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M let's pray and ask for God's
blessing now as we come to the reading
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and preaching of his word. Lord
God, you have proclaimed that this word
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of the Gospel should go forth into
all the nations, and indeed it has.
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Here we are on the other side
of the world from where your ministry
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began, proclaiming your name, testifying
to your grace, loving you and loving
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one another. This is amazing,
and we are so thankful Um for um
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the work that you have done through
your servants, through the fathers and mothers
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who have gone before us. I'm
teaching, training, proclaiming, exhorting,
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rebuking, lifting us up and the
power of your word. We asked now
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that as we hear your word this
morning, that you would bless it to
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us, that you would soften our
hearts, that you would um, that
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you would help us, allowing us
to receive the good news of the declaration
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of your work for us. Bless
us in these things. Lord, let
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me pray this in Jesus name.
Amen, Please remain standing, if you're
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able, and turn with me to
Titus continuing. I'm continuing to read and
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preach through Paul's letter here. I'm
continuing to learn and um grow through this
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book myself, and very thankful for
the opportunity to speak to you from it
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today. It's a good thing.
I'm very happy about it. I'm going
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to read Versus one through four and
focus in particularly on the last part of
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that um section, the last sentence
there that you have in your bibles.
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But let's hear Verses one through four
Paul, a servant of God and an
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apostle of Jesus Christ, for the
sake of the faith of God's elect and
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their knowledge of the truth which accords
with Godliness in hope of eternal life,
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which God who never lies, promised
before the ages began, and at the
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proper time manifested in his word through
the preaching with which I have been entrusted
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by the command of God our Savior
to tide us my true child and a
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common faith. Grace and peace from
God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
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Amen, you may be seated so
these words that I'm asking you to
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focus on this morning, Grace and
peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus
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our Savior. UM. These words
are very familiar to you if you've only
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visited our church, and this is
the only church that you've ever visited for
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maybe three times. You've already heard
this phrase um at least three times,
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and of course many more in other
ways as well. Grace and peace,
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This blessing that comes at the beginning
of this letter, this declaration is a
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common beginning that Paul uses in his
letters. Romans first, Corinthians Second,
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Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians first and second, Thessalonians,
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and Philemon all have this or something
very similar to this, UH, this
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beginning, this greeting, grace and
peace to you. That's how we begin
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our services. That's how I began
our service today. M. So it's
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an important thing, right, It's
something we should pay attention to, UM.
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But it's also something that perhaps UM
we don't fully understand, or we
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become UM forgetful of or unappreciative of. As Pete mentioned in the announcements this
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morning, Thanksgiving is one of those
times of the year that we stop and
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try to remember things that maybe we've
forgotten, things that we should be grateful
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for, that maybe have kind of
slipped under our radar or have become maybe
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less important to us over time.
This might be one of those things something
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you hear a lot, you you
sing about. It's it's always kind of
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in the background, maybe for you, um, even as a Christian.
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But something that deserves renewed attention.
This something that deserves renewed focus. Grace
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and peace from God, the Father
and Christ Jesus our Savior. Why does
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Paul start his letters this way?
Is he just is it a toss away
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phrase? Just he's got to start
somehow. Um, we do see that
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Paul has auctions. In fact,
though his beginning of his letter are similar
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to other common letters, it is
different in some significant ways. One of
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the biggest ways it is different is
he doesn't say grace and peace from Paul,
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although he could write that and it
would be orthodox, and it would
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mean that Paul is, after all, a minister of these things. He
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is bringing them and says similar things
at the end of our letter. For
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example, he says, grace be
with you all, and greet those who
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are in the faith. There are
ways in which we extend grace and peace
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to one another. Right. Um. In fact, that's what he's calling
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Titus to do. Um, to
be a minister of grace and peace.
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But here the emphasis is on the
source of it. The grace and peace
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ultimately comes from God the Father and
Christ Jesus our Savior. This is a
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really amazing thing. We have this
form of a blessing that comes to us.
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Before we get to what exactly this
means, let's reflect just on a
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moment on why these words might become
a little bit dull to us. I
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think there's different reasons. It depends
on who you are, depends on your
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spiritual state. One reason, I
think when we hear grace and peace from
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God the Father and Christ Jesus our
Savior and kind of go, okay,
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there's some religious words, and that's
that. Let's move on to the next
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thing. One reason we don't appreciate
it as we are is we don't think
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we need it, or we don't
think others need it. If you think
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you basically have what you need apart
from God, well then why would this
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really matter? Right? If you
could go online, um and look on
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some eBay or Craigslist or something and
find millions and millions of things for sale,
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you can spend all day scanning and
browsing and looking and looking, and
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yet you don't. Right, Maybe
you look for one particular thing. But
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why, well, because you think
you want it, because you think you
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need it, why do you ignore
all those other millions of things that are
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right there, ready for you,
available because you don't care, You don't
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think you need it, you don't
want it. And it's probably true that
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you don't want it or don't and
especially don't need it. But is that
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true for the grace and peace of
God? Is that something we really don't
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need? A lot of people feel
that way. A lot of people feel
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that they can go along in their
lives and get along fine without Him.
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They have nature, they have friends, they have family, um, they
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have um religious practices, they have
their good works, all kinds of things
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that are useful to them in various
ways that they don't really need God.
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They don't really need his grace,
They don't really need his peace because they
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have a measure of a measure of
peace in their lives. One of the
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things that has revealed to us in
God's word is that we really do need
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his peace and that only comes to
us through His grace. I'll hope to
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make that case in a moment.
Another thing, another reason I think we
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ignore or don't appreciate or even deny
grace and peace from God is that we
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think God is not really offering it
to us. Sure it says it here,
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but is it true? And maybe
you've never actually said those words out
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loud, But I wonder if you've
acted in such a way in which it
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would give evidence or manifest what you
really think. Perhaps you don't care about
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the grace and peace from God our
Father and Christ Jesus our Savior because you
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think God doesn't really offer it.
Maybe it's because you think he's incapable of
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doing it right. The problems that
you're facing, the disruptions and disharmony,
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um, the lack of unity and
order in your life is not something that
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God can really solve. Maybe that's
the lie that floats around in your heart.
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Or maybe you think he can do
it, but he's unwilling to do
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it for one reason or another.
Maybe he doesn't see, maybe he doesn't
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care, or maybe he you know
that you're not good enough to deserve his
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intervention and bringing peace into your life. Maybe you think about your sins and
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the state and the miseries that you
face and you realize, well, this
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is my own fault. I'm not
going to ask to get out of something
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that I know I deserve. I
know that I should be punished for these
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things. I know that God doesn't
really want to help me, and he
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shouldn't I deserve these things. We
say to ourselves on that I'd like you
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to turn back for a moment,
as we consider Paul's as the one saying
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these things, and look at First
Timothy chapter one, Versus twelve through sixteen.
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Here how Paul answers this objection First
Timothy one, Versus twelve through sixteen.
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He says, I thank God who
has given me strength, Christ Jesus,
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our Lord, because he judged me
faithful, appointing me to his service.
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Though formerly I was a blasphemer,
persecutor, and insolent opponent. But
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I received mercy as I had acted
ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of
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Our Lord overflowed for me with the
faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
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The saying is trustworthy and deserving of
full acceptance. That Christ Jesus came
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into the world to save sinners,
of whom I am the foremost. But
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I received mercy for this reason that
in me, as the foremost Jesus,
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Christ might display his perfect patience as
an example to those who were to believe
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in him for eternal life. See
what he's saying there, He's saying that
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God gave him mercy. God saved
Paul, gave him something he didn't deserve,
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not just because God loved Paul and
desired to do this for him,
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and he did. But there was
an additional reason that God had. He
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wanted to use Paul, an insolent
opponent, a persecutor of the Church of
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Jesus Christ, and an open blasphemer. He wanted to use that man as
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an example to all of us of
Jesus Christ's perfect patience and an example to
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all who believe in him for eternal
life. So that as we look at
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our sins and we can say,
well, if God saved Paul, he
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can save anyone. And you could
pick anyone of the number of people in
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scripture that God saved and say similar
things Noah, David, Abraham, Sarah,
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Peter, and you and me.
This answers the question that God's not
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really willing to save us. Of
course, He's willing. He desires to
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save us. He he has done
these things for us, and he is
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more than capable of doing it the
last lie I will mention, or it's
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maybe this one is not a lie
but an obstacle, and that's just ignorance.
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Some people don't receive and appreciate the
grace and peace of God because they
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don't know it, they've never heard
it. And Second Corinthians four six Paul
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says that when Jesus does come,
he shines in our hearts to give the
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light of the knowledge of the glory
of God. In the face of Jesus
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Christ. Remember what he said just
before this entitus. He says that through
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the preaching on God's word has been
made manifest in the world. We're getting
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close to Christmas time, and it
makes me think of the angels and Luke
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two. Right, they come to
the shepherd's in the field, and remember
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what the scriptures say. It says, the glory of God shone around them,
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similar language the Second Corinthians four six
about the the glory of God uh
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shining in our hearts. To the
angels, the glory of God shines around
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them, and remember what or the
angel says, says, fear not,
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for behold, I bring you good
news of great joy that will be for
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all people unto you today in the
city of David is born a savior.
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The announcement of the Christ, the
announcement of Jesus coming into this world,
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good news of great joy with glory, that message, that shining, that
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light, that truth, it brings, it brings to us salvation. So,
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whatever the case is for you,
perhaps you don't know the gospel,
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perhaps you don't know the good news
about Jesus Christ, Well you can know
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it today. I will tell you
it in a moment. Perhaps you feel
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that God doesn't really care, or
he's incapable or unwill. We see in
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the example of Paul that that's not
the case. And to the first of
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those that we don't think we really
need it. Let's address that now.
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So what is Paul saying? What
is God offering to us when he says
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grace and peace? What is he
giving to Titus? Well? Grace It
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has a wide range of meanings um
cars in Greek it has a number of
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possible meanings. Generally, though and
here it means a favor without obligation,
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something that's given that's not owed.
Right, if it's the if if I
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pay a debt, right, if
I owe someone something and I give Let's
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say I owe someone money and I
give them that money, I have not
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given them a gift, right,
I've not given I've not I've not been
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gracious to them. I've just paid
what I owed. Right. But if
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I give something to someone that I
don't anything to and I don't expect anything
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from them, that's that's an act
of grace. And even more so if
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that person has not only not only
there's no obligation, but perhaps they they
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owe me. Right if I am
will use the example of money again.
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If if somebody owes you a bunch
of money, and instead of them paying
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it back, you forgive the debt, right, that's a gracious thing.
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You're giving favor that is not merited, or favor that has even been demerited.
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That's grace. Peace. Um.
Peace has the meaning of um,
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harmony. It's a it's an adjective
um. Often um can be a noun
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that's used to describe either a way
of working towards a peace UM or the
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piece itself. It's a state of
well being right and ultimately, when God
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offers it, it means in every
way harmony with oneself. Right, you
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know what it means to be sort
of out of sync with your own heart,
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like think about integrity, your character
issues where you're like I believe this
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thing, but I do this thing
right, or having two minds about something
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and you're feeling not at peace right
because you are wrestling here that that physical
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language that we use to describe that
turmoil that's in us when we don't know
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what to do right. Peace with
oneself UM is harmony within oneself, a
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state of well being. The same
goes with God. When we are at
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peace with God, we are in
a state of harmony with him or with
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others, or with nature even instead
of um, you know, being frustrated
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trying to get some plant to grow
or not grow, as the case may
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be, UM UM, or animals
that you're trying to train or keep yourself
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protected from. There's all kinds of
examples of this, the weather, UM,
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on and on. We can go
right to have peace. Total peace
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means peace with all of these things, with oneself, with God, with
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our neighbors, UM, with with
nature. And this peace is associated um
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with knowledge and order and love.
I want to read to you um several
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verses UM one right now, just
from First Corinthians fourteen thirty three. As
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we consider what this piece is that
God is offering First Corinthians fourteen thirty three.
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For God is not a god of
confusion, but of peace. God
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is not a god of confusion,
but of peace. He goes on in
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later in verse forty to say,
all things should be done decently and in
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good order. The reason that we
have a good order the reason that we
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have not peace. In other words, it's not just a feeling. It
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is that, but it's also an
ordering of things, things aligned, things
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in their proper places, things moving
well together. Well, one of these
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things, grace leads to the other. Remember Romans five one. Since we
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have been justified by faith, we
have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
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Christ. Since we have been justified
by faith, we have peace with God
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through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ever
since we've sinned, ever since man first
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sinned in the guard and all these
things that I just mentioned, peace with
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self, others, nature, and
of course God, the forest, and
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foremost all of these were broken.
All of them were broken. After the
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fall. We end up with words
like enmity, alienation. These are the
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opposites disorder, confusion, frustration.
How does that get mended? Sin is
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what breaks it? The repairing of
that problem of sin is what fixes it.
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Not a lot of religions, perhaps
all religions other than Christianity. Man
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reconciles these things by reconciling with his
gods or God. He does that often
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by doing things for the God Um. I was reading this this week about
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early Native American religion, which is
very similar actually to the world Paul is
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in and Titus is in the polytheism
on that is going on. And in
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these cases, and in a lot
of cases, the way to appease a
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god, the way to restore order
is by offering something. You give something
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of yourself um, of your livelihood. Maybe you give some of your crops,
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Maybe you sacrifice an animal. Maybe
you offer a prayer or a dance.
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Or you go to some sort of
mediator um a shaman, a priest,
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someone that will help you, who
connects between you and those heavenly places
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these things that are disruptive. You
pay him some money and he fixes things
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for you. Man reconciles the relationship
by appeasing Um the God. But what
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the true Let me start again,
But what true God? What true God?
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Could be appeased by these things?
This is a question I want you
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to consider for a moment, what
true God would be appeased by our offering
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of corn, or doing a dance, or praying, or paying some money
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to someone, or buying an indulgence. What true God would be appeased by
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this? Would say, Oh,
okay, great, you paid five bucks
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or a thousand dollars or fifty thousand
dollars or five million dollars, and now
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your sins are forgiven. What true
God would do that? Certainly not the
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true God, not the God who
has revealed in the Bible. For our
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God, the one true God is
the God who is perfectly righteous, who's
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clothed in absolute perfection and holiness,
God who is good in every way,
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and who cannot even come into contact
um come into contact with sin, who
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sees sin and must judge it because
he's perfectly holy. A lot of the
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gods of our imaginations, the gods
and idols of this world, those false
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gods, they're not holy. It's
why I think that the idea of offerings
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and these kind of things is appeasing
them kind of makes sense because they're kind
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of like us, right. The
gods, the false gods of this world
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are so much like us that we
think, well, yeah, of course
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they'll be happy with some money.
Of course that we can buy them off
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or do this thing, and then
that will sort of appease things and make
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things right. But not so with
God. When we read of God's judgment
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against sin, the way he sees
things perfectly, the way he knows all
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things, the way he discerns even
the thoughts and desires that are in us,
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the way that he upholds perfect integrity
in all things. These revealed to
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us his goodness but also his justice, and they should cause us to fear
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him, to recognize that there's no
appeasing the God of the universe, the
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God who made us and calls us
to be like him, to be perfect
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like he is. The good news
that has revealed to us here untied us
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is that we is the wake up
call. First of all, that we
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cannot reconcile ourselves to God. We
cannot offer anything, We cannot do anything
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that fixes that relationship and fixes all
the fallout that comes from that in our
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other relationships and with the world.
The second part of the good news is
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that God does it for us.
Although we cannot remove sin, we cannot
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remove our own guilt because we are
the guilty ones. We are the ones
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who owe something. We are the
ones who are in debt. God could
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and did do it for us.
Romans five ten says, while we were
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enemies, we were reconciled to God
by the death of his son. Not
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amazing. So how is it that
we come to have the peace of God,
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reconciliation with God? Is it because
we stopped being enemies and started doing
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things that made him happy? That's
not what he says, It's not what
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he did. The truth is,
the glorious, gracious news is that while
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we were still enemies, while we
were still enemies, we were reconciled to
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God. How did that happen?
How was it that sin was solved and
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forgiveness was given and peace was made
when we were still fighting against him?
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He tells us, by the death
of his son. And this reconciliation through
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the death of his son is one
way that describes Paul's fundamental message, the
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core of his preaching, the reason
that he endures and suffers and lives and
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hopes ultimately an eternal heavenly reward.
Why does Paul do what he does?
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And then he calls to tie us
and he says, Listen, brother,
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listen, my true child in the
faith. Follow my example in this endure.
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Suffer, preach, teach, Let
this message go out. Why does
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he do that? Why is he
called tied us to do that? Why
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does he call the church to do
this? Listen? Now Paul puts his
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understanding of these things in Second Corinthians
eighteen. He says, all this is
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from God, who through Christ was
reconciling us to himself and gave us,
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speaking of the apostles and and ministers, he gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
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Let me read that again. All
this is from God. Okay,
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start there. Remember the words that
he said to tite us, a servant
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of God, an apostle of Christ, Jesus entrusted by the command of God.
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Right, that's all from God.
All this is from God, who
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through Christ was reconciling us to himself
and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation.
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He gives more explanation. That is, in Christ, God was reconciling
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the world to himself, not counting
their trespasses against them, and entrusting to
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us the message of reconciliation. You
see what he's saying there. He says,
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okay, I'm explaining to you my
call as an apostle. I'm explaining
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to you what it is I do
and why I do it, and it's
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all from God. Two things.
Number one, God has not counted their
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trespasses against them. God did this
thing through his son, in which his
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wrath was appeased, his wrath was
turned away. Righteousness is imputed to his
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people, and their trespasses are not
counted against them. No more debts owed.
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You're free right. That's what God
does through the cross. Number two,
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He then gives that word of reconciliation
to the apostles. He entrusts them
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with that word and says, go, go and preach this word. Teach
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this word, Suffer for this word, declare this word, endure all things
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for this word. And what this
tells us is that when Paul and tite
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Us and any other any other um
messenger of God, whether that be an
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ordained official minister, like a pastor
or an elder, comes to us speaking
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to us the word of Christ,
or whether like for Timothy, Paul talks
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about his mom and his grandma,
Lowess and Unice, like we read in
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Deuteronomy six children teaching their parents,
whether it's an unordained or ordained capacities.
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When that word comes to us,
that word of grace comes to us,
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we should hear it and we should
receive it, because grace is coming to
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us, Peace is coming to us. God has entrusted that work of the
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Cross. He put it in the
package of a message, and he's delivering
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it to all the world. That's
the message that Paul gives to tit Us.
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He here when he says to this, says to his coworker, grace
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and peace to you. And that's
the message that he wants tit Us to
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give to his people and these congregations
on Crete. And it's the message of
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the Holy Spirit has put here in
our bibles that we would hear as well,
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and not just in Titus, but
in almost all of the letters of
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the New Testament, over and over
and over again. This is the word
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of blessing that God is pronouncing in
this world. And it's a work that
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happened before we believed, before messengers
were even sent, before Paul went out.
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This is not his word, it's
not tied US's word. It's God's
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word. It's God's work. That's
what tied us as a minister, is
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going to have to stay absolutely connected
to in his heart, in his mind,
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in his mission, always remembering that
grace and peace of God comes to
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him from God, and we'll go
out to his people from God. Christ's
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death lays the groundwork for peace and
true peace, even a new world.
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Listen to how Paul talks about this
later in Titus chapter three, Versus three
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through seven. This gets to our
need what I brought up earlier. Are
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we feel like these are things we
don't need until we remember something a passage
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like this Titus three, verse three. For we ourselves, we're once foolish,
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disobedient, led astray, slaves to
various passions and pleasures, passing our
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days in malice and envy, hated, excuse me, hated by others and
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hating one another. Does that sound
like peace? It sounds terrible, and
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it is, and we all know
what it's like. It's desruptive and it's
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awful, and it hurts us in
our world in every way. But when
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the goodness and loving kindness of God, our savior, appeared, he saved
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us not because of works done by
us in righteousness, but according to his
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own mercy, by the washing of
regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit whom
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he poured out on us richly through
Jesus Christ, our Savior, so that
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being justified by his grace, we
might become heirs according to the hope of
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eternal life. So it's it's truly
amazing. And so when Paul says grace
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and peace to you, that's what
he's talking about. It's not a throw
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a way phrase. It's not some
little just you gotta start somehow, or
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here's a kind of religious thing that
sounds Christian that gets things rolling. No,
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it is the declaration of God Almighty, who came into the world and
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did this thing, who became man
and shown his glory through the life and
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death of Jesus Christ, who,
as Paul testifies to here, is God
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himself. Notice what he says in
verse three, he says, I have
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been entrusted by the command of God
our Savior. Then notice what he says
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in verse four, Grace and peace
from God the Father and Jesus Christ,
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our Savior. He identifies the person
Jesus of Nazareth as God. He is
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God the Savior, distinct as the
Son of God, distinct from the Father,
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and yet perfectly one with him,
so that when we trust Jesus,
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we trust not not just another man, but God, who became man and
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did this thing for us, one
who came and gave his life so that
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we might live. So that's why
Paul says in Second Arinthians five twenty,
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we are ambassadors for Christ. God
making his appeal through us. He then
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says to the Corinthians, he almost
is begging, depending on how you read
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it. He says, we implore
you, on behalf of Christ be reconciled
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to God, or you could maybe
translate it, let yourselves be reconciled.
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In other words, God is making
this appeal. We are giving to you
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this message. We are telling you
grace and peace for your whole life.
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All you have to do is receive
it. Just take the gift, put
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your trust in it. That's all
you have to do. We implore you,
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on behalf of Christ be reconciled to
God. So I'll conclude by saying,
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don't believe the lies. Appreciate what
is happening here. Every time you
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hear those words at the beginning of
our service or something like them, or
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at the end of our service,
to which concludes concludes in similar ways,
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be reminded that it's not me who's
speaking to you, it's God, and
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not because of some now magical power
and me, but because God has ordained
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to speak through human beings. Another
amazing grace. In Jars of Cray,
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Clay Paul says, God has entrusted
this ministry of reconciliation. And hear the
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word of the Lord. Hear him
and trust him. Know his character,
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no his reputation, no his promises. And here that when he says to
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you, I come to you and
I give to you grace and peace through
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Jesus Christ, you can just breathe
a sigh of relief. Whatever your troubles
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are, whatever the difficulties are that
you faced in the past week, or
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that you're afraid about in the week
to come, you can hear those words
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and go, I'm in a good
place. God is speaking to me grace
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and peace through Jesus Christ, my
Savior. It's a piece that is fun
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the mental to who we are,
and it's a grace and peace from which
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everything else that we do in our
worship extends from. Yes we offer prayers
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to God, Yes we give him
a sacrifice of praise we give our money,
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we give our time, we give
our service. We give these things
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to God. But not because we're
trying to reconcile ourselves to him, but
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because he's already reconciled himself to us. We worship him because he deserves all
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the glory and honor and praise,
not only for creating us, but from
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saving us. And so we cannot
believe the lies when Satan tempts us to
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despair and tells us of the guilt
within. Upward, I look and see
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him there, who made an end
to all my sin. We don't believe
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the lies we say. I know
I'm not good enough to deserve these things.
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That's not the point. God didn't
say I had to be good enough.
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He said received the gift of grace. He does really offer it,
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He is really willing. He just
said it to me, and he says
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it to me over and over and
over again, and boy do I need
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it. Let's pray, Lord,
Jesus Christ, you are our savior.
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You have come into this world taking
on a lowly form, being, taking
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on the form of a human being, being born in a lowly place,
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in a manger, among the poor
of this world, and remain with the
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poor and the destitute, the sinful
and the sick. They accused you of
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being a friend of sinners, and
boy were they right. Thank you,
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Lord for being our friend. Thank
you for loving us. Thank you for
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coming to us and forgiving our debts, for allowing us to live in peace
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with you and with one another in
this world, even when it hates us,
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even when it persecutes us. You
you put this strengthen us, a
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spirit in us that allows us to
pray for the world, to love our
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enemies, to endure suffering and persecution
for your name. What kind of peace
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is that? A piece that passes
surpasses understanding, Lord Jesus, Thank you
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for loving us. Thank you for
being the truth, and through your servants
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speaking the truth to us. Help
each and every one of us here to
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be true speakers of your name.
Let our confession in our works and in
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our and in our words befit and
according to the truth that has been revealed
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to us, the truth that is
in us, the work that you are
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doing. Lord. We ask that
through us more of the world would see
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and know that you are our God. And we do pray Lord for those
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like us who need this grace.
We pray for those who are suffering and
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sick, who need peace in their
bodies and need a resurrection from the dead.
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Lord, we pray for those who
struggle within their families, where there's
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tension and disunity, where there's fear
and struggle and turmoil. We asked that
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you would bring healing and life,
and that you would make it known that
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these things are from you. We
pray that all of us, when we
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struggle and strive in this world that
we are in, that we would look
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to you and to you alone for
salvation, for you give it and you
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delight in giving it. Lord,
help that we asked now that you would
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shine in our hearts and give to
us the light of the knowledge of the
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glory of God in the face of
Jesus Christ. We pray this in Jesus
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Name, our Savior. Amen.
