Titus 2:1

Titus 2:1-8

SOUND DOCTRINE:

ephesians 2:8-10-8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Faith alone justifies, but the faith that justifies is never alone.

John Calvin

What a preacher should do:

Teach

Sound: ὑγιαίνω (hygiainō)-healthy teaching

This is different than the teachers mentioned in the previous chapter. Listen to what Paul says about those teachers:

Titus 1:16 16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.

Who a preacher should teach:

Older men:

sober minded (if you call yourself an elder sober up, so that you can have a sober mind and have something worthwhile to say.

dignified- worthy of respect.

self-controlled- it is one of the fruits of the spirit

sound in faith: sound is healthy and faith is: The noun πίστις (pistis) occurs 243 times in the nt. In non-biblical Greek, the term is often used in a concrete sense to indicate a proof, guarantee, or pledge.

steadfastness: (Lk 8:15; 21:19; Ro 2:7; 5:3; 8:25; 15:4; 2Co 6:4; 1Ti 6:11; 2Ti 3:10; Heb 12:1; Jas 1:3; 5:11; 2Pe 1:6; Rev 2:2, 19; Gal 5:23

Titus 2:1-8 “But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.”