Charles Spurgeon Commentary Titus 2:11-12

"For the grace of God hath appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;" — Titus 2:11-12 (ASV)

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Christians are not to run out of the world, as monks and hermits sought to do, but to live in this present world. Yet, while in the world, we are to be godly, that is, full of God. That kind of life which is without God is not for Christians. Those worldly desires, the pride and ambition, which are common to worldly men, are not to have power over us; we are to deny them, and to live soberly.

This word relates not only to eating and drinking, but to the general sobriety of a man's mind: Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.