Sound Doctrine

Titus 1:9 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.


Holding fast of the faithful word.
The faithful word is the word spoken to us by God.
The faithful word is every word that came from Jesus.
Sound doctrine is the doctrines of our God, our Savior.


Pro 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.


Mat 7:28 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine-


The doctrine of Jesus (Matthew 5:3-7:27) People were astonished at the doctrine of Jesus. People were being TAUGHT by Jesus. The disciples were being taught by Jesus- the message they would carry with them always. Do we study it enough? Do we study the doctrine of our Savior enough? Do we know the doctrine of our Savior so that we can exhort and convince the gainsayers- those that would contradict the word of God, those that would deny the word of God?


The message of salvation is paramount in all the teachings of our Savior- yet our Lord had so much more to say and at the end of His long discourse He said this…


Mat 7:24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
Mat 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
Mat 7:26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
Mat 7:27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.


If we hear and do we will be wise.
If we hear and do not do we will be foolish.


People complain all the time that they don't know how God would have them live and yet we are given this counsel from the Lord Himself. The sound doctrine of Jesus is the sound doctrine we are to have. It's not OUR word, it is not OUR doctrines that can do anything at all- it is the doctrine of our Lord and Savior.


Act 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.


The apostle' doctrine was the doctrine Jesus gave to them.


2Ti 4:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.


How true is this. People don't want to endure sound doctrine- people want to go after their own lusts.


Sound doctrine.


Jesus alone gives us sound doctrine. We don't have apostles today going about preaching the Lord's sound doctrine. We do have the words of our Savior that we can study for ourselves. The apostles wrote down the words they were given. The sound doctrine of Christ was written for our learning. We can't expect to understand or to accept sound doctrine if we don't learn it. Not just read, but learn it. Not just those that HEAR but those that HEAR AND DO the words of Christ will be wise.


We need to study the sound doctrines and make them a part of our lives.
We need Christ in our lives, we need to live as Christ would have us live in Him.


There is no guess work involved here- there is TRUTH.


People don't want to endure TRUTH, it doesn't satisfy their own desires.


We can follow all the unsound doctrine we like and it will allow us to satisfy our lusts, but following the sound doctrine of our Savior will war against our natural desires. One will give us life eternal the other death eternal-- we choose.


May God help us to follow only SOUND doctrine, Christ's doctrine, by His grace.