Titus
Summary: Titus was a gentile convert to the belief of Christ. He was mentored by Paul most likely as a Rabbi mentors his disciplines. Titus would have lived with Paul, walked with Paul and learned oral and written precepts from him also. This letter to Titus takes brings us into his journey as a student of Paul's who has been in trusted with the Island of Crete to finish what they had started together. This letter is should be seen as not a letter from teacher to student but more like father to son giving him direction in how to care for the household. More then just a job these instructions would have been a showing of trust and a reminder of what Paul saw in him and the identity that Paul has seen in Titus during their travels.
Things I Noticed:
1. God's stewart must be above reproach, hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine (Torah, Law) and also to rebuke (correct) this who contradict it.
2. To the pure all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
3. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works
4. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled. sound in faith, in love and in steadfastness. Urge the younger men to be in self-controlled.
5. Oder women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
6. Live self-controlled (Paul hounds on this in this letter), upright, and godly lives in the present age.
7. He (God) 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.
8. Those who believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. (Seems like we have some agreement with James here Paul)
9. A person who stirs-up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such as person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
10. And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
3. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works
4. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled. sound in faith, in love and in steadfastness. Urge the younger men to be in self-controlled.
5. Oder women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
6. Live self-controlled (Paul hounds on this in this letter), upright, and godly lives in the present age.
7. He (God) 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.
8. Those who believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. (Seems like we have some agreement with James here Paul)
9. A person who stirs-up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him, knowing that such as person is warped and sinful; he is self-condemned.
10. And let our people learn to devote themselves to good works, so as to help cases of urgent need, and not be unfruitful.
After our visit to the Island of Crete the next person to visit it is Philemon, Apphia and Archippus three fellow brethren. My journey into Lamentations is rich with regret and grief, emotion usually ignored in Christian society today. Parallels strike me as I read this book of sack cloth, tears and ash; all of which I will address upon my posting. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.
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