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Titus chapter 1. Let's pray God Almighty, the
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Lord who reigns on high, we thank you Father, for another
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day. God, we enter in with praise and
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Thanksgiving. God, we come in waving the palm
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branches, screaming out, hosanna, hosanna in the highest.
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You are holy, you are high, you are lifted up, you are meek and
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mild and tender and loving and we love you God, we love you.
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Father. Thank you Jesus for salvation.
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Thank you Jesus, for giving us enough strength and enough
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mental fortitude to know that you are King, that you are
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everything, and that you are Lord and you are God.
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And so, Lord, we just get out of our own way.
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We get out of our own understanding, God.
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We push aside feelings and emotions, God.
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We push aside our own intellect, Lord, and we grab a hold of who
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you are. We grab a hold of you, Lord.
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Help us to not let go. Help us to not look left or
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right back, but God only forward with you.
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And so, Lord, I pray for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit
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today. Come in, Father, fill us up,
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Father. Overflowing into the streets,
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overflowing into the hospitals, overflowing into the courtrooms,
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overflowing into the military, overflowing into law
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enforcement, overflowing God, across all platforms,
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everywhere. Lord, rain down supreme, rain
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down on high, rain down God and wreck us with your love, Ravish
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us with your presence. Lord, we want to see your eyes
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like fire and hair like wool, the voice of the many
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multitudes. Lord, the King of Kings and the
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Lord of Lords, you are everything, the Good Shepherd,
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we love you, Adonai El Elyon, the Most High.
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God, we love you. Be the banner, be our healer, be
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our provider. God, we know that.
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You see, Lord, you are the shepherd King, you are the
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servant leader. Holy Spirit, get a hold of us.
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Holy Spirit, convict us today. We repent and confess of all the
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times that we have shortcomed, every time that we have sinned,
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every time that we have transgressed against your holy
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name. Father, I pray for healing from
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on high, healing on your wings. Lord, I pray that we will be
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made whole and complete. Give us our marching orders and
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allow us to see that you're moving mightily all around us in
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the angelic host. We love you.
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Teach us your ways. Lord.
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I pray that as we open up your word that your word will read
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us. Your word is alive and active.
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We hide it in our hearts. I decrease as you increase.
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Maranatha, come the Spirit and the bride says, come.
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We love you, Jesus, we worship you Jesus.
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Heal us. Jesus, you're lovely and holy
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and worthy. We just desire more of you.
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Give us a touch today. Show up today and show off.
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Take us to new heights, Father ABBA.
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Cry out, ABBA, we thank you for our adoption.
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We thank you that we are yours. We thank you that we can know
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you, be known by you, and it's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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precious name that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ
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according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of
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the truth, which is after godliness.
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What's Paul talking about here? Well, Paul's talking to his
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constituent, one of his disciples here, Titus.
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And Titus has a long track record throughout the New
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Testament. We saw them all the way back in
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Acts and throughout Corinthians. In this letter is very similar
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to the first letter that he wrote to Timothy.
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He's going to give some instructions for the church.
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We know that Paul left Titus back at Crete.
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And if we thought that Ephesus was a rough crowd, the Cretians
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are even more rowdy friends. And so Titus seems to be a
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problem solver. He seems to be someone that Paul
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could trust to go in and to actually do the things that
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needed to get done to establish a healthy church.
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So we can see that Paul makes God and Jesus synonymous, the
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three and one. We see the Trinity at work and
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season throughout all of Paul's letters.
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And so also you need to know that it is acknowledging the
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truth which leads to godliness, and there is no truth outside of
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Jesus Christ. We see that Paul was a willing
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servant of the Lord Jesus. And so that is what another
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thing that you need to know is that God doesn't take us
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hostage. We have free will.
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We can choose Him or not in the moment or for a lifetime, but
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you need to know that Paul here was sold out to the Lord Jesus
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Christ and he says, woe to me if I do not preach.
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And I pray that that's your story.
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I pray that you're willingly going along with the Lord no
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matter what his plans are, no matter if it looks
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counterproductive and counterintuitive.
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This goes way beyond human intellect.
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This is trans rational, forensic, transcends all of our
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own feelings and emotions and all of our own ways that we I
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think this little life should go.
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It's yoking yourself up to the King of Kings and the Lord of
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Lords. It's putting yourself in service
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to the only one who can bring you home safely.
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Verse 2 in hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie
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promised before the world began. Think about it friends, God
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created not only this world and not only the things that can be
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seen, but he created an entire universe.
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He created the heavens above, friends of the depths below, and
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he can do anything that he pleases.
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But I want you to know that God cannot lie.
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He will never go back on His word.
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What he he says is firm and we can build our entire life on it.
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So when he tells you that you will inherit eternal life, you
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can bank on it. And it doesn't matter how
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disease riddled your body is. It doesn't matter how many court
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cases you got coming up or prison sentences you got.
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It is God and God alone who can deliver on the promise of
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eternal life. So we take a hold of that.
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Friends, we're not looking looking for a cushy,
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comfortable, pleasing, pleasant life here and one to come.
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We go into the hardest places, we do the work of the
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evangelist, and we count the cost before we ever go out into
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the harvest. And God can give you slivers of
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heaven here on this earth, but they pale in comparison to what
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is to come. If we'll just place our faith in
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the Lord Jesus Christ and believe in our heart that God
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raised him from the dead, we will have eternal life.
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We can be robed in Jesus Christ righteousness and purity and
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innocence and we can know that we know that we know that we
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know if we were to die today that we're going to bust heaven
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wide open. Praise God Hallelujah, we love
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you Jesus verse 3 but has in due times manifested his word
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through preaching which is committed unto me according to
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the commandment of our God and Savior.
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So Paul had a very amazing ministry where the structure of
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the church would be revealed to Paul as it was hidden in times
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past, but it is made known to Paul and it was given to him to
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preach. And you can see that Peter went
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on to teach the Jews and there was such a confusion with the
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Jewish nation where they were trying to hold on to all of
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their Jewish customs and bringing Christ into the mix.
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And Paul had to Peter and tell him that that wasn't the case
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and they they didn't need to get circumcised and eat kosher.
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And it's a hard lesson for those who were steeped in the Jewish
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religion. And then we can see how the
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gentiles were coming out of Pagan idolatry.
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And they would have laid those down easy.
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And this is a lot of what the letter is about is rebuking all
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of the Jewish legalism and it is encouraging these Cretians to
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continue on in the faith and not to be steeped and not to be back
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laden and back trodden with all of the customs of the Jews.
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We're going to see that get played out in this book.
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And God made it manifest the all of the church was already in his
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mind and it was already ready to be revealed, but it was hidden
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in God. And so God chose the proper time
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to bring it all in to light. And we saw the Pax Romana where
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there was some relative peace in the known inhabited world.
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And then also you can see one common language.
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So Jesus Christ came at the exact time that God had ordained
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and revealed Himself self so that we could here in this day,
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in this hour, hold the Holy Scriptures in our hands, the
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complete work and authority of God Almighty.
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It is God breathed and it is alive and it is active and it is
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reading you as you open it up, friends.
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It's discerning you and your motives as you open it up,
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friends. And how amazing is it that God
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knows the exact time? And that is the same with His
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second coming, Friends. We don't need to be date setters
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and doomsday preppers. We just need to be rooted and
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grounded and steeped in God's Word, learning it and owning it,
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memorizing it and hiding it in our hearts.
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This is the map that leads to to Jesus Christ.
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Get in Christ, friends. And that is how we are to escape
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all of the tragedies that are coming down the pipeline.
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And you can see it in the birth pains that are coming.
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And they're faster and faster and closer and closer together.
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And you can look up and see that your redemption is drawing near
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and that the leaves are on the fig tree, friends.
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So we know that the head is crowning.
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We know that it's closer today than it was yesterday.
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Praise God, Hallelujah, we love you Jesus, for to Titus, my own
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son, after the common faith, grace, mercy, peace from God the
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Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.
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So imagine having that title. Titus has the honorable title of
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being just like a son to the Apostle Paul of our common
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faith. How amazing is it that we still
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have the common faith of the Lord Jesus Christ?
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2000 years removed from this letter, you and I are still
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rooted and grounded and steeped in the common faith of
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Christianity. You can't do nothing with this
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book. You can't outlive it, friends.
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You can't get rid of it. It will outlast the test of
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time. No one will ever be able to
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completely and utterly destroy the Word of God.
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It is here to stay. Heaven and earth shall pass
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away. But not one of these words,
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friends. This common faith, 2000 years
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later, still being totally and completely preached throughout
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the entire world, and it is the common faith of Jesus Christ as
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Lord Jesus Christ as the only atonement for our sins, Jesus
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Christ as the answer to every single question that could ever
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get asked. It's Jesus, Jesus and Jesus.
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Everything is centered and built upon the chief cornerstone of
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Jesus Christ, the Messiah, and we love him.
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And we can see here this karis, we can see the common faith of
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mercy, and we could see this Shalom, Shalom.
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And it was the Greek world and the Jewish world coming together
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for this common faith. 5 For this, 'cause I left you in
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Crete, that you should set in orders of things that are
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wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed
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you. So Paul here is reminding Titus
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why he left him there. And it was to establish the
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churches and look for these overseers, to look for people
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who could oversee A congregation as the early church got started.
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And you can see here that Paul was seeing that there were lots
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of things that were in need on the island of Crete.
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You can see here that there are no deacons.
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There are only the the elders there.
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And that that was the entire purpose of Titus being left
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behind because Paul knew that he had a strong sense of who could
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be in these leadership positions and who could not.
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And so that is the same for us today, friends.
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We don't need to look for somebody who has a degree on the
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wall. You don't need to look for
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somebody who sure looks the part.
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You don't need to look for somebody who is very persuasive
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in their teaching and preaching. We need to look for the
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attributes that Paul is going to spell out for us.
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God Almighty looks at the inner man and not the outer.
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God looks for the character of a man.
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Not just the persuasive speech, not just the ravenous wolves and
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sheep's clothing. God looks at the motives of a
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person and that is what qualifies or disqualifies
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somebody from preaching the word of God.
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We need to earnestly strive after the things that He is
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going to state. 6 If any, be blameless.
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The husband of one wife having faithful children, not accused
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of riot or unruly. So you need to know that the
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ones that Titus was looking for and who God is looking for today
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to bring the gospel to the entire world are men who are
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blameless and who only have one wife.
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They are not somebody who is promiscuous.
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And that has to do with both the digital and the physical world
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having faithful children not accused of right or unruly.
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A man must be able to lead his family well before he could ever
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desire a position of leading those within the body of the
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Church. 7 For a Bishop must be blameless as the steward of God,
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not self willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker,
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not given to filthy lucre. So you can see here that God is
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looking for a man who is blameless, somebody who can hold
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no charges against him because he's not duplicious, he's not a
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hypocrite, He doesn't talk out both sides of his mouth.
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He means what he says. He says what he means.
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He is not somebody who's sleeping around.
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He's not somebody who is flirtatious.
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He's not very angry. He's not somebody who is quick
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tempered, who is hot headed. It's not somebody who is self
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seeking all the time, thinking about themselves, that all the
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attention is upon self. This is a man who is outward
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focused, somebody who loves Jesus Christ more than they love
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life itself. God's looking for somebody who
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does not look for getting drunk or high or somebody who is an
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altered state of mind. He is looking for somebody who
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is filled with the Holy Ghost, who doesn't have any need for
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intoxication. He's not a brawler, not somebody
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who's always looking to pick a fight with somebody, and also
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somebody who is not so incredibly in love with money
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that they're going to be greedy or going to lust and horror
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after the things of this world. That is the man that God is
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looking for. Somebody who's not given over to
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the love of money, the love of filthy looker, the love of
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mammon. That is not a quality that you
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want. And somebody who is an overseer
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of a congregation, this is what they need to be.
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They need to be a lover of hospitality, a lover of good
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men, sober, just holy, temperate 9 holding fast the faithful word
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as he has been taught that he might be able to by sound
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doctrine both exhort and convince the gain Sayers.
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That's what God is looking for. One man who's completely and
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utterly sold out to the king of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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They're not duplicious in their approach.
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They're not doing it for their own vanity.
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They're not doing it for self seeking gain.
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They're not doing it for the money friends.
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They're not doing it for an easy life where all they have to do
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is sit and teach. They are people who are
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shepherds. They are the ones who are going
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out into the harvest. These men love hospitality.
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They open their doors up. They're able to have people and
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hold Bible studies and give them sound doctrine friends.
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They're not those that are all the time looking for angles to
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pick people apart. They're lover of good man.
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They're not those who give themselves over to the evil ways
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of this world. They're sober.
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They look at themselves in the right light.
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They're not lovers of self. They're not haters of self.
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But they are sober minded when it comes to the.
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Vantage point of who they are in Christ that is what we need
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friends. We need to raise up a generation
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and we pray for God to raise up a generation unto himself of
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sober men who stiff arm all of the things of this world and are
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truly in love with him and him alone.
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These men are just. They love justice.
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They are the ones who they don't sweep things under the rug.
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They are the ones who say what needs to be said so that men
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will see the error of their way and give them an opportunity to
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confess and repent. They love justice.
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They're holy. They're set apart.
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They are not those that are steeped in idolatry.
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They're not steeped in the culture, friends.
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They are holy and set apart and they are temperate.
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They know how to keep their mouth shut and keep their ears
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open, and they're slow to anger. They hold fast to the faithful
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word. This word that we hold in our
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hands is everything that we need that is profitable for men to be
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saved friends. Nothing added and nothing
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subtracted. Sound doctrine is believing
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every syllable that's in this word, the sound doctrine to
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exhort and convince the gainsayers.
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That is what we need, friends. We need to be ready to give a
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reason for the faith that we hold in our hands.
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Never shying away from evangelism.
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Never shying away for giving people a reason to believe.
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Never shying away from the hope that we have in Christ Jesus,
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for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,
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especially they have the circumcision.
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So Paul here is going to pick on his Jewish people and he's going
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to talk about those of the circumcision, this Jewish roots
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movement who say we need to incorporate a lot of the
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festivals and incorporate a lot of the customs and the dietary
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laws of the Jewish belief. And I want you to know that when
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God told Peter to go and kill and to eat, and Peter said I
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would never, Lord, any unthing that is clean has never entered
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into me. And what did he say?
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He said, don't call anything unclean that I've made unclean.
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It's not what goes in the body that defiles it.
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It's what comes out. It's our words.
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These people of the circumcision, they think that
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they can be holier than thou. They think that they can attain
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to a level where God is more pleased with them than with
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those who have simple faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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They say their blessing and they go on about their day.
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They choose which day to rest. These people have an immense
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amount of freedom and they're not those that are abusing grace
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as some are in the habit of doing, but they are sober minded
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in their approach to God. They're rooted and grounded in
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God's Word. They're not looking to measure
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how much God loves them or how pleased God is with them.
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It's actually quite pathetic. It's actually quite sad when you
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have groups of people who want to try to intermingle this way
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of the circumcision into the great amount of freedom that you
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and I possess in Christ Jesus. And we should pray for them.
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And Paul's going to talk a little bit about them and he's
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going to tell Titus to watch out for these unruly, vain talkers.
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It's all vanity. They want to be seen.
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They want to act as if they're better and they're not.
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And they're deceivers. And they bring people into this
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whole Jewish roots movement of following after the Lord Jesus
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and intermingling all of the Jewish customs in.
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And it's actually sad, friends 11 whose mouths must be stopped,
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who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought
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not for filthy lucre's sake. So you can see that the love of
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money is the root of all kinds of evil here, friends, these
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people, they do it for their own self gain.
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They do it to weasel their way into houses and they lead people
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astray. And Paul here is talking to
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Titus and God here is talking to us and saying, make sure that
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you speak up and tell them that they are erring grievously.
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And it breaks God's heart. Friends 12/1 of themselves, even
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a prophet of their own said the Cretans are always liars, evil
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beasts, slow bellies. So these Cretans, they were
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actually known to be liars, and they were gluttons as well.
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And you can see here that Paul knew that this was the case, and
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he wanted Titus as he was encouraging him here.
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He wanted him to know what he was up against.
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But Titus was the man for the job.
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Titus was the one outfitted to be able to deal with this and to
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establish a very healthy church. And we are tasked in this day
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and this hour with all of the things that are happening all
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around the world as we see the culmination of the history of
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mankind coming to a head. Friends, you and I are tasked
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with keeping the church healthy and vibrant, friends, and not
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slipping away into all of the negativity and the criticism,
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slipping away into the culture of the world and getting swept
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away by all of this new age idea garbage that's getting
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intermingled in the profane with the holy friends and this
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strange fire. Friends, we need to keep
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ourselves holy because He is holy.
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We need to make sure that we are honoring God by teaching the
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entirety of God's word, not holding anything back, not
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adding anything to it. This is the complete, infallible
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and errant word of God, and we're going to see God being
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well pleased whenever we give Him His due honor and glory by
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teaching the entirety of God's Word. 13 This witness is true.
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Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the
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faith. We can see God's heart here.
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He's not just so incredibly incensed against people, it is
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the spirit behind the people. And if they woke up and God's
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not done with them, and He wants them to come in to the saving
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knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and nothing more and
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nothing less. It is Jesus and Jesus alone that
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gets us there beyond salvation. Our works only result in
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rewards. Friends, it's not about a
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salvific issue if you're going to be there or not.
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Jesus Christ paid it all, paid in full to Telesty.
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It is finished, friends. It is by being covered in the
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blood of Jesus Christ that we get there.
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It's not by all of this dietary restrictions and keeping all of
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the festivals and looking at all the moons and all of the things
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of the Jewish customs. And it's not about being so
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Pagan and being so lost and being liars and gluttons and
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giving ourselves over to all of the New Age garbage that's
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coming in. It is being sober minded, which
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is one of the greatest calls of the Christian walk is to think
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about things in the way that God does.
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Look at them in the way that God does.
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But how would you know if you're not steeped and rooted in His
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word? Friends, that is what we need
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more than we need our next breath.
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We need to know the Word of God. We need to have a relationship
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with Him through His Son Jesus Christ, and that is what is
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going to lead us into eternity forevermore.
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He wants us to be sound in our faith.
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Increase your faith today. 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables
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and commandments of men that turn from the truth.
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So there was such a heresy of trying to intermingle the Jewish
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faith into the Christian walk. Friends, the Jews have to come
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in the same way that the Gentiles do, and it's through
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Christ Jesus. But you need to know that the
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Jews who are steeped in all the ways of Yahweh through the
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entirety of the Old Testament, when they finally come to the
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saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is an amazing
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moment where they can see all the Christophanies throughout
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the Old Testament that was pointing them to Christ Jesus.
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And then they can build upon all of their traditions.
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They can build upon them friends.
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And it's beautiful whenever they see that Christ is the
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fulfillment of every single law, He is the fulfillment of all the
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festivals, He is the fulfillment of everything that they were
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required, and it all points to Him.
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And it's beautiful. And they are blessed when they
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finally get to that place. And they will.
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All of Israel will be saved. 15 Unto the pure all things are
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pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is
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nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
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You can go back to the book of Genesis, when God is creating
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everything, and he says it is good.
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It is US who pollute it. It is US who profane it.
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Friends, it's us who makes it defiled.
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God created it and it is good and everything is permissible,
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but not everything is beneficial.
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That is what you need to know. This calls for wisdom.
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It calls for a sober mind, which is the theme here amongst this
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first chapter of Titus, is keeping a sober mind.
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Whenever you walk throughout this lifetime, this little
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lifetime that you have is keeping a sober mind.
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Don't be given over to drunkenness.
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Don't be given over to a altered state of mind.
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Friends, give yourself over to the filling of the Holy Ghost.
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That is what we need more than we need a substance. 16 They
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profess that they know God, but in works they deny them, being
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abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
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While Paul goes out swinging out of this first chapter, let's
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break it down for a moment, friends.
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They profess that they know God. This is Romans chapter one in a
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nutshell. You go back and you read that
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chapter and it is the larger picture of Titus chapter one
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verse 16. This is Romans chapter 1 and one
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verse. They profess that they know God,
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but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient, and
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unto every good work reprobate God gives them over to a
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reprobate mind. They are delusional and they try
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to act as if they know God, but everything that they say and do
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is counter what is holy and good and pure and wholesome, and they
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call the good things evil and they call the evil things good.
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Woe to them, friends. It would been better for them to
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have not been born than for them to be thrown into eternal
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damnation. It would have been better for
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them to tie a millstone around their neck than to offend one of
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these little ones. And God sees it.
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Hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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I know, I sure have. I'm praying for you, I love you,
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so does God. Stay prayed up today, stay
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blessed up today. Stay ready.
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You don't have to get ready. We are closer today than we were
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yesterday. Friends, do not grow weary doing
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good. God bless you.
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See you back here tomorrow.