All right, good morning and welcome to our second service on Sunday mornings. We have two services,

the first of which is our Bible prophecy update, and then second service, which is our verse by

verse study through the Bible. Today we find ourselves in the book of Titus. We're going through

this book, this epistle to Titus from the Apostle Paul and Lord willing today we will finish chapter one.

Our text will be verses 9 through 16. We'd invite you at this time to turn there.

If you're not already there, and for those of you that are here, if you're able, I'll ask you to stand.

If not where you're seated is fine, but you can follow

along as I read. Beginning in verse 9, the Apostle Paul by the Holy Spirit, writing to Titus,

says, he must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine

and refute those who oppose it. For there are verse 10, many rebellious people full of meaningless talk and deception, especially

those of the circumcision group.

They must be silenced because they are disrupting whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach,

and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

Verse 12. One of the Crete's own prophets has said it.

Cretans are always liars, evil brutes, lazy glutton's.

This saying is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply so that they will be sound in the faith and will pay no attention to the Jewish

myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.

To the pure, verse 15, 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. I think that's self-explanatory. We can just close

in prayer. Let's pray. Oh, Lord. We readily admit that this portion

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