Titus

a) He is probably the brother of Luke which explains the absence of his name in Acts. He was, incidentally, a test case in Jerusalem — Galatians 2:1-3.

b) Titus could handle a tough situation where others failed, therefore he became the great troubleshooter in Paul’s missionary team.

c) Timothy failed miserable at Corinth because Timothy wasn’t tough. In fact, Timothy had a tendency to be sweet and wimpyish so he failed miserably with the Corinthians. In 2 Corinthians 2:13; 12:18 we have two beautiful declarations that Titus went in there and squared them away but good.

d) Having straightened out the Corinthians church Titus rejoined Paul and turned Paul’s depression into great happiness over the Corinthian case — 2 Corinthians 7:5-7, 13-15.

e) During the first and second Roman imprisonments Paul and Titus visited Crete, a trouble spot. Titus was left behind to take command of a very sticky situation — Titus 1:5.

f) Trouble had now broken out in Dalmatia, a Roman province in the eastern Adriatic. It is a part of the present Yugoslavia.

g) Tradition indicates that Titus returned to Crete and commanded there until his death. He died at a ripe old age and he was the only one who could ever hold the Cretians in line in that generation. The Cretians were tricky, sneaky, liars, hypocrites, phoney, and an ordinary pastor could go in there and give them all that sweetness and light and brotherly love and the Cretians would laugh themselves sick and move into reversionism. Titus went in there, was smarter than they were, caught on to their hypocrisies, caught them in their lies, straightened them out, and kept them moving. The only reason there was anyone in Crete who ever became a supergrace believer in that generation was because of Titus.