_‘THE GRACE OF GOD’_ ‘The grace of God that bringeth salvation.’ Titus 2:11 Observe, ‘the grace of God bringeth salvation.’ I. GRACE ALWAYS BRINGS ITS BLESSINGS TO THE SOUL.—It never says, ‘Try and reach them.’ That would be law, not grace. Grace comes down to the lost one with a full hand. It... [ Continue Reading ]
_A COMPENDIUM OF THE GOSPEL_ ‘For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us … and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.’ Titus 2:11 This is the little compendium of the Gospel which St. Paul left in the hands of his spiritual son Titus,... [ Continue Reading ]
_THAT BLESSED HOPE_ ‘Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.’ Titus 2:13 I fear that this great truth—the coming again of the Lord—is largely a neglected truth. Since the Lord Jesus Christ departed into the heavens, and men are real... [ Continue Reading ]
_SINCERITY OF LIFE_ ‘Let no man despise thee.’ Titus 2:15 The word for ‘despise’ which St. Paul uses here occurs nowhere else in the New Testament, and it suggests the possibility of a fault existing in Titus himself and giving occasion to his enemies to suspect his sincerity. It might be transla... [ Continue Reading ]