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TITUS: LESSON 1

I. PAUL’S OPENING ADDRESS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDER ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE (1:1-9)

A. Paul the writer (v. 1-3)

 1. Bondservant/slave

 2. Apostle

 3. Entrusted with the message of the gospel

B. Greeting to Titus (v. 4)

 1. Paul’s child after a common faith

 2. Grace and peace

C. Purpose for Titus being left on Crete (v. 5-9)

 1. Set things in order.

 2. Appoint elders in every city.

 3. Qualifications of elders – Blameless:

  a. in family life

  b. in personal life

  c. in teaching

QUESTIONS:

1. Why is it important for Paul to open with the fact that he is a “bondservant” of God?

2. What three things did Paul’s apostleship promote?

3. What reason does Paul give for the hope of eternal life?

4. God’s promise of eternal life “before times eternal” means:

 a. before the world was created or founded.

 b. before the Jewish age.   

5. What was manifested in God’s “own seasons”?

6. In verse 3, who is our Saviour?  In what sense?

7. In what sense was Titus Paul’s “true child”?

8. What does the phrase, “a common faith” emphasize?

9. What blessings from God does Paul desire for Titus?

10. What was “wanting” on the Island of Crete?

11. Prove that the term “bishop” and “elder” refer to the same office?

12. A man qualified to serve as an elder must be free from any charge of wrongdoing.   (True)  (False)

13. An elder must be married.  (True)  (False)

14. What characteristics must children have and not have before their father can serve as a bishop?

15. What two “negative” personal qualifications for elders found in Titus are not specifically mentioned in I Timothy 3?

16. What five “positive” personal qualifications for elders found in Titus are not specifically mentioned in I Timothy 3?

17. What is the two-fold task in an elder’s teaching?

TITUS: LESSON 2

I. PAUL EXPOSES THE FALSE TEACHERS (1:10-16)

A. Especially among the vocal Jews – mouths must be stopped (v. 10-12).

 1. Unruly

 2. Vain or profitless speech

 3. Deceiving

4. Teach for monetary gain at the expense of overthrowing the faith of entire households.

5. Consistent with the long-established lying and self-serving character of the Cretans.

B. Titus must reprove (v. 13)

 1. For a sound faith

 C. Further characteristics of the reproved (v. 14-16)

 1. Heed Jewish fables and commandments of men

 2. Possess impure mind and conscience leading to judge things as impure

 3. Profess to know God – by works they deny Him.

 4. Abominable

 5. Disobedient

 6. Reprobate regarding good works.

   

QUESTIONS:

1. What connection should we make between verse 10 and the preceding verses?

2. The false teachers were primarily

 a. Gentiles

 b. Jews

3. Describe the false teachers’ speech:

4. What specifically is being overthrown by the false teachers?

 

5. Describe the Cretans?  Who had produced such testimony?

6. How was Titus to stop the mouths of the false teachers?

7. What was being taught that was not part of “sound faith”?

8. Apply the principle of verse 15 to the context of Jewish false teaching?

9. How can a professing believer in God deny Him?

10. Define: “Reprobate” –   Apply the above definition to the context of “good works”:

11. Give the profile of the false teachers at Crete:

 (a). Inward thinking:

 (b). Outward conduct:

 (c). Results of teaching in the lives of others: