People could ignore the message, but they could never forget the man. Everywhere he went, people knew that Paul belonged to God, and that he was representing a living Savior, whom Paul personally knew and spent time with.
He is an apostle of Jesus Christ, personally commissioned by Him.Įverything about Paul’s life bore those two marks. He reminds Titus that he has the imprint of two indelible marks upon his life. He wants Titus to know the motivation of his life and ministry. Titus 1:1-4 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior. There is great immorality among the youth. Our worship becomes comfortable and convenient. Hosea 4 indicates what happens when we forget Him. They will not encounter God in their lives. His grace will not be at work in their lives. Your children will not matter with God. Through your forgetting of the Law of God in your life and home…. The Jews would lose their voice and blessing from God. Doesn’t necessarily mean death-but rather you have lost your significance with God. Overcome, cut off, made to cease– silenced. Your heart has become a barrier to a living relationship with God. You have lost your standing, your voice. No longer a priest, able to go directly to Him.Rejection of God leads to Him rejecting you. We live the majority of our lives without Him.ģ.We go through our day without a fresh touch from God.Our heart gets cold, our faith is stale.The pull of this world system is too powerful.Neglect turns into rejection of God and His ways God is ignored, forgotten, neglected and even spurned.Ģ. Neglect, busyness, priorities, excuses, hurts.Hosea 4:1 …There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land The people are lacking in their relationship with God. (knowledge and discernment which comes from an experience or encounter)ġ.My people are silenced for lack of knowing me! Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. They probably knew scriptures, participated in memory drills, had the scriptures hanging on their walls, but they had long ago stopped having a fresh encounter with the author of the Scriptures.)
Spoken to the PRIESTS! They were not making sure the Jews were experiencing God in the reality of everyday living! (This knowledge used is that which comes from an encounter and experience. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. From time to time we will join the two together, as I will this morning, as I tie Hosea 4:6 to Titus 1:1-4 Destroyed (silenced) for a lack of knowledge
Wednesday’s we will begin in Genesis and walk through the Old Testament. If the Lord leads we will spend the next two years walking toward Revelation. I want to begin a study toward the end of the New Testament. Galatians 5:25 says that if you have life by the Spirit, then walk by the Spirit! It is a LIFE that through faith and the Word sees Jesus Christ ever before you, living in you, living through you and living for you. While many of us have come to Jesus Christ to obtain eternal life, many of us have failed to take hold of the LIFE that Jesus wants us to live NOW! It is a life that is not dependent upon your sight, your flesh, your strength, or your wisdom. Jesus said that He is the life, that He is the only way to God the Father. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.” Joshua led the Israelites into the promised land. Deuteronomy 30:19-20 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
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