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Bible Reading - Titus 2:1–10

·3 mins
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Bible Reading #

Titus 2:1–10 #

Notes: #

Every practical characteristic of the Christian faith must grow out of a correct, Biblical doctrine.

  • Teach what accords with sound doctrine 1
  • Sound doctrine impacts and reveals itself in healthy relationships within the church2
  • Older men and older women must be informing younger men and women in the faith3
  • Characteristics that must characterize older men and women4
  • Sober-minded
  • A sober-mindedness that calls for respect
  • Self-controlled
  • Paul puts a high emphasis on this, indicating it was quite an issue in his day (as in ours)
  • Inability to control tongues
  • Lust for things which God has not given us
  • Or the mis-use of those things He has given us
  • Sound in faith
  • Our practical trust in God through trials
  • Sound in love
  • Sacrificial love 5
  • Sound in steadfastness
  • perseverance
  • Reverent in behavior
  • Not slanderers
  • Not a lover of much wine
  • So that the Word of God not be reviled678
  • All must be submissive to those placed in authority over them910

  1. But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. (Titus 2:1, ESV) ↩︎

  2. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (Titus 2:2-8, ESV) ↩︎

  3. Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband, and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work. But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry and so incur condemnation for having abandoned their former faith. (1 Timothy 5:9-12, ESV) ↩︎

  4. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, (Titus 2:2-3, ESV) ↩︎

  5. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35, ESV) ↩︎

  6. and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (Titus 2:8, ESV) ↩︎

  7. You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” (Romans 2:23-24, ESV) ↩︎

  8. not pilfering, but showing all good faith, so that in everything they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior. (Titus 2:10, ESV) ↩︎

  9. Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative, (Titus 2:9, ESV) ↩︎

  10. And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.” (Matthew 26:39, ESV) ↩︎

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