We need to know doctrine look at Titus chapter 2 verse 7 in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works in
doctrine showing uncorruptness
Gravity and sincerity look we need these three aspects of our doctrine number one. We need
Uncorruptness we want our doctrine to be right. We want it to be sound
We want that thing to be tight and we want to cross the T and dot the I
Doctrinally the truth matters tonight. There are a lot of people out there who say oh, I don't get so worried about doctrine
It's just how you feel. It's just your it's just your your intentions
But you know the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You better get some sound doctrine
You better tighten that thing up. You better make sure that your doctrine shows
Uncorruptness what is corruption corruption is decay the Bible says therefore
We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time
We should let them slip
You see if we don't make sure to keep teaching doctrine and tightening up the doctrine it will eventually begin to slip
It's just like your house the Bible says through the idleness of the hands that house drop it through
If you don't maintain things around your house your house will just go to pot and you know
I remember when I used to live in an apartment. It was so great. You just call the maintenance man
he just fixes everything but when you own a home you have to fix things yourself and
Things are constantly in a state of decay the plumbing the electrical the roof the air-conditioning
windows
Doors locks. I mean we have 12 people living in our house
So everything just gets used and abused to the extreme. Sometimes I feel like my house is like one of these testing centers
Have you ever seen where they like they test things they just keep opening a door like a machine
We'll just open a door and shut it like hundreds of times to see how long it's gonna last
That's how our house is their fridge is just being open and shut every doors being open and shut
Everything's just getting used the dishwasher open shut open shut open shut
So we buy the warranty on everything because we always use the warranty on everything because we you know, we use everything industrially
Even though it's just one family. We have to keep changing the locks in our house
Because the kids just grab the doorknobs and wrench them open and little kids are pulling on the door and the doors get open
So many thousands of times things decay things get old
They the dishwasher wears out the washing machine wears that everything wears out
You have to give attention to fixing things at the house or it just all goes to pot it decays
So it's the same way with our doctrine if we're not constantly reading our Bible
Constantly preaching the correct doctrine constantly explaining. Here's what's right and here's what's wrong
We'll slip into heresy. We'll start to slip into
sloppy doctrines and the Bible says that we need to have
Uncorruptness in our doctrine uncorrupt means there's no decay corruption is decay
We don't want our doctrine to get corrupted to get rotten and spoiled and sour and decay
We want to keep freshening that thing up and making sure that it's tightened up with the word of God
He says uncorruptness and he says gravity. You know what gravity is gravity means
Seriousness being grave is when you're serious. He's saying we need to take doctrine
Seriously not play around with it. It's not a joke. It's I doesn't matter. It's very serious
We need to have gravity concerning doctrine and we need to have sincerity
You know what sincerity means that we believe and preach what the Bible actually says and we're honest about it
See, what does it mean to be insincere in?
Sincere is when we get up and say things that we don't really believe, you know
We know that that's not what the Bible teaches
But we just kind of teach it anyway because of the fact that that's what's popular. That's what everybody else is saying
That's what people want to hear
No
We need to have sincerity meaning that we actually go to the Bible where our heart
Truly wants to know the truth and we really want God to show us the truth and once we figure out what the truth is
We get up and we preach it faithfully. That's sincerity. We need our doctrine to be uncorrupt
We need it to be grave and we need it to be sincere. These are the three things we need to show in
doctrine showing
uncorruptness gravity sincerity