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TITUS: LESSON 3

I. APPLICATION OF SOUND DOCTRINE TO VARIOUS GROUPS (2:1-10)

A. Instructions to the aged men (v.2)

 1. Be temperate.

 2. Be grave.

 3. Be sober minded.

4. Be sound in faith, love, and patience.

B. Instructions to the aged women (v. 3-4a)

 1. Be reverent.

 2. Not slanderers.

 3. Not enslaved to much wine.

 4. Be teachers of that which is good.

 5. Train young women.

 

C. Instructions to the younger married women (v.4b-5)

 1. Love husbands and children.

 2. Be sober minded.

 3. Be chaste.

 4. Be workers at home.

 5. Be in subjection to own husbands.

D. Instructions to the younger men including Titus (v. 6-8)

 1. Be sober minded.

 2. Be an example of good works.

 3. Present incorrupt doctrine with dignity,

 4. Be sound in speech.

E. Instructions to the slaves (v. 9-10)

 1. Be in subjection to own masters without disputing.

 2. Do not steal from masters, but show faithfulness.

QUESTIONS:

1. From verses 1-10, show how the principle of sound doctrine and daily living CANNOT be separated?

2. What characteristics make the older Christian man a “dignified” older man?

  

3. In what important three areas must the older man be sound?

4. Why would the older women especially need the instructions to not be “slanderers,” and “addicted to much wine”?

5. What “good”  should older women do?

6. Why would young married women need to be “trained” to love their own husbands and children?

7. Does the command to be “workers at home” suggest that they should not work away from home?

8. What is involved in “being in subjection to own husband”?

9. What characteristic is Titus to emphasize for younger men?

10. Of what was Titus to be an example?

11. To what do the words, “uncorruptness” and “gravity” refer?

12. What is meant by the slave serving masters without “gainsaying”?

13. How does one “adorn the doctrine of God”?