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NASB | Titus 3:3 For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Titus 3:3 For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. |
Subject: The Riches of Free Grace |
Bible Note: "For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another." (Titus 3:3 NASB) "The sins of the ungodly are looking-glasses in which we may see our own hearts. Do we see a heinous, impious wretch? Behold a picture of our own hearts! Such would we be -- if God left us! What is in wicked men's practice is in our nature. Sin in the wicked is like fire which flames and blazes forth. Sin in the godly is like fire hid in the embers. Christian, though you do not break forth into a flame of scandalous sin, yet you have no cause to boast, for there is as much sin in the embers of your nature! You have the root of all sin in you, and would bear as hellish fruit as any ungodly wretch, if God did not either curb you by His power, or change you by His grace! "Why might not God have left you to the same excess of wickedness? Think with yourself, O Christian: why should God be more merciful to you, than to another? Why should He snatch you, as brand plucked out of the fire, and not him? This should make you to adore free grace! What the Pharisee said boastingly, we may say thankfully: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men: robbers, evildoers, adulterers, etc.' "If we are not as wicked as others we should adore the riches of free-grace! Every time we see men hastening on in sin, we are to thank God that we are not such! If we see a crazy person, we thank God that it is not so with us. When we see another infected with the plague, how thankful are we, that God has preserved us from it! Much more when we see others under the power of Satan, how thankful we should be, that this is no longer our condition!" --Thomas Watson (1620-1686) |
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