5/28/26

Paul, giving instructions to Titus on how to teach others to live, and likewise live himself, speaks this text. Titus 3:2 NASB95 to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men.

Teach them to malign no one. The Greek word used is a form of the word blasphemy. Meaning to deny them or refuse them of God. Do not in any way cause a person not to desire God. Do not in any way cause them to hate God. Be thoughtful about the way you address and talk to people so as not to turn them away from the righteousness of God. We must realize that they hear this 24-7, 365 days a year from the lost world. Therefore, we must consciously make every effort to show them Christ, His holiness, righteousness, mercy, grace, justness, and sacrificial love.

Paul says we should live and teach this.

He also says, to be peaceable. This means never looking to fight. We should always seek peace while never compromising the Scripture. Jesus is an example of this. When he tells the woman caught in adultery, John 8:11b “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”

Our desire should always be reconciliation between them and God. Jesus forgave the repentant woman but admonished her Go. From now on sin no more.

This is how we should live and what we should teach. The lost will never from the world receive love without their sin being accepted. This is because the world teaches that for you to love them you must accept their sin. For them to see love in spite of their sin it must come from us. True love is truth. Sin is wrong it must be repented of in truth yet love is not tied to this. Love is constant and truthful therefore it seeks repentance and reconciliation while never accepting the sin. I love you, so I in love tell you that what you are doing is wrong and you need to repent. This is being peaceable.

He says we are to be gentle. To understand this we must look at the omnipotence of God. He has all power. Yet He is patient, and long-suffering. He has the power to condemn but instead He empties Himself to the point of death on a cross in the place of the condemned. Philippians 2:7-8 NASB1995

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

This is the type of gentleness we should live out and teach. Desiring the sinner to come to Christ in repentance of their sin!

Then he says, showing every consideration. This means to be both humble and meek. It is to have the authority of the word to condemn and yet the meekness to encourage ALL to humbly seek God's loving forgiveness in repentance. Doing this not with the authority but in understanding that you have been there and have experienced this same loving forgiveness.

Paul finishes that we should teach and live this out "for all men." No one should be left out.

Now, through prayer and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we must strive to teach and live these lessons.

This is our guidance for today, tomorrow, until Jesus returns or calls us home.

Love Bro. Scott