Bible Question Box

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Bible Question Box

• Teaching, Learning Sinning
• (Giving receiving instruction)

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Teachers and Students

• Mutual respect for divine truth and for each
  other
• Teacher should not run roughshod over student, 2
  Tim. 224-26 (1 Ths. 27-12)
• Student should give attention to Bible
  instruction, Lk. 88, 18 (Acts 1033)
• Blessings safety success) in wise counsel,
  Prov. 1114 1522

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Teachers and Students

• Question
• Older women are told to teach the younger women
  to love their husbands and children. Is it a sin
  for a younger woman to ignore the teaching of the
  older women?

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Titus 23-5

• the older women likewise, that they be reverent
  in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much
  wine, teachers of good thingsthat 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.

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• It is sin to ignore Gods word when we are taught
  it, whether by young or old (Jas. 417 Lk. 646
  Jno. 1248)
• Evangelist to teach older men Ignoring Gods
  teaching is sin, Titus 21-2
• Evangelist to teach older women Ignoring Gods
  teaching is sin, Titus 23
• Older women to teach younger, Titus 24-5
• Exhort the young men, Titus 26

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• If it is sin when a 20-something woman does not
  follow teaching from a 40-something woman, then
• It is sin when the 40-something woman does not
  follow the teaching of the 60-something woman
• 30/5050/70

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• Primary concern
• Not whether one sins by not listening to us when
  we teach her (or him)
• But that if one is ignoring Bible teaching, then
  she (or he) is refusing and disobeying God, Luke
  1016

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• It is not sin if what is being taught amounts to
  giving personal advice where God allows
  differences in judgment, Rom. 143-5

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• Love their husbands (Tit. 24)
• To love your husband you must give him a back
  rub every night (or you are not loving your
  husband like you should).
• No sin in following this advice or not following
  itpurely a matter of opinion!
• But, you must love your husband

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Is it a sin for a younger woman to ignore the
teaching of the older women?

• When advice (opinion) is given
• May be poor judgment to refuse personal advice
  given by an older person, or
• May be poor advice that is being given
• But not necessarily sin, Prov. 1215 2826
• Ruth 16-18 Naomis counsel the decisions of
  Orpah Ruth Wise? Foolish? Sin?

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We should learn how to be teachers, Titus 23

• Counsel/teaching must be combined with knowledge,
  Job 382 (423)
• Do not take it as an insult when advice that is
  personal opinion is not followed, Rom. 143
• Personal opinion is not revealed truth
• To react this way is sin! (Rom. 143)

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We should learn how to be teachers, Titus 23

• If tension exists between older younger women,
  then talk resolve it, Matt. 523-25
• Goal is to teach encourage in truth
• Not bind personal opinions on each other or be
  contentious over differences in judgments, Phil.
  42-3
• Not to be a meddler, 1 Pet. 415

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We should learn how to receive instruction, Titus
24

• Listen respectfully give due consideration to
  personal advice that is given out of love
  loyalty to truth, Job 324-9
• Assess it against Gods word then respond
  accordingly, Prov. 1920-21 (Acts 1711-12)

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We should learn how to receive instruction, Titus
24

• When it agrees with Bible, gain wisdom
  understanding from it, Prov. 15 (Psa.
  11998-100)
• Grow in learning wisdom, Prov. 99
• Refusing wise counsel brings burdens, Prov.
  124-26, 28-33
• But, wise to refuse advice / teaching that does
  not agree with Gods word

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Divine Truth vs. Personal Advice

• Must know respect the difference
• Difference between teaching the wisdom of God
  the wisdom of men, 1 Cor. 24-5
• When truth is taught we reject it, we sin, 2
  Jno. 9
• When personal advice (opinion) is given God
  allows differences in judgment, assess it
  accordingly, Rom. 1412-13

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Divine Truth vs. Personal Advice

• Be careful to teach the truth of God (1 Tim.
  46)
• Be careful not to teach personal opinion as if it
  is the truth of God (Rom. 141)

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Divine Truth vs. Personal AdviceTitus 24

• Ex. Love husbands (philandros) -Close
  affection of companionship
• Teach them to be loving companions
• Wide range of judgment is allowed in
  application (loving a husband) that does not
  constitute sin

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Divine Truth vs. Personal AdviceTitus 24

• Ex Love children (philoteknos) -Tender
  affection toward children
• Teach them to be mothers
• Wide range of judgment is allowed in
  application (loving children) that does not
  constitute sin

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Teachers and Students

• Teaching from older person is not automatically
  right (or wrong) just because it is from an older
  person, Job 329
• All teaching/counsel must agree with the word of
  God (Acts 1711)
• When that teaching is refused, we sin against God
  (Matt. 721)

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Teachers and Students

• Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or
  conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem
  others better than himself. Let each of you look
  out not only for his own interests, but also for
  the interests of others. (Phil. 23-4)
• submitting to one another in the fear of
  God. (Eph. 521)