Titus 1:2 “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;”
This passage is a pinnacle summation of the Doctrine of Grace that is to be clearly and powerfully acknowledged by preaching “the truth”, teaching “the truth”, and speaking “the truth” (Titus 1:1). Furthermore, we are to “sanctify the Lord God in” our “hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you”, and we are to “answer” “with meekness and fear” (I Peter 3:15). Because He is the perfectly righteous God, He simply “cannot lie”, so what He has decreed and promised, He will without fail bring to pass. Here, it is declared that “God” has “promised” “eternal life” to His “elect” (Titus 1:1); therefore, when our body dies, our “spirit” immediately returns to the Father who gave it to us (Ecclesiastes 12:7); and then one day (the last day) He will raise our bodies (“spirit and soul and body”, I Thessalonians 5:23) to “eternal life”, and He will take us to be with him forever “Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” (I Corinthians 15; I Thessalonians 4:13-18).