PROCLAMATION
“For there are many rebellious people, full of
meaningless talk and deception … They must be silenced, because they are
disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach …” Titus 1:10-11 (NIV)
EXPLANATION
These words were written by the apostle
Paul, under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God, to Titus, his spiritual
son who he led to a saving knowledge of The Lord Jesus, The Christ. Paul began this pastoral epistle by
introducing himself (Titus 1:1-3) and then addressing and greeting Titus.
(Titus 1:4) He states that his reason
for leaving Titus in Crete was for him to appoint elders in every town. Paul then cites the qualifications for being
an elder and overseer. (Titus 1:5-9) He
then proceeds to talk about the rebellious people, who are false teachers, and
the effect they are having on the people. (Titus 1:10-11) He tell Titus to rebuke them and to ignore
the Jewish myths. (Titus 1:13-14) Paul
says, “To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupt and do
not believe, nothing is pure.” The
corrupt claim to know God but by their actions they deny Him. (Titus 1:15-16)
APPLICATION
Unfortunately, everyone in the world is not a believer. Worse yet, there are those people who claim
to be believers but actually are not.
There are those who actively try to deceive people by presenting false
doctrine which sounds good but is based upon lies. All believers need to be well informed and
knowledgeable enough to recognize and refute false doctrine. We need to study The Word of God so that we
can rightly divide that which is truth from that which is not. (2 Timothy
2:15) So that we will know for
ourselves, and so that we can help those who are being deceived by the false
teachers. We must be knowledgeable
because the blind cannot lead the blind to safety. (Matthew 15:14) Those who do not know cannot help others who
do not know. Only those who know can
help those who do not know.
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