Titus ~ 1:1 to 1:16

back in our fathers word book of Titus New Testament if we were to Titus meeting protected that it's this this particular book is kind of a call to purity which simply means doing what's right and Titus was a Gentile converted by he was a Greek converted by Pilate himself you can read of it in Galatians chapter 2 verse 3 we will be going there right now but how precious a business because Paul can all converted this lad himself therefore he called him a spirit and son and the spiritual sign he was and no doubt we know from history that he was he was probably from Crete because that's where Paul would make him in charge of appointing bishops and members of the church there in Crete and quickness was a real bad place at that time and certainly we did someone that could cut it probably credentialed and not vine 'best as we would bind them in 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 verse 23 which reads whether any do inquire of Titus he is my partner and fellow helper concerning you or our brethren be inquired of they are the messengers of the churches and the glory of Christ could be chose to this one Titus and so it is so what that having been said let's get right into it a call to purity Titus chapter 1 verse 1 and it reads Paul a servant of God an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledging of the truth which is actor godliness acknowledging God's own truth set you free and certainly he wasn't Electro's him the road when he was on the road to Damascus in Acts chapter 9 Paul himself struck him down touch him let him work put him to work in God's business and I'm sure our Father was never disappointed by that because Paul was that gospel that taker that is to say one that sends forth the good news verse 2 in hope we could say sure hope of eternal life which God that cannot lie promised before the war began this is important that you not read over that it can pick up on it before this world age every beginning God had this plan that brings forth eternal life and you can never lie what does that mean exactly you can count on when you absorb it and we became a partner citizen of that of God's world when you become a follower when you move into the purity of truth that call to purity it's a guarantee we turn the wife it is true that no one is perfect and many times we see it in one form or the other but that's what repentance is about in Christ when you repent your purity forgiving a new start fresh don't ever let anyone take that away from you that's the beauty of Christianity before this world ever began this is why it's important to be one as one of God to back to know about the first Earth Age this one and the one to come and what is required of one of God set aside ones that is to say that knows the truth sees the truth and has been called to purity to be acted within the boundaries and the confines of the Word of God verse three but hath in new times manifested his word through preaching which is committed unto according to the commandment of God our Savior it is always that word of God that gets it done it is God's Word that converted this one Titus through Paul it is God's Word that will convert people everywhere if it's taught properly it's that call to purity that improves life that gives you purpose does it make you perfect no that's not what a call to purity is it makes you strive for perfection it was very difficult and refreshed to attain and but only repentance you do have that perfect for the sin repent by what I have a word of God his promise verse four to Titus my own son after the common faith meaning my spiritual son not a physical son but a spiritual son because he came to the truth through Paul's teachings and preachings grace mercy and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior those are beautiful things that can contain grace means love and a gift from God unmerited favor god-given failure because you love him God looking out for you because you favor him Karif it's what the word is in the Greek in it before we get charisma from we're very worried itself but it is a gift and it's a gift from God don't ever let anyone take that away from you and mercy that that means God's mercy on repentance forgiveness a fresh start a clean fresh breath of air and from those two things comes peace and that means peace of mind we're buying and you find that peace of mind in the Lord Jesus Christ Himself you're not going to find it basically anywhere else you might be happy for a short period of time the peace of mind comes from knowing the truth the very word of God given us before the foundations of this earth even began through what through the Holy Spirit and through the action of our Heavenly Father for God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our son rather God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior within that you have the triune Godhead because whoever the father is and the son you also have the Holy Spirit for it is his spirit and that spirit gives you the chin function to want to do what's right to follow the plan of God to be in the Word of God mine so that you have that grace and that mercy you need it in your life it gives you maturity it gives you guidance and most of all again the peace which is to say peace of mind life is not a bowl of cherries without it but with it you can withstand the rigors of this earth age what are you're equipped for it you can cut it you can handle it because you're a child of God blessed with grace caresses and mercy God's forgiveness and love and peace peace of mind that equips you will buy you can handle any little dark to Satan not to throw at you you know how to handle it because Christ is giving you the power to overcome verse 5 for this cause left IV in crate that thou should have set in order the things that are wanting and ordain elders in every city I had appointed they get instructed you now crate was about a hundred and forty miles long and it was about thirty miles wide and this was Titus his duty was was a bad place really I mean it had some pretty bad characters there but this was the obligation in the duty of Titus was to set Crete in order to put God's house in order there wherever you are what we account verse 6 if any being blameless we're talking about appointing elders here if any be blameless the husband of one wife having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly which has common sense enough to handle themselves well to be able to handle a tough situation to come through it a winner that is to say in control always having controlled will by everything flows as God would have it flow verse 7 for a bishop must be blameless as the steward of God not a self will let me I know everything I've got it soon angry not hot-headed that's lack of shows lack of common sense and control given to wine that that is to say excessive wine even in Peter you are instructed it's ok to take a little wine for the good of the stomach if you have an ailment no striker you don't want somebody that's a brawler or beats his family around you don't need that that's certainly not an example for the church given to filthy lucre that is to say not in it for the money this is why this is one of the reasons that I've been in the ministry many many years and there has never never in one of my meetings in God's house had a plate passed because I do not like that I do prove of it there is a tithing box at the back of the church and that's anyone's private business do not pass plates like every time there's a birthday or something else or big money from the people that's that's not godly it's certainly not a purity now I'm not judging other churches I couldn't care less that's that's their business but be that as it may that's the way we operate here self-willed is someone that feels that their religion they can make what their religion fit whatever and twist God's Word got to do it in purity teach God's Word as it's written go back to the menu scripts if you have to to get the in-depth movies to understand with clarity verse 8 to continue bishops and elders but a lover of hospitality a lover of good men sober just that means to be able to justify everything reason it out it's called common sense only that is to say as best you can that father word new rule temperate that means having patience don't don't just take your time take a deep breath think it over and and do as the father would have hidden to do now let's let's talk a little law here for a moment a husband of one wife know our Heavenly Father in Jeremiah chapter three verse eight divorced Israel he was a divorcee familiar again that's a couple of wives but what disappoint God's Word say there are reasons for divorce so if for a legitimate reason a person divorced and and God has forgiven them totally and completely upon repentance and they remarry how many wives does he have only one now that is the law I know that many people would disagree with that you can disagree all you want to but that is God's law otherwise you bless them God Himself who divorced the house of Israel in jeremiah chapter three verse eight there is such a thing as forgiveness that's why he sent the Savior who asked for forgiveness to give a new start in life to be so many times if you're not careful a church can pass over a very well-qualified individual to serve as an elder or a bishop because they do not understand God's law now as I say there are many people will disagree with what I said one because they do not give Christ credit for being able to forgive and Christ said if you are married and you divorce and you marry another you're committing adultery that's if you don't repent and have it erased what what do you believe Christ can forgive sin or not don't be a pretend Christian you either are or you're not this is a call to Puritan repentance forgives all sin that one and only one of God met can commit that sin after the Antichrist appears on earth so you always have to look a little bit deeper into God's Word using that common sense and using that call to purity to understand the Word of God and live it in comfort in love and in understanding verse 9 to continue holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught that he may be able by sound doctrine not tradition to men sound doctrine both to exhort that means to correct and to convince the gainsayers even be able to convince gainsayers by the truth of God's Word teaching it in such a simplistic way that a child can understand for by the purity of God's love rolls forward it pours into the body of Christ and the many membered body and that love overcomes all when you are in that call to purity the call to purity that pushes aside anxieties and upset and short confirmed and anxious people it soothes like storm oil on the scene the call to purity to our Heavenly Father understanding the sound doctrine mr. word of God not the doctrine of men but the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ in the father's name break-in for there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they of the circumcision this is to say those that claim to be I mean muckety ducts of the word I mean they know that world but they don't live it and it is the traditions of men well according to this good man and according to that good man and have come together with this agreement but stop and use your head what does God say about it I don't care what men say about it what does God say about it that's where you go wrong when you get off the track of God's Word and start listening to me without documenting them in the Word of God especially those of the circumcision means let me tell it like it is especially those that claim to know the Bible better than anybody that's a good warning sign right there verse 11 whose mouths must be stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake ill-gotten gains still got many that's all they care about what I mean makes something so exciting the people will come into arrived in and say oh we've got to do something about this well you ever stop and think what does God's Word say that God's a to handle it certainly certainly not with mouths that subvert whole churches that's teaching you don't you know that's the mark of it Satan I mean it's people that absolutely let the evil spirits gain right into them and change that to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's name and subvert houses away from the real Word of God how ridiculous man can become this is why the call to purity is so very important and the real pure truth doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ as delivered by this one Paul and many others don't subvert it don't twist it don't change it teach it as it is written and that call to purity pays great dividends and what do you do then about those that subvert you get rid of them and put them aside you do not let them into the body when you are the elder or the bishop you put a stop to it you do not tolerate it we have the true doctrine chapter by chapter verse by verse the Word of God whereby God's Word edifies that's a gorge that edits it corrects it shows us the way it gives us hope and it lets us know we're in the service of the king that you have that purity that really not be that pure but he comes into that that is perfection the Word of God the doctrine that means us guides us and directs us and verse 12 to continue one of themselves even a prophet of their food said the cretians are always liars evil beasts and slow bellies I mean even one of their own faith preachers sub that I'm quick it's a bad place so what Paul is letting Titus know hey we stick to the true doctrine be aware of those that were twist and turn because one of their own prophets even admits they're a bunch of liars they're a bunch of cheats and they're absolutely evil beasts they will do what is evil but what will what is evil to remove Christ and instill Satanists teachers to remove sound doctrine and put in the traditions of me acordes good brother and that good brother I don't care what the brothers say how does it align with God's work that's what's important don't ever forget that that is the basis of calling for purity because would even find purity so the one place you're going to find it it's in the Word of God and exactly the way God directs it we covered here so far in aligning us using common sense but if you really love the Lord and we pray and you ask and seek you're gonna find first grace that's a gift that's God's grace his blessings to him his assisting you and then comes his mercy which is his forgiveness for any shortcoming you might have and what only knows I'm sure all of us have son we need that forgiveness we need that direction and then secondly comes peace you know that's an easy path to follow and we should sing in your life from that and following it in that way and do that by governing yourself with the good doctrine that is to say the word the word that converted Titus the word that brought him into the truth were by he is able to appoint elders and bishops in this bad place were they're liars and cheats and yet at the same time these snow bellies I mean they're they're really slow to understand they just care about their belly nothing else that's a hard convert but that's what you're up against many times in life one more verse 13 this witness is true you can on it we're four we rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith in other words that is Titus's that's a man or a woman of God job duty if someone comes into your life trying to you might say well I don't have to worry about that I'm wise enough that I'm close enough to the Father I can handle that they got you're looking out for yourself huh what about the children in the congregation about your friends and the congregation maybe you're not as sharp as you are and you're gonna let this idiot loose in the pin you're going to let them have their right well it doesn't really bother me it should bother you if it's hurting the children it should bother I'm talking about the children of God if you are in that place as Titus was placed in responsibility then do your job you will beat them shortly you put a stop to it if they are disrupting the children of God well how do you correct them with sound doctrine well how do I find sound doctrine right here in the Word of God it's complete it's full and in this call to purity you're not going to have purity if you allow allow crud to float in the midst of everyone you really get rid of it you're going to send it out you're going to flush it out you're going to get rid of it and we're going to teach chapter by chapter and verse by verse whereby the children of God hear the word of God not the traditions of men or not anyone that would mislead misuses are abused that children of God but sound doctrine that never leaves the very word of God okay let's go with the next verse verse 14 not giving me into Jewish fables commandments of men that turn from the truth I don't care if it's Jewish which it won't mainly candidates is what you want to be aware of anyone that turns if their message turns from the truth get rid of it do not want it you don't want it in your midst you must always get rid of it do not stand for it if you're in a place of responsibility keep the church pure this is a call to purity now here is the theme of this book is verse 15 so don't read over it listen to it carefully the theme of this great book written to Titus chapter 1 verse 15 and it reads unto the pure all things are pure but into them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure but even their mind and conscience is defiled that's the reason for this book I want to read that again I want you to listen real carefully unto the pure all things are pure but into them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure than their money and conscience is defiled there's there's nothing in them they're blank they are destructive but to those that if you search for the purity and we're going to find that all things are pure when you search and find and practice and control we're controlled in the very holy spirit that dwells within us the sound doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ when you call for that purity it comes to you when you wear that purity it doesn't don't ever think this makes you any better than anyone else that makes you an able person who is qualified to represent even the Word of God as far as purity and common sense is concerned to understand who qualifies for an elder who qualifies for a bishop and certainly that fifteenth verse says at all when you choose choose wisely because if you choose someone that strives for that purity don't have it if you try to pick someone that that are defiled and unbelieving in that purity or in searching for it or that cares about many more than anything else how can you tell where someone's feelings are what they talk about if all somebody does is pass a plate or beg for money guess what they have on your mind money when supposedly they're supposed to have the pure meaning of taking God's word for we're buying the children can understand and find that grace from God that gift in mercy is to say his forgiveness but most of all peace in their lives that they can share that even with others how precious it is don't ever forget that 15th verse verse 16 to complete the chapter they profess that they know God Clayton but it works they do know him being a bendable there evil and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate there you can tell by their actions that's the same easy to spot a fake it's so easy to spot somebody that's not legitimate verse 15 gives it all my friend it is the prime reason for the book of Titus I all said how hard must have loved Titus and merely as a Gentile and he sings into a place where his for with liars and slow bellies and evil people message of perfection that brings peace and I could ensure titus did a good job there Titus was successful do you know why because of verse 15 he was pure right after the very heart of God himself pure in that to him everything was pure really was working around those that were unbelievers that needed correcting who was able to do that so they didn't have it the message of Paul to Titus appointing him and giving him the duties that he was to to exhibit and to put into action using common sense controlling oneself into being pure and to one that is pure all things are pure God loves those that call for purity all right bless your heart Jesus in a moment would you please

Channel: YHVH Savior

Views: 3,606

Rating: 4.8991594 out of 5

Keywords: Shepherds, Titus, Book of Titus, KJV, Murray, Pastor, Book of, Chapel, Pastor Murray, Shepherd's, Holy Bible, Arnold Murray, Arnold, Bible, Shepherds Chapel, Pastor Arnold Murray, Shepherd's Chapel

Id: _DLp2vpIQ_I

Length: 31min 46sec (1906 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 21 2019