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If you're able, please remain standing
and let's give our attention to titus chapter
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three. I'm going to read verse
one through Verse Eleven, but focusing on
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versus nine through eleven. This titus
chapter three remind them to be submissive to
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rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
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to speak evil of no one,
to avoid quarreling, to be gentle
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and to show perfect courtesy toward all
people. For or we ourselves were once
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foolish, disobedient, let as stray
slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing
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our days in malice and envy,
hated by others and hating one another.
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But when the goodness and loving kindness
of God, our Savior, appeared,
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he saved us, not because of
works done by us in righteousness, but
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according to his own mercy, by
the washing of regeneration and the renewal of
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the Holy Spirit, whom he poured
out on US richly through Jesus Christ,
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our Savior, so that, being
justified by His grace, we might become
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heirs according to the hope of eternal
life. The saying is trustworthy, and
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I want you to insist on these
things. So that those who have believed
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in God may be careful to devote
themselves to good works. These things are
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excellent and profitable for people, but
avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions and
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quarrels about the law, for they
are unprofitable and worthless. As for a
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person who stirs up division, after
warning him once and then twice, have
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nothing more to do with him,
knowing that such a person is warped and
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sinful, he is self condemned.
This is God's word. You may be
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seated. Last time we considered titus
chapter three, we considered this point,
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that the Apostle Paul, by the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit, was calling
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titus and all faithful ministers of the
Gospel to a certain and particular task,
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to remind people of the lives that
they are called to live on things that
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are described in the first few verses
of chapter three, being submissive to rulers
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and authorities, be obedient, ready
for good, every good work, and
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so on. But not only to
remind them of these things, but to
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insist on the Gospel, to insist
on the fact that the truth, the
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historical reality, that the goodness and
loving kindness of God, our Savior,
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has appeared in the world, that
Jesus Christ has come, this promised Messiah
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has come into the world, has
been made manifest in such a way that
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he was seen, touched, heard
and even crucified, and that this crucifixion
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brought about a renewal in the lives
of those people who have put their faith
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in him. The Holy Spirit I'm
being sent from father and the son,
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washes US and regenerates us, renews
us, that we are those who have
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been justified by His grace and have
become heirs according to the hope of eternal
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life. These are the truths that
are about us. This is the good
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news that God announces in the World, the Gospel the God announces in the
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World, and this Gospel and all
the various parts of it is what titus
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is to insist on as he ministers
to these various churches on the island of
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Crete. He's to insist on these
things, particularly for this purpose, that
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the people who have believed in these
things, who have believed in God Budd
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would be careful to devote themselves to
good works. So we see that titus
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is to insist on the Gospel as
he seeks the Godliness that the Gospel produces.
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But what good is having a treasure
if you don't protect it? Because
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things that are valuable can also be
lost or stolen from you. And so,
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for that reason, titus must not
only insist on the Gospel, but
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he must also protect it, protect
it from two things in particular. He
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must protect it from distraction and from
division. The church can be distracted away
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from the Gospel. Titus can be
distracted away from the Gospel, and divisions
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in the Church can divide people,
and I'd from a Gospel Unity. They
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had to something, something else.
These are is what all instructs titus in
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in versus a nine through eleven.
So, after talking about these various Gospel
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truths and saying these things are excellent
and profitable for people, these truths have
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profit, have value. You Bank
on these and you will get dividends,
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they will pay forward, but a
void other things. Don't be distracted by
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foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions and
corals about the law, for they are
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unprofitable, they are worthless, he
says, he net. He lists four
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things that distract us from the Gospel, four things that can distract tied us
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from the Gospel. Foolish controversies,
genealogies, dissensions, corals about the law,
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these are things that a tied us
in particular faced we could perhaps list
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others, but they're things that,
of course, apply to today as well.
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Foolish controversies, we might describe this
one as questions about things that just
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don't matter, questions about things that
paraded themselves as wisdom but are not really
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that at all, and it takes
wisdom to know what those things are.
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We're helped, however, by giving
these having these lists and scripture. Paul's
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just spent several verses giving us many
commas with things in between, things to
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insist on, things of great worth
of value and importance. But often times
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people are distracted. They're distracted by
things that that don't matter, controversies about
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things which cannot be known. It's
a good thing, and that for us
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at a to be thankful and thankful
to God for revealing his word to us,
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but we are right to remember that
his word has limits. He only
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says so much. There's a temptation
sometimes, though, to be distracted by
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the things that he doesn't say,
to inquire after things which simply aren't there.
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To speculate about all kinds, all
kinds of things. We have to
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be careful about going only as far
as scripture does and would and waiting things
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where scripture waits it and Paul in
another place in Second Timothy, I'm tells
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Timothy there to watch out for this
thing as well and tells tells Timothy to
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correct people who go about questioning these
kinds of things, so that God may
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grant them repentance and lead them to
a knowledge of the truth. Rather than
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being distracted by things that don't matter, questions that can't be answered, he
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wants them to pursue knowledge that actually
does matter, knowledge that leads to the
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truth. We have to be careful
about this as well. We rightly want
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to mind the scriptures for all their
worth indeed, as if we do that
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in the right way, we will
keep going and going and going. There's
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value that can be a continually mind
in God's word. We also have to
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remember that sometimes there's questions that simply
aren't worth asking, things that we can
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spend vast amounts of time on that
simply aren't worth it, that aren't profitable,
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that don't lead to the knowledge of
the truth. They simply re lead
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into a endless labyrinth or maze.
We need to learn how to distinguish these
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things. Perhaps one specific example of
this are the genealogies that Paul mentions in
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the next of his list, the
second of these four things. This is
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appropriate since we considered a genealogy even
this morning, looking at Genesis Chapter Eleven.
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It's, of course, right for
us to consider the genealogies that are
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given to us in scripture, to
study them and to learn from them,
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but they have their limits, as
well. Every portion of God's word does,
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and in the history of the church, among the Jews and among the
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Christians, there have been various times
in which people have sought to speculate about
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all kinds of origins and dates and
ancestries and things that simply aren't knowable.
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They're not they're not given. The
genealogies were not given for these reasons or
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for these points under the Gospel.
This kind of speculation offers no religious benefit.
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Pressing texts beyond what can be known
is not a helpful thing. I'll
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just mentioned that biblical commentaries are sometimes
the worst offenders, spending page after page
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after page dealing with things that simply
don't matter, things that can't be known.
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I'm simply offering up one speculative hypothesis
after another. We need to be
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careful about these things. One of
the reasons we need to be careful is
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because they distract us from what's true
and what's important. If you're distracted,
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if you're spending your time on things
that aren't valuable, well then you're wasting
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your time and you end up do
perhaps even diluting of the things that do
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matter. Worse yet, they can
lead a to problems like number three,
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dissensions and strife. Often Times,
when we spend our time on things that
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don't matter, on stupid or foolish
controversies, we end up taking stands that
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don't matter. We end up dividing
and quarreling about things that don't matter.
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Ambition is often at the root of
this. We struggle and we strive to
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prove our position on again, a
meaningless point or something that can't even be
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really decided, or something that scripture
is very vague about. Another example of
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this is given in the fourth of
this these things things that distract us from
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the Gospel, and that's corals about
the law. When Paul says this,
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no doubt he has the mosaic law
particularly in mind. The MASAIC laws good
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it what didn't just happen, but
it's given to us, recorded in scripture,
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for us to study and to learn
from. It's for that reason that
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we spend a lot of time here
at Covenant Thinking about the Mosaic Law,
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reading the Old Testament, considering it. However, though it deserves our full
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attention as it teaches us and leads
us to the Gospel, we have to
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remember, as scripture so clearly points
out in so many places, that we
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are no longer under it. And
yet there are people who endlessly want to
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debate this point over and over again, asserting what the scriptures are so clearly
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teach, that we have, that
the law has passed and we are under
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a new covenant, a Better Covenant, and so we need to be careful
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as we consider the law of God, the Mosaic Lawn particular, that we
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understand its truths and we understand them
in the clear context of scripture. Well.
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When these things come about, titus
is to avoid them. It's perhaps
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particularly easy for ministers to get caught
up in these kinds of things. They
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have before them. All kinds of
books articles continually being produced, often,
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or at least sometimes, that are
in these categories. There's all kinds of
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ways to spend one's time, to
get distracted on these kinds of things,
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not to mention if you have people
in the church that are spending their time
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on these things, worrying about these
things and asking you questions and and putting
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to you these kinds of things,
it's easy to focus on them. But
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Paul warrants titus says, avoid these
things, just just avoid them. Perhaps
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there's certain emails that should just go
unanswered, phone calls that are just left
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on voice mail. Perhaps there's time
things that should just be left alone,
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but sometimes it should be dealt with
even more strongly than that. There are
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times when it's not enough to avoid, but the minister must protect the Gospel
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by directly speaking to those, I'm
who are leading the charge in these kinds
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of things. Paul goes on to
say not only to avoid these things,
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but for the person who stirs up
division, after warning him once and then
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twice, have nothing more to do
with him, knowing that such a person
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is warped and sinful. He is
self condemned the goal in speaking to this
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person. The very first goal that
we see is growth. Paul doesn't say
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the first time somebody does this,
cut them off. They say the person
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who is characterized by this, go
to him, warn him, admonish him,
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not just once but but even twice. But there comes a point when
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warning and teaching must not go on
forever. In fact, the pastor is
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not only advised to not waste his
time by continuing going on and on,
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warning and warning and warning, admonishing, admonishing and monishing, but he's told
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by the spirit of God to stop. Admonish him, warn him once,
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warn him twice and after that have
nothing more to do with him, leave
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him alone now, after now.
This passage doesn't expressly prove something like excommunication
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from the church, but it certainly
fits with it and other examples that we
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see in scripture, like in Matthew
Eighteen, where the Lord says if someone
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sins, that you bring it to
them privately and then sort of semi publicly
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and then to the church and if
they won't listen, and that they should
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be separated from God's people. Now, when, when the pastor the elders
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approach someone like this, this pert
these people will, of course, be
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surprised offended charge you with being unloving
uncaring. But the man of God must
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be firm if he is to administer
the keys of the kingdom that he is
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be given. Why? Because he
is called to protect and insist on the
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Gospel. Because that's ultimately where our
unity is. It's not in all the
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various opinions on minor things that we
might hold, but it's on the Gospel
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and the truths that support and uphold
that. This is the work of the
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Minister of the Gospel. He must
not only protect or not not. Must
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Not only preach the Gospel, but
he must also protect it. A kind
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of Gospel based discipline must be used
now. This, of course, applies
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not only to ministers and elders who
are called to rule and oversee, but
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also to each of you in the
congregation. You also must learn the truths
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of the Gospel, learn to hold
fast, learn the what is important and
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what is not. We all must
learn to repent of our speculations, of
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our additions, of our attempts to
gain spiritual points by Lording certain things over
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other people. Must Learn to heed
correction when it is given by those who
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rule over you. Why should we
do this things? Why do we heed
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these things? The reason is is
that selfjustification leads to death, and that's
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ultimately what these things, these quarreling, these divisions, these stupid, foolish
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controversies, that's what those things are
about, aren't they? When we speculate
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beyond what the word of God says, when we inquire about things that can't
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be known, things that are mysterious, what are we ultimately trying to do?
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We're trying to establish ourselves on something
God has not said. We're trying
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to establish ourselves on ourselves, and
often we use these kinds of things to
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establish ourselves, in our strength over
and against other people. We divide up
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away from the Gospel so that we
might have a power in and of ourselves,
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a unity that centers around something that's
important to us. You know,
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this is something that's true even of
things that are of God's Word and are
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of the Gospel. The Good News
of the Gospel is that God has saved
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us despite our works. And yet
we twist this, don't we? We
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twist this into saying well, because
I believe in these things, because I
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can sort of check mark my way
down a certain theological list, I know
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I'm saved. We put our pride, in other words in our understanding and
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in our knowledge, rather than trusting
in these things, believing and hoping on
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them. But a sad irony it
is to take the doctrine of justification and
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think that we are somehow justified by
believing it or checking that box. These
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kinds of things lead to death.
Whenever we stand on ourselves, on our
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own ideas, our own smartness and
inquisitiveness and power in the church, we
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will fall, we will even die
if we hold onto these things for our
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salvation. The Gospel, however,
is the good news that God has come
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into the world and is manifested in
this salvation in the world. Apart from
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our righteousness, apart from our self
worship, our pride, our speculations,
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our false spirituality, the gospel comes
to us and says you don't have to
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prove yourself in this kind of way, you don't have to prove yourself by
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being unnecessarily inquisitive about things that don't
matter or speculating about things that God hasn't
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said. Instead, you can simply
receive the gift that God has given you.
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This clear manifestation of his salvation and
you will be saved. And it's
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through this Gospel that God also unites
us and creates a kingdom that we need
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not establish our own little micro kingdoms
here and there and all over the place.
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What we read in other words and
verses, in the first verses of
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Chapter Three, is that the Gospel
has the power to save, to unite,
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to draw us close to the God
and to one another. In the
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truth of Jesus Ky Christ coming and
dying on a cross so that we might
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be saved, we have something on
which we can insist, on which we
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can stake our lives, and that's
why we also protect the Gospel, because
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it is life, and apart from
it, we will die, the Church
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of God will die. If we
divide up into endless factions that don't matter
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and are based on Selfjustification, we
won't last, we won't survive. But
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if instead we place all of our
unity and our hope and the things that
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we believe in, the things that
are important, on Jesus Christ coming in
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the flesh, we will live,
because this is what God has promised to
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us. So let us put our
faith in those promises, let's trust in
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the Gospel that God has given us. Rather than trusting in ourselves or the
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vain imaginations of men, let us
put our faith in God's word as it
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comes to us, because it's sufficient
to do all that God sets out for
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it to do. Let us pray
for these things.
