Titus Chapter 1:10-16

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Pick as much bread as you want to. All right, good evening from Sacramento.
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We're here today to study Titus chapter one. We're gonna be studying
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Titus chapter one verses 10 through 16. With epistles,
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I think you can go slower because there's a lot to unpack, right?
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Narratives really show what we need to know. Epistles actually tell us.
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So, I will pray for us. Do we have any prayer requests? I feel like my lungs.
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Yeah, something wrong with your lungs? Just like asthma? Yeah, kind of.
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Okay. I heard black grapes, black grapes help with lungs.
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Hmm. Yeah, next time you go to - I like red grapes. I know, but black grapes help with lungs.
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And also tea, if you want to drink tea, yeah. And water is really good.
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Like green tea. Do you drink tea? Ah, mostly, well. Okay. But mostly. Yeah, tea can help too.
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I like green tea. You like green tea? Me too, I drank it today. So, let me pray for us and then we'll get started.
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Father, we're grateful that you love us and you care for us, and you have shown your love for us through Jesus Christ, who died for our sin on the cross.
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Help us to honor him tonight. Father, we pray that you would help
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Diane's lungs to heal and give her wisdom regarding what to have that could help with that, in Jesus' name, amen.
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Oh, thank you. All right. For the fly day, we don't want the fly to have anything.
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Right, that would be gross. Let's all turn to Titus. Titus chapter one.
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Sorry, fly, you can't have any. Titus chapter one, starting with verse 10.
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But before we begin, let's preview. What did Paul talk about right before this?
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What was the talk? Qualifications of elders. That's right, qualifications of elders. As far as how
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I read the text, I think elders, deacons, elders, bishops, elders, bishops, pastors, they're kind of interchangeable.
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They have a leadership function to protect the church, and they teach, right?
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So that's the main difference between elders and deacons. Elders teach, they are there to teach, sound doctrine, to enforce and encourage sound doctrine.
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Right? So what's the difference between an elder and a deacon? Deacon does not have to teach. Deacons can teach, they don't have to.
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Yeah, if you read 1 Timothy 3, the distinction, the difference between deacons and elders is that elders, on the part with elders, the section actually says able to teach, able to teach for elders.
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While deacons, there is not a part for that. Although deacons can teach if they want to, if they're called to teach.
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For example, Stephen in Acts was teaching and debating, right, he had a sound doctrine.
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So deacons can teach, but they don't have to teach. Elders do teach.
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And teaching does not mean just preaching, right, or Sunday school.
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Teaching can be one -on -one, teaching can be teaching kids, teaching can be in so many contexts, right?
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Being able to open scripture and teach. Okay, that's right.
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So as you all said, the last section was on the qualification of elders, and who can remember what they were like?
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What were they supposed to be like? Husband and one wife.
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Yeah, husband and one wife, right? Loving what is good and sensible.
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Yeah, sensible, sound mind, loves what's good, sure. Yeah, the elders have to be, they have to have their house hold an order, right?
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They can't be disobedient. And they have to be believers. They have to be believers.
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And really the quality traits were any trait that you would expect a godly man to be, or godly person for that matter, right?
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Sound mind doesn't, it's not greedy, it's not selfish, right, it's not arrogant.
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And that could just fit any one of us, right, as a Christian. But what makes the difference is verse nine, he must hold firmly to the trustworthy message it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it.
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Their job is to protect the church doctrinally, right? With that in mind, we're gonna go to verse 10.
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Who can read verse 10? Okay. Go ahead, Carolyn.
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Well, there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
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Okay, when it starts with for, what does that tell us? How does this section relate to the previous?
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For. There's more bad than good. Yeah, there's bad, there's bad happening.
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Let me give an example. When we see for, and it's not for you or for me, right, it's not on behalf of, but when it's for, another word for it is because.
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So when you hear because, what does that tell us Paul is talking about?
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Oh, the sentence before. Yeah, that's right, it relates to the sentence what came before.
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And how do they relate? Because would say what?
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Let me use it in a sentence. I took a nap today because I was tired.
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Now, how did because I was tired modify the previous sentence or previous clause tells us why?
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We are going over why, right? So when it says for there are many rebellious people, we are going over the reason why he is commanding
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Titus to appoint qualified men to teach soundly. This is the reason.
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Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, this is the reason why Paul went over the qualification of leaders.
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Now, let's unpack this. For there are many rebellious people, what does it mean to be rebellious?
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Go against God. Yeah, go against God, right? Directly, outrightly disobey
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God. Full of meaningless talk and deception is how, and I think this is the
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NIV. NIV translates it, right? Empty talkers.
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Empty talkers. I like that, that is a direct translation.
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Empty talkers and deceivers, okay? Empty talk means they're saying things that are -
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They're saying nothing. Exactly, it's vain, right? That's what vain means, right?
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Whatever comes out of their mouth is nothing, right?
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It means nothing. It's useless, it's worthless, right? It's futile.
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Titus 3 .9 has the similar idea, but avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law because these are unprofitable and useless, right?
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Some translation might have futile. Now, that's empty talker.
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Now, regarding the circumcision party, what do you think the circumcision party was? The Jews?
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Yeah, there were some false teachers who really pushed this idea of going back to the outward rituals of the
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Old Covenant, Old Testament. Now, we're not against the
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Old Testament. The Old Testament is part of Scripture. However, how Christians relate to the
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Old Covenant is different because we're under the New Covenant. Now, what's the importance of circumcision?
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Circumcision was the outward symbol of the Old Covenant. Every male, every
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Jewish male had to be circumcised on the eighth day. Now, ultimately, God gave them this sign, an outward sign, to be an inward reality, right?
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They weren't supposed to be just concerned with the outside, rather, they were supposed to be concerned with the inside.
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Deuteronomy 10 .16 says, circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff -necked any longer.
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Circumcision, it's supposed to be an inward transformation, too, right?
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You weren't just meant to be ritualistically Jewish. Jews, Israel, was supposed to be inwardly different, too.
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They were supposed to be faithful, right? Don't be stuck on this old stuff. Yeah.
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Go with what's new stuff, the real good stuff is supposed to be.
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Yeah, ultimately, even the real circumcision of the
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Old Covenant pointed forward to what it means to be
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God's people, not just on the outside, but inside. Now, this party presumably pushed for these rituals back again, right?
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For in order for you to be Christian, you need to do this, you need to do that, just like the good old
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Jews, right? And the reason is, it's easy to focus on the outward rituals than to rely on God's transformation of our inward hearts.
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It's easy to push regulations and rituals and diet than to rely on God's grace, right?
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So that's the circumcision party. They were pushing things on Christians to go back to the old ways.
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Now, why would the circumcision party be a problem for Titus? What's Titus's background?
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Excuse me, Jewish? Titus is not Jewish. Oh, oh, he is. He's a Gentile, right?
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Yeah. And we see this in Galatians 2. In Galatians 2, one through three, they gave
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Paul a problem because his association with Titus, and Titus was a Gentile minister, and they tried to compel
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Titus to be circumcised. Now, you can see why the circumcision party would be a huge problem against someone like Titus, who is leading a church.
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He's a Gentile minister. So they probably tried to discourage people from following Titus, discourage people from listening to Titus, right?
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Even discredit Titus, right? So Paul is calling them,
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Paul is actually calling them out. Didn't Paul have him circumcised anyway?
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That's Timothy. Timothy was actually ethnically Jewish. Yeah, so that's the difference.
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Timothy was circumcised because he was ministering to the Jews. Titus is a
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Gentile and didn't need to become a Jew. For Titus to be circumcised would actually contradict the gospel message, that you have to be a
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Jew before you're saved. But the gospel message is, no, you just come to Christ in faith, and you're saved.
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All right. Now, Paul actually calls them out.
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They're empty talkers, and they're deceivers, and they're pushing the old covenant rituals to enforce it in the church.
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Now, who can read verse 11? Go ahead, Jim. Okay. So what is the necessary action when there are false teachers in the church?
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What does Paul command them to do? Silence them. Silence them, right? Silence them. The literal translation for this
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Greek word is put something in the mouth. Like, it's like, put something in the mouth.
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Force them to stop talking. Bridle them. And this is important because why does this action need to be so severe?
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Why not just talk it out? It's that the families are teaching things that should not teach for the sake of.
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Yeah, because they're disrupting, right? They're disrupting the families.
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They're disrupting the households. They're disrupting. They're overwhelming. They're draining
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Christians, right? They're ruining entire households.
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What happens when there's false teaching in the church? What's at stake here? The church rips apart, right?
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What else? What could go wrong if there's false teaching? Dishonest gain.
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Dishonest gain for the false teachers, sure. But what would happen to the church? What happens if -
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There wouldn't be a church anymore. There wouldn't be a church anymore, right? No. Like, people's souls are at stake, right?
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I don't want to say people lose their salvation, but they can't lose their salvation. It's just that people who think are saved would find out they're not saved because they've been trusting the false gospel, right?
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Now, what do modern churches try to do when there's false teaching?
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How do they handle false teaching? Try to make it modern or something?
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Yeah, they modernize it, right? They try to have some like peaceful discord, like peaceful discussion.
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They try to have a meeting about it. They try to vote on it, right? They nuance it.
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Have you heard nuancing? What nuance means?
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They like - I've probably heard of it, but - Yeah, so it's like, there might be a false teacher and the false teacher says something grievous, something like,
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Jesus isn't God, right? I mean, that's just complete heresy, right? To say that.
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Instead of saying, you need to stop talking, you need to get out of here because that's heresy, get out.
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That would be what Paul recommends. Nuancing would be, well, maybe he actually means this way, but not truly means that way.
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They try to fluff it up, right? They nuance it.
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They try to say, let's look at a different angle, right? They nuance it.
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But Paul says what? What must be done when there's false teaching? Silence them.
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Yeah. Put something in their mouth. Silence them. Now, what happens if the leaders do not confront the false teachers?
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What do you think will happen? What would happen if the church goes the wrong way, right?
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Think about how cults start. Yeah. How did cults start? Well, it only takes one or two false teachers to say one thing or another, right?
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I mean, isn't that how Mormonism started? Just Joseph Smith. It started with Joseph Smith, right?
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Same thing with Jehovah's Witnesses. Centered around this one guy's teaching, his books, right?
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That's how cults start. The true church must stop them, right?
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And Muslims. What is it? Muslims. Muslims too. Muhammad, right? One guy, one guy.
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Well, the Catholics, that's the hardest one because that started with the devil. It was really hard to get stopped.
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Well, they're all from the devil. Well, they are, but. We started with that, and they really are good at that.
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Yeah, the Catholic church is hard because the tradition has continued. All right, now what motivates false teachers?
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What does the text tell us? What's their motivation? Dishonest gain.
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What does that mean? Money, right?
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Gaining money unjustly. Gaining money at the cost of the flock.
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Sordid gain. Sordid gain, I like that, right? That means the false teachers are not motivated by the growing faith of the converts.
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They're not motivated by the spiritual health of the church. They're not motivated by winning souls for Christ.
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False teachers are solely motivated by their selfish gain, whether in money or power.
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And that's really how you know the true church or not. Right? What is driving that group?
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Is it money? Is it popularity? Or is it Christ? Does that, right?
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Does that make sense? That makes sense, but it's - It's not right. It's not right. Right, but think about it.
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Only Christ should be driving it. Only Christ is driving it, right? But if you look at all these calls -
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Or should be driving it. Yeah. If you look at all these calls - Or needs to be driving it. Right. Can't say should. If you look at all these churches, if you look at the false churches, the
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Catholic church, Mormon church, right? Look how money plays a role in their ministry.
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When you take a look at some prosperity gospel churches, look how money plays a role.
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Right? Can't worship both God and money. Right, exactly. They're not driven by God.
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All right, who can read verse 12? I guess it's my turn.
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Go ahead, Diane. One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.
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Should I go more? No, let me unpack that. So this quote is believed to be from a
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Cretan philosopher and poet named Epimenides. Epimenides from sixth century
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BC. So what Paul does, it's a tongue -in -cheek remark, right?
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Basically, Paul is rebuking the false teachers who are Cretans, right?
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They live in Crete, they're native Cretans, right? And Paul say, even they themselves talk about themselves that way.
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Looking at the false teachers' characteristics, even they themselves agree, right?
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That they are liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons, right?
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So this is a tongue -in -cheek remark. It's not Paul being racist, but let's talk about liars.
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What does that mean for them to be liars? They don't tell the truth.
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Yeah, they don't tell the truth. They're not honest, right? Evil beasts.
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What does that mean? What are beasts? Yeah, they're kind of like monsters.
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They're, like, think about animals, right? Can animals, like, logically think?
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Can animals? Not, they can't human think. Yeah, they can't think like humans, right?
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Can animals? They think like animals. Right, they're kind of insensitive to logic.
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Right, they're insensitive to things of God, right? It's, like, unfortunately, right, you can't, like, bring your pets to church and expect them to worship, right?
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Yeah, you can't bring your dogs and cats and expect them to understand
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God's word the way that humans do, right? So that's what it means.
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These false teachers are completely insensitive unaffected by God's word, right?
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Well, the animal can't bring the master to wherever they worship to their, whoever.
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Yeah. Lazy gluttons means they're actually not even doing anything.
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They're, like, they're idle. They're not working. Is it glutton, they eat too much?
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Yeah, they eat too much as in they're not working and they're just consuming. That's what this would mean,
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I think, because the word lazy here, so they're not working, but they're just eating. So their primary priority in their own life is themselves.
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That's what it's saying here. They're worldly. They're not spirit -filled. They're not thinking of the things of God.
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They're thinking of what? Themselves. Themselves. They're feeding themselves. They're indulging.
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Now, let's take a look at verse 13. That's my turn, isn't it? That's a long one. This saying is true.
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Therefore, rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the face.
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Okay, so what must we do? What's the proper response? Reprove them.
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Reprove them. Severely. Reprove them severely, yeah, right? Severely.
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Not just like, hey, hey, could I, you know, talk to you about this maybe?
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Don't do that. Right, exactly. Stop it, right? You gotta say stop it. Reprove them.
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Severe, the same word for severe used in 2 Corinthians 13 .10, where Paul warns the
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Corinthian church, hey, that I don't have to come to you and severely rebuke you, right?
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Get it together before I show up, right? Of course, the
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Corinthian church had a lot of problems too. Now, what's the result? What are the results of the rebuke?
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What's the purpose here? They may be, yeah, sound in faith.
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They may be sound in faith. In the end, the purpose of the rebuke is not to embarrass them, although it could be embarrassing, right?
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I don't know, has anyone been rebuked before? Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing, right?
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Sure. Sure, the purpose is so that their mind is changed.
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The purpose is that they actually believe the right thing.
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They believe the right God, worship the right God, right? That's the purpose. Now, who can read verse 14?
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Go ahead. Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the demands of people who turn away from the truth.
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Okay, this is the second purpose. What's the second purpose? Don't believe, don't believe the...
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Yeah, don't believe in what? Jewish fables. Yeah, Jewish fables. This is not,
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Paul's not talking about the Old Testament here. Jewish myths are unprovable, unproven things that Jewish tradition passed down, right?
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In fact, 1 Timothy 1 .4 has this similar, it has a similar warning.
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Don't devote yourselves to myths and genealogies and all these speculations. Devote yourselves to, devote yourselves to Scripture, right?
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So 1 Timothy 4 .13 in the end says, devote to the public reading of Scripture, right?
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So Jewish myths probably were, when you go to Titus 3 .9,
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you can understand more. But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, and arguments and quarrels about the law because these are unprofitable and useless, right?
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These are not scriptural things. These are things that the false teachers are pushing.
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Probably had to do with special diet, various physical rituals, asceticism, which is like avoiding certain things.
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Like, oh no, I can't be having that. Yeah, can't eat that. Now, if you wanna be vegetarian, that's okay, right?
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But don't, the moment you start pushing that and say, you're sinning if you eat meat, right?
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That's what Paul would speak out against, right? Or vice versa, right?
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It's like, hey, if you don't eat meat, then you are sinning, right? Then that's a big problem too, right?
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That's 14. So the two reasons, two purpose, two goals of rebuking them, one, that they may be sound of faith, and then two, that they don't devote themselves into Jewish myths, right?
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Or to the merely human commands. So they come from men, not from God, right?
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Because they turn away from the truth. Yeah, because they reject the truth, right? Now, knowing that they reject all these rituals and food and it's really has to do with the physical things, right?
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That's what you need to do in order to be pure, like ritualistically pure, right?
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That's what the false teachers would be pushing. Let's read verse 15. Whose turn is it now?
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Go ahead. Okay, now
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Paul is turning the argument against the Jewish false teachers here, right?
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The circumcision party. What this means is these people were probably teaching, hey, if you wanna be pure, you better avoid these foods.
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Hey, if you wanna be pure, you better celebrate these holidays. Hey, if you wanna be pure, you better avoid this action, right?
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Everything has to do physical, right? Now, ritual purity was the outward purity in the
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Old Testament. And it was cultic purity, right?
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You had to be pure on the outside. And what Paul does is he takes it and then makes it moral and applies back to the false teachers.
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So when he says to those who are pure, everything, all things are pure, right? What that means is if you are right with God inside, then outwardly, whatever you do would be pure too.
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Because God said, everything's clean. Everything's clean. Yeah, right.
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First, Jesus declared all foods clean, right? But not only that, if you're clean on the inside, you wouldn't be seeking out defiled, polluted, corrupt things, right?
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If you're clean on the inside, you wouldn't be living in sin, habitual sin.
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Does that make sense? If you're clean, if you're pure inside, you're not gonna defraud your brother or sister for money.
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Right? If you're clean living, if you're clean inside because Jesus died for your sin and you believe that, then you wouldn't be lying to your brothers and sisters.
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Does that make sense? So when it says to the pure, all things are pure, that's what it means. It has to be starting from the inside.
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Purity of the internal heart is what's at stake here.
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But now, what's the opposite? If you are defiled, what else is defiled? Nothing is pure.
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Yeah, if you're defiled, nothing is pure. Paul spins the argument against them. So these teachers were saying, hey, if you eat that, if you eat that bread, that's not clean, right?
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You're gonna be unclean. Now Paul says, actually, because you false teachers are unclean on the inside, everything you do is just corrupt.
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Right? That's what Paul's saying. Right? Right, right, right.
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Whitewashed tombs, right? Or white sepulchers. Yeah, for sure. So this is what
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Paul is saying. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
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They're doing all these corrupt things. They're doing all these defiled things because that's what they are inside.
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If you're, in Christianity, it's what's inside that comes out.
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If you're pure, everything's pure. That's right. If you're defiled, everything's defiled. Yeah, it's the internal state, right?
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That's why, what do we do? We renew our minds, right? From what we put into our minds, our hearts are purified.
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Now, verse 16, is that Diane?
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Yeah. Go ahead. They profess to know God, but by their deeds, they deny him, being testable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
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Okay, so what did the false teachers claim? They claimed to know
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God. Yeah, they claimed to know God. So these false teachers are not outright atheists who are coming up to the church, who's like, let me debate you about why there's no
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God. No, no, no, no. They're actually claiming that they're believers. This is what we need to be aware of.
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False teachers often are not just straight secularists or straight atheists who come to attack the church.
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It doesn't look like that, right? False teachers will have a confession, right?
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They can claim to be orthodox. I mean, I don't mean like Greek orthodox as a denomination, but orthodox as in straight, right?
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Like sound doctrine. That's what they would say. False teachers can and will sign the statement of faith.
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They'd be like, yeah, I agree with that. I agree with that, right? False teachers can sign the contract for another year to teach faithfully at a seminary that's supposed to be orthodox.
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They can. But how do we know? How do we know that they're false?
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On what they say. On what they say. What comes out, right? What comes out, but by their actions, they deny him.
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By what they do. The irony here is that all these false teachers are so focused on cultic purity, yet they defile themselves through their own wicked words.
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They're only caring about, they only care about how it appears, how everything looks good, but in the end, they themselves are doing horrible things.
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They're disobedient. They're unwilling to submit to God's authority and they're disqualified.
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They're unable to serve. They're unfit to serve. They're incapable. They're incompetent to serve.
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I'll give you an example. I went to, you know, I went to seminary and they started going woke.
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They started going liberal. They started going the wrong way, really, right?
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And they started pushing like the social justice agenda right, you gotta really, white people need to repent and, you know, like they gotta serve like the minorities, you know, that kind of agenda, right?
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As if they're at fault, right? For the sin of slavery, that kind of stuff. You might have heard it before.
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Have you heard that before? Yeah, yeah, I mean, yeah, we live in California.
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That's pretty prominent, right? People are people. People are, no, I grew up with people are people.
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Right, but that's what they were pushing, okay? Well, I think what, no, that wasn't, that's not, that's not, that's a good thing.
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People are people. No, people are people. No, I'm talking about - But they were pushing, people are people. There are certain different -
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Yeah, right. So they were dividing up the people and saying like the minorities need to be treated better.
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Right? Here's the irony. This guy's better than that guy. Right, they, here's the irony.
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There was like an argument where this one minority family, they were in the right, but in order to save face, the seminary kicked them out of campus living apartment.
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And the irony is they're all pushing, like the minorities have to be well taken care of, but they themselves committed injustice against a minority group of dark -skinned people.
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So you can't mark your skin color because in the end, they're corrupt.
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If you're teaching false things, you produce false things.
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So what we need to remember is false teachers, you'll know them by their fruit, right?
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False teachers are morally corrupt. False teachers are morally corrupt.
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Think Joseph Smith. He was an adulterer and compulsive liar, right?
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Think Mohammed. I can't even disclose what kind of things Mohammed did, such a violent and brute man.
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And what that means is beware of the false teachers now that we know of, because we don't know what's gonna come out of their closet.
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Yeah, just because they have, what is it?
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Adulterer, because David messed that up. Right, but it's unrepentant, right?
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Unrepentant, serial adultery, right? They make living out of it.
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That's a lifestyle, that they make practice out of it. Although he was a bigot, more than a bigot, he was a trillionist.
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The opposite must be true. True belief is accompanied by purity.
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True belief is accompanied by purity. If false belief is accompanied by corruption, then true belief is accompanied by purity.
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How do you know a pastor, a teacher are solid? On what they say.
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What they say and? Do. And do, how they live. You will know them by their fruit.
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This is important. And what must, and the reason why
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Paul is encouraging and commanding Titus to appoint qualified elders is so that the church would be protected from the false teachers who teach false things, but not only that, live in a defiled manner.
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And the fruit is the fruit of the spirit. And the fruit for the true teachers, the true believers is the fruit of the spirit.
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The fruit for the false teachers would be the deadly fruit, right?
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It's all sorts of sin. All right, we'll end this section here.
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Do we have any questions? Well, you didn't read it. We started out with the first two one.
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Your turn. Oh no, that's 16 is the last part. I know, but you can do two one.
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You could start us out, but we can end with after you do that. Okay, you, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine.
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So here. That was a good, that was a good. Yeah, it is.
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So what Paul's saying is, unlike the false teachers, Titus must actually focus on the right doctrine, correct teaching according to scripture, faithful to God's word, faithful to God.
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That's what it's saying. Do we have any prayer requests or comments or questions before we end?
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Well, if you pray for that, the water company that do their thing, it worked because I call them and they're gonna come and check it out.
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Oh, good. On Tuesday. Good, good. Okay. For her landscaping project.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, praise God. Well, we'll praise God for that. And we'll end here. Father, we're grateful that you answer prayers.
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Thank you that Diane's project at home will be fixed soon. Help her to see it through.
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And Father, we pray that you would protect the church throughout the week from every spiritual attack.
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Help us to depend on you and help us to not fear evil for we worship the risen
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King. Help us to focus on you tomorrow in Jesus name. Amen. Tomorrow is a full moon.
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I don't really follow astronomy like that, but a lot of Wiccans and witches, they do celebration on that day.
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So please pray extra tomorrow. Pray and fast if you're able.
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Pray for the kids. May God protect them. Okay. So please pray extra tomorrow.