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As part of our new season, kind 
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church for the fall, we are 
concluding the sermon on the 

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plane and starting a new book of
the Bible. 

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So if you got a bulletin on the 
front of that, it says that 

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there is grace for godliness. 
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grace of God and what it means 
to be set apart in a world of 

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evil and ungodliness. 
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the the fall months just being 
built up by the power of the 

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Holy Spirit to look like Jesus 
to this world that needs him by 

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the grace of God. 
So to do that, we're studying 

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the book of Titus. 
And as has been the case for a 

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number of our series of late, 
I've asked Doctor John Whitaker 

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to open the word and just give 
us kind of the the back story in

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the overview of the book, what 
we're going to study for the 

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next couple months. 
And so if you don't know John 

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Whitaker before I invite him up,
let me just tell you that he is 

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a just amazing brother of Christ
in our church. 

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He is also the voice of the 
listeners commentary. 

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If you have not listened to that
you want to study the Bible and 

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again, many of you, you got to 
start studying the Bible for 

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these times. 
Listeners commentary is a 

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podcast that will take you verse
by verse through the entire New 

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Testament. 
Other that he's just an amazing 

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Bible teacher. 
So help me. 

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Welcome to our little stage, 
John Whitaker. 

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All right, thanks, Tucker. 
Yeah, he mentioned he had me 

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start the First Timothy series 
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He had me kick off the Luke 
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summer and now the tightest 
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And so I think I'm like the 
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I just kick off the game. 
I'm not really part of the team,

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you know, just got to get the 
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yourself. 
So that's me. 

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As Tucker said, we're going to 
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and we're going to kick off that
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And to help us get started with 
the Book of Titus and the back 

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story to the Book of Titus, I 
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picture a table. 
And maybe your tables would, I 

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don't know. 
But I want you to picture like a

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a classic sort of four legged 
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In my mind, that table's square.
I don't know what shape yours 

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is, but mine's a square 4 legged
table. 

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And on any 4 legged table, if 
you have one of the legs that's 

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like shorter than the other leg,
what happens? 

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Yeah, the table wobbles, right. 
Have you ever been at a 

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restaurant with a wobbly table? 
Sort of annoying, isn't it? 

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Right. 
You want those legs to be the 

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same length. 
Well, what if your table, for 

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whatever reason, it's missing a 
whole leg. 

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Now you're at 4 legged tables. 
A three legged table. 

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How is that going to work for 
you, right? 

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Like your table needs 4 solid 
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be stable. 
Now here's the reason I bring 

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that up. 
On Friday morning, I was walking

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my dog at about 7:00 in the 
morning and 7:15 in the morning.

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And as I'm walking through the 
neighborhood, there is one of my

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neighbors backing her car out of
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And all of a sudden, I hear a 
little voice say hi, John. 

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And the little boy had rolled 
down his window and he was 

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saying hi to me as I walked my 
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And so I walked over to their 
car and the mom rolled down a 

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couple other wind windows. 
And I visited with him for a 

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little bit. 
And she was taking her little 

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boy to kindergarten that 
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And I asked her, how are you 
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And she said, good. 
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she followed up with it's been a
heavy week, but we're doing good

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and on the same thing. 
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social media and the reality is 
my friends list is populated by 

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a number of people who once sat 
in chairs like where you're 

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sitting, but no longer sit in 
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They once followed Jesus and no 
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And when you enter into, you 
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following Christ, when you have 
weeks that are heavy or hard, 

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when life gets overwhelming or 
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difficult, stressful, whatever 
it is, what is going to make 

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your life stable? 
Solid, right? 

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Like a table with four solid, 
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What's going to make your life 
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so that you get to the finish 
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Jesus? 
What's going to provide you a 

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stable, growing Christian life? 
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you're not, you're not yet sure 
that you follow Jesus and you're

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not even sure if you want to 
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I can tell you that, that the 
things we're going to talk about

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today and the following of Jesus
will not just make you have a 

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stable Christian life. 
It'll make you have a stable, 

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solid human life, a flourishing 
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And the first few verses out of 
Titus are going to introduce us 

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to like what what I think of as 
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That's why it's this 4 legged 
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Here's 4 fundamentals that you 
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Jesus. 
Here's 4 fundamentals that you 

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need to return to day after day 
after day if you want to make it

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to the finish line of your life 
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Here's 4 fundamentals that you 
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basis and invest in and pour 
your heart in if you want to 

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have a stable growing Christian 
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So let me read Titus chapter 1 
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It's the introduction to the 
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colleague Titus. 
And if again, if you're not 

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familiar with your Bible, so 
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are letters written from 
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that's what we have in the 
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So Titus chapter 1 verses one 
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Paul, a bondservant of God and 
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the faith of those chosen of God
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which is according to godliness,
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which God, who cannot lie, 
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at the proper time, revealed His
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which I, Paul, was entrusted 
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God our Savior. 2 Titus, my true
Son, in a common faith, grace 

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and peace from God the Father 
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Now, when you were in elementary
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write a letter, and we have our 
standard way of doing it, dear 

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John. 
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right? 
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taught how to write a letter, 
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taught to start a letter. 
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greetings. 
It's not like just a biblical 

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way to write a letter. 
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Roman way to write a letter. 
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And as a letter, this invites us
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Every e-mail correspondence you 
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that e-mail correspondence. 
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Every text message you send, 
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text message, right? 
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This is a letter from Paul to 
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And then some greetings and then
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of the sender and the recipient 
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But there's a back story. 
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What's that? 
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Well, here's here's probably our
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We don't know 100% exactly the 
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It's one of those letters that 
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of, but here's the most likely 
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Titus is on an island called 
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If we can put this map up, I'm 
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familiar with your Mediterranean
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So here's the Mediterranean Sea 
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You can see Crete down there, 
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Mediterranean Sea. 
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Mediterranean, and Titus is on 
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When Paul writes to him, Paul 
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is left, and he's left Titus 
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look like if we go to the next 
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So this is Crete out in the 
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this large island with a handful
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of this island. 
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happened. 
Paul on his way to his first 

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Roman imprisonment, the one 
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of Acts, sailing as a prisoner 
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They stop on this island at a 
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look at, and it's approaching 
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the Mediterranean Sea and the 
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of time, hoping to be able to 
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island in order to be protected 
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the winter before they finish 
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That was the plan. 
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Crete before his imprisonment 
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Didn't work out so well. 
He ended up getting shipwrecked 

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on Malta. 
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to Rome and being in prison for 
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imprisonment. 
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imprisonment, and he's resumed 
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And he was like, there is a good
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That's a place that needs to 
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Let's go back. 
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gets out of that imprisonment, 
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in ministry, Titus, sail back to
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gospel and making disciples and 
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And now Paul has left figure. 
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There's a handful of churches on
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I'm going to leave Titus there. 
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work. 
Titus will keep moving it 

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forward. 
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Titus is never mentioned in the 
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exactly who Titus is. 
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letters. 
Titus had been a long time 

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colleague of Paul. 
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letter, Titus has probably 
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14 years. 
Titus has been is like one of 

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his right hand men in ministry. 
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And Titus seems to be that guy 
who like, like if you had a 

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difficult situation, you had 
somebody who needed to deal with

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a, a hard conversation. 
You had somebody who needed like

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they could handle conflict, they
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situations. 
That's who Titus seems to be. 

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We, we think that because like 
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with Corinth and Paul, Titus was
the guy Paul sent and, and 

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Crete, well, Crete is where 
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And Crete had a reputation even 
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Crete had a reputation for being
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that is a hard place to live. 
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verb out of the, you know, if 
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it into a verb in, in Greek 
language and basically said to, 

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to act like a Cretan. 
That meant you were a jerk, a 

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scoundrel, a liar, a deceiver, 
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person. 
Like, yeah, you, you meet 

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somebody that you, you can't 
trust, and they're really kind 

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of a jerk. 
They're a cretin, right? 

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Titus now is left there to 
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And the church is young and the 
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And Paul Rice tells us, look, 
I'm going to give you some 

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instructions that'll help you 
get those guys stable, well 

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ordered, grounded in their faith
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the end. 
And that's essentially why Paul 

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writes this letter to Titus. 
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Titus is about. 
It's a letter written to a 

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ministry colleague saying, 
here's what I want you to do now

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that I'm gone. 
I want you to help those guys 

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get get the fundamentals of the 
faith really in place so that 

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they can be faithful all the way
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And I think that's why in the 
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greeting you, you get this long 
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It's not just Paul to Titus. 
Greetings. 

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You get Paul and then a long 
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and then greetings. 
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like the fundamentals Paul's 
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letter. 
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these 4 fundamentals that show 
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one down through verse 3. 
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stable, growing Christian life. 
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fundamentals. 
You never outgrow them. 

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You never outgrow fundamentals, 
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You started playing football 
when when you were seven years 

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old and you're playing optimist 
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for Boise State or somebody 
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Guess what the fundamentals you 
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using when you're 19202530 
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You never outgrow the 
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It doesn't matter. 
Maybe it's music and you, you 

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know, you started learning your 
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piano way back when you were 5-6
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piano freely and competently. 
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You still deploy the 
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We never outgrow the 
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fundamentals are like the four 
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and we will never outgrow them. 
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them over and over again. 
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to them and hear what Paul says.
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describes his ministry. 
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He's an apostle of Jesus for the
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That's fundamental #1 the faith,
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chosen people, the faith. 
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faith, that entails both what's 
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believing. 
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believing it. 
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faith. 
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faith of those who follow Jesus?
What is what is the core of our 

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The core of our faith has very 
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and a nice auditorium. 
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little to do with particular 
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faith, right? 
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That's not the core of our 
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And it's Jesus. 
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It's who Jesus is and what Jesus
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That's the faith that Paul 
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That's the faith that he gave 
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That's the faith he suffered 
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It was the faith of preaching 
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the dead. 
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That's what we believe. 
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We don't necessarily believe. 
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faith in a particular religious 
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We put it in a person, Jesus. 
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Jesus Christ, what does the word
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It means anointed 1 Anointed is 
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That's what it means. 
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Jesus the King, and that's the 
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faith. 
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from the dead, anointed him as 
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as King over all. 
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And someday the kingdoms of this
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of our Lord and of his King 
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Amen. 
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That's what we believe. 
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We we believe that Jesus is 
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And there's that content and 
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believing it. 
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means I trust Him. 
I trust him today on Sunday, 

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September 14th, 2025. 
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September 15th, right? 
I trust him and I and I will 

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entrust myself to him. 
So he's in charge. 

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What he said goes I I trust that
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I trust that his Kingdom will 
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I can trust his promises. 
I can trust his purposes. 

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I trust that his plan is good 
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way. 
In his time, I trust him. 

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I trust him in the the big grand
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in the details of my life. 
I trust him. 

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I trust him that that Jesus is 
the one who will make sure all 

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our dreams come true, all our 
longings for a happily ever 

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after will come true. 
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We trust him. 
That's fundamental #1 Jesus is 

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King, risen from the dead. 
We trust Him. 

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Fundamental #2 shows up in the 
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of those chosen of God and the 
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knowledge of the truth. 
That's fundamental #2 the truth.

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Notice. 
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It doesn't say your truth. 
It doesn't say my truth. 

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It says the truth, the truth. 
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Paul is saying I have given my 
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Jesus for the sake of people 
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Here's the problem. 
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history where people don't want 
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People don't buy that there is 
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People want your own truth. 
You live your truth. 

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I'll live my truth. 
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live in. 
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way. 
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believed in there was something 
definite that the world was 

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about, something definite about 
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That's called the truth. 
I don't know if you're familiar 

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with the name Frederick 
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philosopher. 
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Nietzsche famously said there is
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But As for the correct way, the 
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doesn't exist. 
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that was radical and 
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But today, that's just the air 
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That's the water we swim in. 
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Everyone has their own truth. 
Everyone has their own idea. 

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Everyone has their own way of 
doing things right. 

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There is your way, There is my 
way. 

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There's your truth. 
There's my truth. 

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But Paul doesn't say that. 
He says the truth, the knowledge

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of the truth. 
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Ultimately, Jesus as a person, 
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the life. 
But just at sort of a abstract 

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sort of level, what is the what 
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I'll tell you this, every like 5
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the truth is. 
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Because when they lie to mom and
dad, they know. 

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They know what the truth is and 
they know they're not saying it 

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right. 
You pretty much have to have a 

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PhD to get confused about truth.
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what truth is, and it's really 
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All right, so we'll put it on 
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What's truth? 
Here's a simple little 

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definition. 
Truth is when your ideas, your 

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beliefs, or things you say match
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When, when what you believe 
matches up with the way things 

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actually are, with the ideas 
that are in your mind, matches 

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up with the way things really 
are, when the things you say 

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match up with the way things 
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It's not complicated, it's not 
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And here's the deal. 
Truth doesn't care how you feel 

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about it. 
Truth doesn't care how sincerely

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you hate it or how sincerely you
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Like truth and error, they're 
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Simple illustration, number of 
years ago, I'm out with the 

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singing group from Boise Bible 
College and we're driving down 

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I5 between Olympia, WA and 
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And we're driving down the 
freeway and all of a sudden the 

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school van that we're in starts 
to kind of buck and lurch and 

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buck and lurch. 
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about 1/3 of a tank of gas. 
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heart, I believed it was true 
with all my heart. 

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But my van is now bucking and 
lurching on I-5 in the middle of

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nowhere. 
And I pointed to the student who

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was sitting, you know, shotgun 
over here. 

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And I just wanted to, you know, 
cover my backside. 

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Look what the fuel gauge says. 
I'm not an idiot, but it didn't 

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matter how sincerely I believe 
that, how deeply I believe that 

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I was wrong. 
The truth was I ran out of gas 

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along I-5, right? 
That's the way truth and air 

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work. 
If your beliefs don't match up 

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with reality, probably is not 
going to work out real well for 

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you, right? 
That's the nature of truth. 

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Truth is when the things we 
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the ideas that we envision match
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And Paul says he has given his 
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truth. 
The truth about God, the truth 

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about who's king, the truth 
about what it means to be human,

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the truth about what the goal of
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Do you want to know that truth? 
Do you want to know why you 

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exist? 
Do you want to know where your 

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life is going to end up? 
Do you want to know what really 

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matters in life? 
Well, Paul would say, then 

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listen to what I've taught you. 
Then listen to what I've said. 

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I would say, read the Bible 
because that's where you'll find

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what Paul taught you. 
That's where you'll find the 

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truth that he says, I'm I gave 
my life to teach you the truth. 

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Read the Bible. 
Now, how many times have you 

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heard that? 
If you've gone to church for a 

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long time, you've heard that a 
lot, right? 

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Because it's fundamental. 
Because it's fundamental. 

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If you want to be stable and 
growing and strong in your 

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Christian life, then then you 
need to read the Bible. 

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And you need that more now than 
ever. 

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We are awash in information and 
opinions and people's ideas, 

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right? 
Every day, all over the place, 

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24 hour news cycle scrolling on 
our phones. 

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We are awash in all sorts of 
information. 

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But that doesn't necessarily 
mean you know the truth. 

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You want to know the truth about
what it means to be human, the 

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truth about what it means to 
live a flourishing human life. 

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Then you need to know the truth 
that Paul taught, the truth of 

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Jesus that he passed on. 
And where are you going to find 

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that? 
In the Bible? 

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Read your Bible. 
Read it regularly. 

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Read it more than you listen to 
the news. 

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Read it more than you scroll on 
your phone. 

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Absorb it. 
Study it right, Spurgeon once 

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said, I want to know my Bible so
well that when they cut me open,

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I bleed Bible. 
What's your blood type? 

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Bible? 
Bleed Bible. 

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Know it, absorb it, take it into
your life. 

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Read the Bible, learn the Bible,
it's fundamental. 

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Know the truth because the truth
will set you free. 

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Jesus is the one who said that, 
right? 

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Learn the truth and the truth 
will set you free. 

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That's fundamental #2 and notice
what he says then in the last 

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part of verse one, that I want 
them to know the truth, which is

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according to godliness. 
What's godliness? 

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Godliness is living a life 
before God, God's way. 

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You live before the face of God,
and you live your life the way 

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of God. 
Remember, part of the truth of 

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the Bible is that how are you 
made? 

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You're made in the image of God.
You're made to function the way 

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God functions. 
That's what that means. 

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You're made to operate and 
function the way God functions. 

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So when you actually begin to 
live like God is, when you begin

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to act the way God would act, 
what are you doing? 

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You're actually honoring God and
fulfilling your humanity. 

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You're functioning properly. 
That's godliness. 

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Godliness is living before the 
face of God in the way of God. 

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And Paul's going to have a lot 
to say about that to us and 

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Titus, that word godliness will 
show up multiple times in Titus 

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and hence the reason for the 
title of the series, Grace for 

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godliness. 
God in his wisdom and grace can 

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give you the ability and the 
strength and the power to live 

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God's way in God's world for 
God's purposes. 

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Godliness, right? 
And that, again, is a key 

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fundamental We don't get if we 
actually want to live a genuine 

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human life and if we want to 
know the truth and if we want to

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live the faith, we don't get to 
make up our own way of doing 

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life. 
We don't get to choose our own 

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way. 
We don't get to go our own way. 

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We go God's way. 
We live like Jesus in the world 

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who embodied God among us. 
We do what He would do, we say 

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what He would say. 
We act the way He would act. 

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We listen to his teachings and 
we begin to put it in practice. 

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And so as you read your Bible, 
that's great, read it so you 

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know it. 
But then what do you have to do?

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You have to begin to do it. 
You have to begin to put it into

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practice. 
Don't just mark up your Bible, 

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highlight your Bible, put notes 
in your Bible without actually 

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saying, OK, now I'm going to 
practice my Bible. 

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I'm going to put it into 
practice. 

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I'm going to do what it says 
because I want to be godly. 

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I want to live God's way in this
world. 

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Truth is according to godliness.
It leads to that. 

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And then finally, the 4th 
fundamental he mentions here in 

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verse 2 is hope in the hope of 
eternal life, in the hope of 

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eternal life. 
Now, when we use the word hope 

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in English language, we almost 
sometimes mean something like a 

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wish. 
Gee, I sure hope my mom gets me 

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a new car for Christmas. 
Depending on your parents, that 

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could be a pretty foolish hope, 
right? 

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That's that's the way we use the
word. 

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That's just not what the Bible 
means by the word. 

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It's not like just some some 
sort of man. 

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I sure hope that turns out to be
that way. 

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When the Bible uses the word 
hope, it almost is better to 

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mean expectation in the 
expectation of eternal life, in 

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the confident aspect. 
Expectation that someday we will

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experience life with God the way
it was always meant to be. 

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Yes, eternal life begins now, 
but it culminates in a new 

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world. 
That's our hope. 

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We have a great expectation that
all God's promises will come 

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true and things will be 
different someday. 

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That's our hope, right? 
Christian hope is not some 

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vague, shadowy idea of a better 
place. 

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He went to a better place. 
That's not Christian hope. 

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Christian hope isn't like, you 
know, just some idea of a silver

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lining behind every dark cloud. 
That's not Christian hope. 

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What's Christian hope? 
Christian hope, in essence, is 

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this. 
The King will return to his 

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realm and he will rid the realm 
of all his enemies, and he will 

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sort out all that's wrong and 
make everything right, and he 

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will raise his people from the 
dead, and they will participate 

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in his resurrection with him 
forever. 

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That's our hope, that there will
be a new heavens and a new earth

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in which righteousness dwells. 
Second Peter, chapter 3. 

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That's our hope. 
Our hope is incredibly focused 

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and very specific. 
We are waiting for the return of

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the king. 
We are waiting for the 

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resurrected Jesus to come and 
raise us to be like his glorious

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resurrected body. 
That's our hope. 

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We are looking forward to a day 
when there's a new heavens and a

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new earth and everything is the 
way it's supposed to be someday.

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We're looking forward to the day
when God comes to dwell on the 

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new earth and wipes away every 
tear from our eyes and makes all

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things new. 
And God will dwell with us 

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again, and we will dwell with 
him forever, raised, glorious 

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like Christ. 
That's our hope. 

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That's what we count on. 
That's what we're waiting for. 

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Someday there will be a new 
world in which Jesus is King 

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completely and forever, and all 
the kingdoms of this world have 

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given way to his glorious, 
eternal Kingdom. 

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That's our hope. 
And all who are with him will be

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raised eternal, like him. 
That's what we wait for. 

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Now. 
Why? 

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Why would you believe that? 
We haven't seen that, right? 

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We haven't been there yet. 
Why would you believe that? 

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Paul says because God promised 
it and he can't lie. 

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God cannot lie because he 
himself is truth and he promised

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it. 
And then Paul says not only did 

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he promise that long ago, but 
he's now revealed it through my 

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preaching. 
What is Paul talking about? 

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Jesus has risen from the dead. 
How do you know there's going to

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be a resurrection? 
How do you know there's going to

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be a glorious eternal Kingdom? 
How do you know there's going to

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be a new heavens and a new 
earth? 

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Jesus is risen from the dead. 
That's how you know. 

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That's why we can count on it. 
We don't have to guess. 

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We That's why it's a confident 
expectation. 

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Jesus is king, risen from the 
dead right now, today, raining 

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on his throat, waiting until he 
determines that he's going to 

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put all his enemies under his 
feet. 

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The last enemy will be death. 
That's what we wait for and we 

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believe it because it's already 
happened in Jesus. 

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00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,520
Jesus gave the devil home field 
advantage and beat him on his 

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turf. 
And we will be raised too 

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00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,720
because of that. 
Those 4 fundamentals, Faith, 

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truth, godliness and hope you 
never outgrow Him. 

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Return to Him day after day. 
Return to Him day by day. 

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Nourish your faith and trust 
yourself to Him, right? 

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00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,560
Study the truth, learn the 
truth, live the truth, and set 

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your gaze on the glorious hope 
to come when Jesus returns. 

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And if you do that, your life 
will be like a stable 4 legged 

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table that doesn't wobble, that 
doesn't shake right when things 

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00:32:57,440 --> 00:32:59,440
get topsy, turvy and unstable in
the world. 

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00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,240
Your life will be rock solid and
tape and stable. 

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Why? 
Because your life is founded on 

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the King of Kings and the Lord 
of Lords. 

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Faith, truth, godliness and 
hope. 4 Fundamentals of a 

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faithful, stable, growing 
Christian life. 

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And as we go through Titus, 
we're going to get to explore 

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those themes over and over again
so that hopefully, hopefully you

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and I, we will make it to the 
finish line faithful. 

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We will make it to the finish 
line stable and strong, pleasing

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to Jesus who laid down his life 
for us. 

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