THE KINDNESS OF GOD
TITUS 3:3-7

“KINDNESS” GOODNESS, GENEROSITY

“LOVE” A COMPOUND WORD HERE, COMBINING PHILIA FOR LOVE AND ANTHROPOS, FOR MAN: TO LOVE MANKIND. WE GET THE WORD, PHILANTHROPIC OR ACTS OF KINDNESS FOR MANKIND.

   KINDNESS EXPERIENCED …

   KINDNESS EXPRESSED … VS.2,8

GOD WAS KIND TO US IN SPITE OF OUR PAST REBELLION, VS.3

   FOOLISH – A PERSON WHO LIVES BLIND TO THE REALITY OF GOD,

   DISOBEDIENT – CONTEMPTUOUS TO DIVINE LAWS,

   DECEIVED – MISGUIDED BY FALSE TEACHERS,

   ENSLAVED TO VARIOUS LUST AND PLEASURES – DOMINATED BY CARNALITY …

   MALICE AND ENVY – A VICIOUS HEART …

   HATEFUL AND HATING – WAR …

THOUGHT: THE BIBLE HAS A DOUBLE VIEW OF MAN, HIS DEPRAVITY AND DIGNITY

GOD’S KINDNESS IS SHOWN IN HIS POWERFUL REDEMPTION, VS.4-7

   WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A REMARKABLE REDEMPTION,
VS.5 “HIS VERY OWN MERCY”

EPH.2:8-9

“IF WE COULD SEW ONE STITCH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS INTO OUR GARMENTS OF SPLENDOR WHICH WE WILL ONE DAY WEAR, WE WOULD SPEND ALL ETERNITY ADMIRING THAT ONE STITCH.”

   WE ARE UNDER REMARKABLE RECONSTRUCTION, VS.5

“BY THE WASHING OF REGENERATION”
   WASHING, IT IS A REFERENCE TO A BATH (NOT BAPTISM)
   EPH.5:26

   REGENERATION
 JOHN 3:3 “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN”

   RENEWING

   REGENERATION IS A MOMENT IN TIME.
   RENEWAL IS A LIFETIME.

   REGENERATION IS LIKE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME SPIRITUAL BATH.
   RENEWAL IS LIKE A DAILY SHOWER.

   JUSTIFICATION (219 TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT)

   “THE MAIN HINGE ON WHICH SALVATION TURNS.” CALVIN

   “WHEN THE ARTICLE OF JUSTIFICATION HAS FALLEN EVERYTHING HAS FALLEN. THIS IS THE CHIEF ARTICLE FROM WHICH ALL OTHER CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES HAVE FLOWED.” LUTHER

   JUSTIFICATION IS A WORD WITH A CLEAR MEANING,
THE ACT OF A JUDGE WHO AQUITS THE GUILTY

   JUSTIFICATION IS NOT AMNESTY, AMNESTY IS OFTEN PARDON WITHOUT PRINCIPLE

   JUSTIFICATION MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT CHRIST DEATH
ROMANS 3:21-26

   JUSTIFICATION IS A DIVINE WORD OF HONOR, 7b
“HEIRS” “HOPE”

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