Titus 1:1 “Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;”
As “a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ” the Apostle Paul applied himself to “the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness”. He explains that this blessed “truth” is “the faith of God’s elect”. This “faith” refers to the “truth”, which is the unchangeable body of Doctrinal Facts given by God, which He places into the hearts and minds of His “born again” (John 3:1-8) Children and inspired men of old to record in His Bible, and now calls His Ministers to Preach and Teach. This “truth” is often referred to as the Doctrine of Grace, for it details God’s Grace that He applies to His “elect”. These “elect” are the objects of God’s Grace; those “he hath chosen” in His Son “before the foundation of the world” (Ephesians 1:4). He gave these “elect” to His Son to save to Eternal Heaven; of these, our Lord declared “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:39). Our Lord did not and will not lose a single one of His “elect” because, the angel told Joseph, “thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21); and He did, for just before He gave His precious life, He declared, “It is finished” (John 19:30); that is, He had graciously “finished” everything necessary to “save his people from their sins”! Much is written concerning God’s “elect”: “for the elect’s sake those days [of suffering and devastation] shall be shortened” (Matthew 24:22); “shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them” (Luke 18:7); “Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.” (Romans 8:33); “(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)” (Romans 9:11); “I endure all things for the elect’s sakes” (II Timothy 2:10); “Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ” (I Peter 1:2); and one most blessed and holy day, “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Matthew 24:31)! John was blessed to see these “elect” as “a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands” (Revelation 7:9).