Titus 1:10-16 (NLT) For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others. This is especially true of those who insist on circumcision for salvation. They must be silenced, because they are turning whole families away from the truth by their false teaching. And they do it only for money. Even one of their own men, a prophet from Crete, has said about them, “The people of Crete are all liars, cruel animals, and lazy gluttons.” This is true. So reprimand them sternly to make them strong in the faith. They must stop listening to Jewish myths and the commands of people who have turned away from the truth. Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted. Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.
I. The comes through deception
Titus 1:10 (NLT) For there are many rebellious people who engage in useless talk and deceive others.
1. Deception sounds
2. Deception adds something to
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT) This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
3. Deception always something from you
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II. The attack aims at your
Titus 1:11 (NLT) They must be silenced, because they are turning whole families away from the truth by their false teaching.
1. Lies one small piece at a time.
2. The lies we carried
3. The lies aim at the
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III. The tries to label you
Titus 1:12-13a (NLT) Even one of their own men, a prophet from Crete, has said about them, “The people of Crete are all liars, cruel animals, and lazy gluttons.” This is true.
1. Some labels have in them
2. God builds his church out of anyway
3. A label can describe your without deciding your
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IV. The is knowing the real thing
Titus 1:13b-14 (NLT) So reprimand them sternly to make them strong in the faith. They must stop listening to Jewish myths and the commands of people who have turned away from the truth.
1. Study the
2. The real thing itself under testing
1 Peter 1:7 (NLT) These trials will show that your faith is genuine.
3. Truth changes you from the
Titus 1:15 (NLT) Everything is pure to those whose hearts are pure. But nothing is pure to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, because their minds and consciences are corrupted
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V. The is how you live
Titus 1:16 (NLT) Such people claim they know God, but they deny him by the way they live. They are detestable and disobedient, worthless for doing anything good.
1. What we and how we must match
2. Attacks on are attacks on
Identity Declaration:
I am not the label someone placed upon me.
I am not defined by my greatest failure.
I am not defined by the pressure of culture.
I am not defined by what I accomplish.
I am in Christ. I am forgiven. I am accepted. I am a child of God. I am a new creation.
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