Living Water Anglican Church - Albany

Paul declares that the central Christian truth of Jesus Christ as Lord is a light or treasure within us, even though we are jars of clay. Priceless treasure in an ordinary vessel or container is not the way the world works, but it is the way of God's Kingdom.

In the midst of the leadership transition from Moses to Joshua, and as the Israelites time and again struggle to follow wholeheartedly after God under the leadership of Joshua, the Judges, King David and the other kings, God remains ever faithful.

The Tri-unity of God; Father, Son & Holy Spirit, eternally existing in relationships of love and glory, reveals the meaning and purpose of our lives in whose image we are created.

Acts 2: 1-21. The Holy Spirit descends on the new believers at the feast of Pentecost, to remain with them and dwell in them in order to empower them and transform them from the inside out. He still does the same today.

Titus 1-3. Paul's emphasis throughout the letter to Titus on "doing good" motivates us to focus on others and not ourselves, - that the gospel may be advanced.

Titus 3: 1-15 Around his main theme of "doing good," to promote the gospel, Paul states that we are heirs of God, adopted children into his family, with our inheritance of eternal life before us.

The grace of God in Jesus not only justifies and redeems us, it transforms us and purifies us, it sanctifies us, too. And all of this so that we can be God's own people, eager to do good.

How we live reflects what we believe. The 'clothing' of our lives are to adorn the gospel we believe so that the watching world will find our Saviour attractive!

Paul gives a sobering assessment of the people of Crete where Titus is leading the young church. He warns Titus that there are false teachers, deceivers, who are ruining the faith by adding human commands onto the gospel. That is why the elders and leaders, and indeed all Christians, need to be guardians of the faith.