Speak and Live Sound Doctrine
Scripture: Titus 2:1Devotional Series: Sound Doctrine
Teaching: Sound Doctrine pt. 2 (SUN_AM 2021-02-21) by Pastor Star R Scott
In Titus 1:4-5, the Scripture talks about setting things back in order, bringing us to “the common faith”. Titus 2 gives us a glimpse of sound doctrine. “But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine” (verse 1). We should really learn something here; amen? So, what am I supposed to—what is sound doctrine? Well, tell “…the aged men to be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience” (verse 2). Doctrine has to do with character, Christlikeness. What’s the fruit of our lives? These are all functional, practical, inter-relational admonitions as to what the church is supposed to look like. Sound doctrine continually sets these standards forth and then brings reproof, rebuke, and instruction when it’s not. The Word is profitable for reproof, amen? “…For rebuke, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16-17). That’s sound doctrine. What do we look like? What are we doing? Are we loving one another? Is the church being edified? Is Jesus being glorified?
Today people just want more classes, more head knowledge. And they’ll propagate false doctrine. But you’re a people that are full of the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost will rise up in you, and His sheep know His voice, and when you read something that’s not right, your spirit goes, “Hmm?” You may not even have chapter and verse, but you can find it, but your spirit will not bear witness with that statement.
The church today thinks a mature Christian woman is supposed to be one that stands up and has her own pulpit ministry and is a teacher to the general body of Christ and is CEO of a corporation. But here’s what the Bible says mature Christian women are to look like and what they’re supposed to do: They’re to live holy and not to be false accusers, be teachers of good things. We’ve got to go to other portions of the Scriptures but we know that a woman is not to be the final authority as it relates to the church and its governance, and surely not the home. For the head of the wife is the husband; amen? It’s Bible! I don’t care what organization out there wants to raise up and scream and whatever they want to say, the Bible says the head of the wife is her husband. In that context, it’s not saying that men are in authority over women. If you’re a woman who’s not married, you’re under the headship of Jesus. Amen? Specifically, exclusively, all-inclusive. And then the father of that single lady is her head until marriage takes place.
We see here that mature women are to teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. You say, “Well, that’s just natural that a mother’s going to love.” It’s not natural. And in fact, the Scripture says—it’s going to be total disregard for all of these things that you and I look at as being natural and normal—it says they are without natural affection, murderers of mothers and fathers, parents will rise up and kill their children. It’s amplified even more as you look at it from the church perspective. It says that as we continue to live sound doctrine, even our own children, those of our own households, are going to rise up and have us killed and believe they’re doing God’s ministry or service. And that’s the age that we’re coming into, but we see here that these young women that are to love their husbands and to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands.
Today people just want more classes, more head knowledge. And they’ll propagate false doctrine. But you’re a people that are full of the Holy Ghost, and the Holy Ghost will rise up in you, and His sheep know His voice, and when you read something that’s not right, your spirit goes, “Hmm?” You may not even have chapter and verse, but you can find it, but your spirit will not bear witness with that statement.
The church today thinks a mature Christian woman is supposed to be one that stands up and has her own pulpit ministry and is a teacher to the general body of Christ and is CEO of a corporation. But here’s what the Bible says mature Christian women are to look like and what they’re supposed to do: They’re to live holy and not to be false accusers, be teachers of good things. We’ve got to go to other portions of the Scriptures but we know that a woman is not to be the final authority as it relates to the church and its governance, and surely not the home. For the head of the wife is the husband; amen? It’s Bible! I don’t care what organization out there wants to raise up and scream and whatever they want to say, the Bible says the head of the wife is her husband. In that context, it’s not saying that men are in authority over women. If you’re a woman who’s not married, you’re under the headship of Jesus. Amen? Specifically, exclusively, all-inclusive. And then the father of that single lady is her head until marriage takes place.
We see here that mature women are to teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children. You say, “Well, that’s just natural that a mother’s going to love.” It’s not natural. And in fact, the Scripture says—it’s going to be total disregard for all of these things that you and I look at as being natural and normal—it says they are without natural affection, murderers of mothers and fathers, parents will rise up and kill their children. It’s amplified even more as you look at it from the church perspective. It says that as we continue to live sound doctrine, even our own children, those of our own households, are going to rise up and have us killed and believe they’re doing God’s ministry or service. And that’s the age that we’re coming into, but we see here that these young women that are to love their husbands and to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands.