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March 7, 2012
By John Barnett
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Nothing is so precious as the faith we have in God, His Word, and Christ's work for us.
That is why Paul sat to write the young church planting pastor named Titus, serving on the island of Crete.
Paul’s world was hostile to the truth of God; and Paul warned that days to come would increasingly be filled with false teachings about God, and false doctrines.
II Timothy 4:3-4 /"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And *they shall turn away their ears from the truth,* and shall be turned unto fables."
Paul stressed a growing wave of spiritual deception, false doctrines, and strong delusion that surrounded false teachers.
Paul continued this theme and even went so far as to warn the elders at Ephesus that the wolves were at the doors and soon would be attacking the church as soon as Paul left (Acts 20).
He warned Timothy and all pastors after him (II Timothy 1:14), to guard the teaching of truth, and even described the false doctrines that were taught as deadly and destructive as cancer or gangrene (II Timothy 2:16-18).
Jesus had also warned of the faith of believers being assaulted by these waves of false teaching and teachers (Matthew 24).
Jude and Peter repeated this theme and point out inroads that false teaching and teachers had made already in Christ's church.
Then at the end of the New Testament era, John writes that the false teachers were teaching (I, II John), and their teachings had deeply impacted the local churches as Christ's letters in Rev. 2-3 point out.
For all of these reasons Paul writes, Christ's church is to be filled with…
*Men Sound in “The” Faith*
That is why our look at the 4th element of a grace-energized disciple of Christ as described in Titus 2—men who are sound in faith, is so timely.
Titus 2:1-2 /"But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;"/ NKJV
That leads us to this premise: *Grace-energized Men are Sound in Faith as disciples of Christ.
They are GUARDING A HEALTHY FAITH IN A SICK WORLD.*
First, Paul says these men are to be “sound ” which is the word hugiainō (ὑγιαινω), meaning “to be sound, well, in good health.”
The application is that those who teach God's Word protect their teachings from any error being mixed with truth.
Paul is saying these men must believe and teach true doctrine, which is recorded in God's Word.
These godly older men should know what they believe; and their doctrinal convictions and behavior should line up with God’s Word.
This truth is emphasized by the next word,* “faith”* which in this verse has the definite article.
It is not “faith” as in what is exercised, but “The Faith,” which describes the content of Christian doctrine as revealed in the Scriptures.
Paul is in the midst of identifying the behavior that follows a proper understanding of God (or “sound doctrine”).
When Paul gave these clear objectives for Titus as he taught the older men, it was to show them how to become a strong advertisement for God in a ‘crooked and perverse’ world (Phil.
2:15).
God’s discipleship program for men was laid down for Christ's church right from the earliest days.
It was focused upon guarding healthy faith—in a sin sick world.
There is nothing more timely for us as we enter the end of days, because, as the end of the physical world approaches, so does earth’s darkest spiritual hour .
Satan already knows from God's Word that God has plans to save “a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands…” (Revelation 7:9).
So, in to trying to thwart God’s harvest of precious souls and to prevent the world from coming to Christ, Satan has deployed legions of liars.
False sign posts—all pointing people away from Christ.
*Falling Away from “The” Faith*
Today, just as during the Tribulation years, there are only two types of people on the Earth—truth lovers and truth haters.
Open now to 2 Thessalonians 2, and stand with me to see that dark hour.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12 /"Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.
3 *Let no one deceive you* by any means; for that Day will not come unless *the falling away* comes first, and the *man of sin* is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. 5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time.
7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.
8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and *lying wonders*, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish,* because they did not receive the love of the truth*, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that *they should believe the lie,* 12 that they all may be condemned who *did not believe the truth* but had pleasure in unrighteousness."/
Love of the truth as we see in 2nd Thessalonians 2, is the proof of salvation.
Lost ones never receive a love of the truth so they never seek out and find Christ's offer of salvation.
*Beware of Shipwrecked Faith*
Remember that Paul uses this word to describe those who thrust away sound doctrine and try to sail on their own and without Christ's way, truth and life.
1 Timothy 1:19-20 /"having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected, concerning the faith have suffered shipwreck, 20 of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme."/*
What can cause a soul to be shipwrecked?
False teachers and belief in a false doctrine.
That was one of Christ's constant warnings.
But are these individuals saved, or lost?
Paul refers to them in such a way we must conclude that they are saved, so we know that they can’t lose their salvation.
One pastor clearly explains:
A good conscience is the rudder that steers the Christian life.
Because they rejected the pangs of conscience and the truth, it is no wonder that the errorists suffered shipwreck in regard to their faith*.
Professing to be Christians and teachers of God’s law (1:7), they were devoid of the truth.
It is possible for a believer to have his faith “upset” (2 Tim.
2:18).
Maybe that is another way to express the disaster of shipwrecked faith.
It is all too common for Christians to wreck their usefulness, virtue, and sanctification by believing error.
Paul warns that false teaching can shipwreck your soul as well.
That is why God wants men who are sound in the faith as teachers and leaders.
This is not new to our generation.
False teachers have been a part of the landscape from the start.
In fact, things were so bad one hundred years ago, that the greatest Bible teachers of that generation banded together to put up the flag of truth.
They sat down and declared what were the non-negotiables of God's Word or what they called ...
*The Fundamentals of “The Faith”*
At the end of days, truth is under attack and lies will abound.
Believers who are not grounded in healthy doctrine will suffer shipwreck, tossed about on the rocks of doubt and despair, wasting their lives and feeling hopeless.
That is why Jesus said watch out for false teachers and counterfeit religion.
When faced with a similar situation at the turn of the century, evangelicals produced a work called the FUNDAMENTALS in 1909-1915.
The writers read like a Who’s Who of Christianity of the day: R.A. Torrey [of Biola], B.B. Warfield [of Westminster Seminary], J.C. Ryle [devotional writer], G. Campbell Morgan [an expositor pastor], C.I. Scofield [of the study Bible], James M. Gray [MBI], A.T. Pierson [devotional writer]and so on.
These men distilled down the fundamental beliefs that distinguish a true believer from a false or counterfeit one.
They boiled down all theology into seven essentials.
They then presented and explained these seven doctrines in a multi-volume set of books called *“The Fundamentals”*.
Here is a summary of their work into seven essentials that if not guarded can lead one towards shipwreck.
1. INSPIRATION: The Inspiration and Reliable Historicity of the Bible.
2. CREATION: The error of Evolutionism and Darwinism.
3. DOCTRINE: The naming of the cults errors [Jehovah Witness, Mormonism, Christian Science, Spiritism, etc.].
4. DEPRAVITY: The reality of sin.
5. SUBSTITUTION: Biblical salvation by faith through the grace of God.
6. IMPUTATION: The errors of Roman Catholicism.
7. CHRISTOLOGY: The Deity, the substitutionary, vicarious death Christ on the cross, His resurrection, and the personal visible Return of Christ.
We who live in the start of the 21st Century are facing a crisis in the Church: Biblical illiteracy and incomplete Biblical discipleship.
That makes it imperative that we see that there is a critical need to preserve…
*Healthy Doctrine in Christ's Church*
Do you remember the story about the frog that landed in a pan of water and stayed until it boiled?
If the water in the pan had been hot, the frog would have noticed and immediately hopped out.
But the water felt cool at first, and the frog sensed no danger.
As the water warmed, the frog just relaxed and conformed to the gradual change.
Finally, when the water was dangerously hot, the muscles of the frog were subdued by the rising heat, and grew too sluggish to act.
By the time the water boiled, the frog was dead.
The longer I live, the more alarmed I get at the growing trend of Biblical illiteracy and the lack of Biblical discipleship in today’s church.
Just as the decline in church attendance, Bible reading, and even Bible carrying can been seen in each new generation—the corresponding decline in even knowing the Bible (Biblical illiteracy), and obeying God's Word (Biblical discipleship) is showing up in the woefully powerless lives of so many believers.
Recently some findings that point to Biblical illiteracy and ineffective discipleship were published.
This is what, Christian researcher and author George Barna reported as he surveyed people who considered themselves to be “Christians”:
1. Less than half of all adults can name the four gospels.
2. A majority of professing Christians struggle to identify more than two or three of the disciples.
3. 60 % of Americans cannot name even five of the Ten Commandments.
4. 82 % of Americans believe "God helps those who help themselves" is a Bible verse.
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