If you

If you've ever felt like you're just not good enough to get into heaven, I have some good news for you.

Heaven is actually for bad people.

We'll find out why today, on Truth for Life, as we learn how the ungodly can be justified.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Titus chapter 3.

We start today at verse 4.

The kindness and love of God our Savior appeared and he saved us not because of righteous things we had done.

In other words, says Paul, Jesus came uncalled for and unsought, and in the vastness of His mercy, he saved us.

A righteousness from God to all who believe, who believe. So that the real question of men and women

is, do they believe? Because you see, God saves all who believe. That's why when the New Testament speaks of this response to God's kindness and

his love, it is a believing into Christ, it is a believing on Christ, it is a believing in the

fact that Jesus as our substitute has borne the guilt, has borne the curse, has borne the punishment of our sin.

Paul, in other places, is far more succinct in his theology and increasingly profound,

and nowhere more so than in the 21st verse of 2 Corinthians 5, where he says God made Him, that is Jesus, who had no sin,

to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. And so it is this

matter of salvation which he wants to drive home to Titus so that Titus

in turn will make it a hallmark of his ministry to these people living in this culture.

Make sure your folks, Titus, are marked by loyalty, courtesy, humility, and so on. Remind them that all of us

were once completely messed up. Make sure that they're really clear about the nature of salvation,

that when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us. And his motivation,

if the matter is salvation, then the motive is equally clear. He saved us. How did he save us?

Or why did he save us? Notice, negative, and then positive. Not because of righteous things we had done,

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