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Titus chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Titus chapter 2. Let us pray.
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  Our God is higher than any other.
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  You are the Most High God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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  the God of Israel, the God of Jacob.
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  We love you, Father. We love everything about you.
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  We thank you for your Holy scriptures.
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  We thank you that we can know you and be known by you.
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  We thank you, God, that we have the ability to read and the
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  ability to reason and the ability to think, the ability to
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  dive deep into your Holy Scriptures.
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  God, I pray that Scripture will interpret Scripture line upon
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  line and precept upon precept. God, let us be edified in the
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  highest. Let us come to the saving
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  knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  I pray, Father, for a deeper understanding, for greater
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  intellect, greater wisdom. Father, for your word, I pray
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  that there will be many who get saved today.
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  God, give us sound doctrine and sound theology.
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  Help us, Lord, to know your thoughts.
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  Help us to discern your ways. God, I pray that we don't grow
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  lazy. I pray that we don't become
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  complacent. Father, I pray that we'll finish
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  this race well. Lord, I pray that we'll adorn
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  ourselves and make ourselves ready for your return.
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  God, we look up. Lord, we wait and we watch.
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  God help us to be worthy to find the escape.
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  God of all the things that are coming upon this world.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll help us to teach everyone into tell
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  everyone about you. God, help us not to be cowards,
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  help us not to shrink back in fear.
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  But God, give us a boldness and a zeal that can only come from
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  you. Give us the words inside of our
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  mouths. Lord, let it be like fire.
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  Shut up in our bones. Woe to us if we do not preach
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  the gospel. Father, I pray that you'll
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  increase as we decrease. King Jesus, Holy Spirit, fill us
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  today Maranatha come, Lord, come in Jesus Christ holy and
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  precious name I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  But speak you the things which become sound doctrine.
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  So here is an amazing chapter in God's Word, and this is going to
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  outline what it looks like to have a healthy, vibrant
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  congregation that is working in the beautiful order that God has
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  ordained. He tells us to have sound
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  doctrine. We can have sound doctrine if we
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  know the entirety of God's Word from Genesis to Revelation.
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  Not what a seminary has taught us, not what is popular within
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  the culture. Sound doctrine comes from
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  knowing who gives you the Word. Sound doctrine comes from
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  knowing Him and being known by Him.
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  Sound doctrine comes from studying every single syllable
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  that is contained within the 66 book Canon of God's Word.
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  There are so many people in chaos and confusion because they
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  call into question one single comma or period in God's Word.
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  If you do not believe the entirety of God's Word, if there
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  is one section of God's Word that you cannot get behind or
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  you call into question, you might as well take the entirety
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  of God's Word and throw it out the window.
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  Sound doctrine comes from laying the Bible open and saying, I'm
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  going to believe every single word that is contained within
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  this Bible, nothing added and nothing subtracted, the
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  infallible and errant word of God.
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  That is where you will find sound doctrine.
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  God will be well pleased to continue to pour out into you
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  new wisdom and revelation if you will take Him at His Word.
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  And if you want to note God's unrevealed will for your life,
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  you must obey the revealed will for your life which is in the
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  Bible. And it is ignorance of the Word
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  of God that is plaguing the church today.
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  We only want to cherry pick verses and then create a 45
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  minute dialogue off of a couple verses.
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  And that is how you water down God's Word.
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  We need the concise. We need the pure word, friends.
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  We need the entirety of God's Word, not just little portions
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  of it. And we need to feed ourselves.
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  We do not need to be those who are looking to be spoon fed
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  because we're too lazy to bring our hand up to our mouth from
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  the bowl. We need to be people who never
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  put down the Word of God from the morning to the afternoon
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  into the evening. And even as we sleep, we're
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  meditating upon God's Word. Friends, that is what's going to
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  edify the church. That is what's going to help us
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  to safeguard against the counterfeit that's coming at an
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  alarming rate. Friends, this apostate church,
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  this great falling away, the false teachers, the tickling
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  ears, the false prophets. Friends, that is coming in mass
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  waves. We need to be rooted and
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  grounded in God's Word if we want sound doctrine, if we want
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  to know his heart and his mind. 2 That the aged men be sober and
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  grave and temperate, sound in faith and charity in patience.
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  This is a call for the older men not to become embittered, not to
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  let a root of bitterness grow as they age, not to be those who
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  just for the sake of being an elder, breaking other people
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  down, that is not from God. The older men are called to be
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  sober minded, to be those who are temperate, who are not given
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  over to excessiveness, those that enjoy life, but they know
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  how to be serious. 3 The aged women likewise that they be in
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  behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to
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  much wine, teachers of good things.
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  That is what the older women are called to be.
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  Not busy bodies, not telling little white lies, not
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  gossiping, not using prayer as a way to gossip.
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  But they are called to be those that are teaching the younger
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  women, not giving themselves over to much wine, not getting
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  addicted to a substance, friends, not allowing the enemy
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  to deceive them. For that, they may teach the
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  young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their
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  children. That is the role of the older
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  women within the church. The older women are to be
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  teaching the younger women. It is not for the pastor to
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  intertwine himself within the younger women of the church.
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  That is not wisdom, friends. It is not that the younger women
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  are not to be taught by the pastor, but it is to be in a
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  community setting and not on these one on ones friends.
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  That is where so much infidelity, so much moral
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  failure has come because the pastor has used his opportunity
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  as the leader to weasel his way in to these relationships that
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  are extra marital. And you can see the deceiver
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  having a heyday and this accuser of the brethren breaking down
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  the family unit because of these moral failures, which is sin.
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  It's sinfulness and it does not please God.
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  So we need to have wisdom and we need to have guard rails up for
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  our marriage. We don't need to be alone with
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  the opposite sex friends. We need to make sure that we are
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  safeguarding our marriage and that we are not those who are
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  trying to use the positions we have to get our own way.
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  God will see it and God will deal with it and it will all
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  come to light before long. And that is 100% guarantee.
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  And He sees your motives, He hears your thoughts.
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  He knows the things that are going on behind closed doors.
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  Five to be discreet, chaste keepers at home, good obedient
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  to their own husbands that the word of God be not blasphemy.
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  What a an occasion for Satan to rail against the church when he
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  sees that the church is no different than the rest of the
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  world. They're steeped in idolatry,
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  they're steeped in lust, they're steeped in infidelity.
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  And it is a great occasion for the enemy to turn many people
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  away from church because of all of the secret sins that come to
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  light as time goes on. And they say, look, I told you
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  so. Look at what my youth pastor did
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  to me. Did you hear about the pastor
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  and his wife and so on and so forth.
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  And it is disturbing. And God is not going to be
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  mocked. And you might as well shut the
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  doors if you have kicked the Holy Spirit out, if you've
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  kicked Jesus out and it's become a Country Club, and if it's just
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  become a social hangout, then shut the doors.
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  Friends, six young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
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  So it's very important that there is a disciple cycle that
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  is happening within the confines of the church and no man is an
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  island and we all have to have someone who we can look up to
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  who can disciple us. We have never arrived and we
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  won't arrive until we make it into glory.
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  Friends, look for those that you can disciple and always be open
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  minded to being discipled and not being offended by a hard
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  word from an elder, from somebody who has been walking
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  with the Lord faithfully for longer than you.
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  Friends and whenever they correct you, don't get your
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  feelings hurt. Make sure you go to the Lord God
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  Almighty and have a conversation with God and say Lord, if there
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  is truth in this matter then help me to see it.
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  Help me to grow Lord, but if there is no truth in what they
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  are saying God, then let it fall off of me.
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  And that is the best way that we can not be offended by the harsh
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  words of a brother. Seven in all things, showing
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  yourself a pattern of good works in doctrine, showing
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  uncorruptness, gravity and sincerity, A sound speech that
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  cannot be condemned. That he that is of the contrary
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  part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
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  That is such wisdom, and God is so good to show us these Nuggets
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  of truth here. The church is called to be
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  different, so that when the world looks in on it, they are
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  ashamed of all of the disgusting things that they have been doing
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  and what they have made life out to be, of nothing but pleasure
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  and nothing but selfish gain. And the church is to be such a
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  light that it shines the light on the darkness, and the
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  darkness cannot overcome it. We are called to be salt,
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  friends. When poured into a wound, it
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  cleanses all of the bacteria and all of the infection out of that
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  wound, friends. We're called to be salt and to
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  season this world that is bland and it is dying and going by the
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  wayside, friends. And they've made it all about
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  self and vanity. They've made it all about money
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  and greed. They've made it all about their
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  image and it has left them wanting friends.
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  And when they look in on us and we have Koinonia and we have
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  fellowship friends and we have communion friends, it is
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  attractive and they are ashamed of the life that they are
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  living. 9 Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters
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  and to please them well in all things.
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  Not answering Again, this is not only relative to the time that
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  Paul was writing to Titus where there were bond servants, but
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  this is also applicable to our day and our hour for employers
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  and employees. We don't need to be those who
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  back talk. We don't need to be those who
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  have to have the final say. We need to respect those that
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  are in authority over us 10 not pilfering, but showing all good
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  fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior and
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  all things. This is somebody who doesn't
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  take advantage of a believing employer.
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  This is not somebody who just pilfers and takes things that is
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  not theirs. This is somebody who practices
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  integrity regardless of who's watching.
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  And if there was ever a time in the history of mankind to
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  practice integrity, it would be today. 11 For the grace of God
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  that brings salvation has appeared to all men.
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  So God is the one who initiates our salvation, and it is grace
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  through faith, friends. And we need to take him when
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  he's drawing us to himself. We don't need to blasphemy the
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  Holy Spirit. We don't need to keep going our
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  own way. Today is the day of salvation,
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  friends, and you don't know if today's going to be your last
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  day on planet earth. This could be the very last
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  chance that you have to receive salvation, and God is the one
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  who is offering it to you. But you must have the
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  wherewithal to reach out and to take it by faith.
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  And it's available to every man or woman on planet earth, all
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  the way around every continent. It's available to them.
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  This is not just the religion of the Jews.
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  This is not just the religion of one particular race, friends.
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  This is for every people group, all languages, friends.
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  And God already knows who belongs to him. 12 teaching us
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  that denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live
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  soberly, righteously godly in this present world.
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  You need to know that God initiates the salvation, and he
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  brings heaven to earth, and he gives it to you, and slivers and
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  impart and dimly and darkly. And one day we will see it in
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  its entirety, in the fullness, friends, and we look forward to
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  that day, but we can start living it today.
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  We don't have to wait for eternity There we can receive
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  our joy. Today We can receive purpose.
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  Today we can receive the presence of God in our life as
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  the Shekinah glory shines all around us as we're filled with
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  the Holy Ghost. Friends, and you need to know
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  that no matter what this world throws at you, whether it's
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  death and disease, whether it is hard times, whether it's war,
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  whether it's famine, friends, He will be with you during that
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  time. And that is all the solace that
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  we could ever need. Friends, no matter what comes
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  our way, we have Him and He's there with us and He's going to
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  guide us and lead us home and He's going to be there when we
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  cross through the water. 13 looking for that blessed hope
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  and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior
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  Jesus Christ. That's what we look for.
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  That's what we push towards. That's what we yearn for more
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  than anything is Him, the appearing of Him.
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  We want Him more than we want the very next breath that we
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  draw. It is glorious 14 who gave
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  Himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and
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  purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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  Is that your calling card? Are you zealous for him?
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  Are you zealous for the Lord Jesus Christ?
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  Is he what consumes your thoughts?
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  Is he, what is he, what consumes your day, friends?
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  Is it the good works of knowing where you stand in Christ Jesus
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  that you are performing? Not so that you can have some
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  kind of special election amongst Him, but because He is worthy of
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  all of the things that we do. And he is glorious, friends, and
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  He's lovely. We'll end on 15 these things.
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  Speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority and let no man
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  despise you. What an amazing chapter here in
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  God's Word. Paul writing to Titus and
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  telling them don't let anybody despise you.
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  You have full authority. And that is our call as well.
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  We have the complete authority of God's word if we will take
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  him at His Word, He'll give a sound doctrine, and He'll give
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  us the authority to be able to speak truth in love.
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  We don't need to be hateful and it's easy to make a point, but
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  it's hard to make a difference. We are called to be difference
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  makers. We're called to be peacemakers.
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  We're called to be more than conquerors.
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  We don't need to fear the one who can kill the body.
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  We don't need to try to hold on to this life and try to get the
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  life to come. If you'll lose your life for His
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  name's sake, you will gain eternal life.
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  You don't need to try to play both sides and be lukewarm.
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  And you want this life and the life to come.
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  Friends, give it up. Die to self today.
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  Love Jesus Christ more than you love anyone else.
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  In comparison, it should look like hate.
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  It's Jesus and it's Jesus and is Jesus alone who is our great
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  reward. I pray that you can say that
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  today. I pray that there's not the bird
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  that comes and snatches the seed.
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  I pray that there's not the shallow soil that Withers when
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  there's a little persecution. I pray that the tares and the
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  snares and the briars are not choking out the fruitfulness of
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  your life. I pray for fertile soil.
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  I pray that you will produce much fruit.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word, and I sure have. I love you.
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  I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.