1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,500 Good morning. It's good to see you guys today. 2 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:11,300 I hope that you are enjoying this fall Touch of whether as 3 00:00:11,300 --> 00:00:13,900 much as I have been. Wow, it's been great. 4 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,000 If you have your Bible, please open to Titus Chapter 2. 5 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:20,300 Titus Chapter 2 is where we'll be today. 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,900 Titus has been a series that's examining the relationship 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,400 between the gospel and godliness. 8 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,600 How does the gospel relates to Godliness? 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,400 How do they go together? How do they, how does one help 10 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,100 the other? And that's really what we've 11 00:00:33,100 --> 00:00:34,200 been looking at in the book of Titus. 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,400 This is seeing that the relationship, the nature of 13 00:00:37,400 --> 00:00:39,700 that. The first chapter really of 14 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:43,000 Titus was all about the gospel, the need for the gospel, the 15 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,700 need for sound Doctrine, the need to reprove, those who are 16 00:00:45,708 --> 00:00:48,100 teaching unsound Doctrine. Those are trying to lead others 17 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:50,300 astray, those are upsetting whole families. 18 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:55,900 And so, Titus is told to to establish elders and all the 19 00:00:55,900 --> 00:01:00,200 churches in Crete and that's, that's emphasis number one, is 20 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,300 that you need Godly men who are teaching sound Doctrine to the 21 00:01:04,307 --> 00:01:06,400 churches that they may also be sound. 22 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:11,800 They may also be healthy but healthy is not just decided by 23 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:13,700 your Doctrine. It's not just decided by what, 24 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:16,300 you know, it's decided by the way that you live, right? 25 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:20,000 We can say, we have faith in Christ, but if I Works prove 26 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,400 that we have no faith in Christ. Then what will people decide 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:25,300 about us? That your faith is worthless 28 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:27,600 right at your faith is meaningless. 29 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,100 You can say you have faith, but if you're a gossip or a 30 00:01:31,107 --> 00:01:34,200 slanderer, if you're a drunkard, if you're whatever. 31 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,100 Earth into say you have faith May mean nothing based on the 32 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:41,400 way that you live your life. And so that's the point of Titus 33 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:45,900 2 is Paul is taking Titus from sound Doctrine, teach what 34 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:49,800 Accords with sound Doctrine. Get into these things that 35 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,900 actually are are sound and so We examined last week or Jasper 36 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,000 did. Anyway, the relationship of 37 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:00,100 biblical manhood within the church and how men are to 38 00:02:00,100 --> 00:02:04,100 respond with lives of godliness to this gospel. 39 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:07,200 Teaching. Today we will look at biblical 40 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,400 Womanhood, what does God have to say to women and godliness? 41 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,500 Is it pertains to this message of the Gospel? 42 00:02:14,500 --> 00:02:18,100 Somebody read to you verses to sorry verse 1 and chapter 2 43 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:21,900 through 6 just to kind of help us catch the context of what 44 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:24,600 we're looking at. And then our for our purpose 45 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,500 will be looking largely at three through five today. 46 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:32,100 It's about asked for you and so he turns his attention to Titus 47 00:02:32,100 --> 00:02:37,300 as for you teach what Accords with Sound Doctrine, older men 48 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:45,800 are to be sober-minded. dignified, self-controlled sound 49 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:53,300 in faith in love and in steadfastness older women 50 00:02:53,300 --> 00:03:00,100 likewise are to be reverence in Behavior, not slanderers or 51 00:03:00,100 --> 00:03:04,600 slaves, too much wine. They were to teach what is good 52 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:10,900 and so train, the young women to love their husbands and children 53 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:18,200 to be self-controlled pure working at home, kind and 54 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,100 submissive to their own husband's. 55 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,000 That the word of God may not be Vile. 56 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,700 Likewise urge the younger men to be self-controlled. 57 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:33,500 The idea that I want to lay before you today is this 58 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,200 biblical Womanhood is vital to the health of the local church 59 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,600 biblical Womanhood is vital to the health of the church. 60 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,000 If you're taking notes you can write that down as you're doing. 61 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,400 So I want to pray for us. Father we love you and we praise 62 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,700 you for your word. God, we know that it comes to us 63 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,900 by your breathed word. Its it is your brief word. 64 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:58,200 It is your instruction to us. It comes from your mind comes 65 00:03:58,200 --> 00:03:59,900 from your heart comes from your mouth. 66 00:04:01,100 --> 00:04:03,300 Lord is it was pinned. It was pinned by men who were 67 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:07,100 carried Along by your spirit. And so we praise you, father, 68 00:04:07,100 --> 00:04:10,900 that we have this word before us today, but we also know that in 69 00:04:10,900 --> 00:04:17,399 Timothy, we see that your word is profitable for teaching, and 70 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:22,300 for reproof and correction and for training in all godliness 71 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:28,700 that the man of God or woman, of God, may be mature, lacking 72 00:04:28,700 --> 00:04:31,200 nothing. And so father we come to your 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:34,400 word today, as men and women, boys and girls who are in need 74 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:41,500 of your spirits to grow us up and to teach us to train us to 75 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:46,000 reprove if necessary to correct when needed. 76 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,300 To instruct or we have no knowledge that we might know you 77 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,500 and see you and having known and see you that we might worship 78 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:58,300 you with our lives. Father, would you do that here 79 00:04:58,300 --> 00:05:01,400 in this place today? And the hearts of these men, and 80 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:03,600 women hearts of these boys and girls. 81 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,000 In Christ's name, I ask these things. 82 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,600 Amen. Amen. 83 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:13,500 So, Titus 21 says, but as for you teach what Accords with 84 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:18,200 sound Doctrine, this contrasts with the culture of Crete's 85 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:21,500 contrast with the false teachers that we saw within the church 86 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:25,100 there in chapter 1. We saw that the culture itself 87 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:30,100 was full of people who were always Liars, evil beasts lazy 88 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:32,400 gluttons there in chapter 1 verse 12. 89 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:34,800 This means they lack self-control. 90 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,600 I don't think it's any coincidence that the Men and the 91 00:05:38,608 --> 00:05:43,000 women, both young and old or to have about them self control, 92 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,300 because they live in a culture that has no self-control. 93 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:52,000 The culture there had as their God, their own stomachs, it was 94 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 whatever they desired, whatever their flesh desired. 95 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:59,000 They did not withhold from themselves, they are hedonist by 96 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,000 the very definition and the false teachers on the other hand 97 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:07,700 were upsetting whole families. By teaching, for shameful, gain 98 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:11,400 with a ought, not to teach. And we know that those teachings 99 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,400 contained at least two things because Paul lays those out for 100 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,400 us, he says that they're teaching Jewish myths and the 101 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,800 commands of men who turn away from the truth. 102 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,900 So the false Doctrine, the false teachings at least were 103 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:30,200 concerning a Works based salvation. 104 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,500 It was that you must purify Yourself by your works. 105 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:37,100 That by what you put into your mouth or Way that you wash or 106 00:06:37,100 --> 00:06:41,000 don't wash your hands. Those kinds of ceremonial things 107 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,800 were going to dictate whether or not you were wholly or not. 108 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:51,800 But as for you, Titus teach what Accords with sound Doctrine, you 109 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:55,100 see the contrast, but as for you, you you do this. 110 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:57,100 This is what is happening in the culture. 111 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:59,800 This is what's happening in the churches, but as for you, Titus 112 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,300 teach what Accords with sound Doctrine. 113 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:05,500 But the word teach here is, is the word for speaking or saying 114 00:07:05,500 --> 00:07:09,000 something that we saw teaching earlier and Titus 1. 115 00:07:09,300 --> 00:07:11,900 And this, it was concerning the elders in the church that they 116 00:07:11,900 --> 00:07:15,600 would be teachers of the truth, that they would be teachers of 117 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:16,500 sound. Auction. 118 00:07:16,900 --> 00:07:20,900 These are two different Greek words, these things here pertain 119 00:07:20,900 --> 00:07:24,800 to Godliness, which Accord, with the gospel, teach these things, 120 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:29,100 which pertain to Godliness and they should be on your lips 121 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,400 daily and everyday life, you should be speaking. 122 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:38,000 These things is what Paul has in mind that as you go from the 123 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,800 older men and the older women and the younger women and 124 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,200 younger men, you are to be talking about these things. 125 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,000 These things should Adorn. Your speech. 126 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,500 When it pertains to the gospel, they shouldn't just show up in 127 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:52,700 church settings when the symbol he's together. 128 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:55,900 Talk about Holiness, talk about Godly living. 129 00:07:56,300 --> 00:07:59,100 No, he's saying Titus, when you're out and about with the 130 00:07:59,108 --> 00:08:03,100 Brethren, talk about Godly living, urge one another in 131 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:05,800 these areas. So when you're with the people 132 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,300 talk about these things so that they will do the same, it'll be 133 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,900 on their heart and be on their lips and Titus 2 1 through 6 134 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:15,900 shows us that the gospel doesn't occur. 135 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:20,400 Glued Holiness or godliness, which would have been some of 136 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:22,900 the accusations is it? Hey, what these Apostles are 137 00:08:22,900 --> 00:08:26,100 teaching? Excludes the ceremonial, 138 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:30,000 Washings it, excludes these Jewish myths, that excludes 139 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,900 these things which have been passed down for Millennia. 140 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:36,600 What they're teaching must not be the gospel. 141 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,400 It must not be sound doctrine. That would have been the 142 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,700 accusations of the false teachers to these Elders to 143 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:49,100 these Pastors in these churches, When Paul saying, oh, contraire 144 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:52,300 mon frere, right? I mean, that's the Greek for 145 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:55,300 sure. Is he's saying he's saying the 146 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:59,700 gospel doesn't exclude Holiness. It doesn't exclude godliness at 147 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:01,800 all rather. When the gospel is believed by 148 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:05,200 faith. It produces godliness in the 149 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:09,300 lives of those who believe it, it must produce godliness. 150 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:12,200 And so, he lays out what godliness is to look like, no, 151 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,400 this is not the first time in this book. 152 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:17,600 That will see what Linda's is supposed to look like we'll get 153 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:20,300 into it again as we near the end of chapter 2 and get into 154 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:23,500 chapter 3. But in Titus 1, there are false 155 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:26,600 teachings about Holiness there. They're full of Hedonism the 156 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:31,100 people are and these things are pressing in on the church there 157 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:35,200 against the church. And so it right response isn't 158 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:39,600 to ignore Holiness. It's not to ignore the culture. 159 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:41,600 It's not to ignore the false teachings. 160 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:45,200 It's to understand what true godliness looks like. 161 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,900 And to be comments so that the gospel message may not be 162 00:09:50,900 --> 00:09:55,800 destroyed by your opponent's because of your ungodly behavior 163 00:09:56,600 --> 00:09:59,800 that the gospel must be adorned with godliness. 164 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,500 So Paul turns to men and women and he instructs taught us about 165 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:05,200 godliness for these groups of people. 166 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:08,300 The whole purpose of this is that the church may be as Paul 167 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:13,700 calls elsewhere, a pillar and a buttress of the truth uses that 168 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:16,200 language in first Timothy as he writes to him with the church. 169 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,200 By its actions. By the way, that the people 170 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,600 dwell among one another, especially concerning the way 171 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,600 men and women, the way they relate to one another, the 172 00:10:23,608 --> 00:10:27,400 church that it is a pillar and a buttress of the truth. 173 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,900 What that means is that the church is meant to uphold a 174 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:33,900 pillar. Hold something up. 175 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,000 And it's meant to guard. It's a buttress for something, 176 00:10:38,300 --> 00:10:39,800 so it's meant to uphold and guard. 177 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:46,200 The gospel message by your word and your Works instruction here. 178 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:51,400 Summed up in one word would be discipleship that you are to 179 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,400 train one another to live this way to live, according to the 180 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,400 gospel. So Jasper covered the verses on 181 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,200 manhood last week and he said this, he said, biblical manhood 182 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,000 is absolutely crucial for a local church. 183 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,000 And today, what we're going to examine is the call to biblical 184 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Womanhood and to see that it is vital to the health of a local 185 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:19,300 church. So let's look at the call to 186 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:22,900 biblical Womanhood. To help us understand God's 187 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:24,900 wonderful call on a woman's life. 188 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:28,300 I think we need to go back to the creation account. 189 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:30,500 Need to round out our thoughts on this. 190 00:11:30,500 --> 00:11:34,100 This would not have been left out of such teaching in Crete, 191 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:37,700 as the elders were instructed to teach what Accords with sound 192 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,200 Doctrine. They were told also to teach 193 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:43,300 sound Doctrine, to give instruction in sound Doctrine 194 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,000 and so they wouldn't have left. They wouldn't have left the 195 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,400 creation account out and chapter 1 of Genesis verse 27 and 28. 196 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:55,900 We read this. So God created, man in his own 197 00:11:55,900 --> 00:12:02,600 image in the image of God, he created him male and female, he 198 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:06,100 created them and God blessed them. 199 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:13,300 And God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill 200 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:16,900 the Earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of 201 00:12:16,900 --> 00:12:18,800 the sea and over the birds of the heavens. 202 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,600 And over every living thing that that moves on the Earth. 203 00:12:25,300 --> 00:12:29,500 God created then men and women in His image and likeness he 204 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:33,300 created men and women. How and what we know about men 205 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:36,000 and women from creation is that they are distinct from one 206 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,600 another by both, their anatomy and their roles within God's 207 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,100 word. God's blessed command, to be 208 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:47,500 fruitful, and multiply and fill the Earth. 209 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:54,000 And to exercise dominion over creation yet, they are equally 210 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,500 Valuable as God's image. Bearers. 211 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:02,400 Amen. In Genesis chapter 2, we get a 212 00:13:02,408 --> 00:13:05,600 detailed. Look at the creation order, we 213 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:10,800 get a detailed look at man and womans roles in Genesis to God. 214 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:14,100 We get a get this this zoomed-in. 215 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:17,500 Look God creates Adam from the dust of the ground, he breathed 216 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:23,000 life into him, he then places him in the garden to work it and 217 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,400 keep it. So, God creates a man who 218 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,600 creates the garden. He takes the man puts them into 219 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,400 the garden to both work it and keep it the eye. 220 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,200 Is that he would be a cultivator and a protector of God's 221 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,500 creation. So biblical manhood, this is 222 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:39,900 what we say in biblical manhood that it Bears, the image of God, 223 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:42,100 by working and keeping all that God. 224 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:43,900 Grants a man in Christ, strength. 225 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:47,400 It's biblical manhood in the definition of bears, the image 226 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:49,700 of God by working and keeping all that God. 227 00:13:49,700 --> 00:13:55,500 Grants a man in Christ strength. Then God, says, about the man. 228 00:13:56,300 --> 00:13:58,900 It is not good that the man should be alone. 229 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,500 And all the men said, amen. At least I did. 230 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:05,000 Alright. Take note, baby. 231 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:11,800 It's just me. He says, I will make a helper 232 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,100 fit for him. I will make him a helper fit for 233 00:14:15,100 --> 00:14:18,500 him in Genesis 2:18. So God brings every beast of the 234 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:20,300 field and bird of the Heavens to Adam. 235 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,500 He lined them up essentially and he lets him go one by one and 236 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:29,600 whatever Adam calls them. That was its name, Adam names, 237 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,200 the animals, the creatures and when he finishes naming them, he 238 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,100 read this. But for Adam there was not found 239 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:42,700 a helper fit for him. All these creatures come in male 240 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:48,000 and female, 2 by 2. He names them and then he 241 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,400 notices something at the end of it, I'm alone. 242 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,900 All these creatures have helpers meant for being fruitful and 243 00:14:56,900 --> 00:15:03,000 multiplying help for creating a family life and I'm alone. 244 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:07,600 And so the Lord God in Genesis 2 21 through 23, the Lord God 245 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,000 caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man and while he slept, he 246 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:16,400 took one of his ribs. it took from him one of his ribs and 247 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,100 closed up its place with the Flesh and the rib that the Lord 248 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:23,500 God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought 249 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:30,900 her to the man, and then the man laying eyes on this helper fit 250 00:15:30,900 --> 00:15:37,800 for him, says, This at last is bone of my bones and Flesh of My 251 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,600 Flesh. She shall be called woman 252 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:43,100 because she was taken out of, man. 253 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:48,400 At the end of Genesis chapter 3, Adam calls his wife Eve, as 254 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,300 they're leaving the garden. After the fall, they're leaving 255 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:53,600 the garden. Adam calls his wife Eve and he 256 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,700 says this, he named her this because she is the mother of all 257 00:15:57,700 --> 00:16:00,400 living. Now whether or not a woman, 258 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,700 becomes a biological mother or not. 259 00:16:04,500 --> 00:16:06,500 Doesn't matter to how she was created. 260 00:16:06,500 --> 00:16:11,600 She is wired by God to be motherly that she is to cherish 261 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,600 and nurture whatever God grants to her. 262 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:17,100 This is wired in a woman, a woman can only do this. 263 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:21,600 A man is not wired for this task, doesn't mean there won't 264 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,500 be cross over at times but this is a way a woman is wired and so 265 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:30,000 biblical Womanhood then Bears the image of God by cherishing 266 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,600 and nurturing all that God. Grants a woman in the Length of 267 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,700 Christ. It's to be a cherisher and a 268 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:41,500 nurture. So God's blessed mandate to be, 269 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:43,700 fruitful to multiply to fill the Earth. 270 00:16:43,700 --> 00:16:48,700 Exercise dominion over creation was always meant to be done by 271 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:55,800 men and women. As they partner together within 272 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,900 their god-ordained rolls. Paul understands that Godly men 273 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:02,100 and women are vital to the health of a church. 274 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,400 And so he gets into this conversation that we need Godly 275 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:09,400 men and we need Godly women because they are God's image. 276 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:12,700 Bearers who carry God's blessed mandate to be fruitful, and 277 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:14,800 multiply and fill the Earth and subdue it. 278 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:19,000 An exercise Dominion. Which Christ expounds on when he 279 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,900 commands his disciples to go therefore and Make Disciples of 280 00:17:22,900 --> 00:17:27,000 all Nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of 281 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,100 the son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all 282 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:31,700 that. I have commanded you and behold. 283 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:35,600 I Am With You Always even to the end of the age. 284 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 It's a very similar thing going on here. 285 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,800 God placing Adam and Eve in the garden and they were meant to 286 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,700 cultivate that Garden life into all the world. 287 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:49,700 But we know the rest of the story, they failed, they 288 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:53,700 disobeyed God, kicked out of the garden, sin enters the world and 289 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:57,700 that disobedience. And now things are fractured. 290 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:03,600 Things are broken. Christ coming die, Rising gives 291 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,100 the command to his disciples to, what to go. 292 00:18:07,100 --> 00:18:11,200 Be fruitful. Make disciples multiplied, and 293 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:14,300 all the nations. Amen. 294 00:18:15,700 --> 00:18:17,800 And so the role is still very much. 295 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,500 The same, the commands are still very much the same men and women 296 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,800 are to bring Fruitfulness and multiplication into the Earth 297 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,800 again there to fill the Earth and subdue it as they make 298 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,400 disciples. And so churches, need Godly men 299 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:38,800 and women Co laboring for the sake of the Gospel, but our 300 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,400 fruitfulness comes in our obedience to God. 301 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,400 We must know and we must live by God's design for men and women. 302 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:53,400 See God has a great purpose. For his daughters in the church. 303 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,100 Amen. God has a great purpose for his 304 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:03,800 daughters in the church. I love the little girls heads. 305 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:10,800 I saw nodding, amen. A purpose that men cannot carry 306 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,600 out. Women as members of the body of 307 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,000 Christ are vital to the health of the church. 308 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:26,300 And so we at New Life Community Church need The church Universal 309 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,300 needs Godly women. If we are going to be a pillar 310 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:37,300 and a buttress of the truth, and so, Paul turns his attention, 311 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:43,100 Two older women and he gives the model for biblical Womanhood. 312 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:49,500 The call was, we need this. This is how God designed it. 313 00:19:50,700 --> 00:19:52,100 Now, let's look at the model for it. 314 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:56,000 Older women likewise, or to be reverent in Behavior. 315 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:01,000 It's verse 3 of chapter 2 inside us, not slanderers or slaves, 316 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,500 too much wine. They were to teach what is good 317 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,700 and so train. The young women to love their 318 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:12,700 husbands And children to be self-control pure working at 319 00:20:12,700 --> 00:20:16,300 home, kind and submissive to their own husband's. 320 00:20:16,300 --> 00:20:19,200 That the word of God may not be reviled. 321 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,600 You see pastors and to chapter one were told to hold firm to 322 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:28,500 and teach sound Doctrine, they must do that, but they must also 323 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:31,600 rebuked those who contradicted that was commanded of them. 324 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,400 Men and women and boys, and girls should learn from their 325 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,100 pastors teaching and hopefully their example. 326 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,600 It is a pastor's job to equip the church for the work of the 327 00:20:44,608 --> 00:20:47,800 ministry. These things are true yet, what 328 00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,500 we find here and as one commentator pointed out Paul 329 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:58,600 specifies, who could intimately teach what Accords with sound 330 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:04,100 Doctrine to the young women, Who was the older one? 331 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:08,700 I found it interesting. As I was studying assistant. 332 00:21:08,700 --> 00:21:11,300 Paul says, teach what Accords with sound Doctrine to the 333 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:17,300 older, men, to the older women, and to the young men, But that 334 00:21:17,300 --> 00:21:20,500 the older woman's instruction was meant for the young woman's 335 00:21:20,500 --> 00:21:24,500 and stroke, learning it was meant for their discipleship. 336 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:28,300 Paul is telling Titus, it's not that you won't stand In a Pulpit 337 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:31,600 and say what Accords with sound Doctrine, but it is not for you 338 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:36,700 to spend Hours with those sisters in the Lord. 339 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:38,300 That's for the older women to do. 340 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:42,700 Amen. Most of you men would agree, you 341 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:45,100 don't want me or any of the other Elders, spending hours 342 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:48,700 with your wife, but you would love for an older woman in this 343 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:52,000 church to take your wife under her wing and to spend two hours 344 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,300 with her cultivating godliness in her. 345 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,400 Amen. My wife would agree that she 346 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,200 does not want me spending hours with any of you ladies as much 347 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:03,000 as I love you and want. Well for you, I want older women 348 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,700 to train you. I want Patricia to be able to 349 00:22:05,700 --> 00:22:10,000 train many of you Amen. This is the way God designed. 350 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:12,000 It is for a purpose, not just for protection. 351 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,700 It's that an older woman can only teach a younger woman, how 352 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:24,500 to be an older woman. and so Paul lays out the model here, 353 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,300 The model for discipleship among women. 354 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:31,500 It's that older. At least spiritually mature. 355 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:34,400 Women are to teach what is good and so train. 356 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,900 The young women to be spiritually. 357 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:41,000 Mature, are you ready for a fun fact about older women here? 358 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,300 First century older as we read it here would be somewhere in 359 00:22:48,308 --> 00:22:55,100 the range of 45 to 60. I told my wife that earlier and 360 00:22:55,100 --> 00:22:58,800 she's like 10 more years and I'm old. 361 00:23:01,900 --> 00:23:05,400 The average lifespan in first century was about 28 which was 362 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:08,800 is skewed a bit by the high rate of infant deaths. 363 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,700 She didn't live very long in the first century. 364 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:15,900 And have modern medicine to help you out. 365 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:22,000 And so older women doesn't only have in mind gray hair and the 366 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:27,000 name mauve, right? It hasn't mind to some of you 367 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,600 laugh later. It hasn't mind a woman with some 368 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:35,600 years of serving the lord under her belt, She's older, but she's 369 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:40,000 faithful, she has a track record of faithfulness and so she is 370 00:23:40,300 --> 00:23:43,900 spiritually mature yet. She still seeks to grow and 371 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:47,100 godliness. And we know this because Paul 372 00:23:47,100 --> 00:23:51,100 says she is to be reverent in Behavior. 373 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,600 Interesting side note, this is one of eight Greek words or 374 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:01,700 phrases that only appear in this passage and all your new 375 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:07,100 testament. And three verses there are eight 376 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:12,600 new Greek words or phrases. That's a lot. 377 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:17,900 Now, I don't claim to fully comprehend the significance of 378 00:24:17,900 --> 00:24:20,400 this. But one thing that is abundantly 379 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:26,300 clear In this passage By the, the creating of a new phrase, a 380 00:24:26,308 --> 00:24:28,300 creating of a new word to communicate. 381 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:32,400 An idea on what Womanhood is, one thing that becomes 382 00:24:32,500 --> 00:24:36,500 abundantly clear is that Paul inspired by the spirit of God is 383 00:24:36,500 --> 00:24:42,600 doing his best. To help Daughters of God, 384 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:47,200 understand that God has a great purpose for them in the church. 385 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,700 But that's the only way I know to communicate his. 386 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:57,800 He's doing his dead level. Best to help women comprehend. 387 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:01,400 The beauty of the role that he's granted to them. 388 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:10,100 Reverent and behavior means devout to God, or Pious, it's 389 00:25:10,100 --> 00:25:15,600 actually in line with saying that she's a priest s which 390 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:19,400 didn't exist in the Old Testament, the New Testament we 391 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:23,600 see in Peter that we are all holy priesthood. 392 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,200 We're all a part of a holy priesthood. 393 00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:31,000 And so it describes a woman who is living her life, entirely 394 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,100 forgot, both toward others but also in view of others. 395 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:37,900 So this kind of woman is able to say to younger. 396 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:43,500 Ladies, follow me as I follow Christ and it's believable. 397 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,900 Our relationship with God is the most important piece of her life 398 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:58,600 and it shows she adorns, the gospel with godliness as I was 399 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,000 reading this passage this week. I was just reminded over and 400 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:07,400 again the truce from proverbs 31 proverbs 31:30 says charm is 401 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:16,000 deceitful and beauty is vain. But a woman who fears the Lord 402 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:27,100 is to be praised. mothers, fathers might, I recommend That 403 00:26:27,100 --> 00:26:32,900 you put this near wherever your daughter is most often. 404 00:26:34,300 --> 00:26:39,200 Whether it's a mirror or a foam or something. 405 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:45,300 Wives mothers. Ladies might, I recommend that 406 00:26:45,300 --> 00:26:51,500 you put this near somewhere that you read often Charm is 407 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:58,400 deceitful, beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to 408 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,900 be praised. But there's only so much you can 409 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:06,200 do to cover up ungodliness and wrinkles before it finds you 410 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,500 out. Right. 411 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:16,300 I mean, charm is cunning for a bit, but eventually people come 412 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:18,200 to see the truth about such a woman. 413 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:24,400 The attempt to hold on, to one's natural beauty through Botox or 414 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,900 plastic surgery, or whatever else may last for a season. 415 00:27:30,300 --> 00:27:33,100 But those multiple surgeries tend to have the last laugh. 416 00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:39,800 If you've seen the photos. but the woman who fears the Lord, Is 417 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:44,900 to be praised that the devil wants nothing more than to rob 418 00:27:44,900 --> 00:27:50,100 you of your god-given beauty. Not not the outward Beauties 419 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:52,400 talking about an inward Beauty. The beauty that comes from 420 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:56,700 within one's Hearts, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be 421 00:27:56,700 --> 00:28:00,200 praised. It's not outside of you. 422 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,100 It's not something you manufacture. 423 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:06,900 It's a woman who fears the Lord who is to be praised, the daily 424 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,400 Whisper of the enemy and a woman's ear. 425 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:16,300 Is this did God really say? Beauty is in vain. 426 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,600 Did God really say that charm is deceitful? 427 00:28:28,500 --> 00:28:32,700 Oh, that's not true. God just doesn't want you to be 428 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:37,000 accepted. God doesn't want you to be like, 429 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,400 God doesn't want you gaining influence. 430 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,300 Sisters. Whether you're young or old, 431 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:51,200 don't believe the lie. When you Adorn the gospel with 432 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:56,400 godliness through Devotion to God, then you will be worthy of 433 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:03,000 True Praise. Young ladies need mature ladies 434 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,900 to pave. The way for them in this, to 435 00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:08,800 protect them from that. Accusing liar. 436 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:12,600 By showing them, the beauty of godliness. 437 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,300 Paul lays out here, also pitfalls that older women are to 438 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:24,200 avoid, do not be slanderers or slaves, too much wine. there's a 439 00:29:24,208 --> 00:29:28,500 running joke, I'm sure you've all heard it, but Heard it for 440 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:31,800 many years, that a Church's prayer chain is made up of the 441 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,600 old ladies in the church who were gossiping to one another 442 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,000 under the pretense of sharing prayer requests. 443 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:41,600 I don't have first-hand knowledge of the validity of 444 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,900 this. But it is true that Everyone 445 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,300 likes gossip until it's about them. 446 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,400 Older women while gathered around a card table or at a 447 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:59,500 salon tend to gossip about her slander others in the community 448 00:29:59,500 --> 00:30:04,400 or their Church. Older men are gathered around 449 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,600 morning coffee at a local establishment. 450 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:09,900 Tend to gossip about her slander. 451 00:30:11,100 --> 00:30:14,400 Those in leadership politicians bosses church, leaders, 452 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,800 whatever. This is not a blanket statement. 453 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,100 This is a tend to when there's no godliness present. 454 00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:24,300 But it's wrong for anyone to be a gossiper. 455 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:26,100 It's wrong for anyone to be a slanderer. 456 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:29,900 We are instructed to tame the tongue in James chapter 3. 457 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,500 And here, being a slave too much wine. 458 00:30:33,500 --> 00:30:37,100 Simply means being a drunkard. There's a few possibilities. 459 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:40,100 And what's meant here? One possibility for this is that 460 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:44,300 in the first century, many medications especially for pain 461 00:30:44,300 --> 00:30:47,900 associated, with old age, would have used wine to ease. 462 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:51,800 The pain would have been a pain killer, so it's possible that 463 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:56,000 one could become used to the relief and so become dependence 464 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,100 on that, which brings the relief. 465 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:04,700 Becoming a slave to much wine. There's a similar phenomenon 466 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:07,600 today with painkillers or psychotherapeutic drugs. 467 00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,300 Are there cases where these things may be needed? 468 00:31:13,300 --> 00:31:17,500 Absolutely. There are I think our dependence 469 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:21,300 on such things comes a bit too quickly, sometimes. 470 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:25,900 A woman must learn to put to death, the Deeds of the flesh by 471 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:30,000 the spirit of God. He whom the sun sets free is 472 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,400 free indeed but the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. 473 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:37,200 We are more than conquerors through him. 474 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:44,000 Who loves us we trade versus like those so easily. 475 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:49,300 For something that promises quick relief because believing 476 00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:53,400 that and fighting through prayer and day in and day out is hard 477 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,100 work. But if I pop this pill or drink 478 00:31:56,100 --> 00:31:59,600 this bottle, Relief comes quicker. 479 00:32:00,900 --> 00:32:03,500 And so we become more dependent on a drug than we are on God 480 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:05,700 himself. Now, please don't go home and 481 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:14,400 throw away these things. saying, Kyle said, Again, there are 482 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,200 cases where this is really needed. 483 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,800 But you haven't done. So before previously, I 484 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,500 encourage you to earnestly seek the Lord for wisdom and help 485 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:29,500 talk with your doctor or therapist about how you might 486 00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,400 come off. Such things, is it possible? 487 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:37,800 Another possibility for Titus saying this is that older women 488 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,200 and young women were already together frequently. 489 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,100 They're they're hanging out and Timothy. 490 00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:45,800 Women are accused of being young women are accused of being busy 491 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,000 bodies, going from house to house. 492 00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:51,200 And so it's possible. This was happening here and 493 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,100 their time was spent slandering others and drinking too much 494 00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:59,900 wine. And so Paul says, Teach what is 495 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:03,800 good. Don't do this teach what is 496 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,700 good? Older women likewise there to be 497 00:33:06,700 --> 00:33:09,500 reverent Behavior, not slanderers or slaves, too much 498 00:33:09,500 --> 00:33:12,000 wine. They are to teach what is good. 499 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,800 And so train, the young women teach what is good and train or 500 00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:21,100 two more of those Greek phrases that are only used in this 501 00:33:21,100 --> 00:33:25,300 passage to teach what is good means to teach that which is 502 00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:28,600 beautiful to look at. It's Noble, it's praiseworthy. 503 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,000 Those things that produce purity of heart and life. 504 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:35,100 The older women should model maturity in Christ. 505 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:39,800 And teach young women to be mature in Christ. 506 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:44,800 Beauty Fades, but a woman who fears the Lord is worthy of 507 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,100 praise. So, Reverend and behavior, the 508 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:53,000 older woman models, a gospel shaped godliness for young 509 00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,600 women. So that they might learn from 510 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,100 her. And so he says, teach what is 511 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,700 good. And so train, the younger women 512 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,000 train is the idea of urging its discipleship. 513 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,600 It means to encourage. And so, what Paul has in mind 514 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,000 here is saying these older women should disciple these younger 515 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,500 women, with the kind of training that instructs young women to 516 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:21,900 live wisely and self control over her passions and desires. 517 00:34:23,300 --> 00:34:26,199 And Paul acknowledges that we what we all know to be true. 518 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:30,900 We have desires and passions that go against what God's word 519 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:33,600 says they're in direct opposition to God's word. 520 00:34:35,100 --> 00:34:39,000 So older women must train young women to live according to God's 521 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000 work and not according to their own desires. 522 00:34:43,100 --> 00:34:47,600 This kind of training requires vulnerability, it requires 523 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:51,199 availability for both older women and younger women. 524 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:54,800 They must spend time with one another. 525 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:00,500 But without an older woman's vulnerability. 526 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,700 Sharing her fears and her failures. 527 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:10,000 Her successes. Her dependence on God. 528 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:15,000 Then the young woman's only going to learn the appearance of 529 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,700 godliness while denying its power. 530 00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,700 It's behavior modification without a heart change. 531 00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,000 And so older, women are to teach what is good. 532 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,600 And so train, the young women, and Paul describes three areas 533 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,800 of training, her family, her home, and her character. 534 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,300 In verse 4, he says until train the young woman to love their 535 00:35:38,300 --> 00:35:41,600 husbands and children to be self-control. 536 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:47,100 Pure working at home, kind submissive to their own 537 00:35:47,100 --> 00:35:49,400 husband's. That the word of God may not be 538 00:35:49,700 --> 00:35:53,800 reviled. Let's start with family. 539 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:57,400 Older. Women must train young women to 540 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,000 love their husbands to love their children. 541 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,700 Both of which are once again. Greek statements only mentioned 542 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:07,600 here. Women are to cherish and nurture 543 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:10,000 their husbands and their children. 544 00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:14,600 To cherish means to love tenderly. 545 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,000 It's the view something that God has granted to you and out of 546 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,300 worship to him. You say, I'm going to love this 547 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:25,400 thing. This person, whatever it is, 548 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:31,500 tenderly. when the devote myself to do, whether that be a 549 00:36:31,500 --> 00:36:33,900 husband, or children or something, or someone else, 550 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:37,900 under your care does not matter. When you see that, something got 551 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,100 has been granted to you by the hand of God. 552 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:45,300 You cherish it. The young woman must cherish the 553 00:36:45,300 --> 00:36:50,800 role that God has given to her. To cherish also means that she 554 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:56,900 is content with those roles that she sees her roles and she's not 555 00:36:56,900 --> 00:37:00,600 upset about where she is. She might have a longing for 556 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,800 something different but she's not angry with God over. 557 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:07,600 She's learning to be content where she is while prayerfully, 558 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:16,100 maybe seeking Something else. But contentment is part of 559 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:19,000 cherishing. It's to see what you have and to 560 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:24,100 say, thank you, Lord for this. This is my lot in life. 561 00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,900 This is where I am right now. These are the roles you've given 562 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:33,900 me and I praise you for. I cherish them and your love, 563 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:37,600 your cherishing comes from an overflow of love. 564 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,300 It's not a, it's not a manufacturing of Love within 565 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:42,900 yourself, it's not waking up one day and saying, all right, 566 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:49,800 today's the day I'm going to be extra loving Bless your soul, if 567 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:57,500 you try to do that. It's it's a receiving love from 568 00:37:57,500 --> 00:38:02,800 God and having that spill over into the lives of your husband 569 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,300 and children as it pertains to here or into whatever roles 570 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:11,400 you've been granted. So your love is an overflow of 571 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:14,200 the love that you've received from God through Christ Jesus. 572 00:38:15,900 --> 00:38:18,700 The woman, the young woman is not trying to give something 573 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:22,300 that she hasn't received the older woman would not come to 574 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:25,600 the younger woman and wisdom and say, you need to be more loving, 575 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:31,000 go figure that out. The older woman might come to 576 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,300 the younger woman and say You need to be more loving. 577 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,600 But let me talk to you about the love that we've received in 578 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,700 Christ Jesus. And how that takes all of our 579 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:46,800 own loveliness. Our inability to love others and 580 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:51,800 makes us Able by the spirit of God to be loving. to be kind 581 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,100 tender-hearted forgiving one another as God in Christ, has 582 00:38:55,100 --> 00:39:03,600 forgiven us, as Ephesians 4:32 says, So a young woman is 583 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,400 instructed by the older woman. Go fill yourself up. 584 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:13,100 At The Well of Living Water. And then go pour that water out 585 00:39:13,100 --> 00:39:17,000 on others and your life. Amen. 586 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,100 And so, she nurtures. Also those things, those people 587 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:28,000 that God has granted her And to nurture means to nourish to 588 00:39:28,008 --> 00:39:31,100 bring to maturity. It's this idea of cultivating, 589 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:35,100 something in such a way that it grows up in a healthy manner. 590 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:40,700 And so a woman's marriage is to be cherished. 591 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:43,800 It's to be nurtured a woman, must cherish and nurture her 592 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,800 husband Which is really interesting to me as it says, 593 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,100 love your husband's here because husbands are instructed in 594 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:54,300 Ephesians 5 to love their wives. And one of the things that were 595 00:39:54,300 --> 00:39:57,300 told about loving our wives in Ephesians 5, is that we are to 596 00:39:57,300 --> 00:40:01,000 nourish and cherish her as we nourish and cherish our own 597 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,900 bodies. So a man looks out for his wife, 598 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,900 loves his wife and the same way that he tends to his own flesh. 599 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:18,700 And that same passage, as in this one, Paul also instructs 600 00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:21,600 women to be submissive to her own husband. 601 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,100 All the wife saw a big sigh of relief, right? 602 00:40:25,100 --> 00:40:27,100 I don't have to submit to someone else's husband. 603 00:40:29,100 --> 00:40:32,700 Submissive to your own husband. Again, this goes back to that 604 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:34,600 creation order. Man was created. 605 00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:39,200 First, the woman was created to be a helper for the man in 606 00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:43,600 Ephesians 5. The man is submitting himself as 607 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,800 one, who is a part of the church to Christ. 608 00:40:46,700 --> 00:40:49,700 And he's loving his wife as Christ loves the church. 609 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,300 And so, his wife is to submit herself to her husband that, 610 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:57,900 that headship that leadership. It's God's design for Godly men 611 00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:03,400 to lovingly lead their wives. and for Godly women to submit to 612 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,600 their husbands leadership, the sin has marred it has damaged 613 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:13,200 the creation order. And in Genesis chapter 3, is God 614 00:41:13,300 --> 00:41:17,000 explains the curses that are now upon the man and the woman, he 615 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:21,500 says to the woman that your desire will be for your husband. 616 00:41:22,100 --> 00:41:25,100 Now the word desire, there's the same word that's used for desire 617 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:29,200 in chapter 4. When Abel is told that his since 618 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:33,400 aren't, when Cain is told that his sin, that the devil's desire 619 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:37,400 is for him and that his sin is seeking to rule over him. 620 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:41,700 That rule over and desire, there are the same words. 621 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:46,100 And so, the idea here is that your desire woman's desire, 622 00:41:46,100 --> 00:41:50,100 because of the Fall, will be to rule over her husband. 623 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:57,600 And a husband he says will rule over his wife which is in a 624 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:02,100 domineering way. So we see the fractures and it's 625 00:42:02,100 --> 00:42:04,900 because of the fractures that we observe in the world that we 626 00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,400 might have a knee-jerk reaction against this kind of language. 627 00:42:09,700 --> 00:42:12,100 But the way these things operate in the world. 628 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:17,000 Are separate from Holy Spirit inspired. 629 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:22,100 Scriptures are separate from Holy Spirit lives that are full 630 00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:23,900 of the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit living. 631 00:42:25,100 --> 00:42:28,500 And so, when you live, according to God's word, as God's word 632 00:42:28,500 --> 00:42:31,100 says to live, these things are actually beautiful. 633 00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:42,400 You're beautiful. So what we observe in the world 634 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,400 is not biblical headship and submission. 635 00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:49,100 It's a mod version of it. Biblical headship and submission 636 00:42:49,100 --> 00:42:52,400 find its identity in the relationship between Christ and 637 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:54,100 the church. The church submits itself to 638 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:59,500 Christ Christ loves the church and so marriage is meant to be a 639 00:42:59,508 --> 00:43:02,000 picture of such a relationship. And when it does not, there 640 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:07,500 needs to be repentance. It's to be repentance. 641 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,100 There's a whole lot to say about marriage. 642 00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:13,000 That's the reason we've done whole conferences on it. 643 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,300 Here, there's a ton to unpack and we just don't have time in 644 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:18,300 the sermon. We got to keep moving. 645 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,100 I'm happy to sit down with any of you and talk about those 646 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:26,800 things at any time. A woman's children need their 647 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,000 mother to cherish and nurture them. 648 00:43:29,100 --> 00:43:34,500 So he says, love your children. She alone is to be a mother to 649 00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:37,500 them. She must not ignore those things 650 00:43:37,500 --> 00:43:41,500 rather she must grow in them becoming more nurturing and 651 00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:46,000 cherishing as time goes by and while it's true that God in his 652 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,100 own Providence and his wisdom has not granted. 653 00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:53,000 This role to Every Woman Who might desire it? 654 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,300 Such ladies are no less significant in the kingdom of 655 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:04,700 God. They must devote themselves also 656 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,300 to learning to love as God loves. 657 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:12,800 They have 1000 such opportunities within their 658 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:16,900 church family. A church is full of boys and 659 00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:19,400 girls. A church is full of men and 660 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,600 women who need young and old women to be loving as God is 661 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,700 loving to cherish and to nurture them so that they might grow up 662 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:29,700 into mature. Believers. 663 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,900 So a woman engages in this kind of work. 664 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:35,600 This kind of spiritual mothering when she and lists herself into 665 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,200 the mission of the local church. She uses her love. 666 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,300 She uses her gift. She uses her Divine Design to 667 00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:43,900 cherish and nurture the body of Christ. 668 00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:47,700 But it might become a pillar and a buttress of the truth that it 669 00:44:47,700 --> 00:44:52,300 might be healthy and Ladies of God has not yet, made you a wife 670 00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,500 or a mother and it's something that you desire. 671 00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:59,200 Please do not believe the enemies lie that you are a 672 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,400 second-rate citizen in the household of God. 673 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:06,500 He would love nothing more than to Cripple you. 674 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:14,300 In a church, but we need you. We need you and you need us if 675 00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:17,300 we were to become a healthy body of Christ. 676 00:45:17,500 --> 00:45:21,300 Amen. The second area that Paul 677 00:45:21,300 --> 00:45:24,500 addresses, is her home, train young women to be working at 678 00:45:24,500 --> 00:45:28,700 home working at home, is another one of these statements. 679 00:45:28,700 --> 00:45:32,100 It's only mentioned in this passage And I think what Paul is 680 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:35,300 doing with each one of these words is tried to elude to 681 00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:39,300 earlier is that he is shining a bright light of God's glory on 682 00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:45,700 the seemingly mundane work. Of a woman and here he talks 683 00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:48,500 about work in a home specifically. 684 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,800 So for the Christian woman, work in the home, right? 685 00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:55,300 Decorating, designing, cooking, cleaning laundry, training 686 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:59,800 children, being a wife, all the other daily tasks that go 687 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:05,400 unnamed and unseen. For Christian woman, those 688 00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:08,300 things go for mundane to Majestic. 689 00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:15,800 She recognizes that she's doing the Lord's work, as she lovingly 690 00:46:15,900 --> 00:46:19,800 sacrifices her life. In service to her family. 691 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,200 Romans 12:1 through to Paul writes this. 692 00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,100 And I'm pulling this thing, way out of here to help apply a 693 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:32,100 thought. I appeal to you, therefore 694 00:46:32,100 --> 00:46:35,600 Brothers by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a 695 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:40,400 Living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your 696 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,900 spiritual worship. So what's your spiritual worship 697 00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,300 is to present your bodies as a spiritual sacrifice. 698 00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,200 Holy and acceptable. If you sacrifice something 699 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,400 that's living, that means it stays alive, right? 700 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,600 It's a Living Sacrifice. This means it's a daily 701 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:03,800 sacrifice and service to the Lord. 702 00:47:04,100 --> 00:47:07,600 This is for all of us that we would live daily in service to 703 00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:12,500 the Lord sacrificing. For whatever the Lord commands 704 00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:15,400 us to do calls us to do whatever his will be in our lives. 705 00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,800 We say yes sir, that's where we're headed. 706 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:22,400 And then he goes on to say, do not be conformed to this world, 707 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,200 but be transformed by the renewal of your mind. 708 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:27,600 So in other words, the world's going to have different thoughts 709 00:47:27,600 --> 00:47:31,100 about this but be transformed in your mind that you may discern. 710 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:32,900 What is the will of God. So how am I going to be a Living 711 00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:34,700 Sacrifice? If I don't know the will of God. 712 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,100 Well another will of God I've got to have my mind transform so 713 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:42,000 I'm not conformed to the world. Amen, you got to know God's will 714 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:46,500 the only way to know that is? To come to the Lord. 715 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,700 And he'll show you is Will what is good and acceptable and 716 00:47:50,700 --> 00:47:54,100 perfect. So Woman's Work, in the home, 717 00:47:54,100 --> 00:47:57,200 must be understood as worship to God. 718 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,900 You are worshipping. The Lord, when you cook your 719 00:48:00,900 --> 00:48:04,300 family dinner, you're worshiping the Lord when you're doing 720 00:48:04,300 --> 00:48:06,900 laundry or worse of whatever your task are, when you're 721 00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,100 taking care of the children, you're cleaning up. 722 00:48:12,100 --> 00:48:15,900 A mess on our three, right? It's going to say vomit, but I 723 00:48:15,908 --> 00:48:17,600 just couldn't, it's makes me sick. 724 00:48:18,500 --> 00:48:21,300 All right, Trish is so much more gifted at that than I am. 725 00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:23,300 I will just make mess number two. 726 00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,600 So But you were worshiping the Lord. 727 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:35,100 And those most in those moments, Because you're living as a 728 00:48:35,107 --> 00:48:38,800 sacrifice for God, you're serving your family, you're 729 00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:41,700 serving your home. You're being poured out daily. 730 00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:45,200 As you tend to those things that God has placed in your care. 731 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:50,200 Ben and sisters do not be conformed to this world. 732 00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:54,300 This world sees a woman's work in the home as evidence of 733 00:48:54,300 --> 00:48:59,200 earlier oppression. But let me tell you, not all 734 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,900 Enlightenment is truly enlightening. 735 00:49:02,300 --> 00:49:07,800 Amen. Not all reform is good reform. 736 00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,900 Sometimes those things are blinding rather than 737 00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:17,000 enlightening. And Satan's thought the 738 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,700 destruction of the home. From the very beginning of X Y 739 00:49:19,700 --> 00:49:23,600 comes to the woman that says did God actually say not to eat of 740 00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,800 this fruit. He sought to split the home from 741 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,900 the moment. It was put together. 742 00:49:31,300 --> 00:49:34,200 Because it's the key and his destruction of God's people. 743 00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,200 Paul is not saying that a woman must only work in the home, 744 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:41,100 don't read it that way, it's not be those kind of people who 745 00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,100 bring that. Those thoughts into a text. 746 00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:48,900 It's not what Paul is saying. He's saying that she sees it as 747 00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:52,000 her most important work responsibilities. 748 00:49:53,100 --> 00:49:57,200 She may work elsewhere, but her work at home, is her favorite 749 00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,000 work. It's her most important work. 750 00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,400 A woman must diligently care for her household and home first. 751 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,700 Proverbs 31, if you've not read that, does a great job of 752 00:50:07,700 --> 00:50:10,700 explaining, the Dual relationship of working in the 753 00:50:10,700 --> 00:50:14,400 home and working outside the home and how those two things go 754 00:50:14,700 --> 00:50:17,700 together. Finally, we see her character is 755 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:22,300 addressed The young woman must be self-controlled. 756 00:50:22,300 --> 00:50:26,500 She must be pure and kind. All three of those things are 757 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:29,800 tied to the older woman, who is Reverend Behavior? 758 00:50:29,900 --> 00:50:33,100 Who's teaching, what is good? And who is training young women? 759 00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:35,900 For young woman to be self-controlled. 760 00:50:35,900 --> 00:50:39,600 She must be wise over her desires and passions. 761 00:50:39,900 --> 00:50:42,000 She doesn't let her once dictate her. 762 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,900 Why she understands her? Why she understands her purpose 763 00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,300 and her wants that are contrary to that. 764 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,000 Don't get to tell her what to do. 765 00:50:50,500 --> 00:50:54,500 She's keeping them in check. She's remembering her purpose. 766 00:50:55,900 --> 00:50:58,400 She understands her god-given purpose and she strives to 767 00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:00,900 please him. And she does this by putting to 768 00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:04,700 death, the Deeds of her flesh, which is only possible by the 769 00:51:04,700 --> 00:51:06,300 spirit of God. That's why one of the fruit of 770 00:51:06,308 --> 00:51:10,900 the spirit is self control. As you lean into Christ, as you 771 00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:14,100 become more dependent on God, you become more full of his 772 00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:17,800 spirit and he leads you in self-control. 773 00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:21,300 Helps you put to death, the Deeds of the flesh. 774 00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:25,800 So the older woman trains, which means she urges. 775 00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:30,400 She encourages the woman to live wisely, over her passions and 776 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:36,600 her desires, but the young woman May respond then with 777 00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:40,600 self-control which she received by the spending on the spirit of 778 00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:44,600 God. You can see it. 779 00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,000 You can see an older woman in the home, teaching a younger 780 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:55,500 woman, maybe over coffee. And the younger woman saying, 781 00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:59,700 hi, I really want these things. I really want to go this 782 00:51:59,700 --> 00:52:03,800 direction. But I'm really hindered by my 783 00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:09,800 family endured by this or that. And the older woman says, I 784 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:15,000 understand I've had those same feelings of same thoughts, but 785 00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,700 what we must learn is self-control, must, learn that, 786 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:24,000 not all desires are God desires. Some of them are contrary to 787 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:29,400 what he says. And so, she lovingly when some 788 00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:33,400 Lee with wisdom, exhorts the young woman to be faithful to 789 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:38,300 the Lord. Next Paul says that she must be 790 00:52:38,300 --> 00:52:41,800 pure. Idea here is that she's pure and 791 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,000 heart before God. And so therefore she is pure and 792 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,600 behavior before others. this describes, the kind of woman 793 00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:53,700 whose inward Beauty, Affects her outward Beauty. 794 00:52:56,600 --> 00:53:02,500 Cheese. She's not deceived by the lies 795 00:53:02,500 --> 00:53:06,600 of scandalous clothing, or makeup, or phony Behavior. 796 00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:10,100 She's not buying the world's lies about what makes a woman 797 00:53:10,100 --> 00:53:12,900 womanly. She takes seriously her 798 00:53:12,900 --> 00:53:17,200 relationship to God. And so impurity she dresses 799 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:22,500 modestly and lives righteously, she's pure before the Lord a 800 00:53:22,500 --> 00:53:27,900 here means to excite reverence. I love this older. 801 00:53:27,900 --> 00:53:30,700 Women are what to be reverent and behavior younger. 802 00:53:30,700 --> 00:53:34,500 Women are what to be pure, which is the beginning of reverence. 803 00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:37,800 Is it excites? Reverence a young woman may not 804 00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,000 be thought of as reverend in Behavior? 805 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,600 Just yet? But give her some years. 806 00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:48,200 She's working toward it, she's becoming more and more faithful 807 00:53:48,700 --> 00:53:51,600 to the Lord. She's got the beginning marks of 808 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:55,100 it, because she's pure and she's actively growing in it. 809 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:58,200 And so, we saw a similar contrast last week between the 810 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,100 older man in the younger, man. The older men were called 811 00:54:01,100 --> 00:54:03,200 dignified and the younger men were urged to be. 812 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:08,400 What self-controlled? Don't give me into many 813 00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:10,600 instructions, right? Be self-controlled. 814 00:54:14,300 --> 00:54:16,900 And as the woman's Purity leads to reverence and behavior. 815 00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:23,100 So the man self-control leads to later being called dignified And 816 00:54:23,100 --> 00:54:25,300 finally, her character is marked by kindness. 817 00:54:26,700 --> 00:54:30,000 Well, we're kindness here is not like it's not the side of being 818 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,300 kind to one another. It's that there's a kindness 819 00:54:33,300 --> 00:54:35,800 about you. It's a good nature. 820 00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:45,500 It's upright. It's honorable The older women 821 00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:51,500 are not to be only what is good, but they were to teach what is 822 00:54:51,500 --> 00:54:56,800 good also and the younger women are to become what is good there 823 00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:01,000 to be kind. They become Godly, which is is 824 00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:08,000 beautiful to observe. Again beauty is in vain But, the 825 00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,300 fear of the Lord is worthy of praise. 826 00:55:11,300 --> 00:55:14,200 One way to say it, is that beauty is fleeting but godliness 827 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,900 last a lifetime. This kind of biblical Womanhood 828 00:55:18,900 --> 00:55:24,200 is vital to the health of the church older women which is 829 00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,800 certainly those who are mature on their way to maturity in 830 00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:31,600 Christ must model and teach young women to be these things. 831 00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:38,400 And Paul lays out very quickly, what the goal of all, this is 832 00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,200 older women, likewise be reverence and behavior, not 833 00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,800 Slanders or slaves, too much wine. 834 00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:52,600 There to teach what is good. And so train, the young women To 835 00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,100 love their husbands and children. 836 00:55:55,200 --> 00:56:01,400 To be self-controlled pure and working from home or working at 837 00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,500 home. Sorry kind and submissive to 838 00:56:04,500 --> 00:56:08,400 their own husbands Everybody. Look at this last part with me 839 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:12,100 that the word of God may not be reviled. 840 00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:20,600 Man. That's is very weighty. 841 00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,900 That the word of God may not be reviled. 842 00:56:26,100 --> 00:56:29,600 We saw this last week in the men that says that their opponents 843 00:56:30,300 --> 00:56:33,900 may have nothing, they may be put to shame having nothing evil 844 00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:37,400 to say about us. We're going to see it again next 845 00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,700 week. As we see that Bond servants are 846 00:56:39,700 --> 00:56:44,600 to be submissive. To be good workers. 847 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,000 So that in everything they may Adorn, the doctrine of God our 848 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:52,900 savior. What Paul is laying out here is 849 00:56:52,900 --> 00:56:59,100 that the way you live Either upholds, what you say you 850 00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:05,200 believe or it, tears it down. And if you live a Godly life, 851 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:08,500 the word of God will not be reviled because of you. 852 00:57:10,300 --> 00:57:13,300 Godly women help the church become a pillar in a bunch for 853 00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:15,800 the truth. As they colabor with Godly men 854 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:19,900 to uphold and protect the gospel of Christ by their word and 855 00:57:19,900 --> 00:57:22,600 their works. This is what Paul is laying out 856 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:28,900 for us in Titus 2. The world will, however, does 857 00:57:28,900 --> 00:57:36,900 revile such women. Maybe not in your immediate 858 00:57:36,900 --> 00:57:38,900 circles. Do you feel reviled for trying 859 00:57:38,900 --> 00:57:43,800 to be a Godly woman, but pay attention to the messages that 860 00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:47,700 are out there. The world hates Godly women. 861 00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:55,500 Hates. I think a big part of it is you 862 00:57:55,500 --> 00:57:57,800 cannot take advantage of a Godly woman. 863 00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,700 You cannot use a Godly woman for your own purposes. 864 00:58:04,500 --> 00:58:06,200 She's living for the glory of another. 865 00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:16,100 In Song of Solomon, she's called a wall for such character. 866 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:25,800 And we need to take notes. This is a very important verse 867 00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:32,700 to me, is I have under my care immediately to women my wife and 868 00:58:32,700 --> 00:58:39,200 my daughter, And I don't want them. 869 00:58:40,900 --> 00:58:43,100 To cause the word of God to be revealed. 870 00:58:44,100 --> 00:58:48,000 But I understand that by their Godly Living Lord willing they 871 00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,900 will be reviled. It's going to happen. 872 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,000 The world will slander. The world will blaspheme. 873 00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:02,400 Not only them, but their truths, the world will Rel at them. 874 00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:07,500 And such is the way of The Sinner when he or she encounters 875 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:13,300 the truths of God. They become mockers scorners. 876 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,700 It's a Godly, women may be revived for their belief. 877 00:59:19,500 --> 00:59:25,000 But a Godly woman, will not allow God's word to be reviled 878 00:59:25,300 --> 00:59:30,400 by her hypocrisy. She's true to God and so 879 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,700 sisters. I urge you today, I commit 880 00:59:33,700 --> 00:59:38,000 yourselves to Bear God's image by cherishing and nurturing all 881 00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,300 that God, grants to you and the strength of Christ. 882 00:59:42,300 --> 00:59:47,000 This is biblical Womanhood. And biblical Womanhood is vital 883 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:50,100 to the health of the church. Would you stand to your feet 884 00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:54,700 this morning? Heavenly Father, we love you. 885 00:59:56,500 --> 01:00:04,900 We thank you for your word. Father, I pray that you would 886 01:00:04,900 --> 01:00:08,600 mold us. Into men and women, who love you 887 01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:14,600 Above All Else shape Our Lives. Shape. 888 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:21,900 Our Lives. Father, I thank you for the 889 01:00:21,900 --> 01:00:28,300 ladies in this church. Older younger little girl's. 890 01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,700 Father, I thank you for their place and your household. 891 01:00:32,700 --> 01:00:35,700 I thank you Lord, for your purpose for them. 892 01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:41,100 And I pray father that you would Empower them by your spirits to 893 01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:46,200 live. To live as a bold woman in this 894 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:52,500 world. To be an image-bearer by 895 01:00:52,900 --> 01:00:55,700 cherishing and nurturing everything that you grant to 896 01:00:55,700 --> 01:00:59,500 them. In the strength of Christ. 897 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:09,000 Father, would you help these ladies find strength in Jesus 898 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:13,200 Christ? Help them to know him to love 899 01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:15,200 him. To honor him. 900 01:01:17,500 --> 01:01:22,200 Help them to be convicted by his word to be drawn into deeper 901 01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:25,600 fellowship with him. But they might live out their 902 01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:30,100 purpose, in this world and become a beaming light for the 903 01:01:30,100 --> 01:01:37,000 gospel of Christ. Father, we thank you that you 904 01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,900 created men and women in your own image. 905 01:01:41,300 --> 01:01:44,300 To be image, bearers. For the purpose of being 906 01:01:44,300 --> 01:01:46,400 fruitful and multiplying in the Earth. 907 01:01:47,600 --> 01:01:50,100 God, we ask that you help us to do that through discipleship. 908 01:01:50,900 --> 01:01:54,200 We ask that you help us do that through families. 909 01:01:56,300 --> 01:01:58,900 Help us do that in this local church and in our community. 910 01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,400 Father, would you help older women in here? 911 01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:08,000 Catch a vision for discipleship training, young women. 912 01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:13,200 To love the Lord and do all that he's called him to do. 913 01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,000 God I do mostly, don't know what it would look like. 914 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,900 I pray that you would grant us that Vision help us to do that. 915 01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:27,000 Lord UPS to be this kind of Titus 2 model of discipleship 916 01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:31,000 Church. We praise you father, we thank 917 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:34,900 you for your kindness toward us. In Christ's name. 918 01:02:34,900 --> 01:02:36,000 I pray. Amen.