https://youtu.be/CeUQdGDo4jU 78:5 For He established a testimony in Jacob And set a law in Israel, Which He commanded our fathers That they should teach them to their children, 6 That…
https://youtu.be/VttuiIX8mAs “but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not intending to please people, but to please God, who examines…
Titus 1.1 records, Paul, a slave of God and apostle of Jesus Christ, to further the faith of God’s chosen
ones and the knowledge of the truth that is in keeping with godliness.
In this opening sentence in Paul’s letter to his friend Titus, he gives an insight into the true meaning of godliness. When most people think of godliness they think of people like Mother Theresa or Billy Graham. They also think of character associated with godliness like goodness, honesty, kindness, love, generosity.
I suppose everyone has their own list. No doubt most of us would consider ourselves somewhat godly. (more…)
Habakkuk 2.13-14 asks, has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? For the earth will be filled with the knowledge
of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
God repeatedly warns us in the Bible that we cannot love God and money because our devotion will always be to one or the other of these two ‘masters.’ Too many Christians dabble in loving both. (more…)
Titus 1.16 observes they claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, 
disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
How can anyone know God? Conversely, if there really is a God doesn’t it makes sense He would want us to know Him?
Assuming God would want us to know Him then the answer to how can we know God is simple: read the book He has given to us describing Himself and His requirements for us. Simple enough, but which one? (more…)
Titus 2.10 commands we make the teaching about God our Savior attractive.
The purpose of this command is so that God’s people can participate in God’s work of making Him known throughout the world. The goal is not just that He would be known but that He would be loved by every person on the earth.
God wants His people to live such attractive lives that people around them feel compelled to know God so they too can love Him.
How are we doing? (more…)
Titus 1.1 claims it is their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness.
What is the goal of our lives? Personal happiness? Peace? Joy? Fulfilled relationships? Godliness? The last one probably doesn’t make the top ten list for most people because pleasing God is something we think of generally and not specifically.
Sure we want to be good per se but we don’t pursue goodness for ‘goodness’ sake. We are so self absorbed that we believe we are pretty good and that God is pretty happy with us regardless of how much we really check in with Him to see if our belief is true.
So we go about seeking our own definition of importance trusting that if God isn’t good with it He will somehow make that known to us. (more…)
Titus 2:1 teaches that there is right living that goes along with true Christianity.
One of the problems with Christians defining themselves as ‘believers’ is the disconnect that occurs with the responsibility to live ‘rightly’ as a result of right belief. This disconnect is furthered when we discuss our acceptance by God through grace by faith and not by our good works.
While true, it wasn’t that no good works occurred giving humanity the opportunity to be forgiven, Jesus Himself earned our pardon through His perfect obedience to all the will of God. Without His good works we would have none appropriated to us for us to be forgiven. (more…)
1 Thessalonians 1:6 observes you became our followers and the Lord’s.
People need examples, coaches, models, mentors for understanding practically how to live certain principles or objectives. When the Apostle Paul would invest in someone he would invite them to follow him as he followed Jesus. The Lord Jesus, God in the flesh, invited men to follow Him as He taught and modeled how He wanted people to live if they were going to please God.
Inviting others to join us through imitation places a great deal of responsibility upon us for doing the right thing. Perhaps this is why we have diminished this methodology for developing people in recent years.
A couple of premises have to be established for this relationship to work. (more…)
Titus 2.12 records God wants us to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. Christianity is an anomaly among all of the world's religions. It is the only religion that…
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