Titus 2: Instructions for Young Men

Introduction: The woman, the man, and the bar.

There’s a new Twitter controversy for those of you who aren’t sophisticated enough be on Twitter. This week, a group of the most irritating creatures on the planet, white feminist women, have come up with a question that they think proves just how terrible men are, and how scared women are of men, because men are just so inatly violent and mean.

So here’s the question, and this question is specifically for women, I’m going to ask it to you and just let you think on in for a second, and them I’m going to give you my take on it, because it ties directly in to my sermon this morning. Here’s the question ladies. If you were lost alone in the woods would you be more afraid if you came across a man or a bear?

The purpose of the question, of course, is to help women to see just how dangerous men are. There’s an overwhelming consensus among the white feminists of course, that the bear is actually far far less dangerous than the man.

So conservatives and feminists have been debating over this on the internet for the last several days, and the discussion has been about as boring as most of the arguments between conservatives and feminists on social media. I bring it up here this morning though, because as is commonly the case, while I think the aim of the feminist in raising the question is absolute lunacy, there is a cournal of truth in the point they are making. And that cournal of truth is this, men are dangerous. Especially young men.

The mistake in the thinking of the feminist here is the assumption that because something is dangerous it necessarily means that it is bad. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Let me give you some examples:

We use the energy from fire to warm our homes, cook food, and keep warm when we sleep outside. Fire is a powerful tool that has been used for great gain over the course of human history. On the other hand that same fire when it rages out of control also consumes rainforests, homes, and even entire communities when it rages.

Guns are another example. In the hands of the right person guns are used to protect week and the innocent from those who would choose to bring them harm, and to oppose wickedness and tyranny in the land. On the other hand, guns can also be used by wicked violent men to bring harm to others, and they are use by tyrants to suppress the rights and liberties of good people.

Water, when it abides in its proper boundaries, provides hydration, is used for cleaning and sanitizing, and current a moving body has been used as a powerful source of energy, providing power to move heavy objects, and even to produce electricity. But when it rages outside of it’s proper boundaries, that same water floods houses, communities, and even entire cities, and is the cause of great damage to property and destruction of life.

You see? All of these things are dangerous. And they have the potential to bring great harm, but they also have the potential to accomplish great good.

This is the case when it comes to men, and young men in particular.

Young me, God has made you strong, and your strength makes you dangerous.

Because you can either use that strength for the things that God gave it to you for, or you can use it to bring great harm.

God has made you strong so that you can use your strength to marry a woman, build a home for her, have some children with here, raise those children in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, and to build good things and tear down bad things, and to protect the weak and innocent, and to oppose the proud and the violent.

This is why the scripture warns young men:

Don’t give your strength to tyrants

Don’t give your strength to women

Don’t give your strength to the vein fulfillment of your own fleshly desires.

Here in this passage as Titus begins to address the young men he hints at the idea that perhaps maybe some of the problems with false teachers a in the church at Crete come from the fact that young men in the church have been influenced to follow the false teachers.

Just as he did with older men, older women, and younger women, now the Apostle lays out the pattern of godly faithful manhood.

Body: Strength Under Control

Your Strength is for Good Works

Titus is to be a model of good works.

He is a younger man who is a leader in the church and is to show the way for the young men in good works.

God gives you strength for good works.

Your strength is to be informed by Sound Doctrine

Thre are a million voices out there trying to tell men how they should live.

Feminist

Migtow guys

Manosphere

Christian men look to the Bible and to the example of Christ to understand the meaning of manhood and womanhood, and they order their lives and their homes in accordance with what the Scripture teaches.

Men should be the theological thinkers in the church.

Your strength is to be demonstrated in dignity

Gravity or gravitas

Don’t be gay

Don’t be silly

Your strength is to produce soundness of speech

Conclusion: