1. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998)

2. “Among the most confounding changes of all is the evidence, tracked by numerous surveys, that as women have gained more freedom, more education and more economic power, they have become less happy.” (Nancy Gibbs, Time Magazine)

3. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) It is a difficult day to be a woman

4. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) It is a difficult day to be a woman… but the Lord has given instruction that is sure and unchangeable and will help you navigate the difficulties of life whether you live in 2010, 1970 or 63 AD.

5. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women

6. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two reasons why almost everything here concerns the home:

7. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two reasons why almost everything here concerns the home: 1. The focus is on what is particular to young women and what the older women (instead of Titus) need to teach them.

8. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two reasons why almost everything here concerns the home: 1. The focus is on what is particular to young women and what the older women (instead of Titus) need to teach them. 2. Woman was created by God for man (Gen 2:18, 1 Cor 11:8-9)

9. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two key principles that stop us from going too far down this road (and end up devaluing women):

10. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two key principles that stop us from going too far down this road (and end up devaluing women): 1. Adam is not independent or self-sufficient either (Gen 2:18, 1 Cor 11:11-12)

11. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) The Household is the Main Ministry for Women Two key principles that stop us from going too far down this road (and end up devaluing women): 1. Adam is not independent or self-sufficient either (Gen 2:18, 1 Cor 11:11-12) 2. Singleness is not in any way inferior to a life in marriage. (1 Cor 7:32-38)

12. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children

13. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children A young women’s work is not primarily about a place, but about people.

14. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children Stoke the fires of your heart in relation to your husband and children

15. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness

16. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness Someone who is sober or sensible does not take too much delight in temporary or worldly things.

17. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness Be financially prudent. Be content with little.

18. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness Be sensible with time.

19. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness Be sensible with time. Learn to use your time well. Avoid things that waste time and have no obvious benefit.

20. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness Be sensible with time. Your primary ministry, to which you must devote the firstfruits of your time and energy, are to your husband and children

21. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure

22. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure Be careful with your beauty. Spend and use your beauty on your husband, but be careful in how you dress and present yourself to other men. (1 Tim 2:9)

23. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure Is your thought life pure? Do the things you put into your mind (movies, shows, reading, internet, music) prompt purity and fidelity towards your husband?

24. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home

25. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home The Word of God clearly indicates that women are to be workers at home, rather than workers outside the home. (see also 1 Tim 5:14,15 and Proverbs 31)

26. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home Why do women choose to work outside the home?

27. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home Why do women choose to work outside the home? a. Women think they will be more fulfilled

28. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home Why do women choose to work outside the home? a. Women think they will be more fulfilled b. Necessary to survive financially

29. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home 5. Kind

30. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home 5. Kind 6. Submissive to their Husbands

31. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home 5. Kind 6. Submissive to their Husbands We must not write off authority and submission in the home, but rather, learn to use these things in the way the Lord has meant them, so that they may bring us blessing.

32. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) 1. Love their husbands and children 2. Soberness 3. Pure 4. Working at Home 5. Kind 6. Submissive to their Husbands If you want a husband who is strong and a leader and will do anything for your good and blessing, submit to him joyfully.

33. Titus 2:4-5 How Younger Women Adorn the Truth (p998) Younger women you have an opportunity to cause people to see the word of God in a light they have never considered before due to your actions and conduct towards your household. And that witness will likely be all the greater in our culture in which so many families are not living according to God’s instructions for families and women.