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OUR MAN IN CRETE, PART 2 (2 OF 7)

by Brad Whitt

Scripture: Titus
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Our Man in Crete, Part 2 (2 of 7)
Series: Our Man in Crete Series
Brad Whitt
Titus


If you have your Bibles, if you'd turn with me quickly to the little book of Titus, right there near the end of your New Testament, Titus, Chapter 1. If you're a guest or new to Abilene tonight, we are in a series of studies through this short but strong and stout book that we're entitling, ''Titus - Our Man in Crete.''

The last time that we were together I shared with you that Titus was a man's man. Titus was a spiritual Chuck Norris. Titus was a spiritual Jack Bauer. Titus was a spiritual Ethan Hunt handling a Mission Impossible. Matter of fact, all afternoon long I've had the theme song of Mission Impossible running through my mind. Anybody get it right now? You get an earworm? Amen.
He was that guy that you sent in when you had a rough, tough job and nobody else wanted to touch it; that's Titus. His name means something along the line of honorable. It's from the same root word where Timothy got his name, and that's what his name meant. He was an honorable man. He was honest, dependable, faithful. Titus was one of the faithful, fearless early church leaders. He was a faithful servant of the Lord and the companion of the Apostle Paul. Matter of fact, he was led to faith by Paul. We're told that over here in Titus 1:4.

Later on, he became a co-worker with Paul. Titus went with Paul and Barnabas from Antioch to Jerusalem. According to 2 Corinthians, Chapter 8, Titus later went to Corinth to serve the church there. Titus met Paul in Philippi and gave him a good report of the ministry in Corinth. 2 Corinthians, Chapter 7 tells us that. When Titus returned to Corinth, he hand-delivered the letter that we know today as 2 Corinthians, there to the church.

Titus was sent later to evangelize Dalmatia; we're told that in 2 Timothy, 4:10. Those are the areas that we know today as Serbia or Montenegro. He was a Gentile Christian; he was one of those who served really as an ...

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