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Anybody got a bulletin?
Does anybody need a bulletin?
Somebody needs one?
All right.
All right, thank you, Brother Rylan.
All right, on our front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, Be kindly affection one to another with brotherly love and honor, preferring one another.
Romans chapter 12 verse 10.
Our service times are Sunday morning at 10.30 a.m. and Sunday evening at 3.30 p.m.
Sunday or Thursday Bible studies at 6.30 p.m.
That's tonight.
We're in Titus chapter number 2.
And our so many times are listed below.
Our praise report, you can see the salvations, baptisms, and attendance totals at the bottom there.
And the Red Hot Preaching Conference is over, but it went well and had a great time there, a lot of great preaching.
I think it was one of the best red hot preaching conferences that there has been.
It's definitely up there in the – there's been seven, so it's definitely up there near the beginning, I think.
So the best.
But anyway, what's coming up for us is I'm adding to our four-year anniversary list of preachers.
We have Deacon Corbin Russell is going to be actually driving up here, and he's bringing a baby grand piano.
And so the first call is for – I need men to help with the piano when he gets here.
So I'm not sure what time he's going to get here exactly.
He's thinking afternoon, so all the men work in this church, so we'll probably have to be in the afternoon.
So I'm going to come help.
Has anybody volunteered that I don't know about, Brandon, Remy?
All right, so it'll probably be somewhere around like 4 o'clock or something, but I need five men.
So it's pretty heavy, I guess, but it's going to be up – it's going to be on a dolly.
All the stuff that we need is going to be here.
And we're going to put it right there, so we'll probably need to clear a spot Sunday night for it to go to
and probably have to fold up that so we can just kind of get it right in there.
And we have someone Thursday coming to tune it.
Is that right, Nia?
Okay, someone's coming to tune it Thursday, so it should be in action by the anniversary.
So that's going to be cool, having a real piano.
Not that that one's not real, but it's just electric.
So it's a baby grand, okay?
You don't understand.
So anyway, but then he's – Deacon Corbin Russell's going to be preaching for us on Thursday night
to kind of kick off our anniversary weekend.
So he'll be preaching at 630, and then we'll be having – preaching Friday night also by Pastor Jared Przyarnski
from Hold Fast Baptist Church.
He's going to be preaching Friday, 630.
I think I put 7 o'clock in the Facebook thing I made, but I might make it 7 actually.
So Friday night is kind of tough to get here, but I don't know, it's a double-edged sword.
Get to bed later.
Let's go with 630.
All right, so it's Saturday.
I shouldn't ponder these things when I'm up here.
I should just – am I saying this stuff out loud?
Saturday will be our soul-winning time.
We'll be at 1030 in the morning, and we're probably going to have a few groups go out.
We'll need some captains for that.
And it says barbecue.
I think the barbecue bounce house thing is not going to happen,
so we're probably going to plan something else like maybe the jumping trampoline place, people like that.
Kids of all ages, even adults of all ages.
It's kind of something everybody can do.
It's free.
I mean, what else do you want?
No, I'm just kidding.
So it will probably be that, but I was hoping I could get a volunteer to kind of set that up.
Is there anybody that has experience in these things?
No.
They might be able to get the contract going.
If there's anybody that would like to help with that, I'd appreciate it.
So just getting it set up for the times.
I think the time is going to be at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on a Saturday.
So that's probably when everybody in Clark County is going to be there.
But we need to find out if we can actually, do you know if we can bring food into there?
Or do they have their own special Chuck E. Cheese style pizza that's disgusting and tastes like cardboard?
Huh?
Okay.
All right.
We'll get it figured out.
But anyway, we're going to do something family friendly on this Saturday afternoon.
And then Sunday, Pastor Joan Jones will be preaching for us on Sunday morning at 1030 a.m.
I'll be preaching the evening service.
And I think that's all we have scheduled right now for the announcements.
So I'm going to skip through all the rest of the stuff here.
Did anybody miss their birthday getting sang to them?
What is the date?
What day is it?
Yeah.
Callie, we missed your birthday?
You know, actually I was going to sing my dad's birthday this Saturday.
Okay.
And she was saying to keep it as not a birthday, like a pretend birthday.
Okay.
So make sure to sing happy birthday to them on Sunday is what you're saying.
Okay.
Perfect.
All right.
Rylan, will you write that down that we need to put his birthday in the bulletin?
Okay.
Huh?
It was Annie's birthday?
Was she not here?
Are you busted?
We didn't sing happy birthday?
Let's sing happy birthday to Annie right now.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, God bless you.
Happy birthday to you.
All right.
That's all I've got for announcements.
Let's sing another song and we'll receive the offering.
All right.
Let's open up our hymnals, page 312.
Open my eyes that I may see, page 312.
Page 312.
Open my eyes that I may see.
Sing out loud with me on the first.
Open my eyes that I may see.
Blimpses of truth thou hast for me.
Place in my hands the wonderful key that shall unclasp and set me free.
Silently now I wait for thee.
Ready my God thy will to see.
Open my eyes, illumine me, spirit divine.
Open my ears that I may hear.
Voices of truth thou sendest clear.
And while the wave notes fall on my ear, everything full shall disappear.
Silently now I wait for thee.
Ready my God thy will to see.
Open my ears, illumine me, spirit divine.
On the last.
Open my mouth and let me bear.
Gladly the warm truth everywhere.
Open my heart and let me prepare.
Love with thy children thus to share.
Silently now I wait for thee.
Ready my God thy will to see.
Open my heart, illumine me, spirit divine.
Amen. Great singing everyone.
At this time we'll receive our offering.
Brother Sean, can you bless the offering for us?
Heavenly Father, again I thank you for this day and for this church, Lord.
I just pray that you would fill Pastor Thompson with the Spirit, Lord.
I pray that you would give us ears to hear the message, Lord.
Please help him to preach bold to us, Lord.
And please help us to be attentive to the word.
And I pray you bless this offering.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Amen.
All right, everybody, we're going to pray for our prayer requests.
So if we could all bow our heads together, let's pray.
Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, so much for the opportunity to come to you in Jesus' name.
And we ask, Lord, for special protection for our church and for Steadfast Baptist Church, Lord.
And also our church plants around this country and around the world.
And we thank you for the faithfulness of Brother Ian and his wife, Lisa, and their children.
And I'm thankful for their new building that they got into.
And I pray that you do continue to do mighty works through our church over in the UK.
And, Lord, I pray that you bless the brethren in Canada as they go to Edmonton for a special Solany Marathon
and a fellowship with another church in Alberta, I mean in Edmonton.
And we just pray that you would bless that and that many people would be saved.
And, Lord, we ask that you watch over our church family in Spokane.
We thank you for the Graber's new baby.
And I just pray that you would just bless Brother Jason and his wife and their new baby.
And I just pray that you would, Lord, watch over our church and protect it.
And just pray for our upcoming services where we celebrate our four years as a Sure Foundation Baptist Church.
And, Lord, I'm so thankful that we have this church here.
And when I think about the possibility of it not being here, Lord, I just don't even want to think about that.
I'm just so thankful, Lord, for everything you provided for us and everything, all the great people that come to our church.
And we just ask that you would continue to bless, Lord, and that we would see some people saved, more people saved this month.
And we ask, Lord, that you would help us to go to the fruitful areas that we can get more people saved, Lord.
And we also ask that you would watch over Miss Alana tonight as she has had her water break.
And, Lord, her child is coming at any moment.
And I just pray that you would just bless her and Kyle and the baby.
And just pray that everything would go safe and that the mom and baby would be healthy.
We also pray for the prayer requests for people that are sick, Lord,
and we ask that you would help them to feel better and get back to church as soon as possible.
We also ask that you would watch over all the mothers that are pregnant, Lord, Miss Chantelle and Miss Amy also.
And also for an unspoken for the Bata family, pray that you would bless that according to your will, Lord.
And for Miss Amy, a prayer for her brother-in-law for healing.
And also an unspoken for Miss Sherry, an unspoken prayer for Miss Julene.
And a prayer for the Velasquez family with things concerning their home and their buyer
and just all the complications that are going on with that.
I pray that you would just help them just navigate those waters, Lord,
and help everything to go well and their house to sell and for them to be able to buy a new house here in Vancouver.
And we ask for healing for Miss Sheila and that the pain that she's been going through
would ease up for Miss Sarah.
She wants to say thank you, Lord, for being able to move into her new home.
Pray for her physical health and work opportunities for her.
And also for Miss Leilani that you would continue to bless her, Lord,
that she would continue to receive good results from her appointments that she's been going to
and that she'd find a place here in Vancouver that's within her budget.
We ask for the Harrington family, a spiritual unspoken, for their kids.
And also a prayer for Penny James who has cancer, Lord.
I pray that you would heal her according to your mercies and long suffering.
And also, Lord, for Heidi who has a brain tumor.
And, Lord, I just pray that you would answer all these requests, Lord, in your blessed name, Lord Jesus.
Amen.
All right, good evening.
If you would turn with me to the book of Titus, and we're looking at chapter 2.
Titus chapter 2.
Oh, that's better.
Titus chapter 2, and as is our custom, we're going to read the whole chapter.
And we do that so that you can hear the verses preached from the entire context of the chapter,
because we want you to know that everything preached here agrees with the whole counsel of God.
Titus chapter 2, verse 1.
But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine, that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
The aged women, likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers,
not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they may teach the young women to be sober,
to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Young men, likewise, exhort to be sober-minded.
In all things, showing thyself a pattern of good works.
In doctrine, showing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity.
Sound speech that cannot be condemned, that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed,
having no evil thing to say of you.
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things,
not answering again, not purloining, but showing all fidelity,
that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in all things.
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust,
we should 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, who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity
and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
These things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority.
Let no man despise thee.
Brother Robert, would you pray for us?
Amen.
Well, it's great to be back in the book of Titus here.
We got through chapter number one, which took about four sermons.
So, this one I'm going to just preach in two sermons.
I'm going to break it up into two different ones.
Basically, this chapter is highlighted by the first verse, which the Bible says,
but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.
There's a lot of edification and Paul exhorting these pastors, even in the book of Timothy,
where he uses this phrase, sound doctrine.
So, I'm going to be preaching about sound doctrine.
And then, I'm just going to kind of go over the few verses that it actually says out in the Bible,
and then I'm going to kind of, it kind of breaks off into this chapter
and starts naming a certain demographic of people in the church.
So, it has the aged men or aged men, the aged women or aged women,
and then it has the young men and the young women.
So, I'll break it down that way.
And today, I'm just going to focus on sound doctrine and the aged men and the aged women.
So, there's plenty to say about all that.
So, but sound doctrine, what does sound mean?
Well, it means it's based on reason, sense or judgment.
And so, obviously, sound has lots of different meanings,
but when it's talking about sound doctrine, it's talking about doctrine that's based on reason, sense or judgment.
So, if the doctrine makes, and honestly, as long as the Bible says it, it should make sense.
So, even if you think, well, that's really kind of hard to believe or that's really different,
if the Bible says it, it's true.
Period. This is the only book that we can count on in this world to actually be true.
There's a lot of deceivers out there and people that like to twist this book,
and they like to corrupt this book and make new books that are called the Bible,
but they're not really the Bible, are they?
So, we got to get sound doctrine from the Word of God.
And of course, we can trust the King James.
If you're an English speaker, you should be able to trust the King James.
Not you should be able to.
You should trust the King James because it's right.
And, you know, basically, we should be able to look though at sound doctrine and say,
hey, this is reasonable, it makes sense, and it's judgment.
It's sound judgment, it's sound doctrine.
But the doctrine means teaching, right?
So, things that make sense, things that are reasonable,
and judgment when it concerns teaching or doctrine.
That's what doctrine is.
It's the teaching of the Bible.
So, let's look down.
Let's turn over to 1 Timothy 1, verse 8,
and we'll just go to the other mentions in the Scriptures where it says this term, sound doctrine.
And, like I said, you're going to find it in 1 and 2 Timothy.
You're going to find it back in chapter 1 of Titus, which we've already covered,
and then here in chapter 2.
So, four different times it's mentioned in the Bible.
It's mentioned in Paul's epistles to Titus and Timothy, which are pastors.
So, let's look at 1 Timothy 1, verse 8, the Bible says,
But we know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully,
knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient,
for the ungodly and for sinners,
for unholy and profane,
for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers,
for manslayers, for whoremongers,
for them to defile themselves with mankind,
for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons,
and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.
So, all that stuff is contrary to sound doctrine.
So, those are the things that a pastor should probably preach about
at some point in their ministry and bring these things to our attention.
But I thought it was really interesting that it says,
for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers.
And, you know, the Bible says you're not supposed to,
if you smite your mother or father, you know,
that you're going to, you should surely be put to death, right?
So, that's what, I mean, if you would say that that's the interpretation of that,
I believe that that's what it's talking about.
That's what the Apostle Paul is talking about.
You know, because it never says, you know, kill your mother,
but it's, you know, smite can mean to hit somebody,
it also can mean to kill somebody.
Because, like, if you think about it,
Saul was kind of caught with his pants down, so to speak,
and one of David's men, I can't remember,
it was one of Joab, one of Joab's brothers said,
I'll smite him to the ground once, you know,
like he was just going to, it's only going to take one shot, right?
And he's talking about killing him,
so smiting can mean killing or it can mean hitting.
But anyway, I just, that's a big list there.
But I'm not going to focus on those lists tonight,
but just notice how it says that those things are contrary to sound doctrine.
So, as a pastor, I'm supposed to teach, you know, contrary to this.
So, sound doctrine would be not to do these things, right?
So, the law is good if a man use it lawfully.
Now, we don't have to keep the law to be saved,
but obviously, the Bible says that his commandments are not grievous unto us,
and Jesus said, if you love me, keep my suggestions.
No, he said, if you love me, keep my commandments, didn't he?
So, we are still supposed to keep the commandments,
and that's going to make sure that we have a good life here on earth,
and obviously, everybody falls short, we're all sinners,
we all deserve the second death,
but God's given us a stay of execution, hasn't he?
If you're saved tonight.
And so, that's the first instance I want to show you from 1 Timothy.
I think in order, that's the first, yes,
that's the first mention of sound doctrine in the Bible there.
So, and now let's look over at 2 Timothy 4,
just maybe a page or two over in your Bible.
2 Timothy 4, we'll look at the second time that appears in the Scriptures.
It says in verse 1,
I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,
preach the word, be instant in season, out of season,
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine,
for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,
but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves
teachers having itching ears,
and they shall turn away their ears from the truth
and shall be turned unto fables,
but watch thou in all things endure afflictions,
do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry.
So, but that term appears in verse number 3 where it says,
for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
So, why is it so important?
Because there's coming a time, which I think we're pretty much there,
where people will not endure sound doctrine.
People say they're a Christian,
and they say, where does it say that in the Bible?
And you show them right where it says it,
and they'll just be like, well, what about this verse though?
And it's like, people can't endure sound doctrine.
There's so many teachers out there,
and people want to heap to themselves these teachers
having itching ears.
It means that they want to have their ears tickled.
They want to be, you know, they want to be taught
what they want to be taught,
not what the Bible teaches and not what God teaches.
So, they'll reject the Bible.
They'll reject what God's Word says over their teachers,
over men that would just preach and teach for doctrines,
the commandments of men.
There's a lot of that going on lately
where people are just taking things and saying,
thus saith the Lord, when that's not what it really says.
It's garbage.
And so, as a preacher, Paul is warning Timothy
to make sure that, you know,
if there's things that are contrary to sound doctrine,
you teach the opposite of, you know,
people that would do these wicked sins,
and we're supposed to use the law as a schoolmaster
to bring people to Christ, obviously,
but also when there's wicked people
that are preaching and teaching wicked things,
we're supposed to rebuke them
with all long suffering and doctrine.
We're supposed to preach the Word instant,
in season, out of season.
We're supposed to reprove.
We're supposed to rebuke, exhort, okay?
So, I know that's not popular these days,
but that's what the Bible actually says,
that a pastor isn't just supposed to get up
and tell a fluffy story,
tell you a couple poems, you know,
make his sermon all about some Hollywood movie
that they saw last week,
and give you the points of the Return of the King
or Return of the Jedi or whatever it is,
Buzz Lightyear, you know, that wouldn't surprise me
if someone used Buzz Lightyear.
See, we should accept all of them, you know, whatever.
But it's very important that we get sound doctrine,
and hey, if someone's a pastor,
they should be preaching sound doctrine,
because you know what, the time has come
when people aren't gonna endure sound doctrine,
so it's even more important.
It's always been important for a pastor
to preach sound doctrine,
but even more in the last days.
You know, and some people will hear the truth, though.
Some people do love the truth,
and if you love the truth,
then you're gonna love God's Word,
you're gonna love what the Bible says,
you're gonna love Bible preaching,
and you're not gonna be offended by it, okay?
And the Bible says that, you know,
I'm trying to think of that verse
where it talks about, good night, I'm tired.
But anyway, let's move over to the next verse,
which is Titus chapter one,
which we were in for four weeks.
But Titus chapter one, verse nine,
the Bible says, holding fast the faithful word
as he hath been taught,
that he may be able by sound doctrine
both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
So in Titus chapter number one,
the Bible teaches that by sound doctrine
we're supposed to exhort and convince people,
those that would try to gainsay.
You know, and obviously,
you can give the truth to people a lot,
and they still are not going to receive it.
The verse I was thinking of was,
great peace have they which love thy law,
and nothing shall offend them.
My Biden moment went away, I came back here.
But yeah, I was cured.
But yeah, so nothing should offend
the people of God that love His Word.
Great peace have they that love thy law,
and nothing shall offend them.
So these people that get just ultra offended
over every single little thing,
or by some hard preaching, you know,
that's contrary to sound doctrine, isn't it?
Because the Bible says that we're supposed
to not be offended about them.
If you love God's law, if you love God's Word,
you should not be offended by it.
Just sick of all this, you know,
this lily livered pink tea,
you know, pink tea lemonade Christianity.
And these skinny jean preachers
that are just low on testosterone,
you know, they don't know how to preach
the Bible at all, and they're up here
on a bar stool with a cigar in their hand
and a glass of scotch telling people,
you know, what the Bible says.
With their see-through pulpits and stuff.
And their drum set behind it.
You know what, this church is never gonna have
a drum set behind it, ever.
Show me chapter and verse where it talks
about drums in the Bible.
I'll wait.
Oh, what about the cymbals?
That's a cymbal.
It's in the percussion family.
It's a brass cymbal.
It doesn't sound like,
like some drum beat.
We're not at some, you know,
psychedelic, you know, hippie fest
where everybody's eating granola
in the trees, okay?
We're at a Bible-believing Baptist church.
We're not keeping some drum beat.
This isn't Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg,
you know, Baptist church.
This is Sure Foundation Baptist church
where we're gonna have some God-honoring
songs, or some God-honoring music
in this place.
We're not gonna just turn the
smoke and lights on with the purple lights
and, you know, singing Living on a Prayer
by Bon Jovi or something.
Not happening here.
I don't know why I got off on that,
but just tired of liberalism, man.
I'm tired of it in our churches.
You know, there's a lot of pastors out there
just too afraid to preach the Bible
and they're afraid to preach sound doctrine.
They're afraid of what their church is gonna do.
They're afraid, you know,
if it was just me and my family here
and everybody else wanted to be with the teachers,
with itching ears, and, you know,
you wanna go to Joyce Meyer
and Kenneth Copeland and T.D. Jakes
and, you know, what's the guy,
the COVID-19 guy, what's his name?
What's his name again?
He's got the demon eyes,
you know what I'm talking about?
Oh, it is Kenneth.
I already said him.
Okay, how about, I don't know,
there's a bunch of false prophets out there.
Get me the list.
You know, it's huge.
So, but, you know,
we gotta be in a church that wants to preach
and does preach sound doctrine.
Even when the men get up here and preach,
you know, they're preaching the Bible.
I appreciate that.
I know that I can, you know,
leave and go to a conference like that
and I know that if I pick a man to get up here
and preach the Bible,
that's exactly what they're gonna do.
They're not gonna preach their own opinion.
They're not gonna preach, you know,
with zero Bible verses.
They're gonna preach Bible verses
and even too many sometimes,
but I do the same thing.
But, you know what, it's better to preach more Bible
and, you know, more of God and less of us.
So, did I already read that verse
in Titus chapter one verse nine?
You guys gotta forgive me.
I'm tired tonight.
Anyway, so Paul, like I said,
he begins to list these examples
to specify groups of believers
and number one, what we're gonna look at tonight
is the aged men or older men
is what that really means
and I don't know when,
I guess maybe when you get past,
you know, 40 or something, I guess.
No, that's not aged.
90?
Come on, no.
It could be.
But, like, how many 90-year-olds are there
in here tonight?
Zero.
So, I would say maybe when you start getting gray-headed,
gray-headed or something,
well, brother Sean, sorry, man.
Some people are wise beyond their years.
Doesn't it say, like, the glory of an old man
is his gray head or something like that
or his hoary head?
Yeah.
Sorry, brother.
Well, that's your glory, brother Sean, yeah?
Them old gray hairs.
All right.
Let's look at Titus chapter two verse two, okay?
Good night.
Gonna move along this sermon here.
So, it says that the aged men
be sober,
grave,
temperate,
sound in faith,
in charity,
in patience.
Now, we might argue what is an aged man?
Well, I would say that I'm probably,
I wouldn't consider myself a young man.
So, I'm probably, you know,
it kind of categorizes us here.
Aged men, aged women,
young men, young women in this chapter.
So, I mean, when you look at me,
you probably don't go,
look at that young man.
So, what category do you think
I'm gonna fall into?
Probably aged, right?
And age can, you know,
can just go on up.
I mean, when you're still aged,
when you're 90, aren't you?
But anyway, so, you know,
it's kind of when you,
you start looking old, I guess.
I don't know.
I'm getting there.
So, the ministry has, you know,
changed my hair color.
But anyway, I got, you know,
I'm 47 years old,
so I wouldn't consider myself
to be young.
But I do want to kind of focus
on some of these,
just like one thing out of this list
for each category here.
Now, it says, you know,
that the age,
so we're talking about sound doctrine.
So, what's Paul gonna do?
He's gonna give us some sound doctrine
for aged men.
So, being sober,
that means not drunk, right?
Grave means serious.
You know, there's times, you know,
obviously there's times to have fun
and there's times to be serious.
And we need to have a serious attitude
when it comes to the things of God
and temperate,
moderation in all things,
not just one thing, but all things.
So, we gotta have,
that's what it's talking about
for the aged men.
These things are specified
per the category here.
But a lot of them kind of
run together here.
But notice that there are things
that the pastor had to meet
as qualifications too.
So, you know, people like
think that pastors are like,
have to be ultra-spiritual
in comparison to everybody else.
There's probably some more spiritual people
in here than I am.
But that doesn't mean that you meet
the qualifications of a bishop.
So, it is a little bit different.
So, but everybody in this room is sinful.
So, don't just think,
don't put me on a pedestal.
Put God on a pedestal.
Don't put me on a pedestal.
Put Jesus Christ on a pedestal.
Because the strength of men fails.
And so, we all have our pitfalls in life
where we struggle in.
You know, yours truly included in that.
But it says in patience.
That's, and when I think of patience,
obviously you think,
well, and listen,
let me just give you some advice,
old men, and young men,
and young ladies, and old ladies.
Don't pray for patience.
Right?
Because the moment you do that,
all hell breaks loose in your life.
So, let your yea be yea
and your nay be nay.
All right?
So, but patience, you know,
in all seriousness, you know,
people most of the time would think,
well, this is talking about your temper.
Like, do you get angry really easily?
But when the Bible talks about patience,
it's talking about being able to go through things
in a mature way.
Like Job, you've heard of the patience of Job.
What was the patience of Job that he was able,
even though he was highly afflicted,
went through massive amounts of tribulation,
went through just countless loss of life in his family,
his health is taken away.
And you know what?
When all that stuff is taken away
and then your health on top of it all,
you're going to be in some despair.
And Job was in despair.
There's no doubt about that.
But the Bible says that Job was patient.
The Bible says that Job was the,
you know, he was basically like the best man
in the world at that time.
And even, you know,
even Job had a little bit of failures
towards the end of the book.
Like, he just kind of started,
I don't want to get into that,
but you know, he did do some things
that weren't exactly 100% right.
That's why God comes in
and starts asking him some questions.
He's like, where were you
when I made the foundations of the earth?
And he proceeds to ask him like multiple questions
that there's no way he can answer.
And then, you know,
God just like, you know,
basically humbles him even further.
See, Job didn't do anything to deserve the persecution
and things that he went through,
but you know, God still expected him
to respect him and to honor him
even though all those things.
And Job did.
But you know,
when you've gone through so much,
I mean, some people,
you just can't expect
as much as you expected from Job,
but that's our pattern.
Like, obviously Jesus Christ
went through more trials and temptations
than anybody,
but Job's right there.
I mean, Job wasn't crucified.
Job didn't put upon himself
all the sins of the world.
He had his own crosses to bear,
but you know,
when it's talking about patience,
you know, when you're an older man,
or an aged man,
you should have some experience
in going through some trials
and tribulations,
and you should be able to go,
and you know, Paul's saying,
hey, have some patience.
You know, these are the things
that he's saying.
This is sound doctrine
for an aged man.
Don't be a drunk.
Be serious.
Be temperate.
You know, have faith.
It says in faith.
So don't lose your faith.
In patience.
So those are things,
you know, when it says
you're in something,
that means, you know,
you're in it.
You're dealing with it
on a day-to-day basis,
and let me tell you,
the older you get,
the more trials
you're gonna go through,
and the more you try to live godly
in Christ Jesus,
the more you're gonna
suffer persecution,
but I did wanna focus
on this part of it, though.
I believe that the danger
of older men
is that they grow weary
of battles in hard work.
You know, you're talking
about testosterone,
your testosterone starts
to go down, you know,
you start to lose
your muscle mass.
You know, once you're
past your prime,
maybe that's the aged man,
as you start to just lose
your prime, you slowly start
degenerating in your body,
and, you know,
so the physical part
that was your strength,
the thing that made you
a young man was your vigor
and your strength.
Those things start to get
less and less
as the years go by,
and eventually, like Jacob,
he was a strong man
in the Bible, wasn't he?
I mean, he moved the mouth
of the well by himself,
and it usually took
several men to do that.
He wrestled an angel,
which I believe was
the Lord Jesus Christ,
the angel of the Lord,
until he had to pop his hip
out of socket
to get him to stop.
I mean, the guy was
a tough guy.
He was a strong man,
and he was a hard worker,
right?
He had all that stuff
going for him,
but, you know,
what was he like
on his deathbed?
Standing on a crutch,
barely able to walk,
blessing and cursing
his children,
and barely able
to get out of bed.
It's like God had to give him
that strength probably
to get out of bed.
So, once you get
to be an aged man,
it's just all downhill
from there physically, right?
Cognitively.
Your vision goes.
I'm still in denial.
I'm not wearing glasses
until I absolutely have to!
But, you know,
that's just part of life,
but why is Paul
like focusing on this?
Well, because even aged men
have failures,
and a lot of our failures
comes from not physically
being able to do
what you used to be able to do.
You're not as handsome anymore.
You start to get gray hair,
which is, you know,
you start looking
at your gray hair,
and you start getting
depressed a little bit
about it sometimes.
I try not to focus
on those things,
but the danger of an old man
is to get soft in his doctrine,
soft in his zeal,
easier to get backslidden
or not care too much
about fighting
for what's right and true.
And I really,
that's something
I think about often.
I don't want to be some old man
that has lost his zeal completely,
that is afraid to preach
the Bible, you know,
that I just,
I don't want to be that way.
I want to focus on, you know,
I want to be more like Caleb,
where my strength is not abated.
I want to be like Moses,
where his strength
is not abated until the day
that he died,
when he was like 120 years old.
You know, I'd like
to just keep that strength,
and so, you know,
a pitfall for an aged man
is that you can just get
more compromised,
more backslidden
and not caring so much
because with the great zeal
that you have as a young man,
you're not going to have
that great zeal
when you're 90 years old
to walk the triple-decker
apartment complexes.
Fact, it's just a fact.
So, you know,
we need to try to hang on
to that zeal
and that willingness to battle
and not be weary.
Let's turn to 1 Kings.
I'm going to give you
a couple examples tonight
of these things
in the life of really godly men,
really godly men,
like the best,
some of the best godly men
in the whole Bible,
and obviously I could give you
a multitude of examples
of when people, you know,
men that are in leadership
get older and they have
failings in their lives.
Look at 1 Kings 1,
verse number 1.
The Bible says,
Now King David was old
and stricken in years.
So he's old, right?
And they covered him
with clothes,
but he got no heat.
Wherefore, his servants
said unto him,
Let there be sought for
my Lord the King,
a young virgin,
and let her stand before
the king, and let her
cherish him,
and let her lie in thy bosom,
that my Lord the King
may get heat.
So they sought for a fair damsel
throughout all the coast
of Israel,
and found Abishag the Shumanite,
and brought her to the king.
And the damsel was very fair
and cherished the king
and ministered to him,
but the king knew her not.
So another desire that leaves
as you get older, you know,
this kind of talk,
it's a euphemism here
for he didn't know her
in a carnal way or whatever.
So anyway, then it says,
Then Adonijah, the son of Haggith,
exalted himself, saying,
I will be king.
And he prepared him chariots
and horsemen and fifty men
to run before him,
and his father had not
displeased him at any time
in saying, Why hast thou done so?
And he also was a very
goodly man, and his mother
bare him after Absalom.
So Absalom turns against
King David, and then later on
when he's old, you know,
he's pretty close to death
here, honestly.
He's definitely an aged man.
It says he's old and stricken
in years.
So he has no desire for women
at this point, and really,
he has no desire to fight
for what's right because he,
God said that Solomon
would be the son that would
be the next king.
God picked Solomon.
God said Solomon was
gonna be the guy.
And then you got Adonijah
running around acting like
he's some big shot,
and he's doing the things
that young men would do,
having the fifty men before him
with their mules or whatever,
their horsemen before him,
but David didn't even
say anything to him.
So Bathsheba and Nathan
the prophet and other
of David's, you know,
the people that were with him
and loyal to him,
Bathsheba kind of had to tell
him, Hey, you know,
Adonijah's kind of trying to
run the show here,
and she had Nathan the prophet
there with him,
and he kind of came to his senses
and made sure that
everything was right.
But someone had to bring
that to his attention,
so what I'm saying is that
as an aged man,
the more aged you get,
the less concerned about
right and wrong and fighting.
I mean, does it seem like
he wanted to fight a battle?
No, he was ready to go,
and, you know, he had this son
that was an upstart,
and this son ends up
getting killed.
So, but Solomon was,
was by God's own word,
said to be the next king.
So even David, the great man
of God that he was,
made a lot of mistakes,
and a lot of those mistakes
he made when he was older.
As a young man, he was,
you know, he did the right stuff.
But as he got aged,
that's when he started
to make some mistakes,
not going out to battle
like he should have,
you know, then he does that
sin with Bathsheba,
you know, and really ruins
a lot of things in his life
and with his family.
Now let's look at
1 Kings chapter 11,
and we'll see Solomon, the king,
the wisest man in the whole Bible
besides the Lord Jesus Christ,
Solomon the king,
look what it says about him.
1 Kings 11, 1, and, you know,
he did all these great things,
literally rocks,
gold was like rocks
on the ground there,
gold and silver.
He was so rich,
you know, he prayed for
the right things,
he prayed for wisdom
so that he could judge the people
and God gave him the riches
and the long life
and all that stuff
that he didn't ask for.
He blessed Solomon,
he appeared to him twice
and this is what happens
to Solomon at the end
when he's an old man,
look what it says
in verse number 1,
but King Solomon
loved many strange women
together with the daughter
of Pharaoh,
women of the Moabites,
Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites.
Of the nations concerning
which the Lord said unto
the children of Israel,
ye shall not go in to them,
neither shall they
come in unto you,
for surely they will turn away
your heart after their gods.
Solomon clave unto
these in love.
Big mistake, right?
It says, and he had
700 wives, princesses,
and 300 concubines
and his wives, what does it say?
Turned away his heart.
Where it came to pass,
notice this next phrase,
when Solomon was old,
see he was old
and he started to marry
all these wives
and amass all these concubines
which are basically
like wives also.
So he's got a thousand
ladies in his life,
a thousand.
If you just said,
I'm gonna see you tomorrow,
you the next day,
it would take him a few years
to even see them all.
So how often is he
actually seeing his wives
and hanging out with them?
I mean, talk about
a honey do list.
This was huge.
Honey, build me this idol.
Honey, build me
this abomination.
And that's basically
what happened is that
Solomon married women
that he was not supposed
to marry.
You weren't supposed to
multiply wives or horses.
You weren't supposed
to go back to Egypt
to multiply horses.
Solomon, as wise as he was
when he was old,
it says it came to pass
when Solomon was old
that his wives turned away
his heart after other gods.
Now, a lot of people
will try to give Solomon
some excuse here,
but listen to me.
The Bible says,
so he married the wives,
they did turn away his heart
after what?
Other gods.
His heart went
after other gods.
It doesn't say that
they just did it for them.
He didn't just do it for them.
They turned away his heart
to other gods.
And, you know,
I don't agree with people
that are, you know,
that teach that, you know,
Solomon was just kind of
going with the flow or whatever.
That might have been at first,
but it says that his heart
went after other gods.
And his heart was not perfect
with the Lord as God,
as was the heart of David,
his father.
For Solomon went
after Ashtaroth,
the goddess of the Zidonians,
and after Melchim,
the abomination
of the Ammonites,
and Solomon did evil
in the sight of the Lord.
Now, when the Bible says
someone does evil
in the sight of the Lord,
it usually means
that that's a bad king
that a lot of times
those guys weren't saved.
Now, I know Solomon
was saved, but in my mind
he kind of pictures
like a Christian
that goes into perdition
or whatever,
someone that says
they're a Christian
and goes into perdition
in his old age.
I'm not saying
he wasn't saved.
I don't believe that,
but it's kind of, you know,
this is the hard pill
for me to swallow here.
I'm not saying
he wasn't saved again,
but when the Bible says
he did evil
in the sight of the Lord
and went not fully
after the Lord
as David his father,
he had some issues, you know?
If like Brother Alex said,
you know what,
I started worshipping
Allah this week,
I mean, I'd be like,
what are you talking about?
That'd be crazy.
Like, you know,
obviously Christians
can get into a lot
of willful sin,
but this, Solomon did evil
in the sight of the Lord
according to the Bible
and, you know,
it happened when he was old.
So this is something
that we need to think about
as older men.
The older you get,
the more easy you are
to fall into these traps
and we need to avoid
traps like this
as the aged men
in this church.
So it says,
in the hill that is
before Jerusalem,
let's see, in Solomon,
look at verse seven,
and then did Solomon
build in high place
for Chemosh
the abomination of Moab
in the hill that is
before Jerusalem
and for Molech
the abomination
of the children of Vaman.
Was Molech the one
that they sacrificed
babies to?
And likewise did he
for all his strange wives
which burnt incense
and sacrificed unto their gods.
What Solomon did
was super wicked
and, like, to me,
this is the most egregious
about face in the whole Bible.
I mean, it really,
it disturbs me a little bit
to be honest with you.
I just don't understand
how he could be like that
when he had all this wisdom.
But, see, when you have
all this wisdom
and you're just seeking
after the next best thing
all the time
and how you can be
entertained all the time,
you know, he would just,
you know, when you talk
about the book Ecclesiastes,
I believe that he did
finally get right with God.
It says this happened
when he got old,
but Ecclesiastes is written,
you know, when he was old.
So, you know, obviously,
he probably got things right.
The Bible actually
doesn't say that
in the book of Kings,
but, you know,
the Bible says he got,
he turned evil.
And, you know,
he only had two,
all the rest of the tribes
left him,
10 tribes left him
and went and followed Jeroboam.
Jeroboam went and followed
the calves,
made the calves and said,
these be your gods, O Israel.
I mean, look,
they're the zenith
of the kingdom in Israel.
And David, you know,
for all the greatness
that he had,
he had faults too,
but Solomon just like ruined it.
You know,
he had all this splendor
and all this great stuff
going for him.
And then he just ruined it
by making some mistakes here,
a thousand mistakes or 999.
He had 999 problems
and not having a wife
wasn't one of them, right?
So let's turn to 2 Kings
chapter 20 verse 14,
2 Kings chapter 20 verse 14.
Here's another instance
of a king just making
a huge mistake here
when he's older.
2 Kings chapter 20 verse 14
says, then came Isaiah
the prophet and the king
Hezekiah, said to him,
what said these men?
And from whence came
they unto thee?
And Hezekiah said,
there come down from
a far country,
even from Babylon.
And he said, what have
they seen in thine house?
And Hezekiah answered,
all the things that
are in my house,
have they seen?
There is nothing among
my treasures which
I have not showed them.
So these guys come down to,
you know, they heard
Hezekiah was sick.
Remember he prayed,
he turned and prayed
and, you know, we wept
and asked God to give him
some extra years.
God granted his request,
gave him the extra years.
And, you know, some people
come from Babylon,
you know, just checking
up on them.
They really didn't have
anything, you know,
bad intentions in their heart.
But when they came and seen
all the things that he had
in his house and in the
house of the Lord,
you know, they probably
reported that stuff back
to the powers that be.
I mean, they weren't
that great a friend.
They weren't that great
a friend or whatever.
But, you know, here's
a mistake, showing people
all that you have.
Men just like some, you know,
guy that you just met
or maybe you don't know
them that well and you
just invite them in,
just show them all your,
oh, here's all my guns,
here's my coin collection
and whatever else you have.
You know, it's a mistake.
Don't show people everything
that all the things
that you have.
I mean, it's just,
it's right here in the Bible.
Don't do that.
It's a mistake.
And it says in Isaiah,
it said unto Hezekiah,
hear the word of the Lord.
Behold, the days come that
all that is in thine house
and that which thy fathers
have laid up in store
unto this day shall be
carried into Babylon.
Nothing shall be left,
saith the Lord,
and of thy sons that
shall issue from thee
which thou shalt beget
shall they take away.
And they shall be eunuchs
in the palace of the
king of Babylon.
And, you know, this is what
an aged man that kind of
is kind of a little
over the hill and making
some dumb mistakes would do.
And that's what he says.
Then said Hezekiah unto
Isaiah, good is the word
of the Lord which thou
has spoken.
And he said, is it not good
if peace and truth
be in my days?
And like that's a mistake,
that's just his mindset though.
Like, who cares about
my children, my grandchildren,
all that stuff,
as long as everything's
good in my days,
that's like the boomer verse
in the Bible.
As long as I got my 401K,
as long as I got my
30-year retirement,
who cares what happens
to my kids?
This is right here,
the boomer verse.
Right?
And it says,
and the rest of the acts
of Hezekiah and all his might
and how he made a pool
and a conduit
and brought water into
the city are they not
written in the book of
the Chronicles of the
kings of Judah?
And Hezekiah slept with
his fathers and Manasseh
his son reigned in his stead,
one of the most wicked
kings ever in Israel.
And when he was old
and he was about to die,
he prayed that he would
live a longer life
and because he prayed
that prayer,
Manasseh was born.
And Manasseh destroyed
everything that Hezekiah did.
And God would not pardon
the blood that was
shed by Manasseh.
Now I believe Manasseh
got saved,
I do believe that,
but all the stuff he did,
I mean, he basically
was the final straw
that broke the camel's back.
And even Josiah,
as great of a king as he was,
could not hold back
the judgment of God
because of all the innocent
blood that was shed
in the land because of him.
So as aged men,
we must avoid pitfalls
of complacency and apathy
as much as possible
and stay zealous
and purpose in your heart
to be that aged man
that's sober, grave, temperate,
sound in faith,
in charity and in patience.
So those are the takeaways
of sound doctrine
from the Apostle Paul
for the aged men,
now it's time for the aged women
or older women, okay?
Anyone that's 29 and over,
no, I'm just kidding.
Nobody's over 29, no.
Anyway, let's look at verse
number three back in our text
in Titus chapter number two.
Titus chapter number two,
the Bible says in verse number
three, the aged women likewise
that they be in behavior
as becometh holiness.
So see, the list
is changing here.
But what I think that
Paul's doing is he's zeroing in
on what we need.
These brackets is what
he's zeroing in on.
Behavior as becometh holiness,
not false accusers,
not given to much wine,
teachers of good things.
So God expects,
what's he expect?
Well, he expects aged women
to have good behavior.
And you would be holy.
So good behavior is,
and holiness is being set apart
or sanctified.
As we grow older in the Lord,
we should be more sanctified
than we were the day
we got saved.
We shouldn't get less sanctified,
we should get more sanctified,
more set apart, more holy.
And it says, not false accusers.
This is accusing people
of things without evidence.
You know, we can't, you know,
this is something that the Bible
is focusing in on the aged women.
Don't just accuse people
of something without evidence.
You might say, well, this is,
you know, what I think might
be possible or whatever,
but like really,
we should just shut our mouth
if we don't really have
evidence on someone.
Don't just accuse somebody
falsely, you know,
of deleting your YouTube
comments or whatever
and then sit there
and rail against somebody
and not tell the truth
about them.
And then still double down
even though you know
you were wrong
and continue with
your same railing.
And that brings me
to the next thing I'm saying.
You know, when you're
a false accuser, you're railing.
Which is a reason to get
kicked out of church.
You know?
So, in, you know,
that also would include rumors
and what we call gossip.
You know, being a gossip
is preached against a lot,
but the word gossip
is not in the Bible.
But you know what is?
Tail bearing.
And that is basically
what gossip is.
The Bible calls it tail bearing,
you know, and accusing someone
of doing something
that they didn't do.
Railing is always a sin.
It's always a lie.
So, you know, and then it says
not giving to much wine.
So, I would say that
means literally.
But also,
having extravagant taste.
I talked about this
in the qualifications
for a bishop.
And you know, I just want
to say this real quickly.
When I've said that I wanted
to escalate in the past,
I was joking.
Kind of.
Listen, I've always said
it was for the comfort.
Okay?
Cadillacs are comfortable.
If you've ever ridden one,
they're comfortable
you know, but they are
an extravagant vehicle.
So, have you seen
my new Escalade?
No, you haven't because
I don't have one.
So, you know, I know,
I've been accused
of a lot of things,
but wanting an Escalade.
It's like, come on.
Don't be stupid.
I was joking, kind of.
But anyway,
let's move on here.
We're talking about
the aged women.
It says,
in behavior has
becometh holiness.
So, you know,
I already covered that.
But anyway, so,
teachers are good things.
You know, oh no,
I was at literally
extravagant taste.
Yeah, that's what made me
think of Escalade.
But anyway, extravagant taste,
you know, this is something
that aged women
really flock to.
They really want to have
the best of this
and the best of that.
And it just says, you know,
not given to much wine.
It's not saying
never have anything nice.
You know,
walk around in rags.
You know,
don't have nice dresses
or nice clothes
or nice shoes or whatever.
But it's just saying,
you know,
not given to much.
So, you know,
it's not the broided hair
and the gold and the rings
and all this other stuff
and the coach purse.
And if you have a coach purse,
I'm not against you.
I don't know even who has
a coach purse in here.
So they're not that expensive.
I'm sure Louis Vuitton ones
are a lot more expensive
than that.
But, you know,
don't get that fake Louis.
Anyway, that's swap meet Louis,
right?
They fall apart really quickly.
But anyway, let's see.
So let's move down
to verse number four.
It says that they may
teach the young women
to be sober,
to love their husbands,
to love their children,
to be discreet,
chaste keepers at home,
good, obedient
to their own husbands,
that the word of God
be not blasphemed.
So what does the apostle
Paul zero in on?
He says, hey,
they need to be
teachers of good things
and here's the good things.
Okay?
I'm not getting on,
I'm not like, you know,
going towards the young women,
the younger women,
but I'm saying what are
the older women supposed
to be teaching the younger women?
They're supposed to be
teaching them to be sober.
You know, not drunk.
To love their husbands.
There's a novel idea.
Hey, love your husbands.
Don't divorce them.
Don't try to be the CEO
of the corporation.
You know, be chaste keepers
at home, discreet.
Keepers at home means
you keep the home.
You know, I'll never understand
how any pastor would teach
that, you know, your wife
is supposed to go out
into the workforce.
Sorry.
That's not what
the Bible teaches.
That's not what the Bible
teaches that aged women
should teach younger women.
So if you're a pastor
and you're saying,
yeah, just go ahead and go,
you go girl, you know,
get your, what's that,
Rosie the Riveter shirt
and just go out there
and get on the
construction site, yeah.
And then, you know,
work your way up or whatever.
That's not what
the Bible teaches.
It says to be keepers at home.
We got enough women
in the workforce now.
We need some women
to stay at home.
And we need the aged women
to encourage the younger
women to do that
because the aged women,
normally their kids
are all gone out of the house,
you know, or they're close
to being out of the house.
And, you know,
instead of being
a boomer grandma or whatever,
why don't you focus still
on helping the younger ladies
at your church to be chaste,
to love their husbands,
to love their, hey,
here's an awful idea.
Love your children.
Don't be annoyed by them.
Because, you know what,
they grow up really fast,
and the next thing you know,
you're holding
your grandchildren.
And you're still, like,
suffering the loss of losing
your children from your home,
and then now you got
grandchildren, which the good
thing about grandchildren,
I'll just say this real quick,
is that you can give them back.
But they, well, here you go.
See, when you're a parent,
you can't really do that.
You can go, here, Grandma,
here, Grandpa,
but then we can go, nope.
Like that.
But I am kidding,
because, you know what,
I want my grandchildren
to turn out good.
I want my grandchildren
to be raised in church,
and I'll do anything I can
to help support my children
to make that so.
You know, and my wife,
you know, I expect her to give
great, solid advice
to our children about,
you know, to my daughter-in-law
and to my daughter-z,
that they, you know,
and they come to her
for advice because, you know,
she's already raised children.
So, hey, you know,
don't forget about
the next generation.
This is kind of,
this is your takeaway here,
ladies, elder ladies,
aged women, you know.
It says, to be discreet,
chase keepers at home,
obedient to their own husbands.
Ooh, you said obey?
You know, when I marry people,
they have to say
love, honor, and obey,
and if they're not willing
to say that,
I won't even marry anybody.
So, you know,
you're not gonna say obey,
but just because you say it
doesn't mean people
keep their words either.
So, just remember,
the Bible says to love your,
it says to love their husbands,
teach them to love
their husbands,
not somebody else's husband,
not the boss at work
and put on the pants for him.
You know what I mean?
So, this is what
the elder ladies are expected
to do to teach this
younger generation.
I'm gonna cover these verses
in greater detail
the next time we get
into Titus chapter 2,
but what is the ultimate goal
here is that we would raise
the next generation
of godly Christians
in this world.
So, this church wouldn't die
full of a bunch of
silver-haired old fuddy duddies
that stopped soul winning.
The pastor got old and gray.
He stopped preaching hard.
He stopped preaching
about soul winning.
He stopped preaching
the truth and then
this church dies out
just like every old
IFB church dies out.
You walk into the average
old IFB church,
it's gonna be gray hairs
and little children,
like as in not
very many children.
And they eventually give up
on serving the Lord.
We don't wanna be
in that situation.
We wanna move on
to the next generation.
Now, the main thing
I wanna focus in on here though
in this whole list
is about how women need
to watch their mouths
and not be tailbearers
from busybodies.
So, cause this is like
a sin that women
just fall into.
That's why it brings
it up in the list.
That's why it brings up
for men to just,
that they need to
keep fighting the battles,
stay in the fight,
keep serving the Lord,
not compromising,
not diluting your doctrine.
But, so I've got
some verses here,
Leviticus chapter 19 verse 16.
Cause tailbearing is something
that the Bible does focus on
to a certain degree
and it doesn't say gossiping.
It says tailbearing.
And men can be
tailbearers too.
I'm not saying,
I'm just saying that
in this list,
this is what God's saying.
So, for the aged women.
And young ladies,
someday you're gonna be aged.
So these are lessons
you can learn tonight
for when you are aged.
Hey, what should I be doing?
Well, look at these verses.
Leviticus chapter 19 verse 16
says, thou shall not go
up and down as a tailbearer
among thy people,
neither shalt thou stand
against the blood
of thy neighbor,
I am the Lord.
So, God is saying here,
for anybody,
don't go up and down
as a tailbearer.
Don't be the church gossip.
Turn to Proverbs chapter 11
verse 13.
Proverbs chapter 11 verse 13.
The Bible says,
a tailbearer revealeth secrets,
but he that is of a faithful
spirit concealeth the matter.
So notice it says he,
but it's for everybody, folks.
Okay?
So, the words of a tailbearer,
or excuse me,
a tailbearer revealeth secrets.
You know, you're not supposed
to go around telling
other people's business.
If it's not your business,
if you don't have
anything to do with it,
you shouldn't be spreading
it around to other people.
Now, turn to Proverbs
chapter 18 verse 8.
I need to find
my sweet spot here.
This is where the actual
air conditioning is coming out.
I'm over here sweating.
I'm over here in Egypt like,
what in the world
is going on over here?
What's the AC?
You're all sweating in here.
All right, Proverbs 18, 8.
I'm almost done anyway.
So, it says,
the words of a tailbearer
are as wounds,
and they go down
into the innermost parts
of the belly.
You know, nobody likes to hear
that somebody was talking
about them,
and that can really
damage somebody,
especially a new believer,
to find out that someone
was talking trash
about them at church.
You know, I mean,
this is a place where
we're supposed to be different.
This is a place where
we're supposed to, you know,
not just go around talking
trash about people
all the time.
And so, God's just like,
you know, he's very upset
about these things,
you know, when we go around
being a tailbearer,
and, you know, it's just
a thing of strife.
It's hurtful.
That's why it says
there's wounds that go
to the innermost parts
of the belly.
When someone's talking
trash about you
or tailbearing about you
behind your back,
and they find out,
they're like a wound
that you get, you know?
And it makes people feel bad.
Is that what you want to do,
make people feel bad at church?
I'm so righteous.
I made someone feel bad
about themselves today.
That shouldn't be
named among us.
Look at Proverbs 20,
verse 19.
It says,
he that goeth about
as a tailbearer
reveal his secrets.
Therefore, meddle not
with him that flattereth
with his lips.
See, and flattery
can be a sign
of something more sinister.
So usually flattery
is a wicked person.
So don't be a tailbearer.
Do you want to be
lumped in with someone
that would be a person
that's a flatterer?
Because I've dealt
with a lot of flatterers,
especially since being
in the ministry.
You find the flatterers,
and it's just like,
man, what kind of tailbearing
are they doing about me?
It says they reveal secrets.
Proverbs 26, verse 20.
And this is a great verse here.
It says,
where no wood is,
there the fire goeth out.
So where there is
no tailbearer,
the strife ceaseth.
So you get the person,
and you confront that person
and tell them,
hey, I heard you've been
talking about me.
Now obviously,
you're not going to just fight
them or something like that.
We need to handle things.
We should be able to handle
confrontation at church
without it coming
to some big fight
and leaving the church.
People are just too fragile
these days.
You should be able
to withstand a rebuke
and just say,
I've talked about this
last time,
but a rebuke is something
that stings,
but you know what?
It should help you
to get something right.
Usually when someone's
rebuking you,
they're not doing it
to be mean.
They're doing it
to be truthful to you.
Most people just lie
to your face,
tell you,
everything you're doing
is right.
Everything you're doing
is right and true.
That's a friend that's afraid
to just tell people the truth.
You want a friend
that's going to leave you
some wounds every once in a while
and that wound of just being
an honest friend.
If someone comes to you
hail-bearing,
like I said,
this is something
that the Bible focuses on
ladies doing more than men,
but men also can do it,
but if someone's coming up
to you gossiping
or tail-bearing
about something,
then you should shut
that person down.
This kind of stuff
hurts people's feelings.
I've dealt with this recently
in one of our other churches
where someone's going around
telling somebody else's business
that's not their business
and it just caused a fight
that didn't need to happen.
If people would handle
the Matthew 18 situation
better, then there'd be
a lot less underlying strife
in our churches.
So let's look back at,
and basically,
if you're not feeding
the tail-bearer,
it says where no wood is,
the fire goeth out.
So you don't want to
put that fuel out there
for the fire.
It says so where there is
no tail-bearer,
the strife ceaseth.
So if you're not doing
that sin of tail-bearing,
then all the strife
is going to cease
when it comes to that situation
or other situations
that come up in the past.
And we ought not to be
that way in church,
and the Bible's very
clear and condemning it.
Look at 1 Timothy 5, verse 9.
1 Timothy 5, verse 9.
The Bible says in 1 Timothy 5,
9, it says,
let not a widow be taken
into number under
three score years old,
having been the wife
of one man.
So this is talking about
the rules of widows, okay?
So we're not supposed to
take in a widow that's
under three score years.
How many is that?
60, right?
And then it says
there's specific stipulations.
You don't just take in
every widow.
The church doesn't help
relieve every widow,
but they have to have
a report that's good about them.
Now, why am I saying that?
Well, we're talking about
aged women here.
So these are some of the rules,
and these are some
of the warnings.
It says having been
the wife of one man.
So if a woman is over 60
and she's been married
to one man, then she's
already starting to fit
into the right category
of a widow indeed.
Look at verse 10.
Well reported for good works,
if she have brought
up children,
if she have lodged strangers,
if she hath washed
the saint's feet,
if she have relieved
the afflicted,
if she had diligently
followed every good work.
So this is talking about
a plugged in member
of the church whose husband
dies and has, you know,
she's destitute basically
and needs help.
It says, but younger widows
refuse, for when they have
begun to wax wanton
against Christ,
they will marry,
having damnation because
they have cast off
their first faith.
It's not talking about
that they're not saved, okay?
Damnation can be their life
being messed up or their
health or whatever,
but it says because they have
cast off their first faith
and withal they learn
to be idle,
wandering about from
house to house,
and not only idle,
but tattlers also and
busybodies speaking things
which they ought not.
So, you know,
there's a danger in going
about as a tattler,
a talebearer, a busybody,
speaking things which
they ought not.
It's a warning for these
women to not be this way.
It says, I will therefore
that the younger women marry,
bear children,
guide the house,
give none occasion to the
adversary to speak reproachfully.
So, God's saying,
hey, look, I'd rather that,
you know, the younger
women get married.
If your husband dies and
you're not of that age
or whatever, then marry,
bear children,
guide the house.
You know, this is exactly
what Titus was saying,
that, you know,
love your husbands,
love your children,
beekeepers at home.
It says, and give none
occasion to the adversary
to speak reproachfully,
for some are already
turned aside after Satan.
If any man or woman that
believeth have widows,
let them relieve them,
and let not the church
be charged,
that it may relieve them
that are widows indeed.
So, it just basically is
giving the stipulations for
if they're really a widow
indeed, they're going to
have all these qualifications
and qualifiers that allows
them to be widows indeed.
But I want to show you
the part about the wandering
and busybodies, because
that's kind of what happens.
If you don't have a purpose,
you're not married,
or your husband died
at an earlier, younger age,
then you have this,
this talking about that
they would have,
they would learn to be idol.
You know, going around,
getting into other
people's business.
I mean, you all know those
people that are like that,
right?
In your life or growing up,
or in your families
or your friends or whatever,
hopefully not in this church,
you know, that they're
idol, busybodies,
speaking things which
they ought not.
You know, this is a stern
warning against these things.
Now look at Proverbs 7,
verse number 10, it says,
Behold, there met him a woman
with the attire of an harlot
and subtle of heart.
She is loud and stubborn,
her feet abide not
in her house.
Now is she without,
now in the streets
and lieth and wait
every corner.
So it's talking about
an adulterous woman,
but this woman had
the attire of a harlot,
she was subtle of heart,
but notice verse 11,
it says she is loud
and stubborn,
her feet abide not
in her house.
Now, I don't know if that's,
you know, a connection
with 1 Timothy 5, verse 13,
where it says they're idol,
wandering about
from house to house,
I mean, you don't want
to have the reputation
of being a loud and stubborn
woman, right?
That their feet won't abide
in their own house,
you know, they're going
to somebody else's house,
they're getting into
other people's business.
Loud and stubborn.
You know, the Bible says
you're supposed to have
a meek and quiet spirit,
not a loud and stubborn
attitude and spirit.
Go ahead and turn to
1 Peter 3, verse 1,
this is the last place
I'll have you turn
and we'll be done here
in just a few minutes,
but Proverbs 9, verse 13 says,
a foolish woman is clamorous,
she is simple
and knoweth nothing.
So, you don't want to be
considered clamorous.
Clamorous is just like
kind of real loud
and boisterous and,
you know, I don't know
if you've ever,
I don't know,
that's kind of what clamorous
is where it's just like
a lot of, you know,
a very noisy,
loud type of person.
So, you're in 1 Peter 3,
verse 1, it says,
likewise you wives
be in subjection
to your own husbands,
notice it always says
your own, not somebody else's,
that if any obey not the word
that they may be
without the word be won
by the conversation
or the lifestyle of the wives.
So, talk about, you know,
an unsaved husband
being won over by
how you live your life
as a saved Christian woman.
While they behold
your chaste conversation
coupled with fear,
who's adorning,
let it not be that outward
adorning of the plaiting
of hair and the wearing
of gold or the putting
on of apparel.
So, that's like not given
to much wine, right?
But let it be the hidden man
of the heart and that which
is not corruptible,
even the ornament of a meek
and quiet spirit which is
in the sight of God
a great price.
So, when God looks
at a Christian woman,
He doesn't want it to be
loud, clamorous,
loud, stubborn, you know,
busy body, idle,
tattling, tail-bearing.
He wants a woman to be,
have a meek and quiet spirit,
not a loud mouth, you know,
just clamorous woman, right?
Isn't that what it says?
Am I wrong?
Which is in the sight of God,
it's a great price.
You know why?
Because it's rare.
And as a Christian woman,
this is something that you
should strive to be,
and I'm not saying don't talk,
okay?
Just walk two steps behind me,
two steps, you know.
I'm not talking about that,
okay?
We're always accused
of being misogynistic.
Well, what's the Bible say?
To be meek and quiet,
not loud and stubborn, right?
So, and it's annoying to people.
You know, like when you go
over to someone's house
for dinner and the wife
won't quit jacking her jaw
and like wants to control
all the conversations
and that kind of stuff.
It's kind of annoying, you know?
Let the men talk.
No, I'm just kidding.
But have you ever been
in that situation where you're
like, you're trying to like
to have a conversation
and some woman is just like
dominating the conversation
and is just like,
ugh, meek and quiet.
Anyway, it says in verse five,
I know I'm going to get
harassed for that one,
but it's what the Bible says,
you know?
I'm not going to apologize
for what it says.
It says in verse five,
and after this manner
in the old time,
the holy women also
who trusted in God
adorned themselves
being in subjection
unto their own husbands.
Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham,
calling him Lord,
whose daughters ye are,
as long as ye do well
and are not afraid
with any amazement.
So, you know,
Sarah is a great example
in the Bible
of a meek and quiet spirit.
She didn't even talk
when she's talking
about Abraham.
She's talking in her
inner voice, you know,
and she calls Abraham Lord,
not out loud.
I'm sure she did call
him Lord out loud,
but in the situation
that it's talking about,
like if you go back to Genesis,
which we don't have time for
because we're out of time,
but you go back to Genesis,
she's saying my Lord
being old also,
that's in her inside voice.
She's being humble
and obeying her husband,
and I think at the time,
like, isn't she making food?
Like, didn't he say,
quick, you know,
slaughter a calf
and make some dinner
or whatever, right,
for the, I'm paraphrasing,
big time,
but he like basically said,
you know,
here's the difference,
Lot in the next chapter,
he's making the food
instead of his wife.
He doesn't even ask her.
He's like, no need to ask her.
She turned back
and became a pillar of salt,
right, so big difference
in the way Abraham's household
was and how Sarah was,
like, we don't even know
Lot's wife's name.
She's just Lot's wife,
but, you know,
she was a far cry
from what Sarah was,
and obviously a lot of that
had to do with how Lot was,
but, you know,
Sarah was a great woman of God
and that's the way
that God wants Christian women
to be,
so that's why I chose
to focus on this
and maybe I've done it before.
I'm sure I have.
I know I have,
but we, you know,
we got to get a hold
of our spirits
and, hey, I wanted to focus on
the things that God focuses on
in this chapter,
the aged men,
the aged women,
and next week,
I'm going to focus on
the young women
and the young men,
so like every category
is going to get hit
and then we're going to kind of
wrap up chapter two
next time we meet,
not next Thursday.
That'll be the deacon
the week after that,
the next Thursday after that,
so let's pray.
Dear Heavenly Father,
we thank you, Lord,
for the great chapter,
Titus chapter two,
and, Lord, for all the great
things that we can learn
about the Christian life,
and, Lord, I pray that you'd
help us to meditate
on these things
and to study to show
ourselves approved,
a workman that needeth
not to be shamed
rightly dividing
the word of truth.
Lord, I pray you'd help us
as men and women,
as I pray you'd help
the aged women
in this church, Lord,
or the ones that are going
to be someday.
We all get there.
I just pray that you'd help us
to focus in on these things
and what the apostle Paul
is preaching to Titus
so that he can convey
those things to his people
that he preached to, Lord,
the church that he was
in charge of,
and we just pray, Lord,
that you'd help us
as aged men,
Lord, that we would not
get complacent or apathetic
to the things of the gospel
and the preaching,
and, Lord, that we wouldn't
get soft in our old age,
Lord, that even though
our bodies grow weak
and feeble, that our spirit
and mind would be strong
in the things of the Lord.
We pray these things
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
All right, let's turn
to page 356
in your green hymnals.
Sing our last song this evening,
page 356.
Page 356.
I must tell Jesus.
I must tell Jesus on the first.
I must tell Jesus
all of my trials.
I cannot bear
these burdens alone.
In my distress
he kindly will help me.
He ever loves
and cares for his own.
I must tell Jesus.
I cannot bear
my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus.
Jesus can help me,
Jesus alone.
I must tell Jesus
all of my troubles.
He is a kind,
compassionate friend.
If I but ask him,
he will deliver,
make up my troubles
quickly again.
I must tell Jesus.
I cannot bear
my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus.
Jesus can help me,
Jesus alone.
Tempted and tried,
I need a great Savior.
One who can help
my burdens to bear.
I must tell Jesus.
He all my cares
and sorrows will share.
I must tell Jesus.
I cannot bear
my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus.
Jesus can help me,
Jesus alone.
On the last.
Oh, how the world
to evil allures me.
Oh, how my heart
is tempted to sin.
I must tell Jesus
and he will help me.
Oh, how the world
the victory to win.
I must tell Jesus.
I cannot bear
my burdens alone.
I must tell Jesus.
Jesus can help me,
Jesus alone.
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