Adrian Rogers was a motivator, an encourager, and a leader of the faith.

He was also passionate about presenting scriptural application to everyday life circumstances,

and you'll hear that in today's message.

Now, let's join Adrian Rogers.

We're in a series of messages from the Book of Titus dealing with God's amazing grace.

In the 1600s, there was a preacher named John Newton who preached.

He also wrote a song, and I think every one of us have sung that song.

Amazing grace. How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost,

but now I'm found, was blind. But now I see. John Newton, as a little boy, had a godly mother

and a wicked father. His mother died when he was six.

His father was a sailor who sailed in the Mediterranean,

and when John Newton was 11 years of age,

he went to sea to be a sailor.

His father was a wicked man, and Newton took after his father's

way. He lived in the depth of sin and debauchery. After a while, John Newton got into the slave

trade. He became a slaver, buying and selling human beings. And he went down, down, down, down into sin, he got so low

that he became a slave of slaves. For two years, he ate table scraps on the floor that his mistress who owned him would toss to him on the floor.

That's how low this man got, living in vileness, living in wickedness.

John Newton.

There were some sailors aboard a ship that had a concern for the young man and gave him a book to read by Thomas Ecampus called the imitation of Christ. He began to read it, partly out of interest and partly as a jest, but it began to work on his heart. While they were at sea,

there came a violent storm. He thought the ship was going to sink. He feared for his life,

and then a great wave came and washed him overboard. He thought the end had come.

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