Sermon Video: The grace of God has appeared - Titus 2:11-12

There are many ways that we learn things in life, from watching others to being taught by the spoken or written word, to the life lessons that we only learn through experience.  Knowledge of the things that we need to know about God also comes in a variety of forms.  We most often think of the Word of God as our primary teacher, whether we're reading it or having it explained to us, or perhaps the Holy Spirit as our guide, but we must also learn from the experience of being born again and transformed by our faith, by God's love for us, and as Paul explains in Titus 2:11-12, by our experience of the grace of God.
When God's grace if poured out upon us, bringing healing and forgiveness to our undeserved and unearned souls, it also acts as a powerful teacher to spur us on in our Christian faith to both say "no" to sin, and to say "yes" to living for righteousness.  The Word of God and the Holy Spirit are great and helping us see what we should and should not do as Christians, grace offers us motivation as to how we can accomplish the difficult task of living like Jesus.  Paul's combination of saying "no" to ungodliness and worldly passions, while at the same time saying "yes" to self-control, upright living, and godly lives, reminds us that our faith cannot simply be defined by what Christians say "no" to, it must go one beyond that to fully embrace the life or righteousness that God intends for us here and now, as Paul says, "in this present age".

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