June 16, 2010 Lesson 2 of Titus 2

V 1-10. How can Christians ‘make the teaching about God our Savior attractive’? Examine carefully the characteristics demanded from the different classes mentioned, and summarize them briefly in your own words. Which characteristics ought you particularly to desire and cultivate? Answer: Characteristics are 1) Older men are to be taught to be temperate, worthy of respect, self controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance; 2) older women are to reverent in the way they live, not slanderers or addicted to wine, they are to teach and train younger women to love their husbands and children, self-controlled and pure, busy at home, kind, and subject to their husband; young men are to be self-controlled, show them integrity, seriousness, and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned (so that those who oppose them may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say); finally teach slaves to be subject to their master and try to please them, not steal from them, and show that they can be trusted.


V 11-14. What reasons are given here why a Christian should live differently? A) What should you give up? B) How should you now live? How far is this true of you? Answer: I see here what it means to be a Christian. The true Christian lives a transformed life. I know God has transformed my life. I no longer desire the ungodliness and worldly passions. Not saying I am not tempted by the things of this world, that is the sin that lives in all of us. It is the Spirit that lives in all of that keeps us from desiring, and enables us to turn from the things of the world. Yes we are to live with the Spirit leading our lives guiding and directing us.