Daily Guide 20th December 2023 | Scripture Union Devotional

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Today’s Topic: Confront every unwholesome teaching with sound doctrine

Opening Prayer: Oh Lord, grant me spiritual insight into the truth of your word as I study it.

Question(s) for Reflection
• Q 2: Is there any example for me to follow or not to follow?

Outline For Scripture Union Daily Guide 20 December 2023

Although Titus appeared to be timid like Timothy (2 Timothy 1:7), Paul charges him in v.11 to confront every unhealthy teaching with sound doctrine, just like a physician must attack infection and diseases.

Read vs.10-14 and notice particularly the attested character of the Cretans in general (v.12). This no doubt highlights the big task that confronts Titus in this city. Paul used this familiar testimony to make the point that Titus’ ministry and leadership were very much needed. He must stand strongly against the evil in the society and prevent it from entering the church.

Christians must stand firm in the faith and against false teachings (vs.13b,14). The way to stop false doctrine is by proclaiming sound biblical teaching. (To learn more about false teachers and false prophets in the church, read 2 Peter 2:1-3. Take note of their characteristics and what their end will be.)

We must refuse to compromise the freedom we have in Christ. God has purified us and cleansed our conscience through Christ’s blood. Our focus is no longer on what we eat or don’t eat but in living lives of holiness (vs.15,16).

• Any new insight or reinforcement of what you already know?
Closing Prayer
Pray that God will expose all agents of false doctrines in the body of Christ and help you proclaim the truth of the word of God to counter them.
Offer a prayer of faith in line with Romans 8:32
One-Year Bible Reading Plan
Jude, Psalms 143, 144.

NATIONAL PRAYER BULLETIN FOR 20TH DECEMBER 2023

PRAYER FOCUS: PERSONAL REVELATION OF THE LORD
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye… may be able to comprehend with all saints…. The breadth, and length, and depth, and height… that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God” Ephesians 3:17 – 19

THANK GOD FOR:
►All saints to know Him and be filled with all the fullness of God
►HISHoly Spirit that continues to work mightily in us.

PRAY FOR:
►God, by His Spirit, may arrest us, to study to understand His love (for our own good always)
►We may make it our goal, and to pursue it, to be filled with all the fullness of God as He desires it.
►Nothing would fill the vacuum in our hearts, other than a relationship with God’s love
►We may affect our world tremendously for God