Titus 1:10-16

Overview

Main: silence rebellious people, rebuke Cretans, Be pure

Silence Rebellious People

Elders outlined - teach truth and oppose false teaching - know the truth to call out false

Elders are to deal with rebellious people

great danger of false teachers leading people away

false prophet -often think of falsely predicting something but rather leading to self glorification

unruly, disobedient, unsubdued

Circumcision party - jews forcing gentile converts to be circumcised

mingling Judaism and Christianity

households - churches were in the household - one deceived, whole household church upset / subverted

how - mouths stopped - muzzle - how?

confutation - showing error

dishonest gain - circumcision, gain?

Rebuke Cretans - the Cretans

Silence the teachers, rebuke those taught by them.

Sharply - not gentle

parenting - look, stern phrase, rebuke

history - Epimenides said this - himself a cretan - paradox

myth philosophy and religion blend, mystical powers and a prophet

Purpose of rebuke is to bring them back to sound faith

Pure / Corrupted - words align with actions

internal purity versus external - internally pure, then external decisions will be pure

externally corrupted - actions also corrupted

theoretical knowledge of God without practical knowledge

Do my life/works profess knowledge of God?

Main Ideas:

Silence rebellious people - to protect

Rebuke Cretans

Be pure - words and actions align