Look at the tone of discipleship classes for young men. Paul says not to force self-restraint, not to drive them into sensible behavior—no, he says Titus “encourage” them.
The word encourage (found in Titus 2:6 and 15 as parakaleo) is a form of the word used as the Name of the Holy Spirit, when He is shown as our “Comforter”. This form of encouragement in the church is to be through a close relationship of personal exhortation that encourages another believer to lead a godly life.
It would be proper to translate this word as “I beg you, please, and urge you to…” and that tone of discipleship towards godliness is the manner Titus was taught to train up leaders in the church. Men and women, boys and girls, were to be ministered to with love in God’s plan. A tender, humble, and kind urging to lead a Christ-like life was the plan.
Never was the Lord asking His people to be domineering or demanding. God is the source of authority, and He can chasten at will, but we, His servants, are to train godliness in kind exhortations. God knows that believers would respond to loving guidance, but resist the opposite.
Titus 2:6 “Likewise exhort the young men: to be sober-minded…”
God declares that every believer is to be in a constant cultivation of self-control, moderation, sensible behavior, and restraining their flesh. God stresses the importance of this chosen discipline in our lives by repeatedly stressing this characteristic. This word is also similar to the word describing the Spirit-prompted fruit called “sensible” in Galatians 5:23.
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