Titus 2:9-10
Big Idea: A Consistent Gospel Testimony Lives Under Earthly Authority In A Way That Displays Jesus’ Ultimate Authority In Every Way
“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
- Romans 10:9
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God.”
- Galatians 2:20
Adorning The Gospel:
1) Obedient In Action (v. 9)
1a) “Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.”
- Colossians 3:23-24
2) Pleasant In Attitude (v. 9)
2a) “Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.”
- Ephesians 6:5-6
2b) “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”
- Galatians 5:22-25
3) Uplifting In Speech (v. 9)
3a) “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.”
- Ephesians 4:29
3b) “Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.”
- Proverbs 12:25
4) Trustworthy In Character (v. 10)
5) Faithful In Service (v. 10)
5a) “Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
- Philippians 2:5-11