THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH - PART 2 (4 OF 7)
by Brad Whitt
The Members of the Church - Part 2 (4 of 7)
Series: Our Man in Crete Series
Brad Whitt
Titus 2
We're in Titus 2 this evening. That's where we're back tonight. We've been in a series of studies for the last couple of months through this little letter. By the way, this was the next to the last letter that the Apostle Paul wrote. We're in Titus 2 and he wrote it to a young Gentile believer named Titus. I'll give you a little bit of background for those of you who are new tonight, and catch the rest of you back up.
Most likely, Titus came into Paul's life sometime during the Apostle Paul's second missionary journey. Luke doesn't make mention of him in Acts, but that doesn't matter to us. We do not know when or where or how he was converted precisely, or even how he met Paul. But Paul calls him, if you'll look there in 1:4, ''A true son in our common faith.'' It suggests that Titus, like Paul's other young preacher boy, Timothy, was led to saving faith by Paul.
After his first imprisonment, he took Titus with him to Crete. They ministered together there and then when Paul left, he left Titus there to carry on the ministry, verse 1:5. He traveled with Paul extensively and he was with him in Corinth. That's important for this study. He was there with Paul in Corinth and was not just a mentee or an understudy, but he was really a partner, a fellow laborer with him and Titus was Paul's model of what a born again spirit-filled Gentile convert was.
He didn't have to show any of the outward sign like a young Jewish boy - the circumcision or obeying all the temple Mosaic laws. He was very well acquainted with the arguments of the Judaizers. That's important here in Titus, as well. He had spent a year or so with Paul ministering, like I said, in Corinth, which was the prototypical - Listen, if you want to see what was a problem church, a picture of a problem church, it was that church at Corinth. It really prepared him to deal with the immature, selfish, factio ...
Series: Our Man in Crete Series
Brad Whitt
Titus 2
We're in Titus 2 this evening. That's where we're back tonight. We've been in a series of studies for the last couple of months through this little letter. By the way, this was the next to the last letter that the Apostle Paul wrote. We're in Titus 2 and he wrote it to a young Gentile believer named Titus. I'll give you a little bit of background for those of you who are new tonight, and catch the rest of you back up.
Most likely, Titus came into Paul's life sometime during the Apostle Paul's second missionary journey. Luke doesn't make mention of him in Acts, but that doesn't matter to us. We do not know when or where or how he was converted precisely, or even how he met Paul. But Paul calls him, if you'll look there in 1:4, ''A true son in our common faith.'' It suggests that Titus, like Paul's other young preacher boy, Timothy, was led to saving faith by Paul.
After his first imprisonment, he took Titus with him to Crete. They ministered together there and then when Paul left, he left Titus there to carry on the ministry, verse 1:5. He traveled with Paul extensively and he was with him in Corinth. That's important for this study. He was there with Paul in Corinth and was not just a mentee or an understudy, but he was really a partner, a fellow laborer with him and Titus was Paul's model of what a born again spirit-filled Gentile convert was.
He didn't have to show any of the outward sign like a young Jewish boy - the circumcision or obeying all the temple Mosaic laws. He was very well acquainted with the arguments of the Judaizers. That's important here in Titus, as well. He had spent a year or so with Paul ministering, like I said, in Corinth, which was the prototypical - Listen, if you want to see what was a problem church, a picture of a problem church, it was that church at Corinth. It really prepared him to deal with the immature, selfish, factio ...
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