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If you have your Bibles and I hope you do, let me invite you to Titus chapter three.
We will be spending our time here today in the first eight verses.
Before I read the text laid before us, I want to remind you of where we are in the letter of Titus.
Paul has written Titus and the whole purpose of the letter was connecting how theology and ethics go hand in hand.
TitusI have to tell you all something that you may find to become a shock.
Lord willing if we all become pastors in churches or go into full time ministry…we will be overwhelmed at some point.
There is all sorts of priorities and tasks that will ultimately fall on our shoulders that will be too much to bear for all of us.
We may be in a small church where we could be doing things we did not think we would do.
From cleaning toilets to doing handy man work around the building.
We may end up in a large church where we do not have to do those things, but will have a lot more people under our care.
Ministry will get overwhelming.
have to tell you all something that you may find to become a shock.
Lord willing if we all become pastors in churches or go into full time ministry…we will be overwhelmed at some point.
There is all sorts of priorities and tasks that will ultimately fall on our shoulders that will be too much to bear for all of us.
We may be in a small church where we could be doing things we did not think we would do.
From cleaning toilets to doing handy man work around the building.
We may end up in a large church where we do not have to do those things, but will have a lot more people under our care.
Ministry will get overwhelming.
Paul tells Titus here in this text reminding him of the duties he must be doing in his pastoral work.
As Paul reminds Titus, he is reminding every pastor and future pastor to be reminded and for God’s people to be reminded of.
What will it take for us to live godly lives?
For us to live Godly lives, we must...
Be reminded of our Obligations
Paul starts off “remind them” and first is that they are to be
Submissive to rulers and authority
This statement in our culture is against the grain.
We have free speech in our country, and it has been used for good, but is has also been for bad.
People have been very vocal about their distaste for Donald Trump and his leadership of our country.
People can be very mean when it comes to the leadership of their church.
They are complaining about everything he is doing and his leadership of the church.
Even students here at BBC can complain about the authority over them at the school whether it is the professor or their RA, or the administration.
But what Paul is calling for here is to be submissive to those above you.
We are are called to submit to those above us as we know God has placed them in authority over us.
Paul is calling not just for obedience, but being ready to whatever is good that helps society.
As we are to be outwardly subjective to authority, we must be inwardly obedient.
We must obey all government commands that do not go against God’s commands.
Paying taxes
Orderly in behavior
Speed limits on roads
to be ready for every good work
As the government takes care of us, protects us, and keeps society moving along, when an epidemic strikes or natural disaster, Christians should be the first ones to step up and help out.
The next four things Paul wants to remind Titus of is something I think we need to be reminded of often.
“We are not to speak evil of anyone,” but how guilty we can be to talk bad about someone before we ever talk good about them.
Christians don’t gossip.
They just share prayer requests!599
“We avoid quarreling” means that we are peaceable.
The beatitudes speaks about the blessed are the peacemakers.
We are to be gentle with those around us, and show perfect courtesy.
Now the ESV is the only translation that used the phrase “perfect courtesy,” but I think the emphasis is to live a life vividly distinct from the world so that the world may know that something is different about us.
Our friends and families see the way you and I live and when there is no distinction from the world the gospel does not look attractive whatsoever.
We must be mindful and live life reminded of these truths Paul is reminding Titus to live a godly life.
He must be reminded of the obligations.
We are to be reminded of our obligations but we must also...
Be reminded of where we come from
The picture of what verse three is for our former selves is dark.
We were people of this world.
We were foolish.
Disobedient.
Led astray.
Slaves to various passions and pleasures.
Passing our days in malice and envy.
Hated by others and hating one another.
The picture of what verse three is for our former selves is dark.
We were people of this world.
We were foolish.
Disobedient.
Led astray.
Slaves to various passions and pleasures.
Passing our days in malice and envy.
Hated by others and hating one another.
This was our former life.
We lived for ourselves with us as the priority.
We were depraved wretched sinners separated from God in need of a savior.
Notice how verse three is paralleled with verses one and two.
In verse one believers are to be submissive to authorities.
In verse three we were foolish, disobedient, and led astray.
Those three first words “foolish, disobedient, led astray” ultimately mean that we had no wisdom in us and we resisted God’s Wisdom, and so we followed other peoples’ lies.
Not only did we have no wisdom, we were slaves to our passions and pleasures.
We would find our fulfillment in anything other than God.
We could not rightly relate with those around us.
Our self-oriented attitudes and us pursuing our passions and desires harms our relationships around us.
When we think more about self instead of God and those around us, we hurt those around us.
“passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.”
Our former state, and this state Paul wants Titus to be mindful of his past, but he does not stop there.
The believer’s story does not stop there.
Titus is reminded of the obligations.
He is reminded of his past.
He is also
Be Reminded of the Grace of God
Titus 3:4-
Verse three reminds us why we need to be humble, and to do verses 1-2 are not possible without the grace of God.
The essence is this: When we explain our eternal status, God gets the credit, and we get the blessing.
Verse eight tells us that this is a trustworthy statement.
We could spend a lot of time into these several verses Paul is reminding Titus of and he wants Titus to remind his church of these truths.
We serve a God who is good.
We could do a whole sermon right there on the goodness of God.
We serve a God who shows loving kindness.
We serve a God who gave up his Son for us.
And that son Jesus Christ came willingly on his accord leaving heaven and he appeared and God appeared fully God and fully Man.
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