For two thousand years, God has been looking in each generation of Christ’s Church for a few good women who will give themselves to His plan for their lives. That plan has been laid out for them in Titus 2.
When these women offer themselves as willing servants to follow God’s plan, His grace energizes them to live a life that magnifies Christ at every level and glorifies the Lord with eternal rewards.
The 12 virtues that God desires to be in the lives of these grace-energized women are what we are studying in Titus 2. This morning, God declares in Titus 2:5 that His plan for your life, if yielded to Him, is purity. He asks, “Will you follow my plan, surrender your life, and let Me make you a grace-energized woman of purity?”
We have been invited by our Holy God, who dwells in unapproachable light (1 Timothy 6:16), to become His very dwelling place (1 Corinthians 6:19-20). What is the only request that the One who lives within us, using our body as His temple, asks of us? Purity, He asks us to keep this place. He lives clean.
The sheer level of sexual temptation assaulting believers at every level in Paul’s day rivals our own times. Men fed upon lust, and found sexual gratification everywhere they could; and women, obliged to give them much to lust after and became willing participants in all types of sinful behavior. That is why the sin that Paul mentions most often in every letter is sexual sin. The early church was immersed in a flagrantly sexual culture. The believers of Paul’s day were being squeezed by the pressure all around them to not resist, but to just float along with the culture of self-expression, self-gratification.
Purity in the moral realm has always marked genuine believers throughout the centuries of the church. Paul was clearly telling Titus that God’s expectations in an immoral and lust-filled Roman world were absolute purity. That is the meaning of hagnos. In the first New Testament letter, James said the very same thing in no uncertain terms, that believers must keep themselves “unspotted by the world” (James 1:27).
God is very serious about purity and holiness, and He uses them interchangeably throughout the New Testament to describe the sanctified lives he demands from His children. Purity is the description (adjective hagnos) of the believers who are allowing God to sanctify (verb hagiazo) them.
From GEW-15a – Grace-Energized Women of Purity (070812AM)
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