Generation to Generation

Tuesday morning mens study

Beach attire next Sunday (Come ready to serve)

9:15 Worship

Stay for small groups and lunch

Generational impact.

Lessons Learned from grandpa

Don’t touch the wheel of the tractor while in motion.

Thistles must be dealt with as you spot them.

Titus (Video)

Titus 2:1 HCSB

1 But you must say the things that are consistent with sound teaching.

Older Men

Titus 2:2 ESV

2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

Sober-minded:

Not given over to drunkenness

Resist the notion as older men retired life is all about pleasing the self and just enjoying the finer things of life.

Dignified:

Respect:

a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements

Darryl: How he carries himself, his garden, the way he works

Bob Dahman: How he serves others in our neighborhood

Bob Rich: His ability to tell stories and how he greets people

Self-Controlled:

Someone with a mind which has everything under control.

The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon 1. The Senior Men (Titus 2:1–2)

Over the years, the senior men must have acquired that cleansing, saving strength of mind which has learned to govern every instinct and passion until each has its proper place and no more.

Faith:

As life brings its challenges, it needs to increase our faith. Living longer years close to Christ brings us to making our faith stronger

Love:

Resist the notion that because you are older in years and lived longer that you need to be more critical. Don’t be grumpy. Instead let the years that we live cause us more sympathy and grace for others mistakes.

Steadfastness:

The years should toughen us just as steel is strengthened in the fire so that we are able to bear more and more.

Older Women/Younger Women

Titus 2:3–5 HCSB

3 In the same way, older women are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not addicted to much wine. They are to teach what is good, 4 so they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so that God’s message will not be slandered.

It is clear in the early church, a most honoured and responsible position was give to older women. Kindly grandmothers are the natural advisors of the young of both men and women.

Not Slanderers:

The Greek word is devils, which means slanderers. Picking up gossip and spreading it.

Not addicted to much wine:

Older women must also resist the urge to self indulgence

Teachers:

Teachers of good things

Teach young women to love their husbands

watching both my grandmothers love their husbands well in their older years was pretty impressive.

To Love their children

Resist the urge to pay someone else to love your children well or Delegate this responsibility to someone else.

Pure, homemakers, kind, and submissive to their husbands

So that God’s message will not be slandered

The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon 3. The Younger Women (Titus 2:3–5 Contd)

There is in fact nowhere where a truly religious life can better be lived than within the home.

Young Men

Titus 2:6 HCSB

6 In the same way, encourage the young men to be self-controlled

The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon 4. The Younger Men (Titus 2:6)

(1) In youth, the blood runs hotter and the passions speak more commandingly. The tide of life runs strongest in youth, and it sometimes threatens to sweep a young person away.

(2) In youth, there are more opportunities for going wrong. Young people are thrown into company where temptation can speak with a most compelling voice. Often, they have to study or to work away from home and from the influences which would keep them on the right path. The young man has not yet taken upon himself the responsibility of a home and a family; he has not yet made the kind of attachments to people and things that cannot be easily given up; and he does not yet possess the anchors which hold an older person in the right way through a sheer sense of obligation. In youth, there are far more opportunities to encounter disaster and to wreck one’s life.

(3) In youth, there is often that confidence which comes from lack of experience. In almost every sphere of life, a younger man will be more reckless than his elders, for the simple reason that he has not yet discovered all the things which can go wrong. To take a simple example, he will often drive a car much faster simply because he has not yet discovered how easily an accident can take place or on how slender a piece of metal the safety of a car depends. He will often shoulder a responsibility in a much more carefree spirit than an older person, because he has not known the difficulties and has not experienced how easily disaster may happen. No one can buy experience; that is something for which only the years can pay. There is a risk, as there is a glory, in being young.

Titus 2:7–15 HCSB

7 in everything. Make yourself an example of good works with integrity and dignity in your teaching. 8 Your message is to be sound beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be ashamed, having nothing bad to say about us. 9 Slaves are to be submissive to their masters in everything, and to be well-pleasing, not talking back 10 or stealing, but demonstrating utter faithfulness, so that they may adorn the teaching of God our Savior in everything. 11 For the grace of God has appeared with salvation for all people, 12 instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works. 15 Say these things, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.

Psalm 78:1–8 HCSB

1 My people, hear my instruction; listen to what I say. 2 I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past — 3 things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us. 4 We must not hide them from their children, but must tell a future generation the praises of the Lord, His might, and the wonderful works He has performed. 5 He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children 6 so that a future generation— children yet to be born—might know. They were to rise and tell their children 7 so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God’s works, but keep His commands. 8 Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God.