Faith is growing in godliness. Now, godliness means to be like God — godly, holy, to live a holy life.
Titus 2:3-5 says: “the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.”
Now the older women must be reverent in behavior, that means dignified, honorable, decent, and worthy of respect. This is how women need to exercise that quality. Women need to learn not to be slanderers. It’s so easy to be a gossiper. Slander means the utterance of false charges or misrepresentation which defames and damages another’s reputation; a false accuser, just malicious gossip.
We need to work on that and I’m going to tell you how to do it. We want to stop the gossiping and running somebody down because this is not godliness. The scriptures tell us that we should not be given to too much wine. Keep in mind that in the biblical days water wasn’t that good and they drank wine as a substitute. However, that’s not an excuse for us to be drinking wine now because we know that a lot of people start out drinking wine and they become alcoholics. So my family and I just made up our minds, we would not drink any alcoholic beverages. The only way somebody might turn into a drunkard is to take that first alcoholic drink and we don’t want it to be one of us. Our desire is to always be an example to the Body of Christ.
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