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Intro:
With seasons of life come certain roles that we must play.
In my life I’ve seen some of this play out.
Right now my mom is in McCamey.
She’s at her mom’s house helping take care of her.
When my mother was young her role was to be a child.
It was to learn.
To be loved.
To be taken care of.
It was to grown into someone who would be able to add to society.
As she got older it became that of a wife.
Later it became that of a mother and wife.
She took care of our home.
She cooked, and cleaned.
She worked a job.
She loved us.
She took care of us.
She taught many things.
Of course she did all of this alongside my dad.
Her role had changed though.
After we were all out of the house things changed again.
While still our mother, she was no longer taking care of us.
She was giving us advice and guidance.
She’s helped us to fulfill a role that she filled very skillfully.
That of a parent of a young family.
Now, she’s helping take care of her own mom.
My abuelita is 92.
She’s still in decent health for someone her age, but is starting to get weaker.
She has a harder time caring for herself.
So her children help her now.
Roles have changed.
Each of life has different roles.
Within the church, we have our own roles as well.
I am a pastor here.
We have people who are Sunday school teachers, awana leaders, deacons, disciplers, people who clean, tend to our campus, and many other things.
Those are very specific roles.
Paul wrote to Titus in regards to this.
Titus was a young preacher left in charge of a church full of Cretans.
Literally.
He was in Crete.
He faced many of the common battles found at that time, and even still today.
There was immorality, idolatry, false teaching.
There needed to be more unity within the church.
Paul was writing to give this young pastor some advice.
He’s helping Titus and the believers answer the question of,
“What are our rolls at church.
What duties do we have as a believer in church.”
Lets look at Titus chapter 2 and see 4 groups here.
The role of older saints is to train younger saints.
The duty of older believers is to show younger believers how to live.
(2:1-5)
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Older Men
Titus told to speak things- Or could be said, teach things which are sound Biblically.
Concepts which can be backed up in the Bible.
He was to tell believers how their lives should look according to scripture.
They were to be sober- not drunk, but also clear headed.
Not acting rashly without thinking, Reverent- worthy of respect, temperate-Self-controlled or sensible, sound in faith, be loving and patient.
The women were called to do the same.
We know that because of the word likewise!
They must be reverent or worthy of respect, No slanderers- gossipers, not drunkards, teachers of good things- things like sound doctrine.
Older men and women were to be living examples of Christianity.
Paul said, “TITUS, make sure your older members, your leaders, make sure they’re leading by example.
Make sure they know that they must live out our faith!”
Women were given some additional steps as well.
They were told to admonish, or train, the young women to love their husbands and children.
To us this might seem like a “why bother mentioning that ?
It’s a given!” type of statement.
We have to remember though, many marriages were arranged at this time.
Many marriages weren’t founded on love.
So they had to be told, love your husbands and family.
Choose to serve them by taking care of the home.
Be pure in mind and body, and morally good.
Be obedient to their own husbands.
We have to remember though, many marriages were arranged at this time.
Many marriages weren’t founded on love.
So they had to be told, love your husbands and family.
Choose to serve them by taking care of the home.
Be pure in mind and body, and morally good.
Be obedient to their own husbands.
On a side not, this is not saying men are superior to women.
Notice it said “their own” husband.
Not someone else’s husband.
Simply their own.
This was how God intended the family to work.
He also told the husbands to love their wives sacrificially just as Jesus loved the church.
A good husband is good to his wife and listen’s, respects, and works with her, not over her.
Paul says if they don’t do this, they’ll dishonor or discredit God’s word.
ILLUSTRATION- Paul says, an older, more experienced Christian is to show the younger ones how do things.
This model works well.
My grandfather use to run an auto mechanic shop in Crane.
He was a good mechanic.I’m sure if you get him in front of an older car he could still work circles around guys third his age.
Consequently my dad is also a pretty skilled mechanic.
He spent a lot of his teen years going over to the shop and working on cars alongside my grandpa.
My learned to tune carborators, change breaks, rebuild engines, and whole list of other things because his dad let him watch him do those things, and then showed him how to do it as well.
APPLICATION
I know Paul is telling Titus to teach his people to do these things, we can see it’s what we’re to do as well.
You more mature believers are to show younger ones how to live.
As an older person you’ve lived things in life that younger believers have not.
You’ve had life experiences they’ll encounter one day.
You can show them how to face those.
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