Professing to Know God
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When you come to a fork in the road - take it! - Yogi Berra
Each year - Pew Research - an additional 1 percent of people no longer identify as Christian.
Nominal Christian faith is giving way to no Christian faith at all.
False teachers promise salvation but promote condemnation.
False teachers promise salvation but promote condemnation.
10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
12 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
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10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party.
11 They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
12 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
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“Upsetting whole families” -
The New American Commentary: 1, 2 Timothy, Titus 3. The Need for Qualified Church Leadership (1:10–16)
The term “households” may refer specifically to actual family units; however, the term probably refers to house-churches where most Christian instruction was conducted.
The word upsetting means to cause serious difficulty with someone’s beliefs.
There was a time in Southern Baptist life where our seminaries were staffed with men who did not hold a high view of the scriptures. During this time young men would enter the ministry and go get trained at seminary only to come away from those same seminaries believing less about the bible than when they entered.
Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 1
Cretan poet Epimenides
Epimenides - a Poet from around 600 BC - “One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”” ()
A defective gospel is deadly.
A defective gospel is deadly.
False teachers take but never give.
Selfish gain - It is about the money!
Church leadership must correct false teaching.
Church leadership must correct false teaching.
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
12 One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
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“Sound” in the faith - To be in a state of wellness or health - When it speaks of someone’s faith it describes a faith that is vibrant and robust.
We must have a healthy faith. A robust faith. A faith that saves. A faith that redeems. A faith that lays hold of the finished work of Christ.
To be in a state of wellness or health.
In the nt, this verb appears mostly in participle forms, which mean “being healthy”
Professing a relationship with God is not the same as possessing a relationship with Him.
Professing a relationship with God is not the same as possessing a relationship with Him.
Chris Byrley, “Healing,” ed. Douglas Mangum et al., Lexham Theological Wordbook, Lexham Bible Reference Series (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2014).
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
To the Pure -
They tended to lay emphasis on outward appearance and judged others on the basis of their own external criteria. Paul teaches that true purity lies not in adherence to nonmoral external rites and regulations but in the inner purity of the regenerated heart.
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Works don’t change your standing with God.
Works don’t change your standing with God.
You are not saved by works.
Works reveal your standing before God.
Works reveal your standing before God.
Good works and salvation are inseparable.