Detailed Outline of Titus
The Gospel of Grace Calls Us to Adorn the Doctrine of God as Savior
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Christian living that adorns the doctrine of God as Savior (Tit 2; Tit 3:1-11)
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The character and conduct of various groups within the church (Tit 2:1-15)
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Sound doctrine and the grace of God practically applied to believers (Tit 2:1-10)
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The first command to Titus (Tit 2:1)
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The contrast with false teachers
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The command to speak the things that are fitting for sound doctrine
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The fitting character and conduct of older men (Tit 2:2)
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Temperate
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Dignified
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Sensible
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Sound in faith, in love, in perseverance
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The fitting character and conduct of older women (Tit 2:3-4a)
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Reverent in their behavior
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Not malicious gossips
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Nor enslaved to much wine
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Teachers of good
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Train the young women in sensibility
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The fitting character and conduct of young women (Tit 2:4b-5)
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Love their husbands
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Love their children
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Sensible
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Pure
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Workers at home
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Good/kind
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Subject to their own husbands
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The fitting motivation (Tit 2:5b)
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The fitting character and conduct of young men and Titus (Tit 2:6-8)
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Sensible in all things (Tit 2:6-7a)
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Titus’ example (Tit 2:7b-8)
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An example of good deeds
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Purity in doctrine
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Dignified in teaching
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Sound in speech which is beyond reproach
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The motivation (Tit 2:8b)
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The fitting character and conduct of bondslaves (Tit 2:9-10)
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Subject to their own masters in everything
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Well-pleasing
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Not argumentative
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Not pilfering
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Showing all good faith
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The motivation
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Sound doctrine and the grace of God powerfully explained to believers [as the motive and power for godly living] (Tit 2:11-15)
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God’s grace issues in a wonderful salvation (Tit 2:11)
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The showing/shining of the grace of God to all men [in the life, death and resurrection of Christ]
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The saving grace of God
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God’s grace instructs in a practical sanctification (Tit 2:12)
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What we are instructed to forsake
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Forsaking ungodliness
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Forsaking worldly desires
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What we are instructed to follow after
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Living sensibly
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Living righteously
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Living godly
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God’s grace induces a hopeful anticipation (Tit 2:13)
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The perspective of our hope
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The Person of our hope
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God’s grace includes a purposeful redemption (Tit 2:14)
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Redeemed by—Christ’s Person and work [“who gave Himself for us”]
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Redeemed from—every lawless deed
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Redeemed for
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A personal relationship with the Holy One
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A passion for good deeds
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God’s grace (practically applied and theologically defined) necessitates an authoritative proclamation [The second command to Titus to “speak” in chapter two] (Tit 2:15)
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The character and conduct of all toward those outside the church (Tit 3:1-11)
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Salvation practically applied—submission to authority and love toward all men [Remember how you now are to think and live as a believer] (Tit 3:1-2)
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A life characterized by submission to God’s Word
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A life characterized by submission and obedience to societal authorities
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A life characterized by readiness for good deeds
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A life characterized by edifying speech towards others
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A life characterized by non-contentiousness
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A life characterized by gentleness/kindness
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A life characterized by humility toward all men
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Salvation powerfully explained—salvation by God’s grace as the basis and motive for that submission and love [Remember how you used to think and live as an unbeliever, and how you were saved by grace through no merit of your own] (Tit 3:3-7)
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Remember the grim reality of who we were apart from Christ (Tit 3:3)
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Foolish
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Disobedient
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Deceived
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Enslaved to various lusts and pleasures
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Spending our life in malice and envy
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Hateful, hating one another
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Remember the glorious reality of what God has done for us through Christ (Tit 3:4-7)
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He saved us out of kindness and love, through Christ (Tit 3:4-5a)
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He saved us not on the basis of good works, but because of His mercy (Tit 3:5b)
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He saved us by causing us to be born again by the Holy Spirit, through the Person and work of Christ (Tit 3:5c-6)
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The washing of rebirth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit (Tit 3:5b)
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The wondrous Person and work of Jesus Christ our Savior (Tit 3:6)
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He saved us by grace so that we would inherit eternal life (Tit 3:7)
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Our position—being made righteous by grace
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Our possession—heirs of eternal life according to hope
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Salvation and its practical ramifications summarized [Remember how God reckons what is profitable and what is worthless] (Tit 3:8-11)
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The surety of both the explanation and application of salvation (Tit 3:8a)
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The solemn responsibility of believers to practically live out their gracious salvation in good deeds (Tit 3:8b)
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The shunning of unprofitable discussions (Tit 3:9)
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The sending away of a factious man (Tit 3:10-11)
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The discipline process—after a first and second warning
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The description of a factious man—perverted, sinning, self-condemned
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Church Leadership That Adorns the Doctrine of God as Savior (Tit 1:5-16)
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