Titus 2 Woman Bible Study | Part Three
Titus 2 Woman Bible Study | Part Three
"to love their husbands, to love their children,"
The next things that the older godly women are to teach the younger women includes loving their husbands and their children. You might think that this would come naturally, but it does not always come naturally. As believers we have God's Spirit in our spirit and His word renewing our minds as we read and study it. This enables us to be more loving and kind.
I'm always appalled when I hear about some of the awful things that unbelievers do to their own spouses and children but sadly sometimes even believers can be unloving to their spouses and children if they are just walking after the flesh.
First, the most loving thing that anyone can do is to share the gospel with others and to teach them sound grace doctrine. With our husbands, we can have Bible studies together if they are a believer. Even if you do not agree entirely on doctrine, you can still do studies together and let your husband lead the study. It's important, however, to also have time for your own personal Bible studies too. I do NOT recommend arguing and debating with your husband over doctrine. You can discuss things, but arguing and debating over doctrine with your own husband is just going to cause stress and strife in the household. If you have more understanding of God's word rightly divided than he does, just be patient with your husband and let him learn at his own pace.
We love our husbands also by being kind, considerate, gentle, etc. Some practical things can be cooking and cleaning for him, including making his favorite meals, asking how he prefers things to be done around the house, etc. We can also keep a budget so that our families do not live in debt. We are to do this cheerfully as well, not begrudgingly. Again, sound grace doctrine working in your inner man is how you can love and submit to your own husband. Some women think that this is degrading, but it's not. It's being loving, considerate and kind. I remember reading a post online that said, "Feminism is the idea that women are free when they serve their boss or employers but slaves when they serve their husband and children." Do we want to listen to the world's wisdom or God's wisdom in His word rightly divided?
If you have an illness or something that makes it difficult for you to do a whole lot of physical work around the house, just do the little bit that you can. 1 Corinthians 16:14 says, "Let all your things be done with charity."
We are also, of course, to teach our children Gods word rightly divided. This is the most loving thing that you can do for them, as well as to take care of all of their other needs. Along with Bible study, women are to take care of their children's needs including feeding them healthy food and giving them clean water to drink, making and baking special treats for them, ensuring that they are properly bathed and clothed, ensuring that they are safe at home and wherever they go, reading books to them and teaching them good morals and values based upon God's word, giving them a proper education that is also bible friendly, etc. We are to discipline them when needed, and never be abusive. We are to be kind, considerate and gentle with our children as well.
We learn through God's Word rightly divided also to give our husbands and children a lot of grace, be patient and kind with them and to forgive them often. We are to pray for them as well.
I also want to say that we should teach our young women that abortion is murder. Young women should wait until marriage to have sex and be taught that having children in marriage is a good thing. If a young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock, she should be encouraged to keep the baby. Many young women are being taught today that if you don't want your baby that you can just murder it in the womb, but they don't want to admit that a baby in the womb is a living being, so they use all kinds of technical terminology. Changing the words doesn't change the sin! If you are an older Christian woman who had an abortion when you were young, perhaps before you became a believer or maybe you were talked into it by unbelievers or carnally-minded believers, please remember that you completely understand now that that was a terrible sin but that God has forgiven you all sins, and you are now a new creature in Christ. (Also, remember that all children that die before reaching the age of accountability go to heaven). It is important now however to be an advocate for life, which includes teaching younger Christian women not to make the same mistakes. The same is true if you had sex before marriage, had a child out of wedlock, or if you are divorced. Your sins now as a believer are forgiven, and you can be pro-traditional marriage now and teach younger women about Biblical womanhood, parenting, homemaking and marriage. You are not a hypocrite for having had a sinful past, rather, you now have God's Spirit living in your spirit and you have more understanding now of God's word as well. You are a new creature in Christ Jesus! The Apostle Paul was a religious zealot who was also a persecutor of the early believers, yet God saved him and then sent him to be the apostle of the Gentiles for the dispensation of grace! He had quite a past! So too did Ruth and Rahab in the Old Testament, and the early church believers in Corinth and other places all came from abject paganism and blatant immorality! Yet, God saved them and then as they allowed Christ to live in and through them they were able to serve God for his kingdom!
As older women we can guide the younger women in teaching them all of these good things. We teach them by the word of God but we also can teach them by showing them practical things too like how to cook, clean, bake, sew, keep a homemaker schedule, how to homeschool their children, and other such things. Our example of godly living is also how we teach others.
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