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So Titus is to rebuke the Cretans sharply “so that they will be sound in faith”. Faith is not just a matter of doctrinal belief, it is a matter of behaviour as well. Our behaviour affects our faith and faith affects our behaviour. Id we behave badly we will not want to believe the gospel, and our minds will try to find ways to say that the gospel is not true. For the gospel commands us to repent and to make Christ Lord of our lives.
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Jewish myths and “merely human commands” are to be rejected as well. Some Jews added various bits and pieces to the gospel, and to their Old Testament faith. Gentiles would be keen to add “human commands” to the gospel. We want to add something because the gospel itself stresses our complete dependence upon the Lord, and our human nature doesn’t like that. We want to add something, then it gives us a certain degree of control.
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