Titus 2 Commentary
Generosity is supposed to be everyone’s virtue, but we hear some individuals have it as a gift. While every Spirit-filled saint flows in the area, some individuals flood the household of faith with their generosity. We can apply the same thought here. Older men should overflow with temperance, wisdom, faith, and self-control.
Older women should overflow with reverence and purity. They serve as models to the younger women. An irreverent and impure generation could be blamed on irreverent and impure mothers!
Every mother is a teacher. Her classroom is loaded with countless young women. They learn reverence and purity from her. No one wants to be a false teacher! The LORD won’t spare the rod! The older women must teach younger women to be busy at home. Verse 5. The home is a factory from which women manufacture greatness. Every great man knows how much his mother deposited in him at the factory.
Know there is no future when a woman is great at her place of work and records zero success at home. She has raised a morally useless generation. Greatness ends with her. She will have failed her mothering role – a failed project. She will have failed her Creator. Feminism preaches greatness of the woman in the workplace, away from the home. She is not busy at home; she is busy at her workplace. We all know the result: an irreverent and impure generation.
That’s the spelling for deception. “Did God really say you should be busy at home?” Check verse 5 and see it for yourself. She is out there to help but her primary role is to be busy at home and raise, nurture, care, protect, and groom humanity. How can this hugely and critically important role be nothing and be so diminished in our eyes today?
Self-control for young men is probably a virtue they have learned from godly older men. Each birthday adds more responsibility on a man’s shoulders. You are mentoring countless young men even without your knowledge.
Self-control for young men means they learn to control their own bodies. You don’t say yes to anything. You won’t become gay simply because your body has spoken. Self-control is a mechanism deposited in the saint to help us navigate the world of emotions. Young men with their emotions at maximum speed must overflow in this fruit of the Spirit.
Workers in the workplace must not steal. Don’t steal time from your employer. You must be trusted.
This chapter underlines the role of each saint in spreading the gospel. Stealing at your workplace is like playing very loud music when Jesus is delivering His sermon on the Mount. No one will hear the sermon! You will have successfully derailed the good news! There is a clear connection between the gospel and the things you do in the workplace – whether seen or unseen. Remember humans are spirit beings; they don’t need eyes to see your unfaithfulness to your Master. You will have become a stumbling block!
Verse 13. Paul calls Jesus the great God, the Savior. We don’t go about our Christian walk with a diminished view of Jesus Christ! He is the LORD, God Almighty – the I’AM God. His work amongst us is complete. There is no otherness to what Jesus Christ accomplished for us. It is a done deal! The deal is the redemption of humanity from wickedness. Verse 14.
Let this word go out under the authority of Jesus Christ. Paul instructs Titus to encourage and rebuke “with all authority”. The word of God won’t float aimlessly without authority. It has the power of Jesus Christ. Ministers of the gospel are reminded!
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