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In from Titus, chapter 3
Jesus Christ, our Saviour
That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life
And two verses in Jude's Epistle, verses 20 and 21
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life
This afternoon, in verse 16 of the portion we were considering in the first chapter of 1 Timothy, we had mercy connected with eternal life
It is in order that we might consider two more verses where we get this connection that I have read these portions
In Titus 3, I began with verse 3, so that we might remind ourselves of the terrible condition we were in prior to our conversion
And see, brought out into greater relief, the tremendous loving disposition of God toward us, in accordance with which He has saved us
What a terrible condition the world is in
This afternoon, George reminded us that verse 4 of 1 Timothy, chapter 1, speaks of God's dispensation which is in faith
The word is explicitly economy
In recent years, we have seen the economies of Eastern Europe, then Russia, collapse
The economy of the United States is still very shaky
This past week, the United Kingdom withdrew from the ERM
In its entry into the ERM, Britain was guided by professors of economics
The Lord Jesus is beyond all professors of economics, He is the greatest of all, and controls God's economy, which is in faith
As we read and consider verse 3 of this chapter in Titus, it truly humbles us
When we think of where we were, we can think of some of us, indeed we used to mock at the Lord's people even
Then God in His wonderful grace and mercy met us, and we became part of God's people
Just like Ruth who could say to Naomi, thy God shall be my God, thy people shall be my people
It is a very blessed thing to be among the Lord's people, to be one of the Lord's people
As we consider this terrible condition we are in, we are filled with praise and worship when we consider the great but of verse 4
There we learn that the kindness and love to man, as it should read, of our Saviour God has appeared
How kind God is, and how kind God has been to us, words fail us to describe His kindness
And then to think of His love, it is love to man here, true philanthropy
We have philanthropic societies in this world, but man cannot be philanthropic, only God can
There is another word for God's love which we do not find in classical Greek
It's a special word, a special word had to be indicted to describe God's love
God is a Saviour God, brethren, preach Him as a Saviour God
Is there a Sunday School teacher here? Bring before your Sunday School children, God is a Saviour God
Dear brethren, let us speak to people at work, or as we are travelling, we meet them in shops, our neighbours
Let us bring before them that God is a Saviour God, bent on their blessing
Think of the words of Isaiah 45, bring before us a just God and a Saviour
Look unto me, all ye the ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else
The scripture goes on to say that it is not my works of righteousness which we have done, oh how readily we acknowledge and know that
But it is according to His mercy that He saved us, He met us in all our need
Like Esther of old, the sector of mercy has been extended to us
We might think of these words trembling, we had hope for mercy
God is rich in mercy, for His great love for us, He has loved us
We know this salvation necessitated the death of our Lord Jesus Christ and Calvary's cross, the shedding of His precious blood
Here Paul looks at us, goes beyond this, he looks at us as needing to be released, to be cleansed from moral pollution
Brings in the washing of regeneration, we are bathed all over, made fit morally for the presence of God
We are given a new holy nature, commensurate with God's holiness
The word regeneration is not new birth, it is being placed in a new position
The renewal is similar to the thought of a new man, something of a new kind is brought in
A new kind of condition that we are in, a new kind of state that we are brought into
And it is from the Holy Ghost
And this renewing goes on, we were initially renewed but it continues
And we see this in the 2nd Corinthians 4 where Paul could say, the outward man perish yet the inward man is renewed day by day
And God has poured it on us richly, which He has shed on us abundantly
God does not deal in half measures, God is rich in mercy, He is rich in grace, rich in glory, rich in goodness
And then He's brought out that there in the end of that verse 6
It's through Jesus Christ our Saviour, that's for we have God our Saviour, here we have Jesus Christ our Saviour
What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus
Then beginning of verse 7 He says, that being justified by His grace
Oh isn't that a precious thing that we are justified by His grace
There are some that would try and make out that Titus was not written by Paul
But here clearly we have this thought of justification, this blessed truth of justification is by God's grace
This is something that is unique to Paul
James speaks about justification by works, John and Peter never mention justification
It's alone, Paul alone brings out this blessed truth
And then it says that we should be made heirs
Isn't that precious, we've got a title to it, a right and a title
We're going to come into our wonderful full blessing
It's a hope, it's hope of eternal life here
Something that is a hope as we all know in the Bible is a sure and certain thing
It's not a vain matter, it's a sure and certain hope
And it's a hope of eternal life
Well we have eternal life now as John tells us
But Paul always brings it before us as something that we're going on to
There's no question that we have it
John 5 verse 24
Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth in him that sent me hath everlasting life
And shall not come into condemnation but is passed out of death into life
And then think again of that precious word in John 10
I give unto my sheep eternal life and they shall never perish
Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand
My Father who gave them me is greater than all
And no man can pluck them out of my Father's hand
But there is an extensiveness in this eternal life
And we will enter into this extensiveness in all its blessed fullness in the coming day
What a blessed enjoyment for our souls
May we enjoy it more and more
Let us now turn to Jude's epistle
And verses 20 and 21
We have four things in here
I've often likened them to the four anchors in Acts 27 that refer to the stern
He has four anchors to stabilize and keep our souls in these last days
Because Jude is written for the last days
We see the terrible catalog
The very sorry catalog of the wickedness of man
Right through the earlier verses from verse 4 onwards
Then we come to another very wonderful and blessed but
But ye beloved, Jude addresses them as beloved
Very precious
He goes on to say building up yourselves in your most holy faith
Oh how precious that is
We need to be built up in this don't we today
All the wonderful truths of scripture
We need to get them into our souls
By knee drill
By reading God's word, fellowshiping with him, studying the word of God
We can look around and we see young men and people who go into gymnasium
To build up their bodies, body building
But we have got to be built up in a spiritual way
In our most holy faith
And then he says praying in the Holy Ghost
And all the power that comes from the Holy Ghost
And there would be a fervency associated with it
A fervency associated with this blessed praying
There is a reality in it, not a ritual
Of course in this matter of prayer, you know when we get together to pray
We don't tell God what he knows already
And we don't lecture the saints or parade our knowledge of scripture
There has got to be a sense of urgency, real definite requests
James speaks about praying with prayer
And then we have this wonderful thought of keep yourselves in the love of God
We have various references to keeping ourselves in the scripture
We have got to keep ourselves pure in 1st Timothy 5
And keep ourselves unspotted from the world in James 1
Here there is something that we have got to keep ourselves in it
We have got to keep ourselves in the love of God
In all that wonderful ocean of the love of God
You remember the explorer Speak
I think it was he traced the Nile to its source
He started at the massive delta, the great delta
And when he got to the source in Lake Victoria he said
There is more at the source than at the end
Dear Beloved, we have got to get right into the love of God
There is a vast ocean there
As they used to say up here when I was a young man
Get into it
Now for the sake of you dear brethren from south of the border
I better say it means get into things
It is a well known saying among us by earlier brethren
You get what you are going for
Dear brethren, particularly young ones
Go in for the things of God
Get immersed in the love of God
That it may flow out and move us
And then we come to this 4th anchor
Mr. Hall referred to it as the crowning act of the mercy of God
I am grateful to Jim for reminding me this afternoon, earlier today
That the last mention of the mercy of God is here in Jude
And just to think of it
The Lord Jesus will come again
And come into the air to call us away
He is going to visit this scene
Or really come into the air and take us out of this scene
Terrible wicked scene
You know some old, dear old saints
Find it difficult getting to the meetings
The way they are jostled and pushed around and things like that
But a sad world as we read about it
We are going to be taken out of it
The wonderful crowning act of the mercy of God
Dear beloved, are we looking for him?
Not only waiting for him
Are we looking for him?
Looking for the mercy of our Lord
I am always reminded
I expect it used to be done here in earlier days
Here in Conducte
Certainly was done in Cookenzie when I was a boy down at Swan's End
All the fisher wives would get down there
Looking out for the boats for the husbands coming in
They were looking
Dear beloved, are we looking for the Saviour to come?
May we do so
For his name's sake …