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Titus chapter 3, verse 14.

And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works

so as to help cases of urgent need and not be unfruitful.

This is the final exhortation in the book of Titus.

Paul saying to this church leader,

help people to devote themselves to doing good works.

And then he uses this phrase so as to help cases of urgent need.

Let that soak in urgent need. And think about your life.

Where is there urgent need around you in your life, your family and your church and your community and the city around you, you just kind of broaden it,

where's their urgent need in the world? And God and His Word is calling us to open our eyes to

urgent need. And he's telling us to devote ourselves to good works in order to help in cases of

urgent need. So I certainly see on a global scale, so obviously I don't know what's going on

in your specific life and your specific community. And on a global scale when I see

places where there's no gospel in the world,

and that's urgent need. There's people right now that are dying and going to an eternity

separated from God who've never even heard about the gospel. Like that's urgent need.

People who don't have the gospel, people who don't have water, like clean water, that's urgent

need. I was just seeing statistics about epidemics in different country due to lack of clean

water. That's urgent need. I think about places

where there's no food where starvation is a reality. People don't just say kind of casually,

oh, I'm starving because they want a meal. Like that's actually a reality. People are starving to

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