Nothing can change me - that's the way I am! True or False?

TRUTH U CAN TRUST - DIRECT BIBLE QUOTATIONS - TITUS 1:4-16

Please read the bible quote and the comments at the end - thanks.

4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

⁵ For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

⁶ If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

⁷ For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

⁸ But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

⁹ Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

¹⁰ For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

¹¹ Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

¹² One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

¹³ This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

¹⁴ Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

¹⁵ Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

¹⁶ They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

The caricature of national characteristics does not go down well with the

members of the nation being described. 

To call the Scots mean is not only insulting but untrue. 

To call the Irish stupid is equalling insulting and any brief visit to the Emerald Isle

will reveal that in terms of making money they are far from stupid.  I could go on

but I'd rather have some friends when I have finished writing this piece! 

So what is my point?

In the chapter quoted above the residents of Crete are described as 'liars, violent and

greedy", not guaranteed to endear one to the nationals but one that seems to have been

commonly accepted in the days of the New Testament; I am sure that things have changed

drastically since then. 

The point that the writer is making is that becoming a follower of Jesus Christ (also

described as getting saved or being converted) completely changes a person and

counteracts what we are naturally. 

I whole heartedly recommend turning from your sin and accepting Christ as your Lord and

Saviour. To find out more read some of my previous blogs or visit me on

www.seekthetruth.org.uk.   

My trip to Scotland

I am currently in the North of Scotland for a week visiting a High School in Lossiemouth. My aim is to talk to young people about the greatest man who ever lived. You might have an opinion about who that person was! I am persuaded that it was Jesus Christ. His influence lives on not only in terms of those who personally believe in him as their Saviour but in the way our society operates.

For instance:

Our dating system (2013 AD) starts from the birth of Christ.
Our civil rights are based on his teachings.
Our healthcare system is based on the care of the individual and compassion that Jesus taught.
Our legal system operates on the principles that were established in scripture and made popular by Jesus Christ.

and so on....

I wonder if you realise the effect that this man, the Son of God, has had on our world. In some ways it is not enough. The failure does not lie in the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ but our unwillingness to submit to his authority, to confess our guilt before God and to rest on Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Imagine what society would be like if there was no theft, no anger management required, no embezzling of funds, no greed in business, no abuse, no murder, no broken homes, no addiction! Wow, it would be incredible.

I could introduce you to homes where repentance of sin and faith in Christ has brought about many of these changes.

One day, the bible teaches, Jesus will return and set up a world wide government and he will show the world what it would have been like if things had been done God's way. As a Christian I cannot wait to see this happen!


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My trip to the North of Scotland

I am currently in the North of Scotland for a week visiting a High School in Lossiemouth. My aim is to talk to young people about the greatest man who ever lived. You might have an opinion about who that person was! I am persuaded that it was Jesus Christ. His influence lives on not only in terms of those who personally believe in him as their Saviour but in the way our society operates.

For instance:

Our dating system (2013 AD) starts from the birth of Christ.
Our civil rights are based on his teachings.
Our healthcare system is based on the care of the individual and compassion that Jesus taught.
Our legal system operates on the principles that were established in scripture and made popular by Jesus Christ.

and so on....

I wonder if you realise the effect that this man, the Son of God, has had on our world. In some ways it is not enough. The failure does not lie in the hand of the Lord Jesus Christ but our unwillingness to submit to his authority, to confess our guilt before God and to rest on Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Imagine what society would be like if there was no theft, no anger management required, no embezzling of funds, no greed in business, no abuse, no murder, no broken homes, no addiction! Wow, it would be incredible.

I could introduce you to homes where repentance of sin and faith in Christ has brought about many of these changes.

One day, the bible teaches, Jesus will return and set up a world wide government and he will show the world what it would have been like if things had been done God's way. As a Christian I cannot wait to see these things happen.

President J F Kennedy

Today is the day when 50 years ago the then current President of the United States of America was cut off in his prime. A waste of life, energy talent etc. We remember with the sadness the bitterness of the violence of men and the devastation it produced in a home, a government, a nation and across the world.

It reminds me of the abrupt cutting off another life - Jesus of Nazareth. Rumour and conspiracy theorists may tell us that people knew in advance of JFK's sudden demise. That may be open to debate but one thing is true the scriptures had predicted the death of Messiah (Jesus Christ) millennia in advance.

Daniel writes in chapter nine verse twenty six that 'shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself'. That could either mean - 'his demise was not as a result of anything he had done' or 'the reason for his demise was not to benefit himself but on the behalf of others'. Both are true.

The old song says 'he died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good, that we might go one day to heaven, saved by his precious blood'.

Can you say 'he died for me'?


All posts have the aim of pointing people to Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour or to aid Christian growth and development.

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