Good morning and welcome in today. Today we’re going to take a look at a passage of scripture from Titus but before we do that I wanted to tell you a story.
Many years ago I grew up on a lake about 20 miles away from town. I can remember one summer when me and my friends got extremely bored so one afternoon in the woods behind the house we decided to take a bunch of old Lumber and construct a treehouse. There was no lack of trees in the backyard, we just had to find the right ones for our new secret clubhouse.
We looked around for the right trees and eventually found three poplars that were fairly close together and would serve our purpose.
We raided a bunch of leftover nails that were in the shed, grabbed some hammers from the garage and ran into the woods to begin our new building project.
We were the kinds of kids who liked to have secret meetings, secret activities and passed secret notes in school. It was like all of us were undercover and everything was kept in the strictest of confidence just between us.
We worked hard on our clubhouse and after a few days it was fully functional. The only way to get inside was to go through a trap door in the floor to which you needed a special knock. During our meetings I don’t remember the things we talked about, but we kept the information to ourselves within our tight knit group.
Discretion is about being able to keep a secret, the same way as we did in our club. It’s being judicious in one’s conduct or speech, especially with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature.
The Christian wife has a secret clubhouse, it’s her husband’s home. This is the calling for the Christian wife.
Titus 2:5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
What goes on in a mans household needs to be kept private and discreet. Many things go on in a home each day, but discretion is not sharing personal private matters or conversations with a third party. To do so results in gossip, whether it’s true or not.
When you were in high school did you ever confide in a friend, sharing with them some personal information only to find out later that they betrayed you and told everybody what you had said to them in secret?
In the church there are numerous sins that are confessed each day, but they are covered up by the blood of Christ and not spoken of again. They are hidden from view.
As I’ve said before, John the Baptist listened to a lot of confessions, but he didn’t go out and advertise to others the private issues that people were dealing with. He was very discreet.
On the other hand, Noah’s had a son wgo upset him greatly, because of his indiscretion.
Gen 9:20-27
20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Indiscreet means having, showing, or proceeding from too great a readiness to reveal things that should remain secret or private.
An indiscreet person will say things publically that they should only do or say secretly or in private.
Think about a child who is starting to learn how to go without diapers. When they go to bed one night they happen to wet the bed. The next morning his brothers and sisters laugh at him and tell everybody at home and in town that their brother wet the bed. How do you think you would feel if the roles were reversed? All that is is being a gossip and a tattletale.
Imagine your wife telling you private and personal details about her life during your marriage and then you go outside the home and tell everybody about it. How would you feel if the roles were reversed?
Joseph was very discreet.
Gen 41:39 “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:”
Gossip hurts and harms the reputation of others in the community especially if it’s your husband. A Christian wife is supposed to be a discreet woman in her home, because when she got married……she got to join the secret Clubhouse.
I think that’s where I’m going to stop for right now but Lord willing we’ll talk to you some more tomorrow. Till then bye-bye everybody.♥️
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