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• Day 40 of 50, and we are going strong with a powerful word from Deaconess Denise. You’ll be super blessed by this! 📖🔥🤗
• Maybe you missed Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians, Colossians, 1&2 Thessalonians, and 1&2 Timothy, but hey, you can join in and let’s “tattoo” God’s Word in our hearts! 📖🤍
• God bless you, and looking forward to your lessons, insights, and comments.

MIssing Pieces

Have you ever had to fix a dense puzzle with missing pieces and no blueprint? When a jigsaw puzzle is missing certain pieces, it complicates the solving process, leading to frustration, lower interest, longer hours, and ultimately an incomplete puzzle board. Just like the puzzle requires every piece to make it fully functional, the Church requires the efficiency of each member to produce a sound family.

• In 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, the Church is described as one body or unit with many parts, with each part essential for the full functionality of the Body.  
• We are members of one body, interconnected by the Spirit and called to serve together for the glory of God.
• In order to create a sound church, all units making up the church have a role to play, and the bible serves as the blueprint to where each one fits at any given time.

Pieces of the Puzzle

Titus 2 provides us with what a sound church looks like by defining the roles and outlook of various groups in a church. By right living, the accuser will have nothing on the Body.

1. Church Leaders – Teach the Word

Titus 2:1 You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 

This statement by Paul sets Titus apart from the people described in Titus 1, who teach fables and are full of meaningless talk and deception. Titus was urged to teach the things that are proper for sound doctrine. 

Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 

• Feeding the church with the pure word of God is what produces right living and right thinking. True transformation and maturing rely heavily on what the flock feeds on, and Church Leaders must be true in teaching on how to live right (2 Tim 3:16-17).
• Jesus offered Grace and taught Truth (John 1:14) and this should be the hall mark of every preacher of the gospel in order to produce a sound church. Mat 28:19-20 ..teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. 

A church that does not teach is always a recipe for disaster.

2. Older Men – Toughen Up In the Right Areas

Titus 2:2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

It’s interesting what the list of things Titus is commanded to teach the older men to do includes.

• Men should learn to be temperate or sober up from their egos. It is always easier for a woman to accept the Church than for a man, which explains why churches are populated with women. Men are usually hard-hearted and argumentative, and may find it even difficult to come under the authority of a younger preacher in the case of Titus.
• As the head of the family, men must grasp the full benefit of the Body so they can, in turn, teach the family, knowing that being vulnerable in God’s presence and for God’s use does not make you a weak man.
• Instead, grow strong and toughen up in your faith, love, endurance, and most importantly, in a world full of pressure for money and perversion, you must be full of self-control.

3. Older Women – Train to Nurture

Titus 2:3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good.

• Women have the responsibility and the ability to nurture and groom children into responsible adults for the benefit of the Body. However, it is usually impossible to pass down instructions that you visibly violate to your follower.
• Women must train themselves to be reverent in every aspect of life, especially in speech and outward appearance.
• Women must desist from slander and unnecessary gossip that divides the church, and rather focus on their responsibility to nurture the younger women into reverence. Having this focus in mind serves as a natural check for right living, as you are required to walk the talk for impact.

4. Young Woman,Young Man – Follow Right

Titus 2:4-5 Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.

• It is always important to know that not every example you see in life is the right one to follow, even in the church. Women are social beings and naturally tend to pick up habits and traits as they interact and discuss life with fellow women.
• Ladies, always measure your decisions with the word of God, and it will produce right living in you for the edification of the Body.
• Love and be submissive to your husband: this is not a fashion which can go out of date, rather it is the very Word of God which has no end. It is important that young women learn from older women who have had marital success the Christlike way and mute the noise of the world. 
• They must develop to be discreet, chaste, and good homemakers, training their children in the way of the Lord knowing that a failed home affects the church.

Titus 2:6-8  Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.

Likewise, young men should follow men of good repute. Taking lessons from the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15:11-32, they must be sober-minded, behave carefully, take life seriously, and live a self-controlled life full of integrity

Clues and Grace

Titus 2:11-14  For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.

• A jig-saw may have clues to piecing it all together right, but we have more than just clues.
• The Grace of God is available to help you navigate through all the instructions above.
• Receive God’s grace to play your role in building a sound church devoid of blasphemy from the world.

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