Living Your Whole Life! Part 6- A Real Wise Guy Pt 4

Sound in LovePastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD

Family Worship Center

Titus 2:1-2But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

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Living Your Whole Life!Family Worship Center

Pastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD

Titus 2:1-2But as for you, speak the things which are proper for

sound doctrine:

“Sound” is from ὑγιαινούσῃ (hygiainousē) whose root is “hygiene”.

Titus 2:1-2But as for you, speak the things which are proper for

sound doctrine:

Preaching what is in “good health” and

“uncorrupted.”

Titus 2:1-2But as for you, speak the things which are proper for

sound doctrine:

Doctrine = properly applied teaching.

Titus 2:1-2

2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Literally to be sober and not allow wine or any alcohol in their lives.

Avoiding the

Death TrapPastor Mark Schwarzbauer PhD

Family Worship Center

We clarified that the use of wine in the Bible was for disinfecting water; like our

modern chlorine. If you drank water without some wine in it you risked

dysentery, cholera, e-coli, microsporidiosis, hepatitis or literally

dozens of other diseases from bacteria, viruses, protozoans and parasites. These diseases were often fatal. Even today the WHO says water borne diseases are still

the world’s leading killer (VOA News WHO)

Wine was always mixed with water…

normally 3 or 4 parts water to one part wine. This was done to disinfect and make

the water safe to drink.

Wine without water was considered barbarian… or

totally uncivilized or “unchristian”.

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Reverent- not “double tongued” but respectful in speech… the words of my mouth.

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Temperate- inner outlook that regulates outward behavior… positive outlook of faith… the meditation of your heart…

Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

Psalm 19:14Let the words (reverence) of my mouth and the meditation (temperance) of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer.

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;•Sound… again “hygiene”

good healthy uncorrupted.

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

• Faith- The root word means “persuaded.” You have an unswerving, thoroughly convinced confidence in God resulting in faithfulness.

How are your decisions going

to affect the next 7 generations?

ContinuingPart Two: Solid Men

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

In love- Sound in love ἀγάπη (agapē) = Unconditional love that centers on moral preference.

Solid Men- Love

Who decides

what the

“moral preference” is?

Who Decides Moral Preference

• Moral- standard of right or wrong.• Atheist author Sam Harris thinks

“science” can determine morals in his book “Moral Landscape: How science can determine human value.”

Who Decides Moral Preference

• Harris is fumbling with the severe inherent flaw in atheism that if there is no God there can be no objective morality, only personal preference.• Harris argues that scientific morality

“should be defined as the well-being of conscious creatures”.

Atheists Moral Preference

• Atheists either ignore or fail to logically recognize how their scientific moral preference is subject to “scientific” interpretation…• To the atheistic Hitler scientific

wellbeing meant the elimination of blacks, Jews etc. to the killing of over 20 million people.

Atheists Moral Preference

• Atheist Stalin like Sam Harris did not consider it “moral preference” but an absolute of wellbeing that led to killing 43 million people.• The atheist Mao believed as Harris

that science could define absolute morality…

Atheists Moral Preference

• “Natural science is one of man's weapons in his fight for freedom. For the purpose of attaining freedom in society, man must use social science to understand and change society and carry out social revolution. For the purpose of attaining freedom in the world of nature, man must use natural science to understand, conquer and change nature and thus attain freedom from nature” Chairman Mao Zedong Speech at the inaugural meeting of the Natural Science Research Society of the Border Region (February 5, 1940).

Atheists Moral Preference

Mao used his scientific morality to affect cultural

change by killing 75 million Chinese.

Atheists Moral Preference

As the classic atheist leader Nietzsche predicted~ Atheistic Regimes of Hitler,

Stalin & Mao kill 140 million – Atheism led to killing more in 1

century than all religions in all of history combined. It is obvious science

is a failure at determining human value.

Atheists Moral Preference

God is the only one qualified to decide what the value of a

human is.

Solid Men- Love• Agape Love - Unconditional love

that centers on moral preference.• Literally… to prefer above

everything and everyone.• Loving God means to prefer Him

above all else.

Solid Men- Love• When we love people we give

preference to them.• In honor preferring one another.

Romans 12:10.• Considering how what you do

affects others.• 7 generations.

Solid Men- Love• When we love others with agape

love we don’t love them above God, we love them according to God, preferring people and valuing them the way God values them; instead of killing them He died for them.

How are your decisions going

to affect the next 7 generations?

How is your love going to affect

the next 7 generations?

Titus 2:22 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;

Solid Men- Love• A. Remaining under.• B. Being steadfast.• C. You are in progress not

perfection.• D. Keep on keeping on…• E. Families cheer godly

progress.

Solid Men- Love• F. PATIENT WITH

YOURSELF!!!!• 1. We aim for progress not

perfection.• 2. Don’t be hard on yourself as

it backfires locking you into the past.

How are your decisions going

to affect the next 7 generations?