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the doctrine of God. We are to wrap ourselves

up in it, clothe ourselves in it and not in fables

and fiction. Fables feed upon the lust of carnal

men. They keep us from meditating upon

reality. Fiction confuses reality — that's just the

bottom line — and we have a lot of fiction in

the world today. Paul tells Timothy and Titus to

preach, preach, preach the Word, preach the

Word, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering. He

said just keep preaching and preaching and

preaching the Word because there was a

problem with fables in the first century as there

is today.

Paul says in Titus chapter 1 and verse 14, “Not

giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments

of men”— what’s the next few words? — “that

turn from the truth.” Whether it be Jewish or

Gentile fables, they turn people’s hearts and

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