WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.360 over grave temperate sound and faith and charity and patients 00:04.360 --> 00:07.480 the age women likewise that the being behavior has become withholding this not 00:07.480 --> 00:09.800 false accusers not given a much wine 00:09.800 --> 00:11.420 teachers of good things 00:11.420 --> 00:14.520 the meet each the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love 00:14.520 --> 00:17.800 their children to be discreet chase keepers at home 00:17.800 --> 00:21.920 good obedient to their own husbands at the word of god be not blasphemed 00:21.920 --> 00:25.480 young men likewise exhort to be sober minded and all things showing myself a 00:25.480 --> 00:26.860 pattern of good works 00:26.900 --> 00:31.460 in doctrine showing uncorruptness gravity sincerity sound speech that cannot 00:31.460 --> 00:32.500 be condemned 00:32.500 --> 00:35.940 that he that is of a contrary contrary part 00:35.940 --> 00:38.940 may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you 00:38.940 --> 00:42.140 exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters and to please them 00:42.140 --> 00:44.780 well in all things not answering again 00:44.780 --> 00:48.300 not purloining but showing all good fidelity 00:48.300 --> 00:51.340 that they may adorn the doctrine of god our savior in all things for the grace 00:51.340 --> 00:54.580 of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men 00:55.420 --> 00:58.780 ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly 00:58.780 --> 01:02.980 righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope 01:02.980 --> 01:07.340 the glory glorious appearing of the great god and our savior jesus christ 01:07.340 --> 01:09.060 gave himself for us 01:09.060 --> 01:11.860 that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to himself a 01:11.860 --> 01:14.300 peculiar people's zealous of good works 01:14.300 --> 01:19.140 these things speak and exhort and rebuke with all authority let no man despise the 01:19.140 --> 01:21.700 let's pray dear lord god just thank you for this night we have lord to hear the 01:21.700 --> 01:24.460 preaching of your word lord please bless the service 01:24.460 --> 01:27.220 and please bless pastor and fill with the spirit lord give him boldness as he 01:27.220 --> 01:28.860 preaches your word unto us lord 01:28.860 --> 01:31.460 and pray that us in the congregation can take these truths from your word and 01:31.460 --> 01:32.860 apply to our lives lord 01:32.860 --> 01:36.980 that we can leave your change we pray this all in jesus name amen 01:36.980 --> 01:40.460 amen okay we're in titus chapter 2 this evening 01:40.460 --> 01:44.500 and the time of sermon tonight is denying ungodliness denying 01:44.500 --> 01:49.340 ungodliness titus chapter 2 and verse 11 says for the grace of god 01:49.380 --> 01:52.580 that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men 01:52.580 --> 01:55.460 teaching us that denying ungodliness 01:55.460 --> 01:57.180 and worldly lusts 01:57.180 --> 02:00.060 we should live soberly righteously 02:00.060 --> 02:01.260 and godly 02:01.260 --> 02:04.940 in this present world last week we went through titus chapter 1 02:04.940 --> 02:08.900 and if you remember the apostle paul is instructing titus 02:08.900 --> 02:12.300 on essentially setting things which are that need to be 02:12.300 --> 02:14.660 set in order to things that are wanting 02:14.740 --> 02:19.500 and also ordaining elders in every city part of ordaining the elders 02:19.500 --> 02:23.580 aside from the fact that he is laying out the qualifications of a pastor 02:23.580 --> 02:25.060 he's also explaining 02:25.060 --> 02:26.140 to titus 02:26.140 --> 02:29.460 that these elders need to be able to preach the word of god 02:29.460 --> 02:32.700 you know hold the word of god and expound upon it 02:32.700 --> 02:35.980 and teach those in crete how to behave themselves 02:35.980 --> 02:38.060 and of course we saw in titus chapter 1 02:38.060 --> 02:41.460 that there were false prophets who have infiltrated crete 02:41.460 --> 02:44.860 they were teaching things which say I'm not for filthy lucre sake 02:44.860 --> 02:47.300 and they were essentially criticizing 02:47.300 --> 02:49.460 the cretians right they were saying 02:49.460 --> 02:50.900 in chapter 1 02:50.900 --> 02:53.780 and verse number 12 says one of themselves even a prophet of their own 02:53.780 --> 02:56.340 said the cretians are always liars 02:56.340 --> 03:00.420 evil beasts and slow bellies and then he says this witness is true 03:00.420 --> 03:02.020 so obviously 03:02.020 --> 03:04.740 these false prophets are preaching a lot of lies 03:04.740 --> 03:06.340 they're preaching deception 03:06.340 --> 03:09.380 but there's actually some truth to what they're saying and I think what 03:09.620 --> 03:12.580 Paul's trying to get out here is 03:12.580 --> 03:13.460 excuse me 03:13.460 --> 03:16.060 what Paul's trying to get out here is the fact that 03:16.060 --> 03:18.060 even though these guys are teaching lies 03:18.060 --> 03:21.340 they're being hypocrites they are proselytizing 03:21.340 --> 03:23.940 they're converting people to the false religion 03:23.940 --> 03:26.740 of what we would know today as being Judaism 03:26.740 --> 03:29.740 aside from that they're actually giving some truth to it 03:29.740 --> 03:31.340 meaning that they're actually 03:31.340 --> 03:34.700 their criticisms are actually valid regarding the cretians 03:34.700 --> 03:38.140 because it says that these cretians are dishonest people 03:38.180 --> 03:41.180 they're evil beasts and they're slow bellies 03:41.180 --> 03:44.140 and this obviously is saying that they're not honest individuals 03:44.140 --> 03:46.700 we don't necessarily know what evil beast means 03:46.700 --> 03:49.660 it potentially means that they're just kind of people who are given 03:49.660 --> 03:52.940 to sinful behavior sinful habits 03:52.940 --> 03:56.060 but then we can surmise that slow bellies are referring to the fact that 03:56.060 --> 03:59.260 they are lazy they are slothful individuals 03:59.260 --> 04:02.300 then he says this witness is true wherefore rebuke them sharply 04:02.300 --> 04:05.260 that they may be sound in the faith so in other words the apostle paul is 04:06.140 --> 04:08.140 hey you need to correct these cretians 04:08.140 --> 04:11.340 they can't be acting like that they can't be evil beasts 04:11.340 --> 04:16.300 dishonest slow bellies because we don't want those who are of the contrary part 04:16.300 --> 04:19.900 to say anything evil of the believers who are in creed right 04:19.900 --> 04:24.220 in other words tell the cretians to live a life that's above reproach 04:24.220 --> 04:27.420 make sure there's no chink in the armor make sure 04:27.420 --> 04:31.420 they're not guilty of having bad character 04:31.420 --> 04:34.300 so that the false prophets don't have something to point at 04:34.300 --> 04:37.420 and say yeah you know these guys are evil beasts slow bellies 04:37.420 --> 04:41.180 they are liars and so forth and this is what he means when he says to be 04:41.180 --> 04:44.540 sound in the faith now we we would look at a phrase like that and say well to be 04:44.540 --> 04:48.460 sound in the faith means to be sound in doctrine as far as 04:48.460 --> 04:53.420 what they believe is concerned but when we look at the context of chapter two 04:53.420 --> 04:57.740 we see that sound in the faith or having sound doctrine 04:57.740 --> 05:01.340 is actually closely tied into their behavior right 05:01.420 --> 05:06.700 to their conduct to their conversation and so tides chapter two begins with him 05:06.700 --> 05:09.100 talking about you know preach the things which become 05:09.100 --> 05:12.540 sound doctrine and then he addresses four different groups 05:12.540 --> 05:17.660 he addresses the aged men the aged women and although it's not explicitly 05:17.660 --> 05:20.380 mentioned we can say the younger women as well 05:20.380 --> 05:24.540 and then the younger men you know obviously that would include 05:24.540 --> 05:29.020 the young people just in general and then of course the servants as well 05:29.020 --> 05:33.580 and he goes into just explaining how they should conduct themselves 05:33.580 --> 05:38.460 how they should have their conversation what their behavior should be like 05:38.460 --> 05:42.620 and it's obviously tied into chapter one of not allowing these 05:42.620 --> 05:45.900 false prophets to speak anything evil about them because 05:45.900 --> 05:49.340 they're christians these are believers and if they believe the right thing but 05:49.340 --> 05:52.780 they're living a certain way they can cause the word of god to be blasphemed 05:52.780 --> 05:56.460 and obviously the principle that we can learn here is that you know god wants us 05:56.460 --> 05:59.900 to believe the right things but he also wants us to behave the right way as well 05:59.900 --> 06:03.660 and i do believe that when the bible says here in verse 12 06:03.660 --> 06:08.540 to deny ungodliness and worldly lust he's referring to that behavior 06:08.540 --> 06:12.300 why because ungodliness is basically that which we are 06:12.300 --> 06:16.060 naturally you know the way we would naturally conduct ourselves outside of 06:16.060 --> 06:19.020 the bible okay so it's addressing these groups and 06:19.020 --> 06:21.580 this is it's saying like hey you need to deny 06:21.580 --> 06:26.940 your ungodly behavior the ungodliness that you are naturally given to 06:26.940 --> 06:30.860 and you need to make sure that you behave in a godly respectful manner he 06:30.860 --> 06:35.420 says the grace of god that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men 06:35.420 --> 06:39.980 teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust we should live soberly 06:39.980 --> 06:44.300 righteously and godly in this present world that soberly righteous and godly 06:44.300 --> 06:47.340 behavior is what characterizes what we see here 06:47.340 --> 06:50.860 in chapter two and i want you to notice verse 14 06:50.860 --> 06:55.980 it says who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity 06:55.980 --> 06:59.420 and purify unto himself a peculiar people 06:59.420 --> 07:03.180 zealous of good work so two things there is that god is saying hey 07:03.180 --> 07:06.060 i want you to behave the right way because if you're going to be a 07:06.060 --> 07:10.540 peculiar people unto me you know obviously you need to adopt 07:10.540 --> 07:13.020 these characteristics and attributes because this is obviously 07:13.020 --> 07:16.380 different from what the world proposes right 07:16.380 --> 07:19.500 living soberly righteously having good conduct 07:19.500 --> 07:23.820 is different from the behavior than the world promotes and he says here 07:23.820 --> 07:27.100 to be zealous of good works and when we think of 07:27.100 --> 07:31.180 good works in the bible we obviously associate it with preaching the gospel 07:31.180 --> 07:33.020 right like what are some of the good works do 07:33.020 --> 07:37.020 you do well i like to preach the gospel i like to get other people saved i like 07:37.020 --> 07:39.980 to go soul winning and these are definitely good works but 07:39.980 --> 07:44.140 in the context of the chapter the good works are what the behavior 07:44.140 --> 07:47.580 right so it's showing us here that we as 07:47.580 --> 07:51.740 christians yes we preach the gospel we go so winning in order to get people 07:51.740 --> 07:55.660 safe to do good works but good works are also tied into the way 07:55.660 --> 07:59.740 we act and the way that we behave as well okay and the bible says here that 07:59.740 --> 08:04.300 we need to be zealous of these things so just as zealous as you are for soul 08:04.300 --> 08:07.900 winning god wants you to be zealous and being submissive to your husband 08:07.900 --> 08:15.100 right in being a an honest employee right to be sober not to be a slanderer 08:15.100 --> 08:18.700 these are actually good works in the eyes of god so don't think to yourself 08:18.700 --> 08:21.820 well you know the only good works that i need to make sure that i'm doing 08:21.820 --> 08:26.220 is soul winning is preaching the gospel well according to the tithes chapter 2 08:26.220 --> 08:30.220 you also need to integrate the right type of behavior which in god's eyes is 08:30.220 --> 08:33.900 is a good work so it's not only commanded us to do the good work of 08:33.900 --> 08:37.900 having the right behavior but it's saying to be zealous of that good work 08:37.900 --> 08:41.820 meaning you should be excited about being a good wife be excited about being 08:41.820 --> 08:45.980 a good husband being excited about being an honest person this should be 08:45.980 --> 08:51.020 something that we are zealous about okay and so it's a great chapter here and i 08:51.020 --> 08:55.340 love preaching from this chapter because of the fact that it addresses 08:55.340 --> 08:58.540 a lot of different types of behavior but it seems to spend a very 08:58.540 --> 09:03.660 significant amount of time on women and specifically you know obviously 09:03.660 --> 09:07.340 it's a good chapter to use to preach against feminism right 09:07.340 --> 09:10.380 because a lot of the behavior that god proposes here 09:10.380 --> 09:14.220 is contrary to the behavior of those who are feminists 09:14.220 --> 09:17.580 you think to yourself well are you talking about feminists the blue-haired 09:17.580 --> 09:22.140 you know liberal democratic feminists well obviously but the most common one 09:22.140 --> 09:24.780 that we're that we would know are feminists within 09:24.780 --> 09:27.340 churches right because make no mistake about it 09:27.340 --> 09:31.420 feminism has infiltrated churches and if you're bored of me talking about 09:31.420 --> 09:35.420 feminism you know i mean i don't know what to tell you you know 09:35.420 --> 09:40.140 just be zealous okay of good works be zealous 09:40.140 --> 09:43.020 of this type of topic because it's important for you to know look at verse 09:43.020 --> 09:47.260 one it says but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine and then he 09:47.260 --> 09:51.740 says here that the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in 09:51.740 --> 09:54.620 faith in charity and patience so the first people 09:54.620 --> 09:58.700 group of people that he addresses are the aged men and obviously this is 09:58.700 --> 10:02.700 referring to those who are mature we can say let's just throw an age 10:02.700 --> 10:06.060 out there 30 and up amen would be kind of like the 10:07.020 --> 10:11.020 and don't be offended if you're 30 it's just it is what it is 10:11.020 --> 10:15.100 the age of men he says they need to be sober grave and temperate 10:15.100 --> 10:18.620 and the one word that i want to focus on there is temperate right 10:18.620 --> 10:22.780 what does it mean to be temperate discipline those who have self-control we 10:22.780 --> 10:26.060 talked about that last week those who have rule over their own 10:26.060 --> 10:29.740 spirit those who keep under their body and bringing into subjection 10:29.740 --> 10:33.260 he says that they need to be grave and temperate sound in faith 10:33.340 --> 10:36.540 in charity and patience in other words you know the aged men 10:36.540 --> 10:40.780 should not be characterized by being you know having the emotions of a younger 10:40.780 --> 10:44.220 person having the disposition of a younger person 10:44.220 --> 10:47.340 not having the control of an age and man but rather 10:47.340 --> 10:51.340 having the the the recklessness of a younger individual 10:51.340 --> 10:55.100 meaning you're supposed to be mature not just in body but also in mind 10:55.100 --> 11:01.340 and in spirit as well right be grave be temperate be sound in faith and have 11:02.300 --> 11:06.060 in other words as age and men we should be characterized by love 11:06.060 --> 11:09.500 charity is just another way of saying love it's obviously 11:09.500 --> 11:13.180 more closely associated in our modern vernacular 11:13.180 --> 11:16.540 with giving to the poor and things of that nature but charity is just 11:16.540 --> 11:20.220 synonymous with love and so the bible is saying here that we as the 11:20.220 --> 11:24.780 aged men should be characterized by having the attribute of being loving 11:24.780 --> 11:28.300 one toward another why because we've matured in our faith we've had 11:28.300 --> 11:32.380 a longer time to spend in the word of god we've been around the work of god 11:32.380 --> 11:36.460 longer we've been alive longer therefore we should be able to grow in a bound in 11:36.460 --> 11:39.900 our love one toward another and then he says patience now this is 11:39.900 --> 11:43.820 also another important aspect of the age and men why because patience a 11:43.820 --> 11:48.860 synonym for that is what endurance meaning that as an older man 11:48.860 --> 11:53.260 you should not be characterized by quitting quitting your job quitting on 11:53.260 --> 11:56.220 the lord quitting church quitting bible reading 11:56.220 --> 12:00.620 you should have some form of discipline in your life and to be able to endure 12:00.620 --> 12:04.220 hardships when they come and maybe let's think about it the older you get 12:04.220 --> 12:08.060 the harder life is right the more trials you're going to experience 12:08.060 --> 12:11.900 the more hardships you're going to have and we need to make sure that as 12:11.900 --> 12:15.260 christians we are not just throwing in the towel 12:15.260 --> 12:19.340 as the aged men when the going gets tough and obviously you know the world 12:19.340 --> 12:22.380 in which we live promotes quitting it promotes just you know if you don't like 12:22.380 --> 12:26.140 it here go somewhere else you know if the going gets tough then 12:26.380 --> 12:29.500 you know there's nothing wrong with quitting your job and quitting on this 12:29.500 --> 12:32.140 and quitting on that quitting on your marriage we need to have 12:32.140 --> 12:36.300 patience we need to be able to endure hardships 12:36.300 --> 12:40.380 you know and we need to exemplify patience and endurance 12:40.380 --> 12:43.420 to those around us and look you know i mentioned marriage 12:43.420 --> 12:49.500 we as the aged men need to exemplify endurance in marriage not that marriage 12:49.500 --> 12:52.220 is supposed to be always endured by the way 12:52.220 --> 12:55.660 right you know some people will be like well you know my marriage i have to 12:55.660 --> 12:57.260 endure well you shouldn't really be that way 12:57.260 --> 13:01.420 all the time though you know marriage is not something that is 13:01.420 --> 13:06.140 grievous it's not something that is you know a thorn in the flesh the old 13:06.140 --> 13:08.380 chain ball and chain or something like that 13:08.380 --> 13:10.940 you know you're supposed to enjoy marriage rejoice with the wife of thy 13:10.940 --> 13:13.420 youth but you know realistically speaking we 13:13.420 --> 13:17.020 obviously know that because we live in a corruptible world 13:17.020 --> 13:20.380 marriage is going to be difficult sometimes right 13:20.380 --> 13:23.820 where you know you're not going to get along with your spouse you are going to 13:23.820 --> 13:28.060 have some disagreements with them you know you will have bumps in the 13:28.060 --> 13:31.740 road where you face trials in your marriage 13:31.740 --> 13:34.780 well it's at that point that you need to make sure that you determine to 13:34.780 --> 13:38.460 have endurance and have patience and not just say well you know i just don't 13:38.460 --> 13:41.820 think this is working out i just don't think this is working i 13:41.820 --> 13:44.860 think we just need to go our separate ways or something like that 13:44.860 --> 13:48.860 no it's till death do you part okay you made a covenant before god 13:48.860 --> 13:52.060 you can't just quit on your marriage and you know what everything was 13:52.060 --> 13:55.420 hunky dory in the very beginning you were willing to make that covenant 13:55.420 --> 13:59.180 before god you need to be able to endure the hardships of marriage 13:59.180 --> 14:04.060 and part of enduring hardships of marriage is working on your marriage 14:04.060 --> 14:07.260 not throwing in the towel not saying we need a break from one another 14:07.260 --> 14:11.420 just work through the problem okay and i get it you know some marriages are more 14:11.420 --> 14:15.980 difficult than others people experience uh you know more 14:15.980 --> 14:19.740 hardships than other couples might but at the end of the day there's no 14:19.740 --> 14:23.580 exception to this rule god says till death do you part it 14:23.580 --> 14:28.780 means till you die and that's not a you know that's not a call 14:28.780 --> 14:32.540 for murder either okay you know god wants you to endure but 14:32.540 --> 14:36.780 but here's the thing you know the goal is not to just endure it is to enjoy 14:36.780 --> 14:39.980 marriage and the vast majority of the time in your marriage you should be 14:39.980 --> 14:43.580 enjoying your marriage but i'm just saying that there will be 14:43.580 --> 14:46.460 seasons where you will go through difficult times 14:46.460 --> 14:50.380 and it's at that point that you need to exercise patience let patience 14:50.380 --> 14:55.260 have her perfect work the bible says right and don't be a little wimp don't 14:55.260 --> 14:58.220 be someone who just throws in the towel i just don't know how 14:58.220 --> 15:00.940 how we're just going to continue like this what are you talking about you act 15:00.940 --> 15:05.420 like you're in a movie or something this is not a sitcom this is not a movie 15:05.420 --> 15:09.340 this is not hollywood endure have patience 15:09.340 --> 15:15.820 forgive be forgiven send flowers write notes do everything you can to 15:15.820 --> 15:19.580 work on your marriage improve it don't just throw in the towel and say 15:19.580 --> 15:23.500 well it's just we've just tried everything well if you've tried 15:23.500 --> 15:28.540 everything try again and try again and again and again and 15:28.540 --> 15:30.700 again and again and again and again and again 15:30.700 --> 15:36.220 until you or she dies right but the reality is this is that 15:36.220 --> 15:41.820 eventually it will work yes it takes time and it requires patience 15:41.820 --> 15:47.260 right endurance and i what i've learned is you know hardships people 15:47.260 --> 15:50.700 in marriage sometimes want to avoid hardships because they're not pleasant 15:50.700 --> 15:53.740 they're very difficult okay it brings out the worst in us 15:53.740 --> 15:57.580 sometimes right but what i've learned is that if you learn 15:57.580 --> 16:01.180 how to endure the hardships with your spouse it actually 16:01.180 --> 16:05.100 draws you closer to each other right have you ever noticed that you 16:05.100 --> 16:07.580 know someone you grew up with or a friend you have 16:07.580 --> 16:11.340 when you experience difficulties with that person your bond becomes a lot 16:11.340 --> 16:13.660 stronger because you've experienced you know 16:13.660 --> 16:16.860 obviously we make memories with people that we love by 16:16.860 --> 16:20.220 enjoying the good times but we become so much closer 16:20.220 --> 16:23.900 when we go through tribulations together and we endure together 16:23.900 --> 16:27.660 well the same applies to marriage when you go through a difficult time with 16:27.660 --> 16:30.460 your spouse and you push through guess what you end up 16:30.460 --> 16:34.220 getting closer because of it okay so that's not the time to be splitting 16:34.220 --> 16:38.540 up that's not the time to be leaving one another that's not the time 16:38.540 --> 16:42.780 to take a break from one another no that's when you got to double down 16:42.780 --> 16:46.620 on your marriage and say all right this is it we need to like work through this 16:46.620 --> 16:51.580 you know and look folks when it comes to marriage create reasons to stay in your 16:51.580 --> 16:54.300 marriage don't look for reasons to get out of it 16:54.300 --> 16:57.260 let me say that again when it comes to marriage 16:57.260 --> 17:02.300 create reasons to stay together instead of looking for excuses 17:02.300 --> 17:07.180 to split up right you know as many excuses you come as like well you know 17:07.180 --> 17:10.860 let me give you all the reasons why we should split up okay if you come up with 17:10.860 --> 17:14.620 10 reasons to come up with 20 reasons why you should stay together 17:14.620 --> 17:19.740 all right and you know you will find reasons 17:19.740 --> 17:22.780 and look let me just say this you know i've never had a desire to split with my 17:22.780 --> 17:25.580 wife obviously but let's just say i did let's just say 17:25.580 --> 17:29.420 she's just annoying me like crazy we just she's not 17:29.420 --> 17:33.900 submissive to me she yells at me she tries to beat me up 17:33.900 --> 17:38.060 and you know she doesn't make me the food that i like and she's a vegan i'm 17:38.060 --> 17:41.100 not you know let's just let's just pull out the words this is she's just a 17:41.100 --> 17:44.460 feminist right let's just say that let's just it's a 17:44.460 --> 17:48.780 horrible situation okay where was i going with that i don't 17:48.780 --> 17:51.580 know you know you say well what would you do 17:51.580 --> 17:54.780 well obviously i would try to find common ground with my wife 17:54.780 --> 17:58.780 right but i would try to work through it as much as i possibly can because 17:58.780 --> 18:02.300 at the end of the day i made a covenant before god 18:02.300 --> 18:06.300 and i need to be able to endure this situation because of the fact that 18:06.300 --> 18:09.980 that's the right thing to do okay it's the right thing to do 18:09.980 --> 18:13.580 and at the end of the day you know i would look for all the positive qualities 18:13.580 --> 18:16.540 in my wife that drew me to her in the first place 18:16.540 --> 18:20.540 and just mark them down and say well you know she might have these weaknesses but 18:20.540 --> 18:26.540 her her the positives about my wife far outweigh the negatives 18:26.540 --> 18:30.300 and so it's important for us to look for reasons to stay together but how about 18:30.300 --> 18:33.020 this let's just say it was a horrible situation 18:33.020 --> 18:36.060 okay and let's just say my wife didn't have any good qualities which obviously 18:36.060 --> 18:38.540 that's not the case it's not the case with anybody 18:38.540 --> 18:42.140 but let's just pretend for a second that that was the case one of the reasons 18:42.140 --> 18:45.500 that i would want to stay together with my wife is for my kids 18:45.500 --> 18:49.340 right that'd be a good reason it was like you know what i want my kids to have a 18:49.340 --> 18:54.380 successful marriage when they grow up i want them to be happily married till 18:54.380 --> 18:58.460 death do them part and in order for them to experience 18:58.460 --> 19:03.180 you know that in their life i need to make sure that i teach them endurance 19:03.180 --> 19:07.340 right and make sure that i don't quit on my marriage but the reality is this you 19:07.340 --> 19:11.420 know the vast majority of marriages that experience problems are not to that 19:11.420 --> 19:15.100 extent okay so you know don't be weak don't be 19:15.100 --> 19:18.620 a wimp about it when you're going through hard times with your spouse 19:18.620 --> 19:23.260 work through those issues learn patience you aged men 19:23.260 --> 19:26.220 and look it's a blessing in our church we got a lot of young people but you guys 19:26.220 --> 19:29.900 are all going to get old you guys are all going to get old all of 19:29.900 --> 19:33.420 you you're old already you're older you're going to get old 19:33.420 --> 19:40.780 you're going you're old already old old old you know definitely old 19:40.780 --> 19:44.060 young you're going to get old all you guys are going to get old everyone's 19:44.060 --> 19:47.180 going to get old don't be offended at that it's the truth 19:47.180 --> 19:52.620 so listen to me learn endurance now okay because you 19:52.620 --> 19:57.980 don't want to be an aged man being characterized by quitting okay 19:57.980 --> 20:03.020 you know life is hard life is difficult it comes with trials it comes with 20:03.020 --> 20:08.860 interruptions it comes with distractions it comes with health issues you need to 20:08.860 --> 20:13.020 learn how to have patience now what's the point of 20:13.020 --> 20:17.580 the apostle paul telling this to titus regarding the conduct of 20:17.580 --> 20:20.140 the cretins well one as we see at the latter end of 20:21.020 --> 20:24.700 the verse 5 that the word of god be not blasphemed right we don't want people to 20:24.700 --> 20:26.940 speak evil of the word of god because of our 20:26.940 --> 20:34.140 lack of christian conduct but also as it says in verse number 20:34.140 --> 20:37.420 what verse am i looking at here 20:37.820 --> 20:42.220 why can't i find it he says in all things showing thyself a pattern of good 20:42.220 --> 20:45.180 works and doctrine showing uncorrupted gravity 20:45.180 --> 20:49.820 sound speech that cannot be condemned the he that is of the contrary part 20:50.620 --> 20:53.980 may be ashamed having no evil things to say of you so again 20:53.980 --> 20:57.420 no evil thing to say of you is in conjunction with what 20:57.420 --> 21:01.180 not allowing the word of god to be blasphemed because here's the thing 21:01.180 --> 21:04.060 folks is that people are watching your family's watching you 21:04.060 --> 21:07.420 your kids are watching you your close relatives are watching you 21:07.420 --> 21:11.900 and you don't want them to speak evil of the word of god because of your lack of 21:11.900 --> 21:14.940 patience your lack of endurance especially if you're new to the 21:14.940 --> 21:17.820 christian life you know if you're new to the christian life 21:17.820 --> 21:21.340 you probably already try to preach to your family and you've annoyed your 21:21.340 --> 21:23.500 family you know one thing is going to help you 21:23.500 --> 21:26.940 win your family over your endurance in the christian life because i'm just 21:26.940 --> 21:29.020 going to tell you right now a lot of them are just like oh it's just a phase 21:29.020 --> 21:33.020 for him it's just a phase for her what this year is 21:33.020 --> 21:34.700 this the next year will be something else 21:34.700 --> 21:38.380 so what do you need endurance in the christian life in order to win them over 21:38.380 --> 21:42.380 right very important look at verse number 21:42.380 --> 21:46.620 three so that's pretty much it for the aged men 21:46.620 --> 21:50.620 that's all i got for you guys because that's all the apostle paul has 21:50.620 --> 21:55.500 and so um we'll get to the young men in just a bit john michael don't worry 21:55.500 --> 22:00.300 verse three says the aged women likewise that they be in behavior as 22:00.300 --> 22:04.940 becomeeth holiness not false accusers not given to much 22:04.940 --> 22:08.620 wine teachers of good things so the aged women 22:08.620 --> 22:13.340 the older women in the church and obviously we don't have a lot of older 22:13.340 --> 22:15.980 women in our church as far as the age it is concerned 22:15.980 --> 22:19.420 but just as i said with the men you ladies will also get old one day 22:19.420 --> 22:22.460 okay and don't be offended that's just the truth 22:22.460 --> 22:26.220 okay so we need to give good heed to this 22:26.220 --> 22:29.820 and it says that they need to make sure that their behavior 22:29.820 --> 22:35.820 is characterized by holiness now how do we know what he means by behavior 22:35.820 --> 22:38.060 which becomeeth holiness what does it mean specifically 22:38.060 --> 22:41.180 well we could look at the opposite of what he's saying here 22:41.180 --> 22:45.260 or we can look at the what he tells them to not become like or not to 22:45.260 --> 22:49.500 to do not to be like and assume okay the opposite is true right so when he says 22:49.500 --> 22:52.700 not false accusers so what does it mean to be holy 22:52.700 --> 22:57.660 it means that you are not characterized by slander and gossip 22:57.660 --> 23:03.260 understand so what this is implying here is that the aged women in crete and i 23:03.260 --> 23:07.820 would say just in general the temptation for the aged women is to 23:07.820 --> 23:11.420 become gossippers because what is a false accuser it's when 23:11.420 --> 23:15.260 you're just slandering people and with you know just getting 23:15.260 --> 23:18.540 involved in other people's matters it's what the bible says to be a busy 23:18.540 --> 23:22.620 body okay he says not give it too much wine 23:22.620 --> 23:25.420 meaning that she that she should not be characterized by 23:25.420 --> 23:31.020 luxurious living and appetites and he says teachers of good things 23:31.020 --> 23:33.980 now look folks this is important it's important for all of us not to be 23:33.980 --> 23:39.260 accused of being a false accuser right but just in general i see this a 23:39.260 --> 23:43.980 lot today where you have the aged women in churches 23:43.980 --> 23:48.460 just slandering people online slandering people on social media 23:48.460 --> 23:51.820 falsely accusing others being a busy body 23:51.820 --> 23:55.820 being a tabler as it says in first timothy chapter 5 and that is an 23:55.820 --> 24:00.940 unholy thing to do now i get it you know sometimes 24:00.940 --> 24:04.940 women who get to this age they might have what they call 24:04.940 --> 24:08.380 i forgot what they what they call like empty nest syndrome or something like 24:08.380 --> 24:10.780 that where like the kids are all grown up 24:10.780 --> 24:14.380 they're out of the house so they're just kind of they don't have anything to do 24:14.380 --> 24:20.300 but here's the thing look for something to do don't look to be a false accuser 24:20.300 --> 24:23.980 and you know obviously if the apostle paul is dealing with this 24:23.980 --> 24:28.220 in the island of crete with no social media 24:28.220 --> 24:31.340 i mean just just imagine how much this is multiplied 24:31.340 --> 24:35.900 today right he says teachers of good things 24:35.980 --> 24:40.140 and then he says in verse four he's he addresses the young women by proxy by 24:40.140 --> 24:42.780 explaining what the aged women should be teaching 24:42.780 --> 24:46.380 he says verse four that they teach they may teach the young women 24:46.380 --> 24:49.500 to be sober and the first thing he mentions here 24:49.500 --> 24:53.820 is to love their husbands okay so what does this mean it means that the aged 24:53.820 --> 24:57.820 women should be discipling the younger women in end times 24:57.820 --> 25:03.500 prophecy in replacement theology now leave that to me okay 25:03.500 --> 25:10.940 in eternal security and let's just study you know uh let's study philippians 25:10.940 --> 25:14.060 let's just go first but no it says to teach them 25:14.060 --> 25:17.180 when it says teach them teachers of good things 25:17.180 --> 25:21.820 you know a lot of these uh female pastors like to use this verse as a 25:21.820 --> 25:26.220 justification to become pastors but what is it what is the content of the 25:26.220 --> 25:31.500 teaching to love their husbands so it's saying that the aged women 25:31.500 --> 25:35.740 should take the younger women under their wing and give them practical tips 25:35.740 --> 25:41.820 on how to love their husbands not to leave their husbands 25:41.820 --> 25:46.460 right they shouldn't be like you know hey tell me 25:46.460 --> 25:49.420 all the trash about your husband oh yeah he sounds like a horrible 25:49.420 --> 25:51.980 reprimand 25:52.380 --> 25:56.540 you know just tell me just give me all the dirty laundry about your husband 25:56.540 --> 25:59.740 tell me everything you have yeah just just pour it upon me 25:59.740 --> 26:03.260 yep you're right you should leave him is that what it's saying no it says to 26:03.260 --> 26:08.940 love your husband to love their husbands and look folks i'm not saying that you 26:08.940 --> 26:11.740 know sometimes we'll have women come to our church 26:11.740 --> 26:15.980 without their husbands it's it's common it's not a bad thing 26:15.980 --> 26:19.020 maybe they're having trouble in their marriage and maybe they do need to get 26:19.020 --> 26:21.900 stuff off their chest right so maybe they go to one of the ladies 26:21.900 --> 26:24.380 in our church and say this is the situation i'm in 26:24.380 --> 26:27.260 i think that's perfectly fine you know i mean because sometimes people just 26:27.260 --> 26:31.100 need to talk right that's not wrong let me tell you 26:31.100 --> 26:35.100 when it becomes wrong when the recipient of that information 26:35.100 --> 26:40.140 says oh yeah he sounds super wicked yeah you should just get away from that 26:40.140 --> 26:44.380 person as much as possible first of all because let me tell you why 26:44.380 --> 26:47.580 it's wicked number one is because of the fact that the guy's not even here to 26:47.580 --> 26:52.300 defend himself right right like how do we know if that's 26:52.300 --> 26:55.180 even true there's two sides to every story out of 26:55.180 --> 26:57.580 the mouth are two or three witnesses everywhere shall be established the 26:57.580 --> 27:00.540 bible says okay and you know let me give you an 27:00.540 --> 27:04.620 example of this of a couple years ago more than a couple 27:04.620 --> 27:07.820 years at the old building there's a lady who came to our church 27:07.820 --> 27:10.780 and she ended up getting thrown out for for being a railer 27:10.780 --> 27:15.580 but she was notorious for this and man she'd just throw her husband under the 27:15.580 --> 27:20.060 bus and he's so evil and wicked and he's what you guys call a 27:20.060 --> 27:23.500 reprobate and all this stuff and then one of our church members met 27:23.500 --> 27:27.100 the guy and he's like man he seems like such a cool guy actually 27:27.100 --> 27:31.180 you're just like a really nice guy and then she's like yeah but if you meet 27:31.180 --> 27:33.340 him you're not going to think that you're you're going to think he's like a 27:33.340 --> 27:38.060 really nice guy but don't be fooled though he's really not he's just super 27:38.060 --> 27:41.340 evil and wicked but really what she was doing she was just projecting what she 27:41.340 --> 27:45.580 was right and you know lo and behold she ends 27:45.580 --> 27:48.300 up getting excommunicated from the church for railing 27:48.300 --> 27:51.100 and in fact there's there's visitors that we would have come to our church 27:51.100 --> 27:54.300 they met her and they're like i never want to come back to this church 27:54.300 --> 27:58.460 because of her why because the word of god was blasphemed through her 27:58.460 --> 28:03.420 you understand and so you know and look if someone comes to you complaining 28:03.420 --> 28:06.060 about their spouse let's just throw out an example you know 28:06.060 --> 28:09.020 complaining about their husband obviously there might seem there might 28:09.020 --> 28:11.740 be some validity to what they're saying right 28:11.740 --> 28:14.860 can't discount we're not going to say that there's completely lying but let's 28:14.860 --> 28:18.700 just be honest sometimes people exaggerate okay 28:18.700 --> 28:22.860 and you can't just believe everything you hear and this goes both ways 28:22.860 --> 28:25.580 if a guy comes to our church complaining about his wife we can't necessarily 28:25.580 --> 28:28.300 believe every single jot and tittle that the person says 28:28.300 --> 28:31.340 because the other individual is not here to really defend themselves 28:31.340 --> 28:33.980 you understand 28:34.140 --> 28:37.180 but here's the thing you know our responsibility 28:37.180 --> 28:41.900 as the recipients of as the shoulder that the person is crying on 28:41.900 --> 28:46.300 is not to just enable them in their rebellion though 28:46.300 --> 28:50.540 you understand what i'm saying they can't just be like yeah you're right you 28:50.540 --> 28:54.220 know he's probably he probably is a reprobate 28:54.220 --> 28:57.820 and you just probably get away from as much no the the response should be well 28:57.820 --> 29:01.820 let me give you some tips on how to love your husband to have a better marriage 29:01.820 --> 29:05.740 you know what i mean uh what are some things that your husband likes what's 29:05.740 --> 29:08.780 the food that he like what would you say makes him upset 29:08.780 --> 29:12.460 why do you guys fight the most what's the reason why you guys get in 29:12.460 --> 29:15.660 arguments the most all right let's see how we can fix that 29:15.660 --> 29:20.140 that's the right way to disciple not let me just sneak you out of your house and 29:20.140 --> 29:23.900 leave your husband or something like that let me figure out a way to just 29:23.900 --> 29:27.900 convince the world that you're just that your husband's an abuser 29:27.900 --> 29:31.580 right just to kind of take you out of that house or something like that that's 29:31.580 --> 29:34.780 wicked bible says here that the aged women 29:34.780 --> 29:37.740 are supposed to teach the younger women to love 29:37.740 --> 29:41.980 their husbands right and what encompasses loving your husband 29:41.980 --> 29:45.820 reverencing your husband submitting to your husband 29:45.820 --> 29:49.660 and just giving practical tips on how to improve 29:49.660 --> 29:53.500 your marriage and how to you know to love your husband 29:53.500 --> 29:58.220 and to reverence him to submit to him and check on progress right like hey so 29:58.220 --> 30:02.220 did that work how was that you know what happened there and yeah 30:02.220 --> 30:05.980 this worked but this didn't you know we kind of helped them troubleshoot 30:05.980 --> 30:09.500 from a distance on their marriage because folks i'm gonna tell you right 30:09.900 --> 30:14.780 most churches listen to me most churches when women come to that church 30:14.780 --> 30:17.980 they go to that church complaining about their husband you know what the pastor 30:17.980 --> 30:19.580 is doing oh yeah you should divorce that guy 30:19.580 --> 30:25.580 immediately oh he watched porn divorce him and look folks watching porn is 30:25.580 --> 30:30.140 wicked it's stupid it's godless get right with 30:30.140 --> 30:33.020 god but the answer is not leave your husband 30:33.020 --> 30:37.100 though you understand oh man my husband said i 30:37.100 --> 30:41.180 was fat you know it's it's wrong you should not be speaking like that to 30:41.180 --> 30:44.540 your wife you should be loving towards your wife 30:44.540 --> 30:49.660 or whatever but that's not a justification to leave your spouse oh he 30:49.660 --> 30:52.860 leaves his his you know undergarments and his socks 30:52.860 --> 30:55.740 all over the place he never cleans up after himself 30:55.740 --> 31:00.300 none of us do i think right 31:01.180 --> 31:05.980 my wife has to clean up after me too what 31:05.980 --> 31:10.780 don't give me don't look at me like that she's a keeper at home that's what she's 31:10.780 --> 31:13.500 supposed to do oh is that a justification for your 31:13.500 --> 31:18.380 spouse to leave no it's not this society wants to create all kinds of 31:18.380 --> 31:22.140 reasons why you should leave your spouse why you should leave your husband whereas 31:22.140 --> 31:28.620 the bible promotes let no man put us under right 31:28.620 --> 31:33.100 and so you know i'm thankful that we have ladies in our church 31:33.100 --> 31:36.300 that do promote this i know this for a fact there's ladies in our church that 31:36.300 --> 31:39.180 disciple other ladies and they teach them to love their 31:39.180 --> 31:43.580 husbands and you know they try to give them practical tips on how to do so 31:43.580 --> 31:47.420 and all that i think that is that's extremely godly 31:47.420 --> 31:53.580 right that is that's someone whose behavior is becoming holiness 31:53.580 --> 31:57.100 because there's other churches fundamental baptist churches 31:57.100 --> 32:01.500 verity baptist churches that don't really do stuff like that 32:01.500 --> 32:07.100 they do the exact opposite and we want to promote the unity in 32:07.100 --> 32:09.980 marriage we don't want to promote quitters in 32:09.980 --> 32:12.380 marriage we want to help we want to help people 32:12.380 --> 32:15.740 to endure the hardships of their marriage and look you know it was all 32:15.740 --> 32:19.340 fine and dandy when you first got married you guys just 32:19.340 --> 32:22.380 got along great but you know the honeymoon's over 32:22.380 --> 32:26.380 and now you know trials and difficulties come or you got to work it out 32:26.380 --> 32:29.580 okay and look we need to get back to the 32:29.660 --> 32:33.740 biblical teaching here of marriage well first corinthians chapter seven says 32:33.740 --> 32:37.420 let's say your husband or your wife is an unsafe person 32:37.420 --> 32:40.860 that's not a justification to leave them okay 32:40.860 --> 32:44.860 if you got saved later on and you married an unsafe person 32:44.860 --> 32:48.700 it's still death you part and the bible says that now your spouse has a higher 32:48.700 --> 32:52.860 chance of getting saved because of you and in fact your children have a higher 32:52.860 --> 32:55.260 chance of getting saved because you're a safe person that's how you 32:55.260 --> 32:58.060 got to view things 32:58.380 --> 33:04.220 and so you know we see here that the discipleship of the aged women is to be 33:04.220 --> 33:08.940 teachers of good things not stealing people from 33:08.940 --> 33:12.460 their spouses not helping them to subvert the their 33:12.460 --> 33:17.900 authority but to be to love their husbands and to 33:17.900 --> 33:21.980 love their children and you know i really love the fact that in our 33:21.980 --> 33:26.140 church we have this community of of moms and wives who kind of get together 33:26.140 --> 33:28.860 and give each other tips on homeschooling 33:28.860 --> 33:33.020 you know they talk about how you know what they're doing with their kids 33:33.020 --> 33:37.820 and what curriculum works best that is you loving your children right 33:37.820 --> 33:43.180 what is the bible telling us elevate the woman's place in the home 33:43.180 --> 33:47.660 so the aged women should elevate the woman's role 33:47.660 --> 33:50.860 in their home notice he doesn't say that the aged women 33:50.860 --> 33:53.900 should be teaching the younger women how to get a career 33:53.900 --> 33:59.980 how to be a boss babe or whatever how to go viral or you know it's saying 33:59.980 --> 34:03.980 no you need to learn how to function in your home you need to learn how to obey 34:03.980 --> 34:06.300 your husband to love him and to love your children 34:06.300 --> 34:13.740 this is a noble role this is god's will for your life right and so 34:13.740 --> 34:17.420 we need to make sure that we keep aged women who 34:17.420 --> 34:21.260 don't are not characterized by this out of the church 34:21.260 --> 34:26.700 okay they're not welcomed in our church aged women who just want to teach 34:26.700 --> 34:30.940 rebellion and to be loud mouths and disrespectful 34:30.940 --> 34:33.020 towards their authorities or towards their husband 34:33.020 --> 34:36.460 not welcome and let me just say this you know don't badmouth your husband either 34:36.460 --> 34:40.620 just in our church don't don't ever come to me badmouthing your husband 34:40.620 --> 34:44.060 criticizing your husband i already know how bad he is you know i'm around him 34:44.060 --> 34:47.980 all the time you don't need to tell me we already know okay you know we don't 34:47.980 --> 34:51.820 need you to tell us whatever how your husband's this that 34:51.820 --> 34:57.500 and the other i don't want to hear that okay i don't want to hear you know the 34:57.500 --> 35:02.940 the the weak attributes of your husband and i'm joking here to a certain degree 35:02.940 --> 35:08.940 but i that's not my place you know you have to deal with that and i'm here to 35:08.940 --> 35:11.180 give you tips i'm here to help your marriage 35:11.180 --> 35:14.700 i'm here to guide you guys through when you guys are going through a tough time 35:14.700 --> 35:19.260 but i'm not here to join the criticisms of a spouse or something like that 35:19.260 --> 35:23.740 we need to make sure that we promote unity in the local new testament church 35:23.740 --> 35:26.460 not just amongst ourselves but in marriages as well 35:26.460 --> 35:31.580 okay and so very good amen i love this chapter 35:31.580 --> 35:35.500 he says that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands 35:35.500 --> 35:39.340 to love their children to be discreet what does it mean to be 35:39.340 --> 35:44.620 discreet it means that they are there are individuals who know when and 35:45.020 --> 35:48.300 when and what to say right like when to say something 35:48.300 --> 35:53.340 and what they need to say and they abstain from just sharing too much 35:53.340 --> 35:58.060 information or giving advice that should not be given 35:58.060 --> 36:01.180 and obviously you can put it under this being disrespectful or whatever it may 36:01.180 --> 36:05.180 be the bible wants christians just in general 36:05.180 --> 36:08.300 to practice discretion but here in this particular chapter 36:08.300 --> 36:11.580 he's saying that the young women need to learn how to be discreet 36:11.580 --> 36:15.020 in other words you know think before you talk right 36:15.020 --> 36:18.860 you know think before you talk so that you don't hurt people's feelings you 36:18.860 --> 36:23.260 don't you know slight someone practice 36:23.260 --> 36:28.460 discretion he says chased so what does it mean to be chased it means to be 36:28.460 --> 36:31.740 pure okay so how does the aged woman teach 36:31.740 --> 36:36.060 the younger woman to be a chaste person well they give them practical tips on 36:36.060 --> 36:41.500 how to have standards in their life right not to be naive you know they 36:41.500 --> 36:44.620 can teach them by saying hey i know you mean well but it's probably 36:44.620 --> 36:47.580 not best for you to ride alone in a car with the opposite 36:47.580 --> 36:51.980 gender not to be alone with someone in the dark you know with the guy you like 36:51.980 --> 36:54.140 or something like that because you just never know what might 36:54.140 --> 36:58.700 happen okay teaching principles of purity is what it is 36:58.700 --> 37:01.980 to be chased and i want you to notice this keepers 37:01.980 --> 37:09.740 at home what does it keep her at home it's someone who stays home and guides 37:09.740 --> 37:14.860 the house i will the women bear children guide the 37:14.860 --> 37:18.300 house meaning that they're supposed to be a home girl 37:18.300 --> 37:22.140 right gotta be a home girl 37:23.180 --> 37:26.300 so you say are you saying that a woman's place is in the home yeah 37:26.300 --> 37:29.740 that's that's what it says right there be a keeper at home stay home 37:29.740 --> 37:33.340 this is not to say that they're just you know locked in their homes they're not 37:33.340 --> 37:35.580 allowed to come out or something like that 37:35.580 --> 37:39.260 they have you know the all they're they're gonna do is just be there 37:39.260 --> 37:42.620 no obviously when it says be a keeper at home it's referring to the fact that she 37:42.620 --> 37:47.980 is ruling over the affairs of the home this is why you know a woman should have 37:47.980 --> 37:51.740 the right to just decorate the house as she pleases you know what i mean 37:51.740 --> 37:55.020 that's her nest that's what that's her responsibility that's what she wants to 37:55.020 --> 37:58.300 do and so be a keeper at home meaning 37:58.300 --> 38:02.540 that she's organizing and taking care of the affairs of the 38:02.540 --> 38:07.180 household of the children of her husband her focus should be to 38:07.180 --> 38:11.500 succeed in the home homeschooling the kids ironing the 38:11.500 --> 38:15.180 shirts folding the laundry doing the dishes 38:15.180 --> 38:20.140 cooking the meals this is a major full-time job 38:20.140 --> 38:24.220 this is not degrading women feminism has taught women that this is a degrading 38:24.220 --> 38:27.900 position oh you shouldn't do that you should 38:27.900 --> 38:30.940 work in a restaurant have someone else tell you what to do 38:30.940 --> 38:35.500 make a sandwich for somebody else be somewhere at a specific time and have 38:35.500 --> 38:40.460 another man tell you what to do isn't that crazy it's just like why 38:40.460 --> 38:43.340 would you obey your husband and make him a meal 38:43.340 --> 38:46.780 when you could be working out in the world 38:46.780 --> 38:53.580 and have another man tell you what to do tell you how to dress what uniform to 38:53.580 --> 38:58.540 put on when to clock in and clock out 38:58.540 --> 39:01.100 it's crazy 39:01.420 --> 39:05.100 but this is the deception out there where it's just like 39:05.100 --> 39:08.300 well you know i'm not for my husband telling me what to do i'm gonna do my 39:08.300 --> 39:13.820 own thing live my own way your thing in your own way is 39:13.820 --> 39:18.140 having another boss outside of the home telling what to do who doesn't care for 39:18.140 --> 39:21.660 you you know and you could get fired at any 39:21.660 --> 39:26.940 moment or something like that you know just bring me the sandwich and 39:27.020 --> 39:31.580 you can have my bank card you know you don't need a tip i'll just 39:31.580 --> 39:34.460 give you my whole bank card you just have any money you want how about 39:34.460 --> 39:36.540 that and you don't need a uniform just dress 39:36.540 --> 39:42.380 however you want right that's a better deal 39:43.980 --> 39:53.180 you know fill up my coffee refill my cup you know ask me how the service was 39:54.140 --> 40:00.540 you get paid more anyways and you save on gas so you don't have to go to work 40:00.540 --> 40:04.300 you know you can stay in your pajamas if you want in the morning you know i'm not 40:04.300 --> 40:08.380 gonna i'm not gonna write you up because of that 40:09.900 --> 40:14.540 you see there's perks to being a keeper at home don't let feminism lie to you 40:14.540 --> 40:18.380 and deceive you to think it oh this is so inferior whatever 40:18.380 --> 40:23.100 you know we need women's independence and you know and by the way 40:23.100 --> 40:27.100 women are now waking up to this and they're realizing how stupid and 40:27.100 --> 40:32.220 godless feminism is and how it sold them a bill of goods and now 40:32.220 --> 40:35.500 women are starting to realize like whoa being staying being a stay-at-home mom 40:35.500 --> 40:38.860 is like awesome i wish i could be a stay-at-home mom and 40:38.860 --> 40:41.180 now i have to work for some corporate office 40:41.180 --> 40:44.860 you know doing this nonsense i'd rather just be a mom and a wife and just 40:44.860 --> 40:48.540 you know homeschool my kids and cook and clean 40:48.540 --> 40:49.580 they rather have that 40:51.740 --> 40:54.300 and so very important you know the bible said it first 40:55.740 --> 41:01.740 so he says to be discreet chased keepers at home and i get it maybe ladies in our 41:01.740 --> 41:05.740 church don't don't necessarily have may not have that same privilege or 41:05.740 --> 41:08.620 whatever you know you may think to yourself well you know i didn't grow up 41:08.620 --> 41:11.340 in that kind of home my husband's not like that i would like to 41:11.340 --> 41:15.100 work towards that but here's the thing here's my advice to people when they're 41:15.100 --> 41:19.580 in a situation obviously do what you can in the condition that you're in right 41:19.580 --> 41:23.980 first and foremost but secondly if you have kids and maybe that season has 41:23.980 --> 41:28.700 passed for you where you can't do that well train your kids to have something 41:28.700 --> 41:34.540 like that in the future sometimes people are so focused on 41:34.540 --> 41:37.660 you know grasping at something that they've personally lost and maybe the 41:37.660 --> 41:40.380 season is gone for them they lose sight of the fact that maybe they 41:40.380 --> 41:45.020 can help some the next generation in their lineage or whatever obtain 41:45.020 --> 41:49.100 that as well and they're so focused on them getting that they actually neglect 41:49.900 --> 41:55.020 providing that for their kids to come okay and so you know make sure you do 41:55.020 --> 41:59.660 that and don't lose the opportunity to be able to train the next generation 41:59.660 --> 42:03.660 to have that biblical perspective to love that biblical role to be 42:03.660 --> 42:08.460 zealous of good role of good works which is zealous of that role being a keeper at 42:08.460 --> 42:14.140 home he says discreet chase keepers at home i like this just says good just be 42:14.140 --> 42:20.860 good and obviously he's referring to the quality there he says obedient to their 42:20.860 --> 42:26.300 own husbands and what is the implication there don't be a rebellious wife okay 42:27.660 --> 42:33.980 you know obey your husband obey him and and not just love him but obey him do 42:33.980 --> 42:39.420 what you're told you know if he wants things done a certain way do it this is 42:39.420 --> 42:43.020 literally what it's saying and if you're offended at this just know that this is 42:43.100 --> 42:47.980 a baptist church this is what the bible is saying here there's no you know underlying 42:47.980 --> 42:51.820 greek text you need to learn what it means to be obedient to your own husbands that's just 42:51.820 --> 42:56.060 it's just what it says obey means like your husband tells you to do something and you obey him 42:57.340 --> 43:02.460 okay oh this sounds so old-fashioned it's just biblically fashioned is what it is 43:03.340 --> 43:07.980 it's just a biblically fashioned way of life and it's superior to everything else 43:09.100 --> 43:12.540 and if you rebel against your husband let me just let me just break the news to you 43:12.540 --> 43:17.500 you're going to be miserable for the rest of your life you think rebelling against your husband is 43:17.500 --> 43:22.620 going to help you it's not it's not going to make you happier it's not going to give you more joy 43:22.620 --> 43:28.060 you will be a miserable person when you learn the characteristics of just being a rebel and 43:28.060 --> 43:33.260 disobedient to your own husband that's a fact because god knows better he knows what's best 43:35.660 --> 43:40.700 he says they're obedient to their own husbands why that the word of god be not blasphemed 43:41.340 --> 43:45.660 so he's saying you know if you don't want people to speak evil of the bible then stop being a 43:45.660 --> 43:52.860 feminist and it's just insane that you go on social media and there's so many influencers out there 43:53.820 --> 44:00.380 masquerading as christians masquerading as homemakers or whatever masquerading as keepers at 44:00.380 --> 44:07.740 home but really they're just not you know they're they're essentially these grifters these online 44:07.740 --> 44:14.620 christian grifters using christianity using the biblical role of a woman for their own profit 44:14.620 --> 44:20.380 when in actuality they're the ones who wear the pants in the house promoting this that the other 44:20.380 --> 44:25.900 what the bible says why don't you do it and you know what i'm gonna tell you right now and you 44:25.900 --> 44:31.820 may not like this but i don't care i don't listen to online women teachers of the bible what is that 44:31.820 --> 44:35.820 that don't they have anything good to offer no they don't 44:37.500 --> 44:42.540 maybe you don't like it too bad you know i'm not gonna i'm not following 44:44.140 --> 44:48.220 i don't care if she's saying the right things a couple times i'm not interested 44:49.900 --> 44:52.940 oh you're just like a chauvinist pig hog 44:55.420 --> 44:56.380 hogs are males 44:56.380 --> 45:02.220 oh i can't believe you would say something like that i'm not interested you know my wife does not 45:02.220 --> 45:07.420 teach the bible to me my wife teaches the bible to our kids and look and my wife says some good 45:07.420 --> 45:13.020 stuff too sometimes i'm like i'm gonna steal that you know say that again what'd you say you know in 45:13.020 --> 45:18.700 the mornings she's up when we have breakfast and they read a proverb and she's teaching the kids 45:18.700 --> 45:22.460 she says whatever you learn what does the bible say about this and then they go through bible 45:22.460 --> 45:25.900 trivia and i'm just there listening like this is good stuff you know i like this but you know why 45:25.900 --> 45:31.420 it's good because this one's within the context of the home but i'm not gonna say hey kids can 45:31.420 --> 45:35.980 you guys step out of the room you know dad needs to talk to mom real quick like all right give me 45:35.980 --> 45:39.820 a three-point outline or something can you teach me so what did you say about the wow that's 45:39.820 --> 45:45.100 interesting you know i'm not really interested in that you know and i'm just gonna tell you right 45:45.100 --> 45:50.220 now there is no woman online who can out preach a man that's just not gonna happen there's absolutely 45:50.220 --> 45:57.580 no female in this world who can out preach and know more bible than me that's a fact 45:59.340 --> 46:00.140 it's just true 46:02.380 --> 46:09.740 it's just not gonna happen okay and look don't take this as me saying oh women don't know any bible 46:09.740 --> 46:15.100 because there's a woman in our church they know a lot of bible okay and there's women in our church 46:15.500 --> 46:22.540 okay and there's women in our church i'm sure they can tell you n times prophecy they can explain to 46:22.540 --> 46:26.620 you replacement theology they're out there preaching the gospel i'm not downplaying that 46:26.620 --> 46:31.820 at all folks there's little girls in our church that know a lot of doctrine you guys remember 46:31.820 --> 46:36.700 the youth rally that we had a couple months ago last year the carry girls are just were just like 46:36.700 --> 46:42.140 killing it the whole time right they know bible and you know what i say to that amen 46:42.140 --> 46:48.300 amen but you know what here's the thing i'm not gonna have the carry girls teach me any bible 46:49.340 --> 46:54.140 that's just the thing it's just not gonna happen there everyone needs to know their place 46:55.340 --> 47:01.020 you understand and so you know yeah but i follow this one lady and you know she just teaches me 47:01.020 --> 47:05.740 good she has makes a lot of good points is that in the other get the points from the bible 47:05.740 --> 47:13.820 amen i know you don't like that i don't care i don't i don't want the word of god to be blasphemed 47:13.820 --> 47:20.620 show me an example in the bible where god speaks positively about a woman preacher it doesn't exist 47:22.300 --> 47:25.980 and you know don't bring up deborah because i can give you the context of the book of judges if you 47:25.980 --> 47:32.460 want okay you know oh jezebel no not a good example 47:35.180 --> 47:39.660 it doesn't exist and again i'm not saying that women don't know bible of course they know bible 47:39.660 --> 47:45.020 we want our women in our church to know the bible they do know the bible i could probably go to most 47:45.020 --> 47:49.660 of the ladies in our church and just say hey can you explain to me the post-trip pre-wrath rapture 47:49.660 --> 47:54.540 and they would be able to eloquently explain it to me in a very meek and discreet manner i promise 47:54.540 --> 47:58.060 you they could do that you say that why don't you because i don't i already know it 48:00.060 --> 48:03.900 why would i i'm not going to go go to someone why i'm just saying i could 48:05.100 --> 48:08.460 i'm just saying they know enough bible that they would be able to teach something like that 48:08.940 --> 48:15.740 okay but at the end of the day you know it's the man's role it's the man's job to teach the word 48:15.740 --> 48:22.700 of god to others and it's the pastor's job to do so and so he's saying here if you don't want 48:22.700 --> 48:30.220 people to speak evil of the bible fulfill this god-given role and be happy about this and look 48:30.220 --> 48:35.900 not only do you should you fulfill it he says you should be jealous about it like i get to love my 48:35.900 --> 48:45.020 husband this is awesome i get to be a keeper i gotta love my husband i gotta be obedient to him 48:45.820 --> 48:54.220 no be zealous of it and deny ungodliness that's what it's saying right deny ungodliness and 48:54.220 --> 49:00.940 worldly lust what is the worldly lust worldly desire to disobey your husband to not be sober 49:00.940 --> 49:08.860 to not be righteous okay to not be good to not love your children to not be chased these are 49:08.860 --> 49:13.020 the things that the bible is speaking against so he's telling this to the christians he's saying 49:13.020 --> 49:18.620 hey you need to be sounding the faith ladies reject feminism you need to make sure you abide 49:18.620 --> 49:23.420 by these characteristics and attributes that the word of god be not blasphemed because these 49:23.420 --> 49:28.300 jews are blaspheming the word of god over here by your behavior yeah you're saved but your evil 49:28.300 --> 49:36.220 beasts slow bellies you are dishonest you're liars your women are false accusers they're just 49:36.220 --> 49:41.980 constantly correcting pastors online arguing with people running their mouths or whatever that's 49:41.980 --> 49:48.140 not comely that's not becoming to christianity and what the word of god says you're blaspheming 49:48.140 --> 49:55.020 the word of god okay verse six all right time to talk about john michael here hey man just kidding 49:55.020 --> 50:00.940 he says young men likewise exhort to be sober minded and what does this mean it means that young 50:00.940 --> 50:08.220 men need to have some clarity in their minds not allow their minds to be clouded by the affairs of 50:08.220 --> 50:15.340 this world and it's true you know as a young person you could be just extremely distracted so 50:15.340 --> 50:21.580 many things that are calling for your attention right and it can often cloud your judgment and 50:21.580 --> 50:28.220 cause you to stunt your maturity your growth as a christian but just your growth as a young man 50:28.220 --> 50:32.300 so instead he says you know you need to make sure that you're sober minded you say how do i do that 50:32.300 --> 50:38.060 well number one minimize as much distractions as you possibly can in your life by not consuming 50:38.060 --> 50:45.020 all kinds of trash and garbage and video games you know put away childish things from you okay 50:45.020 --> 50:49.740 and i do have to preach on video games because this that is the thing you know where young men 50:49.740 --> 50:55.820 are just spending too much time on video games and and not enough time just maturing in their 50:55.820 --> 51:01.340 christian growth or maturing just as a man in general and again you know i'm not saying you 51:01.420 --> 51:05.420 should stop playing altogether but you know to some people you should 51:07.580 --> 51:13.660 okay and i guess here's the standard that i would say that i would institute is that if if video 51:13.660 --> 51:22.700 games are causing you to stay up till three o'clock am it's time to quit okay if if you are on uh some 51:23.420 --> 51:30.860 what do they call it when you're in a lobby at four o'clock am with other dudes in our church 51:30.940 --> 51:37.740 or something yeah you're not sober minded because obviously sleep deprivation 51:38.860 --> 51:44.780 causes you to not be sober right then you're waking up you're all moody you're emotional 51:45.500 --> 51:50.860 you're just tired all the time and you know what look look folks especially young guys okay 51:52.460 --> 51:59.020 you should have a lot of natural energy okay like you should be wide awake look and i'm gonna tell 51:59.020 --> 52:06.300 you right now brother rick okay man is the aged man okay and i'm not saying this to be just right 52:06.300 --> 52:10.620 he always tells me to call him out when i talk about older men he always says call me out and 52:10.620 --> 52:17.020 he almost feels disrespectful when i don't but you know this man has energy he has a lot and i feel 52:17.020 --> 52:21.260 like he could run circles around a lot of the young men in our church and i think that's great 52:21.340 --> 52:22.940 but i think it's it's bad too though 52:25.020 --> 52:30.780 but you know what you can surpass brother rick okay if you just get off of call of duty or 52:30.780 --> 52:36.380 whatever it is that you're playing till 3 30 in the morning or something like that okay and so 52:36.380 --> 52:42.300 let's get serious guys you know i know that you love the lord bless you i know that you love the 52:42.300 --> 52:47.980 lord i know that you love winning souls i know you love the word of god i know you want to get married 52:47.980 --> 52:52.300 and you want to have children you want to love your wife as christ love the church you know i'm 52:52.300 --> 52:56.380 not questioning your motives i'm just i'm just i'm just questioning the practicality of your life 52:57.820 --> 53:06.140 okay your behavior and your conduct go to sleep when it's time to go to sleep okay and so you're a 53:06.140 --> 53:13.740 young man make sure that you endeavor to be sober i'm exhorting you right now i meant to be sober 53:14.220 --> 53:21.580 minded meaning remove all of the distractions and the different voices the different things 53:21.580 --> 53:26.380 that are calling out for your attention don't allow your mind to be clouded so that your judgment 53:26.380 --> 53:31.020 is clouded it perverts your judgment you can't make right decisions you don't know what decision 53:31.020 --> 53:37.020 to make you don't know how to exercise wisdom because you're so tired it's just like you're 53:37.020 --> 53:42.860 you want to sleep this morning at 4 30 to get up at eight or something to come to church or 53:42.860 --> 53:50.220 something like that uh-uh i know you can do that but you shouldn't do that okay and you know when 53:50.220 --> 53:55.820 you're young you can't stay up all hours of the night and you know function to a certain degree 53:55.820 --> 54:00.940 the next day i remember being young there it was a time when i was young you know i was in my you 54:00.940 --> 54:07.260 know teenage years and 20s when i would work a job i'd get off like at 2 30 3 30 but i had to open up 54:07.260 --> 54:12.620 the restaurant at six o'clock in the morning and you know what went home took a shower ate breakfast 54:12.620 --> 54:17.980 went back to work and you know i worked the 12-hour shift and i was able to do that but it wasn't 54:17.980 --> 54:24.300 video games though i was earning i was earning money amen and you know sometimes you have to 54:24.300 --> 54:28.940 pull all-nighters like that but may an all-nighter not be because of video games though maybe because 54:28.940 --> 54:33.900 you're doing something productive okay so you know you think to yourself oh can you get back on 54:33.900 --> 54:41.180 feminism no it says young men i gotta address the young men young men be sober minded okay he says 54:41.180 --> 54:46.140 in all things showing myself a pattern of good works meaning you should be characterized by 54:46.140 --> 54:52.300 labor by doing good works by being a person of virtue someone who's characterized in their 54:52.300 --> 54:56.780 church by being a labor and i and i do believe that the young men in our church are characterized 54:56.780 --> 55:01.500 by that you know i've talked to the aged people in our church and they always praise the young 55:01.500 --> 55:07.100 men in our church they're very encouraged by the fervency of the young men and they always say man 55:07.100 --> 55:11.500 this person is just like where they're supposed to be they always greet me they make sure people 55:11.500 --> 55:17.500 are taken care of and i praise you for that right you're doing a good job in that regard be someone 55:17.500 --> 55:23.900 who is showing himself a pattern of good works in doctrine showing uncorruptness now what does this 55:23.900 --> 55:28.780 mean it means that you should not be characterized by teaching weird stuff or believing weird stuff 55:29.340 --> 55:36.700 you should be uncorrupt in your doctrine okay now if you believe something weird keep it to yourself 55:38.620 --> 55:45.500 because you you got no um you know you got no reputation to be able to teach these deep 55:45.500 --> 55:50.700 theological truths that you're receiving or something like that you need to make sure 55:51.260 --> 55:56.140 that you are uncorrupt in your doctrine and and not be carried about with every wind of doctrine 55:56.140 --> 56:00.780 with every wind of doctrine by the slight amount of cunning craftiness you know obviously you need 56:00.780 --> 56:05.420 to get settled in the basics and the fundamentals of the faith but you know you better not be carried 56:05.420 --> 56:12.860 away with nonsensical doctrines like flat earth the nethalem or whatever maybe you know you need 56:12.860 --> 56:17.900 to make sure that you are grave and that you're uncorrupting your doctrine you know i i when i 56:17.900 --> 56:23.180 went to guatemala last week it was great i put a call out to see if there's anybody out there is 56:23.180 --> 56:26.860 everybody out there who listens to my preaching and you know and you know what there are some 56:26.860 --> 56:32.220 people we got to meet up with and a lot of them were young right and we got to meet up and they 56:32.220 --> 56:38.220 were saved one of them i got saved when i was there and it was great and they're very zealous 56:38.220 --> 56:42.860 they they they're like the guatemalan version of the young guys in our church okay it's a good thing 56:44.140 --> 56:47.340 don't take that as a bad it was a good thing they're just very zealous guys 56:48.300 --> 56:54.540 and um you know we got into conversation and it's just like they're like yeah like the nethalem you 56:54.540 --> 56:59.500 know i don't remember what it was i was just like what do you mean the nethalem and he was just like 56:59.500 --> 57:04.140 yeah the the giants and i was just like well actually that's not true there's no such thing 57:04.140 --> 57:10.940 as 450 foot giants and then he's just like what he's like i thought god flooded the world and he 57:10.940 --> 57:14.620 put it the flood you know reached into the mountains in order to drown them and all this 57:14.620 --> 57:19.740 stuff i'm like no it's all fake and i was like here's five reasons why those nethalems are not 57:19.740 --> 57:25.020 real you ready and i gave him i was like so so now you don't believe in it right he's like well i 57:25.020 --> 57:29.980 used to but i don't now he said what were you doing i was trying to help him not to be corrupt in his 57:29.980 --> 57:37.820 doctrine because the guy was a sharp guy he's a god the young man he's a righteous person 57:38.540 --> 57:43.980 but because he's young he can have the tendency like all young men to be corrupt in their 57:43.980 --> 57:48.620 doctrine to believe just nonsensical things because they saw it on youtube they saw it on 57:48.620 --> 57:54.300 reels or something like that and they think they have some corner on the truth understand and so 57:54.300 --> 57:59.980 it's important for you to make sure that you show yourself a pattern of good works that you don't 57:59.980 --> 58:06.060 have corruptness in your doctrine that you are grave it says and sincere what does it mean to 58:06.060 --> 58:13.340 be sincere it means to be pure but it also means don't be this person who just wants to be hyperspirital 58:13.980 --> 58:20.780 okay because what a sincerity means just be real you know if you want to earn people's respect 58:20.780 --> 58:26.860 it's not earned by being fake and it's not earned by trying to like exemplify yourself as being some 58:26.860 --> 58:33.180 just righteous overly righteous person overly godly you're just like righteous all the time 58:33.180 --> 58:40.540 just be real and let me just tell you the older men in our church real recognize real 58:41.500 --> 58:46.700 you know what i'm saying it's just like this guy's godly he doesn't have it all together 58:46.700 --> 58:53.180 but i can tell that he's trying and he's not being fake we like that that person gets our respect 58:53.180 --> 58:58.220 like that because we can tell this person is working towards being a righteous person they're 58:58.220 --> 59:03.980 humble they're not you know overly righteous they're trying the best that they can they love 59:03.980 --> 59:10.300 the lord but they don't have it all together amen welcome to the club and you know what we respect 59:10.300 --> 59:16.700 people like that why because they are sincere insincere people are bad behind closed doors but 59:16.700 --> 59:21.900 they try to portray themselves to be good in front of everyone else that is an insincere person 59:23.020 --> 59:27.500 and let me just say this you know i'm not for people just cussing up and down or whatever 59:27.500 --> 59:32.380 and just having a potty mouth and this that and the other but you know what i rather have the potty 59:32.380 --> 59:40.060 mouth who's at least working on himself okay who's working on himself he's a righteous person he's 59:40.060 --> 59:45.660 trying the best that he can then having the person who's just a complete fake and phony but you know 59:45.660 --> 59:49.260 he just has the best words and he knows how to communicate the best or something like that 59:49.260 --> 59:55.980 just be a sincere individual okay you know i have men come to the church and you know they love to 59:55.980 --> 01:00:00.460 preach and they're just like blank and they're like oh i'm sorry about that you know i'm like 01:00:00.460 --> 01:00:05.820 sorry for what you know i'm like oh yeah yeah you know and he's just like he's like i'm just trying 01:00:05.820 --> 01:00:10.140 i'm just like that's cool you know don't worry about it you know but but i know he's working on 01:00:10.140 --> 01:00:15.660 it he's working on himself people are working on themselves you know they're not i i want you to be 01:00:15.660 --> 01:00:20.460 real and you know the minister church wants you to be real as well don't try to put up this facade 01:00:20.460 --> 01:00:28.220 that you're just some righteous super godly you think about the bible 100 of the time 24 7 you're 01:00:28.300 --> 01:00:33.580 memorizing scripture right now you're transcribing my message as i speak 01:00:37.820 --> 01:00:42.700 be sincere be grave he says sound speech that cannot be condemned the he that is of the contrary 01:00:42.700 --> 01:00:47.740 part may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you so it's saying you know obviously maybe 01:00:47.740 --> 01:00:52.460 someone might not be able to condemn you because of your beliefs but don't allow them to hear some 01:00:53.260 --> 01:00:57.100 corrupt speech where people can point out and say see this person is godless here 01:00:57.100 --> 01:01:02.460 okay in this area the he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed because they don't have 01:01:02.460 --> 01:01:08.220 anything bad to say about you and then lastly he talks about the employees he says exhort servants 01:01:08.220 --> 01:01:14.060 to be obedient to their own masters and to please them well in all things not answering again in 01:01:14.060 --> 01:01:20.860 other words you know we should be employees that don't talk back okay where we're you know you're 01:01:20.860 --> 01:01:27.820 just talking back to your boss and you know you don't know how to do it or whatever you know more 01:01:27.820 --> 01:01:32.620 than your boss or you know be able to take correction and make sure you please them well 01:01:32.620 --> 01:01:37.100 in all things and he says not purloying meaning don't steal from your boss either obviously don't 01:01:37.100 --> 01:01:42.620 steal property from your boss but also don't steal time from your boss either okay but showing all 01:01:42.620 --> 01:01:49.180 good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of god our savior in all things so he's saying you 01:01:49.180 --> 01:01:56.460 know the employees just you should be characterized by being a loyal person a faithful person buy in 01:01:56.460 --> 01:02:03.260 to the product that you're selling buy into the company that you're at you understand and he says 01:02:03.260 --> 01:02:10.460 here this type of behavior adorns the doctrine of christ it adorns the doctrine of god meaning that 01:02:10.460 --> 01:02:17.180 you make the bible look good when you couple it with right behavior so the behavior and the conduct 01:02:17.180 --> 01:02:22.860 is essentially kind of like the makeup or the clothing that is placed on top of the doctrine 01:02:23.900 --> 01:02:28.700 doctrine is great it looks good on its own but to the unsavory to the people out there 01:02:28.700 --> 01:02:34.860 we our lives adorn that doctrine when we have the right behavior you understand because people 01:02:34.860 --> 01:02:41.260 don't like hypocrisy nobody likes hypocrisy so it's like oh you believe right but you live like the 01:02:41.260 --> 01:02:46.700 world you're just a hypocrite you're just you live godless or whatever maybe you know what the bible 01:02:46.700 --> 01:02:50.700 is telling us here is not necessary to just believe the right things he's saying you need to 01:02:50.700 --> 01:02:58.300 live the right way as well don't let people blaspheme the word of god be zealous of your role as an 01:02:58.300 --> 01:03:04.860 asian man an aged woman a young woman a young man as an employee employee make sure that you fulfill 01:03:04.860 --> 01:03:08.940 that god-given role and be zealous about it be excited about being the employee at your job 01:03:09.500 --> 01:03:14.620 be excited about being a wife being excited about being a husband be excited about being an old man 01:03:14.620 --> 01:03:19.740 i'm excited about it you know i'm getting older i'm not just like i'm having a midlife crisis or 01:03:19.740 --> 01:03:25.660 something hey i'm all for it i'm all for it i'm going to be excited about being the aged man 01:03:25.660 --> 01:03:31.020 and fulfilling my god-given role as as such and so this is what the bible is saying what it means 01:03:31.020 --> 01:03:37.500 to deny ungodliness what does that mean deny yourself deny what you're naturally have the 01:03:37.500 --> 01:03:45.260 propensity to do which is to be rebellious to be dishonest not to be sober to be an individual who's 01:03:45.260 --> 01:03:50.860 a false accuser deny that why because the grace of god has appeared to us to teach us to deny those 01:03:50.860 --> 01:03:55.660 things and worldly lust okay let's pray father we thank you so much for your word thank you for 01:03:55.660 --> 01:04:01.980 titus chapter 2 help us as your people to give heed to the instructions of this chapter lord 01:04:02.460 --> 01:04:07.900 that you would help us to fulfill our god-given role and the world is constantly working at 01:04:08.460 --> 01:04:14.940 deterring us and moving us away from these particular roles that we as god's people should 01:04:14.940 --> 01:04:20.220 be fulfilling and it often tries to make it seem as though it's inferior that the world's way is 01:04:20.220 --> 01:04:25.660 better that we're missing out on what the world has to offer but lord you know best and i pray 01:04:25.660 --> 01:04:30.140 that you'd help us to renew our minds in this area we love you we thank you pray this thing is 01:04:30.140 --> 01:04:39.500 in jesus' name amen amen our final song is going to be i'd rather have jesus the song sheet if 01:04:39.500 --> 01:04:51.500 you don't have one please raise your hand so the ushers can come by and give you one 01:05:00.140 --> 01:05:01.500 okay 01:05:02.940 --> 01:05:04.860 keep your hands raised if you don't have one 01:05:07.980 --> 01:05:09.180 anybody else need one 01:05:11.580 --> 01:05:14.460 all righty we're gonna see that song in the song in the first verse 01:05:17.340 --> 01:05:19.020 i'd rather have jesus 01:05:22.140 --> 01:05:23.500 see on that first verse 01:05:31.100 --> 01:05:42.060 gold