Titus 2 Woman

TO TEACH THE YOUNG WOMEN

To teach is to train. The Strong’s Concordance gives the Greek word rhipizo for the word teach in this passage. It means to fan, bellows, breeze up, agitate into waves. Jamieson-Fausset Brown says that aged women were to school the young women, so Titus did not have too. According to John Wesley’s Notes, Timothy was to instruct the young women himself, but not Titus. Although, in 1 Timothy 4:12 Paul tells Timothy to “Let no man despise thy youth;” Wesley might have evidence that Timothy was not as young as Titus when teaching women. Also, the aged women in the book of Timothy might have been baby Christians only teaching the law, and not grace (see 1 Timothy 1:5–8). So, it is evident Paul trusted Timothy to teach the women. Or his mother and grandmother; Lois, and Eunice, were there taking on that role or at least monitoring him as he interacted with the young women. The Apostle Paul does not specify why Timothy was to teach and Titus was to have aged women teach the young women.

A. Being trained.

1.

Should all Christian women ask for and seek those qualities of the aged women in Titus 2:3?

Paul does not specify that some women should not seek those qualities. We know God’s plan is that we should all be seeking to “be in behavior as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things.” See 2 Timothy 2:24,25

“And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;”

2. Should we be trained in the qualities outlined because they do not come naturally to us?

Maybe.

This study is not about any one person. It is about GOD and His plan for His women. Remember God’s forgiveness, truth, and grace is in His Son!

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3. Are we to be trained by other women because we are the weaker vessel and need to be strengthened together? See 1 Peter 3:7

Yes.

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

4. Old Testament women worshipped in a separate place from the men. They were allowed on the mezzanine or top floor of the temple. Who does 1 Timothy 2:11 & 12 say we are not to teach?

“Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.”

Silence in the church; when men are preaching or teaching unless they ask for questions or answers to their questions.

5. Please consider that in any occupation a certain amount of time, energy and resources are spent to become ‘trained’ in that field. Should a younger woman or new Christian be willing to be ‘trained’?

1 Peter 5:5–7

“Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

6. Should an aged or older Christian woman be willing to help train the younger women? 1 Peter 5:8–11

Hopefully, for all our sakes, we need to…

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”

Illness, temptation, sin, and troubles come to us all. We will all suffer these things in some way.