![]() ![]() ![]() And in our culture, as you said, virtue, that's almost a dirty word. They're slaves to that.Īnd against that backdrop, Paul, in the book of Titus, calls us to a lifestyle as believers that is polar opposite. People who don't have Christ in them live for their flesh. Nancy: If you say that today, you're considered intolerant or unloving, but it's true. ![]() Nancy: So you have the portrait of the world in his day, which is so similar to the world in our day. 15–16).Īnd then in chapter 3 he says these people who don't know Christ are "slaves to various passions and pleasures" (v. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work (vv. They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. ![]() He says in chapter 1: To the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. Nancy: Paul describes that in Titus with some pretty graphic terminology. And it was so counter-cultural also to the world at that time because in Crete, at that time, there was so much immorality-sexual immorality-and there was all types of evil. It's the word "virtue," and it builds on these others that we've been looking at: discernment, honor or reverence, affection, discipline or self-control, and now this word virtue.īefore we unpack what that is, (a true woman who is pure is the word in Titus chapter 2), I just want to remind us that everything that a woman is called to be here (a follower of Christ) is counter-cultural to the way the world is going. Nancy: Well, Mary, as we come to the halfway point of this study, the fifth element out of ten that we're looking at in the series, we come to another word that is, again, kind of antiquated. ![]()
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