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By sound doctrine we mean the truth about God, His attributes, His works, and His salvation. Sound doctrine also involves the truth about man, his true spiritual condition, sin, his relation to God, and his relation to the world. We sing with understanding to God when we sing the truth to Him and ab
Sound doctrine is, literally, doctrine that is wholesome and healthy. What makes a sermon so is that it is, from beginning to end, the true Word of God. The minister of the Word may not be "teaching for doctrines the commandments of men" (Matt. 15:9). He may not teach weak or watered-down doctrines.
Sound doctrine is maintained in the church by distinguishing that doctrine from false teaching. That is absolutely necessary. False teaching must be exposed and condemned. Our modern age has little stomach for this. Ours is a day of "tolerance," and let everyone believe what he will. It is imagined
"But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine." Titus 2:1 Paul left Titus among the new Christians on the island of Crete with the responsibility to "set in order the things that are wanting" (Titus 1:5a). Titus was to complete matters not yet finished. His primary duty was to organize ch
This is stated negatively in verse 3: some do not want sound doctrine. The implication is that such preaching is necessary. The content of this preaching is described as “sound” doctrine. The word means “healthy.” It produces health in the spiritual sense. It is nourishing spiritual food, the opposi
4:1), “divers and strange doctrines” (Heb.13:9). When Scripture sets forth the truth over against the contrary, it refers to its position as “the doctrine.” (I Tim 4:16), “good doctrine” (4:6), “sound doctrine” (Tit. 2:1) and “the doctrine which is according to godliness” (I Tim. 6:3). Especially fr
That connection is, first of all, that sound doctrine is the foundation of the Christian life. Apart from doctrine, knowing, believing, and confessing the doctrine, there is no possibility of living the Christian life. The true doctrine must be what motivates and guides us in our everyday life in th
The apostle calls orthodox doctrine "sound." "Sound" has the sense of "healthy." The Holy Spirit has quite a different view of orthodox doctrine than does contemporary Christianity. Contemporary Christianity complains of "stuffy" doctrine, "cold" doctrine, "dead" doctrine. The Holy Spirit speaks of
When we are in a church that seeks by the grace of God to maintain sound doctrine we can at times become discouraged. Maintaining sound doctrine will involve a great spiritual battle. There will be strife in that battle. There will be those who are offended. There might even be loved ones, relatives
Time and again Paul warns him to hold fast the faith and sound doctrine; and how can doctrine be sound if it is not consistent, unified, and systematic? And this, my friend, is not intellectualism, it is balanced Christian faith. Deep love and Christian living are absolutely impossibly without sound