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Performing Good
Works
Titus 3:1-2
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The people of Crete had a
reputation for laziness -1:12-13
• 12 One of them, a prophet of their
own, said, “Cretans are always
liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
13 This testimony is true.
Therefore rebuke them sharply,
that they may be sound in the
faith,
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A look at the text --Titus 3:1-2
• [1] Put them in mind to be
subject to principalities and
powers, to obey magistrates, to
be ready to every good work,
• [2] To speak evil of no man, to be
no brawlers, but gentle, shewing
all meekness unto all men.
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Verse 1
• Put them in mind = is to be
taught and reminded
• Be subject = to civil authorities
• Be ready = “For churches to grow,
members must be ready to
serve.”
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• Unto every = needs are not
always in the area we prefer to
work in
• Our prayer should be:
• “Lord, where can You use me? I
am ready to be used anywhere
You want me.”
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• Good work = The good to be
done is tied to needs – the result
of good works is fruit born in
service to God
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Titus 3:8
• [8] This is a faithful saying, and
these things I will that thou affirm
constantly, that they which have
believed in God might be careful
to maintain good works. These
things are good and profitable
unto men.
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Titus 3:14
• [14] And let ours also learn to
maintain good works for
necessary uses, that they be not
unfruitful.
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• These were works of obedience,
not meritorious works
• Meritorious works = works that
would earn our salvation
Verse 2 --Not to speak evil of any man
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• “Paul’s statement is broad. We
are not to speak evil of men in
government, men in the world,
other Christians, elders, deacons,
preachers, family members,
outsiders, and enemies.” (Bob
Winton)
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Eph. 4:31-32
• [31] Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamour, and evil
speaking, be put away from you,
with all malice:
[32] And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God for Christ's
sake hath forgiven you.
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Not to be a brawler
• “To be no brawlers” -KJV
• “Not to be contentious” - ASV
“to be peaceable” – NKJV
• “To avoid quarrelling” – ESV
Be gentle – showing meekness
to all men
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• Meekness includes strength and
courage --- it is expressed in
kindness and patience
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2 Tim. 2:24-25
• [24] And the servant of the Lord
must not strive; but be gentle unto
all men, apt to teach, patient,
[25] In meekness instructing those
that oppose themselves; if God
peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of
the truth;
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2 Tim. 2:24-25 (ESV)
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24 And
the Lord's servant[a must not
be quarrelsome but kind to
everyone, able to teach, patiently
enduring evil, 25 correcting his
opponents with gentleness. God may
perhaps grant them repentance
leading to a knowledge of the truth,
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• Good works
1. Prepare us
for heaven
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These works resulted in salvation from
sin and pointed one toward eternal life
• Rom. 6:17
• [17] But God be thanked, that ye
were the servants of sin, but ye
have obeyed from the heart that
form of doctrine which was
delivered you.
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Heb. 5:9
• [9] And being made perfect, he
became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey
him;
2. Provide for
those in need
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A. Physical needs
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Js. 1:27
• [27] Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is this,
To visit the fatherless and widows
in their affliction, and to keep
himself unspotted from the
world.
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1 Jn. 3:17
• [17] But whoso hath this world's
good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels
of compassion from him, how
dwelleth the love of God in him?
B. Spiritual
needs
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Mt. 28:19-20
• [19] Go ye therefore, and teach
all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
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• [20] Teaching them to observe all
things whatsoever I have
commanded you: and, lo, I am
with you alway, even unto the
end of the world. Amen.
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Gal. 6:1
• [1] Brethren, if a man be
overtaken in a fault, ye which are
spiritual, restore such an one in
the spirit of meekness;
considering thyself, lest thou also
be tempted.
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Gal. 6:2
• [2] Bear ye one another's
burdens, and so fulfil the law of
Christ.
3. Promote
spiritual growth
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2 Pet. 1:5-11
• [5] And beside this, giving all diligence,
add to your faith virtue; and to virtue
knowledge;
[6] And to knowledge temperance; and
to temperance patience; and to patience
godliness;
[7] And to godliness brotherly kindness;
and to brotherly kindness charity.
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• [8] For if these things be in you, and
abound, they make you that ye shall
neither be barren nor unfruitful in the
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
[9] But he that lacketh these things is
blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath
forgotten that he was purged from his
old sins.
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• [10] Wherefore the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling
and election sure: for if ye do these
things, ye shall never fall:
[11] For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly into
the everlasting kingdom of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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4. Powerful influence
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Mt. 5:16
• [16] Let your light so shine before
men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your
Father which is in heaven.
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1 Pet. 2:12
• [12] Having your conversation
honest among the Gentiles: that,
whereas they speak against you
as evildoers, they may by your
good works, which they shall
behold, glorify God in the day of
visitation.
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1 Pet. 3:1
• [1] Likewise, ye wives, be in
subjection to your own husbands;
that, if any obey not the word,
they also may without the word
be won by the conversation of
the wives;