November 29, 2024 - Titus 1:10 - Christ Alone

Titus 1:10

"For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:"

Some say, "Well we believe in Christ. We are just adding circumcision. That is all, what's the big deal?" The big deal IS circumcision. And you can replace circumcision with faith. You can replace circumcision with baptism. You can replace it with tithing. You can replace it with witnessing, and whatever else you want to add to it. That is what is wrong, because it is CHRIST ALONE. Its is CHRIST EXCLUSIVELY.

It is Christ and His blood shed unto His obedient death that has satisfied a Holy God, that has paid the entire debt of His people. It is not Christ plus your believing or Christ plus your confessing Him in baptism or Christ plus your faith. I once read a writer who said, “your little part is your will. Just bring your little part and God will accept you. Your part plus what Christ has done equals salvation.” NO! Dear friends, salvation is not a cooperation between God and you. It is the operation of God from beginning to end. "I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified," (1 Corinthians 2:2)

In Galatians 2:21 Paul said, "I do not frustrate the Grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." To 'confuse' is what that word 'frustrate' means. So what is a law? It is a rule. It is an obligation. It is a condition. If righteousness come by any rule or obligation or condition, then Christ is dead in vain. It is just very simply that. And that is why we read, "O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the Truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?" (Galatians 3:1)

There is an obedience of the Truth that is a bowing to the revelation of God concerning Christ and His earned righteousness that He alone established, He alone worked it out and God the Father imputed it to the spiritual account of every elect sinner upon completion of His death. Based on that one time Offering of the LORD Jesus Christ, God forever justified every sinner who He has chosen.