Hello To You All! Today is Wednesday, and that means that tonight is another fantastic and aexciting night for suncoast youth group! Make plans to join us this evening around 7:00pm for a great service. We will be finishing the second part of last weeks message from Titus 2, You know that you do not want to miss that! :)
I am reading the most incredible book that I have read in probably the last 2 years. It is written by teenagers and for teenagers. I think every single one of you should read it! If you are interested in reading a book that has the potential to change your life, and really get you on a path to do INCREDIBLE things with your life for God (besides the Bible) then let me know, I will help you get a copy or let you use mine!
A Few Thoughts From Yesterday:
To Everyone: Great Job on the devos yesterday! I am so thankful for you all, it is exciting to see so many of you do them... My goal is to have 20 of you doing them faithfully everyday. Yesterday we were only about 3 off of that.
Josh L: well, you have started a decent debate. I guess when you pull "Church" into the picture, December is a pretty good month... But it is not even close to July. Sorry, we will talk about it tonight! :)
RACHEL: WE ARE SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK!! We all missed you very much! It sounds like you had a wonderful time and I am so thankful for that! See you tonight in church!
Jeff: No Action? Are you kidding me? The action was incredible... Tearing the police car apart to use it as two punching gloves, that was amazing.
McCue: Hey man! We miss you! I hope things are going great for you this summer! How is your Bible Study going?
Grace: Great Job, you are exactly right! Next time we doubt Him, we should just think about the AMAZING things that He has done for us!
Marvin: You should get me one of those "yummy" hamburgers!!
Kervin: Very Good, It is great for Gods creation to trust him on our own, instead of being "programmed" to!
Titus 2
1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.
7 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,
8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
This is a little change from the book of John, I figured that I would have us all read the text for tonights message and become familiar with it. What stands out to you in this passage?
As I talked about last week: This passsage starts out by explaining how old men, and old women should act. Then the passage goes on to the young women and the young men. Let put our main focus on the young'ins part.
Young women should be sober (in control of themselves), love their husbands, that is what we talked about last week... (love them now, by preparing to marry them and by saving yourself for them both physically and emotionally). Chaste, which means pure and undefiled! Then it also says to be "good". That literally means to have good character at the core of your life.
We should do all these things so that Gods word is not blashpemed. I was on myspace last night, and I saw some really dissapointing things, we should control the things we say and do SO THAT PEOPLE DONT THINKLESS ABOUT GOD, because of our foolishness.
Guys: We have some strickt guideliness as well: We are told to live out a pattern of Good works in ALL THINGS!! We are supposed to strive for excellence in all things! Wow! What a great standard!
We are also supposed to have sound speech, both from our mouths and the things we type on myspace. We are supposed to show a pure heart by the things that come out of our mouth, because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh...
There is a lot of great stuff in this passage! What did you get out of it?
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15 comments:
Wow, yeah i was expectin John...
ok...so what sticks out 2 me in this is that what we should b lookin 4 in a spouse...they should b CHrist like...I mean its kinda str8 4ward...it says how u need 2 b, & what u should look 4...it reminds me of u & katie...
It IS VERY important 2 save urself 4 marriage...save ur emotions, purity, etc...cuz it wouldnt b cool if ya know...they've BEEN w/like...lots of other people or they've been in love w/sum1 b4...
itd b special if they were pure & all of that...it makes things THAT MUCH MORE SPECIAL...by savin urself...ur sayin "i loved u BEFORE i even knew u...4 2 people 2 share their 1st time of ANYTHING 2gether thats WAY cool...
be as these verses say...& ull b happy...look at pastor lee & katie, & all the other couples at church=]
Not only tht but eveyrone gets presents not only you pastor lee. There are even fireworks on the very last day since most people can't control themselves and wait for midnight. And for half of the month of december kids and teenagers are actually being educated instead of losing information that they gained over the last school year. Summer is also the time when most school atheletes gain the most wheight unlike december when they tend to lose weight and gain muscle.
Yeah what brooke said Wa Sup with the book change. Anyways what I get out of this is that as a young man I need to have a pure mind, do good things, do my devotions, obey the law of gravity, be sincere to others, and don't use foul language. Also you old people need to set an example for us younger folks. Well even us younger folk can be an example as well to other people.
DECEMBER RULES!!!
i would have been first if i wasnt takeing care of alex!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he up-chucked and i had to clean it up(scared for life)and he says i am mean to him!pffft!
anyway
todays passage is talking about how the young man and woman are suppossed to act and what they are suppossed to look for when choosing a husband/wife. i think the only way to apply this to my life is to keep it mind.
hey see you all in church!!!!!!!
Sorry, but today I'm going to be very opinionated.
Ok so, I'm going to mainly focus on 2 things the young girls should act like: love their husbands, and to be chaste. When it says love your husbands is means to "love them now, by preparing to marry them and by saving yourself for them both physically and emotionally". And when it says to be chaste it means to be pure.
If God wants us to save ourselves physically and emotionally I think that means that we shouldn't date until we are ready to marry. You may disagree but if you have a boyfriend now it's hard to have a relationship without any emotional attachments or physical contact. And if that happens then you didn't save yourself like God clearly says here. And honestly, what's the point of dating now?! If you are my age, the guys that you could date for it not to be weird are immature! And relationships that are held between teenagers on an average last about a month maybe two. And I know I wouldn't want to be stuck with an immature guy for that long. Also, my sister, Heather, was talking to me about this one day. She said something to make me think about things differently. She said "If you kiss a boy now and you know that you are not going to marry him, it's like kissing another girls husband." She's so right! Also, us girls need to help the guys save themselves by not having a physical or emotional relationship with them. And I've heard many times 'I wish I would have waited for marriage' and 'I'm so glad I waited for marriage'. Yeah, as teenagers we think that we know everything, but for once we should listen to our elders and take into consideration what they are saying because they have gone through what we are going through. They know more things than we do. When I get old I want to be able to say 'I'm so glad I waited for marriage to have any physical or emotional relationship!'
Another thing God wants us to be is pure! That means 'free from any inappropriate elements" We need to keep our mind, heart, and body pure! This is kind of like the last thing I was talking about. But this goes further. This doesn't only mean we need to be pure from physical and emotional things, it mean that we need to be pure from any inappropriate element: music, television, movies, friends, etc. Anything that is going to make us impure, we need to stay away from! Remember, our body is a temple of God. It is our job to keep it holy.
Also, (I'm just adding this in here) we need to be modest. What happened to the good ole days when we didn't want anyone to see our 'private parts'. HELLO, private means NO ONE should see them. These days, girls don't care if half their chest is showing. I mean, I would expect that from non-Christians, but not from Christian girls. I was reading this books about modesty and it had a verse in there (of course now I can't remember it exactly) that said something like as sisters in Christ, we shouldn't make our brothers stumble because of what we are wearing. In other words, we need to make sure that we don't make an obstacle for the guys to be pure. If you don't know if something is too revealing or not, ask your dad or brother if what you are wearing would make other guys stumble.
You Go Kacey! Keep Speaking Boldy for Christ's sake - and for the sake of our Christian Brothers! Our guys need us girls to pray for them and encourage them toward BOLD RIGHTEOUSNESS!
WOOHOO!
~PLMA
Guys: God wants us to practice to becoming future leaders and to save ourselves for our future wives. We can practice becoming future leaders in our households by building good habits now such as to avoid alcohol, the use of profanity, and to lead by example rather then theory. Your future wife would prefer hearing that you've only had a couple of girlfriends rather then hearing you've dated every girl in your school.
Girls: Guys think in a very weird way, but all I know is that staying pure is your best bet for a fullfilling and lasting marraige. I think guys would feel a lot better hearing you say that your their first love then hearing you go on and on about a boy you went out with in high school.
The way some of us are living now probably won't change much when we're married. For some of us that a good thing, but for others thats the worst news that you could have possibly heard, but if everyone just follows the path that God has in store for them everything will work out just fine.
I think that girls should stay pure for that special someone. I think that girls shouldn't keep themselves to themselves but shouldn't reconized by every boy she knows as "Oh thats my ex."
I know us guys think something if they see pretty girls but they shouldn't be all over the place with girls. We should be viewing our standerds from a safe distance.
Kacey & Kervin...right on!!! Having just celebrated our 50th last year, I can tell you that it was worth it to wait and to let God choose the one for me. And you're both right about modest dress and proper behavior.
Jonathan, sorry to hear about your grandpa. Hope he's doing better now.
Mrs. W
What this is basically saying to me is that we NEED to guard our lives now if we want to get anything that is good .
We need to be aware about what we think and say and look like , because it might affect our lives in the future .
And thank you Pastor Lee for the compliment !
~ Grace ~
Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
Having no evil thing to say of you. This makes me think of Daniel when the men around him were looking for something in his life to bring him down. All they could find was he prayed 3 times a day to God with his window opened not ashamed of who saw him. This is was it! What a testimony. Makes me think about my life. What could people say about me...?
This is like, straight-at-you kind of stuff where you dont need to do much digging to find the instruction in it, which means it must be pretty important.
It, to me, is guidelines for now so that the future is good.
I think we all want to be sucessful as we enter an adult life, but in what ways are we focusing on? Of course, school instruction is important for the worldly part of it, and likewise, to be a sucessful Christian adult in your marriage and other related aspects you need to follow the Biblical instruction.
The beginning of it is now, in our tennage years, when we can either make or break that future and we should make smart, Godly decisions like it says here.
So, to apply it, we can prepare for later by staying in control of ourselves and staying pure so that we can be loving wives and mothers down the road.
ok, i did some of the devotions from when i was away now all i need to make up is saturday, friday and monday and i will not have missed anything important ((:
ill be back tomorrow
Kacey, awesome thoughts on wednesdays devotion you hit the nail right on the head. to stay pure in todays world takes an extreme amount of EFFORT not just physically but also emotionally. We need to give that to the Lord each and every day.Not just teenagers but also old guys like me. Keep up the good devos, God will bless your faithfulness. Love Mr.Paul
I really like the message tonight it was really want guys want in girls it was funny because we went out to eat at chill's after church and there was girls like in mini skirts and everyone was there you go Jeff and then I said that they were distilled so I didnt want them.
This passage is not only telling the women how to be good but also the men. Its telling the women to act like a lady by being sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. Us men don't want a girl that has sleep with all her friends or that dresses like a harolet thats gross, of course we look when your wearing something that is revealing but thats just our sin nature we don't want to marry a girl like that. We want a pure women that love her husband and loves her kids. Just like pastor lee said would you want to drink from a cup that is pure and refreshing or toilet water? That how you should choose your wife not just because of looks or that you lust after each other but look for these things that Gog has said sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands. When you find these things in a women you will know that she is the one and you will have a successful marriage filled with love and passion!
"Because out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh..."
I love this because whatever you have in your heart will come out of your mouth like if you have sin in your heart it will come out of your mouth. This passage is very examplish like girls can look @ this and see what they need to do to become a great mother and wife whenever they r older. like v.5 says.
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