THURSDAY July 31, 2025
A False Professing
They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
Titus 1:16
Paul entrusted Titus to teach the Word of God in such a way that it would guard believers from false doctrine and convict those who proclaimed a contradicting message of the Gospel. He was to teach healthy, sound doctrine to confront those who stood to oppose him. Titus needed to teach men how to be saved and how to be reconciled to God:
John 3:16: For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Romans 5:8: But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 10:10-13: “For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
Sinners cannot save themselves. How futile it was for false teachers, who adhered to the Law, to think they could be made righteous by their own works! They professed they knew God, but in actuality, they denied Him because their legalistic works made them unrighteous. They did not understand Isaiah 64:6, which tells us ...we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags....
That is why Paul describes these false teachers as being ...abominable, disobedient, and disqualified from every good work. Listen, how can sinful man make themselves in right standing with a holy God? We cannot; it is an impossibility. It is God who made a way for us to become righteous, through faith in His Son Jesus Christ.
If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
~J. C. Ryle~
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