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Today’s passage is Titus 2:1-8. Let’s go!
Titus 2:1 (NIV)
1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
On verse 1: Once again Paul emphasizes to Titus the need to teach what is doctrinally sound. It’s one of the big themes of the book of Titus: right living requires right believing, and part of defending against lies and falsehood is teaching the truth. It’s no wonder one of Jesus’ favourite sayings during his ministry was “I tell you the truth”.
Titus 2:2-6 (NIV)
2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.
3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.
4 Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children,
5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
On verses 2-6: When Paul tells Titus what to teach the older men, older women, younger women and younger men in his church, there is a common theme that emerges no matter what the group he’s talking about: the need to be self-controlled. For example, in verse 3, when Paul says that the older women should not be “slanderers or addicted to much wine”, another way of saying this is that we must be self-controlled in our words (“not be slanderers”) as well as in our physical appetites (“not addicted to much wine”). In other words, we must have self-control not just over what goes into our mouths but also what comes out of our mouths.
Why is self-control so important and how can you develop it? Check out this message called Developing Self-Control for 4 reasons why self-control is so important and 4 practical ways you can develop more self-control.
Titus 2:7-8 (NIV)
7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness
8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.
On verses 7-8: The best teachers of God’s Word not only tell the truth, but they live it out as well. That’s why Paul in verses 7b-8 talks about showing integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech when teaching, and also in verse 7a talks about setting an example by doing what is good. May you be one who not only tells the truth, but lives it too. When you teach others about God’s Word, may your teaching be a double edged sword of true words and a lifestyle that exemplifies those truths.
Heavenly Father, thank You that You have given me not a spirit of timidity, but of power, love and self-control (2 Timothy 1:7). I pray that today and every day I would live empowered by the Holy Spirit, full of self-control, so that I can live with maximum joy, maximum freedom and be a maximum blessing to others. In Jesus’ name, AMEN!
