The Disciple Titus (Titus 1:1-4)
Intro
1. Bible – Jesus Christ
If you don’t know Jesus Christ well, you won’t know the knowledge of the world; it is one-sided. With only one-sided knowledge, you’ll be ignorant on the other side and attacked. For example, if you’re not good at mental math, someone can con you when trying to buy something .There are conmen trying to deceive you; you must have this knowledge to not be deceived. The church is not a place to gain physical knowledge, it is a place to gain spiritual knowledge.
If you don’t have spiritual knowledge, you’ll be attacked when you go into the world. The entire world is being attacked for lack of spiritual knowledge. They may have worldly success, but without spiritual knowledge, they are being attacked. Around 260 kids were killed from a hang-gliding shooter. The kids were all high on drugs and the hang-glider was thought to be part of the performance, so they were all killed. They were so high on drugs, they were shot at this party in the Middle East, and 260 people died. People gather together in places like deserts and they party, it’s a place where you can have music as loud as you want.
There was a statue of Buddha in the center of their party. Why would they put that there? It wasn’t just for show; they put the statue there, and then they would do drugs, party, and these kids lost their minds. When the Hamas organization came down and shot everyone, they couldn’t make good decisions because they were all high. But you can look at the statue of Buddha to realize it’s connected to spiritual things.
This was a gathering of elite young adults with dual citizenship, Israel and America, Israel and Europe, and they gathered. They were elite young people who had physical knowledge without spiritual knowledge. Actually, more than San Francisco, Israel is the place with the most festivals and events for homosexuality, and more than 60% of them reject the existence of God. David Abrams said America is like that too. But I’m saying, how spiritually urgent is the situation in Israel?
The Israeli Prime Minister is Israeli Orthodox. That Prime Minister has gone to the point of saying, “If someone is employed by the church or their job is to read the Bible and give sermons, they shouldn’t pay any taxes, because these are the tribe of priests, so everyone else who has a general job has to feed the priests and pay for them.” The Prime Minister is saying, “Let us return to the Israel of the Old Testament.”
That is the first Prime Minister who was born and raised in Israel. Before that point, all of them were from foreign lands. The older brother of this Prime Minister is the head of a CIA-type organization. These are all very high, elite Israelites from Israel and that’s the bloodline of the Prime Minister of Israel now. It’s completely for the nation, for Israel. He says, “All the Muslims and Christians must leave from Israel.” They would go to a point where they want to kick out the Messianic Jews, to the point where they would set off bombs. The person who is doing these terrorism acts is now the President of Israel.
In Israel, there is the Dome of the Rock, and it is a mosque in Jerusalem, but Israel is passing a law to kick out the Muslims, so the Muslims are getting upset. In Israel, Muslims coexist with Jews and wear head coverings, and the previous Prime Ministers said, “Let’s live together,” but the new Prime Minister said, “No, the Muslims and Christians have to go; only the Jewish people can remain in this land,” so war has no choice but to happen. Yes, it is very unfortunate that the war is happening, but what I’m explaining is a lack of spiritual knowledge.
If you just know Jesus Christ as one of the saints, that’s a huge problems. The nonbelievers knew of Jesus Christ as a saint. The nonbelievers think that Christians have to act in a good way like the saints did, holy and without sin. From the perspective of nonbelievers, when they see a Christian make a mistake, they say, “Christians are fake.”
Spirit of Holiness (100% God), Descendant of David (100% Human)
If you disregard the spiritual part, you will have spiritual problems. Jesus was human but also God. He is the image of God, and we are also the image of God, because we have a physical body, but inside of us, God is living and we’re different from nonbelievers and animals, because inside each of us is the Triune God. Many Christians today do not know the Spirit, so spiritually they are being destroyed. If you only just believe in knowledge or facts that Jesus Christ died on the cross and resurrected 2000 years ago, you may be only on the physical side. He died because He is human, but the only one who can resurrect is God; He is God. The one who resurrected is seated at the right hand of the Throne of Heaven and lives within me as the Holy Spirit. That is why Jesus Christ is the solution to all problems because He lives in me, but we do not see that, because we do not believe in the two sides of Jesus. If you believe Jesus Christ is the spirit of God and is God, you will believe He is living inside of you, but if people go to church for a long time without believing the spiritual things, they will be afflicted by Satan.
You must know spiritual and physical things. We study in the world for physical things; why do we study the things of God? To know spiritual knowledge?
He is power. This is not an evil, dirty spirit; it is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of holiness. I have a physical body but within me is the spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, who is with me.
With
Believing in Jesus means that you believe He is with you. Otherwise you do not believe in the spirit of Jesus Christ living inside of you. Even though you believe in Jesus Christ, because you believe incorrectly, you are attacked. What does it mean to be spiritually attacked? The same problems in your family line will go into you as well. Because you are spiritually oppressed, your mental state goes in the same way as your family.
Nothing is a problems because He is with me with the power of creation. It doesn’t matter if I have nothing or nobody; the One Who is everything is with me. If you don’t believe in this, you will say, “It’s difficult and hard, this person said this and that, my parents are like this, my friends are like that,” it is because you do not believe God is with you. “If only my parents had money,” you don’t believe in “with,” the One Who can kill me and save me is with me. If you believe in this, it is finished. No problems in my life can be a problems from that point on, do you believe in this? Then from that point on, the words you say will be different. Instead of complaining about something, you’ll say, “This is a problems but I’m thankful for the answer.” For example, if she’s always wrong and doing things wrong, then I’m thankful when I look at her, because I realize, “I could be like that, too,” and it’s an opportunity to reflect. Then when I relay the words of Christ to her, she comes to life and I come to life. This is the faith that enjoys being with God. That’s why He is inside of me, why? The reason God is with me is so that in the midst of this difficult world, He is with me and guides me, working upon me. The one who believes this is a disciple. If you memorize and do not believe, you are nothing.
God, Money (Satan)
Have victory in one thing. You need to choose, will you serve God or money? We have no choice but to rely on power and money, and the reason you’re so afraid when you get a bad grade or if you can’t get into a good school is because you think you cannot make enough money. In reality, the devil holds onto that person. We’re oppressed by the devil, not by money. Money doesn’t say anything to you, you can burn it up and it will not exist. But the reason you study now is because it’s connected to money. The reason you’re working now is because of money. You must believe in God. Then if you believe in God, the Kingdom is established. That’s what needs to happen for you to be like the disciples Titus or not.
Do you understand? Even if you’re not able to understand, keep listening because one day, the Holy Spirit will work for you to understand. Do you know what Jesus Christ did first before His ministry? Jesus Christ has a body and had to do His ministry while moving His body. You have to take a bus and use your brain to pay attention in school. What did He do before all of this?
He was baptized in Matthew 3, God’s Holy Spirit must be inside of Him, even Jesus Christ needs this, and then He was led into the desert to be tempted by Satan. Why? In order for you to save the world, you must overcome the traps of the world.
1. Food and Drink
2. Glory and Fame
3. Worship
What happens when you don’t breathe oxygen? First, you don’t get enough oxygen in your brain, you get a headache, then other things happen. If you’re not able to be spiritually connected with God, you will have mental problems first. In the past, I used to be okay, but now I face slight problems and I suffer more and more, mentally. I don’t know where it’s from. If you’re not able to get enough oxygen, your head will hurt and your breathing becomes shallow. If you’re not spiritually connected with God, you will have mental problems and this comes into your life. You keep finding the source or cause elsewhere, you keep making excuses about your environment so you keep putting your point on something wrong because of spiritual ignorance. What you need to do is to receive the spiritual life from God first. Satanmakes it so that you cannot overcome these traps to save people.
You guys have to overcome these traps in the future, but before you overcome those traps, you must have spiritual knowledge, first, because you can only tell how trained somebody is when you send them out into the world. Immediately, you have to overstep money, and you also need to overcome your pride, ego, and reputation for success. The object of your worship must be God.
If you have a test tomorrow, would you come to worship? You might choose not to, and it’s not like something bad happens when you don’t go to worship? They are spiritually dying, their spiritual breathing is becoming shallow, and they don’t even know it. Because their spiritual breathing is becoming shallow, they will have mental problems. They say, “Life is so hard,” they can’t stop. They don’t want to study, work, or meet anyone, they don’t want to do anything, and when the suffering continues, they want to die.
People don’t do drugs because they want to, but they are suffering and want to get rid of their suffering. This will happen in the future. What are we doing here today? God has called you as a disciple to save the world, You are different from your friends. No matter how close you are with your friends, you and they are different. Even though we are physically both human beings, within me is the Spirit of God. Everything is different, even the goals for which I study and the way of my life is different as well. We go to Remnant Day, RCA, and do all the spiritual trainings, because we know the spiritual mystery, but they don’t know, so they say, “Why do I go to church? Why shouldn’t we just rest?” Prepare with the spiritual strength to save such people later on, that’s what it means that you are the remaining ones.
Way of Salvation
You must be able to relay this correctly and accurately to nonbelievers. They’ve not heard this before, so the correct message must be heard through you. They look down on spiritual things, so relay this correctly. Humans are spiritual beings, and many of the problems in the world happen because of spiritual problems. You must relay the accurate truth that the reason why your friends at school don’t have knowledge is?
Some people say, “I’m so holy and go to church and pray, God should prevent disasters in my life,” but you need to deliver the accurate message to those people, because whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, everyone’s lives are in God’s hands. You are only called when God calls you. There are many different ways God can call your life, by car accident or in your sleep or by disease. D. L. Moody got a heart attack giving a message and passed away suddenly. Some people may ask stupid questions, ‘If God is alive, how could He let D. L. Moody pass away while giving a message?” Isn’t that the best way to go, while delivering the Word? Someone focused on the physical may ask, “How could God allow someone to die in a car accident?”
If someone truly believes, they are a child of God and can be called back. It’s not under our control; relay this correctly. Is it better to die while working, sleeping, or back from worship? If people don’t know spiritual things, they only talk about physical standards. If you work hard and study hard, your grades could you higher. If you don’t study at all but you go to worship so much? If there’s an imbalance between the physical and spiritual, you need to know correctly. Don’t you understand? If you are not good at studying, still work hard. Spiritually you must have strength, do you understand?
Pray for the authorities, because they have so much power and authority. Nobody prays for him. Many people say you are going to church too much, but you’re just being led, so pray for them, do you understand? God’s works of the Spirit must become ours. Whatever is necessary is given to offering as these things. If someone’s spiritual eyes are opened, they try to give as much as they can. There is a work God wants to do through me.
Heir
There’s a remnant studying at church and always falls asleep, they sacrifice everything they want to get physical things. Later on they get spiritual problems because they don’t have strength to overcome. What will happen later on? That kid will follow their family line, regardless of how good they are. Only study as much as you’re able to worship. The standard is worship. Go succeed in the world as much as you’re able to worship. Stop trembling in fear. That’s the standard, the disciple. Because I’m an heir, I receive this from God. If you keep sacrificing this from the devil, this will be taken away and be ensnared by three traps. Escape your fate, do you understand?
The remnant lifestyle is different. You are students but you’re different from other students. I’m a disciple, a remnant, to save the world. I’m going to my school to save my friends, so my path is different. You must always have that. IF you don’t have that, you don’t really believe Jesus. If you’re so close to your nonbeliever friends, and there’s no difference? You may be very close but spiritually you’re different. That person doesn’t worship or pray, but I worship and pray. The nonbeliever has no reason to go to Remnant Day but I do, the journey we walk is different.
The disciple, do you understand? Disciples physical things and focus on the spiritual.
Prayer
God, we thank You. We believe You will guide the remnants as you did the Disciple Titus. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.