Sermon Rewind 9/30/12 - Costly Grace

Titus 2:1-11

What Must Be Taught to Various Groups

1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate,worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. 3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6 Similarly, encourage the young mento be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. 9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them,10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive. 11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men.



What makes Christianity different from other religions? The central doctrine of Grace. Everything about Jesus is infused with it. But what kind of grace do we believe in? Some live as if it is a cheap grace where the account has been paid for with nothing required in return. Technically true, but this kind of thinking easily allows us to sin because in the end, nothing we do really matters. We must realize that God really gave us a costly grace - the sacrificing of his son on our behalf. We were bought at a price, and the anger and injustice of humanity’s sin was taken out on a single life. When we realize truly what grace cost us and God, and experience its truth, it should overwhelm us. It changes us, as we repent and strive to love and live our lives as a second chance.

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