Crowns: What We Earn From our Earthly Choices--Better write that down in your mind. Choices matter, God is going to test every moment we lived with fire. The crowns that are cast at Christ's feet come from a previous event, the assessment of our lives. With the scene of Heaven, God’s Throne, and the awesome opportunity to give back an offering of gratitude, look at the actual method God uses to sort out our lives captured in I Corinthians 3:10-15. Every day we each choose what will someday go through that very fire we just read about. God says here to us this morning: Be careful what you do with your life lest all or most of it ends up being just worthless black soot and ashes. That what must have been on the mind of Paul as God moved him to write to a group of new believers in Crete.
The world of the New Testament was dominated by the Roman Empire. That era of history was a time when most people often lived short, and usually hard lives of physical labor, emotional stress, and poor health.
As we open to Titus 2:3, look at the third element of our study. Women of grace were already called by God to be:
• Reverent in their behavior by living as representatives of God; and
• Not slanderers by never surrendering their words to the Devil’s use by speaking gracefully in a graceless world.
Then comes the third of five, which is the middle of the list, where Paul relays God’s strong desire that each woman of grace be not given to much wine. This quality of the woman of grace’s life means she begins and maintains a life-long goal of disciplining here appetites. That is one of the crowns that God offers to us in Heaven.
As you read those words, remember that every believer who read, heard, and was taught these truths, lived in that difficult Roman world. In that period, as in all ages of mankind, people were deceived into believing the:
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