Thanking God for the great women of His church...

8/5/2012 – Evening Service - 5pm

“Train the Young Women”

(Titus 2:3-5)

[3] Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior,

It is wonderful to have solid, honorable, reverent men in the church who are healthy in faith, love, and steadfastness. But they cannot do everything that the Lord calls the church to do. We need older women in the faith who are also full of godliness. They must not only know the truths of Christ in their hearts. They must express those truths in the best ways of godly living; not showing off, but living lives that show the grace that could only come from above.

not slanderers or slaves to much wine.

Godly living that flows from the truth and power of Christ cannot include slander (King James: “false accusers”) or drunkenness. The second can easily lead to the first. Too much wine loosens the tongue and then suddenly a daughter of Abraham can become an accuser in her speech rather than what she is by the grace of Jesus, a woman who honestly serves the King of truth and love who died on a cross

They are to teach what is good, [4] and so train the young women

Godly mature women are essential to the life of the church. They are the best and safest teachers of young women. They do not need to be perfect, but they do need to treasure the living Word of God in their hearts. They do need to know where to go when they sin.

to love their husbands and children,

These mature godly women need to know how to love and serve their husbands and children with integrity and a holy gentleness. They are living out Micah 6:8. Not only will younger women take notice of that, but so will their husbands, children, grandchildren, and all of the extended family.

[5] to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands,

Their life at home will grant to them many opportunities to show their love for God and others. Women like this live out the cross of Christ and teach it to others. They learn the Word and live it out by the Spirit of holiness. They have been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, and they live a pure life. They have seen the work that Christ did for them, and as partakers of grace and heirs of eternal life they want to be pure.

Is this an ugly version of life to many today? These women know that God is right no matter how confused the world may be. They are continually being filled with the Holy Spirit, continually repenting, continually believing in Christ alone as their only hope. That is the only way that they can be hard-working, kind, and submissive to their husbands in the midst of the spiritual battlefield that family life can be. These women have something to teach. They need to do that with their lives, their friendships, and their words of encouragement.

that the word of God may not be reviled.

If they do not they and others will follow a different road. May it never be. None of us wants to bring disgrace on the Name that has brought us such abundant heavenly life.