Good morning and welcome to our Sunday morning second service. We have two services on Sunday,

the first of which is the Bible Prophecy Update, and the second is our verse by verse study through the Bible.

Today we find ourselves in Titus, and last week we finished chapter 1.

We'll begin in chapter 2, and our text will be verses 1 through 10. For those of you that are here

if you're there already or need to turn there, I'll ask you to do that at this time. And if you're

able to stand, I'll ask you to do that too. And you can follow along as I read. If not, where you're

seated is fine.

Beginning in verse one, the Apostle Paul, by the Holy Spirit is writing to Titus and says,

you, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect,

self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love, and in endurance. Likewise, verse three, teach the older women to be reverent in the way

they live and not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then, verse four, 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.

Similarly, verse 6, 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.

Teach slaves, verse 9, to be subject to their masters in everything, to try to please them,

not to talk back to them, and not to steal from them, but to show that they can be fully

trusted so that in every way they will make the teaching about God, our Savior,

attractive.

Let's pray if you would please join with me.

We'll ask God's blessing on our understanding. Lord, will you as only you can at this time settle our hearts and help us to focus

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