THE PURITY HINGE

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

Titus 1:15-16

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

Every single living person is a sinner who falls short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23).

This is an undeniable truth.

Here’s another one:

Despite this, a person’s only hope of approaching the righteousness and holiness the Lord expects is through surrendering their own will, exchanging it with the will of the Lord.

Conversely, if left to our own devices and desires, we are destined to be corrupted by our sins, impure and in a place where we’re not fit to do anything good in the name of the Lord.

Therefore, the Lord and our commitment to Him is the hinge point for living in purity.

This is the key point we find the Apostle Paul conveying to Titus in his letter intended to help further establish the Christian church properly on the island of Crete. Look again at his words here:

To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good (1:15-16).

These closing verses of chapter 1 come after Paul’s warning about false teachers in the Cretan church who were teaching a distorted Gospel, one meant to deceive and disrupt Christian households on the island while providing “dishonest gain” (v. 11). These false teachers claimed “to know God” but “both their minds and consciences” were corrupted which led to Paul’s labeling them as “detestable, disobedient, and unfit for doing anything good”. The actions of these deceivers showed their denial of God and how it resulted in their pervasive impurity and wickedness.

On the other hand, legitimate Christian believers, who placed their full belief and trust in the Lord and His Word, would act in pure ways and be able to discern between purity and sinfulness. They would see all things through the lens of the Lord and receive all He provided with thanksgiving, never accepting any doctrines that would teach against eating certain foods, for example. Such attempts to regulate eating were a part of the old covenant and Law God had established with His people, a Law that was superseded by the new covenant put in place through Jesus, His Son.

Want to live a life of purity?

Seek the Lord, His Word, and His Spirit for direction regarding every thought, word spoken, and action taken. He will always lead you to be holy as He is holy, just as He commanded you to be.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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