Healthy Teaching

Titus 2:

1 But you, speak the things which are fitting to the healthy teaching.

7 Concerning all things presenting yourself as a pattern of good works, in your teaching showing incorruption, gravity,

8 Healthy speech that cannot be condemned, that he who opposes may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about.

Footnotes from the Bible, Recovery Version:

The healthy teaching is always according to the truth (1:14) of the faith (1:13). It is the content of the apostles' teaching, the content of God's New Testament economy. It not only ministers the life supply to the believers and heals the spiritual diseases, but in so doing it also brings the church into a sound condition with a good order. Hence, it is very much stressed in these three books, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, books dealing with the disorder and decline of the church.

In my study of the word, the Lord impressed me so much the matter of healthy teaching. Healthy teaching is the teaching of God's New Testament economy, that covers the whole Bible. This teaching is according to truth and ministers life to the believers and heals all spiritual diseases. This healthy teaching keeps the oneness of the Body of Christ and builds up the Body of Christ to bring the Lord back. 

"We are what we eat" is a dietitian's dictum. You eat healthy food, you will be healthy. Just eating is not sufficient, for not all food are healthy. To be healthy, one must eat a healthy food. Likewise, to be spiritually healthy one must also eat healthy spiritual food that supplies life and builds up the Body. The Word of God is the most healthy spiritual food; even the proper interpretation and proper understanding of the Word according to God's New Testament economy is healthy.

Once the eating is healthy, one's living will also be healthy. Eating Christ everyday in the Word will make us live Christ everyday, presenting ourself as a pattern of good works. The only one good is God Himself. When we eat healthy and are filled with the Word of God, our living will manifest Christ as the one who is good, presenting ourself in Christ as a pattern of good works. This will also issue in healthy speech, for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Once Christ makes His home in our hearts ( Ephesians 3:17) by our opening to Him, giving Him the full ground, He will constitute us with Himself as the Word which becomes our healthy speech that ministers Christ as life for the building up of the Body of Christ fulfilling God's eternal economy.

This matter touched my being so much that it became my prophesy today in the meeting of the local church in Shillong.