Welcome to the Femina Podcast. This is Nancy Wilson. Thanks for joining me today. Last week I mentioned

three times in the book of Titus that refer to Good Works, so I thought I'm just going to go back

and look at them. Good works are actually mentioned five times

in Paul's letter to Titus. The first is in chapter 1, 15, and 16. To the pure, all things are pure.

But to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. But even their mind and conscience

are defiled. They profess to know God,

but in works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

So here we see there are two kinds of works, the works of unbelievers, which are bad, bad, bad.

This is a helpful way for us to understand the unbelievers in our culture who embrace all things evil. Abortion and transgenderism are the

works of these people. They call these good works when we know they're actually abominable

and disobedient. Paul says they are defiled and unbelieving and their minds and

consciences are defiled. This word defiled means unclean, impure, contaminated with sin. And everyone,

both the saint and the unbeliever, has works. The works of the unbelieving are abominable disobedient, and they're

disqualified for any and every kind of good work. All they do is defiled. We must remember that this

pollution in their minds has to work itself out into the works of their hands and mouths and hearts. It's a flood

of pollution, and we certainly see it with our eyes today, don't we? They're hateful, belligerent,

and embrace all kinds of polluted works. In this case, in Chapter 1, these people profess to

know God. They're pretending. Profession is never enough. Paul says

their works deny him. Moving on, the second time good works are mentioned in Chapter 2, 6 through 8,

it's in reference to the young Christian men. Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,

in all things, showing yourself to be a pattern

of good works. In doctrine, showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, sound speech that cannot be

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