ARE YOU IN YOUR RIGHT MIND?

Titus 2:6                              

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

“Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded”.

“Likewise” refers to those he’s already mentioned. Aged men, aged women, young women and now young men. “Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded”.

 

I. THINK RIGHT ABOUT YOURSELF

 

1. Think Right About Your Reliance [Matthew 3:9] “my grandpa was a preacher”

-And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

2. Think Right About Your Repentance [Luke 13:4]

Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

3. Think Right About Your Rightness [Romans 12:3, 1 Cor. 10:12, Gal. 6:3]

-For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

- Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

- For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

 

II. THINK RIGHT ABOUT JESUS CHRIST

 

1. His Person [Mt. 22:42, Jn. 5:39, 2 John 1:9]

-Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.

-Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

- Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

2. His Purpose [Mt. 5:17, 10:34, Lk. 19:10]

-Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

-Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

- For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

3. His Plan [Mt. 24:44]

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

 

III. THINK RIGHT ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN LIFE

 

1. Think Right About Prayer “LIFE IS FRAGILE-HANDLE WITH PRAYER”

 Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

1 Peter 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

2. Think Right About Behavior [1 Cor. 4:6, 8:2, 13:5]

-And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

-And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

- Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

3. Think Right About Suffering [1 Peter 4:12-13, Rm. 8:18]

-Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

- For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us