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A Closer Walk

Attitude of the Righteous

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Our ministry is to reach out to the world with the Good News of Jesus Christ and to help believers be equipped with a solid knowledge of the Word of God, the Bible, and be encouraged to apply it in every aspect of their daily lives. There are simple truths for these complex times to help people live in a way that brings real spiritual victory to them and more importantly, through the Lord Jesus Christ, glory to God our Father.

Titus 2:11-12
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age...
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The apostle Paul's statement to Titus who was on the island of Crete restates the single most wonderful truth—the greatest gift of God, salvation, purchased by the blood of the Lamb on the cross is now available to all men! Jesus had proclaimed that God’s love and forgiveness was there for ‘whoever believes in Him.’ {Jn.3:16} That wonderful truth also brings with it the fact that a person will receive it along with the power to live a new life style that accompanies it.
 
I have said many times it would be like a philanthropic billionaire who decides to go to a Burger King restaurant and hand out hundred-dollar bills to whoever will take them. Amazing, no cost, a truly free gift! If you hear about this and you hop right in your car and drive to the nearest McDonald’s—you like the Big Mac better than the Whopper—then surprise, surprise, you do not come home with a handful of hundred-dollar bills, and you probably did not like the hamburger either. Even if you did it would not have satisfied you at that point.
 
Paul continues in today's verse to say that the free gift comes with instructions on how to rightly use that gift in order to get the full benefit: as those verses say, we are to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age.

Back to the hamburger! Throw away the wrapper and eat the burger, follow the instructions! And remember, the great gift of God and the sacrifice of Jesus comes with a book of instructions—the Book of Life, the Holy Bible with the Words of life that lead to the fullness of life. ‘O taste and see that the Lord is good’ {Ps.34:8}

Either follow that Word, sweeter than honey to your taste, {Ps.119:103} or miss out on the banquet, the marriage feast of the Lamb! {Rev.19:9}
 
“...And from everyone who has been given much shall much be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.” (Luke 12:48)
 
THY WORD WAS FOUND AND I ATE IT