Warnings About Maintaining Sound Doctrine

# 24 Today's Prime Time Devo comes from: 1Ti 1:9-11, “ knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. In verse 10, we have a “catch all” phrase employed by the Holy Spirit, “if there is any other thing contrary to sound doctrine according to the gospel.” Sound doctrine is healthy doctrine. It is doctrine with the absence of pollution. The word sound is used in two episodes of healing given to us in Scripture. In Mark 3, Jesus heals a man with a withered hand and says, “Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored as whole as the other.” It was made sound. And in Acts 4, Peter had healed a lame man and said, “this man stands here before you whole. (made sound) And so once again we see an emphasis on keeping the teaching of the Law and Gospel pure. The teachings handed down to the Apostles by Jesus are not to be added to, or taken away from. This is a common theme in these letters to Timothy and Titus. 1Ti 6:3 says, “If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,” and 2Ti 4:3 says, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; Then in Tit 1:9, we read, “ holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may be able, by sound doctrine, both to exhort and convict those who contradict.” and in Tit 2:1 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: A major emphasis of these letters is to maintain sound doctrine” Keep the Law and Gospel unpolluted. We ought to strive for the same thing.