 Okay, welcome back after the break. Before we went for the break, we were looking at the instructions that Paul is giving for older women and how they should be and how they should live their lives and so we saw that Paul says that older women should be reverent in their behavior. There should not be slanderers. We looked at what means what it means to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers. Then he says they should not be given too much wine and why does he write this here and write this in the case of older women is because it was something that was very common for older women in the Roman and Greek culture and so Paul is you know giving this instruction because it's a special challenge that needs special instruction and it's very interesting to know that he says uses this word not given. Okay, not given too much wine. The word given there is the Greek word dulior or which we also get the word dulos which means being a slave. So it says don't be enslaved or be under bondage. So the word here dulior means enslaved or bondage. So don't be under bondage or enslaved to drinking wine or strong drinks and there's also a connection here between a loose tongue and an intoxicating drink. We know that people who indulge in drinking too much will probably also talk too much and so he's saying as older women, you know it's easier for them to begin to, you know start drinking. Why? Because of some body ailments or pains or aches or pains that they have also sometimes to drown their loneliness or depression that they drink wine. And before long they're addicted to wine that is sin and because they're not relying on the Lord and experiencing joy or experiencing joy that they receive in his salvation as a result of their faith walk with God and instead of depending on God, they're, you know, depending on these things which is not going to help them. And then he says there should be teachers of good things that means teaching the word of God and also they can teach people how to live holy upright lives even as they live holy upright lives before the younger generation or the younger people. And so he says that godly women should be spirit controlled in every part of their life. They should not, they should resist excess in any area of their life, whether it's being enslaved to substances or any kind of amusement or fashion or any attitude that does not please their master in heaven. Okay, then verses four to eight he talks about instructions for younger women and men in the church. Okay, so how does he say younger women should live? Oh, what is Paul telling Timothy? Titus, he's saying Titus, instruct younger women how they should live. So what are the ways younger women should live? What does Paul spell out here or mention here? Verses four and five. It's given in your Bibles. You can just even read it out. They have to love their own husbands. Okay. Thank you, Prince. What else? You can just unmute your mic and just read it's there in the Bible. To love their husbands and children and also to be self-controlled and pure. Thank you. They need to love their husbands, love their children, be self-controlled, be pure. So he's, thank you for that. So here he's saying that young women, you know, he's telling Titus that, you know, Titus, you don't minister or teach young women directly, but instead, you know, Titus was to equip all the women and all the women to teach the young women. Okay. And he uses this word admonish. Now, the same word admonish when you look at the other versions of the Bible. In the KJV, it says teach. In NIV, it says train. And in the NAS Bible, the new American Standard Version, it says encourage. So in the context, this word implies that it was to be a process. Okay. Admonishing means a process where it is a process of teaching, explaining, encouraging, training and holding young wives to a standard that was unfamiliar to them. Why was it unfamiliar to them? Because they're coming from pagan backgrounds. They're unfamiliar with the Christian way of life. But even if it was unfamiliar to them, they need to be taught, explained, encouraged, trained, you know, because it is very important for them to have successful marriages and to have successful families. Okay. So the Greek word admonish means to train someone in self-control, to restore to their senses and to exhort earnestly. Okay. Now, why are we using, you know, the meanings of the Greek words? Because it just gives us a more richer, understanding, a more richer meaning of what Paul is saying, because we know that the Old Testament, New Testament was written in Greek. And English as such is a very limited with this vocabulary where it comes. So when we translate it, you know, we just use it with the limited vocabulary that is in English. But if you really look at it in a deeper sense in the Greek, it has, it kind of sometimes even changes the whole entire meaning and gives us a whole new revelation. So here it means, you know, to train someone to be self-controlled, restore to their senses, so exhort earnestly. So Paul is saying that all of, telling the older women to admonish younger women in seven areas. The first one is to love their husbands. The second one is to love their children. Third is to be discreet. Fourth is chased. Fifth is be homemaker. Sixth is be good. And seventh is to be obedient to their own husbands. Okay. So love their husbands. Now, why is he saying love their husbands is because in Paul's days, you know, men and women were saved out of a culture where romantic love did not exist, usually did not exist in marriages. Wives are only seen as individuals who are supposed to take care of the family, take care of the home, bear children, take care of the children. Sorry. And husbands looked for emotional love outside of marriage. But once they accepted Christ Jesus as their personal savior, you know, salvation kind of put a stop to immorality in most believing men's life back in Paul's time. But salvation did not make them or their wives intense, instantly close or intimate with one another. Or they did not share their lives together as friends and lovers. So when younger women saw that older women love, respected, admired, and their best friends with their husbands, you know, it would draw their attention. It would draw them to see that they could also have close intimate friendships and relationship with their husbands. And it's possible and it's very profitable for everyday life. And also he says that you need to, young women need to love their children. You know, God has given young women or young married women a very important strategic position of influence in their families. They are influences, the big influence to their husband and their children. And they must, you know, they can only be good influence when they are able to do things out of love, whether they serve in love, whether they teach in love, correct in love, do things in love that will dominate, love will dominate their influence and love must, they must let love dominate their influence. They need to be discrete, which means the Greek word here means self-controlled. They need to be self-controlled in every area of their life, basically in their own passions. They have to be chased. And the Greek word here means be innocent, pure, clean, and perfect. And it's in the context of sexual purity that they need to be pure, clean, and perfect. So this is also talking to all of us young women here in the class, homemakers, you know, young women have to take care of their own homes, their own family affairs, and not busy themselves in just gossiping and talking about others in other people's matters, wasting their time in idle talk and gossiping, okay. They need to be good here in this context. It means, you know, be kind, gracious, compassionate towards poor people, strangers, those who are in need, they have to go out of their way to meet the needs of other people. And they also need to be obedient to their own husbands. So this is another way of expressing the wife's duty of submission in relation to marriage. And then Paul says that, you know, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. He says that they need to be obedient to their husband so that the word of God may not be blasphemed, which means that, you know, if a believing wife, now if husband and wife, they were unbelievers, but the wife receives salvation, she's become a believer and still has an unbelieving husband, you know, by her ill conduct, the unbelieving husband will talk bad about God or Jesus or would blaspheme even the word of God because of the ill conduct of their believing wives. But if their believing wives live lives that are holy, pure, righteous, and right, that will turn the attention of their husbands not only towards their wives, but also towards God, towards Jesus. And, you know, they would also come to accepting him because they've seen the change in their believing wives. So he says, live in such a way that your lives will not provoke others to speak ill of the gospel. So, you know, whether we are young men, young women, older men, older women, all of us need to live such lives pleasing and honorable in God's sight and also pleasing and honorable in, you know, when we live pleasing and honorable in God's sight, automatically our lives will be pleasing and honorable in the sight of people. And that will talk about the God we serve and the God we worship. Okay. Verse 6, he says, likewise exhaust the young men to be sober-minded. So likewise means, you know, it's Paul is linking verse 6 to all the earlier verses where he's talked about, you know, older men, older women and younger men. And he's saying that what young men need to learn isn't much different from what, you know, younger women or older women or older men need to learn. So based on their age, you know, they differ slightly, but the essential message is that all of us need to live a godly life. And so he says that young men should be sober minded. We see that Paul repeatedly uses this word in his, in this letter sober-minded. He also talks, mentions this word sober-minded in verse 2 Timothy, he uses again here in reference to young men. And it basically means to be self-controlled, to have control over one's passions, to use sound judgment. And it's kind of a main quality that young men need if they need to live godly lives or if they have to be godly. And verse 7, he says in all things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in doctrine, showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility. Okay. Now Paul turns from the younger men directly to Titus here in verse 7. And he's talking to Titus, he's writing to Titus, and he's saying Titus, who's basically in his 30s, Paul lists four areas where Titus has to be an example. And one of the four areas, he says in all things, show yourself in pattern of, to be in a pattern of good works in doctrine, showing integrity. And he says, you know, in reverence and incorruptibility. Okay. So he says in all things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works, the new living translation says, and you yourself must be an example to them by doing good works of every kind. So Paul is telling Timothy that he should not just teach, but he should also show by example how they ought to live. Okay. If his teaching would not be taken seriously if he is not living what he is teaching. And the same way, even if we are preaching and teaching or conducting a Bible study and we're not living or walking according to what we are saying or teaching or we're not living according to the word of God that we are professing, or the God that we are serving, then nobody will take us seriously. And then he says in doctrine showing integrity. Now to understand this phrase, you know, let's look at three versions, the CEV version, CEV says be sincere and serious when you teach. The ESB says when you teach, be honest and serious. And in your teaching show integrity and dignity. So here, you know, why I've added these different versions is because here the doctrine here is not in the context of, you know, teaching the doctrine, okay, like doctrine of God or doctrine of Holy Spirit. It's not about teaching the contents of the doctrine, okay, but it has to do with the qualities of the teacher. Okay, so doctrine here is not about teaching doctrines that are in the word of God or the content of the doctrines to be taught, but here it's talking about the qualities of a teacher. So the words integrity and reverence are the attributes in reference to the qualities of a teacher. So if you're a teacher and a preacher, you know, those of us who teach and preach should have integrity and reverence. So Titus is to teach God's word or the pure truth of God's word in all sincerity, faithfulness, and simplicity in an honest, dignified, serious manner. So as to respect, as to command respect of people for the word of God and also for God himself. Then verse eight, he says, sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed having nothing evil to say to you. So Paul is telling Titus, teach in such a way. Teaching should be so sound, so thoughtful, you know, should be in serious language, had solid arguments, teach the truth of the doctrine, you know, and it shouldn't, so that, you know, nobody will find fault with what you're teaching. And even if anyone is against you, they will be ashamed because they will have nothing bad they can say about you. And then he goes on to give about instructions for bond servants in the church versus nine to 10. He says, exot bond servants. So here, who are bond servants? Who are bond servants? Okay, I'm talking about who are bond servants in Paul's time. The slaves, they are, they are going to work in particular, in particular family, their generation, their children go like they're the slavery, they're the servants of that house. Thank you. So they are slaves. A slave is quite different from a servant. A servant has their own rights. They choose when they want to work, they don't want to work, they want to leave, you know, but slaves are kind of, you know, at the command and the call of their master at any time. And the master has rights over them. So we see that in the age, why is Paul writing about bond servants in the context of the church? Now he's talked about older men, older women, younger men, younger women, he's written even to Titus, okay, we agree that all of them, all of them belong to the church. But why is he writing about bond servants? Now, any idea why he's writing about bond servants here? Why is he giving instructions for bond servants in the church? Maybe some people are against their masters, but in godly manner, they have to obedient and pleasing to their master like that. I, I guess. Okay, thank you. But I'm asking you. Thank you, Thomas. Why is he writing about bond servants? Why is he talking about slaves here? Are there slaves in the church? Have the slave has a church purchase some slaves to work in the church? Any thoughts? Thank you, Dave. Yes, there were believers in the church who were slaves. You're right. So there were some slaves who have accepted Jesus Christ and they're part of the, of the church. So it was something that was very shocking in the ancient world in Paul's time, in Titus's time, Timothy's time, because, you know, the church or the Christians had a large culture by mixing slaves and masters in the social setting of the church service. In the church service, you had those who were Jewish converts, those who were Gentile converts, you had those who were rich people, poor people, you had even slaves who came to the same church who masters were also worshiping in the same church. So Paul gives five ways that slaves were to relate to their masters. Does he write about slaves and how they would have to relate to their masters in to the church at Ephesus when he writes to Timothy? Yes, no. I'll repeat my question that Paul talked about how slaves have to behave, instructions to slaves, even when he writes the church at Ephesus, when he writes first Timothy, second Timothy. Okay. Thank you, Thomas. Yes. Thank you, Kiran. So here we see that, you know, he says you need to be slaves, have to be obedient to their masters. So when we're talking about slaves here, we might think it has nothing to do with us, but we can also look at it like we saw in when we're studying Paul's letter to Timothy, that, you know, we as we can also look at it as we, all of us who are employees, employed under others, what are some of the character qualities we need to have. So we need to be obedient to our own masters. Paul recognized bond servants had obligations, but only to their masters. Okay. So means they need to be completely obedient to their masters. So when the word obedient here kind of gives us a picture of, you know, a company of soldiers, a group of soldiers standing in a straight line, standing at attention and saluting their commanding officers. So when they're standing at attention, commanding their commanding officers standing in front of them, that means they're saying we're ready to take any orders, we're ready to do anything, even if it's that in life experience, we're ready to do and give up our life just to follow the command or be obedient to what our commanding officer is saying. So he says, you know, likewise, you know, slave needs to be obedient to their master ready to take any, any orders from that master. So also, you know, as employees, we need, we have a commanding officer that's Jesus, but also we are under different authorities here and we need to be obedient. He says that slaves have to be well pleasing in all things. That means serve with a cheerful attitude and be cheerful workers in all ways. We too, as employees, we need to be serving cheerfully in every way that we can. And it says in all things, okay, we need to be obedient. We need to serve cheerfully. So when our masters are asking us to do something that is totally against God's word, what God requires of us is righteous standard. Do we still obey our masters or our employers? What do you think? Paul is saying, in all things, be obedient. So if our master is telling us to do something that is against God's laws, against God's will, against what God requires of us, should we obey him? Thank you, Prince. He says no. Yes, so we need to submit to our earthly masters, those who are above us that God is placed, we are placed under. But if they ask us to do anything that is not pleasing in God's sight, we do not do that. We can as those times, you know, obey our heavenly master than our earthly masters. Okay. So he says, you know, there's some slaves also who, you know, have been very slack in their behavior, in their way of doing things, because they think, for now, for instance, they become believers, their masters are also believers, they're all brothers in Christ, they're all on the same level. Okay. And so they think, you know, they don't have to serve well, or they can be very slack in their work. But we see Paul's talking about this in 1 Timothy chapter six, was to where Paul says, you know, if slaves whose masters are also believers, then they have to serve them all the more, because those they are serving or those who are being benefited by their service is a believer, a beloved in Christ Jesus. So they have to serve all the more. And we also think the same way, you know, if you're in ministry, or we are in the church ministry, so the, we think that we don't have to go to office today, or we don't have to go to the church office, or we can just tell the senior pastor or the person in charge, you know, I'm fasting and praying for some believers in our church who are sick or this and that. And because of that, I can't go and do a Bible study, or I can't go, I can't come to office, to church office today. I can't do my, you know, the response things that been given to me, or we can also make excuses, you know, if we have a deadline that the pastor has given us to finish this work and all that, we say, you know, we went here, hospital visits, we went to pray, we went to do this and that. But we can't give excuses and all of those things, we need to be sincere, diligent, and faithful. And we talked about this when we studied in 1st Timothy chapter six. And also the slave should not answer back, that means not talk back, or also back mouth or, you know, talk back behind, talk bad about the master behind their back, not pilfering. Now, pilfering means, you know, stealing or cheating or misappropriating the funds or the money or the goods of their masters, you know, slaves usually were given some amount of money to go and make some purchases and supplies for the household. And sometimes they're used to think, you know, if I take a few couple of notes or money, it's not going to harm them, they're not going to come to poverty because they're very, very rich. I'm living in poverty, they're living in luxury. So I'm taking a little bit from my master, it's not going to do any harm for them, but it's going to be useful for me. And so in the ancient time, in Paul's time, you know, the words for servant and thief were used interchangeably. So a slave or a, you know, they would even call them a thief because a slave thief was used interchangeably for bonded laborers or bonded slaves because they used to rob their masters or they used to steal their masters in small ways. And sometimes we also think, you know, when we take some things from the church or when we benefit from some believers, you know, we also think that, you know, the church is very rich, they're getting a lot of money. If I take it, it's going to help me or my family or it's a big company or a big government office and, you know, there's a lot of money, the government is eating up our money, cheating us or this large company, they're paying me less and squeezing me for all the work I've done. So if I take this, if I do this, if they're, you know, nobody will know, you know, and that is wrong. It's a wrong kind of thinking, a wrong kind of rational that we have. We need to know that, you know, God is watching and we need to be honest and sincere in how we, you know, use the funds, the money, the resources that you know, of our company or the government firm or the church that we are working for. Okay. Then he says, showing all good fidelity, that means, you know, as far as possible or in all possible way, you know, doing good work, okay, acting faithfully in every possible occasion, whether, you know, in whatever, whether it's money transaction, whether it's serving the master, working hard in every area to be faithful. So the slave must be faithful in all affairs and not cheat their masters. Okay. So as an employee, we too must be dependable and faithful workers doing our work on time, not cheating our boss or our company, not taking money by showing expenses for which we did not spend. Now, why is Paul mentioning all of these things so that believer slaves will stand out from the rest of the other slaves? There will be an example to the rest of the other slaves. The other slaves will see Christ work in them and will also accept Christ. And, you know, so when they do not bad mouth, they do not know not in losing their temper on the bad mood, they don't speak rudely or disrespectfully towards their master or do not cheat their masters, you know, he's saying that you will be a good example. And Paul goes on to write, he says, if a believer slave doesn't do all of these things, then what will be the result? If he is good, faithful, sincere, what will be the results? He's saying that, that they may adorn the doctrine of God as savior in all things. Now, this word adorn is basically have using this Paul is thinking of this whole picture of, you know, setting jewels or arranging precious jewels in an orderly and a beautiful way so that the whole beauty of that necklace or the neck piece or whatever is being crafted out will come very beautifully. And each precious jewel, the beauty of each precious jewel will be seen in the settings, even as they are set in an orderly fashion. So in the same way, Paul is saying that, you know, Christian slaves should order their lives with godly behavior so that the world is attracted to our savior. So when we set all of the jewels in a very beautiful fashion, it will bring out the whole beauty of those jewels, of that whole piece, that neck piece, and the people will be attracted to it. It's the same way our lives will be an attraction of others to the Lord that we worship, the God that we serve. And he says the life ministry and the saving work of God as savior will be exhibited with all beauty to people around us who are unbelievers and this will be shown to them by our godly conduct. Okay, so often we think that, you know, we can bring out the beauty of the gospel by just preaching using the right words, using the right theological phrases, terms, preaching in a very eloquent way, in a very beautiful way, you know, using all the preaching styles that are available. Yes, preaching is important, styles are important, using words that are fine is important, but what is more important is our lives. Okay, so this is a context that Paul is talking about to bonded slaves. And he says it's God's design that even though these people are bought with money and they're treated like animals, they have a very low position in society. But according to God's design that these people even in their lowly position have the great potential to, you know, beautify God's truth or to show forth who God is in the way they live. Okay. So it's very important that, you know, whatever we do, we might be very small in what we are doing. But, you know, it's we need to look at our behavior and our attitudes. Because in our behavior and our attitudes, are we making known Christ, are we professing Christ, who we say we follow, who we are preaching, teaching, or even studying about. If our lives are not an example of godliness, then Paul is telling here, don't let anyone know that you are a Christian. Because what will happen if we do, you know, we will bring dishonor to the name of Christ. And it'll make it'll become like an even more better excuse for unbelievers to continue in their sins. And they will make our lives and as an excuse for their own sinful lifestyles. Okay. And then he talks about the eschatological hope for all men in verses 11 to 14. So can one of you please read 11 to 14, please, or just read verse 11. For the grace of God, the salvation has appeared to all men. Thank you. So what Paul means here is that God's grace has appeared in the person of Christ Jesus who offers salvation to all who hear of this gospel or hear of this good news. So when he goes on to say that God's grace brings salvation to all men, he means to all kind of people, including those who are lowly and the home, the world, the spices, those are even the slaves. And he says no one is beyond the reach of God's grace. Okay. But it does not mean that even though God's grace is available to everyone, it brings salvation to everyone. It does not mean that all people, you know, will be automatically saved. It's only those who accept the grace of God, accept what he has done on the cross is those who receive the grace and will receive the salvation of God. But the good news of God's grace is that no sinner is beyond the reach of God's grace. And Paul himself is an example and testifies to this fact. He says in 1 Timothy chapter one that he was a persecutor of the church and he calls himself as a chief sinner, but he says he experienced God's grace through the cross. So even a chief who even if a chief of sinners that Paul is referring to himself, he's saying has found mercy and grace. He says anyone and everyone can when they accept this truth or when they receive Jesus Christ as their personal savior. Okay. And he says the grace of God that brings salvation. So you don't have to go and get salvation. It's freely given to you. You have the opportunity to receive it. All you need to do is to believe in your heart and to confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and you will receive salvation. Verse 12, he says teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age. Okay. So here teaching us the ancient Greek word for teaching has this whole picture of what a parent does for a child. So, you know, it speaks of the entire training process where a child is taught, encouraged, corrected and disciplined. So in this sense, grace is a teacher. Okay. Grace is a teacher and a teacher that teaches us, encourages us, corrects us and disciplines us. Now the passion translation says that his grace teaches us how to live each day. So his same grace, which means the grace of God that brought us salvation, the same grace teaches us how we need to live each day. So it's a process that begins at salvation and it continues till we stand before God, till we are presented before God and it says that we will be presented holy, righteous, without any fault, blame, blemish and spotless before the most high God. Okay. But note here that grace does not mean that we can live as we wish or as we desire, but here grace means that grace teaches us, trains us, disciplines us and instructs us in godly living. Okay. And then Paul mentions three ways that grace trains us. It says grace trains us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires. It says grace trains us to live sensibly, righteously and godly in this present age. And he says that grace trains us to live in godliness by looking ahead and behind. Okay. So let's look at how grace trains us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires, which she mentions here in the first part of verse 12. So when you experience God's unmeditated favor, that is his grace in Jesus Christ, it actually motivates us to want to please God in everything that we do because God's words as a Romans chapter six, we are dead to sin and we are alive to the things of God. So once we are born again, we have no desire or tendency to indulge into our old sinful ways, but we are motivated to live more righteous holy lives to please God in everything that we do. So even as you read God's word, you realize there's so much in your life that is displeasing to God who gave himself up to you, who saved you for your sins. And what you do is you let God's word cleanse you and you begin to live by God's word. And like it says in Luke chapter nine, verse 23, we begin to deny ourselves daily and take up our cross and follow him. That means deny our sinful, lustful pleasures, the carnal nature, and we begin to feed our spirit filled nature. And so it means that we say no to ungodliness and we live a more godly life. So we are more motivated to please God in everything that we do. The second thing is that grace trains us to live sensibly, righteously and godly in this present age. So it's not just enough to say no to ungodliness and worldly desires, but we must also say yes to righteous, godly living so that in the world we will be drawn, so that those who are looking at us, the people of this world will be drawn to our Savior. So it's not just denying our carnal nature or it's not just not feeding our carnal nature, but it's also saying yes to the things of God. So every day we are making every minute, every hour we're making choices whether we say yes to our carnal nature or we're saying yes to our spirit filled nature. So the more we say yes to our spirit filled nature, we are living more righteous godly lives and when we do that, the people in this world will be drawn to our Savior. Sensibly here refers to how we exercise self-control over ourselves. So godly life refers here to our love and reference, reverence towards God. It denotes holiness in our thoughts and in our acts and living a godly life according to the will and the word of God both in our private lives and also our lives before men both in public and private so that God can be glorified. And verse 30 he says, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ which talks about the third area where grace trains us, grace trains us to live in godliness by looking ahead and behind. So what is Paul talking about here? Looking ahead and behind. What are we looking ahead for as believers? What are we looking ahead as believers? All of us are as believers what are we looking ahead for? The return of Christ, thank you Dave and what are we looking behind? The forward look is we're looking for the return of Christ. The backward look is what Christ has accomplished for us on the cross and what is its implications or how we are benefited or how we are blessed even as we are living this life of being new creatures in Christ Jesus or being born again. So Paul is saying here that yes the grace of God brings salvation you know and when Christ came and brought us this salvation his glory was kind of wailed okay because so he lived in the sonship glory but in the second coming when he comes again he will appear in all of his glory and that time he would it will not be a time where it will be a salvation for people but it will be a time of terrifying judgment for those who do not believe in him but for those who believed in him you know will will live with him eternally okay so that is an assurance for those who believe in him will we will see the hope that we have been living for we will receive the crown that we have been looking forward or running our race but for those who have not believed in him you know there will be a terrifying judgment so the second coming for those who believe is a blessed hope for those who believe in him because we will fully experience all of the blessings of salvation that is all of the blessings of eternal life that we have received we are tasting a bit or part of this eternal life even as we are living here and now but we will experience the total fullness of the eternal life and we will receive our spiritual bodies glorified bodies incorruptible imperishable bodies and live in the glory that is the glory of God and we will live in eternity with the with God himself in in in his the beauty of his glory is something that we will experience the full blessings of salvation or eternal life so if our focus policy is set on the hope of Christ return then we will surely live a life that is pure and we will purify our life from every known sin okay but if we live without this hope then you know we'll just say we are born again but we'll continue living in our current nature living like the old ways that we belong to going back to our old ways but if we have this hope that you know we are going to receive the crown of life we are going to see our creator face to face you know we'll have this hope then we will continue to live we'll purify lives from every known sin okay and then he talks about the the backward look is about you know in verse 14 where he says who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for himself his own special people zealous for good work so the look back or the backward look is the demonstration of Christ's love you know with which he redeemed us on demonstration of Christ's love on the cross of the father's love when he gave up his son for us and also when Christ redeemed us from our sins and made us his own possession okay so here we see that it says here who the who here who gave himself up refers to Jesus as our Savior who gave himself up for us okay so Christ came to redeem us uh you know redeem us from being slaves of sin slaves of satan he paid the redemption price by his own blood and we are free from every bondage of sin and now once we are free from every bondage of sin and the power of sin that's broken over us how can we go back into sin again and then second Paul says that Christ gave himself up for us that he might purify for himself uh a people for his own special purposes so we are being bought from the slave market of sin we are cleansed and washed of us since the blood of the lamb uh we no longer belong to satan but we belong to christ we are his personal price possessions okay and then the third thing i'll just end with this he says the grace of god trains us to uh to be zealous for good deeds uh verse 14 the latter half uh zealous means doing good to promote good works um and these good deeds uh talk about deeds that are done out of sincere love for god and sincere love for others in obedience to god's word uh you know we have been bought with the price we have been purchased out of the slave market of sin uh by the blood of uh savior and our god jesus christ and hence we should be zealous for good deeds and we ought to be totally devoted to serving our new master who is jesus christ our lord okay and then paul talks about the summary in verse 15 uh we don't have time for that we'll end this class here and we look at verse 15 in um the pre in the next class okay okay thank you everyone for joining class uh today and um