All right, we're in Titus chapter number two and this evening obviously Titus chapter number two is not very a very bombastic
Portion of Scripture so you're gonna have to be a little disciplined to to pay attention because a lot of this is
Just it's really good teaching and has a lot to do with just application of day-to-day life. And so
You're gonna have to discipline yourself to pay attention a little bit because this is not very exciting
However, it's very beneficial to us and we would do well to take heed even to the instructions that we see here in Titus chapter
number two, so this chapter is
primarily
Dedicated to four groups of people we see the age of men the age of women
the young men the young women and of course generally speaking we see servants or
Employers, okay or employee, excuse me
And we see that what the Apostle Paul is doing here is he's instructing
Titus on how to instruct those in Crete on how to behave and the reason for that is because just keep in mind that
Chapter two obviously comes right after chapter one. And what is he talking about in chapter number one?
Well, if you remember towards the end of the chapter
He's rebuking the false prophets and circumcision because they are slanderously reporting the Jews are slanders
Slanderously reporting that the Christians are always liars
They're evil beasts and they're slow bellies and if you look at chapter one look at verse number 13
He says this witness is true
Wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith not given heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men
That turn from the truth now
Obviously what the Apostle Paul is telling Titus the most obvious thing is that they need to rebuke the false prophets
And this is why he says in verse number nine holding fast the faithful word
That he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
Then he says in verse number 11 whose mouths must be stopped referring to the circumcision
so how do we stop people's mouths by rebuking them right and he's specifically talking about the
Pharisees the false prophets the Jews
However, I also believe that he's referring to when he talks about rebuking. He's also referring to the Cretans as well
Not because they're guilty of being always liars evil beasts and slow bellies
But rather I believe he's admonishing them or telling Titus to rebuke them as a preventative measure
Okay to keep them from doing such things
Alright, and in fact look at the end of chapter number two verse 15 says these things
Speak exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee
You see when pastors get up and they preach the Word of God and they're rebuking
It's not necessary because someone is guilty of a sin rather. It's because he's trying to prevent sin in the church
he's trying to prevent sins and between individuals and he rebukes he reproves as a
Manner of as a way of basically preventing these sins from coming upon a person or even a church and we're commanded to rebuke these
Things with all authority. Let no man despise you it says now
It's no coincidence that the the lie here is that they're always liars evil beasts slow bellies in other words
They're dishonest. They're lazy. And then what do we see in chapter number two? He says hey, you know be faithful to your boss
You know don't steal from them have all good fidelity show, you know, make sure you do good works
He tells the young men right?
These are things that are the opposite of what they're being accused of and so this is why this is being spoken about
In chapter number two is basically to make sure that they're not giving heed to Jewish fables
Okay, he said look don't give heed to these things, but you know, you should live godly
Etc. Now another thing I want you to notice here is that he says in verse 14
He says who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people
Zealous of good works now when we think of good works, we think we often think of the most important work
Which is what so winning right but the Bible says that that is the first work now preaching the gospel so winning starting churches
Missions work. This is very much one of the most important jobs of a Christian most important work you can do
However, it's not the only work and in fact to prove that he says in context of having being zealous of good works
He gives all these characteristics that someone should have, you know
Be a good laborer at your job a good employee be a good son
Be a good young man an aged man an aged woman and he claims these as being you know
Good works and so when you're out so winning yes, that's a good work
But you know what? That's the that's not the only work you're gonna be doing in the Christian life
You need to learn how to be sober. You need to learn to be grave
You need to learn how to have sound speech. Hey women who are keepers at home. That's a good work. And
So we can't just have this in balance
View of the Christian life or as well. I'm fine if I just do so winning. I'm good to go
No, if you're doing so when he means you're shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace
But it doesn't necessarily mean that you have the breastplate of righteousness
It doesn't necessarily mean that you have your loins girt about with truth, you know
It doesn't necessarily mean that you have the best behavior and character as a Christian
God expects both and he wants us to have a balanced life where we're not only preaching the gospel
But we're living the life that's pleasing unto the Lord as well that we have character
Okay, that we have behavior that is becoming unto unto a saint and pleasing unto the Lord
And so look at verse number one. He says here but speak thou the things
Which become sound doctrine?
Now what is sound doctrine often when we think of doctrine?
Obviously the first thing that comes to mind is teaching because that's exactly what that means right doctrine, but sound doctrine
What is sound doctrine? Well when we think of this doctrine just in general we think of that
Which is aesthetically pleasing to our intellect, right?
You know when we think of end times Bible prophecy and the intricacies of the timing of the rapture
We think of the intricacies of salvation in the Trinity. This is often what we associate with doctrine
But here we see the doctrine is actually associated with what we do, right?
So it's not only what we believe but it's actually also how we live our lives how we behave and he says there
That he needs to speak the things which become sound doctrine now what is sound doctrine sound means?
That it's without defect. It's without corruption. Okay. So how do you corrupt the Word of God?
How can a Christian corrupt the Word of God when they when what they say or what they say
They believe doesn't match up with how they live
You know what I mean when you say that you believe in soul winning, but you know, you're not actually doing it or whatever
You know you say you believe in holiness, but you are as worldly as the day is long. Okay, these don't match up
We need to make sure that we have sound doctrine doctrine that is without defect that it's without corruption. It's without
Decay, okay
So he says there make sure do you have sound doctrine and if you if you look throughout this book you often see that
Word used even in chapter 1 he says there in
verse number 9
That he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers
He says in verse 13 this witness is true wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith
So sound doctrine sound in the faith chapter 2 and verse number
8 says sound speech that cannot be condemned. So what is he talking about? He's talking about speech doctrine faith that is without corruption
That is void of unwholeness that is void of that which is corrupt in other words pure doctrine is what he's referring to there. Okay
Now let's go to some of these
characteristics that he's talking about here because these are things that
We as Christians need to give you to we need to make sure that we're exercising in our personal life that we're working on
Verse 2 says that the age and men be sober
grave temperate sound in faith in charity in
Patience now, what's the first thing I want you to notice here?
The first thing is this is that he's teaching or he's telling Titus who's probably a young guy
To teach who the age and men
Now what does this teach us it teaches us that people should respect the office not necessarily the age of the person who's in the
office
You know you happy were like, well, I can't follow this guy
He's younger than me or whatever
But here's the thing if that's what your problem is then you need to go somewhere else or just recognize
hey, even Titus and Timothy have to teach people who are older than them and
We look to the office not necessarily the age of the person and look if a pastor is a certain age
Okay, and you can't accept that well you need to realize that that person worked hard to get to that position
He's qualified for that position, right?
But it also teaches us that even the aged men and women need to be taught
So guess what those of you who are aged now, it doesn't give us a bracket of age
You know, it's just like aged is like because obviously aged is like 35 and up. You know, I mean, okay
I'm 34. Okay
You know, that's that's I think that's about aged right there, okay, I'm just kidding, you know aged men
I don't want to put an age because people are gonna get offended. It's like a hundred. Okay
It's when you're old, okay
Put it this way if you got offended at any of those you're the agent. Okay, so you're in that bracket, right?
so
It tells us here obviously that the aged people still have to be taught
They still have to learn right so an aged person or what we would refer to as the elderly
Has not gotten to a point where they've arrived in the Christian life. They need to keep learning as well
Now the Bible speaks very highly of the elderly of the aged the hoary head
Hoary is basically white. So it's referring to those who are gray headed and and often that's associated with with age
being older and
The Bible even tells us in Leviticus chapter 19 that we ought to rise up before the hoary head
You know, have you ever been taught the one an older person comes into a room or they come sit at a table
What do you do you you rise up to greet them?
Okay that comes from the Bible and that we should honor it says the old man
Okay, so obviously people who are up there in age should be esteemed should be honored by default
okay, so automatically when you see an old person an older person you ought to automatically have a
Response that is respectful towards them
All right
But the Bible says that the hoary why is that because the Bible teaches us that the hoary head is a crown of glory
If it be found in the way of righteousness stuff
So look God's like hey respect the hoary head respect the old man honor them
but here's the thing if it be found in the way of righteousness, so
It's not just a carte blanche ironclad promise where some any old fart geezer
Who's a hater of God should just receive our respect
No
Because it's he's saying there if it's found in the way of righteousness why because there's a lot of old people out there that are wicked
you know, how about Hugh Hefner who was like a hundred and thirty billion years old and
That guy was wicked as hell and guess what? God does not expect for us to honor him
He didn't expect for us to respect him
In fact, you know, he's burning in hell today for all the wickedness that he has done, you know
There's a lot of people out there who are up there in age and there's they're wicked
Okay, they're evil people and God does not expect us to honor them
He's saying look look for the hoary head honor them if they're found in the way of righteousness now
You say well, what if they're not found in the way of righteousness? What if they're just not safe?
Well, then you respect them unless they give you a reason not to they say there's some sort of reprobate or they try to impose
Unbiblical teachings upon you and your family at that point. They just forfeited their right to be respected
Okay, now we don't look for reasons to disrespect people but here's the thing once they give you a reason, you know
You know whether it's because they say they hate God, they don't believe in God. They don't believe in the Bible
They they try to they try to impose their liberal views on you at that point
They forfeited their privilege to be honored and be respected
So on and so forth because the Bible tells us that we ought to honor them if they're found in the way of righteousness, okay?
So
That being said and look this is you know
The Bible tells us that it talks about old kings old and foolish kings who would no more be admonished. I
Respect an elderly person who is still learning. Amen
Someone who feels like I have not yet arrived
I can still learn the Word of God from someone who's younger than me, you know
We have older people in our church and you know what? It says a lot that they're older and I'm younger than them
I'm their leader. I'm their pastor and they're still learning right and
this is a lot about them because the fact that God condemns and
He says that those who are old and foolish are those who no longer be admonished
They say well, I know everything that there is to know you can't teach me. I've been around the block longer than you
How are you gonna tell me about God? How are you gonna tell me what the Bible says? That's nonsense
Okay
You know when it comes to the Word of God and learning the Bible gaining intellect and knowledge from the Bible
We are all at it even plain, right?
We all have the privilege to be able to read the Word of God and learn from it and
Learn from people who even if they're younger than us if they know something that we don't we can glean wisdom from that
So he says there the aging man be sober grave temperate. What is sober and grave means?
It means they're serious about the things of God. It should be that as you get older you mature more, right?
You know, you're no longer childish. You're no longer immature
You put away the video games the Xbox the Nintendo is there a Nintendo 64 still do they still use cartridges?
You know the the PlayStation or whatever that should be a thing of the past as you grow old
Okay, you should be sober grave temperate. That means discipline and then he says here sound in faith in charity in
patience
Now this is interesting because he says sound in faith in charity and patience. What's another word for patience?
Well in the Bible another word for patience is hope
Now if I were to ask you what is the love chapter of the Bible? What is it?
First Corinthians what?
13 right talks about charity
You know charity vonteth not itself does not behave itself unseemly, you know, the enbyeth not, you know
It suffereth law and goes to those qualities of charity and then in verse number 11 of first Corinthians chapter 13
He says this when I was a child I spake as a child
I understood as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things
Okay, and then at the end of the chapter he says now abideth these you know faith charity
Hope and the greatest of these obviously is charity. So it's no coincidence that we see charity
You know associated with someone who has put away childish things, you know
Cuz it's so a childish person or a person who's immature as a person who vaunted themselves. They envy others, you know
They're kind of selfish, you know, but as you grow up as you begin to mature you put away those childish things
Okay, and what happens? Well, you become sound in the faith you become sound in
You know patient and you become sound in charity. You have a love that's without defect
You have a mature love and it should be that as we grow older we begin to love the things of God more not less
And let me say this the Bible tells us
That ye that love the Lord hate evil so you can't grow in your love for the things of God without growing
Also in like manner your hatred for the things that he hates
It's those this thing is like oh, you know, he's older
So he just he loves the Lord more and that's why he's taking a softer stance on these issues
It doesn't work that way
The way it works is as you grow and mature in the Lord
You love the things of God more if you're in the way of righteousness
But guess what along with that in tandem with growing in your love for God, you're also growing in your hatred
For sin you're growing in your hatred for the things that God hates
It should not be the opposite if you have someone say well, I'm just you know
That's how I was back in a day
I used to hate everything and now you know
I've grown up in the Lord and I just I love the Lord now and I'm more patient
But you don't hate the things that God hates then you're you're a liar. You're a compromises what you are
You are a compromiser my friend
And look a perfect example of this is Bob Gray senior a perfect example of this is Alan Domiley a perfect example of this
Is any old IFB preacher who used to be hard preachers from back in the day and now they're a bunch of soft sissies. Oh
No, they matured. No, they haven't they've immatured
Is what it is. Okay, because the Bible says the charity rejoiceth not in iniquity
But
They rejoice in the truth
Whereas you have Alan Domiley who's just rejoicing in iniquity. He wants to vindicate the predator rather than the innocent
That's not right. Okay, that's hypocrisy is what it is
You know these old farts and geezers who are not in found in the way of righteousness. Oh, you shouldn't say that about them
Well, they should have thought twice
Before defending bunch of predators and wicked reprobate pedophiles who as Bob Gray jr. Said they should tie in a
Millstone about their neck and they should be drowned in the depths of the sea
And to that I say amen
Okay
Look, you know Bob Gray jr. I got saved under his preaching. He's a man that I greatly respect
I love him and I admire him and I when I saw that video today
I even shot him a text and I said I just want to thank you cuz
I've always loved you and I've always looked up to you and I'm glad that years later
I can still love you and look up to you
You know cuz he's still found in the way of righteousness. Oh, but is he pre-trip? I don't care
All right, you know if he is then he's a preacher whatever
You know
I'm thankful that he's at least taking a stand and he's not defending these wicked people these wicked reprobates as his contemporaries are
Unfortunately, all right
You know the age and men should be an example unto us. Okay, and
They should be sound in the faith in charity in patience. Their love for people should grow that much the more
Okay, you know and look we take it a step further because we are trying to do what the Bible tells us to do
Which is hate those who hate the Lord
And well, I don't agree with that then you have not yet matured
That's just it your love for God and the things of God has not yet matured then
Because you cannot grow in your love without growing in your hatred for the things that God hates as well
And so we see that there and you know, and he's first mentioning the age and men
He said hey you you you old guys, you know
You need to make sure that you have these qualities that you're growing that you're becoming complete in these areas. Don't compromise
Okay, don't be compromises. Don't just be tolerant of sin
It should be that you get mad about it so much the more as the years go by. Okay
All right, so, you know the aged men they get one verse okay, he's like here's what you got to do do it
verse three the aged women
They get four they get three verses. Okay, and so why is that? Well, let's let's take a look see here
Now, what's what's the what's the age bracket for the age of women? I'm just gonna I'm not gonna say
Yeah
The aged women likewise that they being behavior has become its holiness
not false accusers
That's the first thing he mentions
Don't be a little cheese Mosa
What he's saying, you know why cuz aged women unfortunately, I mean the Bible's telling us here
They probably have the propensity to do that if they're idle, right?
bunch of tattlers gossipers
busybodies
Ah, you know, that's not really yes, it does happen
We threw someone out of our church earlier this year who is a busybody and a tattler who is going from house to house
Going from phone call to phone call
Harassing the people in our church being a busybody and a tattler and we threw her out
Okay, we brought it. You know, we brought her before the church
She was railing on on our pastor at the time, which is pastor Anderson. She was railing on me
She's raining on a bunch of different people and lo and behold
She was accusing people falsely of a bunch of different stuff and it's funny because once we threw her out
You know, everyone started coming up afterwards. Oh, man. Thank you. You know, I'm glad that happened
You know, she came up to me and said this I'm like your belly barely telling me this now
You know people come up to me like oh, man
She would call me and say this and say that I'm like you need to tell me these things
Why are you telling me just now, you know, but they were thinking it was just isolated incidents and events
There's even people who came to our church
Unfortunately for the first time she would she got at them and they never came back after that
You know
You know the Bible tells us that these type of ladies are given have gone after Satan
To become busybodies and toddlers
Just false accusers and he said well, how do I avoid being this type of a person?
Well get married and have children. Amen
And look if you're married and you don't have children husbands keep your wives busy
Doing your tasks taking care of your projects. Well, I don't have projects then get busy and get some projects going
Because women are meant to be keepers at home
They're meant to keep the operation going at the house
Your operation the operation of the children and if there isn't tasks or if there aren't tasks to do at the house if there aren't
Projects to do then they have a propensity to go out and be you know
Go on social media and become a cheese most go on social media and become tattlers, you know
They should be keepers at home and so busy with the things of the house. They don't have time for anything else
Okay
So he says they're not false accusers not given too much wine
teachers of good things now
People have used verse 3 to justify Sunday school, you know female Sunday school teachers
Okay, you've never heard it. I have or they're just like hey, you know
Timothy our Timothy Titus chapter 2
Says that you know, they could be teachers of good things and then automatically associate teaching with anything that comes out of their mouth
All right, but this is not what this is teaching and by the way teaching
Yes, it's primarily done with our our words like for an example from the pulpit, but we also teach with our web behavior and
There's a reason why he starts off by saying the aged women
Likewise that they be in behavior as become as holiness why because our behavior teaches people as well
And in fact the Bible even says ye are our epistles written in our hearts known in red of all men
Right when talking about Christians
He says there are teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober now these qualities that they're gonna go
through
If that's the case that teachers are good things means they could become Sunday school
They could be there that's their deputization of becoming a Sunday school teacher
I've been in Baptist churches in a Baptist Church for ten years and I've never seen a
Female Sunday school teacher teach any of these things. They're usually teaching doctrine
You know, you know salvation or whatever. They're not teaching them to be you know
to be sober
To love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chase keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands
They're teaching them to Jonah story or whatever and I'm not saying it's bad that they're teaching them to Jonah story
What I'm saying is this is that that's not their place
And it's wicked for a woman to get up and teach in church. Now. Look my wife was a Sunday school teacher
Okay. I have the first time I met her. She was teaching a little Sunday school class
You know in the back room behind the baptistry room she was teaching there and you know what one time I was for it
But you know what then you begin to grow
Then you begin to mature and you realize okay, this is wrong. We should not be partaking in this. This is wicked
Oh, you used to do it. Yeah, but I don't anymore
Yeah, but your wife used to do it yeah, but she doesn't anymore
There's a big difference, right and
So the teaching that must be done is through the behavior of a person brother David, can you turn on the AC please?
This is why it says in verse 4 that they may teach the young woman to be sober
To love their husbands. This doesn't mean like they're gonna come to you and say alright
This is what you could do to love your husband
Okay
How do they do it by?
Exemplifying that with their relationship with their spouse. Okay, they become an example
Why is that because things are rather?
caught than top
We actually learn more from someone's example than what they teach sometimes. Okay, and
And so that's why he's telling them there there that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love
their
Children now look this is it the reason you know, Paul's giving three verses to the age of women's because you know
The age of women today they're not teaching these things. What are they teaching divorce your husband?
Go do your own thing, you know be independent get a job you get separate separate bank accounts. You don't need him
You know you got it going on girlfriend
Teaching them stupid stuff
This feminazi culture that seeks to pervert
Women, you know and twist them and try to get them out of the way and unfortunately that stuff infiltrates the church
Where you have women in church who are very independent
You know against their husband they do their own thing. They're self-willed
You know and look you say how do I know if that's me well does this bother you that I'm saying this
You know if it bothers you then you've been influenced by that culture
Okay, you know women ought to be taught to be dependent on their husband
right
Not me I got my own thing going on
You're wicked
Get right with God
Get right with God read the Bible because look you're not getting that from the Word of God
You're getting that from the stupid culture. This is what happens when you watch Disney movies
You know that teach young girls to be independent
You know that teach them to to rebel against their fathers
Right that they don't need you know
It teaches them to rebel against their their their household and go seek out some some faggoty looking guy
You know and they live happily ever after or whatever, you know, this is fantasy
This is not real the real world. God says hey, you need to be in subjection to your own husband submit
That's what he says
Can we use a better word, you know be in subjection?
You
Submit in subjection
Okay, and this is the role. Okay. Now look don't mean submission and subjection to every man
But to your own husband, okay to your own husband not husband, excuse me
That's weird
It says to that they may teach the young men to be sober to love their husbands to love their children
You know aged women should be an example of what it is to raise children and to love them
Okay, and I know aged women who raise children and you know what?
they encourage my wife and I to see them how they how they work with their little kids and how they raise them and
How they train them in the ways of the Lord and you know one thing I've noticed even with older women is that?
They just got a lot more patience with the children. Okay, they seem to have more patience and we learn from that. Okay
Love their children to be discreet
Chased now, what does discreet mean? It means modest
Right, not just in dress though. That's important. Okay, you know, we need a this is something that needs to be preached on a lot
Modesty dress. Okay. Now what does modest means? It means you don't call attention to yourself and
Look just because you wear a skirt
Doesn't mean you're modest
Because what if that skirt is form-fitting and everyone can see your hanger parts and the outline of your hanger parts, that's not modest
That's not holy that's not good
okay, and just because you wear a skirt doesn't mean it's modest because what if it's not fitting but what if it's high and
You sit down the skirt goes up, you know, and then you can see everything in between or whatever, you know
You don't want that to happen and that's not discreet. That's not modest
You know, we need to make sure that we that we try to be far to the right as possible
It's better to just lean all the way to the right
Than to be anywhere close to the left on a position. That's that's questionable
Okay, and husbands teach your wives
Right husbands ought to teach their wives. I'm scared of my wife, you know
Dude you need to like
grow up
Okay, you know you chose to get married you chose to have a wife you courted your wife, you know
And with that you chose the responsibility to lead her and to be able to tell her these things if it needs to be done
And guess what? No one else is gonna do it
You have to do it
so
Men needs that need to have their spiritual eyes open to their wives and say hey, you know
Look, there's nothing wrong with going to your wife and saying hey, I don't like the way that looks go change
Okay, and look sometimes, you know wives they're not necessarily dressing that way because they want to be a modest sometimes
They're just naive about those things
And you know, there's been times even with my wife where she would wear something and and I'll say, you know
I don't really like that. Just go put something else. She's like, okay
You know cuz she knows I'm not trying to be a jerk about it
I'm
Doing it because I'm trying to lead my wife and help her to be discreet to be sober to be chase to be holy
Okay, and look if you're giving me the eye
Suck it up
Okay, and you better get used to it because guess what? We're only two years in
We got many more decades to go and you're gonna hear this over and over and over again
Okay, because look we want to raise up a generation that are modest in clothing not just in spirit
Obviously one of them honest and spirit but in clothing as well
Okay, but also modest in speech too, right?
Where you know, we're not raising up a generation of just loudmouths
You know, the Bible does say does talk about a quiet, you know meek and quiet spirit
Okay
To be discreet chaste. It says they're keepers at home
Now what is a keeper at home?
Well, you think of Cain when God came to him after he slew his brother Abel and he says where is thy brother?
He says am I my brother's keeper what he's saying? Do I guard my brother?
Am I supposed to be watching over my brother?
So a keeper at home is one who guards watches over the household while the father is out being the breadwinner
Etc. So look, this is funny. Okay verse 5 to be discreet chase keepers at home good
Good
Now that's not there by accident. What does that mean? It means ladies you ought to be good at what you do
Right
Be a good keeper at home
Be a good modest dresser be a good cook
Thank you, I thought I was about to be on the island by myself here
Good that means you should have you should be a skilled wife
Right. It means you should be able to operate
The household in such a way that you alleviate the pressures for your husband so he can take care of other things
Okay, you are helping. You're the help me. You're helping your husband become successful
All right, and so you should seek and strive to be good at what you do. Don't be sloppy
Learn how to cook learn how to clean. Amen
Be a good teacher of your children
Okay, which means that you need to be educated. You need to know what you're doing
You need to have good qualities in regards to this
It says obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God be not blasphemed
So it's the same if you don't fulfill these rules
What is the Bible saying? You're actually blaspheming the Word of God that is strong language
That's being stated there don't overlook that in fact, we're gonna spend some time on that
Okay, because obviously this is a very strong condemnation
You know, if you're like, oh, you know, I'm blaspheming the Word of God
You need to get your heart right then and look it obviously starts with the husband's husbands, you know, your wife could only
Do and obey God's Word as much as you set the environment to do so
Which means you need to make sure that you get a job
You need to make sure that you're that you are providing for your household that you're giving your wife the liberty to be able to
Be a keeper at home
Well, you know if I work and you know, she works then you know
We're just not gonna have the nicest of things. Well, boo-hoo
At least you'll be obedient to God. At least you won't be blaspheming the Word of God
So what you're saying is that you rather have good things and just
Blaspheme the Word of God as long as you're having the good things
Not right
Okay, if you need to get a job at Domino's if you need to work for a pizza place
If you got to work for uber eats
There's no shameful job if you're putting bread on the table
You know, we need to make sure look
Folks today in 2019. This isn't talked about enough pastors don't want to talk about this
You know why because pastors have their wives work all the time now
You know, I'm thankful that my father-in-law taught us taught me that hey, you know
If you get married to my to my daughter, you know, you better not make her work
She needs to stay home be a keeper home. You need to provide and you need to figure it out, right?
unfortunately, you know some of the leaders who came out of that leadership did not have that same philosophy and they have their wives working
out in the workplace in the secular realm and
You know, that's shameful. Okay in order to pay for their bills so they can have their luxuries. You know, what if if
Working you working and causing your wife to stay at home and be a keeper home means that you have to go without then go
without
If it means that you have to cut back on some things
Then you can't have some of the nicest things then do it who cares
I'm just thinking about your dignity
You know, it's just like man I need to be providing for my household if not the Bible says you're what worse
Than an infidel an infidel is a non-believer and look
Listen to me
He's not saying you are an infidel
He's insulting you he's saying you're worse
Than an infidel
Why are you calling me an infidel? Oh, no. No, I didn't call you an infidel
You're worse than an infidel
You know where you get what God is doing when you wrote that in the Bible he's hitting you where it hurts
Because men have egos do they not we have egos
You know, I mean and often when it hits the ego it causes us to want to change
I'm not gonna like live like this. I'm gonna make sure that I get a job. I gotta make sure and look
Get whatever you can get and if you have to move out of whatever apartment that you're in
To get something smaller if that's what you have to do
Then that's what you got to do
If it means that you can't go out every Friday on a day night and pay for this luxurious food
Do you love eating then so be it?
Then you're just having two, you know slices of bread with air in between
But at least you're putting bread on the table at least you paid for that bread
Right, you should like hey I pay for this bread man, you know
and look I've been through that many men have been through that where you go through a season when you have to go without and
You know, sometimes it's hard but you know what at least you know, well I bought these beans I
bought this rice
Okay, I purchased this this little you know cheap food here that I'm feeding my family. I'm buying those diapers
Okay, at least I know I'm purchasing those diapers
So we need to make sure that hey look we don't want to go through these extreme
you know a woman needs to not be independent, but a man needs to be independent a
Man needs to learn how to be independent and let me give you an example like nah, I'm spending too much time on that
So
The main motive should be look that we don't want to blaspheme the Word of God
Okay, and why is it that he's saying that we're blaspheming the Word of God if we don't do these things
Because of the fact that you know, when when the world looks at us we should be different
right
we should be
Characterized as the people of sacrifice of obedience and being able to fulfill these roles with a good attitude
amen, and
You know if God says that that's who we are and the and by the way the world knows this
When we don't live as such
You know and then they begin to criticize the Christians the beginning that's why you know
This person is just like, you know, my neighbor is just like my husband what he's talking about being a Christian
He doesn't even go to work and he's a lazy bum. He plays Xbox all day or whatever
You're blaspheming the Word of God
Look if you play Xbox, just don't tell me okay
Look if you play Xbox, but you work and you put food on the table and you're taking care of responsibilities
Then I guess have at it. I would just say you should do something else that's productive with your time. That's fun
You know, I mean go read a book or something
Exercise thyself rather than to godliness. Amen
All right, we'll get off of that
Verse six. So he just got done ripping the aged men the aged women the young women
Verse six says young men likewise exhort to be sober minded and all things showing thyself a pattern of good works and doctrine
showing uncorruptness gravity
Sincerity sound speech that cannot be condemned the heat that is of the contrary part may be ashamed
Having no evil thing to say of you. So the young men. What is he? What is the main thing that he's telling the young man?
Hey, you need to be characterized by good works
In other words having a good work ethic, right? Don't be some lazy slothful bum that doesn't want to work
You know, you shouldn't be a lazy slothful bum that doesn't want to go soul winning
You know, you should be characterized by good works. Okay a
Pattern of good works. That means you're that's what you're known for
You're you are stereotyped as being a person who just always working in the church
He has a job when he comes here. He's a servant, you know, he's just always available
This is what they should be characterized by and he says sober minded and then he says in doctrine showing uncorruptness gravity and sincerity
What is this telling us? It's telling us that young men should be grounded in the Word of God
Bear the yoke in your youth. Don't be coming up with stupid doctrines
Right because here's the temptation for young men sometimes
Okay, the temptation for young men is to get all cute with their doctrine
Well, I think that you know, I came up with this little, you know thing on my own
That's so stupid
That's a diverse and strange doctrine
You need to be grounded in the basics and now which is foundational and mess with that at some later time
Okay, you know, I don't know. I just think the earth is flat. I
Just I see you doing some scriptures that can be interpreted that way. Why don't you just interpret the scriptures that we do know?
Okay, why don't you try to learn the doctrine that is already established before you start getting all cute with your doctrine?
You know
Everyone always wants to have some edge and some corner of some teaching and they don't even have the basics down
Okay, they're trying to slam dunk before they can do a layup
Right. I want to be able to do a slam dunk. It's like can you even do a free throw?
Can we talk about the free throw first? Can we talk about the layup first, right?
They want to skip steps not knowing that hey these steps are essential and they're vital for you to be actually be sound in the faith
So you're not coming up with foolish doctrines later on and look we've all done it
I've done it, you know where you're new in the faith and you try to get cute with certain doctrines
And then you're proven wrong later on, you know best to just take advice about this and have
Doctrine that is uncorrupt. It's grave. It's serious and it's sincere. It's pure. Okay verse 8 says sound speech
What does that mean your speech should be without corruption?
Okay, you know
You
Shouldn't be characterized as a person that just always puts their foot in their mouth. You shouldn't be an impetuous person
You know what impetuous means it's just they talk without thinking
You ever met someone who just says something really stupid and they wish they had like some fishing line where they can just reel that
Thing back into their mouths. Like I've never had anybody like that. Well, you're probably the person that and then that's why
You
Know we you know young men should be characterized as people that think before they talk
Okay, and that your speech should be characterized as something that you know, when this person talks he has something to say
You know, it's grave. It's sound. It's proper it
merits respect
And look, here's here's some advice to you young men. Okay?
You
Don't always have to pipe in on certain conversations and act like a know-it-all
But I do know it
No one cares
Because often sometimes, you know older people they don't they don't necessarily
Give heed to younger people who are just always piping up with the opinion that they know everything and look most people say this
Oh, I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know I know
Let me just let me just let me just tell you something. They don't know as much as they think that they know
The Bible says be swift here slow to speak
Better to just listen, you know who I you know who I observe as those who observe
That's who I observe
The person who gets my attention is not always the one who's always piping up
It's the one who's quiet and just reserved and just listens
That's a wise person
Right. He is esteemed a man of understanding because he's shutting his lips. I
Think that's is that my alarm
Maybe I've been hearing things. I mean I am getting old. I don't Sunday that happened. I was like is that Christmas music or something? I
Gotta be sound in the faith. Hey, man
Sound speech that cannot be condemned
You know, it's embarrassing when you say something stupid and then you get rebuked for it. You get condemned for it
That's embarrassing or how about when you say something stupid or you give a fact like this if you know it and then it's wrong
That's embarrassing and you got to cover your tracks. Well, that's not really what I said. That's not really what I meant
No, why don't you just have sound speech that cannot be condemned?
Why don't you only speak that what you know, and in that point you don't even have to say that
Just pipe down sometimes
Amen
The cannot be condemned that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of
You okay, and look often people who try to you know
They say a lot are people who have the need to persuade
They have a need to persuade that they're smart that they know something that they have everything down pat
They don't have problems with anything. They're just they have their Christian life right where it needs to be. You're not fooling anybody
Okay
Better to be a person who is just learning
You know, don't be a know-it-all you could always learn something from someone
Okay, and don't ever have this attitude like well, you know
This person can't teach me anything or the pastor can't teach me anything
This aged person is not gonna teach me anything
We can learn something from everyone and the day you believe you can is the day that you're gonna you're gonna stop learning
It's the day you become puffed up prideful and foolish and you will be ashamed. Okay, so young men
Hey be sober minded
Okay, you know don't cloud your thoughts with foolish thinking
What does it mean to be sober-minded means your focus
Okay, be focused be sober-minded, you know, obviously young men should be goal oriented, right and
The reason why you should be goal oriented is because of the fact that you have years
You have years to be able to perfect habits and goals and achievements while you're young
But you know if you waste your time as a young man doing stupid stuff playing video games
Doing that which is vain you're gonna be in your 30s and 40s and have nothing to show for it
You want to be someone who is sober-minded?
Okay, you know and look we need 20 year olds that are just different from the 20 year olds that are out there
We need 20 years that are different from the 30 year olds
We need 30 we need 20 year olds that are different from the 15 year olds
Because some 20 year olds still act like 15 year olds
You know a 20 year old today should be someone in their 20s someone who's preparing to get married. Amen
Someone who's seeking a wife
They're reading their Bibles. They are they're serving in the church. They're they're giving their time unto the Lord
Their goals though some of them may be secular goals
Most of their goals are leaning towards the church seeing people saved
Hey young man, you should have a goal to be a team leader in our church
Like man, that's that's something I want to achieve one day is to be a team leader in the church
So I can lead a group of people, you know young men should strive to be leaders now
I don't know
I'm just saying like to be a pastor but you know what if you're gonna get married you're gonna lead a wife
You're gonna lead children. It's good to learn leadership qualities be sober-minded
Verse 9 says exhort servants
To be obedient to their own masters and to please them
Well in all things not answering again. In other words, don't talk back
So what does he say? Hey, you need to be a faithful and loyal employee. Okay, be good to your boss
Make sure that you're obedient to them in all things. Well, that's not part of my job description do it anyways
Do what you're supposed to do, even if it wasn't in the job description, okay
That's what he's basically saying there not answering again
Don't don't be this person who's just always back talking you you just got this
You just got this habit
Because you know, you're right and your boss is wrong. You're just gonna you're gonna tell them how it is
You know, you're a prideful person. This is not how you should be how you be verse 10 says not purloining
What does that mean don't steal from your boss?
Don't steal paper clips or money or pens or how about this time?
right
You should work the time that you are being paid for and then some
You should be as the Bible says the person who goes the extra mile. Okay, the person who's willing to walk
Twain as the Bible says miles for your boss and do above what is expected of you
Not answering again not purloining but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things now
Here's what's interesting is that you'll hear about the conversation conversation is what conduct, right?
But we often associate conversation with our words
Now in first Peter chapter 3 when it's talking to the wives
It says that they can win their husbands with their conversation and it's not referring to their words. It's referring to their conduct and
In like manner when it says adorn
We often things we often think that something that is adorn is something on the outside. You know, you adorn yourself with clothing
But in first Peter chapter 3 those who are adorning should be those now doing with the plating of hair
But rather with the meek and quiet spirit right emphasizing the the inward man and here it says
That when young men young women aged men aged women
Fulfill these roles they adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things. We make the doctrine look good
You know, I mean your boss sees you working hard and you know you are
Early you leave later. You're fulfilling your responsibilities. What are you doing? You are adorning your you're making that doctor
That reprobate doctrine looks so much better now
right
you know when when you're trying to win your spouse to the Lord and
You you're like you need to submit to me. You know, the bottle says you need to submit to me woman
But you're not dwelling with her according to knowledge
You're not adorning the doctrine
However, a man who loves his wife as Christ loved the church, even if she's unsaved and you're trying to win her over
You know what you're doing? You're adorning that doctrine
It's like well, you know submission doesn't look that bad anymore
Actually, that doctrine looks pretty good now because my husband loves me as Christ loves the church, right?
When you're trying to win your husband to the Lord, okay, or maybe he's saved and he's not in church or whatever
Maybe you know preaching to him does not work
Nagi doesn't work. I
Forgot about that
Let's read let's go back. Okay, we're gonna start all over again. Let's talk about nagging for a bit. Okay
What is nagging just like?
I'm wives. Let me just teach you something and if you don't want to listen to this well too bad
Nagging
Gets you nowhere and
In fact, you know nagging does to your husband it pushes them further in the opposite direction. Do you want your him to go?
Because we have with something called ego and when a woman tries to tell us what to do
Well, just for that. I'm gonna do the opposite even if it's harmful to me
I'm being honest with you. You know why the men are laughing because it's true
This is a true saying and worthy of all expectation
Okay
Don't be a nagging wife. You will get nothing accomplished with that
Well, how am I supposed to win him over Oh submit?
reverence love read first Peter chapter 3
Read Ephesians chapter number 5 God has already set forth what you need to do and I guarantee you
This will win your husband over more than anything else
Not nagging though and look not preaching either
Why no more Bible than him don't tell him that
He will not like that at all
and in fact, he'd be like, well now I'm really not going to church and
Now I'm really not going soul winning because what are they teaching you at that church? Is that Church teaching you to be this way?
Think about that
You're not really adorning our church very well, either
You know the women in our church who don't have husbands in their church
You know what you need to do? You need to be the best what the best cook
submit to your husband
Keep your mouth shut. Oh
You shouldn't use that terminology. I just did
You know, you need to love your husband reverence him I'm telling you it works
Your husband be like what time is church? We're going
If that's what the pastor's down there teaching you oh, I like that church
You know, you know kind of church
Husbands hate are the faggoty churches that teach women to be independent
That's why today churches are filled with women
the liberal churches filled with women
You know why because it appeals to the women because the guy is so effeminate and faggoty
It's aesthetically pleasing to the women of the church and men who are men don't like that crap
They're like, why would I want to go there see some homo looking pastor?
With the hard part the fool can't even part his own hair, right?
Hey, this is this is not a hard part folks
This took years. Okay
Come forward you split that thing you Moses it it splits it, okay
You know, why would I want to go to some church where the pastor's teaching my wife to be this nagging banshee
Trying to teach me doctrine saying that I'm not right with God they don't want to go to that
Chill up children churches today are filled with children and wives
Not men unfortunately now here we got a bunch of men, amen
Thank God for that and I've known churches to have they're very male oriented because the man was the leader was a man
He led like a man
And look women you should be happy there
Your your your father and your husband likes this kind of church
Because it's gonna make them the man that you need him to be
You
Know this is the kind of church that men need today
This is the kind of shirts that women's husbands need today because it'll man them up
Why just you know, I just want to go to some church where we sing songs and the purple lighting and all this junk
Then you're gonna have a stoneless husband. That's what's gonna happen
You're gonna have a husband that's without backbone without so and guess what? He's not gonna love you
Who's gonna be loving he's gonna be loving the the the worship leader?
There's a woman as well
You know the the team that's up there. That's what he's gonna be doing
That's why adultery is so prevalent in these churches these liberal churches because of their loose environment
Okay
What was I going what was I talking about
Maggie okay, don't preach to your husband
Why because you're not look teaching him the reprobate doctrine and getting on him because he doesn't believe it
Doesn't adorn that doctrine at all. It makes you look disgusting to him
He's like, I don't want nothing to do with this
But when you reverence you love you fulfill your biblical role
You know, they think twice they're like, okay, you know, this is this is good. This seems good
Well, what's that? You're submitting to me? Oh great. You're picking up you're picking up my dirty clothes
That's not you're making me my meals. This doctrine looks pretty good and
Then they're more open to you know, God knows what he's talking about
He created man. He created women and he knows how they function what attracts them so on and so forth. And so
We need to make sure that we fulfill these roles in this manner, okay, we adorn the doctrine we don't adorn the job
You know, you sometimes people have this doctrine. This is just all tattered
It doesn't look good. The lipstick is too bright
You know what? I mean? The the clothes are from like the 80s
Look very good. You know, we want to make sure that we make this document look styling profiling
Okay, and we do the way we do that is making sure that we fulfill our roles
Okay as God told us to do
Says in verse 11 for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust we shall live soberly righteously and godly in this present world
Looking for that blessed. Hope and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ now
Here's the thing is the reason he's teaching them this is because the rest of the world is not doing it and
The reason I'm teaching this is because the rest of the world today is not doing it
This is why it says in verse 14 who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself
a peculiar people
Zealous of good works. Well, that's kind of weird that you guys believe that. Yeah, it's peculiar, isn't it?
It's strange. It's foreign to this world
But that's what makes it attractive and look you have great doctrine with great Christian living you'll attract the lost to
Zealous of good works look at verse 15 these things speak exhort and rebuke with all authority
Let no man despise thee. I love this verse
He says look everything. I just told you Titus. I don't care who's there if they're aged men aged women
I don't care what age bracket they come from you speak this you rebuke this with all authority and
Look Titus, let no man despise thee. What does that mean?
You know if someone hates you for what you're saying don't even regard that this is what you tell the people
You know when people come here that I don't like this kind of preaching. There's the door
No one's forcing you to stay we don't sign a membership covenant here
This contract that just binds you to first works Baptist Church
You don't like this kind of teaching don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you
Go somewhere else
You despise this prophesying. I don't let anybody despise the prophesying here
If you despise it go somewhere else or here. Here's your two options go somewhere else or shut your mouth I
Don't agree with you about that. Okay. Those are your two options
right
Because of the fact it says here let no man. He's instilling confidence in Titus
To say hey
Let loose broke
Let loose rebuke reprove and you have the authority to do so and if someone despises you for it out of here
Well, you're not gonna you're not gonna really reach a whole lot of people preaching like that
Well, you know you have by that statement alone shows you have the wrong motive for serving God
You're just trying to build the church
We serve God and we obey God by doing exactly what he tells us to do regardless of the outcome. Okay?
Let no man despise the a chapter 2 is good. Amen, you know, I thought it wasn't gonna be bombastic
but it's actually pretty bombastic towards the end and
What what is this teaching? What is the sum of the chapter? He is basically this. Hey believe right but act right, too
Okay, you know read these roles
but fulfill your roles to
Believe right but also behave right as well if we're gonna adorn the doctrine of
God let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word and
Thank you for Titus chapter 2 and great admonitions in here
And it's great that even 2,000 years later still relevant to us today and we can learn so much from it
I pray God that you'd help us Lord
to adorn your doctrine obviously we fail sometimes and
We fall short
but I pray God that we continue to work and
And improve ourselves as Christians and our behavior that we would not lean into our own understanding
But in all our ways acknowledge you acknowledge what you say and just have faith in the Word of God
Sometimes maybe wise may think well, I just don't think that submission will work
But they need to have faith in the fact that you said that it works and therefore it will
Men may think well, you know to dwell with them according to knowledge to love my wife as Christ love the church
You don't know my wife
Well, you know this is all across the board the truth for any husband
with any wife and I pray God that you help us to give heed to that and have faith in your word and
To put in the effort to fulfill our roles as best as we can and in Jesus name we pray. Amen