KNOW THESE THINGS

Titus 3:8
This is a trustworthy statement; and concerning these things I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men. NASU
** “These things I want you to speak confidently.” Know what you believe! I must admit that for many years from a child to an adult, I didn’t know very much about what I believed. I just accepted what everyone else around me (my pastor, parents, friends etc.) believed and I assumed that they were right. I can understand why so many of our youth, when they go off to college to these universities, and fall away from God, because they didn’t know what they believed in the first place. We as families and churches need to teach and train our children so well in the ways of the word of God, that when they go out into the world, they will be able to speak confidently and not be distracted by what others who don’t know the truth teach and say. How do I learn to speak confidently? Practice. Practice all the time speaking and finding evidence of what you say is true. Is Jesus really the only way to heaven? Every follower of Christ will say yes! But how do they know that? What makes them any more right than the men who commit suicide for their religion? Feelings are not good enough. Attending a church is not good enough. Having parents who believe it is not good enough. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE AND WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE TO BACK IT UP? If you don’t have this confidence, then it won’t be long and someone will talk you out of it.