Promised, Revealed, Proclaimed, Believed and Obeyed (Titus1:1-4)
/Paul recognizes Titus as his spiritual heir, to carry on the work of proclaiming Christ that the elect might believe in him and walk in godliness.
Paul recognizes Titus as his spiritual heir, to carry on the work of proclaiming Christ that the elect might believe in him and walk in godliness.
In Psalm 17, David ultimately finds comfort in the midst of injustice by remembering that the Lord is his inheritance, not this world.
The leper discovers that healing comes through faith and faith is increased as the Lord allows us to see how needy we really are and how great he really is.
Isaac represents the promised Seed in whom salvation would be found as well as all who would find salvation by trusting the promises of God and not their own works and abilities.
Moses functions as a picture of Christ, leaving us with a promise of a better prophet who will not only show us the Promised Land, but obtain it for us.
The blessing we are to seek, above all else, is the eternal kingdom of God which is found in Jesus Christ alone, the Mediator who dies in order to bless his people.
The song of Moses is meant to lodge itself in the hearts and minds of God’s children so that when the discipline of the Lord comes, they would repent of their sin and find refuge in the Rock of their salvation.
The passing of the baton from Moses to Joshua is meant to teach us that the law cannot save us, God must do that, but that the law was given to teach man to fear the Lord or leave him without excuse.
God promises his people the blessing of a circumcised heart which will enable them to love him and walk after him in obedience and calls them to respond in faith.
Walking by faith means trusting God in those things that he has not revealed to us while walking in accord with those things which he has revealed.
Those who seek to find their life in the law or by human effort will lose it, but those who lose their lives for Christ’s sake shall find them.
God makes it clear to his people that he requires nothing less than absolute conformity to his law in the inner and outer man and that failure meets only with the curses of the covenant.
Christ has come and set the Law aside by fulfilling it, bearing, in his flesh, the curse of the Law and thus establishing peace between God and man (and within the church).
Paul makes it clear that the Gentiles were not formerly a part of the people of God and with that came five disadvantages, but now they are included and that is to drive them to praise God.
We will see that the Deacons have the unique role guarding the holiness of God’s name by caring for the hurting in the flock.
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