Adrian Rogers: How to Live and Walk in God’s Grace Everyday
Living Wrapped in Grace: The Freedom Only God Can Give
Every voice in our culture offers its own escape plan. Materialism insists you can buy your way out. Politics promises to legislate your way out. Philosophy tells you to think your way out. Industry pressures you to work your way out, while deception tries to bluff its way out. But there is only one true way out—the grace of God. His grace runs completely opposite to human nature. We’re trained to earn everything, yet grace can only be received.
Paul writes to Titus about this revolutionary grace. Before Christ found us, Paul says we were foolish, disobedient, deceived, ruled by our desires, carrying malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. That was our past guilt—intellectual confusion, moral slavery, and social brokenness. The problem wasn’t just around us; it was inside us.
Intellectually, Paul says we were “foolish”—not lacking intelligence, but lacking the wisdom to recognize truth. Even the cross appears foolish to those who are perishing. Like the people in Moses’ day who had only to look at the bronze serpent to be healed, many today reject the simplicity of God’s answer, insisting their suffering is too complicated for such a simple remedy. But Scripture says, “Look and live.” The cross still heals.
Morally, we were slaves to all kinds of passions. Whether hidden in dark alleyways or wrapped in respectable lifestyles, sin still enslaved. And socially, we lived with hearts twisted by malice and envy, unable to love because we were internally broken. Our biggest problem was not the amount of sin, but the fact of sin. We needed rescue.
And then comes the most beautiful word in Titus 3: “But…”
“But after the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared…”
This is our present grace—rooted not in our goodness, but in the sovereign love of the Father. God loved us when we were spiritually limping, wounded, broken, blind, and unable to hear. Like a dog with every defect still considered precious because someone loved it, you and I are treasured—not because of our worth, but because of His love.
Salvation isn’t earned. If it were, we would boast forever about how we saved ourselves. The Bible says our best righteousness is like filthy rags. Grace does not spell “do” or “don’t.” Grace spells “DONE.”
God saved us through the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit—the washing and regeneration that only He can accomplish. No ritual, no water, no human effort can cleanse the heart. Only the fountain opened by Christ—His sacrifice, His blood—makes us new.
We were guilty.
Grace appeared.
And now we walk in the hope of eternal life.
This is what it means to live wrapped in God’s grace every single day:
to remember who we were,
to rejoice in who we are,
and to walk toward the glory of who we will be—by grace alone.
