Before unpacking Titus 3, we spent some time in the last few verses of chapter 2 reviewing the responsibility we have to live lives that reflect who we are in Christ, as we look for the soon appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ at the rapture of the Church Age saints. V.13-15 remind us that our lives “in Christ” should be all about sanctification / purification to be the peculiar people zealous of good works.
The measure that we are to use in exhorting one another to the good works spoken of in V.14, is the Word of God. We are not to judge one another from our perspective of righteousness and godliness, but from the perfect plumbline of God’s Word. It is a spiritual “level” that shows us what is true, and gives us a mirror to reflect what manner of men we really are.
James 1:22-25: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
We began Titus 3:1-3, beginning to look at this chapter of what to do and what not to do. We will finish our study of Titus this coming Sunday.