“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and Godly in this present world…” (Titus 2:11-12)
One of the amazing truths about the grace of God is the separated Christian life that it teaches us we are to live. Yes, we are saved by grace through faith plus nothing. We are not saved as a result of our model behavior. Model behavior results from being saved.
We are told to, “…have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” (Ephesians 5:11) Our text says we are to be separate or different from the world. Over and over the Bible calls us to not be like the world.
There is a strange view of grace in our world today. It says that once we are saved by grace we can go out and live any way we choose. Jude saw false teachers in the first century who were turning the grace of God into a license to sin. (Jude 1:4) Those false teachers are in abundance today. Sadly many churches have taken that same ungodly approach. We are asked in II Corinthians 6:14, “What fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness and what communion has light with darkness?” The answer, of course, is “none.” God expects us after salvation to live like saved people, in the power of the Holy Spirit within us.
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