1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,520 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Lewis 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:12,200 Harold, assistant pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,520 County in Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Lewis as he 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:18,920 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:41,680 They should have a deep respect for the things of God to the 6 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,120 point where they show godliness or demonstrate godliness in 7 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,080 their own life. And these are men who should be 8 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,240 men of honor in the community. Men should respect them. 9 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,680 And I remember even the neighborhood I grew up in, there 10 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,800 were people who went to church. And even if you didn't go to 11 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,960 church, you respected these people because you watched their 12 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,600 life. You heard how they talked to 13 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,519 you. You saw how they treated their 14 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,360 wives and how they treated their children and how they conducted 15 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:10,280 themselves. These days, we're so quick to 16 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,560 look up to people whom we have little to no knowledge of what 17 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,640 their lives are really like. We idolize celebrities and 18 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:21,480 social media influencers based on an image of themselves that 19 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:24,080 they've catered to us. Today. 20 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,280 In Pastor Lewis's message, he tells you that men of God should 21 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:31,240 have a reputation for fearing God and it should show in their 22 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,120 everyday lives. Can that be said of you? 23 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,040 Do those around you recognize you as someone who cares deeply 24 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,280 about your personal godly character? 25 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,920 Now here's Pastor Lewis in Titus Chapter 2 with today's edition 26 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,560 of Living Waters of Grace. His closing remarks here in 27 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,520 Chapter 1 are tough, he said. You're abominable. 28 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,800 You're disobedient and disqualified for every good 29 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:58,920 work. I mean worthless and unfit for 30 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,920 good work. And, and, and when you look at 31 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,520 that, what he's basically saying is that even the things that you 32 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:10,160 do that appear to be good works, even that is defiled because of 33 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:13,560 what's in your heart, because your motives are impure. 34 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:17,760 You're unfit to do good works. You can't do a good work. 35 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,520 And I'll be honest with you, there was a point in my life 36 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:22,960 when that was me because the things that I there was some 37 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,120 things that I used to do that even though it looked like it 38 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:30,080 was for the good of somebody else, ultimately it was for my 39 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:33,440 own good. I mean, that started when we 40 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:35,000 were young with all of us, right? 41 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:37,160 You ever get up? I mean, I used to get up early 42 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,680 in the morning and mop the bathroom clean, you know, clean 43 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:43,760 the bathroom, go run the vacuum sweeper before my mom would get 44 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,760 up out of bed, you know, because she worked late night before. 45 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,280 And I would do all these things to make it look like that. 46 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:51,600 I'm being obedient. I'm doing, I'm doing you a 47 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,040 favor, mom. You know, I'm, I'm clean helping 48 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,560 to clean the house. But the reason why I was doing 49 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:59,600 is not because I was trying to be in obedience to her. 50 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,600 The reason why I was doing it because I knew I was going to 51 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:06,600 ask her for something later. I wanted to go out with my 52 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:09,280 friends later. And I knew that if I would do 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:14,000 all these things to have a show of goodness, to have a show of 54 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,400 obedience that maybe that she would give. 55 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,920 Oh, well, you did do this this morning. 56 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,720 So here, here's some money and go have fun with your friends. 57 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:25,080 It was all of it was a racket. It was a racket. 58 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,000 And that's just being honest about it now and then. 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:30,560 You know, unfortunately, when we get older, that doesn't stop. 60 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,960 That doesn't stop. It gets more mature. 61 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:39,360 You know what I mean? It gets more dignified, but it 62 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,600 doesn't stop, unfortunately, And this is what Paul is saying 63 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,080 here. Worthless, unfit for good works 64 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:51,120 because of their heart. So as Paul usually does, he he, 65 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,960 he begins by doing a contrast. I'm going to talk about what you 66 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,200 shouldn't be and what you shouldn't do. 67 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,040 I'm going to talk about the false teachers and the things 68 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,440 that they do that you don't want to do if you're setting things 69 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,080 in order. So now we're getting into 70 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,280 Chapter 2. We're going to crack. 71 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,720 You're going to crack the seal on Chapter 2 here. 72 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,360 And now you're going to see the first word is but and that first 73 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:17,800 word says, and that lets you know that we're changing course. 74 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:19,920 We're getting ready to change course. 75 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:22,480 And you know, we all love the butts in the Bible, right, 76 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,400 Because the butts in the Bible always let us know that we're 77 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,240 about to change course. So we're going to go from these 78 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:33,200 false prophets and these false teachers, and we're now going to 79 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:38,240 go into the qualities of what makes a sound church or a good 80 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:43,360 church. And he said, but As for you, but 81 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,920 As for you. And he begins to talk about this 82 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,720 contrast, this behavior of things that we shouldn't do. 83 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,640 He already talked about that what we shouldn't do. 84 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,520 And now we're going to talk about some things that Paul is 85 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:59,000 going to instruct Titus on what the church should look like and 86 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,360 what we should do. And in doing this, he's going to 87 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,520 look at 4:00 or I'm sorry, five different groups of people that 88 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,840 are in the church. He's going to look at the, he's 89 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,360 going to look at the older men first and the things that they 90 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,520 should do. And he's going to look at the 91 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:14,320 older, you know, the, the older women. 92 00:05:14,880 --> 00:05:17,600 And then he's going to describe the things or, you know, the, 93 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,120 the good works of a younger man and a younger woman. 94 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,840 And he's going to eventually talk about even the things that 95 00:05:25,840 --> 00:05:29,760 a servant or slave, because back in those times, a lot of people 96 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,800 were willing slaves. A lot of those people were 97 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,200 working and worshipping with their masters. 98 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,680 So he says, what should they do? What should their behavior be 99 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,120 like? So here in verse 1 of chapter 2, 100 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:48,160 he says, but As for you, speak the things which are proper for 101 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,200 sound doctrine. Speak the things that are 102 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:55,400 appropriate or fitting for sound doctrine, for healthy doctrine. 103 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:00,120 Healthy doctrine is supposed to produce healthy life. 104 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,080 It's healthy life. When you feed in the healthy 105 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:08,120 things, then you're going to produce things that are healthy. 106 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,880 And it's supposed to produce a healthy life. 107 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,200 Healthy works. And then he goes on to talk 108 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:17,760 about the first group he talks about is going to be the older 109 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:20,440 men. Now, these older men for Paul, 110 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:22,920 older men or back at this particular time, older men were 111 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,640 men that were over 50, OK. Because men who were like 50 and 112 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:29,600 under, they were actually considered young men. 113 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:31,360 They're actually considered young man. 114 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:35,800 Timothy was about 30 years old or so when he went on his 115 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:38,080 missionary trip with Paul, and Paul wrote him. 116 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,040 When Paul wrote the letter and sent him back to Ephesus, he's 117 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,000 about 30 years old. So he was young, a very young 118 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,240 man in a very aggressive church. Titus, on the other hand, is 119 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,760 about 40 years old at this time and he is the pastor of Crete 120 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,240 and he's actually helping to set things in order. 121 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,280 And not just the one church in Crete, but there are many 122 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,080 churches in Crete. And just as a side note, it's 123 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:09,400 not it's not necessarily clear that Paul actually started all 124 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,360 the churches in Crete because at Pentecost there were men that 125 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:21,320 was there, OK, in the upper room that were from other places. 126 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:25,280 And Crete was one of those places that these men were at. 127 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,760 So they were men who witnessed the Holy Spirit. 128 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,360 I'm sure some of these men became believers, went back to 129 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,000 Crete and possibly started churches even before Paul got 130 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,840 there. So Paul probably didn't start 131 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,880 all these churches, but while he was there, he was able enough to 132 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,200 see that not only church that he started, but also the other 133 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,360 churches were in need of setting things in order. 134 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,520 So he was there to. So he sent Titus there to clean 135 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:53,000 it up. So he said, let's look at the 136 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,920 behavior of the older men. Now, these are the men who 137 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,640 should be mature in the faith because they're older. 138 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,280 And he said they should be sober or in other words, clear minded. 139 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:06,960 They should be clear minded men, men who were able to think 140 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:10,320 clearly and have good judgment. They should be reverent. 141 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,160 They should have a deep respect for the things of God to the 142 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:19,600 point where they show godliness or demonstrate godliness in 143 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,520 their own life. And these are men who should be 144 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,640 men of honor in the community. Men should respect them. 145 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,080 And I remember even the neighborhood I grew up in, there 146 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,160 were people who went to church. And even if you didn't go to 147 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,280 church, you respected these people because you watched their 148 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:35,880 life. You heard how they talked to 149 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:37,760 you. You saw how they treated their 150 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,600 wives and how they treated their children and how they conducted 151 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:43,240 themselves. And these men were men of honor. 152 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,080 They were revered in our neighborhood. 153 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,560 If we needed counsel, if we really needed direction, we will 154 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,400 go to these men. We will go to these men. 155 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,920 It was customary in our in our neighborhood that there were 156 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:58,320 certain men that you would go to if you really needed good 157 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:00,400 counsel because these men were respected. 158 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:03,520 Temperate. That means having a life of 159 00:09:03,680 --> 00:09:07,040 being under control, a life of self-control. 160 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,040 Sound in faith and the sound in faith is impossible. 161 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,560 I've always learned when I was learning about being sound in 162 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:18,200 faith or learning about being in the faith, I was always taught 163 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,520 that you should know who you believe, know what you believe 164 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:24,240 and know why you believe it so that you'll be able to give an 165 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,640 answer for the reason for the hope that is in you. 166 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,400 But you first need to know who you believe. 167 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:33,640 You need to know why you believe it. 168 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,240 And you and you definitely need to know what you believe. 169 00:09:36,680 --> 00:09:39,400 Because if you come upon someone who wants to try to trick you 170 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,920 up, you need to know what you believe. 171 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:43,720 You need to know exactly what it is you believe. 172 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:45,920 And this is what these men are supposed to be. 173 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:49,640 Men who are sound in faith. They should be sound in love. 174 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,560 They should be sound in patience. 175 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,200 So these are men who should be able to understand what it's 176 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,880 like to go through affliction and not waver in their faith, 177 00:09:59,880 --> 00:10:04,000 but to have patience even in their affliction, even in their 178 00:10:05,040 --> 00:10:08,120 their trials, even in their persecutions. 179 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,080 They should have faith and have patience in it. 180 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,200 And then he said the older women, he said older women 181 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:19,840 likewise, that they be reverent in, in behavior, not slanders. 182 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,160 And it's not slanders mean not devils because the word slanders 183 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,920 actually mean devils, because it's devils who actually say 184 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,680 lies about people and damage their reputations and damage 185 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:33,880 their reputation. So it's like being little devils 186 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,800 out there, being in the the congregation of believers. 187 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:43,120 And it causes obviously it, it sows seeds of discord and it 188 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,240 causes division. So he said, you know, older 189 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:51,200 women, you should not be slanderers, should not be 190 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,040 slanderers, but you should also be reverent in your behavior. 191 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,840 And then he says, you know, obviously you shouldn't be 192 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:00,120 gossips and not giving too much wine. 193 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,840 It wasn't proper for women to be intoxicated. 194 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:06,760 You know, women shouldn't be intoxicated. 195 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,360 They shouldn't be under the influence of much wine. 196 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,640 You know, sometimes when women get under the, you know, these 197 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,240 women who were back in Crete, you know, some of these women 198 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:19,240 were probably drinkers, you know, at one time before they 199 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,160 came into the faith, they were probably a pretty heavy drinkers 200 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,080 and, you know, louder inhibitions to be lowered. 201 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:27,920 And they probably said a lot of things that they, you know, 202 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,600 probably wanted to say, but probably wouldn't say under or 203 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:35,480 unordinated circumstances or do things that they probably 204 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:37,120 wouldn't do under ordinary circumstances. 205 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,800 So they said that the women should not be given too much 206 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,400 wine, should be under control of that, and that and they should 207 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,480 be teachers of good things. And this really caught my 208 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,840 attention, teachers of good things. 209 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:55,240 And I had to think about teachers of good things. 210 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,720 Now, first of all, we all understand that good things 211 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,400 begin with what it is that God says we should do. 212 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,360 That's where good things began. If I want to teach my kids good 213 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,040 things, I'm going to start with the word of God. 214 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:14,080 I'm going to start there. And then everything else builds 215 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,040 from that. So I was just thinking about, 216 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:21,640 they should be teachers of good things. 217 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,280 And I, I, I made some phone calls because I really wanted to 218 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:29,520 get some perspective. I grew up as a teenager in the 219 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,320 70s. I have a sister. 220 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,120 I have two sisters that are older than me who grew up as 221 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:38,560 teenagers in the 60s. And I wanted to find out what 222 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:42,800 are the things that my grandmother and my mother taught 223 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:49,120 my sisters about being women, about being godly women, about 224 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:55,000 being women worthy of respect? What did they teach you? 225 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,440 What did she teach you? What did she say to you? 226 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,760 What kind of things did she make a standard in your life? 227 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,880 And then I called some other friends who were not as old, and 228 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,120 I wanted to find out from them. And these are, you know, people 229 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:13,960 who actually came out of godly homes as well. 230 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,000 What did your parents say to you? 231 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,480 And it was very interesting because when I look at the kind 232 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:23,960 of things that the older parents talked about, they talked about 233 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,520 dress, they talked about, you know, you know, how to carry 234 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:30,240 yourself, how to conduct yourself around men in mixed 235 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,800 company, how to conduct yourself, you with your 236 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,440 girlfriends. But you know how that's a 237 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,320 difference and how to, you know, how to clean your homes, how to 238 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,400 clean your house, you know, how to cook meals, learn how to cook 239 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:46,120 and all those kind of things. And then as the as the ages got 240 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,600 closer to where we are now, those kind of things are not 241 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,720 happening. Those kind of things are not 242 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:53,760 necessarily being taught in that way. 243 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:00,680 So when we look at the women, women are to be teachers of good 244 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:03,560 things here in the church. Women are important in this 245 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:07,480 church. You women are important because 246 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:11,240 you are the one that God is calling to teach other women 247 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,080 good things. And the good things that he's 248 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:17,280 saying that you teach them are the things that follow he said, 249 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,200 admonish them or advise them how to love their husbands. 250 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,360 And this is not just a romantic love. 251 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,760 Yes, you should love your husband romantically. 252 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:30,400 But this is it's not just talking about how they 253 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,840 romantically love your husband. This is also talking about how 254 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:37,240 to be committed to his welfare and well-being. 255 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,040 How do I commit? How do I build up? 256 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,560 How do I support this man of God that I'm married to? 257 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:49,600 How do I bless his ministry? How do I support him in his 258 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,440 ministry? And I have to brag about my wife 259 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,080 when it comes to that. If you would give me just a 260 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,360 second, Clark and I rotate teaching. 261 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,240 He teaches 3 weeks. I teach three weeks. 262 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:07,360 When it's my turn to teach, my wife takes things off my plate 263 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,280 that I don't have to worry about. 264 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,760 When it's time for me to put time into preparing to teach, 265 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,280 there's things I don't have to worry about. 266 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:22,400 She prepares the house in a way that my office becomes like my 267 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:27,520 sanctuary, and she does that not only in that, but in other 268 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:28,880 areas. Even where my business is 269 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:33,840 concerned, she comes alongside of me and helps me in a quiet 270 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:38,080 way, helps me in areas where I need help. 271 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,000 You women are the ones who build up your husband's if he's 272 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,080 successful in anything. Part of that is because of how 273 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:51,960 God used you. You younger women who are 274 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:56,000 growing up kids in a godly household with a godly husband. 275 00:15:56,320 --> 00:16:00,520 You husbands don't have to worry about how your kids are being 276 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:06,160 taught if your wife is at home teaching your kids. 277 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,720 They are building the founder the fundamental building blocks 278 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:16,360 for what they believe that begins with mom and dad at home. 279 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,600 But while dad's out hunting, right, hunting and bringing in 280 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,840 the food, you know, paying the bills, he's out doing what a 281 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:28,880 father should do, right. Mom who chooses to stay at home, 282 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:33,400 who chooses to stay at home and take care of the kids, take care 283 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:36,960 of the home. What an important job. 284 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,920 And I just don't want, I just, I mean, because I know we live in 285 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:44,920 a time in society where it's popular for a woman to go out 286 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,600 and create their own way and to be professional when to, you 287 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:52,280 know, be in corporate America. And if women who like to do 288 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,920 that, that's fine. But I just don't want the women 289 00:16:55,920 --> 00:17:00,320 who have made a decision to stay at home and take care of the 290 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:02,240 home. I don't want you to feel like 291 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,800 you're any less valuable because you are not. 292 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,960 You are very valuable. Very so teach them how to be 293 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:17,560 chased, how to be discreet homemakers, good obedient to 294 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:21,400 their own husbands and that's important that women need to 295 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,440 know that you are you know you you are to come under the 296 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:28,840 authority or come into the oath under the authority of your own 297 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,200 husband. That's not men in general, it's 298 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:36,760 your own husband and that the word that the word of God may 299 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:41,120 not be blasphemed. When you see a godly woman who 300 00:17:41,120 --> 00:17:45,720 understands how to undergird her husband, how to be a help meet 301 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:49,000 to her husband. Just like we dwell with them 302 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,880 with understanding, they dwell with us with understanding also. 303 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,200 In fact, they probably understand us more than most. 304 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:01,720 And then verse 6, he talks to the young men and he says, 305 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,960 likewise exhort the young men to be sober minded in all things. 306 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,520 Exhort the exhort them to be sober minded. 307 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,520 That means then it's interesting that he had the shortest amount 308 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,920 of things for the young men to adhere to. 309 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,240 And the reason why is because the young men are really 310 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:22,080 supposed to pursue the traits of the older men. 311 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,080 They're supposed to pursue those things. 312 00:18:24,080 --> 00:18:29,640 So they should be men who are watching the godly older men to 313 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,640 become godly. How to be reverent, how to be 314 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,880 sober minded and how, you know, how to do the things that are 315 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:38,360 mentioned here. You know, what was the other 316 00:18:38,360 --> 00:18:40,440 thing here? How to be temperate and sound in 317 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,880 faith and sound in love, those things they're supposed to 318 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,200 pursue, you know, as they minister and as they watch the 319 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,000 older men. I wish that when I was younger I 320 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,800 had those kind of role models, someone who helped me to go 321 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:57,840 through things like this, to understand these kind of 322 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,680 scriptures. And This is why I love the word 323 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,080 of God, particularly in these particular epistles, because 324 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:07,040 there's so much instruction, direct instruction. 325 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,000 And this is what we really want when we come together. 326 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,920 We want to hear the heart of God and these and this is what this 327 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:15,840 is giving us, this true instruction. 328 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,600 So he said, likewise exhort the young men to be sober minded. 329 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,560 That means self-control because what really stumbles a young man 330 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,000 and basically wipes all those other things the way that he 331 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,640 should be is his lack of control. 332 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,000 Young men are always battling with this inner self-control, 333 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:44,160 you know, how to bring those things under control, you know, 334 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:47,160 and the only way we can do that is through the power of the Holy 335 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,200 Spirit, through the power of the Holy Spirit. 336 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:54,280 And then he goes on in here and he says verse 7, it says in all 337 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:58,040 things, showing yourself to be a pattern of good works. 338 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,560 Now this is his advice to Timothy, to I'm sorry, to Titus 339 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,400 directly. He said look Titus as pastor, as 340 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,240 a leader in this church. You have to show yourself to be 341 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:14,000 a pattern of good works, and that's to be a pattern of good 342 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,840 works. That is just not to just do good 343 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:21,200 works, but your life must be. It must show a pattern of good 344 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,160 works. That's who you are, man. 345 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,120 That's who you are. You're spending time with the 346 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:27,600 Lord. You're spending time in the word 347 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,480 of the Lord. Let this word get in you. 348 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,840 Let as much of this word get in you as you're getting in the 349 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:38,400 word and come unto come under the authority of it. 350 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:44,280 Be obedient to it so that it becomes your way of living. 351 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:46,840 So when people see that, they see an example. 352 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,520 Listen, whether me and Clark want to know, want to believe it 353 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,000 or not, or every leader here, not just me and Clark, but every 354 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,320 leader in this house, whether we want to or not, we are examples. 355 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:00,920 Our lives are to be examples. If we're standing up here 356 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:03,320 teaching it, we got to be far, you know, first partakers of it. 357 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:05,480 Our life are supposed to be examples. 358 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:09,080 And that's that's one of the reasons why James says that it's 359 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:13,800 the, you know, it's teachers that have the stricter judgment 360 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,760 because our lives must be an example as much as it is that we 361 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,880 understand and declare the word of God. 362 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,560 So he says, make your life a pattern of good works and 363 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,560 doctrine, showing integrity, reverence and incorruptibility. 364 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:37,200 Show yourself of not being able to compromise and not being 365 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:41,400 corruptible or corrupted in anything that you're teaching or 366 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,120 anything that you're doing anything that you're doing. 367 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,720 And then we're going to close with this last line here. 368 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:53,520 It says sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an 369 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:58,120 opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say about you. 370 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,880 So in other words, people are listening to what you say, and 371 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,320 if you're teaching the Word of God, then that can't be 372 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:07,720 resisted. They know that that can't be 373 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:09,560 resisted. You can take them to the Word of 374 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:12,480 God and show that this is truth of what you're saying. 375 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:17,080 But what's even more important is the opportunity that you have 376 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:22,240 to show through your life that you're above reproach as well. 377 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,520 And this is what we're asking the help of God for. 378 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,080 Let us show in our lives that we're above reproach so that the 379 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:30,800 world see us. They can't point this thing at 380 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,920 us or that thing at us and say how you teach that that doesn't 381 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:35,280 mean nothing because look how you live. 382 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:36,840 That's bringing a reproach against the job. 383 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,800 We don't want to bring. We don't want to be blasphemed. 384 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:42,360 And a good example of that is Daniel. 385 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,120 Daniel's a good example of that over back in Daniel chapter 4, 386 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,040 when Daniel had a conspiracy against him. 387 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,120 He was a governor and he was about to be over all governors 388 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,080 because of how excellent he moved in his work. 389 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,200 The Bible says that he had a spirit of excellence and it was 390 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:04,080 pointed out. So those who were jealous around 391 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:06,320 him, they decided, well, we got to do something to bring him 392 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,080 down. They looked at his life, they 393 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,200 looked at how consistent he was and doing righteous things. 394 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:13,840 They couldn't find anything. They look at how he did his job. 395 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,640 He didn't take bribes, he didn't do anything that would be a 396 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,760 reproach against what he was supposed to do job wise. 397 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:23,920 So they couldn't find anything. So what they did was took. 398 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,240 Now listen to this and tell me this doesn't sound like today. 399 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,960 They took the good that he does and made it bad. 400 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,400 They were actually able to take what he does that was good and 401 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,240 turn it into something bad. That's exactly what the church 402 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,800 is dealing with today. Couldn't find anything else 403 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,080 against us. So now they have taken what we 404 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:48,440 believe, what the Bible says and turns that around now to be bad. 405 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,560 And that's exactly what was happening there. 406 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:54,560 But the Bible says let them not be able to speak any evil 407 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:59,080 against you. This has been Living Waters of 408 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:03,080 Grace, a ministry of Pastor Lewis Harrell of Calvary Chapel, 409 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,160 Westmoreland. Today's message has been on the 410 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,680 book of Titus. This book is a master class in 411 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,200 how Christians should live in modern culture. 412 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,960 Titus was ministering to the people of Crete, an island off 413 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:19,560 the coast of Greece, but he was facing many challenges. 414 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:23,640 The Cretans who came to know Jesus seemed to assimilate Jesus 415 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,320 into their existing culture instead of allowing themselves 416 00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,080 to be transformed by the Holy Spirit inside of them. 417 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,440 Others were fully devoting themselves to Jesus but shutting 418 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,040 themselves off from the world around them. 419 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,440 The apostle Paul encourages Titus to help his audience find 420 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,160 a middle ground where they can live in this world while still 421 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,120 following a different way of life in Jesus. 422 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,360 If you would like to learn more about what it means to 423 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:55,760 faithfully follow the teachings of Christ in a world full of 424 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,480 darkness, we'd love to get connected with you in person. 425 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,200 If you are in Greensburg, PA, we'd love to invite you to join 426 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,840 us at Calvary Chapel Westmoreland. 427 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:12,560 We meet every Sunday at 10:30 AM at 400 E Pittsburgh St. 428 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,760 Ste. 6B. Also, if you visit us at 429 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:21,480 calvarychapelonline.com, you'll find links to our mobile app, 430 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,560 our giving page, and our contact form where you can leave a 431 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:29,680 prayer request if you have one. Before we go off the air for 432 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,160 today, we ask you to invite someone to tune in next time 433 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:40,240 right here on Grace FM 91.7 or streaming online at Grace Radio 434 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,480 dot FM. Word of mouth is the best way to 435 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,160 spread the good news of the gospel with those who are hungry 436 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,160 to hear. Until next time, this has been 437 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:53,200 another edition of Living Waters of Grace.