Titus 1

Titus 1:1

TITUS SEE the topic “Walking Thru The Bible” on Titus for an introduction to this book.

[Resources to check: Don DeWelts series ** Pulpit Commentary - NO EGT - okay]

Titus - One of Paul’s best organizer. A Greek - Galatians 2:3-5 Sent to Corinth - 2 Corinthians 8:6 2 Corinthians 8:10 Met Paul in Macedonia and returned to Corinth = 2 Corinthians 2:3 , 2 Corinthians 8:16-18, 2 Corinthians 8:23, 2 Corinthians 12:14, 2 Corinthians 12:18 Written @ AD 65 Crete – 150 miles long, 7 to 13 miles wide.

[Places we know Paul’s visited after his first Roman prison release (but not necessarily in this order) – Crete - Miletus - Ephesus - Troas - Macedonia - Corinth- Nicopolis - Rome

Titus 1:1 The address shows us that this letter not only private but a public document conveying official authority.

Acknowledging .. Paul’s apostleship was was the confirmation and spreading of the faith, and truth, and godliness.

Titus 1:2

Titus 1:2 In hope .. We live godly in hope of eternal life, OR Paul an apostle in hope of eternal life.

The world began .. ASV “before times eternal”

Titus 1:3

Titus 1:3 In due times .. ASV “his own seasons” .. in the fulness of time.

His word .. the whole revelation of the gospel.

preaching .. open proclamation.

According .. Acts 9:15, Acts 26:16-18.

Our Saviour .. is always elsewhere in the NT applied to Jesus Christ, maybe also here. cf notes on Titus 2:13

Titus 1:4

Titus 1:4 Titus .. No named in Acts, maybe a brother or relative to Luke, the author of Acts.

own son .. ASV “True son” i.e, genuine.

Common faith .. that is intended for all.

Savior .. Titus 1:3, Titus 2:13

Titus 1:5

Titus 1:5 Left I thee .. Titus in Crete or organize. The Greek word means to leave behind temporarily, cf. Titus 3:12 Crete had a large Jewish colony. Titus 3:2, Acts 2:11, Acts 27:7-8 Ordain .. appoint. In Acts 6 the aposltes “appointed” the 7 men but the men were selected by the church. Here the installation is by the preacher, Titus.

Elders .. note the plural.

In every city .. Christianity must have been widespread in the island.

Titus 1:6

Titus 1:6 One wife .. One never means none.

Children .. Singula form, but a generic collective term, one or more (ex. sheep, fish) Genesis 21:7. Ephesians 6:1, Ephesians 6:4 Riot .. wasteful or extravagant, cf Luke 15:13 Unruly .. must be under subjection, not rebellious.

Titus 1:7

Titus 1:7 [Good sermon outline in Pulpit Commentary, p. 8)

First - Negative qualitives - v. 7 Second - Positive qualitives - v. 8 Third - Qualifications as to doctrine - v.9 Reason – v. 10-11.

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v.6 Outward qualification v.7 Inward qualities v.8 Towad others v.9 Toward the church

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Not Selfwilled .. pleases no one but self; intolerant and condemning.

Angry .. to hold grudes. cf. Barclay, p. 269f.

No striker .. Ready to come to blows.

Filty lucre .. underhanded and disgraceful schemes to make money.

Titus 1:8

Titus 1:8 Hospitality .. Lit. “lover of strangers” philoxenos.

Sober .. prudent

Just .. In his relation to fellow man Holy .. In his relation to God (pious)

Titus 1:9

Titus 1:9 Holding fast .. Holding to the sure Word so that he can comfort and encourage believers by his wholesome teaching, and convic the opposrs of the truth. Tend the sheep and drive away the wolves. Help men to see and admit the error of their way. Exhort .. encourage, lift up, not drive to despair.

Titus 1:10

Titus 1:10 Ten characteristics of the adversaries at Crete.

Unruly .. Word used of disloyal soldiers who refuse to obey.

Vain talkers .. profitless speech producing no goodness in life.

Circumcision .. Judaizing Christians, or the opposition from Jews.

Titus 1:11

Titus 1:11 Mouths must be stopped .. to curb, muzzel, by the truth taught by the elders. How– v. 9 Titus 1:9 Subvert .. A household could be upset by the perversion of one member.

1. Teaching that the Gospel was not enought - needed fables and genealogies. Titus 1:142) Needed the rules and regulations about food and washings. Titus 1:15

Filty lucre .. base gain

In the Didache iternate vagarant prophets claimed support. WG “Live to preach, not preach to live.”

Titus 1:12

Titus 1:12 One of themselves.. Epimenides, c. 600 BC, a poet considered a prophet and seer by the Cretians.

Liars .. A common proverb of the time, “to be like a Cretian.”

Evil beasts .. implies brutality and stupidity.

Slow bellies .. Idle, gluttons (ASV); Cretian were charterized as being lazy by other Mediterrean people.

Titus 1:13

Titus 1:13

Titus 1:14

Titus 1:14 Jewish fables .. The Mishna and Midrash were given equal authority nearly with the writte word of God. Matthew 15:9 Many apocrphy books multiplied among the Jews.

Commandments of men .. Matthew 15:9

Titus 1:15

Titus 1:15 cf. Romans 14:20 see note on v. 11 Tit 1:11

Titus 1:16

Titus 1:16 Know God .. They (the Jewish opposition) arrogantly claimed to be God’s people.

Paul uses very strong words!1) Abominable .. repulsive 2) They won’t hear God 3) and i.e. useless to God (reprobate.)

Reprobate .. used of a counterfeit coin low in weight; used of coward who fails in the test of battle; used of a stone which builders rejected.