Titus 2 What kind of life are you leading?

Titus 2 

Berean Study Bible

Teaching Sound Doctrine

1But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine. 

2Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance. 

3Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. 4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

As we attain years, grow older, we tend to mature and mellow out. Paul reminds us as older men and women we are to be consistent with sound doctrine. In other words, don't be blown around like the wind with every new doctrine.

The other day on the television show 48 Hours they featured a program about "The Family". The evil woman featured would adopt, steal or procure children, 20 plus of them, and claim to be the reincarnated Jesus. She strongly disciplined, starved, beat, drugged, molded the children into her liking, she dyed there hair blond, stole their identities and had founded churches in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. 

Didn't her followers of this cult ever read the bible? If they did they would know and understand the second coming of Jesus!

Paul, instructs us as older men and women to be examples and teachers of younger people who are less mature in life and in the faith of Jesus Christ.

Specifically men are to be: temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.

Specifically women are to be: reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. 

Paul goes on to say about women in verses 4 and 5:

4In this way they can train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.

Men and women, let's examine ourselves and see if we are leading the life that God instructs us to be through this scripture.

Blessings, David