Titus 2

Last night a few believers worked our way through Titus 2. We saw that sound doctrine doesn't consist only of topics like justification or sanctification, but also the behavior that God expects of various groups of people like older men, older women, younger women, younger men and slaves. I also reminded them as we looked at certain controversial points like wives submitting to their husbands of two foundational pillars of our faith. One is receiving the love of God, decisively shown by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. The other is receiving, believing and obeying the Scripture as if Jesus was in the room with us speaking. The final section, verses 11 to 15,showed the importance of grace to live the godly and self-controlled lives that followers of Christ are called to live. Contained in this section, verse 13,is one of eight specific NT references to Jesus as God.