me *shall never die*.
Do you believe this?"
If I can loose it, it was not eternal!
2B.
Eternal life enjoyed
Eternal life comes not at death but when I believe.
*John 10:10* …I have come that they may have life, and that they may have /it /more abundantly.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, \\ The sun forbear to shine; \\ But God, who called me here below, \\ Will be forever mine.
5A.
Sanctifying Grace (2:12, 14) (sovereign, seeking, saving, securing)
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