Grace Protestant Reformed Church

Sermon Details

Godliness for Young Women

Minister: Rev. Ronald Van Overloop
Date: 1/17/2010 PM
Text: Titus 2:4,5

  1. The calling.
    1. The young Christian wife/mother is to be “keeper at home,” i.e., one who guards the home.
      1. The Christian home is surrounded by a most ungodly world.
      2. She is aware of spiritual enemies and sins from without and within.
    2. The wife/mother has a great responsibility to guard the home, to make it safe and secure.
      1. She is to create an atmosphere where the house is a home.
      2. She must pray to Him Who alone can keep a home spiritually safe (Ps. 127:1,2).
      3. She must always remind all of the duty to resist the devil and be constantly fighting against sin.
  2. How does a young Christian wife/mother guard her home.
    1. First, by realizing that love is something learned, not fallen into.
      1. Salvation teaches a love which is much more than emotions and feelings.
      2. Close relationship between being the kind of wife and the kind of mother the Christian faith requires.
    2. Second, she is to be “sober” (4) and “discreet” (5) (old men and young men, 2,6).
      1. These two words come from the same Greek word, whose root is “wisdom.”
      2. Balance and perspective is put into one’s life by Christianity: freed from romanticism.
    3. Third, she knows her calling to be “obedient to their own husbands” in all lawful things.
      1. This is a voluntary submission, a subjecting of oneself which flows from obedience to her Savior/Lord.
      2. She submits herself to the one God uses to teach her submission.
    4. She is to be “chaste,” i.e., moral purity or clean, modest, exciting reverence.
    5. Fifth, she is to be “good,” i.e., useful, fitting one’s purpose, beneficial to those around her.
  3. God’s purpose for such godliness is so “the word of God be not blasphemed.”
    1. “Blasphemed” is to speak against, to revile, slander or insult.
    2. The wicked always mock and blaspheme, but that it is all lies is made obvious more by our godly actions.
    3. Honor is given to God and to the teachings of His Word by godly conduct, both now and in the judgment day.
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