Older people become a treasure, a tremendous blessing.

They bring spiritual experience, spiritual strength, spiritual endurance, spiritual wisdom to all of us,

but only if they walk in the way of righteousness.

And that's why the instruction of Titus verses 2 and 3 in chapter 2 is so very, very important.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

No doubt you're familiar with uprisings that occurred in the Middle East and Africa and other areas, with people there

challenging those who are in power. Yet as significant as those protests may be, they aren't as

world-changing as the revolution John MacArthur looks at today. A revolution that's not about

politics, but it's about the lifestyle God calls us to live as Christians.

The lesson you're about to hear is part of John's study from Titus II called Revolutionary Living in a Dark

Culture. And to show you why following the Bible's standards for women and men makes you, well,

revolutionary. Here's John. Titus chapter 2,

and let me just read verses 2 and 3. Older men are to be temperate, dignified, sensible,

sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips, not enslaved

to much wine, teaching what is good.

Now obviously the message this morning is going to be addressed to older men

and older women. And I think that's a very fitting subject, particularly for our time

and place in history, material comfort, medical care, and a low birth rate have led America to what is called

the graying of America and an old population.

They tell us in 25 years, one out of every five people will be over 65

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