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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