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The empty courtyard of a Cretan household in early morning: a loom against the wall, a stone bread oven with a thread of smoke, tall oil jars in a row and an open doorway onto the street.

The Book of

Titus 2

Paul tells Titus what to teach every household on Crete, and why it matters: the grace of God has appeared.

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Where we are

  1. 1:1–9Set in orderElders who hold to the faithful word
  2. 1:10–16False teachersEmpty talk, denied by their deeds
  3. 2Sound teachingLives that adorn the gospelChapter 2
  4. 3Saved to do goodMercy, new birth and good works

Teaching Sound Doctrine

But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.

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Paul

so that the word of God will not be discredited

Titus 2:5

Question

Quick question

Paul gives every age group in the church something to learn, and someone to learn it from.

Who does Paul say can train the young women?

In everything, show yourself to be an example by doing good works.

In your teaching show integrity, dignity, and wholesome speech that is above reproach, so that anyone who opposes us will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us.

Slaves are to submit to their own masters in everything, to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

Reflect

Adorn the gospel

Paul wants ordinary lives to “adorn the teaching about God our Savior”: to show how beautiful it really is. Who watches your life most closely: family, coworkers, neighbors? Where could your words or your work make the gospel more attractive to them this week?

God’s Grace Brings Salvation

The sun rising out of the sea beyond Crete’s dark eastern headlands, its light running across the water toward a lone figure seen from behind on the rocks.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

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the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ

Titus 2:13

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

Titus 2:14

What grace teaches

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One long sentence holds the whole Christian life. Grace has already appeared in Jesus. It trains us now to say no to ungodliness and to live godly lives. And it points ahead to His glorious appearing. The One we wait for is the One who “gave Himself for us,” and He is making a people “zealous for good deeds.”

Speak these things as you encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.

Pray

Trained by grace

Thank God that His grace has appeared in Jesus, “bringing salvation to everyone.” Ask Him to train you to say no to what is ungodly and to live a sensible, upright and godly life today. And lift your eyes to “the blessed hope”: the glorious appearing of the One who gave Himself for you.

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A verse to carry with you

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to everyone. It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age, as we await the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ.

Titus 2:11–13

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