Man well it's great to be here at the Red Hot Preaching Conference this
morning I'm preaching here out of Titus chapter 2 and just to bring you up to
speed a little bit with the context this is part of what's known as the pastoral
epistles where the Apostle Paul is writing to his young proteges in the
ministry Timothy and Titus and in this passage in particular he says in verse
number one but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine but I want
to kind of give you the context of what that statement means right before that
he had been talking about a bunch of false prophets false teachers heretics
he said in chapter 1 verse 5 he said for this cause left I thee in Crete that
thou should have said in order the things that are wanting and ordained
elders in every city as I had appointed thee and the reason why it's so
important that elders be ordained in Crete is because according to verse 10
there there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers especially they
have the circumcision and so he talks about how there are all these false
prophets they need to be called out we need to be preaching against them we
need pastors in every city that will preach sound doctrine and put to shame
these phony false prophets and it's very similar in the book of first Timothy as
well he says I left you at Ephesus so that you would charge these guys that
they would not teach other doctrine and so he left Titus in Crete he left
Timothy in Ephesus and the emphasis is on shutting the mouths of false prophets
now at the end of chapter 1 in Titus with that in mind he says in verse 16
about these false prophets these heretics he said they profess that they
know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and
unto every good work reprobate and so what he's saying here is that not only
are these heretics corrupt in their beliefs and corrupt in their doctrine
but they have a corrupt lifestyle that matches their wrong doctrine right wrong
teaching and wrong lifestyle go hand in hand and in fact if you study your Bible
what you'll find out is that the heretics and false prophets of this
world are literally reprobates the vast majority of the time maybe even all the
time because the Bible is just constantly putting false teachers in the
same category with sodomites and reprobates and things like that so he's
saying look they have the wicked works the wicked lifestyle maybe not in their
public persona they profess that they know God but in works they deny him
being abominable and disobedient and under every good work reprobate okay so
that's the false prophets but then we get to chapter 2 verse 1 he says but you
Titus speak thou the things which become sound doctrine so he's saying look Titus
I don't want you only to have the right doctrine but I also want you to have the
right lifestyle to match the right doctrine just as the heretics have the
wickedness to match their bad doctrine we as Christians need to have the right
living to match our good doctrine you see all throughout this chapter Titus
chapter 2 it's all about the way that we live our lives I'm talking about just
our everyday lives man woman boy and girl hey I'm glad that you have crossed
all the doctrinal T's and dotted all the doctrinal I's I'm glad you've got the
end times prophecy right you got your salvation doctrine right you got the
doctrine of God right but God wants you to live a lifestyle every day Monday
Tuesday Wednesday that matches that good doctrine speak thou the things which
become which means they're suitable or they're appropriate for or they match up
with sound doctrine what are those things they're about how we live our
lives that's what the whole rest of the chapter is about so let's get into this
he says first of all in verse 2 here are some of the lifestyle things that we
need to have to match the good doctrine he starts out talking to the aged men
and he's going to talk to old men young men old women young women he says that
the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith and charity and patience
now if you look at those first three words sober grave temperate in many ways
these are just kind of three words for the same thing I mean it's almost a
little bit redundant the Apostle Paul's basically thinking of every word in his
vocabulary for this idea of sobriety now as we go through this you're going
to find that the central theme for all four groups old young male female is
sobriety he starts out saying the old men need to be sober then he says that
the old women need to teach the young women to be sober and then he says tell
the young men to be sober sober sober sober the central focus is sober both of
the bookends are sober what does it mean to be sober well obviously this includes
an absence of alcohol because right before he tells the older women to teach
the younger women to be sober he says that they not be given to much wine so
that they can teach the young women to be sober a lot of people try to say
this word sober has nothing to do with abstaining from alcohol but what kind of
a bozo thinks that a person who's drinking is sober that doesn't even make
sense you know well I you know I saw what that means obviously it means more
than just abstinence from alcohol but wouldn't that be kind of a good place to
start being sober like how about I didn't drink so at least I got that
going for me now maybe I can work on other levels of sobriety but what does
it mean to be sober well think about what the Bible says be sober be
vigilant right because your adversary the devil walketh about as a roaring
lion seeking whom he may devour so sober has to do with being awake alert paying
attention thinking clearly everything that goes away when people are drinking
alcohol right what does grave mean grave means serious what does temperate mean
it means that you have yourself under control now stop and think about this
why would the old man the aged man be told hey you need to be sober grave and
temperate because of the fact that old people can tend to stop taking life
seriously they can start to get relaxed in their old age which is the exact
opposite of being sober and vigilant they could start to just sort of relax
their Christianity relax their standards of morality relax their Christian living
and you know when people are young they tend to have a lot of zeal for God be
excited and doing stuff and then the tendency as you get older is to stop
taking your Christian walk seriously and sort of just relax a little bit and just
coast like well my life's almost over you know whatever who cares and what's
the number one attribute of people that are drunk or smoking pot they kind of
just stop caring about things and they're just kind of like and you know
what don't be that way spiritually just because you're old like well I'm old it
doesn't matter hey you know what if you're old today why don't you still
take the Word of God seriously take the Christian life seriously be sober be
vigilant be alert hey why don't you finish strong in the Christian life and
not just relax and it blows me away to see old people today going to liberal
watered-down churches it doesn't make sense because they grew up in a time
where those kind of churches didn't even exist it makes way more sense for old
people to be in an old-fashioned King James Bible pulpit pounding leather
long Baptist Church because that's what they grew up with you know they they
grew up in a world where this kind of church and this kind of preaching was
normal and then all of a sudden you see them defecting over to these watered-down
liberal fund centers I'll tell you why because they don't care because they're
relaxing because they're not taking their Christian life seriously anymore
they're more focused on other things in their life church is kind of an
afterthought so hey let's just go to the one that's close or let's just go
wherever you know instead of saying hey is it King James hey is the doctrine
right hey is this a fundamentalist Baptist Church or what that matters to
them when they were younger but now all of a sudden they're relaxed no why don't
you aged men today and I'm of course I'm preaching the ones who did show up at
the Red Hot Preaching Conference but you know we all need to hear these things
again and again hey you aged men be sober about your Christian life be grave
take it seriously be temperate okay temperance makes me think of being an
athlete right having self-control training yourself having rules for
yourself having character not just getting sloppy slovenly and relaxed
because that to me is the opposite of sober grave temperate slovenly sloppy
relaxed drowsy don't care that's not what we need today in our aged elder
old heads and so the aged man need to be sober grave temperate sound in faith in
charity in patience right they need to be an example to the young people hey
if you're old today why don't you pass on the godliness and the Christianity
that you grew up with why don't you pass on that legacy to the next generation
instead of just wasting your your Twilight years or whatever they're
called the aged women likewise the Bible says that they be in behavior as
becometh holiness now we have the same word becoming right becoming means it's
it's attractive it's appropriate it's pleasant it fits it's suitable right if
someone said you know that hairstyle is very becoming or that dress is very
becoming on you it means it suits you it looks good on you hey we need a
lifestyle that looks good on good doctrine that matches up that fits
that's appropriate and so we need to have the sobriety gravity and
temperance that matches good doctrine as men as we get older and then the aged
women they need to be in behavior has become as holiness they need to have a
life that is appropriate fitting pleasing that goes with being holy what
does it mean to be holy it means to be sanctified to be set apart to be a
peculiar people not to just be exactly like whatever the world is doing out
there but to be holy unto the Lord right and so their behavior should match that
holiness he says not false accusers not given to much wine and teachers of good
things now why did he tell them not to be false accusers because as women get
older they could begin to have more time on their hands because when they're
young they're busy taking care of their husband taking care of their children
but you know as the kids grow up guess what they don't require as much work as
they mom I hope I don't require as much work as I used to require from you right
I mean I'm sure my mom worries about me sometimes and and and gets a little
nervous about some of the things that I do but I guarantee you that my mom had a
lot more work when I was a little kid or when I was a teenager then she does
right now being my mom because as you get older as one you get to just enjoy
your kids and your grandkids but you have more free time than you did when
you're that young mother and you got a five-year-old and a three-year-old and a
one-year-old you don't have any time right you're you're you're dealing with
laundry and dishes the kids everything but you know the aged women as they get
older they have a little more time on their hands and God wants them to make
sure that they're using that time for the right things not becoming a busy
body not just like oh I was extra time so now I'm just gonna be gossiping and
getting in on the latest scuttlebutt and I gotta find out you know the latest
scandal about sister so-and-so and brother hey did you hear about so-and-so
and here's where the false accusing comes in is that inevitably when you're
just constantly talking about unsavory things about other people when you're
being a busy body about other men's matters when you're constantly gossiping
and trying to get in on all of people's personal drama and family drama and
relationship drama and all that scuttlebutt inevitably facts are gonna
get wrong that's just the nature of being a tailbearer the nature of being a
back biter a gossip is that even if you're trying to get facts right facts
just end up getting wrong because it's also cloak and dagger it's also you know
hush and whisper and hey you know I mean I heard from so-and-so you know and
pretty soon you just start getting facts wrong and people start getting falsely
accused of a bunch of stuff that they didn't even do because you're gossiping
because you're being a tailbearer and so God's saying hey the aged women should
not get in on the slander and the scuttlebutt and the gossiping you know
they need to be busy doing the right things investing in the next generation
being a teacher of good things and you know what I've noticed also that older
women tend to get into drinking and man if you go to this store I used to do
fire alarms at a store called total wine and more I never saw the more because it
just seemed like it was just total wine is what that place seemed like to me
apparently they had something somewhere in that store that wasn't booze maybe
they smell like more liquor I don't know so I would do the fire alarms at total
wine and more and everybody there was ancient it was just all old people just
old people just filling carts with booze just old dudes old ladies and it just
seems like every old woman out there just you know when they're not living
for the Lord they just end up drinking wine out of a cardboard box for the rest
of their life and you know what that's not what God has put you on this earth
to do to just discover the joy of drinking in your old age you know that
now that the kids are out of the house I can just drink wine out of a cardboard
box and whatever hey what a way to end your life don't be given too much wine
don't be a slanderer a false accuser getting caught up in gossip being a busy
body you know why don't you be a teacher of good things because you have wisdom
and life experience that needs to be passed on to the next generation so
instead of drinking away your brain cells and gossiping your life away and
inevitably whether on purpose or accidentally slandering people why
don't you be a teacher of good things what do they need to teach it says in
verse number four then that they may teach the young women to be sober wow
there it is again to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet
chaste keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God
be not blasphemed now when the Bible says here to teach the young women to be
sober to love their husbands to love their children you know what this means
don't spend your old age being bitter about men or something you know you got
old ladies out there that you know they've just been burned too many times
and so they teach their young women hey you gotta stand up for yourself don't
you be a doormat you gotta stand up to him and you gotta just take what you
want it's like no why don't you teach them to love their husbands and not to
have a cynical view toward the opposite gender and you know what I promised that
I wouldn't talk about Andrew Tate this morning but I but you know he teaches
men to hate women and you know what but then there are all these women out there
like teaching women to hate men and it seems like the devil just wants men
hating women and women hating men he wants black people to hate white people
and white people hate black people you know God wants or God wants us to love
one another you know and God looks at this world as like saved and unsaved
you know in the kingdom of God and outside of the faith you know those are
the kind of dichotomies that we should see the world but yet the devil wants us
to divide over all the wrong things and he wants men bitter toward women and
women bitter you know don't become some bitter old hag just telling your
daughter your daughter-in-law your granddaughter you know the dangers of
men and then you know the evils of men or you know and because this can go both
ways don't become like this female Andrew Tate or something and by the way
it just I'm sorry I already opened the door now if you like Andrew Tate at all
you're an idiot okay like if you like Andrew Tate this much if you literally
just even if you just like well he says a few good things you know what you're
just saying I'm an idiot in a few areas because no he doesn't say any good
things he doesn't teach anything right he doesn't say anything right and you're
just showing how stupid you are if you fall for that piece of crap for one
second that evil human trafficking pimping piece of garbage he's so super
incredibly wicked I can't even and if you like him at all you're just showing
how either you're an idiot or you're carnal or you're wicked or whatever I
don't know what's wrong with you slap yourself in the face and just never
listen to him again that has nothing to do with the sermon and I wasn't gonna do
that but you know the Spirit of the Lord came upon me what can I say you know I
felt the Lord's leading to tell you that because you know what I'm telling you
people are deceived today it's incredible but you know we can flip
that over you know yeah we don't want to be misogynistic or woman hating but you
know what we don't want to be man hating either you know because God made us male
and female and we're to love one another and not to get all bitter and
angry you know we need some wives that love their husbands today and we need
some old ladies who support the younger generation of wives pushing them toward
loving their husbands and loving their children and not having a cynical or
negative view toward their husbands or how to manipulate their husbands or get
what they want out of their husband no no how to be a kind loving godly wife
to love their husband and you know I remember growing up with this preaching
like you know the Bible never tells women to love their husband it's like
okay well thank you for revealing that you don't know the Bible very well
because it's called Titus chapter 2 where women are commanded to love their
husbands and to love their children to be discreet chaste keepers home now what
does it mean to be discreet you know what it means to be discreet having
discretion it means you know what's appropriate to talk about and what isn't
okay and you know what that means that means you don't get together and talk
about what goes on in your bedroom with other women because that is supposed to
be kept private and that is wicked to just reveal all of these things about
your love life as a married woman that is something that is totally off limits
and if you had discretion you would know that you know not to talk about
inappropriate things bedroom things sleazy type topics outside of marriage
you just need to know what is appropriate to talk about as a woman and
what isn't and obviously men shouldn't be revealing what goes on in their
bedroom either because that is supposed to be kept private chaste obviously
chastity has to do with purity right God doesn't want us committing
fornication or adultery he says teach them to love their husbands love their
children to be discreet chaste keepers at home right taking care of their house
running the household and then it just I love this one just good good teach them
to be good now that might seem like just kind of like man is the Apostle Paul
trying to hit a word count here you know and just kind of like be good you know
he's like you know good let me tell you let me tell you why I like this word
good okay you know it kind of reminds me of in the book of Acts forgive me if I
get this wrong but I want to say it's it's Silas where the Bible says you know
he was a good man and and he was a good man and much people was added to the
Lord you know through him I'm just kind of paraphrasing that but I know I have
one word of that right good now here's the thing you know it's easy for us as
independent fundamentalist Baptist who we are really serious about having the
right doctrine and we are really serious about the truth and the Word of God and
getting it right to the letter and we want to have our prophecy doctrine right
we want to have our salvation doctrine right doctrines of God doctrines of the
Word of God I mean we are pretty strict on doctrine and it's pretty easy for us
to maybe take pride in the fact that we have such good purity of doctrine and
right beliefs and our beliefs are just so on point but then to not really just
focus on being a good person you know what I mean because you can have all the
right doctrine and then you don't have the things that become sound doctrine
you don't have the things that adorn the doctrine because just a little bit later
in the same chapter he says in verse number 10 not prolonging but showing all
good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior and all
things you know yeah let's have the right doctrine but let's adorn that
doctrine with the life that matches the doctrine it's called being a good person
and make no mistake about it if you're a bad wife you're a bad Christian if
you're a bad mother you're a bad Christian okay if you're a bad employee
you're being a bad Christian because being a Christian is all about being a
good mother a good wife a good husband a good father a good employee it's about
being a good person look having the right doctrine is supposed to make you a
better person and if it's not making you a good person you're doing it wrong
that's why the Bible says here in verse number 11 for the grace of God that
bringeth salvation has appeared to all men hey if anybody understands that
salvation is by grace it's the people in this room we're not trying to add works
to salvation we're not trying to take a little bit of credit for our salvation
smuggle in some works through the back door of like well you know you got to
repent of your sins and you know you can't just live however you want you
know yeah no no we know it's a free gift it's by grace that we're saved through
faith and that not of ourselves the gift of God not of works let's any man should
boast we know that salvation is totally by grace but you know the grace of God
that bringeth salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying
ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly right there it is again
this he just can't stop talking about being sober soberly righteously and
godly in this present world so yes I'm glad that we all understand that there
are absolutely no works required for salvation and that salvation is a free
gift purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ it's his death barrel and
resurrection that saves us not by works of righteousness that we have done but
according to his mercy he saved us but that grace of God should teach us should
teach us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts not because we have to to
go to heaven but we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present
world we should we absolutely should and you know that's what it's supposed to
teach us you know he laid down his life for us we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren we're supposed to look at Christ and say okay he gave us an
example that we should follow in his steps yes being saved by Christ is the
most important thing but once we're saved God wants us to do good works
right we're not saved by works but he says this God has created us and sorry
I'm let me back up in and get this right for by grace are you saved through faith
and then not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works thus any man
should boast for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works
which God has before ordained that we should walk in them so yeah after we're
saved God wants us to be good people and that the Word of God and the right
doctrine going to church reading our Bible praying walking in the Spirit
singing praise to God all of this should ultimately make us a better person in
our daily lives we should be better people and you know what I do not
believe that I will change this world I don't think that anybody is gonna change
the world but you know what I do believe is that I can kind of change my world
you know I think about the song brighten the corner where you are we all have our
little area in this world we've got our circle of friends we've got our family
we've got our sphere of influence we've got our neighborhood we've got our church
we all have our own little world here and you know what I should be making
that world a better place and you should be making that world a better place you
should be a blessing to the people around you should be a blessing to the
people you work with to the people you go to school with to the people that are
in your neighborhood to the people you go to church with you should be a
blessing to your brothers your sisters your mother your father your children
you should be making other people's lives better and you should be a
blessing and you should be teaching good things and you should be good be a good
person well let me tell you man I've got the book of Revelation all figured out
yeah but are you a good person now look I'm not saying not to figure out the
book of Revelation I'm saying you need to do both I'm glad he said you know
speak thou the things which become sound doctrine he didn't say like hey doctrine
doesn't matter man it's just about being a good person man you know you just
just love man that's not what he's saying he's saying get the doctrine
right and then get the life that matches the doctrine because you know the false
prophets they have a life that matches their doctrine their doctrine is dung
and their lifestyle is done at least they match we need to match we need to
live the Bible just as we study it and talk about it and know it we need to
live it and so the Bible says that the women in verse 5 should be discreet
chase keepers at home good you know that's a great way I throw away it's not
like I just stick in the word good to round out the verse be good be good and
then he says obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not
blasphemed you know be a good testimony to this world by being an obedient
godly helpful pleasant wife that's what the Bible saying and by the way it says
you know to be obedient to their own husbands this isn't saying that all women
everywhere have to obey all men you know sometimes you get men that have this
attitude that like every woman just kind of has to defer to them but that's not
really what the Bible teaches but the Bible does clearly teach that wives need
to be obedient to their own husbands okay and that's very clear and it's
important that the Word of God be not blasphemed and then he rounds it out
with this for the young men young men likewise exhort to be sober minded and I
believe that Timothy himself was a young man or yes I do believe that but Titus
himself is a young man as well and I believe that that's why he doesn't
really say as much to the young man he says young men likewise exhort to be
sober minded but here's the really important message that you need to give
to the young dudes Titus in all things you're gonna show yourself a pattern of
good works so he's saying you know hey teach this to the old man teach this to
the old women teach this to young women the men he doesn't have as much to say
to you about the young men because he says you know the biggest way you're
gonna teach the young man Titus is in all in all ways in all things showing
thyself a pattern of good works he's saying you know the biggest thing you
can do to teach the young men is just by being an example because you yourself
Titus are a young man so show yourself a pattern of good works in doctrine
showing uncorruptness gravity sincerity so is doctrine important absolutely he
says show uncorruptness in your doctrine be serious about doctrine
gravity seriousness about that doctrine correct doctrine and be sincere pure
right motivated and so forth about doctrine sound speech that cannot be
condemned right preach the sermons that are just airtight nobody can pick them
apart because you backed everything up with Scripture sound speech that cannot
be condemned that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no
evil thing to say of you either because of your doctrine or because your
lifestyle because what if you're doing great and you're preaching and you're
hitting all the doctrinal marks and you're checking all the boxes but if you
have these glaring inconsistencies in your lifestyle and and how about just
you're just kind of a crappy person in general you know what I mean like like
I'm tired you know what I mean by that do you know what I mean by being a good
person versus being kind of just like a sucky person okay like for example like
you're at work let me do in fact let me just let me just break it down to you
here's what it means to be a good person it means you're thinking about other
people that's pretty much like it's not complicated it's called love thy
neighbor as thyself it's a steaming others better than yourself it's are you
the guy at work that's just in it for yourself are you thinking about the
people around you in the family are you just in it for yourself in the household
are you thinking about everybody else you thinking about your wife thinking
about your kids think making everybody else happy around you or is it just what
can I get to make me happy that's you know to me if I just wanted to sum up
what is a rotten person it's a self centered selfish person and the the good
person is the person who's thinking about people around it trying to make
things nice for them thinking about their needs doing what's right for them
you know that's what we need to do at school at home at work if you're
homeschooled what hey whatever you do do all for the glory of God and be kind one
to another and think about other people above yourself put other people first
don't be always putting down others and lifting up yourself that's the kind of
person that we would say this guy is a pain you know should we as Christians be
a pain to live with the pain to work with a pain to fellowship with a church
absolutely not we should be good people he says in verse 9 exhorts servants to
be obedient to their own masters just as wives should be obedient their husbands
servants need to obey their masters employees need to obey their boss at
work and to please them well in all things right not just doing the minimum
that you can get away with and you know as a child don't just do the minimum
which you can get away with why don't you make your parents happy as an
employee make the boss happy don't just well here's what I can get away with at
my job no make him happy why don't you just impress him and why don't you just
make your husband happy why don't you make your wife happy why don't you make
your kids happy why don't you make your parents happy think about other people
please them well in all things not answer again not talking back to
authority not purloining that's kind of a an ancient word in English it's not
something we use anymore but what it has to do with is like skimming off the top
so purloining if you're at a job and you're purloining you're maybe taking
money out of the cash register you're stealing items from work you're
filching pilfering purloining type of person I don't know if that helps at all
he says not purloining but showing all good fidelity being loyal to your job
loyal to the boss that they may if they do these things that they may adorn the
doctrine of God our Savior in all things for the grace of God that bringeth
salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and
worldly lust we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present
world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great God
and our Savior Jesus Christ man is it hot in here is it just me I'm just like
I'm dying I go running all the time and this is it's just a habit man that's
what I do when I go running I feel so much better all right I find that when I
feel better I preach better so you know it's a lot of people are just listening
on audio so who it isn't really that important you know who cares the rest of
you just deal with it but he says in verse 14 who gave himself for us that he
might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people
zealous of good works you know Christ when he died on the cross for us he had
two goals that he's doing according to this verse right first of all he wants
to redeem us right what does redemption mean redeemed it's it's basically that
we're bought with a price you know we're enslaved to sin we have the sin debt
that we can't pay we're doomed without Christ without Christ we would all be
going to hell when we die right and then Jesus Christ died on the cross he gave
himself for us he gave his life to redeem us from all iniquity to save us from our
sins to give us forgiveness and redemption through the blood but not
only did he give himself for us that he might just redeem us and then just tell
us okay now just do whatever now you're saved you're going to heaven now just
eat drink and be married no he also wanted to purify unto himself a peculiar
people zealous of good works okay now what is the word peculiar mean peculiar
in this context literally means specific to him okay it's it's it's sort of that
same idea as holiness you know being set apart or sanctified unto God it's not
peculiar sometimes we use the word peculiar if something's like a little
weird or strange that's not what this is saying what it's saying when it means
peculiar it'd be like if I said you know there are certain things that are
peculiar to say Mexican food or something you know what it means is that
only Mexican food does it right or you know there are certain things that are
peculiar about driving in Texas for example like like when you're in Texas
like there are some weird things about the way you drive like there are these
weird feeders and then these weird like u-turn only lanes and stuff and if
you've never been to Texas it could be confusing because that is something
that's peculiar to driving in Texas meaning if you're driving to California
you're never gonna see one of those weird feeder u-turn deals it just
doesn't exist and I've noticed as I travel across America that each state
kind of has its own peculiarities meaning that it's something that's
unique to that region about the driving that's just a little different like I
remember in Michigan they have what's called the Michigan left turn who knows
what I'm talking about put up your hand if you know what a Michigan left turn is
yeah and that is peculiar to Michigan and so God wants to purify unto himself
a peculiar people meaning that you know we got a group of people that are
different than this world that are a cut above this world that are sanctified and
set apart from this world they're not just exactly like the world that's out
there they're peculiar and you know what makes them peculiar is two things number
one purity because we're living in a world filled with a lot of corruption
purity and also a zeal for good works and you know what zealous of good works
means excited about good works fired up about good works and look when we talk
about good works obviously we're talking about keeping the commandments obviously
we're talking about going out and preaching the gospel the loss that's
good works right going out and and doing the first works and going out and
preaching the gospel the loss but you know what good works is also just good
works in every area of our life it's some of the stuff that you just finished
talking about how people should be in their job and people should be in their
family and among friends and just it's really just all of these things being
zealous of good works just means zealous of being a good person following the
Bible in every area of life Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday not just only in regard to spiritual things being a selfless
person who thinks about others cares about others loves others he says he
wants us to be a peculiar people unto himself peculiar to him just as the
Michigan left turn is peculiar to Michigan right we as Christians ought to
be peculiar to the Lord mean there's no one else like us we are unique what you
know what we should be totally different than the people around us
because we're in dwell by the Holy Spirit so if we're in dwell by the Holy
Spirit and they aren't and they're a nicer guy than we are more considerate
better worker better husband better wife shame on you he doesn't have the Holy
Spirit and you're outperforming are your underperforming people that haven't even
been regenerated that's pretty sad you know we need to be walking in the spirit
and doing right and we should be peculiar you know by this show all men
know that you're my disciples because you love one another because there's
there's something different about true Christians it should be that way and
then he says to Titus these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all
authority he say look Titus don't feel like you can't talk about this stuff
don't feel like well I don't really want to talk about wives obeying their
husbands because you know that's gonna offend people no you say man just speak
this with all authority like you can get up and you can chew out workers for
being lame workers at their job don't shy away from that kind of preaching
Titus don't shy away from telling these old ladies that they need to stop buying
wine in a box or in any other container and that they need to live a godly life
all the way to the end you know finish strong people you know and I'm thankful
looking at and seeing the gray heads in the auditorium tonight finish strong you
know this is a healthy church it's a healthy church because you know why it's
healthy because we got babies toddlers children teenagers 20s 30s 40s
50s 60s 70s we've got the wisdom of the old heads we've got the youth and their
zeal and vigor you know something's wrong when everybody in the church is
old but something's also wrong when nobody's old now obviously in a very
small church you might not have old people yet because you're just starting
out or whatever but if you if you stay with the long enough people will become
old you know we'll all be old someday but you know to me a healthy church has
red yellow black and white you know if you're in America obviously you know if
you're in Sweden or something it'll be like all Muslims no I'm just kidding but
I'm saying like you know if you're if you're in America I mean to me a healthy
church is red yellow black and white you know people that are well-off people
that are poor old young right church where everybody's young what's the deal
church where everybody's old Wow what's the deal and you know I'm thankful to
see older people in the service this morning and what I would say to the
older people is finish strong be serious don't just think well I'm done I'm just
kind of just waiting to just not wake up one day you know hey man finish strong
serve God pass on the doctrine and the truth to the next generation you know I
cherish I cherish things that my grandparents told me spiritually and I
cherish the things that my parents have told me spiritually and I want to pass
on those things to the next generation because whenever a person dies all of
their experiences and knowledge and everything it dies with them and unless
they pass it on you know Pat and pass on godliness pass on the Word of God
scriptures that are important to you doctrine that's important you I remember
just cherishing a letter that my grandpa had written to his descendants it was
just sort of like a last will and spiritual testament and I remember
getting that years after he died and just reading that and just just being so
thankful to hear what he had to say about what he felt were the most
important Bible doctrines the most important things about how we you know
he just he had just laid out some things for his descendants to read you know
that was a blessing to me and so you that are old you want to finish strong
live sober die sober don't get drunk in your old age don't become a busybody
don't get lazy slovenly be a spiritual slob in your old age no man take things
seriously stay in the fundamentalist Baptist churches and don't go don't go
down to the party rock-and-roll Church but go to a serious church that's doing
serious work for God and those of us that are young we need to be serious we
need to be sober we need to be good people and I I just put myself in the
young category didn't I because I am and preachers need to speak these things
exhort these things and rebuke these things meaning call it out when it's
wrong and then he says let no man despise thee you know you know don't let
anybody try to act like there's something wrong with you for getting up
and preaching sound doctrine and preaching the clean living that is
supposed to accompany sound doctrine let's buy it's not board of prayer father
we thank you so much for this chapter Lord thank you so much for this group of
people and dear God thank you for all of the dedication and effort that went into
both putting on the conference and attending the conference Lord I pray
that you would bless tonight's service Lord and that you would fill pastor
David burzins with your spirit as he preaches to us tonight Lord use the soul
winning and the fellowship all for your honor and glory and in Jesus name we
pray amen