From the retreat we had this year several women were interested in studying or having a speaker that can teach us about being the woman God wants us to be in Titus 2. In our Women In the House Ministry (W.I.T.H.) we will go over the words of Titus bit by bit and unfold what God has told us to do as Women of God. Where one woman is strong another is weak. Where one has experience another has no experience.
Together we can accomplish the goal in this chapter. As Titus put it, the older women need to be teaching and setting an example for younger women to look at and use. It’s then the duty or responsiblity of the younger women to take what they learn and apply it to their lives to the glory of God.
God has called us to be Titus 2 women at work WITH Jesus, for Jesus, to the glory of Jesus.
Titus 2 New King James Biblegateway.com
1 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. 15 Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Older women are called to be:
Reverent in behavior….ah ah ah back the Bible bus up a verse or two here ladies we missed something! When reading verse 3 in Titus 2 it says, “the older women likewise…” Likewise, meaning the list that was just given for the older men of the church is to be for the older women as well. It is because of the list that leads us to the reverent behavior God wants us to have. This list given the men was to be:
Sober
Reverent
Temperate
Sound in faith
Sound in love
Sound in patience
BEFORE PICKING UP below we WILL FILL IN THIS NEW AREA with questions and meditations that we need to think about
Reverent in behavior, devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service (Amplified Bible puts it)
Not slanderers
Not give to much wine, slaves to drink (Amplified)
Teachers of good thing, give good counsel and be teachers of what is right and noble (Amplified)
Admonish the young women, wisely train the young women to (Amplified):
Be sane and sober (Amplified Bible adds)
Love their husbands
Love their children
Be discreet, self-controlled (Amplified)
Chaste
Homemakers
Good, good natured and kindhearted (Amplified)
Obedient to their own husbands, adapting and subordinating themselves to their
husbands (Amplified)
We are called to do that the word of God may not be blasphemed or exposed to reproach or discredited.
Characteristic #1–Reverent in Behavior, devout in their deportment as becomes those engaged in sacred service
Who is the one that is supposed be to “honored and respected?” ________________________________
The Amplified Bible words this verse in Titus as, “Devout (devoted to religion or religious duties or exercise, earnest, serious) in their deportment (the manner in which one conducts oneself; behavior) as becomes those engaged in sacred service “
How devoted are we to our religious duties? _______________________________________________
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