Anybody who comes against the Christian faith, you need to put to shame.

Not for that as an end in itself, but to shame them into repentance.

You need to so live that the opposers of Christianity are embarrassed, humiliated, disgraced,

because there's nothing bad they can legitimately say about us,

and so they look like fools for saying those lies that they say.

Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Though it's not popular to

say, it's certainly true that when men exert decisive,

fair, godly leadership, blessing follows. So how do you cultivate that kind of leadership if you're a

man? And how do you support and encourage that leadership if you're a woman? John MacArthur gives you

answers today as he continues his

study titled, Revolutionary Living in a Dark Culture. And now here's John MacArthur with the lesson.

Open your Bible, if you will, to Titus chapter two. Paul says, you exhort young men to walk in the

spirit, to seek with all their might, to

harness themselves and live in spiritual balance and self-control, and not to become victimized

by those dangers that are lurking all around them.

Having given that exhortation, he then turns to the second point example and sets

up Titus to be an example of how one lives a balanced life. You'll notice in the verse 7 the

word example and that's obviously the key to it. He is now going to say to Titus, look for the sake of the young men exhort them and that

is to confront them verbally but also for the sake of the young men set an example and that

is to confront them with the pattern of your life so that they can copy what you are.

Any exhortation lacks force and impact and power without an example.

In fact, exhortation without example is that old word hypocrisy.

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