back to indexBerean Community Church Bible Study 9/29/2021 Titus 1:10-12
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Father, we thank you for giving us an opportunity 00:01:19.440 |
to share and discuss the things that we've gleaned and learned. 00:01:28.840 |
that you would cause us just a hunger for more. 00:01:32.160 |
And so we thank you for this evening, this opportunity 00:01:37.960 |
And we pray just for your spirit to really provide 00:01:48.360 |
So you never want to take a passage just in isolation. 00:01:55.480 |
So if you guys remember from the last several weeks, 00:01:59.840 |
what we covered was the elders need to be above approach. 00:02:04.720 |
And we looked at in the yellow, there are five ways-- 00:02:09.720 |
these are five negative traits that an elder is not 00:02:23.200 |
So teaching sound doctrine, refuting those who contradict, 00:02:31.120 |
Two ways, offensive, where you have to feed the sheep, 00:02:33.920 |
defensive, where you actually have to fight off the wolves. 00:02:36.600 |
And that's going to come up again several times. 00:02:39.720 |
And we're going to also learn, not just today, 00:02:42.160 |
but in chapter three, how do we go about doing these things? 00:02:45.960 |
Because it does say show every consideration, right? 00:02:50.200 |
And those are some of the things that we're going to look at. 00:02:52.740 |
But the first thing I do when I take this whole context 00:03:02.440 |
If you look at the leftmost column, you'll see that. 00:03:10.560 |
They must be silenced, so reprove them severely. 00:03:15.000 |
And you speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine. 00:03:20.960 |
Do you guys see how I kind of organize it this way? 00:03:25.280 |
There are bad people messing up the church inside, right? 00:03:45.560 |
So refute those who contradict, exhort in sound doctrine. 00:03:51.640 |
it's easier for me to just track along in my mind 00:03:58.680 |
is Titus has a couple tasks that he has to do. 00:04:07.320 |
If you guys remember that from a few weeks ago, 00:04:14.360 |
He's got to set it in order and appoint elders. 00:04:22.280 |
There are factious men who are upsetting whole families 00:04:34.360 |
But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strifes 00:04:41.680 |
So it gives you insight into the men of circumcision, 00:04:45.440 |
So it gives you a little bit of insight there. 00:04:48.200 |
Reject a factious man after a first and second warning. 00:04:57.640 |
So these are the kinds of men that are there. 00:05:00.280 |
And Titus, in the context of this group of people, 00:05:03.560 |
is supposed to set them in order and appoint leadership. 00:05:09.840 |
So I'm going to just go through these verses, 00:05:22.400 |
So if you guys have studied this before, hypotaso means to 00:05:26.960 |
Submit, get an order, the commander says something, 00:05:33.120 |
Anupotaktoi, which means they're insubordinate 00:05:39.640 |
So these guys refuse to submit to the gospel truths, 00:05:51.000 |
that the elder's children are not supposed to be, 00:05:54.440 |
if you guys remember, not accused of rebellion, 00:05:59.160 |
So that might give you an insight going backward 00:06:17.720 |
So it really literally means they talk about stuff 00:06:26.320 |
And deceivers, this is the only time this is used 00:06:40.680 |
So when I do it in the English, it makes it a little harder. 00:06:49.160 |
If there's a false prophet who is clearly a false prophet, 00:07:03.480 |
Because most of what they will tell you is truth, 00:07:08.320 |
And I always use this for the children's ministry, 00:07:10.720 |
but rat poison, I don't know if this is scientific, 00:07:13.280 |
but this has been passed down in illustrations 00:07:15.840 |
for many, many years, is 98% of rat poison is food. 00:07:25.880 |
So the false teachers that are among the churches now, 00:07:40.880 |
Does adhering to the Mosaic law sound like something 00:07:53.800 |
very gifted people who are very good at lying 00:08:07.040 |
by talented speakers, gifted writers, celebrated pastors. 00:08:13.880 |
And that's why you need to watch not just their doctrine, 00:08:22.560 |
First Timothy says they pray on weak-willed women. 00:08:26.320 |
I don't know if you guys did a little cross-reference. 00:08:37.440 |
So a lot of people, their Christianity is not coming 00:08:39.360 |
from the word of God, it's coming from culture. 00:08:50.000 |
I'm gonna read a couple sections of this for you. 00:08:52.200 |
Second Timothy three, all who desire to live godly 00:08:57.480 |
But evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse, 00:09:01.960 |
Many false prophets don't know that they're false prophets. 00:09:28.360 |
This is why it's important to preach the word. 00:09:30.520 |
For the time will come when they will not endure 00:09:32.400 |
sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, 00:09:38.040 |
and will turn away their ears from the truth, 00:09:53.660 |
If I err on the side of legalism, give me some rules. 00:09:58.240 |
You guys know people like this who are hardworking, 00:10:07.520 |
People who are in sin, who don't wanna hear it, 00:10:11.240 |
they want you to emphasize the forgiveness of God, 00:10:13.560 |
the love of God, the kindness of God, the sweetness of God, 00:10:19.840 |
So it's easy to prey on people who want to hear deception. 00:10:29.120 |
and the many rebellious men are preying on these things. 00:10:32.800 |
So the next three weeks, or the next several sessions, 00:10:36.480 |
we're gonna be looking at the rebellious people, 00:10:46.000 |
starting chapter two, we're doing five verses each week. 00:10:50.120 |
So we're gonna be looking at, today, 10 to 12. 00:11:11.200 |
The Judaizers is what they're usually known as, 00:11:15.600 |
and there's only one reference to the word Judaizer 00:11:20.160 |
in Galatians 2.14, and this is where it comes from. 00:11:23.000 |
When I saw that they were not straightforward 00:11:30.920 |
and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel 00:11:44.380 |
Now, a couple background things that might be helpful. 00:11:50.280 |
you won't get the word Jew until you're almost done 00:12:04.640 |
So 586, when the temple's gone and then they have no land 00:12:15.520 |
So the pagan world around them called them of Judah. 00:12:19.680 |
So from that point on, they're called the Jews. 00:12:21.720 |
So Ezra and Nehemiah, you'll see the word Jews. 00:12:25.960 |
It'll be either Hebrew, Ephraim, and different words. 00:12:31.300 |
So they started getting called Jews after they got exiled. 00:12:55.580 |
And if you were a Gentile that wanted to become a Jew, 00:13:02.240 |
One, you would have to be circumcised if you're a male. 00:13:05.780 |
Second, you would have to do a ritual bath cleansing, okay? 00:13:09.700 |
And the third, you would have to take the yoke of the law, 00:13:39.520 |
Oh, you want me to perform your circumcision? 00:13:42.600 |
You want me to do your ritual bath cleansing? 00:13:53.520 |
I'll give you even, make all three, even thousand. 00:13:58.840 |
because people want to either be extra religious 00:14:06.400 |
And those are always two sides of the same coin, okay? 00:14:23.000 |
and then Samaria, and then the ends of the earth. 00:14:24.640 |
Most of the apostles, all their ministry was to the Jews. 00:14:31.600 |
So that's why you had a lot more Jewish Christians 00:14:35.200 |
and culturally Jewish believers in the church, all right? 00:14:48.960 |
but did not necessarily replace their Judaism. 00:14:53.880 |
These are the woke folk of the day, all right? 00:15:23.360 |
or some derivative of that in order to become a Christian? 00:15:28.360 |
Yes, and that was a circumcision party, okay? 00:15:32.440 |
And a lot of the Pharisees who converted to Christianity 00:15:53.580 |
trying to encourage them in their being persecuted 00:16:03.580 |
And this is such a big problem in the New Testament 00:16:11.180 |
all the pastoral epistles, Hebrews, they all address this. 00:16:14.820 |
And so what these Judaizers in Crete taught, I don't know. 00:16:24.200 |
that were upsetting entire households or churches, 00:16:29.420 |
with things that they shouldn't teach for the sake of what? 00:16:32.620 |
Sorted gain, because there's money to be made, okay? 00:16:37.160 |
So that's, hopefully that gives you a little bit of insight. 00:16:50.560 |
that we're supposed to pay attention in our church, 00:16:57.880 |
I can Facebook comment on some dude in Zimbabwe 00:17:00.780 |
and be like, hey, you preaching health and wealth. 00:17:07.840 |
To correct all of Christendom with sound doctrine, 00:17:15.500 |
Do we silence them, like getting into a Facebook wall war? 00:17:21.060 |
Oh yeah, oh, yeah, new ones, blah, blah, blah. 00:17:29.620 |
'cause no one's ever been won over on Facebook. 00:17:35.620 |
So you can kind of think, how do we silence these men? 00:17:43.700 |
So first, verse 13 is what we're gonna look at next week. 00:18:08.020 |
Better is open rebuke than hidden love, right? 00:18:21.820 |
and raise up an army of people who will do this. 00:18:24.260 |
Do you see why he's telling him to get elders? 00:18:27.780 |
Raise up an army of folks whose life and doctrine 00:18:49.860 |
adorn the doctrine of God, to silence these guys. 00:18:53.320 |
So that's how we're gonna look into that in chapter two. 00:19:05.860 |
because these are unprofitable and worthless. 00:19:20.660 |
like bashing him for being so spiritually stupid, 00:19:30.180 |
Now that's a question that I need to ask, okay? 00:19:35.200 |
So, and then the bottom part, for the sake of sordid gain, 00:19:38.260 |
and ultimately it's those who love the church 00:19:53.260 |
because it makes them profit in one way or the other. 00:20:13.800 |
I'm a little bit more free to give this advice, 00:20:15.640 |
'cause once they're dating, it's a little harder, 00:20:27.580 |
But if you find a guy who just loves the church 00:20:31.620 |
without loving the Lord, then you're in trouble, 00:20:38.460 |
will be more Christ-like, but the guy who loves the church 00:20:40.820 |
will be a grumbler, complainer, all the way through, 00:20:43.460 |
and then you're gonna be attached, so be careful. 00:20:48.940 |
are those who want to leech off of the church, 00:20:52.820 |
and that's what you're supposed to avoid, okay? 00:21:05.280 |
Verse 12, one of themselves, a prophet of their own, 00:21:14.080 |
And some of you guys have already done your research. 00:21:24.000 |
Epimenides of Knossos, a philosopher of the sixth century, 00:21:28.680 |
native of Crete, one of the seven great wise men of Greece, 00:21:31.560 |
and the funny thing that he actually once said was, 00:21:39.080 |
So there are no wild beasts on this island, okay? 00:21:48.100 |
they used to use the word kretizo to mean lie, to cheat. 00:22:01.720 |
Now, you guys might have skimmed over verse 12, all right? 00:22:11.940 |
and as I have the framework of all 46 verses in my head, 00:22:17.580 |
Hey, everything that Titus is supposed to exhort 00:22:22.580 |
amongst all the Christians in these churches of Crete 00:22:27.660 |
go against lying, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons. 00:22:39.180 |
Instead, they should be dignified, teaching what is good, 00:22:46.980 |
No, they need to be temperate, teaching what is good, 00:22:48.700 |
reverent, sensible, sensible, sensible, sensible, sensible. 00:22:53.580 |
Example of good deeds, not pilfering, showing good faith. 00:23:02.180 |
Dignified, sound in perseverance, not enslaved to wine 00:23:04.580 |
because when you're addicted to Netflix or video games 00:23:09.380 |
or alcohol or other things, you end up procrastinating 00:23:13.900 |
You work hard at play and you play at your work. 00:23:22.340 |
So that should give you insight into chapter two, verse five. 00:23:27.180 |
Do you think the point is that they can't work 00:23:51.500 |
Be subject and well-pleasing, not argumentative. 00:24:16.480 |
so that the saying, Cretans are always liars, 00:24:33.200 |
because it almost seems like there's hope for the prophet. 00:24:40.240 |
but let's say I rebuke a health and wealth gospel guy, 00:24:50.480 |
And then what's the, to the pure, all things are pure. 00:24:53.800 |
So next week, you're gonna have to dig in a little bit. 00:25:00.800 |
but we're gonna just do up to the end of chapter one. 00:25:21.460 |
who are all 20, 25 years removed from college. 00:25:37.860 |
they're not Christians, and all of these things. 00:25:40.060 |
What churches should be for, and all of these things. 00:26:05.640 |
'Cause that's a little bit more of a dangerous question, 00:26:11.520 |
And what are the ways that you can better pray 00:26:13.500 |
for the spiritual leaders that are in your life? 00:26:17.760 |
So you don't wanna only use the past 12 verses 00:26:33.420 |
You can hold my feet to the fire and test my character, 00:26:42.860 |
You need to pray that we are above our approach next year. 00:26:48.940 |
We're above our approach all the way to the finish line. 00:26:59.340 |
And the first thing that happens when our churches 00:27:03.620 |
is we start praying less and depending on our own strength. 00:27:12.180 |
not in terms of money, but maybe it's in terms of renown. 00:27:19.840 |
You don't think that temptation's gonna be there? 00:27:23.880 |
And the busier we are, you don't think there's a temptation 00:27:27.700 |
So all of those things that are stretching us, 00:27:31.820 |
it should help you to pray that we don't become like this. 00:27:35.420 |
And also that you guys all become very equipped 00:27:40.120 |
and astute in the word of God so that you can 00:27:43.260 |
take on a lot of discipleship role for new people 00:27:48.980 |
So you guys are seeing how I would apply this passage 00:27:55.500 |
One, how do I refute those that are around me 00:27:59.300 |
And two, negative as in like they're not teaching 00:28:02.900 |
And two, how do I pray for the spiritual leaders around me? 00:28:10.900 |
How do I pray for the elders who are working full-time jobs 00:28:19.900 |
So it becomes just a big, like we really need to be 00:28:28.820 |
Because our churchianity world is surrounded by 00:28:36.620 |
And we need to be alert and aware of how to combat that. 00:28:40.020 |
Not being jerks, but severely reproving in love 00:28:46.000 |
And that requires spiritual wisdom and discernment. 00:28:50.500 |
I'm gonna leave the rest of the time for you guys 00:28:58.740 |
Next week's homework is pretty much exactly the same. 00:29:12.460 |
And if you have specific areas where you need wisdom,