In this episode of New Mercies, we open Titus 2 (especially vv. 11–14) and watch what grace actually does when it shows up. Grace doesn’t just save you—it trains you. It doesn’t only rescue you from the penalty of sin; it starts rewiring your appetites, your impulses, your habits, your yes’s and no’s.

Paul’s message to Titus is blunt and beautiful: when the grace of God appears, it brings salvation… and then it starts a war inside of you. Not a war against “those people out there,” but a daily renouncing of the ungodliness in here—the old man, the lingering flesh, the worldly passions that keep trying to reclaim territory.

And in place of what you renounce, grace produces something visible:

• Self-control inwardly