1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:1-7
“Grace Reminders”
(V4) Basis of our salvation:
God’s kindness, love, and mercy.
Effects of our salvation:
Regeneration, renewal, and justification.
Means of our salvation:
Power of Holy Spirit and the work of Christ.
Goal of our Salvation:
“heirs: -Family of God
19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God.
Ephesians 2:19
“stranger’= _Gentiles_
“household” = _Family of God_
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.
Ephesians 3:14-15
What does it mean to be born again into the family of God?
1). You can experience in the family of God _unconditional love_ of God and others.
7 Beloved, let us love on another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.
16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
I John 4:7; 4:16
Remember this:
Never will there ever be a time when your heavenly Father won’t unconditionally love you!
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?Romans 8:35
2). You are _transferred_ into the family of God’s blessings.
13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,
Colossians 1:13
“delivered”
“transferred”
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us- for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”-
14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Galatians 3:13-14
3). You are _adopted_ into the family of God by grace.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love.
5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Ephesians 1:3-5
6 And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son then an heir through God.
Galatians 4:6-7
Who’s your daddy?
Satan’s greatest lie and man’s greatest myth:
“We are —- God’s children.
38 I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
39 They answered him, “Abraham is our father.” Jess said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did,
40 but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
41 You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have on Father- even God.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, cut he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word.
44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:38-44
And God says “Yes, I choose them”