Sunday, April 25, 2004

Do Good to All
Paul must have been an incredible person to know. He is such an encourager, but also an exhorter. So is true with the following scripture from Titus 3. He is exhorting Tituss to REMIND OTHERS TO DO GOOD TO ALL PEOPLE! There are so many places in this passage that encouraged and convicted me. I love how he exhorts us to do good to others by reminding us the awesome goodness and mercy that God has apportioned to us.

Verse 4-5 is a good reminder to me of God's incredible mercy. It says, 'But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy.'

Titus 3:1-7
REMIND PEOPLE to be submissive to [their] magistrates and authorities, to be obedient, to be prepared and willing to do any upright and honorable work,
To slander or abuse or speak evil of no one, to avoid being contentious, to be forbearing (yielding, gentle, and conciliatory), and to show unqualified courtesy toward everybody.
For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another.
But when the goodness and loving-kindness of God our Savior to man [as man] appeared,
He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by [the] cleansing [bath] of the new birth (regeneration) and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
Which He poured out [so] richly upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior.
[And He did it in order] that we might be justified by His grace (by His favor, wholly undeserved), [that we might be acknowledged and counted as conformed to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action], and that we might become heirs of eternal life according to [our] hope.


-Amplified Version

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