1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,500 You have your Bible with you open the tightest, one by the 2 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:11,700 chapter, 1 will be in verses 15 and 16 today as you're turning 3 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:13,600 there I'll just kind of remind you what we're doing. 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,100 We are studying the book of Titus together so we've just 5 00:00:16,100 --> 00:00:18,900 been walking through it. Verse by verse this is known as 6 00:00:18,900 --> 00:00:22,400 expositional, preaching. We're just you say what the text 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,500 says you read it and you expose it it so that everyone knows 8 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:28,600 what the Bible says. And then we try to align 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,700 ourselves with God's word and right worship, right response to 10 00:00:32,700 --> 00:00:34,200 him. So we're demands. 11 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,300 Sentence we repent where the man's faith. 12 00:00:36,300 --> 00:00:40,900 We we hope to have faith. We're commands are obedient we 13 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:44,000 want to be obedient to it where it encourages our souls? 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,500 We want to be encouraged by it. And so today is a, it's really a 15 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:51,400 bit of all of those things. And really what today is, it's 16 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,100 one. It's too short verses, but 17 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:59,200 they're laying out for you, the purpose of the Gospel, the good 18 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,000 news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, that that sound Doctrine 19 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,900 is lutely, life-changing, that it transforms you and keeps you 20 00:01:08,900 --> 00:01:11,200 from having to obey as we'll see. 21 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:18,300 Today, myths or the commands of men, but that you honor God and 22 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:19,900 right worship, right? Obedience to him. 23 00:01:19,900 --> 00:01:22,700 And so the gospel informs our godliness. 24 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:26,200 That's the point of the book of Titus is that the gospel be 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,200 Central in your life. And I'll talk more about what I 26 00:01:29,208 --> 00:01:30,700 mean. When I say gospel, talk about 27 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:33,600 the good news of Jesus Christ, I'll get into that. 28 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:36,300 Talk through these first sections. 29 00:01:36,900 --> 00:01:40,000 Let me, let me pray for us. Pray for us, as we open God's 30 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:43,800 word that our hearts would be open to receive it or ears. 31 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:47,200 And our eyes would be open to see it. 32 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,500 And to hear it, it's a receive it. 33 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,400 Heavenly Father, we praise you today. 34 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,300 I got to thank you for the time of singing that we've had this 35 00:01:56,300 --> 00:01:59,900 morning of worship with our with our voices to you today. 36 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:03,600 The prayers that we've heard today which are honoring to you. 37 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:07,200 And so, as we We open our Bible, lord, it's in those very same. 38 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,100 It's, in that same mindset that we open up your word to worship 39 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:13,700 you. We open up your word to know you 40 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,500 so that we might rightly worship you. 41 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:20,300 And so father, we ask right now that you would open our hearts 42 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:25,700 and Minds that you by your spirit would inform our minds. 43 00:02:25,700 --> 00:02:30,100 You would inform our hearts on what the word says, so that we 44 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:34,100 might live it. Father, if we open this book, 45 00:02:34,700 --> 00:02:39,500 And we attempt to study it apart from your spirit, there will be 46 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:44,000 no fruit in that, we might arrive at some thoughts, we 47 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,600 might arrive at some knowledge, we might arrive at, even some 48 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,400 facts. My father we will not arrive at 49 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,700 Salvation. We will not arrive at godliness. 50 00:02:52,700 --> 00:02:56,200 We need your spirit for that and so we ask that your spirit be 51 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,100 with us now that he illuminate the scriptures for us. 52 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,800 Holy spirit, would you lead us? Now, as we open up the word in 53 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:06,900 Christ, Um I pray, amen. Amen. 54 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:12,900 So Titus 1 15 and 16. Let me just read this to you to 55 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:18,900 the pure. All things are pure but to the 56 00:03:18,908 --> 00:03:26,300 defiled and unbelieving. Nothing is pure but both their 57 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:31,500 minds and their consciences are defiled. 58 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:38,200 They profess to know God but they deny him by their works. 59 00:03:39,700 --> 00:03:48,200 They are detestable. Disobedience unfit for any good 60 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:52,500 work. If you'll recall the context 61 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:55,100 with me for just a moment, Paul has charged. 62 00:03:55,100 --> 00:03:59,600 He charges Titus and verse 5 of chapter one to appoint elders 63 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:03,400 and every town these men were to be of Godly character. 64 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,500 They had a responsibility really three responsibilities. 65 00:04:06,500 --> 00:04:11,600 One was to hold firm to God's trustworthy word as they 66 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,000 received it, as it had been taught to them by the, by the 67 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 apostles, by the spirit of God, and all of that. 68 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,400 So that they may Able to equip the body for every good work 69 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:29,000 through instruction and sound Doctrine teaching. 70 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,100 The body of Believers what the word says, and how to follow it 71 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,900 and that they might also rebuke those who contradict it. 72 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:41,900 This is the the context of verses 15 and 16, Paul is 73 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,300 describing the false teachers that are present. 74 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:49,000 In Crete, in the churches in Crete, the ones who are 75 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:52,800 upsetting hole Families by teaching for shameful gain. 76 00:04:52,900 --> 00:04:56,500 What they ought not to teach. And so in the preceding verses, 77 00:04:56,500 --> 00:05:00,600 these false teachers are guilty of upsetting whole family's 78 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,300 there. They're teaching and verse 14, 79 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,800 Jewish myths. And the commands of people who 80 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:10,400 turn away from the truth teaching, Jewish myths and the 81 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,800 commands of people who turn away from the truth. 82 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,700 That's a clue into what we're looking at today. 83 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:20,700 Their crew as Paul describes them are many that there are 84 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,100 Many who are insubordinate. He says, there are many who are 85 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:29,800 deceivers, are many who are empty talkers here in Crete 86 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:34,600 Crete was by its nature. A Place, full of people who are 87 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:41,100 always Liars, we're evil beasts, lazy gluttons and he especially 88 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:43,400 included. Paul does he said especially 89 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:49,300 those of the circumcision party. Now if there was ever a name, 90 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:53,400 you didn't want for your party that should be it right? 91 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,100 I mean somebody comes in and says hey you want to check out 92 00:05:56,108 --> 00:05:58,500 this new political party. You want to check out this new 93 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:02,300 party that's risen to power. Your like oh yeah what are you 94 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:03,900 talking about? What is it, what's the 95 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:10,800 circumcision party? You're like oh ouch, I'm busy, 96 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,400 sorry. And they might say, well, I 97 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,600 didn't even say win yet. It's like I'm busy forever, 98 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,700 right? Like, I've got nothing to do 99 00:06:17,700 --> 00:06:20,300 with that. So the circumcision party is a 100 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:24,800 terrible name for a party, but what it's describing men who 101 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:30,100 held fast to Jewish men especially who held fast to Old 102 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:34,700 Testament ceremonial laws like circumcision for the inclusion 103 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:39,100 into God's people that you must perform a work. 104 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,200 To be included in God's people that you're not included by into 105 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,200 God's people by faith, but it's through works. 106 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,100 It's things like observing, holy days, making sure, not to forget 107 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:57,100 those eating rituals. There were purification laws and 108 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:02,200 these first century Jews were, especially guilty of adding to 109 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,900 God's commands. This is, we'll see. 110 00:07:04,900 --> 00:07:07,000 In a moment is what Christ dealt with. 111 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,500 And the judge people who will not adhere to their additions, 112 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:15,200 to the law that these people are not worthy of Salvation. 113 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,000 These people are less They need to step up to a another form of 114 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,000 Christianity. Essentially, another form of 115 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,400 religiosity is a better a better term. 116 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,500 So Jesus had several encounters with such people. 117 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,200 In one instance, we find it in Luke, 11 verse 37 to 41. 118 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,400 I'll just read this to you while. 119 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,300 Jesus was speaking. A Pharisee asked him to dine 120 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:41,600 with him. So he went and he reclined at 121 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:43,700 the table. So Christ has been speaking a 122 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:46,400 Pharisee, a teacher of the law comes and says, hey, why don't 123 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,900 you You come and eat with me. Why don't you come over to my 124 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:50,600 house? We'll have supper together 125 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,100 crisis. Okay, he's reclining at the 126 00:07:54,100 --> 00:07:57,500 table and the Pharisee was astonished. 127 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:03,100 He just couldn't believe it. He that Jesus did not first wash 128 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,500 before dinner. In verse 39, the Lord says to 129 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:10,800 him. Now, you Pharisees cleanse the 130 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:17,200 outside of the cup and of the dish but inside you are full of 131 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:24,800 greed and wickedness, you fools. Jesus says, did not. 132 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,300 He who made the outside, make the inside. 133 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:34,600 Also but give as alms as worship as soccer. 134 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:40,799 Vice those things that are within, And behold everything is 135 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:43,900 clean for you. And so in that way, Christ 136 00:08:43,900 --> 00:08:49,000 declared that all foods were clean, the Pharisees added to 137 00:08:49,500 --> 00:08:52,800 the scriptures. This is their one of their main 138 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:54,500 sins. They were guilty of they devoted 139 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:57,800 themselves to keeping their own Traditions. 140 00:08:58,300 --> 00:09:02,200 There was a between the Old Testament period of Malachi or 141 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,600 last Old Testament booklet. We have the minor Prophet 142 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,900 Malachi between that period and the period of Christ. 143 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:13,500 Birth God showing up on Earth and in the his son, there's 144 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:17,000 about 400 years there of what's known, as silence. 145 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,400 The God is not, he's not with his people. 146 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,400 He's not something he just left them, but he's not active. 147 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:24,700 Like he was in the Old Testament. 148 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,200 Is not showing up, delivering them from things, they're 149 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,100 suffering harm and violence, and So difficult time. 150 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:34,600 But during that period, these this group of Pharisees, rose 151 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:39,100 up, and they begin to create their own Traditions around 152 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:42,700 Jewish teachings around Jewish laws and they added to it. 153 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:45,100 And so, they created their own system, but the system was a 154 00:09:45,100 --> 00:09:48,600 system of Oppression. The system was a system meant to 155 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,500 keep them in power to gain them, wealth to gain, notoriety the 156 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:55,100 system was for them, it wasn't for God. 157 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:59,600 And so this is why Christ is so pointed you fool. 158 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,300 Will's did he did not? He who made the outside. 159 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:09,200 Make the inside also And so the Pharisees are guilty of this. 160 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:12,800 They're not guilty of, they're not accused of Riot worship, 161 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:16,400 they're accused of faulty worship wrong worship. 162 00:10:17,700 --> 00:10:22,400 It's like keeping Traditions rather than worshiping. 163 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,400 God is what Christ is saying is it's like finding the restaurant 164 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,700 Cup and the back of your minivan, right at your child got 165 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:34,100 three weeks ago and it's still got some liquid in it and some 166 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:35,600 other science experiment is in there. 167 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,300 Now, you know, just been sitting in the heat. 168 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:41,100 It's like finding that cup taking it inside and you just 169 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,000 wash the outside of it and then drink, what's in it? 170 00:10:45,300 --> 00:10:48,600 This is what Christ is saying. This is foolish of you. 171 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,500 Are, we the only people with a minivan that this has happened 172 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:54,700 to, I guess? That's probably on me. 173 00:10:56,400 --> 00:11:00,000 I'm sorry. I just hope the kids aren't back 174 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:01,500 there. Drinking it, you know, it's 175 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:04,200 anyway, so it's foolish is what Christ is saying? 176 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,700 You washing the outside of something, but the inside is 177 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:12,000 putrid, it's nasty, it's gross. And so, this kind of worship is 178 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,400 disgusting to God. It's not real worship. 179 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,400 So, Jesus, accuses them of hypocrisy, right? 180 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:24,100 It's an outward showing of Faith, but inwardly, there's no 181 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,600 substance there, they look clean. 182 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,400 But on the inside, they're full of greed. 183 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,600 Prices are full of wickedness. And so after rebuking them, he 184 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:35,300 corrects their view of worship, give alms of those things that 185 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:39,500 are within. So it's not the outward signs. 186 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,700 It's not the Washings of your hands before you eat the washing 187 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:46,900 of your face. It's, where's your heart? 188 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:50,000 Where's your heart before the Lord? 189 00:11:51,900 --> 00:11:57,700 Crosses telling them your, your acts of or acts of true worship. 190 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:02,300 Begin with your heart, begin in your heart, if you will present 191 00:12:02,300 --> 00:12:05,800 your heart. If you will present your whole 192 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:10,200 life to God, if you will love the Lord, your God above all 193 00:12:10,900 --> 00:12:15,600 else with all of your heart, all of your mind, all of your 194 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,700 strength. I love your soul than you. 195 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,200 This is right worship. You will be clean in this. 196 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,700 Those are the kind of people that tied us up against and 197 00:12:28,700 --> 00:12:35,700 taught us one and like Jesus. Paul says rebuke them so that 198 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,800 whole families may be whole again, right? 199 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:43,100 So that the entire family unit may be made whole that they 200 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:47,300 would not follow after Jewish miss or the camp commands of men 201 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,300 who turn away from the truth. They would be sound and doctrine 202 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:55,500 that they'd be growing in godliness, Titus 1 13 through 203 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:58,100 14, therefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound 204 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,300 in the faith, but that they there is also referring to or it 205 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:03,500 does refer to the false teachers. 206 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:08,000 So the review is to save them from their false beliefs. 207 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,800 Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths or the commands of 208 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,500 people turn away from the truth. These false teachers were up to 209 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,000 the same old tricks. They're adding to the rejecting 210 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:22,000 scripture and especially now as the gospels, come on the scene, 211 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:25,500 the rejecting, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the rejecting 212 00:13:25,500 --> 00:13:28,100 salvation, by faith alone, in Christ alone. 213 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:32,500 Why? Well, I suspect that they're 214 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:36,400 motivated by power and wealth, and influence those things. 215 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,900 Belong to people who Lord over others. 216 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,300 And if you can create a system that has you lording over other 217 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:46,800 people, you're the top dog. You get the most benefit from 218 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,900 it. So it's oppression through false 219 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:52,200 teaching. It reared, its ugly head really 220 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:54,900 in two ways that that Paul lays out here. 221 00:13:54,900 --> 00:13:58,900 One is the word asceticism. It rears its head through 222 00:13:58,900 --> 00:14:01,200 asceticism. Now asceticism is the The 223 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:06,100 doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual moral 224 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:11,400 state by practicing self-denial self-mortification and the like 225 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:15,700 it's the that you can become more spiritually fit. 226 00:14:16,700 --> 00:14:21,500 You can become more. You can have a higher 227 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:25,600 spirituality by denying, your flesh things. 228 00:14:27,300 --> 00:14:30,800 Now, like most false doctrines, this isn't a total false 229 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:34,800 teaching, but it's certainly a twisting of what God says, 230 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,500 because these people were teaching that refraining from 231 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:40,100 certain foods, refraining from drink. 232 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,700 Refraining from or abstaining from the company with the wrong 233 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:50,900 kinds of people. The by avoiding participation in 234 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:55,700 certain events or having certain events. 235 00:14:57,500 --> 00:15:00,100 That all of this was for the sake of achieving, a higher 236 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:05,000 spiritual state. So it's asceticism that the 237 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:08,500 other one is traditionalism which is an adherence to your 238 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:12,800 Traditions as your Authority. Well, the problem with that is 239 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:18,400 when God is no longer when you have added to scripture, you can 240 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,500 say that scripture is our Authority. 241 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,200 But really, what's your Authority or you're adding stew 242 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,100 or you're removing from scripture? 243 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,700 It which is are your traditions. Right? 244 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:31,700 And so by your tradition, your adherence to tradition, you deny 245 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:38,300 God, you deny what God has said. So these things showed up 246 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:41,100 through circumcision, you must be circumcised to be in the 247 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,000 family of God. You must observe holy days. 248 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,500 You must participate. In ceremonial Washings because 249 00:15:47,500 --> 00:15:50,700 these Traditions are our Authority. 250 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,500 They're what make us clean? Meaning they give you your 251 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,700 marching orders and then they may not be God. 252 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:00,500 And these teachers certainly aren't saying that these 253 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:04,900 Traditions are our God and I'm going to be that bold but that's 254 00:16:04,900 --> 00:16:07,700 what happened. They if you were to know God you 255 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:12,000 had to do these things. So those things become God, it's 256 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:19,100 idolatry. so, Jewish myths and the commands of men, Rebuked 257 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:22,900 them tires. So that they those teachers and 258 00:16:22,900 --> 00:16:26,100 the churches will no longer devote themselves to such 259 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:30,900 foolishness, but asceticism and traditionalism have always been 260 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,900 threats to the church. The Protestant Reformation, the 261 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:37,400 Rebellion against Roman Catholicism was in response. 262 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:41,100 This happened in the 1500s was in response to asceticism and 263 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:45,400 traditionalism Roman Catholic sir, teach for shameful gain. 264 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,000 What they ought not to teach that if you'll pay Penance for 265 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 your Self and for loved ones their monetary gifts through 266 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:55,700 denying yourself of certain things for a more holy life. 267 00:16:55,700 --> 00:17:00,900 That They set the pope up as the sole decision maker on God's 268 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:06,099 word back. Then the people didn't even have 269 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:08,300 the word translated in their own language. 270 00:17:08,300 --> 00:17:09,800 They weren't allowed to read God's word. 271 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:13,099 They had to take the pope as their Authority, his translation 272 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:17,900 of it and so it was oppressive, right? 273 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:22,599 All those people Must submit themselves to the Roman Catholic 274 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:26,700 Church are being falsely taught things. 275 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:32,200 And so Martin Luther. Made a stand against them. 504 276 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:37,600 years ago, this month, actually, Halloween day is the Reformation 277 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,000 day. It's the anniversary of the 278 00:17:39,008 --> 00:17:43,100 Protestant Reformation. And we praise God for him and 279 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:47,400 other reformers who came after him, who lived by this Mantra 280 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,600 that you are saved by grace alone through faith alone in 281 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,000 Christ alone, according to the scriptures alone for the glory 282 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,900 of God Alone. That this was there. 283 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:00,900 They didn't word it that way, then but it became it developed 284 00:18:00,900 --> 00:18:02,500 itself. Over the years of the 285 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:07,700 Reformation, these are the core tenets of it and asceticism and 286 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:09,500 traditionalism still exist today. 287 00:18:09,500 --> 00:18:15,300 There The other more obvious in the likes of Catholicism but 288 00:18:15,300 --> 00:18:18,100 there are many who are guilty of denying self interest. 289 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,700 We're guilty of holding up the commands of men, adhering 290 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:25,000 strictly to traditional religious practice in order to 291 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,600 achieve godliness. One term we've used for that 292 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:32,600 around here at times is the idea of cultural Christianity, a 293 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,400 culturally you appear Christian. You go to church, you know your 294 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,400 mouth is mostly clean. You don't. 295 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:42,900 Maybe you don't watch certain things, you don't listen to 296 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:45,300 certain things. You try to avoid certain things 297 00:18:45,300 --> 00:18:47,500 and that is what makes you pure before. 298 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:49,300 God, that is what you're relying on. 299 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:52,400 You're relying on your Works before the Lord, there are many 300 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:57,600 Many in our culture who believe these things who act this way. 301 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:00,700 And it's really of no fault of their own churches. 302 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:02,600 Have discipled them to believe this way. 303 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:08,200 For years. And so there, hope for salvation 304 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,800 and godliness is in their strict religious practices. 305 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:16,200 We might label them legalist and my label them traditionalist 306 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,200 today, but the fact remains that people are relying on their 307 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:25,200 privates and outwardly religious works for salvation and Paul's 308 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,700 going to say of such people that they profess to know God but 309 00:19:27,700 --> 00:19:31,100 they deny him by their Works in verse 16. 310 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,400 So what's the answer to these problems? 311 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,500 What does Paul layout? For Titus to teach to the 312 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:40,700 churches. All in verse 15, he says to the 313 00:19:40,700 --> 00:19:45,300 pure, all things are pure. This is what I want us to 314 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:47,400 remember today. This is how I think Christians 315 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,800 ought to live today. There are some who believe that 316 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,200 to the pure. All things are pure were a kind 317 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,200 of Mantra for these early Christians as they were 318 00:19:55,200 --> 00:20:01,700 combating, the likes of Judaism and outward worldliness that 319 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:05,300 they reminded themselves that hey, to the pure, all things are 320 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:11,100 pure and I'll unpack that now. But what they're saying is that 321 00:20:11,100 --> 00:20:18,900 to the clean, all things are clean. all right, it's a It 322 00:20:18,900 --> 00:20:21,100 becomes a Battle Cry for the Christian. 323 00:20:22,500 --> 00:20:23,800 That the early church found itself. 324 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,100 Constantly disputing these GF Jewish purification processes, 325 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:30,900 dietary regulations. There's a whole Council that 326 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:35,500 takes place and acts 15 about this in Jerusalem, to decide 327 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:37,800 what it is that Gentiles must do. 328 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:44,700 To be Christians. Jesus answered his critics Paul 329 00:20:44,700 --> 00:20:48,100 defends the church. It was a battle that was being 330 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:50,400 waged in first century. We must understand that if we're 331 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,000 to understand what is meant by to the pure, all things are 332 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000 pure. So what about Paul mean by 333 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,600 classifying people? As pure, what does he mean by 334 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:02,200 saying that you are clean? Maybe remember in the upper room 335 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:06,300 When Jesus washed the disciples feet final night. 336 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,100 Of Christ's life just before they go to the garden. 337 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:16,600 And Jesus is betrayed Sorry, Jesus has betrayed by Judas 338 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,100 Jesus grabs water. He grabs a basin a bowl, and he 339 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:26,200 fills it up with this water and grabs a towel, and he begins to 340 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:31,200 wash the disciples feet And he comes to Peter, and Peter 341 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,400 objects--. Peter says, Lord, do you wash my 342 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,400 feet? Just think about the humility in 343 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,400 this, right? I mean, back then you didn't 344 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,700 wear shoes with socks and adds a whole nother level of 345 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,700 uncleanness, I understand. But you just walked around in 346 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:50,700 your sandals, right? You walked around with dirty 347 00:21:50,700 --> 00:21:55,600 feet, nasty from travel, and Jesus and kneels down. 348 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:59,300 And he begins to wash the feet of these dirty feeted. 349 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,300 Men And what he teaches them as humility. 350 00:22:03,300 --> 00:22:07,600 What he teaches him how to be a servant but he makes a statement 351 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,900 in this interaction with Peter that we need to understand. 352 00:22:09,900 --> 00:22:13,900 He says Jesus responds to Peter. Lorre, do you wash my feet? 353 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:19,900 Jesus says right now, right now Peter, you do not understand 354 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,000 what I am doing. But afterward, you will 355 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,400 understand. And Peter replied. 356 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:33,200 Listen, she's you shall never wash my feet. 357 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:37,100 Lesbians are he is being as humble. 358 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:42,600 Here's a, can he recognizes that he is in the presence of God, 359 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,200 the son? And God, the son is going to 360 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:49,900 kneel down and watch this video. Never Jesus, I can take care of 361 00:22:49,908 --> 00:22:53,800 my own feet. And Jesus answered him. 362 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,000 If I do not wash you, you have no share with me. 363 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:00,200 If I do not wash you you have no share with me. 364 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,700 So Peter quickly corrects himself and he says Lord not my 365 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:08,200 feet only but also my hands and my head. 366 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,000 You know? So now it's like what if I don't 367 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:13,100 wash you, you have no share with me. 368 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:14,400 So Peter says oh I'm all in then. 369 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:23,000 Give me a bath right behave me. Jesus But Jesus reminds him he 370 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:27,700 says those sorry, the one who has bathed does not need to wash 371 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:32,900 except for his feet but is completely clean and you Peter 372 00:23:32,900 --> 00:23:35,300 are clean. You're clean. 373 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:39,400 Later, as the disciples are traveling with Jesus in the 374 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,900 garden moments before his arrest Jesus is teaching about the True 375 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:47,100 Vine and the branches in this word clean pops up again. 376 00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:51,700 And he says to the disciples. He says already. 377 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:52,900 He's saying I am the True. Vine. 378 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,300 You are the branches. You must abide in me. 379 00:23:56,100 --> 00:24:00,400 And then he says already, you are clean because of the word 380 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,700 that I have spoken to. You, you make cling by the word 381 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,800 of God. Your maid clean by his making 382 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,300 you clean, not by you, cleaning yourself. 383 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:15,900 So what does Paul mean? When he says that people are 384 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,100 pure, he describes to the pure, all things are pure. 385 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:23,000 Well, he has a mind. Those who have received the word 386 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:27,200 of Jesus Christ as their Lord, by faith and through the 387 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,300 proclamation of the gospel. And so now, they are clean. 388 00:24:30,300 --> 00:24:34,400 They are pure In other words, you don't have to participate in 389 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:36,700 these things because you are pure. 390 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,600 These are Jewish myths, you are pure. 391 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:42,200 These are the commands of men. You are pure. 392 00:24:44,500 --> 00:24:47,200 And John 6:29. Jesus answers the crowd. 393 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:51,400 He says, this is the work of God that you believe in him who has 394 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,700 sent whom. He has sent Jesus saying, this 395 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,500 is the work of God that you believe in me. 396 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:02,500 Whom the father has sent in John 6. 40 Jesus says, just a few 397 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:04,800 verses later. He says, for this is the will of 398 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,800 my father, that everyone who looks on the sun, talking about 399 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:13,400 Christ, the son and believes in Him should have eternal life. 400 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,700 And I will raise him up on the last day. 401 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:20,000 You're made clean by looking upon the sun. 402 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,800 Your make clean by faith in the Son of God, you will be raised 403 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,500 to eternal life because of your belief in Jesus Christ. 404 00:25:30,500 --> 00:25:33,800 How does one receive eternal life will you must become a new 405 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:36,300 creation. You must be washed. 406 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:41,500 You must be born again. Second Corinthians 5:16. 407 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:44,300 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, meaning he's received 408 00:25:44,300 --> 00:25:47,600 Christ by faith, he is a new creation. 409 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,400 The old has passed away. Behold. 410 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800 The new has come, he is a new creation in Christ. 411 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,900 Jesus. Paul's going to clarify in Titus 412 00:25:56,900 --> 00:25:59,200 Chapter 3 Verses 4 through 7. I'm going to read it to you 413 00:25:59,208 --> 00:26:01,700 because it's so amazing. What it means to be clean. 414 00:26:01,700 --> 00:26:05,100 He says, but when the goodness and loving, kindness of God, our 415 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:12,000 savior appeared he saved us. Not because of the works done by 416 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,100 us in righteousness of the again, Titus 3 is in the context 417 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,100 of Titus 1. It's dealing with these false 418 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:19,700 teachers. It's not by works of 419 00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:21,300 righteousness that you've been saved. 420 00:26:21,500 --> 00:26:25,200 He says but according to his own Mercy by the washing of 421 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,700 regeneration and renewing of the holy spirit. 422 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:32,800 So you are made clean by the washing of regeneration which 423 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,900 happens by the mercy of God says whom he poured out on us richly 424 00:26:37,900 --> 00:26:39,100 through. Jesus Christ, Our Savior. 425 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,800 So that being said, Justified by his grace again, not by your 426 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,900 works. We might become heirs according 427 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:52,500 to the hope of eternal life. So he says to the pure, all 428 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:58,500 things are pure. But you were pure and you were 429 00:26:58,500 --> 00:27:03,800 only pure by the grace of God. The really should have been more 430 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:07,900 a men's there, this is something we need to believe in fatica 431 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:09,800 lie. I'm not going to say it again. 432 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,400 Those, I'm not going to give you that chance, right? 433 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,200 Here we go. Just getting to those who are 434 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,600 pure. You were only pure by God's 435 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,400 grace, amen? Okay. 436 00:27:21,500 --> 00:27:23,900 I'll just keep asking for a men's will do this. 437 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:30,600 But your made pure by the grace of God, through faith in Christ 438 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,500 so that the appearance of Jesus Christ, which has in mind, his 439 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:40,500 perfect life, his atoning death, his resurrection through that 440 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,100 God saved you through that, God Saves you. 441 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:49,900 It's not that you never, it was not that, and there never will 442 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:53,700 be by your works, right? It's not a certain work you're 443 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:56,300 doing, you're not a causing yourself a rise up. 444 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,300 Some certain level you have to achieve its by his Mercy that he 445 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:04,800 washes you, in fact to receive salvation, the only thing you 446 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:08,800 have to offer are your sins. You have no works of 447 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,200 righteousness to offer, you come before the Lord. 448 00:28:12,900 --> 00:28:16,100 And you you Neal I'll get down here behind this song remain on 449 00:28:16,100 --> 00:28:22,200 camera kneel before the Lord and you offer your sins and humility 450 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,600 to him. This is the only way. 451 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:30,300 You're saved. It's through. 452 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,100 Humility. God, I am not God. 453 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:38,300 I am not Lord. You are Lord, he poured out 454 00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:43,900 richly. Your Grace your mercy through 455 00:28:43,900 --> 00:28:48,700 Jesus Christ you've washed me by your Holy Spirit and so you're 456 00:28:48,700 --> 00:28:53,400 justified by his grace once an air of Eternal damnation. 457 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,600 Now you are an heir of eternal life. 458 00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:01,000 Your whole Nature has changed, you are a new creation in 459 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:01,900 Christ. Jesus. 460 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,000 And so if there's anybody in here today, who's unbelieving, 461 00:29:07,900 --> 00:29:12,200 non-Christian, not professed faith in Christ, you check-in it 462 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:14,800 out, you're curious or you just skeptical. 463 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,300 I'm so grateful that you're here today to hear these things and I 464 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:23,300 pray that the Lord would make them known to you to reveal them 465 00:29:23,300 --> 00:29:26,100 to you that you two would humble yourself. 466 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:31,100 If you want to achieve Purity, it will not be through your 467 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:35,200 moral works. You must humble yourself before 468 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,000 God. You must admit that you are in 469 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,000 pure. Just admit that you are 470 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:48,300 incapable. Of making yourself pure and you 471 00:29:48,308 --> 00:29:53,000 must trust in the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ for 472 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,200 your salvation. As trust, in his death, his 473 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:01,700 resurrection, he died for your sins and that only by believing 474 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:04,500 in his death and Resurrection, will you be saved? 475 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,900 You must put your faith in Christ alone to be saved. 476 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,100 Second Corinthians 5:21 for our sake. 477 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:13,200 He made him to be sin who knew no sin. 478 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:17,100 So that in him, we might become the righteousness of God. 479 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:23,200 Brothers and sisters Christians and here you are already clean 480 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,900 because of the word of Christ. If you've received the word of 481 00:30:26,900 --> 00:30:30,200 Christ, do not turn back to something else. 482 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,600 Do not lean on your good works. Continue in faith alone in 483 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,900 Christ, Jesus. Galatians 3 1, through 3, o 484 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:46,000 foolish Galatians who has Bewitched you It was before your 485 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,200 eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. 486 00:30:50,500 --> 00:30:57,400 Let me ask you, Only this. Did you receive the Spirit by 487 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:06,600 works or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish having begun 488 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,300 by the spirit that you are now being perfected by the flesh? 489 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:17,500 Paul says So, what Jesus means went to the ones who were 490 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:19,700 claiming they have no need. The one who has bathed, he has 491 00:31:19,700 --> 00:31:22,200 no need to bathe again, but he must wash his feet. 492 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:28,700 You wash your feet. Daily, because your feet becomes 493 00:31:28,700 --> 00:31:30,800 stain through the sins in your life. 494 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:36,500 Meaning your your life has the remnants of the flesh, your life 495 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:40,100 still battles, the fuss. You still make sinful choices 496 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,500 you're drawn along and tempted by your own desires. 497 00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:46,700 And when you give way to those desires that could birth to sin 498 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:50,500 which leads to death, if it's not washed. 499 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:55,000 And so we come before the Lord And we repent. 500 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,200 You Justified? By grace, through faith. 501 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:04,500 And that doesn't change after you're Justified, you're not 502 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:06,600 that somehow. Now you move from justification 503 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,400 by faith alone to justification by faith and works alone. 504 00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:16,500 But you want to stay in this life of repentance as you live, 505 00:32:16,500 --> 00:32:19,400 you don't want to buy the lie that you will be perfected by 506 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,900 your flesh or your own works of righteousness. 507 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:24,500 You are perfected. You were Washed by the Holy 508 00:32:24,500 --> 00:32:26,800 Spirit which is your justification and you are 509 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,700 renewed by the Holy Spirit which is your sanctification, it's 510 00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:33,400 your ongoing renewal day by day being Formed from one degree of 511 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:37,500 glory to the next. By the holy spirit of God you 512 00:32:37,508 --> 00:32:40,800 were being made. Like Christ you're growing in 513 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:43,800 godliness and if you'll remain in the spirit of God, if you 514 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:51,100 remain in faith alone, You will be led into maturity. 515 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,100 Remain in Christ, brothers and sisters. 516 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,400 Real, spiritual cleanliness. True righteousness is not first 517 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:06,700 a matter of outward purity. It's primarily a matter of 518 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:10,500 inward purity. And this only comes by God's 519 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,700 grace through faith in Jesus Christ, for the atonement of 520 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:15,600 your sins. You you can abstain from all 521 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:20,500 sorts of things, alcohol, sexual, pleasure, marriage, food 522 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:22,900 items. You can you can become a monk 523 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:28,600 and move to the outer edges of a town live and remoteness and 524 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:34,000 keep yourself abstained as they say from the world and still be 525 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:38,300 stained. You will never be clean. 526 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,000 People might admire your self-righteous efforts. 527 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,000 They might look at you and say, wow, and I guess he's really 528 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:50,600 committed. But you're a bitch real estate 529 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,400 abstaining cannot purify you from sin. 530 00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:57,900 It does not transform your life only faith in Christ. 531 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:59,900 Can do that. These false teachers were guilty 532 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:04,200 of abstaining for righteousness. They're guilty of abstaining 533 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,700 because they had decided what material Pleasures were clean. 534 00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:11,800 Food items. Drink items of sorts of things 535 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:16,000 and they had decided which ones were unclean, which goes against 536 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,400 the teaching here that to the pure. 537 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:22,199 All things are pure. And First Timothy 4435, Paul's 538 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,199 dealing with the same issue with Timothy and other Pastor who he 539 00:34:25,300 --> 00:34:29,699 left in a different area to train up men Timothy's in 540 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:32,800 Ephesus. And this is what Paul writes to 541 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,800 Timothy and emphasis he says for everything created by God is 542 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,199 good. Amen. 543 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:43,199 And nothing is to be rejected if it is received with Thanksgiving 544 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:47,500 Thanksgiving to who the person who may be in front of you, who 545 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:50,100 gave it the person who prepared it. 546 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,500 No Thanksgiving to God. Right is the one who is The 547 00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:57,800 Giver everything created by God is good. 548 00:34:57,900 --> 00:35:00,700 So we give thanks to God and it says Paul writes. 549 00:35:00,700 --> 00:35:04,000 It's made Holy by the word of God and prayer. 550 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:07,700 So it's made Holy by the way that you use it according to 551 00:35:07,707 --> 00:35:13,700 God's word. and that, you ensure that your life allies with that 552 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,800 through prayer, You're thankful, so it's not sinful. 553 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,800 Then to eat certain Meats, it's not sinful to observe or not, 554 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:27,000 observe certain days, it's not simple to drink alcohol in 555 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,500 moderation, not as a drunkard. Thus in happens when you declare 556 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:34,600 something bad that God calls. Good. 557 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:40,600 So you might have someone that you grew up in the South you've 558 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,100 heard this a lot that drinking alcohol is absolutely sinful but 559 00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:48,300 the Bible teaches that being a drunkard is absolutely sinful. 560 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,800 We should receive all things with Thanksgiving. 561 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:57,600 To our gracious Father in Heaven because God created them, God 562 00:35:57,700 --> 00:36:00,800 makes them Holy by his word and our prayers. 563 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,000 I'm going to give you a hopefully, obvious sidenote, 564 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,800 real quick. That Paul is not teaching that 565 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,300 sinful actions can be made clean, right? 566 00:36:09,900 --> 00:36:14,300 So you can't give thanks for the beautiful woman, across the 567 00:36:14,300 --> 00:36:17,700 room, who you not want to commit adultery with and make that 568 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:24,500 clean. You can't give thanks for images 569 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:27,000 on your computer screen and make that clean. 570 00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:38,500 Amen, sin will never be clean and so, right things? 571 00:36:40,300 --> 00:36:45,000 Food days, marriage. God's teaching on biblical 572 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,400 sexuality, manhood Womanhood, your job like these are 573 00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:51,600 Provisions from God. These are things that God has 574 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:55,600 granted to you, and they are clean because God says all that 575 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,900 everything that comes from God is good. 576 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:01,100 But you can abuse your marriage, you could use it in a sinful 577 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:02,600 way. You could abuse your job, use it 578 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,800 in a sinful way, and so you can make something unclean by your 579 00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,800 actions for sure. Could use it for your own 580 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:17,600 selfish desires. And that would make it on clean. 581 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:24,700 Really need to speed up. All right. 582 00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:29,900 There's one commentator, he said this, he says to the pure, all 583 00:37:29,900 --> 00:37:31,600 things are. Pure means that when our hearts 584 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:36,400 are free from Evil, we are able to enjoy God's gifts in the 585 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,600 manner that he intended. Having pure hearts, we will want 586 00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,000 to use the things according to God's word. 587 00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:47,100 And when we do, we are able to enjoy them without sin. 588 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:53,400 Now this goes, it flies in the face of what our world will tell 589 00:37:53,400 --> 00:38:00,000 you that the world drinks of self-indulgence, the world is 590 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,800 filling its cup with self-indulgence and it is 591 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:08,500 drinking it down to the bottom of the cup to The Bitter End of 592 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:13,400 it and then filling it again. The world claims that 593 00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:17,700 self-indulgence is the way to true happiness. 594 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:24,800 It's the way to True Purity that to be self-indulgence is 595 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:28,000 actually pure because you're not denying yourself something, 596 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,900 you're not living according to someone else's standards or 597 00:38:30,900 --> 00:38:35,100 commands. So you are really pure right. 598 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:38,400 I mean riding with this is what they say. 599 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:46,500 And so, they claim to be wise. Cuz they foolishly think that 600 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:49,600 this is the way the real way to Lasting pleasure. 601 00:38:49,900 --> 00:38:52,900 What a joy it is in for believers to receive God's gift 602 00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:57,600 with Thanksgiving, to enjoy them according to his design, but 603 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,600 doing so if you're able to gain true pleasure from a glass of 604 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,500 wine or your favorite meal, or marital sexual intimacy, or any 605 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:06,900 thing from your job, your hobbies. 606 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,100 John Calvin, who was kind of a second-generation reformer. 607 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,600 He said, observe what a Priceless privilege. 608 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,500 It is to be able to thank god with a quiet conscience, knowing 609 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:24,900 that he wants us to enjoy his good gifts to the pure, all 610 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:30,200 things are pure and then to the pure, all things are pure. 611 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,300 And if you've been made clean by the word of God, you are pure. 612 00:39:35,100 --> 00:39:38,100 And so Paul concludes with the contrast of the in pure, he says 613 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:41,900 but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure but 614 00:39:41,900 --> 00:39:45,800 both their minds and their consciences have are defiled. 615 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:52,200 So the emperor nothing is pure. Their impurity flows from their 616 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,400 heart, it doesn't flow from their actions. 617 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:01,000 If their actions are Revealing what's in the heart, their 618 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,400 Imperial because they are unbelieving their Imperial 619 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,100 because the word of God is not made them pure. 620 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:11,300 They do not accept the testimony of Jesus Christ by faith alone. 621 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,800 There can be no Purity for someone or within someone who 622 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,300 will not receive Christ by Faith. 623 00:40:19,300 --> 00:40:20,300 No matter how. Right? 624 00:40:20,300 --> 00:40:24,400 Their actions might seem they are impure on the inside, 625 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:28,600 nothing they can do. Could be called spiritually, 626 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:32,200 pure. They're corrupt Hearts bear, the 627 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:37,200 final word before God, and he will give a final word in verse 628 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,900 16 about what their actions really are. 629 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:44,600 Their nature is Children of Wrath, their sons and daughters 630 00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,100 of Disobedience their dead in their trespasses and sins. 631 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:51,700 Man, might think very kindly of the acts of a defiled. 632 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,800 Man, you might look upon a friend who denies Christianity 633 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,800 denies Christ and say, well he's a he's a pretty good person. 634 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,200 He's good to his wife is. Good News, Kids works hard. 635 00:41:02,700 --> 00:41:05,500 But that man is defiled before God. 636 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,200 And so God looks on that with discuss. 637 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,400 Those works are meaningless before the Lord there are common 638 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:20,700 Grace to us but they're not saving grace before the Lord for 639 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:24,600 Samuel 16:7. I kind of mentioned this last 640 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,300 week but the Lord said to Samuel do not look on the appearance or 641 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:32,400 on the height of his stature because I have rejected him for 642 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,100 the Lord. Sees not as man sees man looks 643 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,700 on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on. 644 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:43,800 The heart Jeremiah 530 Lord. Do not your eyes look for truth. 645 00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,600 Proverbs 521 for a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord 646 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:53,700 and He Ponders all his paths. You see the heart of man is the 647 00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:57,200 spring from which all defilements flow to the rest of 648 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,900 his life. This is why Christ says to the 649 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:05,500 Pharisee, you are foolish. Not only do his corruption 650 00:42:05,500 --> 00:42:07,900 defile him but they defile anything he touches. 651 00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:12,800 Also there's none righteous no, not one and so everything that 652 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,500 they touch becomes unrighteous. Even their good works, are 653 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:19,900 defiled. Why? 654 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,100 Paul says in verse 16 is it goes on to explain these people. 655 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,800 He says they profess to know God but they deny him by their 656 00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:33,900 Works. They are detestable Disobedience 657 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:41,400 unfit for any good work. Commentator rightly points out 658 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,600 hypocrisy starts with a person publicly professing faith in 659 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,000 Jesus. And even giving the impression 660 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:53,400 of having a superior knowledge of God, right, we should be 661 00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:59,600 leery of a person who is always Talking about some higher 662 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,400 knowledge, they think they have. This is hypocrisy. 663 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:10,700 The hypocrite. Unclean on the inside is unable 664 00:43:10,700 --> 00:43:15,700 to produce any good works. Unable to produce anything that 665 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:18,600 follow the commands and teachings of God's word. 666 00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:22,500 And so the tree will be known by its fruits. 667 00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:27,000 Someone may absolutely profess belief in Christ. 668 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:30,600 But what does their fruits say? What does their life look like? 669 00:43:32,100 --> 00:43:34,700 Someone may be real their hypocrisy in two ways. 670 00:43:37,100 --> 00:43:40,200 You might live a life contrary to their profession of faith. 671 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,200 They might live. Contrary to the profession of 672 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:44,800 Faith. They say, they believe in Jesus 673 00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,600 on Sundays, but live like a child twice. 674 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:49,700 The child of Hell, the rest of the week. 675 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000 Here's some examples of Christian, make a show of his 676 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,700 godliness in public while having fits of anger and being abusive 677 00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:03,700 and his home. A pastor can preach peace from 678 00:44:03,700 --> 00:44:07,700 the pulpit while being a massive jerk to those around him. 679 00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:11,900 A Christian, my speak christianese know all the church 680 00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:16,400 words all the buzz words, right? While remaining in a habitual 681 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,800 liar. A gossip, a slanderer. 682 00:44:20,500 --> 00:44:23,300 A Christian businessman might get caught embezzling funds and 683 00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:26,500 then claim forgiveness as soon as he's found out, but God's 684 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:29,900 forgiving me, so, you know, there's no punishment for that. 685 00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:36,500 A political leader, may use scripture in a speech panders to 686 00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:38,500 Christians attempts to win votes. 687 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,900 But in private, he takes advantage of the women who work 688 00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:46,200 for him. There are infinite number of 689 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:50,100 possibilities when it comes to hypocrisy of this sort where you 690 00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:54,500 publicly profess Christ, but inwardly, you are as dark as 691 00:44:54,500 --> 00:44:57,800 night. The key to this kind of 692 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:02,900 hypocrisy is this. That you only need to profess 693 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:06,200 faith in Christ that your Godless works. 694 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,000 And up denying, it's how we know. 695 00:45:11,100 --> 00:45:13,700 Second way hypocrisy shows up as that you live a life of Highly 696 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:18,100 publicized, good works. Such a person's works are for 697 00:45:18,100 --> 00:45:20,200 their own Glory, their own kingdom building. 698 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:26,000 Not Gods. You see this with the The 699 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,800 Pharisee and the tax collector in Luke chapter 18, the Pharisee 700 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:31,500 standing by himself, he praised the stew. 701 00:45:31,500 --> 00:45:36,500 God God I thank you that I am not like that man over there. 702 00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:41,700 those men who are extortioners and unjust adulterers, or even 703 00:45:41,700 --> 00:45:46,500 like this tax collector here, I fast twice a week. 704 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:54,200 I give tithes of all that I gets and Jesus says, but the tax 705 00:45:54,200 --> 00:46:02,700 collector standing far off would not even lift up his eyes to 706 00:46:02,700 --> 00:46:06,800 heaven. He beat his breast God. 707 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:15,100 Be merciful to me a sinner. Jesus, I tell you this man went 708 00:46:15,100 --> 00:46:19,200 down to his house Justified rather than the other for 709 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,800 everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who 710 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,500 humbles himself will be exalted You see the bad news for 711 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,100 Hypocrites of either sword, is that their posturing by their 712 00:46:30,100 --> 00:46:33,700 word or by their Works. Will not trick, God. 713 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:39,400 God will not be mocked, do not be deceived. 714 00:46:40,500 --> 00:46:45,400 Paul writes in Galatians, 6, God is Not mocked for whatever one's 715 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:51,100 so's that he will also reap. And so Paul makes his conclusion 716 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:54,700 regarding these false teachers because of this because of their 717 00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:59,300 unbelief because of their defilements They were in pure, 718 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:05,600 they are in any adds to it. They're not just in pure They 719 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,600 are detestable. Their disobedient. 720 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:15,600 They're unfit for any good work. Hippocrates remained detestable 721 00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,700 before God. The word detestable means that 722 00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:25,600 they are an Abomination to God. Matthew 5, 15 8. 723 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:28,000 Again speaking of a Pharisees Jesus. 724 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,700 This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far 725 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:35,400 from me. Their detestable. 726 00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:40,400 Hippocrates a rightly judge then is disobedient, their detestable 727 00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,300 but they're also disobedient. Why will they go the way of 728 00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:45,900 their own stomachs? They go the way of their own 729 00:47:45,900 --> 00:47:49,100 desires that they don't follow God's teachings. 730 00:47:49,100 --> 00:47:51,900 They don't follow his commands, they add to them or take away 731 00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:57,600 from them. They oppress people who 732 00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,900 genuinely want to know God and they lead them astray their 733 00:48:02,900 --> 00:48:06,100 desires for their own kingdom. It's not for the kingdom of God. 734 00:48:06,100 --> 00:48:09,700 And so they are rebellious to God their disobedience. 735 00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,700 And when you are detestable and disobedient, you are unfit for 736 00:48:14,700 --> 00:48:18,400 any good work. They're unbelieving their 737 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,700 unregenerate hearts are unable to produce anything that is 738 00:48:22,700 --> 00:48:24,700 spiritually. Good. 739 00:48:25,500 --> 00:48:30,200 And so they were disqualified for God's work by their 740 00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:34,700 unbelief. The problem with Hypocrites, is 741 00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,600 there danger to themselves and so their souls are at stake. 742 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:43,900 But an additional problem is that there are a danger to the 743 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:49,200 Church of Christ. Hypocritical parents. 744 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,900 Might show up for all the church activities, but they are unable 745 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:56,800 to bring light of the gospel of Christ into their marriage and 746 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:00,900 parenting. And so it's a Works based home. 747 00:49:03,900 --> 00:49:06,700 Hypocritical friends, might profess a faith in Jesus while 748 00:49:06,700 --> 00:49:09,900 encouraging their friends to continue indulging in their 749 00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:15,900 sinful desires. I'm not speaking up by even 750 00:49:15,900 --> 00:49:19,400 applauding it. Yeah, that's that's your truth. 751 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:26,300 Hypocritical employees May bless the Lord and song on Sunday say 752 00:49:26,300 --> 00:49:29,100 Amen to the prayers that are prayed in the word that has 753 00:49:29,100 --> 00:49:32,400 proclaimed. But on Monday lead the gossip or 754 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,100 the slander about co-workers or others. 755 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,400 James says and James 3:10, brothers and sisters things. 756 00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:47,900 Ought not be this way. You are not have blessing and 757 00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:49,800 cursing coming from the same mouth. 758 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:56,900 To the pure brothers and sisters, all things are pure. 759 00:49:59,100 --> 00:50:01,300 Here's application. I want to leave you with. 760 00:50:02,100 --> 00:50:05,600 Christ says, in Matthew Chapter 5, Sermon on the Mount actually 761 00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,700 says before he gets into verses 13 through 16 inch. 762 00:50:08,700 --> 00:50:11,900 I want to read to you just a few verses up in the order known as 763 00:50:11,900 --> 00:50:15,600 the Beatitudes. He says, blessed are the pure 764 00:50:16,300 --> 00:50:22,000 for they will see God. How will you see God if you're 765 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:26,400 pure, how are you made pure by receiving the word of Christ 766 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:31,200 receiving the one, whom God sent, If you'll do that and that 767 00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,200 only Christ says blessed are the pure for they will see God the 768 00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,500 you will see God, but here's what we know about the pure in 769 00:50:39,500 --> 00:50:43,200 this life, there is none of this is to say, there's not a work to 770 00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,100 be done. I hope that's been clear. 771 00:50:46,100 --> 00:50:47,800 It's that you're not saved by your Works. 772 00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,200 Your saved unto good works. You're safe for good works here 773 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:54,400 now actually able to produce good works because you have been 774 00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:58,600 made pure but you better not rely on your Bible reading and 775 00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:04,100 Your prayer and your church attendance and your whatever for 776 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:09,000 your salvation. Rely on Christ alone for your 777 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,400 salvation. And so Jesus says, you know, 778 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:16,100 blessed with a pure for they shall see God among some other 779 00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:17,900 things. And then in verse 13, He says 780 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:26,200 you are the salt of the earth. But if salt has lost its taste, 781 00:51:27,100 --> 00:51:31,000 how shall its saltiness be restored? 782 00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:37,400 It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out 783 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,200 and Trampled Under people's feet. 784 00:51:41,700 --> 00:51:44,400 If you receive the word of Christ you are, the salt of the 785 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,700 earth, you were put into the world to give people a sense of 786 00:51:48,700 --> 00:51:54,900 Christ. To jumpstart their appetites for 787 00:51:54,900 --> 00:51:58,200 the Lord. To make them. 788 00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:07,600 Salivate over wanting to know more about who Christ is verse 789 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:12,600 14. You are crisis, the light of the 790 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:21,700 world, A city that is set on a hill, cannot be hidden. 791 00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:26,500 It's really amazing to think about that phrase. 792 00:52:26,500 --> 00:52:30,000 As he sits in the shadow of Jerusalem, which set on a hill, 793 00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:35,700 nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket. 794 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,100 But on a stand and it gives light to the whole house. 795 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:53,600 In the same way. Jesus says, let your light shine 796 00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:57,500 before others, so that they may see your good works. 797 00:53:00,700 --> 00:53:03,400 And glorify your father who is in heaven. 798 00:53:06,500 --> 00:53:09,600 One of the marks of a false teachers that their good works 799 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:15,500 are for their own Glory greedy or dishonest gain. 800 00:53:17,500 --> 00:53:21,500 But the mark of a Christian. is not that he is absent of good 801 00:53:21,500 --> 00:53:26,200 works but that his good works or for the glory of Christ, the 802 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:36,200 glory of God Alone Paul in Colossians chapter 1, 803 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:43,200 Philippians chapter 1, sorry says let your only let your 804 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:48,500 manner of life. Be worthy of the Gospel of Jesus 805 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:55,500 Christ, which you have received. So brothers and sisters who call 806 00:53:55,500 --> 00:53:59,100 yourselves Christians, I ask you today is your manner of Life. 807 00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,600 Worthy of one who has received Jesus Christ as Lord. 808 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,200 Are your good works, you are hope. 809 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:13,400 Or is your hope Christ and so therefore you produce good 810 00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:18,200 works. There's a major difference. 811 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:27,200 A life-altering difference. And so the word of caution and 812 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:30,400 Titus is that there are people who thought themselves to be 813 00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:34,100 religious. In right worship to God. 814 00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:39,700 Who were not? Who Paul is condemning here and 815 00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:44,000 saying they must be rebuked. And so you and I must ask 816 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:47,600 ourselves when we read a text like this we must not point a 817 00:54:47,607 --> 00:54:51,300 finger and wag and say well I know the church he's talking 818 00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:58,000 about I came from that place. We must ask genuinely before the 819 00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:03,200 Lord. Father is this, my heart also am 820 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:09,200 I guilty of this. and if you are, Repent and believe in 821 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,400 Christ alone. It's not saying that your 822 00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,100 unsaved or you might be, maybe you've never believed in Christ 823 00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:18,500 alone but there are moments in our life. 824 00:55:18,500 --> 00:55:22,200 We will trade. What we know is true for that 825 00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:25,100 which is false because it appeals to our appetites. 826 00:55:26,300 --> 00:55:28,900 And so we must have these honest Reflections. 827 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:32,100 So I'm going to ask you to stand to your feet. 828 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,900 You can you can close your eyes, you can pray. 829 00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:42,200 I just ask that you would take a moment to respond to the Lord, 830 00:55:42,900 --> 00:55:45,500 how the holy, spirit's leading you and this moment. 831 00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:51,800 And to be faithful to that. The worship team will lead us in 832 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:53,800 song. I'm gonna go ahead and pray for 833 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,000 you and then you can respond to the Lord. 834 00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:59,500 If anybody wants to talk through anything that I've said today, 835 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:04,800 the Lord's working on your heart, I am available to you to 836 00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:06,700 talk. I'm excited to do that. 837 00:56:06,700 --> 00:56:10,800 Jasper's available, Alan's available, our Elder candidate, 838 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,200 Stephen James that are available to visit with you. 839 00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:15,900 Our wives are equally as available. 840 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:21,200 Okay, we're happy to visit with you, so This with the Lord, we 841 00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:22,900 pray for your heavenly father. We love you. 842 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:27,500 We thank you for your word. God, I thank you, but to the 843 00:56:27,500 --> 00:56:33,000 pure, all things are pure. Lord, would you help us to live 844 00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,100 as those who are pure to enjoy the good gifts that you've 845 00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:38,100 granted us as those who are pure? 846 00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:46,400 God would you save us? Would you lead us away from? 847 00:56:48,100 --> 00:56:52,700 The commands of men who turn away from the truth myths that 848 00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:57,300 we devise. Thoughts that have been passed 849 00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:01,300 down to us, maybe from church to church or church leader to 850 00:57:01,300 --> 00:57:05,300 church leader. Christian, he's type sayings 851 00:57:05,300 --> 00:57:11,300 that sound really good butter in no way. 852 00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:18,800 A buttress for the gospel. A support of the gospel, and 853 00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,400 fact, they deny the very truth of the Gospel reveal these 854 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,400 things to us. Lord, that we might know you 855 00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:30,900 more fully that we might worship you with all of our life. 856 00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,500 Lord, if there's anyone in here who doesn't know you as Lord has 857 00:57:37,500 --> 00:57:40,100 not surrendered their life to you. 858 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,300 Through Jesus Christ. I I pray that by your spirit now 859 00:57:46,300 --> 00:57:49,600 that you would bring them to Faith that you would wash them 860 00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,300 with regeneration. She would begin to renew their 861 00:57:53,300 --> 00:57:57,100 life by your Holy Spirit. They might be born again a new 862 00:57:57,100 --> 00:58:02,400 creation in Christ. Jesus Lord. 863 00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:04,200 Help us to be men and women who are faithful. 864 00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:09,900 We love you father we thank you for your son who died to save us 865 00:58:09,900 --> 00:58:14,000 from our sins and we Issue for the gift of the Holy Spirit, who 866 00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:19,000 is alive and us as Christians to help us remain faithful to you 867 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:25,000 in this world. In Christ's name. 868 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:26,100 I pray. Amen. 869 00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:25,500 In Christ's name. I pray. 870 00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:26,100 Amen.