1 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:07,400 We're going to continue. Where we left off 2. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,200 Weeks ago we've been studying the book of. 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,480 Titus Paul's letter Letter. To his companion in ministry in 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,520 the island of Crete, and his name is is. 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,320 Titus, we took a break last week to talk about. 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:21,880 Just essence of church, who we are. 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:24,280 And now we're going to resume in Chapter 2. 8 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,200 To look. At really an extension of of the 9 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:29,280 message. Last week, which is. 10 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,360 How we can be a church that goes beyond church? 11 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,440 It makes me think of a phrase. You are what you. 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,760 Eat. How many of you have heard that? 13 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,400 Probably, maybe if you're younger, you remember your mom 14 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,760 saying that and and it it, it is a true principle, what you put 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,320 into your. Body will dictate. 16 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:51,000 How you feel and how you live. In fact, some of you probably 17 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:54,120 are going to, in the course of me speaking for 30 minutes, get 18 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,520 so hungry that you get distracted. 19 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,960 And no food means no attention. You know, I took my family to 20 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,560 ice cream last night. And as I'm thinking through the 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,840 concept, you are what you eat, I'm watching my son takedown A 22 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:08,480 monstrous sized ice cream cone. And I realized I was going to 23 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:13,160 have to deal with what went into his body by the time bedtime 24 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,560 struck and all of that hyperness was going to come out. 25 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,960 And the basic Prince principle is what goes in. 26 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,920 Shapes. What comes out and we are now 27 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:24,240 going to discuss that not just with. 28 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:28,440 Physical food, but what goes? Into your mind will shape what 29 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:32,760 comes out of your life, your doctrine, which has been such an 30 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,760 emphasis of this book and really our year in the journey of 31 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,360 reading the Epistles, the pastoral Epistles healthy 32 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,600 doctrine have good sound. Grasp of what God's truth says. 33 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:48,280 Know it, cling to it. Don't be distracted by unsound 34 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,200 doctrine. And and now Paul is going to 35 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,800 give us one of the major benefits of healthy doctrine. 36 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:58,960 Good teaching, healthy doctrine is healthy life where you are 37 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,840 sound in truth, you will be sound in living. 38 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,920 And so I want you to hold on to that principle. 39 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:08,880 This is why doctrine matters. And this is ultimately how we 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:13,800 are going to go from praising Jesus in a sanctuary to praising 41 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,200 him with our lives in the streets. 42 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:19,280 And so read along with me. We'll we'll resume in Titus 43 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:20,560 chapter 2, starting in verse one. 44 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,240 But As for you? Speaking to Titus, speak the 45 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,920 things which are proper for sound doctrine and then he's 46 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,120 going to give us some categories that make up the church. 47 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:32,560 Let's go through all of them. We'll go back and. 48 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,360 Review verse 2 that the. Older men be sober, reverent, 49 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,400 temperate, sound in faith, in love and patience. 50 00:02:39,920 --> 00:02:43,840 The older women likewise that they be reverent in behavior, 51 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,760 not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good 52 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,960 things. That they admonish the young 53 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,920 women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be 54 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:57,240 discreet, chase homemakers, good obedient to their own husbands, 55 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:59,520 that the word of God may not be blasphemed. 56 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,080 And likewise exhort the young men to be sober minded in all 57 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,880 things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in 58 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,400 doctrine, showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, 59 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,280 sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an 60 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:20,280 opponent may be ashamed, having nothing. 61 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,200 Evil to say of you. He'll also include as a. 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:25,000 Category of the household exhort the. 63 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,120 Bond servants or servants of the household, to be obedient to 64 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,720 their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not 65 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,520 answering back, not pilfering, but showing all good fidelity, 66 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:41,600 that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. 67 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:43,680 This passage. Read in. 68 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,240 Whole you see this. Incredible theme that Doctor is 69 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:52,600 completely interwoven. With behavior what you believe. 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,000 Whether it's in Christianity, in the ways of Jesus and good sound 71 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,320 doctrine from the word of the living God, or you have some 72 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:01,480 other belief. If your beliefs are formed and 73 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:04,840 shaped by the news cycle or your Instagram feed or the things you 74 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,240 talk about amongst your your friends at school. 75 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:08,840 What? Goes in will. 76 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,440 Shape how you view the. World and how you engage with it 77 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,320 and for that. Paul is. 78 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,640 Taking that principle and saying so then as you've been caught up 79 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:20,800 in disputes. About what? 80 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,320 Good. Doctrine is versus false 81 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:26,560 doctrine. Let your life show the purity of 82 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,320 your beliefs. And that will be the simple 83 00:04:29,320 --> 00:04:31,240 message for us to. Hear and be. 84 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:33,080 Exhorted in and for us to be tested. 85 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:37,600 By how does? Our doctrine get displayed. 86 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,120 To the people who would. Only know us by the. 87 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,760 Way we live. Not by the church we attend or 88 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:46,200 the messages that we listen to. And so. 89 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:48,000 For this. He's going to give us. 90 00:04:48,280 --> 00:04:50,200 A picture of what? What I. 91 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,320 Find to be the demographics. Of a healthy church, did you see 92 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,600 the categories that said speak to the. 93 00:04:55,640 --> 00:05:00,400 Older men and the older women, then the younger women and the 94 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:01,960 younger man and, he says, and the household. 95 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,080 Servants so you always get this picture. 96 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,320 Of of Paul imagining Titus going into the. 97 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Households of faith as they gather. 98 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:11,680 And he sees. A wide variety of age groups of 99 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,120 diversity. And I think that is before we 100 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,600 get into what? Those age groups are supposed to 101 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:19,080 have as their. Healthy doctrine in their 102 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:20,880 healthy. Life that's just a good. 103 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,000 Reminder. For us, what a healthy church 104 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,360 should be that every. Age and season of life. 105 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:28,920 Is a. Crucial and critical part. 106 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:31,640 Of a. Healthy family and a healthy 107 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,960 church family. So we want to have a church 108 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,600 family that honors and and exhorts and monitors the the 109 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,520 seasons of old and the seasons of young, the roles of men and 110 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,440 the roles of women and that that gives us. 111 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,320 Also a picture for why. We want our small neighborhood 112 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:51,080 gatherings to be more about where you live than about the 113 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:52,320 people you want to hang out with. 114 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:53,880 Because we're we're all probably. 115 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:55,440 Tempted to. Say, well I've got. 116 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:57,680 You know some people in my season of I'll just go hang out 117 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,480 with them. The the idea is be. 118 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,000 Part of a community that has some old and some young, some 119 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,040 men and some women so that the word can use the whole season 120 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,600 that the the season of lifes are to encourage and equip one 121 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:14,960 another and so now let's. Take it category by category. 122 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,080 He says As for you speak. The things which are proper. 123 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:26,520 For sound doctrine and then he says that older men be sober, 124 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,080 reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love and patience. 125 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:32,440 So. So this is for the. 126 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:34,080 Older men and this will be another. 127 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,320 Shout out for the older. Men, for all the men of our 128 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,640 church, we do a monthly gathering. 129 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,200 The second Sunday of every month. 130 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,880 It happens to be tonight. You can come and I will continue 131 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,720 to admonish you and we'll get together to talk about what it 132 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:47,400 means to be a man who has good doctrine. 133 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,440 That equals a good life. And you'll notice that these. 134 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:54,560 Qualities overlap the qualities of good leadership, so. 135 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:58,360 We are not trying to corner the market on high character people, 136 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:00,960 men of virtue, and just funnel them all into leadership. 137 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,120 A church is going to encourage everyone whether you're helping 138 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,040 to oversee, whether you're serving a ministry. 139 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:07,520 Whether you're just part of the church. 140 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,920 Everyone is going to be called to a standard of living that 141 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,000 sets you apart in the way that your character is on display, so 142 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,680 he says. To the older who's older. 143 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,440 What? We've made this distinction 144 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,760 before. The timeline is your age. 145 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:22,840 So. You're older than someone who's 146 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 younger than you. I also think that implied here 147 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,000 is someone that's got a little bit of responsibility with some 148 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:29,600 people under. Them so older. 149 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,560 Comes with people that have. A couple. 150 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,760 Steps behind you in life older also comes when you're pouring 151 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:36,880 into. People's life that are. 152 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:39,640 Looking to you to lead or to guide them and he says if. 153 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:40,760 That's you. Be sober. 154 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,000 So this is clearly. When you think of the word 155 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:45,760 sober, we can immediately think of just. 156 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,520 Be free of the. Addiction of substance abuse and 157 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:51,560 any kind of mind altering anything. 158 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,040 So just anything that would take your mind from clear thoughts 159 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:56,680 and pure thinking. Be sober. 160 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,720 And I don't think that means just substance. 161 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,080 I think we also need to be sober from the way that our mind needs 162 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,680 to be clear, that can be pulled in intoxicated by the world. 163 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,480 The world can intoxicate people's minds. 164 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,680 And you can be so caught up in the news and the feed and the 165 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,720 ways of politics and the arguments of the world that 166 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,120 you're not clearly thinking and you're not being sound in your 167 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:20,760 judgement. So. 168 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,680 It's sober, Don't. Don't be intoxicated by 169 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,600 substance or by the world. And he says be reverent. 170 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,160 I think that is something I would love. 171 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,480 For the people of God to. Restore into our society. 172 00:08:32,480 --> 00:08:36,120 Reverent here just means to be a man of honor, a man of dignity. 173 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:38,280 And you. Have you ever gone down the 174 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:39,320 rabbit? Roll of just. 175 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,559 Of seeing just old videos. Of the way life used to work. 176 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,720 The other day I was watching a baseball game from 1952. 177 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,360 Don't ask me how, but I'm like man baseball. 178 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,800 Is so cool and everybody. In the stadium was just wearing 179 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:53,120 suit and tie and hats. I'm like that is a. 180 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:56,320 Lost way of life. I'm not saying that there's a 181 00:08:56,320 --> 00:09:01,000 dress code at Calvary Boise. I'm saying if you're a man, go 182 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,800 into the world and try to be honorable in the way that you 183 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,240 present yourself, both in outward appearance but also just 184 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:08,800 in your character and part of that. 185 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:11,160 He says be temperate. This is to be. 186 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,360 A well balanced person. To be. 187 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,800 A person who is not. Overly obsessive. 188 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,000 And and a person who's not overly. 189 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,880 Passive you, you live your life. With a certain cadence and you 190 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,080 have your indulgence under control. 191 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:28,680 So that you. Represent moderation and I think 192 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:33,800 all of those things can be best summed up for the call on a 193 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:37,600 man's life to be an example of self-control. 194 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,120 That's just something that comes as you get older in the Lord and 195 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,600 the Holy Spirit gives you grace and he's he's teaching you how 196 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,960 to walk with him. And over time, you'll notice 197 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,800 that, you know, young boys turn into young adults and one of the 198 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,760 things that is just needs to get. 199 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,720 Worked out by the Lord. Is just the uncontrollable 200 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:56,160 appetite. For life for. 201 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,640 Boys, I had a mom, I know that she was probably up praying many 202 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,600 nights just praying that I would not die. 203 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,160 And you moms here probably are praying that for your young boys 204 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,080 and the older men of the church represent self-control as. 205 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,240 A way to. Show that maturity is on its way 206 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,840 for all the young people. Actually I was as I'm just 207 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,400 processing what self-control. Looks like this week. 208 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:19,640 My son got so upset with one of his. 209 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,360 Sisters that he kicked. A hole in the door and I 210 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:26,880 thought, brother, you need self-control. 211 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,640 And so I pulled him aside to offer him some discipline and 212 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,280 give him give him the talk and he he just bowed his head and he 213 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,160 said you can disappoint me now. I said no, you disappointed me. 214 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,760 I can discipline you. I can discipline you. 215 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:48,320 You got the roles reverse. He's teaching me how to be this 216 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:52,360 next verse which says sound in faith, love and patience. 217 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:55,640 So the the the young men need to see when they go through their 218 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,520 moments of disappointment leaders in their life, fathers. 219 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,320 Teachers. Coaches. 220 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,480 The the young men, as they learn self-control, are going to see 221 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,280 models of men that have sound or healthy faith, love and 222 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:10,960 patience. So they trust God, they have a a 223 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:14,640 love for people. That is not thrown off the rails 224 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,520 by the the mistakes of life and they have a a patience they have 225 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,720 a perseverance they they endure through life. 226 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,960 So men older men of Calvary Boise by the timeline of people 227 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,280 under you and and and anyone you're leading. 228 00:11:26,560 --> 00:11:31,400 Let this be seen in your life so that your doctrine is on 229 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,280 display. Because I could tell you these 230 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,920 qualities require. Encouragement, admonishment, and 231 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,560 some filling of the Holy Spirit so that you can do them. 232 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:45,480 Because left to our own devices, what men will wind up in a man 233 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,840 cave or they'll wind up doing whatever they want to do and 234 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,280 they'll revel in their lack of self-control. 235 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,440 So let it not be so. For for you who sit. 236 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,520 Under the word of God, and are an older man displaying the 237 00:11:56,520 --> 00:11:58,440 doctrine of God. Verse 3 says the older. 238 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,160 Women likewise that they may be reverent in behavior, not 239 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:07,320 slanders, not given to much wine, teachers of good things. 240 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:12,320 And so once again, this is inseparable from the the 241 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:15,280 doctrine going in and the life now on display, he says. 242 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,120 I want you to be reverent in your behavior. 243 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:21,400 It's not enough for Titus to put things in order by gathering the 244 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:23,680 women and the men of the church and saying OK, I want you to 245 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:26,120 know the Apostles Creed. I want you to know the the 246 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:29,080 rights and wrongs. Of the word it, it also has to 247 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,760 be. Seen through reverent behavior 248 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,240 and so the women get this lesson to. 249 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:37,920 Let your behavior be a picture of your doctrine and. 250 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,400 This is a This reverence is, you know that one of the. 251 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,280 Gifts of God is that. He's made women so pleasant, 252 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:47,760 beautiful. There's so much more attractive 253 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,080 than men, women, so good. Job the the the the. 254 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:55,280 Any man who's married you. You got the better deal, but the 255 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:57,240 idea with this. Reverence in your in your 256 00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:58,480 behavior is. That you would have a. 257 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:00,520 Certain beauty that comes from the inside. 258 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:05,280 Of your life that the. Doesn't mean that the dressing 259 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,920 yourself up and looking nice is bad, but it means that. 260 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,640 The the believers. The ones that follow Jesus have 261 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,880 a certain beauty that is more than skin deep. 262 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:14,960 Look what it says in. First Peter, chapter 3. 263 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,320 Don't be concerned solely with outward beauty. 264 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:21,520 Fancy hairstyles Expensive. Jewelry or beautiful? 265 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:23,400 Clothing, so it says, not only that stuff. 266 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:27,040 You should clothe yourself. Instead, with the beauty that 267 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:33,240 comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and peaceful. 268 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,920 Spirit which is so precious to God. 269 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,000 So be reverent in. Behavior be a beautiful. 270 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:45,160 More than skin deep kind of woman then says not slanders. 271 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:49,120 If this is something that you need to hear, you need to be 272 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,880 corrected in. I'll just give the assignment to 273 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,520 just. Read through the proverbs this. 274 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:56,000 This week and you cannot go a week in the Proverbs without 275 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,280 getting a lesson about the danger of the. 276 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,680 Tongue it, it has it's. It can Kindles a little fire and 277 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:05,960 it can burn down a whole city and so slander here. 278 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:07,560 Is gossip. It's false. 279 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:10,920 Witness It's just talking someone down, talking behind 280 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:14,120 someone's back and and from 2000 years ago to now. 281 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:16,520 The the, the the. The charge goes out. 282 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:19,360 Don't do that. It's a temptation. 283 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:21,080 But if you have good. Doctrine. 284 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,040 It's going to go into your life and you're going to have a 285 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,800 sanctification in the temptation to talk poorly about people. 286 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,240 And then it says not given to much wine. 287 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,240 So these overlap. In some ways with just. 288 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,680 Good high virtue people. Are sober, sober minded, they 289 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,760 have self-control and there's they're not given over their 290 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:44,520 their doctrine is sound enough in Jesus that they're not given 291 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:48,480 over to the the entrapment of substance in their life. 292 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,200 So the men had to hear it. The women have to hear it. 293 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,360 Don't don't give yourself to too much wine or any substance 294 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,400 that's going to entrap you. And those are kind of the 295 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,480 don'ts. And so now he says to the the 296 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,840 older women, Titus, you want you to tell them what they should 297 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,800 do. And he says the older women 298 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,920 beat. Teachers of what is good or. 299 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:10,240 Teachers of good things, teachers of in some ways the 300 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:13,280 things that we're talking about time after time when we look at 301 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,680 qualities. And characters of godly people. 302 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,400 The the women of the. Church are are charged with. 303 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,920 Sharing that and I I can assure. You as we go through this when 304 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:24,080 he. Says be teachers of what is 305 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,400 good. He's not just saying, you know. 306 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,400 Get the the list. Out and have everybody take 307 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,200 notes and get this. Way that you teach it through a 308 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,800 a a three-week series. He's he's calling the women. 309 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,560 Of the church to live. Out their doctrine and teach. 310 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,400 Through life. And we'll get that as he talks 311 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,320 about who they're going to. Teach, but this is. 312 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:45,280 The next verse in verse four he says be. 313 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:49,040 Teachers of what is good. That they admonish the young 314 00:15:49,040 --> 00:15:51,320 women to. Love their. 315 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:58,320 Husbands, to love their children admonish is to encourage and. 316 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,880 The way that they are are to teach is to take. 317 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:03,480 Women that are younger than them. 318 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:06,440 So there's your timeline. Older women of the church, is 319 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:09,560 there anyone in your life that is younger than you then? 320 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:12,560 There's your people. So I'm not going to create any 321 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,480 kind of, you know, you must be this. 322 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:16,640 Old to to ride this. Ride in our church. 323 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,000 You've got to. Decide for yourself. 324 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,040 Who the young people are in your life and you're. 325 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:24,680 Called to. Live in such a way, in a 326 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,560 Christian community, practicing the one another's in such a way 327 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,640 where older women are encouraging, exhorting, 328 00:16:31,640 --> 00:16:34,600 admonishing the younger women on how to live. 329 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,960 And he gives 2 practical. Amazing God-given roles for 330 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,600 women to encourage one another in, he says. 331 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,800 Women love their husbands and women love their children's. 332 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,080 And so I'm just as an encouragement as we've kind of 333 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,560 been flying over. Our church as. 334 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:51,840 We read this, we're like, how are we doing this? 335 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,320 We have such a incredible just. Culture. 336 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,920 Of women's ministry in our church and so not everything we 337 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:01,800 do as a. Church will will solely. 338 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,280 Happen on Sundays in communities. 339 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:06,040 There's also through. Scripture, a case to be made 340 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,319 where women gather and men gather, and that's why. 341 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:11,079 We do what we. Do and in our in our church, we 342 00:17:11,079 --> 00:17:14,319 have some incredible ways that women can come and admonish each 343 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:18,040 other through Bible studies. Yet moms at Mom Co just older 344 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,800 women admonishing how to. How to love? 345 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:21,800 Their husbands and be good parents. 346 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:25,440 We have another shout out if you, if you aren't convinced 347 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:27,359 that you are invited and should come with. 348 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,840 Do we have this unfiltered concert or concert? 349 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,800 I said that again, conference. It's not a concert. 350 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,440 Someone's gonna come and be like unfiltered rap concert for 351 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:38,200 women. It's a conference and it's so 352 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:42,800 much better that way. That's the idea is that. 353 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,360 Women can come and encourage. What? 354 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:49,000 Is God calling us to do, to be amazing in our roles? 355 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,400 And let me just say, I am so. Grateful for God's. 356 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:57,080 Design for church and family. It is not enough to have male 357 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,440 elders and pastors leading a church and it is not enough to 358 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,120 have just a husband leading the home. 359 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:06,920 There is an amazing complimentary and partnership 360 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,680 that happens in both the family and the family of God. 361 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:13,320 I am. I'm so glad that my wife and I 362 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:16,080 have partnered by God's. Grace to raise our. 363 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:17,880 Children. She was out of town this summer 364 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:19,680 on a rafting trip. For five days. 365 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:23,120 And there were so many times where I just, I just know I'm 366 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,960 like, I Daniella is going to come back and probably fix this 367 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:28,840 mess. I've got I, I'm not the the mom, 368 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:31,200 I'm the dad. And they are different roles and 369 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:36,680 they're equally important and. It's it's good for us to. 370 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,680 Be. Reminded that we have this. 371 00:18:39,680 --> 00:18:41,040 Blessing of God. To. 372 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:45,480 Raise up the next generation through the unit of family, it's 373 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,080 wife and husband and children. This is a gift of God. 374 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:53,360 That he has designed the family unit to to take over the next 375 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:56,800 generation, and he's entrusted. To the church to show the world 376 00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:00,200 what it looks like to have a. Healthy marriage, raising 377 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:05,480 healthy kids, and I will have, you know, the order of that, he 378 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:09,520 says older women admonish the younger to love their husbands 379 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,080 and. Love their children. 380 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:14,960 Don't get that out of order. Don't try to love your children 381 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:16,160 and with the. Leftovers love your. 382 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:18,560 Husband, I tell my kids all the time that for me to be. 383 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,000 A great dad I got. To have a great marriage. 384 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,720 I want them to see our marriage as the cornerstone of our 385 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:25,920 family. And from the overflow of the 386 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,480 grace that we have for each other. 387 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,760 We're going to give them Amazing Grace as kids, so. 388 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,960 If you're out of. Order in that I'll admonish you 389 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,040 and women admonish each other, honor the husband, have that 390 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:41,200 relationship so strong that your kids can then be a benefit of 391 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:45,680 how strong the home is and and. I I will say there's. 392 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,480 Another thing to note that is just on a side, but it struck me 393 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:54,360 that we are. Encouraged to teach how to love 394 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:57,320 I. Think that's a a a word that is 395 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,400 worth pointing out that they that the Paul is saying Titus. 396 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,960 Help them teach. Each other. 397 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,160 How to love right? How to love well? 398 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,640 And so if we if we may just speak into the culture for just 399 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,920 a moment, that defines love as anything that you want it to be. 400 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,040 And often times it's reduced to an emotion or attraction or 401 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,960 season. We are the people that. 402 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,840 Are reflections. Of the perfect love. 403 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:24,240 And and we. Have to receive it by. 404 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,080 Learning how? God has loved us. 405 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,000 And then we have to model it, we have to teach it. 406 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,000 There is. Love is. 407 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:35,280 Actually something you need to learn and be taught in and and I 408 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:38,120 say that. Because if you study Jesus. 409 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,000 Who is the visible image of the God? 410 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,600 Of love. He taught love all the time. 411 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,040 We spent a whole summer examining the Sermon on the 412 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:49,360 Mount and taught. Us how to love? 413 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:51,920 Way beyond what would come naturally to us, he says. 414 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,120 Anybody can love their friends. You do that naturally. 415 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,680 Let me teach. You how to love better. 416 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,520 By loving your enemies and going the extra mile and offering 417 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:00,960 things with no expectation of return. 418 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,480 And we we hear that. I've been a believer for as long 419 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,800 as I can remember and I hear that. 420 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,200 And I think, Lord teach me more. I need more of that. 421 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,960 He also taught love by showing it remember the night that he 422 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,680 was. Betrayed before the cross? 423 00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:17,360 He gets on his knees, he girds up his loins, and he. 424 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:19,440 Washes the feet of the disciples. 425 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,120 He says see how I. Serve you. 426 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,320 Serve one another. And so that is how we cannot 427 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,280 reduce love to an emotion or an attraction. 428 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:28,960 We must learn it. Week by week. 429 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,680 Study the Word, look unto Jesus, and then do it, and then it. 430 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:36,400 Says that they're also verse. Five the older women, teaching 431 00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,640 them to be discreet and chaste, homemakers, good obedient to 432 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,320 their husbands. That the word of God. 433 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:47,240 May not be blasphemed so young women live wisely live with 434 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,360 purity and then we come to a section that I'll slow down just 435 00:21:51,360 --> 00:21:54,280 for a second on because he says and teach them to be homemakers 436 00:21:54,280 --> 00:22:00,960 and once again I stand on in the 21st century in a culture that 437 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,320 necessarily love the idea that there. 438 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,840 Are different roles and. We also view this. 439 00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:10,200 Respectfully in the 1st century. When when there was no such 440 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,760 thing as the industrial revolution and men would go off 441 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,760 to work and and women would be homemakers. 442 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,560 Paul is describing a world where there was just household. 443 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,840 Units. And there was household 444 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,040 homesteading. And he says to the women, be 445 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:27,120 helpers in that, serve in that and model that for the children 446 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:29,800 in the role that you have. And so we get a a beautiful. 447 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,560 Picture of what the ancient mind would have. 448 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:33,360 Seen in this in Proverbs chapter 31. 449 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:35,480 Here's one verse that says that the the. 450 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,960 The the wise woman carefully. Watches. 451 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,440 Everything in her household. And suffers nothing from 452 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,440 laziness. And so it's a, it's a beautiful 453 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:50,360 thing that you can do. It's obviously not God's only 454 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:53,240 way for women in our world to serve. 455 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,920 Their family and. Be part of the family unit. 456 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,400 But it is a beautiful thing when a woman is called to be part. 457 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,120 Of building up the household. And and and, Paul says do it 458 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:04,360 well. Do take that role seriously and 459 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,160 do it well. And it also says so you have a 460 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,560 healthy. Household and you have a 461 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,400 healthy. Marriage because he's going to 462 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,240 say to them now I want you to model them or teach them 463 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,960 obedience to their own husband. So let's just slow down there 464 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,400 for a second as well, I, I think. 465 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:24,240 That you know that word. Obedience is an unfortunate 466 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,120 translation. I we, we hear that and I think 467 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,640 of, you know, the obedience training that my dog went 468 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:30,040 through. And that is not what this is 469 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,880 getting at. In fact, if if you love that. 470 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,000 Word. You should probably get a 471 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,760 different. Translation of the Bible because 472 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,600 I think the the. The better way to view this and 473 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,280 receive it is coming under the. Leadership of. 474 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,120 There is a role within God's design. 475 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:53,400 For church and family where he is called men to lead their 476 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:54,160 homes. And he's. 477 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,440 Saying to women, come under that leadership. 478 00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:58,360 And this. Is. 479 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,400 In further. Detail We spent a whole, you 480 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,840 know, season of our church in Timothy and we we really 481 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,120 explained why we have the conviction as a church that 482 00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:09,280 there is the role. Of. 483 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,320 Leading the church and the home reserved for the man but that is 484 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:17,120 not does that not limit women to other areas of life that they. 485 00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,480 Can serve and lead. In women can be incredible 486 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:23,400 business owners and incredible principals and teachers and 487 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,880 servants in government, but for God's design he has developed a 488 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,960 unit where men lead in the homes in the church and women are 489 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:33,840 incredible counterpart and in this moment he's saying let let. 490 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,680 Them lead and. And let them do it well it also. 491 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:38,600 Doesn't mean that. You're that there's this. 492 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,160 Society that Paul is envisioning. 493 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:43,200 Where all men lead all women very clearly. 494 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,600 He says that you would submit to your own husband in your 495 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,800 household unit. But I want to notice once again 496 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:56,040 the order of events as sure as. There is an order to. 497 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:57,200 Loving. Your. 498 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:01,400 Husband before serving your children and caring for them. 499 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:05,000 There's also an order to the admonishment that goes into a 500 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,520 healthy church. We started with the men. 501 00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,960 We did not. This is not a a side topic. 502 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,480 That, Paul, is just. Thinking about so that the women 503 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:16,960 can can just be part of a subclass. 504 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,800 Of the church, Paul is speaking to the whole. 505 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,320 Church and he starts primarily by telling men to get their 506 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,000 lives in order so that they. Would be respectable and 507 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,680 reverent and. Temperate and sober minded and 508 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,720 dignified people and they would take all of the call of. 509 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,520 God on their life, including. Leading the home in the family, 510 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:36,360 they would take it with reverence. 511 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:39,840 And when that happens, this is actually a beautiful design. 512 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:44,560 It it works amazing when men don't just skip down to that 513 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,680 verse and say I'm going to put that on the mantle underneath my 514 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,840 gun and I'll get all the free sandwiches I want. 515 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,080 It works. Beautifully when the men 516 00:25:52,080 --> 00:25:54,480 receive. Their part with reverence. 517 00:25:56,280 --> 00:26:00,360 And then they hear this. With an absolute reverence. 518 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:04,280 For what it means. For their life, and then when 519 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:08,440 you stood across from your wives to take a vow. 520 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,120 You were vowing. To give them your life to lay 521 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,680 down, your life to die for. Them. 522 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,880 And to be the first to die when there's moments of arguments. 523 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:22,280 And there's. Moment when the flesh gets 524 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:26,000 involved, You are to lead as the servant of all. 525 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:28,440 And if you don't? Have that theology right. 526 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:30,600 Bad doctrine equals bad marriage. 527 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,400 So it it it. Works beautifully when it starts 528 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,200 with men. And there's two ways it can go 529 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,000 bad. It can go bad when there's bad 530 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:42,680 leadership and they're selfish and and greedy leaders. 531 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,600 That'll go bad in the church, it'll go bad in the family. 532 00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,400 This will also. Go bad here this. 533 00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,960 It is also bad when there's no. Leadership. 534 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,720 It is just as sometimes. We get a little prickly. 535 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,960 When we hear the word. Submission or or or leadership. 536 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,440 Or or design of a. Family. 537 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,360 But I assure you, the alternative is so much worse 538 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,640 when a family is just left to its own. 539 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,440 Devices and everyone. Goes to their own corners, doing 540 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,720 their own thoughts and everything that was right in 541 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,120 their own mind and no one will step up to the plate. 542 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,400 And say we have. To honor God, we have to have 543 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,400 sound doctrine. So we have a sound family. 544 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:22,480 It's it's. It's bad when there's bad. 545 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,280 Leadership, and it's bad when there is no leadership. 546 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,200 So men, I'll say two things, be reverent and be worthy. 547 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:30,760 Be reverent. Of. 548 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,560 The call on your life to do this well and be worthy, meaning be a 549 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,200 man that's worthy of. Leadership worthy of having? 550 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,000 Someone follow you. Both of you can look to Jesus in 551 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,640 this, by the way, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher 552 00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,640 husbands, Jesus says the Good Shepherd laid down his life for 553 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,800 the sheep. You're. 554 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,600 Called to shepherd well, and that means to. 555 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,160 Lay down your life and. Women this. 556 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,120 This you are not being called to submit as something that's 557 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,280 outside of you're looking unto Jesus. 558 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,520 Jesus went into the garden to face the cross and he laid down 559 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,880 his life and said nevertheless your will be done. 560 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,560 There is a beautiful leadership and a beautiful submission that 561 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,960 both people can see in the life of Jesus. 562 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:18,440 He then goes on to. Say to the young men, verse 6 563 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,080 likewise. Exhort the young men to be 564 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:20,760 sober. Minded. 565 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:22,840 And now he's going to have a word for Titus. 566 00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:24,320 So for the young. Man, here's what you need. 567 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,320 To hear get a. Clear mind, don't be an. 568 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,000 Idiot and keep following the older men and get discipled. 569 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,520 This is all he's got. For you, he's trusting. 570 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,880 That you will hear. That and say OK. 571 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,560 If I get sober. Minded if I get clear. 572 00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,960 Thinking then I will be able to. Someday step. 573 00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,840 Into all of the other great. Characteristics so he says be 574 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,760 sober minded and then he. Turns to Titus and he says in 575 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,680 all things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in 576 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,320 doctrine, showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, 577 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,440 sound speech, that can be that. Cannot be condemned. 578 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:01,280 That one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil 579 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,680 to say of you. So here's the key, Titus. 580 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,680 You be an example of all of these things to the flock that 581 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,000 you're. Going to oversee and. 582 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:14,320 He says to be a pattern of good works, meaning Titus is going to 583 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:19,120 be an example of being example Titus is going to live his life 584 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:19,880 in. Such a way where? 585 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,360 People can see the pattern of how doctrine is lived out and 586 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:24,080 that. Is the. 587 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:28,360 Model that every category can. Now receive that discipleship 588 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:31,440 men to younger. Men, women to younger women, be 589 00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,480 a pattern of what this looks like in your life. 590 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,840 So the same thing I said to the man, I can say to every 591 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:37,640 category. Be reverent. 592 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,680 And be. Worthy be a person. 593 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,680 Of. Honor that is worthy to. 594 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,240 Be followed. That is where we are going with. 595 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,000 All of the study. All of the building up. 596 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,160 That the word will do in our life. 597 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:52,240 It is to send you out of these doors so that you can be someone 598 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,040 that has a life. Worthy of modeling or 599 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:56,520 patterning. After. 600 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,080 Now in verse. 9 He's going to give the final category, which 601 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,120 are really the. Household servants I don't have. 602 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:07,200 Time to give a robust defense of all of the ways. 603 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,360 That the early. Church. 604 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:12,520 Was bringing in the. The household servants to be 605 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,160 part of the church family in revolutionary ways. 606 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,880 But I assure you, when you read this, the question might come 607 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,440 well, why didn't Paul? Just say abolish slavery and. 608 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,120 We gave a a long sermon on this for Timothy as well, so you can 609 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,760 find that. But what I'll say is that Paul 610 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:32,000 was not starting a revolution against Rome to reorder the. 611 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:36,640 The the class system. What he was starting was a 612 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,240 transformation from the inside out. 613 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:40,400 The reason? That we can. 614 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:44,240 Look back on these times and see a world that was dominated, that 615 00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:46,280 slavery was everywhere. And present. 616 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,920 And we can say that's so strange is because the. 617 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:53,680 Gospel invaded and for. 2000 years has been transforming 618 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,400 cultures from the inside out and we can now stand in a mostly 619 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,760 free society thanks to the work of the early church welcoming. 620 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:03,400 In. People who were thought of as 621 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,200 non people. But he says the. 622 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,400 Same. Thing now to the household 623 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,760 servants, he says to them, exhort, bond servants to be 624 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,840 obedient to their masters, to be well pleasing. 625 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,040 In all things. Not answering back, not 626 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,320 pilfering, but showing all fidelity. 627 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,480 And here's the key for the. Servants and I'm going to. 628 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,640 Take you back to the. To to where this came up in. 629 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,200 Multiple times from what we read today, he says. 630 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,680 Here's why. All this matters. 631 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,520 So that. They may adorn the doctrine of 632 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,760 God our Savior. In all things. 633 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:40,200 So that they can put on and make beautiful the list that the. 634 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,520 Servants get the list that. Every category got. 635 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:44,800 Paul is saying. This is the purpose. 636 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,880 So that you can. Put your doctrine on like a 637 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:53,240 beautiful garment and make the Savior beautiful in all things. 638 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:55,560 And here's where it came up more than once. 639 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,160 Verse 5 again read with me that. The word of. 640 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,880 God may not be blasphemed. What Paul is saying then? 641 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:08,080 And what he's what the word is saying now is don't come into 642 00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,200 church and and say to be people of the book to learn the word, 643 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,560 to take notes in church, to say I believe. 644 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,040 It and then leave and. Live your life in such a way 645 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,400 where someone could look at your life and think, well, that book 646 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,520 must have no power. That God must have no. 647 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,400 Transformative power because you go there all the. 648 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,640 Time and you come out. Being worse than all of us, so 649 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,680 he says. Let your life be adorned. 650 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,160 In the beautiful ways of God. So that people would never. 651 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,720 Blasphemy, what we're doing right now. 652 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,200 He says it again in verse 8. Have sound. 653 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:43,160 Speech. So. 654 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,320 That. That they cannot be. 655 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,280 Condemned, that the one who is an opponent may be ashamed, 656 00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,120 having nothing evil to say of you. 657 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,200 If you just listen. To the chatter of the culture. 658 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,720 What you will find? Is a hardened culture that is 659 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:01,520 shaking their. Fist. 660 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,680 At God and waiting for those who bear the name of Jesus to not 661 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,680 live up to the standards of Jesus, they the. 662 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,360 The one. That speaks evil of Jesus. 663 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:16,760 The opponents of the gospel are waiting to speak evil. 664 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,600 With all the ways that we represent doctrine with. 665 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,360 Our lives, he says. Live. 666 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,280 This out put it on. Take it seriously. 667 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,040 Have a reverent. Life so that the enemy may be 668 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:31,520 silenced and he says it finally what we just read that they may 669 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:37,120 adorn the doctrine of God our. Savior and all things. 670 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,520 We are called. And as we. 671 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,680 As we looked at last week. To be a city on a hill. 672 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,200 You are called to. Be a light in the dark. 673 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,720 You you have. Accepted Jesus, your name. 674 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,680 Is written in Book of Heaven and you're on earth still. 675 00:33:56,960 --> 00:34:01,080 So that you can. Leave and make God's name look 676 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,000 beautiful. How do you do that? 677 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,000 You do it. By having a life that is shaped. 678 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:14,480 By the word, you do it by being. Someone who leaves the. 679 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,080 Preaching of the word. And the study of the word and 680 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,080 the absorption of the word. Ready. 681 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,159 To live the word. And This is why. 682 00:34:23,159 --> 00:34:26,760 We are so. Grateful for the gospel of grace 683 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,360 this is not. A message to condemn our 684 00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,400 missteps. This is not a message to say we 685 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,440 all need to, you know, grip our fists and just clench our teeth 686 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,440 until we finally are just perfect people. 687 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:40,159 This is a message. To say. 688 00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,320 Let us be. Ever more dependent on the 689 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:47,600 amazing free gift of the Holy. Spirit looking unto. 690 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,679 Jesus and everything that we do. And as I said last week. 691 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,960 When? The the last thing. 692 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,280 That we'll do. Together is the first. 693 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,960 Thing that should be. On your mind we leave this 694 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:01,000 place. We are who we are by the grace 695 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,680 of God, let us remember. That we have. 696 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,040 The power to live different. The power to have beautiful 697 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,560 lives. Because Jesus has give. 698 00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,360 Us given us newness of life. By dying on the cross. 699 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,400 Overcoming the grave. And giving us the same spirit 700 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,880 that rose hidden from the grave freely to all of. 701 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:23,920 Us who believe, may we from. Today until next week, have. 702 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,440 Beautiful lives in the Holy. Spirit husbands love. 703 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:29,520 Your. Wives, parents, love your 704 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,640 children. Old be. 705 00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:36,040 Examples to the. Young and in all of these things 706 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:40,160 may people see a beautiful. Church that they've never been 707 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:42,600 to. 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