Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

There is no acceptable degree of malice or slander or evil speaking for Christian women.

This is something that in our own lives we need to have a zero tolerance about.

Sometimes I think we're just careless, but it's an area where we can't afford to be careless

because when we speak slander, we're doing the work of the devil.

And it wrecks marriages, it wrecks children, it wrecks workplaces, it wrecks churches, it wrecks

relationships, it wrecks us, it wrecks relationships. It wrecks us.

It wrecks our relationship with the Lord to be a slanderer.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Adorned, for Thursday, February 16th, 2017. Nancy's been leading us through a helpful study of Titus 2 called God's beautiful design for women.

God even has a design for the words you'll speak before your head hits the pillow tonight.

Well, we come today to what, for me, thus far in my study, has been one of the most

convicting and challenging points of the study. And so now I need to share it with you so you

can be convicted and challenged as well. We're looking in Titus chapter 2, and the Apostle Paul has said to Titus, he's to teach what accords with sound doctrine. And what does that look like in us as women? Well, he starts with older women. And we've said that these things are to be true of older women, but that means as younger women, we need to be working on these things and cultivating them,

or we won't be this way when we get to be older women.

Verse three, older women likewise, are to be reverent in behavior.

We looked at that in the last session.

Then it says, not slanderers or slaves to much wine.

Older women to be reverend in behavior, not slanderers, or slaves to much wine.

Now we talked about what it means to be reverent in behavior, and now the Apostle Paul makes

two specific practical applications of what reverent behavior looks like. If you are reverent in behavior,

it will affect your tongue and your temperance. Your tongue and your temperance. The tongue,

not slanderers, and then a temperate lifestyle, not slaves to much wine. Women who are reverent in behavior are not slanderers,

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