Godliness for Young Women
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
1/17/2010 PM
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Text:
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Titus 2:4,5
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Psalters: |
275, 178, 313, 360 |
- The calling.
- The young Christian wife/mother is to be ?keeper at home,? i.e., one who guards the home.
- The Christian home is surrounded by a most ungodly world.
- She is aware of spiritual enemies and sins from without and within.
- The wife/mother has a great responsibility to guard the home, to make it safe and secure.
- She is to create an atmosphere where the house is a home.
- She must pray to Him Who alone can keep a home spiritually safe (Ps. 127:1,2).
- She must always remind all of the duty to resist the devil and be constantly fighting against sin.
- How does a young Christian wife/mother guard her home.
- First, by realizing that love is something learned, not fallen into.
- Salvation teaches a love which is much more than emotions and feelings.
- Close relationship between being the kind of wife and the kind of mother the Christian faith requires.
- Second, she is to be ?sober? (4) and ?discreet? (5) (old men and young men, 2,6).
- These two words come from the same Greek word, whose root is ?wisdom.?
- Balance and perspective is put into one?s life by Christianity: freed from romanticism.
- Third, she knows her calling to be ?obedient to their own husbands? in all lawful things.
- This is a voluntary submission, a subjecting of oneself which flows from obedience to her Savior/Lord.
- She submits herself to the one God uses to teach her submission.
- She is to be ?chaste,? i.e., moral purity or clean, modest, exciting reverence.
- Fifth, she is to be ?good,? i.e., useful, fitting one?s purpose, beneficial to those around her.
- God?s purpose for such godliness is so ?the word of God be not blasphemed.?
- ?Blasphemed? is to speak against, to revile, slander or insult.
- The wicked always mock and blaspheme, but that it is all lies is made obvious more by our godly actions.
- Honor is given to God and to the teachings of His Word by godly conduct, both now and in the judgment day.