Titus: Paul's Fellow Worker
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Having looked last week at the lesson on “A Wealth Of Generosity” from 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 we discussed Paul’s eagerness to motivate the church at Corinth to give as they had given their word to do a year prior (1 Corinthians 16:1-3).
In this section of passage Paul points to the churches in Macedonia, Philippi and Thessalonica, as examples of the type of character in giving one should have.
We should be sacrificial in our giving, joyful in our giving, voluntary in our giving, and make our giving personal to us.
Paul then turns his attention to the one that he is going to be sending to collect the giving for the poor saints in Jerusalem, Titus.
16 But thanks be to God, who put into the heart of Titus the same earnest care I have for you. 17 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.
What do we know about this man, as a person.
He is mentioned some 13 times in the New Testament.
Eight times in 2 Corinthians.
Two times in Galatians.
One time each in 2 Timothy and Titus.
He was not of Jewish decent but rather a Greek which could be referring to being a person from Greece or a Gentile.
3 But even Titus, who was with me, was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek.
It is likely he was from Syria of Antioch, Paul and Barnabas home congregation, where he most likely was converted from.
Titus 1:4 (ESV)
4 To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Acts 15:2 (ESV)
2 And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question.
Galatians 2:1 (ESV)
1 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me.
With this in mind let us take a moment today to learn from this “true child in a common faith” of the apostle Paul’s.
We see clearly from our text that he “had a heart like Paul’s” in other words he had a heart full of…
Earnest Care
Earnest Care
A Zealous Heart.
A Zealous Heart.
The same zeal and diligence Paul had for the church at Corinth so too did Titus have.
The church at Corinth was a mess with people struggling to
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Trustworthy
Trustworthy
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Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
