Sermon Tone Analysis

Mother’s Day

Titus 2:3-5

 

OBJECTIVE:  It is my objective to show the way that intergenerational living is the best way.

Titus shows that very well.

On this mother’s day, we must have a commitment of the older to share with the younger and the younger to be willing to be shared with.

The younger can also teach the older the new ways of life.

1.

What is intergenerational interaction?

2.

What does one generation teach the next?

3.

Picture of 5 generations—Amy’s family

 

4.

What does one generation teach the next?

5.

*128 The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly.

Those are the lives that mould us.

Be one of these people.*

6.

You can be right but Wrong at the top of Your Voice

From an old Tennessee Mountain man--Words that soak into your ears are whispered... not yelled.

I.

Need for intergenerational living

A.  Negative-The story when one generation did not teach the next--Judges

 

      B.

Positive-Ruth

 

II.

Instruction concerning Women  3-5

Titus 2:3-5 ESV 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.

They are to teach what is good, 4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

A.

Aged women—Older Women—White hair, you can’t tell today--

 

            1.

Idea of those who are older-Even 60 +

 

            2.

Widows indeed

 

      B.

How should you live?

            1.

As years go by, there should be maturity

                  Bible talks about silly women who are swayed easily

 

            2.

Reverent in behavior

Reverent in their demeanor--Conduct as they are servants in God's temple.

a.

Reverent—Becoming holiness

                        --Adornment

                        --Put on as you would put up decorations

 

1 Peter 3:2-6 ESV 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct.

3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord.

And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening.

Romans 16:2 ESV 2 that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well.

 

1 Timothy 2:9-10 ESV 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

b.

Behavior—Demeanor, proper disposition—Becomes holiness

                        --Your pattern of life

                        --Change your attitude—Pattern of thinking

 

            3.

Not slanders—Destroying someone’s good name

                  a.  Slander-Name given to Satan

                  b.  Gossip—One who is in others business

                        --Part of the problem or part of the solution

-- I can’t talk about others, I won’t have anything to say

                        --Not like the modern day politician

 

4.

Not Slave to wine-drunkard

--Alcoholic

--How much alcohol is too much when driving?

--Bible does not specifically talk about alcohol as sin, drunkenness is sin

      -You are not in control

      -Had so much fun last weekend - can’t remember

 

            5.

Teacher of good things

Hebrews 5:12 ESV For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God.

You need milk, not solid food,

 

--What should a young lady know when it comes to dating

--You are not married and do not have to submit to the date even if he paid

--Young moms.

That stage will pass and you will get a full nights sleep again

 

III.

What are good things the Older women to teach the younger?

A.

What is more important than anything else to teach?

B.

Practical teaching-train or school, to bring to ones senses

 

            1.

to be sober-serious minded-sound in mind

                  --Not giddy or silly but disciplined and correct

 

2.

Love their husbands

--Watched the Barbara Walters interview by Charlie Gibson

      --Terrible example of an older woman

      --Different in those days

            --Get married and then love

            --Love and then get married

1 Timothy 5:14 ESV So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

3.

Love their children-fond of ones children

Children must be high priority in their lives

      --Instinct

      --“I love them too much to spank them.”

Jr.

Hi English teacher

                  --Mom, you are to keep your family first

                 --Latch key kids

     --Library become day care centers

4.  Chaste--Pure

      -Pure in thought

      -Pure in dress

      -Pure in life

      -Pure in action

 

5.

Keepers at home—Home is the priority, Some will stay home, some will work out, all will work

 

Proverbs 31:10-31 ESV 10 An excellent wife who can find?

She is far more precious than jewels.

11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.