Titus Study 4
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Titus 2:11-
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
Grace of God—getting what you don’t deserve, what don’t we deserve? Salvation and the training we get, let’s look at the first element of grace, salvation
Salvation—rescue, unable to save ourselves. What are the 3 elements of salvation? Hint, salvation past, salvation present, salvation past. Justification, sanctification, glorification. What is justification? Freed from the penalty of sin, not guilty. What is sanctification? Freed from the power of sin. What is glorification? Freed from the presence of sin. Grace, but we partner with the second part, sanctification. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
All people—are all saved or available to all? This is not universalism, His death was enough for all, but not all with respond, not blanket coverage.
Training us—how? What is training us? Instruction in what to do and what not to do. Paul uses the Greek word paideuo, which is like instructing a little child rather than imparting a teaching. How do coaches train? They instruct, correct, demonstrate, remind, encourage, etc. For what purpose does Paul give us here? What to say yes to and what to say no to. This is our sanctification.
To renounce ungodliness and worldly passions—we can now say no. We now want to say no. We now have been given the ability and power to say no. We now recognize these things.
So what is ungodliness? Any behavior that is not godly, god-like, rebellion against God, living a life without the authority of God in our lives, the truth in our lives, no accountability to right and wrong.
So what are worldly passions? Lust of the eyes, coveting and fueling passions with our eyes. Lust of the flesh, sensual sinful pleasures. The pride of life, advancing myself for the benefit of my own kingdom. fortune and fame, self-serving kingdom for the here and now, lover of self and not a lover of God
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.
1 John 2:15-16
So that we can live self-controlled—having a reign on our passions and desires, or desiring appropriate things, not loving the world and all it offers, not pursuing “happiness” but godliness
Upright—justly and righteously
Godly lives—God honoring and God-like lives, obedient, loving, fruit producing, for the kingdom lives, serving others, desiring others to know Jesus and doing something about it.
waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
Titus 2:13-
waiting—with anticipation and expectation
blessed hope—excited, fortunate, confident expectation, not wishful thinking
appearing of the glory—epiphaneia, where we get our word epiphany, a sudden revelation, a sudden appearing of the glory or the splendor and majesty, shining and radiant, of who?
Our great God and Savior Jesus Christ—rescuer. This is our glorification, when Jesus calls us home or returns.
who did what?—He gave Himself for us, He was obedient to the Father, He did it for the glory of God, but He did it for us
Why?—to redeem us, to buy us back and liberate us from slavery, to set us free from all...
lawlessness—wickedness and lawless deeds. Without God and His commands, not just the 10 but all 313, but it’s not just to buy us out of something, it’s also to...
And? to purify—make clean, a major theme for Jews and how they were acceptable and able to enter the presence of God, but this is also to heal
For who?—the text says this is not for ourselves, the sanctification is not for just us, but for God, so we can be used by Him, to be His holy possession who are
Why?
Zealous for good works—enthusiastically adherent to holiness, fitting and proper, attractive, pertaining to a high status. things done for the benefit of another
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.
Titus 2:15-3:
Declare—speak about freely,
Exhort—ask for earnestly, plead and beg, call together to encourage
Rebuke—expose, refute, show one’s fault, implying that there is a convincing of that fault
All authority—Paul, because of his apostolic status and commission has the authority to give another authority. Titus has Paul’s authority and also because this is Truth, He has Jesus’ authority
Let no one disregard you—let no one treat you as unworthy of regard or notice, let no one despise you or look down on you, either because he’s a Greek or because he’s young or unlearned in Jewish law. Truth is God’s truth, declare it freely
Remind them—bring to remembrance, call to mind or to one’s attention,
To be submissive to the rulers and authorities—Nero was running the world then, a wicked, evil, murderous, immoral leader, whom Paul was telling Titus to remind the people to be obedient to the laws he has put in place, unless they contradict the laws of God. Why do we need to be reminded to be submissive? Because our nature, our sinful nature, is one of rebellion, to come out from under authority and be our own authority. Even as a follower of Jesus, this is an issue
to be obedient—why do we need to be reminded of this? Because our sinful nature is one of disobedience, we don’t like to be told what to do and what we can’t do. But we show our love for Jesus by being obedient to His commands.
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
to be ready for every good work—why do we need to be reminded of this? Because we are lazy, we are sleepy, we are not preparing ourselves, we are not looking for opportunities, we are not hoping for opportunities, asking for opportunities. We are selfish, self-serving, looking out for our own best interests.
to speak evil of no one—who is no one? Is it everyone? Why do we need to be reminded of this? How easy is it for us to speak evil of someone, to criticize someone, to call someone a moron, or idiot. The idea here is to blaspheme, insult slander or curse. Are not all made in the image of God? Are not all, ourselves included far from perfect? Are not all those who don’t know Jesus blinded by the enemy, deceived by Him, perpetrating evil and wickedness because they are separated? Broken people in a broken world, hurt and wounded therefore acting out of that broken place? We we not once them? See V.3
to avoid quarreling—don’t be contentious or an arguer
to be gentle—considerate, I think meek, power under control. How would we handle a fragile item that has extreme worth? With great care and gentleness, that’s how we are to regard others and treat them.
and to show perfect courtesy toward all people—to demonstrate blameless and complete gentleness, meekness, humility and consideration towards all people, even those who are “undeserving of being treated this way, This is the law of love, love your enemies, do good to them expecting nothing in return, especially no good thing from anyone, with pure motives that the good you are doing is for God and not that person, and maybe, your goodness will draw them to Jesus.
Titus 3:3-
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.