Intro to Titus

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• Intro to Titus
•  11 From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of
  Jesus Christ, to further the faith of Gods
  chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that
  is in keeping with godliness,
• 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does
  not lie, promised before the ages began. 
• 3 But now in his own time he has made his message
  evident through the preaching I was entrusted
  with according to the command of God our Savior.
• 4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith.
  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
  Jesus our Savior!

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• Pauls call was
• 1. To further the faith of Gods chosen ones
• 2. To further the knowledge of the truth
• 3. Which results in godliness.
• Knowledge of the truth should lead to
  GODLINESS!

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• Intro to Titus
•  11 From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of
  Jesus Christ, to further the faith of Gods
  chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that
  is in keeping with godliness,
• 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does
  not lie, promised before the ages began. 
• 3 But now in his own time he has made his message
  evident through the preaching I was entrusted
  with according to the command of God our Savior.
• 4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith.
  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
  Jesus our Savior!

Gods chosen ones. Something very powerful is
stated here. Note these verses John
1026-29 Acts 1348 2 Thess 213 Eph 14-6
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• Intro to Titus
•  11 From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of
  Jesus Christ, to further the faith of Gods
  chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that
  is in keeping with godliness,
• 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does
  not lie, promised before the ages began. 
• 3 But now in his own time he has made his message
  evident through the preaching I was entrusted
  with according to the command of God our Savior.
• 4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith.
  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
  Jesus our Savior!

The hope here is not, I hope so with some doubt
because we are not entirely certain. No! It is
being fully convinced that what God has promised
He is also able to perform (Rom 421)
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• Rom 413 For the promise to Abraham or to his
  descendants that he would inherit the world was
  not fulfilled through the law, but through the
  righteousness that comes by faith. 414 For if
  they become heirs by the law, faith is empty and
  the promise is nullified.   415 For the law
  brings wrath, because where there is no law there
  is no transgression either. 416 For this reason
  it is by faith so that it may be by grace, with
  the result that the promise may be certain to all
  the descendants not only to those who are under
  the law, but also to those who have the faith of
  Abraham, who is the father of us all 417 (as it
  is written, I have made you the father of many
  nations). He is our father in the presence of
  God whom he believed the God who makes the
  dead alive and summons the things that do not yet
  exist as though they already do.  

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• 418 Against hope Abraham believed in hope with
  the result that he became the father of many
  nations according to the pronouncement, so
  will your descendants be.   419 Without being
  weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead
  (because he was about one hundred years old) and
  the deadness of Sarahs womb. 420 He did not
  waver in unbelief about the promise of God but
  was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.
  421 He was fully convinced that what God
  promised he was also able to do. 422 So indeed
  it was credited to Abraham as righteousness.
• 423 But the statement it was credited to him was
  not written only for Abrahams sake, 424 but
  also for our sake, to whom it will be credited,
  those who believe in the one who raised Jesus our
  Lord from the dead. 425 He was given over
  because of our transgressions and was raised for
  the sake of our justification.

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• Unless our faith rests solely in what Christ
  alone accomplished on the cross, and that Gods
  acceptance of us is only in and because of the
  Beloved, we will always have a twang of doubt in
  the back of our mind. The bible says, fully
  convinced. This my friends cannot be gained by
  looking to ourselves for any assurance. If we are
  honest, we will always see a short coming. To
  look to Christ is peace, to look to self is to
  shudder. If you lack assurance of your final
  destiny and doubt, it is because your eyes are
  off Christ and on your own goodness.

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• Intro to Titus
•  11 From Paul, a slave of God and apostle of
  Jesus Christ, to further the faith of Gods
  chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that
  is in keeping with godliness,
• 2 in hope of eternal life, which God, who does
  not lie, promised before the ages began. 
• 3 But now in his own time he has made his message
  evident through the preaching I was entrusted
  with according to the command of God our Savior.
• 4 To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith.
  Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ
  Jesus our Savior!

This is what is described also in Hebrews Heb
11 After God spoke long ago in various portions
and in various ways to our ancestors through the
prophets, 12 in these last days he has spoken to
us in a son, whom he appointed heir of all
things, and through whom he created the world.