08-25-19, Titus 3;1-11, Living To Do

Titus 3:1-11
Living To Do
August 25, 2019
First Baptist Church
Jackson, Mississippi
USA

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1 Corinthians 10:31 NKJV
31Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or
whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

August MemoryVerse:
Matthew 6:33 NKJV
33 “But seek first the kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be
added to you.”

Father,
Teach usThy statutes,
Open our eyes,
Stir our hearts and
Enlighten our minds. (Psalm 119)

Titus 3:7 NJKV
7 that being justified by His grace, we should be
made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Inheritance

Colossians 3:23-24 NKJV
23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the
Lord and not to men, 24 knowing that from the
Lord you will receive the reward of the
inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

heir:
1. One who receives his allotted possession by
right of sonship.
2. One who has acquired or obtained the
portion allotted to him.

We have the down payment right now, but the
full legacy is coming later.
We are heirs of God and joint heirs with the
Lord Jesus Christ.
We have an inheritance!

1 Peter 1:3-4 NKJV
A Heavenly Inheritance
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ,Who according to His abundant
mercy has begotten us again to a living hope
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from
the dead, 4 to an inheritance incorruptible and
undefiled and that does not fade away,
reserved in Heaven for you,

Most folks dream about some rich uncle dying
somewhere and leaving them something, but
Romans 8:17 says that we are joint heirs with Jesus!

In Genesis 24 (the longest chapter in Genesis), think
of how Eleazar, Abraham’s servant, was sent by
Abraham (137 years old) to seek a bride for Isaac.

Why does the Holy Spirit devote so much space in
the Bible to a description of the matchmaking
mission of Abraham’s servant Eleazer between Isaac
and Abraham's grandniece, Rebekah?

It's a wonderful picture of God the
Father sending the Holy Spirit to seek
a bride for Jesus, His resurrected Son
(see Rev. 19:6-8), and that's the
picture in the OldTestament
concealed which later was in the New
Testament revealed.

Genesis 24:40 NKJV
40 But Abraham (Sarah had died) said to
Eleazar, ‘The LORD, beforeWhom I walk, will
send His angel with you and prosper your way;
and you shall take a wife for my son from my
family and from my father’s house.

Through divine providence, Eleazar was led to
Rebekah.
Genesis 24:45 NKJV
45 “But before I had finished speaking in my
heart, there was Rebekah, coming out with her
pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down to
the well and drew water. And I said to her,
‘Please let me drink.’

Rebekah was a beautiful girl and Eleazar went into
Rebekah’s home in a land three to four weeks away
(in Mesopotamia) and told her about Isaac.

He told her how charming Isaac was, how wise
Isaac was, how rich Isaac was, and how loving
Isaac was.
Then Eleazar said, "Now, Isaac needs a bride, so
will you come with me and be his bride?"

Talk about a salesman —he had to convince a
woman to go with him, a man she'd never met to
meet a man she’d never seen, and she did it! (“I will
go.”, much as Abraham did over sixty years before.)

Genesis 24:57-58 NKJV
57 So they (her brother and mother) said, “We
will call the young woman and ask her
personally.” 58Then they called Rebekah and
said to her, “Will you go with this man?”
And she said, “I will go.”

That's really what the Holy Spirit has done for us.
We've never seen Jesus; but the Holy Spirit has
convinced us about how wonderful our Heavenly
Isaac is!

So, when Eleazar went to seek a bride, Abraham
just loaded him down with wealth.

Genesis 24:10 NKJV
10Then the servant (also “Eliezer of Damascus” -
serving Abraham for over sixty-two years!) took
ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all
his master’s goods were in his hand.And he
arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of
Nahor.

Genesis 24:53 NKJV
53Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver,
jewelry of gold, and clothing, and gave them to
Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her
brother and to her mother.

It was a token of Isaac's wealth.
He had a little box of jewels there; and, as they
were riding along, you can imagine Rebekah—
how she must've felt.
Did I make a mistake?
Is there really an Isaac?

Is he really as wealthy as Eleazar says that he is?
Should I be leaving father, mother, houses, and
land for this Isaac I've never seen?

Perhaps her chin would start to quiver, and a
tear would puddle up in her eye.
Old Eleazar would look over there and see that;
he'd just open that little box of jewels, and take
out a necklace, and put it around her neck, and
say, "This is from Isaac; he just wanted you to
have it.You'll love Isaac," pat her hand, and they
would go on.

Genesis 24:63-65 NKJV
63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the
evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and
there, the camels were coming. 64Then Rebekah
lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she
dismounted from her camel; 65 for she had said to
the servant, “Who is this man walking in the field to
meet us?”
The servant said, “It is my master.” So she took a
veil and covered herself.

When Rebekah finally saw Isaac, he was
standing at the edge of the field, and she
lighted down off the camel and ran to meet her
future husband, her bridegroom.

Friend, one of these days, Jesus is going to
appear on the edge of the field; we’re going to
run to meet our Heavenly Isaac!

I'm so grateful that all along the way the Holy
Spirit sees that sometimes we have those little
doubts; we have those little second thoughts.

And He will just take some gift, and say, “This is
from Jesus” —the Holy Spirit will do that —
"This is from Jesus, just a token of His love."
And, all along the way there are tokens of His
love.

One of the tokens of His love for me.

The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole
and made him a house in the telephone pole.

One day when I watched he poked out his head,
and he had on a hood and a collar of red!

When the streams of rain pour out of the sky,
and the sparkles of lightning go flashing by,
and the big, big wheels of thunder roll,
he can snuggle back in the telephone pole.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Born: 10/30/1881 in Perryville, KY
Died: 1941 in Orlando, FL

The tokens of His love are only an indication of
the inheritance that will be ours, one of these
days.

The passage inTitus 3 that we will study this
morning speaks of our past guilt—what we
were; speaks of God’s present grace—how God
has loved us, God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Spirit; and, it speaks of our future
glory: one of these days, we're going to have
the full inheritance, and we're going to reign
with Jesus forever and ever!

Titus 3:1-11 NKJV
Graces of the Heirs of Grace
1 Remind them to be subject to rulers and
authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good
work, 2 to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable,
gentle, showing all humility to all men.

3 For we ourselves were also once foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and
pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and
hating one another.

4 But when the kindness and the love of God our
Savior toward man appeared,

5 not by works of righteousness which we have
done, but according to His mercy He saved us,
through the washing of regeneration and
renewing of the Holy Spirit,

6 whom He poured out on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 that having
been justified by His grace we should become
heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

8This is a faithful saying, and these things I
want you to affirm constantly, that those who
have believed in God should be careful to
maintain good works.These things are good
and profitable to men.

Avoid Dissension
9 But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies,
contentions, and strivings about the law; for
they are unprofitable and useless. 10 Reject a
divisive man after the first and second
admonition, 11 knowing that such a person is
warped (perverted) and sinning, being self-
condemned.
Titus 3:1-11 NKJV

This sermon from the Adrian Rogers Legacy
Library © 2010 Rogers FamilyTrust. Used by
permission.

God's Amazing Grace
Words are so very meaningful and one of the
most beautiful words in the English language is
grace.
Grace is a wonderful word and today
we're going to be talking and thinking
about God's amazing grace.

Grace is the unmerited love and favor of God
toward undeserving sinners such as we are, and
grace is absolutely, totally contrary to the
wisdom of this world and the human nature.

Complete these sentences:
There ain’t no such thing as a ____ _____.

It is easy to finish these sentences:
There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.

(Tanstaafl)
When somebody says, "I want to buy your
lunch"—look out!

Sentence number two:
We make money the old-fashioned way; we
______.

Sentence number two:
We make money the old-fashioned way; we
earn it.

Sentence number three:
According to this world, nobody's going to give
you any money.
God helps those who _______________.

Sentence number three:
According to this world, nobody's going to give
you any money.
God helps those who help themselves.
By the way, lots of people think that's in the
Bible. (Wrong!)

Sentence number four:
You get what you _______.

Sentence number four:
You get what you pay for.

So, those things are just in us —that's human
nature.
Grace is absolutely contrary to human nature.
But we think that, somehow, it’s still up to us.

• Militarism says that we're to fight our way out.
• Politics says that we're going to legislate our way
out.
• Materialism says we're going to buy our way out.
• Industry says we're going to work our way out.
• Philosophy says we're going to think our way
out.
• There's only one way out, and His name is Jesus.

Now, let's look atTitus 3:1.
Paul is writing toTitus after he's left him at
Crete; and, Paul says, "Titus, here's what I want
you to do for the folks at Crete. Number one":
“Remind them to be subject to principalities
and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready
for every good work" (Titus 3:1).

When we become Christians, we are to become
good citizens.
The scandal of our day is the bad citizenship of
so-called good people.

We are citizens here, on this Earth, but we are
also strangers.
A stranger is someone who is away from home.

Hebrews 11:9 NIV
9 By faith Abraham made his home in the
promised land like a stranger in a foreign
country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and
Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same
promise.

We're not vagabonds — a vagabond has no
home.
We are pilgrims — citizens on our way home to
Heaven!

At first it appeared to the world that Abram was
leaving home to go to a strange land when in
reality, he was actually leaving a foreign land
and going home – to the Promised Land.

When we die, it appears to the world that we
are leaving home to go to a strange land while
in reality, we are leaving a strange land (Earth)
and going home – to Heaven!

Then, Paul wrote toTitus and told him how to
teach the people how to live.

So, Paul deals in three things:
Paul deals, first of all, with our past guilt; then,
he deals with God's present grace; and then
with prospective glory.

I. Our Past Guilt (Titus 3:3) – Justification.
II. God’s Present Grace (Titus 3:4-6) –
Sanctification.
III. Our Future Glory (Titus 3:7) – Glorification.

I. Our Past Guilt Titus 3:3
A. NoticeWhatYouWere Intellectually:
Foolish.
B. NoticeWhatYouWere Morally:
Disobedient.
C. NoticeWhatYouWere Intellectually:
Deceived.

I. Our Past Guilt Titus 3:3
D. NoticeWhatYouWere Morally: Slaves.
E. NoticeWhatYouWere Socially: Hateful.

Titus 3:3 NKJV
3 For we ourselves were also once foolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving (slave to) various
lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy,
hateful and hating one another.

II. God’s Present Grace Titus 3:4-6
A. The Sovereign Love of God. (Titus 3:4)
B. The Supernatural Work of the Spirit.
(Titus 3:5)
C. The Sacrificial Death of the Savior (Titus
3:6)

Now, let's move on and think not only about
our past guilt, but think about God’s present
grace.

Titus 3:4-5 NKJV
4 But when the kindness and the love of God our
Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of
righteousness which we have done, but
according to His mercy He saved us, through
the washing of regeneration and renewing of
the Holy Spirit,

• Now, this is God's present grace.
• This is why we're here today,
brothers and sisters, this is why
we can sing and why we can
celebrate; this is why we can be
so full of joy!

B. The Supernatural Work of the Spirit.
(Titus 3:5)
C. The Sacrificial Death of the Savior. (Titus
3:6)

First of all, there's the sovereign love of
God.
Titus 3:4 NKJV
4 But when the kindness and the love of God
our Savior toward man appeared,

We can hardly take it in that God would love us,
that the sovereign God of the universe loves us
by His sheer grace.

Dr. Pollard told about an ad in a newspaper
concerning a man that had lost his dog, and the
ad said:
Lost dog, mixed breed, blind in left eye,
missing right ear, limps due to missing one
leg, broken tail, recently neutered and
answers to the name “Lucky.”

That man loved that dog enough—mangy,
crippled, blind, deaf dog to search for him and
to rescue him.
Well, we’re not lucky dogs, we’re blessed
children of God because Somebody loves us!

Luke 19:10 NKJV
10 “for the Son of Man has come to seek and to
save that which was lost.”
Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.

God loves us but God doesn't love us because we're
valuable; we're valuable because God loves us.
It's just in the love of God — that's what grace is.

How are the lost going to save themselves?

Are they going to save themselves by
subtraction, by stopping doing things?
• Think that's going to save them?
• Suppose they're a drunkard and stop
drinking.
• Is that going to save them?
• No, they just go to Hell sober.

Are they going to save themselves by addition?
• Are they going to start doing good things?
• What about all the bad things they've
already done?

No, only the love of God, the grace of God, is
what saves us.
• That's the reason there's not going to be any
boasters in Heaven.
• The Bible says:
Ephesians 2:8-9 NKJV
8 For by grace you have been saved through
faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of
God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Adrian Rogers was playing football against Daytona
Mainland when he was in high school on a rainy
night -both teams were sloshing around on the
field.
He had a big, slow tackle that was a friend of his and
this guy was so slow that when he tried to run, he
would have to say, "Right leg, left leg, right leg, left
leg” — big old Richard.

Richard intercepted a pass; well he didn't really
intercept it; it just came up in the air and fell into his
huge hands.
He looked down and saw that he had the ball and
began to lumber toward the goal line.
Richard was so slow that they blocked every man on
the field three times for him to run the ball back and
he actually scored!

It was Adrian’s fortune to room in the hotel with
that guy that night and all-night long Richard
was talking about how he ran that ball back,
and, in the most stellar performance you've
ever heard, how he intercepted a pass and ran it
back to score through that rain and through
that mud.

Adrian said that he was just glad that we don't
have to go to Heaven to hear a bunch of
braggarts, bragging all through Heaven about
what they did to get to Heaven.

It is by the sheer grace of God that we are His
blessed children, not lucky dogs; God loves us
by His grace and that is the only way that we
will get there!

B. The SupernaturalWork of the Spirit. (Titus 3:5)
So, there's the sovereign love of God but then
there’s also the supernatural work of the Spirit.
Titus 3:5 NKJV

Don’t you love that:
He regenerates and renews us!

Titus 3:5 NLT
5 He saved us, not because of the righteous
things we had done, but because of His mercy.
He washed away our sins, giving us a new birth
and new life through the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:5TLB
5 then He saved us—not because we were good
enough to be saved but because of His kindness
and pity—by washing away our sins and giving
us the new joy of the indwelling Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:5-8 MSG
3-8 It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were
stupid and stubborn, dupes of sin, ordered
every which way by our glands, going around
with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating
back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior
God, stepped in, He saved us from all that. It
was all His doing; we had nothing to do with it.

He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it
new people, washed inside and out by the Holy
Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so
generously. God’s gift has restored our
relationship with Him and given us back our
lives. And there’s more life to come—an
eternity of life!You can count on this.
Titus 3:5-8 MSG

1. He Regenerates Us Once and for All.
2. He Renews Us Day by Day.

1. He Regenerates Us Once and For All.
The Bible calls this the washing of
regeneration.

Some of our friends, who think that you have to
be baptized in order to be saved, use this
verse—that we wash in the baptistery, and
that's what saved us.
No, it's the washing—not of water; it is the
washing of regeneration.

Here are five Scriptures, right in a row concerning
cleansing:
Zechariah 13:1—God speaks of a time when the
nation of Israel is going to come to faith:
Zechariah 13:1 NKJV
1 “In that day a fountain shall be opened for the
house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
for sin and for uncleanness.”

He's talking, there, about when they come to
Christ as their Savior.
That's the Fountain—not filled with water
drawn from the city main, but a fountain filled
with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins.

Revelation 1:5 NKJV
5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the
firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the
kings of the earth.
To Him who loved us and washed us from our
sins in His own blood,
• That's the washing of regeneration, not
baptism.

You say, "Well, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Baptist."
You better be a washed-in-the-blood Baptist.
A dyed-in-the-wool Baptist can go to Hell.

Revelation 7:14 NKJV
14 And I said to him, “Sir, you know.”
So he said to me, “These are the ones who
come out of the great tribulation, and washed
their robes and made them white in the blood
of the Lamb.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
kingdom of God.

If I've done those things, does that mean I can't
go to Heaven?
No, look in 1 Corinthians 6:11.

11 And such were some of you. But you were
washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by
the Spirit of our God.
• That's the washing of regeneration.

You're washed, and you're justified in the name
of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Iris:Trophy of Grace:
The miraculous story of Iris Urrey Blue, the
"incorrigible" who encountered the irresistible
force of God's transforming power.

She's a grand lady named Iris Blue, who was a
prostitute; and, Iris Blue gave her heart to
Jesus, and she gives her testimony and says: "I
got down on my knees a filthy prostitute and
got up a pure virgin."

We have to understand, "such were some of
you," (1 Corinthians 6:11).
Friend, thank God for the precious blood of
Jesus!
This is the wonderful grace of God!

There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from
Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunged
beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.

2. He Renews Us Day by Day.
And so, He regenerates us once for all; He
renews us day by day.
Titus 3:5 NKJV

Lamentations 3:22-23 NKJV
22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not
consumed,
Because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning;
Great isYour faithfulness.

We wake up in the morning and say, "Lord,
thankYou thatYou have givenYourself for me. I
thankYou, Lord, that this is a brand-new day. I
do not have to carry any baggage into today. I
can be absolutely perfectly renewed today."

He regenerates, and He renews—thank God for
that!

C. The Sacrificial Death of the Savior. (Titus 3:6)
But now, watch this:There's the sovereign love
of God; there's the sanctifying work of the
Spirit; and then, there's the sacrificial death of
the Savior.
Titus 3:6 NKJV
6 whom He poured out on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior,

And so, Jesus suffered, bled, and died and when
you receive Jesus, that's when you receive the
salvation.

III. Our Future Glory Titus 3:7
So, it talks about our past guilt; it talks about God’s
present grace in the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Holy
Spirit, and in Almighty God the FatherWho loves us;
and then, it talks about our future glory.
Titus 3:7 NKJV
7 that having been justified by His grace we should
become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

It's not over yet.
You see, when we come to the Lord'sTable, we
look back to what we used to be; we remember
what we are now; and then, we begin to think
about what we're going to be when Jesus
comes again.

26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink
this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death till He
comes.

Remember what Jesus said when He was
talking to Nicodemus.
John 3:14-15 NKJV
14 “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be
lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have eternal life.”

This sermon from the Adrian Rogers Legacy Library ©
2010 Rogers FamilyTrust.
Used by permission.
www.pastortraining.com | www.adrianrogerslibrary.com
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Legacy Collection – Sermons.

The Plan of Hope & Salvation
John 3:16 NKJV
16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not
perish but have everlasting life.”
John 14:6 NKJV
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

Romans 3:23 NKJV
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23a NKJV
23a For the wages of sin is death,
• Death in this life (the first death) is 100%.
• Even Jesus, the only one who doesn’t deserve death,
died in this life to pay the penalty for our sins.
• The death referred to in Romans 6:23a is the second
death explained in Revelation 21:8.

8 “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the
lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
• Anyone who’s lifestyle is one or more of the sins listed in Revelation
21:8, will experience the “second death” if they do not repent.
• To Repent means to turn around, to go in the opposite direction,
to turn away from sin and to come to Jesus.
Romans 6:23b NKJV
23b but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 NKJV
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be
his God and he shall be My son.”
• Romans 10:9-10 explain to us how to be overcomers.

Romans 10:9-10 NKJV
9 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and
believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes
unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
Romans 10:13 NKJV
13 For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be
saved.”

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