Titus chapter three, the Lord willing, we will finish the book of Titus this morning. And we have two wonderful subject matters to finish on. If you'll look with me at verse 15, Paul said, all that are with me, salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen. I would like to divide that verse into a Bible study and a morning message. The title of this Bible study is Them That Love Us in the Faith. And the title of our message here in a moment will be Grace Be With You All.

So verse 15 says, all that are with me salute thee. Paul said, all of the brethren that are here with me in Nicopolis. If you look at verse 12, he said, when I shall send Artemis unto thee or Tychicus be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis for I have determined there to winter. Bring Zenos, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them. And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. All that are with me salute thee. All of the brethren that are here with me in Nicopolis salute you, Titus. And they salute the brethren that are with you there in Crete. That's where Titus was in Crete. And he said in verse 15, greet them that love us in the faith.

Now that's a wonderful line because what he's saying is if they are in the faith, they love us. And what he's saying is, if they are in the faith, we love them. They're in the faith, they love us. And if they're in the faith, we love them, so greet them. Greet them. What a bond there is among God's people. It's a loving, special, sweet bond.

Hold your place right here and turn over to 3 John, just before Jude and Revelation. Third John, I just love this verse. I love what is worded right here. Verse 14, the last verse. He said, but I trust I shall shortly see thee. and we shall speak face to face. Peace be to thee. Our friends salute thee. Greet the friends by name. Friends, friends here, friends there. John said, we're all friends. And Paul said, we all love each other. We all love each other.

Now back in our text, back in Titus chapter 3 verse 15 says, all that are with me salute thee, greet them that love us in the faith. Now the part that I want to focus on for a minute is in the faith. in the faith. We had a message a few weeks ago on the subject of faith. We looked at faith, and we saw that faith is of Christ. It's of Christ in the sense that it's His faith. When we think about faith, everybody thinks, well, I've got some in there somewhere, and I'm going to have to figure out how to dig it up and use it. Well, that's not what it is. Faith is of Christ in the sense that it's His faith. It's not ours. We don't have any. It's the faith of Christ. He is the producer of all faith. He is the giver of faith. He is the performer of faith. He is the author and the finisher. He is the object of faith. Faith only looks to and points to and cries, Christ. That's what faith does. That's all that faith does. Faith has nothing to do with man.

I believe if we could get a hold of that, that would be a light bulb moment. There are some things that are light bulb moments and that is one of them. Faith has nothing to do with man. Faith does not point us to man. You know, as soon as everybody starts thinking about faith, they go, okay, all right, faith, here we go. Faith has nothing to do with man and everything to do with Christ. It does not look in, it only looks out. Faith is actually what turns us away from man. It is the very thing that physically, because all we do being born into this world is we look at the flesh and look at man and it's all, what am I doing? And what is he doing? And what should you be doing? Faith is what takes all that and turns it away from man to Christ. All right, so that's faith. It's only concerning Christ. And we read it when we looked at that message a few weeks ago, we read it that way in the scripture by substituting the word faith with Christ. And we could do that right here. Verse 15 says, all that are with me, salute thee, greet them that love us in Christ. That would be true to the meaning of what was written. So to say in the faith means in Christ, in Christ.

And what I want us to see this morning is what it truly is to be in the faith. That's what I want us to get to, what it truly is to be in Christ. And after we see that, I want us to acknowledge again how much we love those that are in it. Love those that are in Him. I want you to, if you know the Lord Jesus Christ, honestly, assess this in your heart. If you believe that soul is going to be in glory with Christ, can't you say you love that soul? I understand there's all kinds of different personalities and all kinds of different this and I understand all that, but can't you say you love that? If you believe that soul will be with Christ in glory, You can put everything aside and say, I love that soul. I'm gonna spend eternity with that soul. Away from all this sin that we've created. I love that soul. Greet them that love us in the faith. In the faith.

All right, now let's notice this, okay? There is only one. There is only one, the faith, the faith. Everybody talks about my faith, your faith, you know, there's only one, the faith. Turn with me to Ephesians four. The first faith Ephesians 4 verse 1 begins by saying I therefore the prisoner of the Lord. I'm going to tell you, that's a good title to hold. That's a good position to have, and that's a good place to be. And the reason is because Psalm 146, Isaiah 42, Isaiah 61, Luke 4, and who knows how many other places say that the Lord sets all of his prisoners free. If you're the Lord's prisoner, you're a free man or woman. So Ephesians 4 verse 1 says, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called. With all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, Forbearing one another in love. And I'm gonna tell you, that's Christ. That right there is the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, learn of me, I am meek and lowly in heart. Meekness, lowliness, long-suffering means patient with. That's what it means. Patient with. Forbearing means upholding. Sustaining. Well, that's Christ. The only reason we stand is because he's holding us up. That's Christ. And how he is with us, it motivates us to want to be that way with each other.

Verse 3 says, verse 1, I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity. There's only one unity. Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit. There is only one Spirit. Romans 8 says the Spirit of Christ. The unity of Christ. The Spirit of Christ. Verse 3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There's only one bond. There's only one bond. There's only one bond of peace. The bond of Christ. The bond of Christ. The bond of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The bond of the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's our bond. That's the bond of all of God's people.

Verse 3 says, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace, there is one body. Colossians 1 says, the body, the church. There is one body and one Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling. There's only one calling. and one hope, and that's Christ. He is the hope of our calling.

Verse five says, one Lord, there's one Messiah, one Lord Jesus Christ, one sovereign savior. Verse five says, one faith. There's only one faith among God's people. There is only one belief. There's only one to look to. There's only one to believe on. There's only one to trust in.

Verse five says, one baptism. There is only one to be immersed in. Being immersed into Christ is the only true baptism that there is. Water is not the true baptism. Water is a confession of the only true baptism that there is, which is God's Spirit laying hold of a sinner and plunging that sinner into Christ. That's the only one that there is. This is just a picture of that.

Verse six says, one God and father of all who is above all and through all and in you all. Now he said in verse five, there's one faith, there's one belief, there's one conviction, there's one persuasion, there's one confidence. And what is it? It's everything we just read. Everything we just read right there. There is one. There is one. There's one way.

What if I stood up here and said, now there are two ways to get to glory? How would y'all feel about that? Now there are two truths. There are two lives. How would y'all feel about that? How long would it take for you to fire me? Hopefully not long. There is one. God's people cry, amen.

Well, now you can have your way and I'll have my way and that'll be fine and we'll all meet up in the end. God's people cry, nope, there is one. There is one. This is the faith. This is what it is to be in the faith. There's not two. There is not me and another. Him alone. Him alone. One sovereign alone. And it's not me and him together. There's one sovereign alone. There's one savior alone. There's not a cooperation in salvation. You do half and I'll do half. There's one.

Therefore, there's one message alone. There is one gospel alone. There's not another one. How many gospels are there? If we're in the faith, we'll all say one. The gospel is Christ. The gospel is a person. I wish I could shout that from the rooftops and plaster that on TV and I wish people still watched TV. Maybe some people watch TV, I don't know. There's one. There's just one and he is the gospel.

The gospel is Christ. The gospel is not a system of theology. The gospel is a person. The gospel is not a way of right living. The gospel is a person. Christ. He is the Spirit. He is the bond. He is the peace. He is the hope. He is the glory. That's what every soul in the faith believes. Every soul in the faith has this answer. I don't care what the question is. Christ. How you gonna get to glory? Christ. What about all that sin you committed? Christ.

Christ is the unity of the faith. Look right here at verse 13, Ephesians 4 verse 13. It says, till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God. unto a perfect man, that means a mature man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Christ is the unity of faith. That's what every soul in the faith believes. Look with me to Ephesians 2 verse 8. It says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God. That's what every soul in the faith believes. That we're saved by grace, that's not of ourselves, it's the gift of God, period. That's what a soul in the faith believes.

Turn with me to Romans 10. Romans 10 verse 17. It says, so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. That's what a soul in the faith wants to hear, the Word of God. Not the Word of man, but the Word of God Almighty. Give me the Word of God. Well now you know that word's gonna cut your flesh down, that word's gonna condemn you. Give me the word of God. Amen, so be it.

Look at Romans 4. Romans 4, speaking of Abraham, verse 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. That's who a soul who is in the faith wants the glory to go to. God. God Almighty. God alone. And who is God? Who is God Almighty? Who is God alone? Every soul in the faith will say, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, the word himself who was made flesh and dwelt among us. Every soul in the faith will say, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness, God was manifest in the flesh. That was God.

Now every soul who gives all the glory to Jesus Christ for the God that he is and the Savior that he is, to every soul whose only plea is Christ alone, the blood alone, the cross alone, his death alone. Paul said, Titus, greet that soul for me. Greet that soul for me. Because that's a soul in the faith. That's a soul in the common faith of all of God's people. And that's a soul who I love. If a soul is claiming Christ only, that's a soul who I love. That's a soul who I love. And because of that soul's faith in Christ, With that common bond and common spirit and common unity in Christ, I know that's a soul that loves me. That soul may not like me, doesn't have to like me, but it loves me. In Christ, that soul loves me. And every soul in this same God-given faith with me.

Paul said, I know that every unified, bonded, hope-filled soul In the faith of Jesus Christ, loves each other. And he said, I know we love each other because our God said we would love each other. He said we would. Turn with me over to John 13. John 13 verse 34. A new commandment I give unto you that you love one another. As I have loved you that you also love one another. Our Lord said on this hangs all the law and we will never be able to accomplish that love like he has, but we desire to, we want to, we know that in that day, once all this flesh is removed and this sin is removed, we know that we will and we want to now. The new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Verse 35, he said, by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one to another. Do you know by God's grace there is nothing I would rather do than love you? And I'm sincere. I'm being very serious. I wrote that down and then I put a lot of thought into that. Is that real? Is that true? Is that true to my heart? It is true to my heart. That is honestly true to my heart. There is nothing I would rather do than love you. I believe all of God's true people can say that. There is nothing we would rather do. Do you want to be at odds with any of God's people? Any of them? No. No. I believe all of God's people can say there is nothing I would rather do than love Christ and love every soul that God the Father placed in Christ. If God loved them, I want to love them. That's the heart that he puts in his people. It's the heart of Christ. If Christ shed his blood to redeem that soul from sin and to adopt that soul into his family, we love that soul. We love it. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful love. It's a beautiful union.

that God has given to all of his people in Christ, all of them.

In closing, go with me to Psalm 133. Verse one, it says, behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. And unity is Christ. One, it is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of his garments, as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion, For there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore."

It's so good. It's so pleasant. Paul said, greet the brethren that love us in the faith. What do you want me to tell them, Paul? Tell them we love them. You tell them we love them. We love them in Christ. Amen. All right, you're dismissed.