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5/22/16 - Dr John MoodyUpgrade your Flash Player to version 8 to view this video HERE!
"Right Living in the Church: What Must Be Taught to Various Groups" |
Right Living in the Church: What Must Be Taught to Various GroupsPurpose: To increase people's confidence in the authority of Jesus Christ through Scripture. Having people of all ages in a Church can strengthen it, but it also can bring problems. Paul gave Titus counsel on how to help various groups of people. The older people should teach the younger by words and by example. This is how values are passed on from generation to generation. The family and the Church are the two best structures designed by God to accomplish this.Teaching Point One: Believers should be “grounded” in the truths of the Bible. Titus 2:1-10 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. 3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. 4 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. 6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. 7 In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness 8 and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us. 9 Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them, not to talk back to them, 10 and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully trusted, so that in every way they will make the teaching about God our Savior attractive. Teaching Point Two: The power to live as a Christian comes from the Holy Spirit. Titus 2:11-15 11 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good. 15 These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. Action PointS: How can you remind yourself each day that the way you work is a testimony to others? What step can you take in the near future to learn from another more mature Christian? What step can you take in the near future to share what you have learned with a younger believer? |