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Aren't we all still in the works?Monday, January 21, 2008
Titus 3
I really like the passage of scripture that Pastor Reid was in yesterday morning.
A little later in that verse we see this phrase "enslaved to various lusts and pleasures." Pastor Reid told us that the root word for enslaved is doulos, a Greek word that means bond-slave. The basic idea is this, one who gives himself up to another’s will. I know there are many texts of scripture that talk about our slavery to sin, and there are lot's of people who don't like that concept. But here, it is clear that sin is OUR choice. We submit our will to that of lust and worldly pleasures. If we weren't forced into sin, we would chose it.
Praise God that passage goes on to talk about the wonderful rescue mission God staged through Jesus by his love, mercy and grace to make us righteous. God could justly call us righteous because of Jesus substitutionary death, and now we have a have a firm hope of an eternity with Jesus.
With this awesome knowledge of who we were and what God has done, let's pray for this statement from that passage: regenerate and renew us.
Titus 3:3-7I've been in tis mindset lately thinking about what a fool is, and what it means to be a loser, so when in verse 3 Titus says were were once all fools ourselves, I started to pay more attention to what was coming next.
3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, 5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
A little later in that verse we see this phrase "enslaved to various lusts and pleasures." Pastor Reid told us that the root word for enslaved is doulos, a Greek word that means bond-slave. The basic idea is this, one who gives himself up to another’s will. I know there are many texts of scripture that talk about our slavery to sin, and there are lot's of people who don't like that concept. But here, it is clear that sin is OUR choice. We submit our will to that of lust and worldly pleasures. If we weren't forced into sin, we would chose it.
Praise God that passage goes on to talk about the wonderful rescue mission God staged through Jesus by his love, mercy and grace to make us righteous. God could justly call us righteous because of Jesus substitutionary death, and now we have a have a firm hope of an eternity with Jesus.
With this awesome knowledge of who we were and what God has done, let's pray for this statement from that passage: regenerate and renew us.
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posted by Stripedgecko # 3:01 PM 
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wow........ so true............. makes you think...............
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: January 21, 2008 at 6:28 PM
: January 21, 2008 at 6:28 PM
Titus is really an awesome book just to go back and see what awful people we are and then see God turn around and pour his grace on us! It makes me realize how we don't show Jesus love much at all but how we need to exemplify that as His children.
Soooo yay.
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Soooo yay.
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