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What is Titus all about?
Titus: Moving the church towards godliness and good works.
Why do we have to work on this?
As Joe discussed last week.
Adam was to be the keeper of the garden.
He was to be the steward and Eve was to be his perfect partner and helper.
As the head of their marriage, Adam was responsible to guard not only the physical garden but the spiritual truth which was established by God and governed the garden.
Specifically that they were not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
It was Adam’s duty to protect the truth and his failure to do so left his wife vulnerable.
This failure led to the downfall of mankind.
Sin entered the world and the law of God was no longer written on their hearts.
A law of sin and death replaced it.
This is why we have to war within ourselves in order to pursue godliness and good works.
As Joe taught over that past couple of weeks Paul begins by dealing with the issue of leadership.
We need godly leadership that has been redeemed.
Leaders whose hearts have rejected the temptation of sin and have been filled with the truth of the gospel.
These men are intended to be an example of what Adam was supposed to be in the garden.
They are to be godly and to defend godliness.
This was Adam’s job . . .
but he failed.
This is why Jesus came, to do what Adam could not.
Where Adam failed, Christ succeeded.
When Paul utters those famous words, “For me to live is Christ and to Die is gain.”
echo this truth.
Our greatest life is lived when we live not just for Christ, but in Him.
The core of the book of Titus is focused on how we can not only have such leaders but how we all can live with hearts obedient to the law of God.
The law which is bound in the truth of who God is and which is given to us in scripture to know and live by.
Headship in the church is only one piece of the puzzle.
We must build a culture that produces young men and women who will come after us and hold to the truth with passion.
Over the next few weeks we will be talking about how thIs life we are called to live should impact the older men and younger men.
We will dig into the impact of living for Christ in the lives of godly older women and younger women.
We will address those in the position of bondservant and Titus himself as a leader in the church.
Before we get to these specific groups we are going to look at the key verses in the book of Titus that build a framework that will guide each group as they pursue God’s best.
This weeks passage will address the core of the book.
These key verses will guide us to what we must know and what we must do to be people who reflect the law of God in our hearts and in our works.
Grab your Bibles and turn to Titus chapter 2. We will be studying verses 11-14.
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Look at verse 11 with me.
Step One: God fixes our mess
God’s Grace
Salvation for All
Did you fix it?
Did your pastor fix it?
Did the elders fix it?
Did the women fix it?
Did the Men fix it?
No; Christ fixed it.
This is God’s grace expressed to us.
Salvation!
Salvation!
Salvation!
Step One: God fixes our mess
God’s Grace
Salvation for all
So what does that mean for us.
We have this great gift but how does that gift impact our lives?
Let’s look at verse 12 together.
Step Two: God changes our lives
We walk away from ungodliness and worldly desires
We walk toward godliness
Self-controlled (We plan to do the right thing)
Spiritual disciplines
Upright (We aren’t half way in and halfway out)
I’m not holding on to that vice, that forbidden fruit
Godly (We reflect him in all we do)
Helping others see God is my ultimate priority
In this we have the picture of repentance.
When we repent of our sin we walk away from ungodliness and worldly sin and our course is now set towards godliness.
When things get hard, how to I keep my focus?
Let’s look at verse 13
Step three: God fills us with hope
We wait for a sure thing (blessed hope)
He conquered sin and death
He lives preparing a place for us
We anticipate his glorious return
As we wait in hope we are not idle.
Look at verse 14 with me.
Step four: He refits us for good works
Redeems us from lawlessness.
Purifies us for his possession
He gives us zeal to do Good works!
Being redeemed from lawlessness means that I am not wasting my time!
I’m not spinning my wheels.
I am purpose filled.
I’m not chasing the pleasures of the world.
In my heart, God has written his law.
The law of Christ which is life and purpose and hope.
Purified for his possession means that I am his.
There is no shame, no sin, no struggle that can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord!
He has made me pure!
My works don’t make me pure.
No penance required.
He took all the punishment on the cross.
He is enough and the only thing I can bring is faith to trust in him.
He make me zealous for good works!
I’m not confused about good works, are you?
We can really get in our own heads about good works.
We can make the good works an idol and worship them instead of God.
We can sit on the sidelines not doing anything waiting for a super spiritual sign to smack us in the face.
But that’s not right either.
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