Title: Live in the grace of God
Text: Titus 2:11-14
Purpose: Christians live in the grace of God.
Content: Gracious God/ New life style
God helped us to come in this service. Everything we did is not from our strength but the grace of God.
Gracious God
Our God is gracious God. You know that. God let us be saved from the wrath of God. God enabled us to be God’s children. Could you imagine how great God’s love is? We human beings are not able to resemble this love. The love of God let us grow up in faith.
God’s grace is like this. You are loved by God. Is there any kind of reason God loveㄴ you? Does God love you because you are good, because you are in good looking, because you are diligent? Is the love of God because of your hard work in your church? No. These could not be the reason.
God loves you unconditionally. This is God’s grace. The grace of God encourages you to grow up faithfully through the work of the Holy Spirit. However, you cannot give reward to God for the grace. Only thing you can do about it is that you thank God. We say together now. “God, thank you for everything you have done for me.”
New Life Style
In the Bible you can find three attitudes for Christian life. I mean your new life style: self-control, right conduct, devotion to God. Let me make sure that this Christian life style could not be lived by your own effort but by the help of God. I want you to say this: “O! God, you know that I am weak, I have no patience, and I am not brave at all. Even I have no will to love others. God! Help me to live in this new life in hoping the life of heaven.”
At first, self-control will lead you not to do evil things you have ever done. If you do self-control, you will not enjoy eating candies in your bed; you will not follow the bad behavior of your friends; you will not tear your parents’ heart even though they did to you. Self-control can be healthy way to live in both spiritually and flashily. Pray to God help you to self-control.
Secondly, right conduct means working for other people with the heart of God. This is to help weak people and do not hate any people even though they deserve hatred. This is to help others in the name of Jesus. This is to give you to others fully as Jesus Christ has done for you. But to do this, you should pray first.
Worldly people might think that righteous person can judge criminals or swindlers. However the judge could not be a person but God. What you do is to shed light on them. Show God’s presence with you to them so that they can repent and be children of God.
Lastly, having devotion to God is critical for Christians. Devotion to God means that your mind must be filled with God. The power of your life should be God not others, not even you. When God is your power, you obey God. You may service God fully. You choose things and works with the perspective of God. In this condition, you will be able to serve your family, friends and even those who you do not know since this is God’s will.
Once you decided to live in this new life style, you need more talk with God. You could live by God’s purpose when you know the will of God. So prayer to God is crucial for those who want to live in God’s grace.
Your life will be changed whenever you seek God’s will in prayer and follow the way Jesus has lived. Three attitude God has offered to you for a new life, self-control, right conduct, and devotion to God is the key to open heavenly life while you are here. Hope you enjoy being children of God and feel happy about it.
Let’s Pray.
Gracious God. We thank you for embrace us. We are your children. We will follow the life style to be real Christian. Help us to be better day by day. I pray in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Mustard Seed Church KMC. Pastor. Rev. Seung Joo Lee
238-9 2nd fl. Sinwol1dong, Yangchungu, Seoul 158-831
Tel. 02)2693-0525
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