Lesson 3, Part 7 Notes for the hearing impaired follow the video.

Titus 3:12-15 NLT

[12] I am planning to send either Artemas or Tychicus to you. As soon as one of them arrives, do your best to meet me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to stay there for the winter. [13] Do everything you can to help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos with their trip. See that they are given everything they need. [14] Our people must learn to do good by meeting the urgent needs of others; then they will not be unproductive. [15] Everybody here sends greetings. Please give my greetings to the believers-all who love us. May God’s grace be with you all.

            Paul’s letters were often hand-delivered by a friend of the author.  When Paul left Titus on the island of Crete, Paul followed up with his protégé through one such letter.  As he concludes his letter, Paul lets Titus know that a fellow worker in the body of Christ,  either Artemas or Tychius, was going to visit him.   Titus was to make every effort to leave Crete at that time and go to the town of Nicopolis to meet Paul there so they could spend the winter in that location.

            Nicopolis was the captial of a Roman province and was located north of the southeastern coast of the Greece.  The small island of Crete was located about two hundred miles south of Greece.  Paul probably wanted to winter there because it would have better weather.

            He also encourages Titus to assist two other workers in their travels.  Zenas and Apollos were going to pass through Crete on a missionary journey, and Paul wanted to make sure they had what they needed as they traveled.  Giving aid to traveling evangelists, prophets and teachers was an act that Paul considered a “good work,” and he reminded Titus that the Cretans could be productive in their faith when they shared with those in need this way.

            Paul closes the letter with greetings from fellow disciples, and he sends his own greetings and prays for the believers on Crete to experience the grace of God.

            This concludes our study of the New Testament book of Titus.  We’ll begin another Bible Study next week when we begin a series entitled “A Few Minutes with Habakkuk.”