Titus: Sound Teaching That Produces Godly Living
Titus gives instruction for establishing order in the assemblies of Crete. Paul teaches that sound doctrine must lead to godly character, good works, and a clear witness before the world.
I. Appointing Godly Elders And Silencing False Teachers
📖 Titus 1
🔹 Titus was left in Crete to set in order what remained and appoint elders in every city.
🔹 Elders must be above reproach, faithful to their wives, self-controlled, holy, and able to teach sound doctrine.
🔹 They must hold firmly to the faithful word so they can encourage believers and refute those who contradict.
🔹 Many false teachers were deceiving whole households.
🔹 Their teaching was motivated by dishonest gain.
🔹 They claimed to know God but denied Him by their works.
II. Sound Teaching For Godly Living
📖 Titus 2
🔹 Titus was to teach what is fitting for sound doctrine.
🔹 Older men were to be sober, reverent, self-controlled, sound in faith, love, and patience.
🔹 Older women were to live reverently and teach what is good.
🔹 Younger women were to love their husbands and children and be discreet, pure, and workers at home.
🔹 Younger men were to be self-controlled.
🔹 Titus was to be an example of good works, sound teaching, dignity, and sincerity.
🔹 Servants were to be faithful so that the teaching of God would be honored.
🔹 The grace of God teaches believers to deny ungodliness and live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age.
🔹 Believers are to look for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.
III. Salvation By Mercy And Good Works
📖 Titus 3
🔹 Believers are to be submissive to rulers, ready for every good work, gentle, and peaceable.
🔹 All people were once foolish, disobedient, and enslaved by sinful desires.
🔹 God saved believers because of His mercy, not because of righteous works they had done.
🔹 Salvation comes through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
🔹 Believers are justified by grace and made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
🔹 Those who have believed in God are to be careful to maintain good works.
🔹 Foolish disputes, arguments about the Law, and divisive people are to be avoided.