Built Together: Multi-Ethnic Family
Timothy Paul Jones
1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,
2 in the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
3 In his own time he has revealed his word in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior:
4 To Titus, my true son in our common faith.
Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
5 The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town.
2:1 But you are to proclaim things consistent with sound teaching.
2 Older men are to be self-controlled, worthy of respect, sensible, and sound in faith, love, and endurance.
3 In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not slaves to excessive drinking. They are to teach what is good,
4 so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children,
5 to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.
6 In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled
7 in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching.
8 Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that any opponent will be ashamed, because he doesn’t have anything bad to say about us.
9 Slaves are to submit to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back 10 or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.
10 or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything.
Titus 1:1-5; 2:1-10 (CSB)
- In Christ, God Is Redeeming Our Identities (Titus 1:10–2:1)
- In Christ, God Is Multiplying Our Families (Titus 2:2–8)
- In Christ, God Is Still Working Through Us, Even When Our Lives Aren’t Yet What We Hoped They Would Be (Titus 2:9–10)
Main Idea: We want to be a family the world can’t explain but the gospel can.