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Titus 1:2 · BSB
1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
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…care for them, but they're like an example of, hey, this is what you should aspire to. Okay? They have specific qualifications, 1 Timothy 3 andTitus chapter 1speak of specific qualifications, which is almost totally explicitly character qualifications. Okay? So, they have to have a character. Why?…
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…out ahead of me. They are leading me. Obey that leadership, the author of Hebrews says. Notice some of the qualifications for elder found inTitus chapter 1. I'll pick up about halfway through. There he says, an overseer as God's steward must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered…
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…naming Titus as his recipient, Paul now moves into his first words of instruction to Titus. Let me read our passage for this morning for us fromTitus chapter 1, starting in verse 5. The reason I left you in Crete was that you might put in order what was left unfinished and appoint elders in every town as I…
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…what we believe as a local church, and why we exist. Have I left the clicker down there? I know it's in my back pocket. There we go. So this isTitus chapter 1. So come with me, we'll read it together, and then we will hear God's voice as we unpack it a little bit together. So Paul writes this. This is…
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…deacons and also because Sunday school we'll be looking at 1 Timothy 3 quite a bit. I wanted to broaden it so today our sermon text will come fromTitus chapter 1. Please turn to Titus chapter 1. 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus are the pastoral epistles. They're letters giving instructions on pastors and elders. So…
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…last week was where we rest our hearts changes everything else. Everything else changes when we rest our hearts in the place we actually belong.Titus chapter 1, we're studying the book of Titus. Titus chapter 1, Paul challenges us to avoid the traps of legalism, but also to avoid the trap of license. And…
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…good or bad, that's not what God uses. Well, what does he guide us? By the Holy Spirit and by our prayer life and by our search of the Scriptures.Titus, chapter 1, he says to the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupt and don't believe in anything, then nothing is pure. Their minds are…
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…them before God and before the church. And Paul says you cannot tolerate this. You cannot just let this go. You must deal with this in the church.Titus chapter 1in verse 16 they profess to know God but they deny him by their works. not just the way that they live in the world but the way that they live in…
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…Get this one. This one's particularly convicting to me. And the qualifications for a pastor or an elder outlined in 1 Timothy chapter 3 orTitus chapter 1. Listed among the many vitally essential qualities, such as being sober-minded, being able to control your anger, being able to teach, listed among…
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…work set forth in the scriptures. You see this work involves a Sacred stewardship. If you turn over there to tight us just after second Timothy andTitus Chapter 1and verse 7. It says for a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God, the word stirred denotes a servant. So think of a servant who's been…
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…protection and preservation of God's people. So we spent now, this would be the third week that we've been dealing particularly with this topic inTitus chapter 1. And you may say that all of this stuff about leaders and polity and the things that we're going through right now, is it really all that…
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…and confronting heresy. It's an office of the word executed by men who faithfully live according to the word. And we see this right here inTitus chapter 1. Look at verse 6. If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, his children are believers. He's not open to the charge of debauchery or…
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…how a pastor can feed the sheep. The second way is to hold fast the faithful word and I'm just taking these directly from the Bible. We see that inTitus Chapter 1and verse number 9, Titus 1 verse 9 says holding fast, the faithful word as he hath been taught that he may be able by sound Doctrine. Both to…
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Turn with me tonight in your Bibles to the Epistle of Paul to Titus. Go to first and second Timothy. You'll come to Titus.Titus Chapter 1. We're going to read from verse 1. We're going to read the whole of the chapter. Let's hear the word of God. Reading, of course, from the…
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…get these piles. Come get these assembled piles of toys and put them into their proper places. Come get them and put them into order. Well, here inTitus chapter 1, the people of God are gathered. They are assembled. God has saved them. Churches are forming. But there's still another step needed. They need to…
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…to believe and ought to do. We can gain insight for our church as we think about our life together in the days ahead. So let's look there now.Titus chapter 1. We're going to be in verses 1 through 4 this morning. Paul writes, Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the…
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…that God has not left us to stumble alone in the dark, but instead he's given us his Word to show us the way to go. And so that's why we read nowTitus chapter 1, starting at verse 4. Titus chapter 1, verse 4. Verse 7. I invite you to pray with me as we come to God's Word. Our Father in heaven, we thank you…
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…God promises Abraham, I'm going to rescue you. But before that promise, before that exchange, well before that, God had made an oath to himself.Titus chapter 1says it this way: God promised to himself. So when God tells Abraham, I promise that you will have a son. God's not making that up as it goes. It's…
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Well guys, we are back into the book of Titus this morning. It's been several weeks. We're still inTitus chapter 1. Titus is getting into this, he's talking about uh elders and the qualification for elders, and then he gets into starting in verse 10 through…
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…with some of these people. Pastors here is a word for shepherd, someone who cares for the flock. 1 Timothy 3 gives qualifications for them. So doesTitus chapter 1. The idea is that these are people who are leading the church. They have some form of authority in the church that you see described in Hebrews 13.…
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