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NASB | Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Titus 1:16 They profess to know God [to recognize and be acquainted with Him], but by their actions they deny and disown Him. They are detestable and disobedient and worthless for good work of any kind. |
Subject: The Results of the "New Gospel" |
Bible Note: "This new gospel has spawned a generation of professing Christians whose behavior often is indistinguishable from the rebellion of the unregenerate. Recent statistics reveal that 1.6 billion people world-wide are considered Christians. A well-publicized opinion poll indicated nearly a third of all Americans claim to be born again. Those figures surely represent millions who are tragically deceived. Theirs is a damning false assurance." --John MacArthur "The Bible makes it plain, I believe, that people who persistently refuse the command of Jesus' lordship have no warrant for believing that they are saved. Such people should not be comforted that they are saved simply because there was a time when they 'believed' gospel facts or walked an aisle or signed a card or prayed a prayer. In fact, Jesus seems far more eager to explode the assurance of false 'professions of faith' than He is to give assurance to people who are intent on living in sin. Where does He ever bolster the 'eternal security' of a person unwilling to forsake sin?" --John Piper "By faith in Christ's person and work for us we receive salvation and acceptance as a free gift. Justification by grace through faith alone raises immediate questions about the justified sinner's future lifestyle. For some people, it is pleasant to think of justification by grace as making no demands and implying no change of lifestyle. "Paul's answer to this wrong thinking is to point out that justification and forgiveness are part of the process by which we are brought back to the kingdom of God. Through faith we enter into a union with Jesus Christ which is cemented by the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives... "A main thrust of Paul's theology of our union with Christ is to destroy the false notion that justification by faith alone allows a believer to live a godless life. It is inconceivable that anyone united to the most durable of all realities, the new creation in Christ, can go on living as if it were a fiction. Since it is the Holy Spirit who applies the reality of Christ to us, life in Christ is also life in the Spirit (Romans 8:1-25; Ephesians 5:18-20; cf Colossians 3:16-17)." --Graeme Goldsworthy |
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