Saturday, January 31, 2015

How to live in this world

Give up ungodliness and worldly lusts.

Grace.

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

This is truth. Do you want to know HOW you are to live right now in this world?  We are told-

Deny ungodliness.
Deny worldly lusts.
Live soberly.
Live righteously.
Live godly.
Look for that blessed hope.
Look for the glorious appearing of the GREAT GOD and OUR SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

Our Savior - gave himself for us.  Why? To REDEEM us from ALL INIQUITY, to PURIFY to himself a PECULIAR people- ZEALOUS of good works.

There we are told what to do, how to live, now the question is, do we live this way?

Do you live looking the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ?

Seriously, do you LIVE LOOKING for this?  I'm not talking about living with the belief that Jesus is coming again, in a back of your mind type of way. You know what I'm talking about. We have a lot of things we believe in but they aren't necessarily things we are actively LOOKING for.  When you are looking for something that's an activity. If I'm looking for an upcoming event, I'm thinking about it, I'm not forgetting about it until it's mentioned.  If it's something I'm looking for and then time passes and I forget about it, I'm no longer looking for it but rather I've forgotten about it.  We have to think about this stuff and in this way because this is the way we are told to LIVE.  We should LIVE looking for our Savior to return. In living and looking for our Savior to return we are doing so with THOUGHTS of this event taking place, with the HOPE that this event will take place, it is ON our minds and in our hearts. 

Just last night at Bible Study we were discussing Christ's return in connection with how desperately we all want Him to return and how the wickedness of this world has us constantly praying for our Lord to return soon.  We KNOW there is no worldly cure to the wickedness of this world, it doesn't exist.  Dictatorship does not do away with our societies ills, monarchies do not do away with the horrors that people inflict upon each other, and neither do democracies.   There is NO worldly answer to be found to the question that people are constantly asking- how to fix this wicked world, how to make this world a better place to live in.  We might be able to temporarily fix various bits and pieces, but it seems that often those bits and pieces that get fix end up breaking again.  For every advance there seems to be several steps back.  People are clamoring to find peace in this world, yet peace will ONLY be achieved in the NEW world after our SAVIOR returns and a thousand years in heaven passes.  We truly need to let the wickedness that exists all around us in so many ways, sadly even within ourselves, to have us longing for the cure to it all- the return of our blessed Savior, Jesus Christ our LORD.



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