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Devotional Thoughts
At the very moment that you wake up to your sin—when you quit hitting the snooze button on the "sin alarm"—what does your heart tell you? Does your guilty conscience... ...drive you despair of ever pleasing God? ...or do you fly to Christ, to the cross, and immerse your heart in the grace of God? Let God's grace do its sin-killing work of training you. At that very moment when you feel the weight of your sin most intensely, hear Christ say, "I died for that sin!" Hear the Father say, "I love you, my child." Hear the Spirit say, "Walk in me and let's do business to kill this thing."
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Titus 2:11-12
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Ἐπεφάνη γὰρ ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ
For h the grace of God i has appeared,
σωτήριος πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις
bringing salvation j for all people,
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παιδεύουσα ἡμᾶς,
training us
ἵνα ἀρνησάμενοι τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ τὰς κοσμικὰς ἐπιθυμίας
to renounce ungodliness and k worldly passions,
σωφρόνως καὶ δικαίως καὶ εὐσεβῶς ζήσωμεν ἐν τῷ νῦν αἰῶνι,
and l to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in m the present age,
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I split this adjective since it has a built-in verbal idea, "bringing salvation." Grace has this design, thus Purpose.
BDAG: "to assist in the development of a person’s ability to make appropriate choices, practice discipline." present, active participle = ongoing result.
ἵνα + subjunctive verb form the purpose. The intervening participle communicates means.
BDAG: "to renounce; to refuse to pay attention to"
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Notes
The root of my decision to label 11a–b as Action-Purpose is in Psalm 67:1-3.
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Psalms 67:1-3
Make Your Face Shine upon Us 67 To the choirmaster: with v stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. 1 May God w be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to x shine upon us, Selah 2 that y your way may be known on earth, your z saving power among all nations . 3 a Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
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