Titus 3:3
3 For [gar] we ourselves [hemeis] also [kai] were [en] [anoetos] sometimes [pote] foolish [anoetos],
disobedient [apeithes], deceived [planao], serving [douleuo] divers [poikilos] lusts [epithumia] and [kai] pleasures [hedone], living [diago] in [en] malice [kakia] and [kai] envy [phthonos], hateful [stugnetos], and
hating [miseo] one another [allelon]. KJV-Interlinear
3 For we also once were foolish
ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures,
spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. NASB
Take care, lest you
forget from whence you originated.
All of humanity, with
but three exceptions (Adam, Eve, and Jesus Christ), were born with a sin
nature.Adam and Eve were created without
a sin nature, but chose the path of sin.
Jesus was born without a
sin nature, born of a virgin, with no human father, and since the sin nature is
handed down from generation to generation through the male, In Adam all
sinned, then Jesus was born without it and lived a sufficient amount of time
making daily choices that excluded sin, and thus became the perfect candidate
for sacrifice, qualified both in body and soul in living a life apart from sin.
But as for the rest of
us, sin was a part of our life from the get-go.
Subsequently during our life, we all made conscious choices to commit
sins, which simply reinforced our worthlessness.
So, no matter how far
along in your spiritual life you might have come, you are to remember the day
when you were worthless, and never forget it. Arrogance can sneak around and get you in a
proud state even from within your spiritual growth.
Foolishness means to be
without understanding.Understanding
comes from listening, learning, having some application, which results in
understanding.No understanding means a
dysfunctional spiritual life.
Disobedient means to be
obstinate, unconvinced, defiant, stubborn, preferring your own interpretation
to that of God.
Deceived means to
wander in error as a result of obstinate disobedience, not that you could not
have known, but because you have chosen to not know, through refusal to
maintain a daily study and spiritual growth program in your life.
Without doctrine in
your soul, then you have no spiritual life to serve, therefore you serve by
default the lusts (drives) of your sin nature.
You do not have any control over your sin nature drives, but in
spiritual defiance, you will become a slave to your sin nature. Your sin nature possesses drives for
pleasures and lusts, angers and hatreds.
These result from an insatiable pursuit that will never be satisfied,
resulting in frustration and disappointment, resulting in anger, self pity, and
hate.These in turn unlock many other
sins.
What anyone else
possesses, we envy, we covet, we desire.
What we do not have, we want, believing that it will solve our inner
desires and needs.
Hateful, stugnetos,
is a bit different than the word for hate, miseo, in that the former, hateful,
means that you are the one who is hated, because you have violated the oath of
truth.
And the latter word for
hate, means that you as a
result of rejecting your oath of truth, will end up hating.
Bible doctrine is the only
possession that will help you to avoid being consumed by corruption. Corruption is what sin does. It destroys everything that is comes into
contact with.
Bible doctrine comes only
from God.Bible doctrine is not something
that you originate or invent on your own, and thus, you, as the dust of the
earth, a hated and hateful wretch, have no place to boast either before your
conversion to Christ and doctrine, or after it.
Doctrine gets all of
the credit, not you.Christ gets all of
the credit, not you.The Father and the
Spirit, receive all of the credit, not you.
Our obligation in life
is to take care of the soul, that we will not become enslaved to the corruption
of the body.
The natural state of
man is corruption. Repeat, the natural
state of man is corruption.There is no
such thing as the dignity of man.
Doctrine, is the only thing that can transform corruption (putrid rot),
into something of intrinsic value (gold).
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