BLESSED HOPE – Sunday
November 2nd 2014
Memorise: Looking for that
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus
Christ; Titus 2:13
Read: Titus 2:11-14, Bible in
one year: 2nd Kings 1-2, Proverbs 20:18-30
What is our hope as
Christians, and why have we chosen to turn our backs on the world and its
pleasures? It is the hope of glory, honour, immortality and an eternity spent
in the bosom of our Lord (Romans 2:7). This mother of all hopes shall be made
manifest at the return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Normally, a person hopes for
something good and pleasant. However, for the children of God, there is no hope
that compares with the return of Jesus to Earth. It is on account of this hope
of Jesus returning for His people, that Apostle Paul confident declared in 1st
Thessalonians 4:13-14 that:
“But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have
no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.”
Jesus is the grace of God
that brings salvation by the gospel. The return of Jesus puts an end to all
pain, all suffering, all disappointment, poverty, failures, battles, conflicts,
sorrows and defeats. For those in Him, who eagerly look forward to His coming,
I write this to you: His imminent return is very much around the corner, based
on the signs of His return as given to us in the Bible. Note that today’s
scriptures passage provides certain dos and don’t for those who have the Grace
of God – Jesus, is teaching us that we should deny ungodliness and worldly
lust. Beloved, we are in an age where ungodliness and worldly lusts are
becoming the norm; an age where people perpetuate evil without qualms and when
talking f adultery. In spite of this, the Grace of God teaches us that we
should live soberly, righteously and godly. To be sober is to be responsible
and serious. It means to comport oneself with dignity. To live righteously and godly
is to live according to the word of God and to live by the leading of the Holy
Spirit.
Besides, Titus 2:14 says we
are to be zealous of good works-works of
kindness, evangelism, visitation, fellow-up, encouraging those needing comfort,
interceding for others etc. We are not just to do these works, but we are to do
them with zeal. Now the question is: are you giving attention to the teaching
of the Grace of God? May the blessed hope be for you a blessed hope indeed when
the Lord appears in Jesus’ Name.
Key Point
He that has this hope
purifies himself even as he is pure.
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