How to Wait for the Blessed Hope

Blessed Hope

By Pastor Roger Eng, June 07, 2020

**REVIEW: What is the Blessed Hope? **

The Blessed Hope is the appearing (epiphany) of Jesus personally, visibly, and gloriously: • To judge and defeat evil. • To resurrect and reward the righteous. • To rule and reign as God’s King in God’s world.
• To win in history (His-story). • To complete our salvation (glorification).

Christians live between the epiphany (appearing) of grace and the epiphany of glory.

The Epiphany of Grace: “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. (Titus 2:11) The Epiphany of Glory: “…for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.” (2:13b)

God gives clear instructions to believers on how to live,“… while we wait.” (2:13a)

  1. Waiting for the blessed hope requires grace .

“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us… (Titus 2:11-12) • “It,” - grace personified. • “Teaches,” - grace training in the way we should go. • “Us,” - people of grace enrolled in the school of grace to offer grace to all people.

  1. Grace trains us to say, “ .” • To ungodliness (v. 12) • To worldly passions, lust (v. 12) • To wickedness, lawlessness (v. 14)

  2. Grace trains us to say, “ .” • To being self-controlled, sober, pure and clean (v. 12,14) • To being upright, fair, and just (v. 12) • To being godly (v. 12)

  3. Grace trains us to do now. • Redemptively, “… who gave himself to redeem us.” (v. 14) • Eagerly, “… enthusiastically doing what is good.” (v. 14) • Patiently, “… while we wait.” (v. 13)

  4. Grace trains us to in the Gospel. Titus 2:14, “… who gave himself for us to redeem us.” Sharing the Gospel brings back the King!

Matthew 24:14, “… this of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

“Grace not only saves, but it undertakes our training… in the School of Grace. Grace bases all her teaching upon the great facts in which her first grand revelation of herself was made, and finds all her teaching power in those mighty memories.” - Canon Hay Aitken, The School of Grace