Paul's Letter to Titus
Notes
Transcript
Order of Service
Order of Service
Welcome
Welcome
Prayer
Prayer
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Hymn -
Notices
Notices
Prayer Meeting - 7:30pm Wed
Friday 7pm - Online
Sunday Morning 11am & 6pm
Tithes & Offerings - £
Main Prayer
Main Prayer
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Reading
Reading
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior; To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Sermon
Sermon
Three Key Topics:
Congregational Life
Family & Personal Life
Public Life
Aim:
Sactification by the Grace
renewal
tranformation
setting apart
Conforming a believer to the image of God’s Son
It is the evidence of the ongoing influence of the Holy Spirit in a Believers Heart
Joyful expectation for Jesus’ Second Coming
Congregational Life
Congregational Life
Background
Written in the 60’s AD
Titus - Paul’s coworker
Church Planting in Crete
“Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” Titus 1:12
Titus enduring opposition from within his congregations
the ungodly
legalists - cicumcision party
His commission was to establish elders wfor the churches under his care
What sort of people these leaders should be
How believers should live in relation to
each other
unbelievers
to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives
From Paul, a servant of God (Authority)
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Salutation (65 words) - only Galatians (75 words) and Romans (93 words) are longer
This one is most similar to Romans
Paul - Servant of God & Apostle of Jesus Christ
1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:”
For the sake of the Faith of God’s Elect
Sound doctrine goes hand in hand with Godliness
Christ like Living
the life of sanctification and doing good works
A life of Christian Virtue
The Spirit of True Consecration
“the truth which accords with godliness”
Never-lying God
Speaks of the fulfillment of God’s Promise ...
“hope in eternal life”
promised before creation
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
God’s Word Entrusted
and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;
at the appointed time revealed his word by proclamation which my order of God our Saviour entrusted to me
Full Salvation in Christ for both Jew & Gentile (equals)
Objectively given and promised from eternity
Hidden - not fuly realised or understood by the men of the old dispensation
Now fully manifested - by means of universal Gospel-proclamation
The Pastoral Epistles 1:1–4
The glorious fact that the
To Titus (and intention)
To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
My true child in a common faith
Tender Fatherly Love
Grace and Peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour
Grace - God’s Unmerited favour (Fountain)
Peace - a consciousness of being reconcile with God (Stream)
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Q&A
Q&A
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Hymn -
Closing Prayer
Closing Prayer
Doxology
Doxology
