BORN FOR ADVERSITY

Mother’s Day

Rebekah Clanton

Woodland Church

Sunday, May 11, 2025

(Proverbs 17:17) “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”

 1.  We are responsible for the way we live.

(Titus 2:3) “Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live.”

(Colossians 1:9-10) “We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way.”

2.  Responsibility, Actions, and Relationships produce fruit

(Titus 2:3-5) ^“Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.”

A.  Steps of Responsibility

1. Reverent to God

2. Respect toward others

Slander: a legal term meaning false statement, usually made orally, which defames another person.

3. Self-Control: control over expression of emotions, desires, and behavior

B.  Steps of Action

1. Teaching is the verb of our faith

(Titus 2:11-15) ^“These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.”

2. Fervent in prayer: Urge

3. Be occupied with the good things

4. An attitude of kindness

C.  Steps of Relationship

1. Marriage the picture of relationship between Christ and the Church

(Ephesians 5:21) “Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

2. Relationship with others

(Mark 12:31) “The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”

3. Relationship with God

(Titus 2:11-14) ^“For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.  It teaches us to say NO to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”