Salvation is available and accessible for all, regardless of skin color, ancestry, or personal merit. But it does mean that salvation is not restricted to one group of people, such as Jews, Americans, or Westerners. It doesn’t mean that every person will be saved.

Salvation is made available to all men – Christ’s coming has made salvation available to all men when, by their own efforts, they could never have attained it without Him. At the same time, Titus was charged with appointing elders who would safeguard this message and continue to spread it.Ģ. It is this grace and salvation that Paul urged Titus to teach the church (Titus 2:15). These verses contain the gospel’s core facts and form the central tenets of our faith. That is His divine favor since men had done nothing worthy of His affections. In Luke, we see that God was pleased with people. Humankind did not deserve Him, and yet He came.

The fact that men did not deserve Jesus is made all the clearer in that after His loving and self-sacrificial service, the very people He served murdered Him. Jesus is the greatest gift God has ever given to man we didn’t deserve Him. Grace means “God’s favor toward the unworthy” or the “spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine favour in the salvation of sinners.” Jesus is, in fact, the perfect embodiment of God’s grace. Only Jesus has brought salvation to all men so by definition this “grace of God” can only refer to Jesus. Therefore, I believe that this “grace of God” refers to Jesus Christ incarnate. But here, it says that it has “appeared” and instructs us. The “grace of God” – Grace is something that is unseen and intangible. John 1:16 – For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.ġ. Romans 11:6 – But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace would no longer be grace.

What is the relationship of these verses (11-13) to the rest of the book?.

Are there any hints in the text as to what the “grace of God” is? What is the biggest grace of God to us?.

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