(Tit 1:15)  “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. (16)  They profess that they know God;….”  If they profess that they know God, what is it they are not believing? Many who profess to be His reject His Word, choosing to put what they think is right and best over what God has said is right and best. That is arrogance. That very action says they are liars. He cannot be God to you if He is not seen as Sovereign over you.

(Tit 1:15) “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”   Biblical Fact: the thinking of the unsaved is skewed from birth. A sin nature is passed to us. Our spirit is dead needing to be made alive.  (Eph_2:3) “Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”  Jesus died paying the death payment for your sins so that you might be made alive spiritually. Come and find the result of being saved – right thinking.

(Tit 1:15)” Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”  The last section of evidenced by those who draw questions to God’s actions as listed in the Bible. They see fault rather than holiness; wrong rather than judgment. Those responses are quite different from “Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.” (Psa_119:12) 

 (Tit 1:15) “Unto the pure all things are pure:…”  I have seen this used to justify ungodly actions, pronouncing their heart so before God so that one can see and behold lewdness and yet stay right in the sight of God. No! It means believers seek to act in purity and seek to keep their heart and actions pure. Remember, the Lord lives inside the saved in the Person of the Holy Spirit.

(Tit 1:14) “Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”  I have heard men making reference to the apocrypha (Jewish fables) as if it were the Bible (truth). I have heard men teaching adherence to Old Testament commandments given to Israel, not for the Christian. The second will lead you into the bondage of the law; the first away from the authority of the Word of God. 

(Tit 1:12) “One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. (13)  This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;”  There is a time when a pastor must rebuke one of the flock. False doctrine is not to be tolerated, for the souls of men are at stake. False doctrine hinders one’s ability to fellowship and serve the Lord. The pastor should be commended for doing so, not hindered nor falsely judged of motivations or seemingly lack of concern for what may come of the action. He must keep in mind the whole flock: “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” (1 Cor 5:6).

(Tit 1:10)  For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: (11)  Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”  “Whose mouths must be stopped”: doctrine does matter. The souls of people are at stake. The glory of God and meaning to the sacrifice of His Son are at stake. We are to care enough to stand on God’s Word verbally against false doctrine.

(Tit 1:7) “For a bishop must be blameless, …..(9)  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught,….(10)  For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,…”  You and I (and the pastor) must not only cling to the Words of God ourselves, but we must hold them up for all to hear. The only way to combat error and lies is to expose them next to God’s Word. Child of God, give the Lord the time He deserves not in writings about the Word, but in the Word. May your heart long for the Holy Spirit’s teachings rather than man’s.

 (Tit 1:7) “For a bishop must be ….(9)  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine….. to convince the gainsayers.” “Gainsayers”: those who contradict or dispute God’s Word. There is only one way to overcome error. That, is with the truth. It is not by saying, “I think; or, I believe”, but by “thus saith the Lord”. That is where our power and our authority comes from. Believer: study the Word of God.  

(Tit 1:7)  “For a bishop must be…(9)  Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort….” A blinded by sin rebellious heart sees the Bible as restrictions. No, it is a message of forgiveness with a clean conscience, filled with expectations of blessings here, a moving into the presence of God upon death, and a glorious future upon a new world in a glorified, never dying body! This is the message of a pastor.