Homilist Titus 3:14 And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. I. THE MUTUAL PROPERTY OF GOOD MEN. "Ours." 1. A mutual appreciation. 2. A mutual accumulation. II. THE MUTUAL PURPOSE OF GOOD MEN. "To maintain good works." 1. What are good works? Works that grow out of supreme love to God, and tender and disinterested sympathy with man. 2. Why is the maintenance of good works so transcendently important? (1) Because they are essential to the building up of a true moral character. (2) Because they are necessary to the spiritual reformation of mankind. (Homilist.) Parallel Verses KJV: And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful. |