A Religious Problem (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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For the church, godly leadership’s a matter of spiritual life or death. The apostle Paul warned Titus of dangerous people within the church at Crete and the impact of their distorted teaching. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg teaches us how to recognize such counterfeits.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Having godly leadership in a local church isn't just a good idea. |
| 0:31.0 | It's a matter of spiritual life or death for that church. |
| 0:35.0 | The Apostle Paul warned Titus of dangerous people within the church in |
| 0:39.7 | Crete and the perilous influence of their distorted teaching. On Truth for Life weekend, |
| 0:45.9 | Alasturbegg walks us through Paul's teaching and points out how we can recognize these |
| 0:50.9 | counterfeits. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, we're going to read from Titus in chapter 1 in verse 10, for there are many who are insubordinate, |
| 1:04.0 | empty talkers and deceivers, |
| 1:07.0 | especially those of the circumcision party. |
| 1:10.0 | They must be silenced since they are upsetting whole families, |
| 1:14.9 | by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. |
| 1:19.1 | One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, |
| 1:22.2 | Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttones. |
| 1:26.9 | This testimony is true, therefore rebuke them sharply that they |
| 1:31.8 | may be sound in the faith, not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who |
| 1:37.7 | turn away from the truth. To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, |
| 1:45.7 | but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. |
| 1:49.8 | They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. |
| 1:54.4 | They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. |
| 2:00.7 | Amen. I want to read it again for you, this time in the paraphrase that |
| 2:06.1 | the late J.B. Phillips has left to us. For there are many, especially among the Jews, who will not |
| 2:14.7 | recognize authority, who talk nonsense, and yet in doing so have managed |
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