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Proverbs 28 New Living Translation

Proverbs 28New Living Translation

28 The wicked run away when no one is chasing them,
    but the godly are as bold as lions.

² When there is moral rot within a nation, its government topples easily.
    But wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability.

³ A poor person who oppresses the poor
    is like a pounding rain that destroys the crops.

⁴ To reject the law is to praise the wicked;
    to obey the law is to fight them.

⁵ Evil people don’t understand justice,
    but those who follow the Lordunderstand completely.

⁶ Better to be poor and honest
    than to be dishonest and rich.

⁷ Young people who obey the law are wise;
    those with wild friends bring shame to their parents.^[a]

⁸ Income from charging high interest rates
    will end up in the pocket of someone who is kind to the poor.

⁹ God detests the prayers
    of a person who ignores the law.

¹⁰ Those who lead good people along an evil path
    will fall into their own trap,
    but the honest will inherit good things.

¹¹ Rich people may think they are wise,
    but a poor person with discernment can see right through them.

¹² When the godly succeed, everyone is glad.
    When the wicked take charge, people go into hiding.

¹³ People who conceal their sins will not prosper,
    but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.

¹⁴ Blessed are those who fear to do wrong,^[b]
    but the stubborn are headed for serious trouble.

¹⁵ A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the poor
    as a roaring lion or an attacking bear.

¹⁶ A ruler with no understanding will oppress his people,
    but one who hates corruption will have a long life.

¹⁷ A murderer’s tormented conscience will drive him into the grave.
    Don’t protect him!

¹⁸ The blameless will be rescued from harm,
    but the crooked will be suddenly destroyed.

¹⁹ A hard worker has plenty of food,
    but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty.

²⁰ The trustworthy person will get a rich reward,
    but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.

²¹ Showing partiality is never good,
    yet some will do wrong for a mere piece of bread.

²² Greedy people try to get rich quick
    but don’t realize they’re headed for poverty.

²³ In the end, people appreciate honest criticism
    far more than flattery.

²⁴ Anyone who steals from his father and mother
    and says, “What’s wrong with that?”
    is no better than a murderer.

²⁵ Greed causes fighting;
    trusting the Lord leads to prosperity.

²⁶ Those who trust their own insight are foolish,
    but anyone who walks in wisdom is safe.

²⁷ Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing,
    but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed.

²⁸ When the wicked take charge, people go into hiding.
    When the wicked meet disaster, the godly flourish.

The Problem With Pride

February 11, 2016 Save Article

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Proverbs 16:18 (Program: 2223, Air date: 11.9.2014)

1. WHAT PRIDE IS NOT: 
   1. Pride is not a good self-image.
      1. Humility is not thinking lowly of ourselves; it is not thinking of ourselves.
         1. Luke 18:9-14
         2. John 13:3-5
   2. Pride is not gratefulness for a job well done.
2. WHAT IS PRIDE? 
   1. An attitude of independence from God
   2. A spirit of ungratefulness to God
   3. Esteeming ourselves better than others
3. INDICATORS OF A PROUD PERSON
   1. A proud person becomes irritated when corrected for mistakes.
   2. A proud person accepts praise for things over which he or she has no control (i.e. beauty, talents, abilities).
   3. A proud person has an ungrateful spirit for all that God has done.
   4. A proud person often finds himself in competition with others.
4. PRIDE DEFIES GOD. (Proverbs 6:16-19)
   1. Proverbs 16:5
      1. Why does God hate pride?
         1. It was pride that made the devil the devil.
            1. Isaiah 14:13-16
            2. 1 Timothy 3:6
         2. Pride ruined the human race.
            1. Genesis 3:5
            2. 1 Peter 5:5
5. PRIDE DEFILES MAN. (Proverbs 16:5)
   1. Proverbs 21:4
   2. Mark 7:21-22
      1. Pride comes from within our human nature.
6. PRIDE DIVIDES SOCIETY. (Proverbs 13:10)
   1. There’s never been a war, argument, divorce or church split in which pride was not a major factor.
   2. Proverbs 28:25
      1. Pride puts us out of fellowship with God and others.
7. PRIDE DISHONORS LIFE. (Proverbs 11:2)
   1. A proud person wants honor and esteem, but pride only brings dishonor.
      1. Proverbs 15:33
      2. Proverbs 18:12
      3. Proverbs 29:23
   2. Pride turned the devil into the devil.
      1. Isaiah 14:13-16
         1. Satan is going to be brought down, and Jesus will be exalted.
            1. Philippians 2:5-9
8. PRIDE DESTROYS SOULS. (Proverbs 15:25)
   1. Pride is the road to ruin and destruction.
      1. Proverbs 16:18-19
      2. Proverbs 18:12
         1. National ruin
            1. 2 Chronicles 7:14
         2. Domestic ruin
         3. Financial ruin
         4. Emotional ruin
         5. Spiritual ruin
   2. There is no one too bad that they can’t be saved. 
   3. There is no one too good that they don’t need to be saved.

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Proverbs 27New Living Translation

27 Don’t brag about tomorrow,
    since you don’t know what the day will bring.

² Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth—
    a stranger, not your own lips.

³ A stone is heavy and sand is weighty,
    but the resentment caused by a fool is even heavier.

⁴ Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood,
    but jealousy is even more dangerous.

⁵ An open rebuke
    is better than hidden love!

⁶ Wounds from a sincere friend
    are better than many kisses from an enemy.

⁷ A person who is full refuses honey,
    but even bitter food tastes sweet to the hungry.

⁸ A person who strays from home
    is like a bird that strays from its nest.

⁹ The heartfelt counsel of a friend
    is as sweet as perfume and incense.

¹⁰ Never abandon a friend—
    either yours or your father’s.
When disaster strikes, you won’t have to ask your brother for assistance.
    It’s better to go to a neighbor than to a brother who lives far away.

¹¹ Be wise, my child,^[a] and make my heart glad.
    Then I will be able to answer my critics.

¹² A prudent person foresees danger and takes precautions.
    The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.

¹³ Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger’s debt.
    Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.^[b]

¹⁴ A loud and cheerful greeting early in the morning
    will be taken as a curse!

¹⁵ A quarrelsome wife is as annoying
    as constant dripping on a rainy day.
¹⁶ Stopping her complaints is like trying to stop the wind
    or trying to hold something with greased hands.

¹⁷ As iron sharpens iron,
    so a friend sharpens a friend.

¹⁸ As workers who tend a fig tree are allowed to eat the fruit,
    so workers who protect their employer’s interests will be rewarded.

¹⁹ As a face is reflected in water,
    so the heart reflects the real person.

²⁰ Just as Death and Destruction^[c] are never satisfied,
    so human desire is never satisfied.

²¹ Fire tests the purity of silver and gold,
    but a person is tested by being praised.^[d]

²² You cannot separate fools from their foolishness,
    even though you grind them like grain with mortar and pestle.

²³ Know the state of your flocks,
    and put your heart into caring for your herds,
²⁴ for riches don’t last forever,
    and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
²⁵ After the hay is harvested and the new crop appears
    and the mountain grasses are gathered in,
²⁶ your sheep will provide wool for clothing,
    and your goats will provide the price of a field.
²⁷ And you will have enough goats’ milk for yourself,
    your family, and your servant girls.

What happens when you cross God’s deadline. 

Listen to Adrian Rogers even me all the hardness is met shall be destroyed and that without remedy the others into a situation that I would call hopeless. The Bible tells us that it is hoped the May hopelessness is the saddest word in English language in front of every unsaved man, woman, boy and girl. There is a deadline if you cross that deadline here will be broken beyond repair will continue love with plaintiff featuring the powerful and can message the claimed pastor and Bible teacher Adrian Rogers. 

If you are not a Christian today consider the message you are about to hear based on Proverbs chapter 29 verse one it says he that being often reproved hardness of his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. 

There are four thoughts to draw from this passage in God’s desire is that you would never know the hopelessness of being broken beyond repair. If you have your Bible turn to Proverbs 29 one now as we hear Adrian Rogers begin broken beyond repair Bibles and turn to the book of Proverbs chapter 29 and verse one we ever had a solemn text text tonight is a solemn and a serious text. He that being often reproved hardness his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. I read this through in a number of different translations. One translation gives it this way that he will be suddenly destroyed and broken beyond repair mess. The title of my message denied broken beyond repair in front of every unsaved man, woman, boy and girl. 

There is a deadline if you cross that deadline, you will be broken beyond repair. There is a time. I know not when there is a place I know not aware which marks the destiny of man to heaven or despair. There is a line BIOS not seen that crosses every pad to stay hidden boundary between God’s mercy and God’s wrath in our verse tells about that line he that may often reproved and hardness his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed. He will be broken beyond repair, he enters into a situation that I would call hopeless in the Bible tells us that it is hopeless to me, hopelessness is the saddest word in English language onto the notice for definite thoughts that come out of this text denied the very first thing is I want you to notice God’s merciful conviction the spiritual conviction that God often gives he that being often reproved just underscore the phrase often you see God and loving, patient deals with the center over and over and over and over and over and over again. 

We are often reproved what patients Godhead. 

What will the Godhead is what mercy God showed that God had spoken only one time, it would have been more than justice demands. But God does drive with us God’s Holy Spirit doesn’t knock on my heart. God does reprove our sins does call over and over and over again. How does God reprove us. How does God convict us. How does God speak to us Nymex in several ways God speaks through the Holy Spirit. Jesus said when he the spirit of truth is, he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness and judgment. 

I don’t know about you but before I came to Jesus before I was saved. I know that I know that times God’s Holy Spirit just came to my heart said Adrian. Your role your center you need to get saved I can remember even as a child by hand of God and can fiction all my heart. As the Holy Spirit of God in his old way and inner precincts of my soul spoke to me. Not only does God speak to us. God speaks through sickness ever been sick, been on a bed of affliction, God spoke to you and you realize that this mortal frame is not going to last forever, you realize that your body is winding down to the grave I found out that many times in the hospital so many times you have a marvelous opportunity to bring people to Jesus Christ because at that time that sickness is the messenger of God to bring people under conviction. Not only does God reprove author’s spirit and not only does he reproved through sickness but through sorrow partakes you went to the funeral of your mother God spoke to your heart with that little baby in your family died, God spoke to your heart when there was an anguish of sorrow, heartbreak, and you said I need somebody to give me comfort. I need somebody to give me strength. 

I need something to make sense out of this and your heart was broken in God was speaking to you and God speaks to sorrow and through sorrow I mean to bring us sometimes to our senses. 

Another way that God speaks, he often speaks to his servants. All he speaks to his servants the prophets through preacher God speaks to you through me. I have no illusions about being anything in my own writer having inner strength of my own, but I’d be a fool if I thought that I preach without the anointing of the power of God, of course, God speaks through me. 

I don’t have to brag to say that I’d have no business standing in the pulpit. If I didn’t think that God speaks through me and I can say with Isaiah the spirit of the Lord God is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me to preach. I try not to preach a sermon until I’ve soaked it in prayer so many times is not a fact of my knowledge every time of not practically every time I bow my head and say, oh my God, please, in the name of Jesus on annoyed me and give me a message for the people. 

But not only does God speak to his servants the preachers God speaks through his servants the singers God will put the finger conviction upon your heart upon your life sometimes is through the separated life of a brother or sister somebody that you will see that you work with theirs that smiled at victory that overcoming and you see the way that person lives in God speaks to you through that life and that life compared to your life. You know there’s something about them that you don’t have been God speaks not only through his servants, God speaks not only through sorrows and got speaks not only through sickness and God speaks not only through the spirit, God speaks through the Scripture through the Bible. Maybe you’ve heard a word from the Scripture, maybe a gospel tract. Maybe you been reading the Bible yourself years ago I read about a man was a deep-sea diver he’d been fighting the Lord, and he went down to the bottom of the ocean and there he found an old encrusted bottle with a cork in it he brought it to the surface, the cork out and somebody had put a verse of Scripture in a bottle and put a cork on it it said for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that deep-sea diver said of God love me enough to follow me to the bottom of the ocean time to give my heart to him. 

But God does speak to his Scriptures. I don’t know how God is spoken to you with is not a mother’s child in this building that God has not spoken to an end, God speaks we are often reproved but I want you to see not only spiritual conviction but I want you to see stubborn rebellion. Notice what happens. He that being often reproved hardness is name that means a person who stiffens his neck. 

He refuses to get right after God has spoken and I’ve seen people harden the neck. I’ve seen people stiffening next. I’ve seen people stubbornly rebel against God when he mentioned some ways the people rebelled against God. 

Sometimes people harden and make my procrastination, which is a form of disobedience they say. Well, I’ll get saved but not now. 

You’re in Proverbs 29 one turn Proverbs 27, one God’s word says and does not myself tomorrow. 

For thou knowest not want a day may bring forth your saying, well, God is speaking to me. 

God is spoken to me through the songs God spoke to me through the Scriptures, God is spoken to me through the sermon, God spoke to me through his servants, God has spoken and one of these days I’m going to get right now I tell you all you doing my dear friend is pardoning your neck does not myself tomorrow but I knows not what a day may bring forth. Dr. Robert G. 

Lee, former pastor of this church said that tomorrow is a period of time, found nowhere, except perhaps in the fools calendar. What he means by that is that tomorrow never comes another former pastor of our church. 

Dr. Ramsey Pollard, my dear personal friend Dr. Pollard used to preach a sermon called one more night with the frogs and in that message Dr. Pollard told about Pharaoh and Pharaoh had rebelled against God and God spoken to Pharaoh who was keeping the children of Israel bondage there in the land of Egypt and God sent a plague upon Pharaoh and the plague was the play of the fall frogs covered the land of Egypt. I mean there were frogs every where you get in bed to be frogs between the sheets. A woman would open the oven. That would be frogs in the oven. A man’s put his hands in his pocket. 

There would be frogs in his pocket little boys going to school would squish frogs between their toes. 

There would be piles of dead frog smelly rotten awful frogs croaking frogs. 

The Dan must’ve been terrible frogs where finally they were up to here with the frogs and listen to what the Bible says in Exodus chapter 8 verses nine and 10 and Moses said to Pharaoh, except the honor of saying when shall I intercede for you for your service and for your people to destroy the frogs from you and your house is that they may remain in the river only in plain English, Pharaoh, you will me to pray and ask God to take away the frogs and when you want me to do it and then in verse 10 Pharaoh said tomorrow. Tomorrow back here the frogs everywhere and Pharaoh has a chance to have the frogs taken away Pharaoh anyone. 

The frogs taken what he said tomorrow. That’s where the title of the sermon comes from one more night with the frogs. I mean, why didn’t he just simply say take away the frogs today is amazing frogs in his food frogs in his bed frogs and is closed and any says one more night with the wrong what is there about a center that makes them want to hold on to sin. 

What is there about the sitters plague because the Sandia’s troubles he has doubts he has burdens he has suffering as sick as he asked sorrows has fears he has disappointments he has. Part eight. And yet when you’re asking if you want to be saved. He says no not tonight tomorrow give me one more night with the frogs he hardens his neck. By the way, let me give you three reasons why you ought not to postpone giving your heart to Jesus Christ number one dear friend if you wait till tomorrow you will lose tonight. We often hear people say get right with God. You may die let his true but get right with God. 

You may live your cedar friend every day that you live without the Lord Jesus Christ is a lost day even if you knew that you could live for 50 more years and then gets a, you realize that would be 50 wasted years, 50 years going down the two of you what deathbed repentance. Billy Sunday said the deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life for the devil and then blowing the smoke in God’s face, so get right with God. You may live, and if you don’t get right with God today, you will lose today. Another reason that you ought to get saved today. Is that something worse might come tomorrow. You see, after the plague of the frogs came the plague of the lice and after the plague of allies came the plague of the flies and after the plague of the flies came to play of the Locust and after the plague of locusts came plague of the boils and after that game fire and then darkness and then death and it got worse and worse and worse. Those of you are under conviction. Why do you put off giving your heart to Jesus Christ. Why tomorrow something worse will come tomorrow it will not be better tomorrow. He will only have more sin to repent of and less time to repent in 1/3 reason you want to be saved. Is this that tomorrow may not come tomorrow may not come. Our text speaks of sudden destruction, he shall suddenly be destroyed that without remedy. 

Joyce and I were in a house and a thunderbolt sounded right, mirrors, it was so loud and so near that everybody matters just jump. I didn’t think anything about it but I went out in our front yard. You pass our house you see the own tree in our front yard has the bark strip from all way up in the tree all the way down to the ground with a bolt of lightning hit that elm tree and just peel the bark off and blew the bark way across the yard mighty bolt of lightning. 

It is something awesome to see. Now they own tree already had that light in it. Emily and I thought maybe trees will die anyways is not all that bad. I want Taylor bark is worse than the light, dear friend. That bolt of lightning hit that tree. I got to thinking that suppose suppose was standing in the front yard and that bolt of lightning at me very possible possible rhyme own front yard. 

Did you know that 4500 people a year in the United States die being hit by lightning. We talk about like a bolt out of the blue. Many times a person is into eternity by a bolt of lightning. You never know you never know. Tomorrow may not come. I remember Dorothy so well. She was a member of our church in Merritt Island, and as I was standing at the front door I shaking hands with people going out. Dorothy, one of the sweetest members in our church. She came by. 

She was a mature lady patted my hand smile that Michelle was a quick learner. She sent us even I pastor for our soul. I was in the morning that day going home from church. 

He went over the overpass over the banana River bridge going over Cocoa Beach and coming over that overpass was another automobile on the wrong side of the road. Dorothy never even really new. I suppose what hit her car just like that she was gone. She left church on Sunday morning, full well expecting to be back Sunday night I’ll see you tonight has to my dear friend on your way home from church. You may meet something like that. You say pastor you trying to frighten me. You got it as right, dear friend, I would to God I could, I’d rather frighten you into heaven and login to him. Listen, the Bible says he that being often reproved and harness his neck, Shallotte suddenly be destroyed. Now she one destroyed because she hardened her neck. I just bring that up as an illustration of how frail that life is tomorrow may never come some hardened her neck, my procrastination out in a way that people hardened her neck not only by procrastination but by pride. Did you know the reason that many people will not come down and I’ll make a public decision for the Lord Jesus Christ be afraid about what other people will think it if they come down and and confess the Lord Jesus as their personal savior leg on the fly. Will these folks around here think will think that I’m an old sinner. If I go down there. That’s right but that’s what you are, and Olson, but so is everybody else. For all of sin and come short of the glory of God and unsaved man sits in an auditorium like this. And the preacher preaches a message like I preach and he looks around he says I’m just as good as the rest of the slope. What he needs to do is to be honest about this and just as bad as the rest of these folks all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and the church is nothing but a society of sinners who finally realized and banded himself together do something about it. The only organization I know that has to be bad before you join� The Hells Angels different� You come say hi center, I am lost. Some of you and unsaved church members. If you were to die tonight to go straight to hail what you been in this church so long thought a Sunday school class you been to be. 

Can you be on this or that and when invitation is given, the devil says don’t you go down there and make a fool of yourself make a spectacle of yourself so you stiffen your knees and you are in your heart and you lift up your head and you walk right now. Do you do because pride is kept you from coming to Jesus Christ. Another way the people hardened heart, not only through procrastination and pride, but through pleasures pleasures. The Bible speaks of these people second Timothy chapter 3 verse four. They are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Certain things I say well if I give my heart to Jesus that I would have to give this up or give that up. So I’m not going to give it up. I so stupid that so foolish goes, the only thing got ask you to give up her things that hurt you make a good healthy holy wholesome gotchas help yourself and my dear friend what you give up is nothing compared what he gave up for you. 

And thirdly what you give up is nothing compared what you get. Who would give up dirt for diamonds. My dear friend� I’m not inviting you to a funeral. I’m inviting you to feast on not inviting you to death. I’m inviting you to life. 

I was on the street one day an old barely came up to me and he said Mr. will I’m so hungry I mean that all said, would you would you give me some money to give me some money. I need some money to eat with. 

I looked at it and smelled his breath and I thought he wanted to get a little liquid nourishment. So I said I know I will give you money. 

But he said I’m so hungry I said fine. 

I succumb only let’s have a meal together we will buy restaurants a couple, but to sedan in the and I’ll buy something eat now sit here and talk with you while you eat and so he, reluctantly came in he was dirty and and filthy and disheveled them and obviously penniless in rags and so I sat down there with him and bought him a meal and we sat down there and talk to Wilde and in the course of the meal. I’ve course which the claims of the Lord Jesus only told about Christ and how Jesus loved him and how Jesus one saving and asking I said no sir. Would you like to give your heart to Jesus Christ. Would you like to be saved, and what he said me said no. I said no, why not you want to sit or sit are so much to give up is what he said. I’m he said it is so much to give up. 

Can you imagine in the devil to deceive my dear friend the Lord thy God is a son of a shield. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk upright like what you see people hardened their heart by the silly excuses and indeed they are silly excuses. Now I’ve talked about spiritual conviction. I’ve talked to you about stubborn rebellion. 

Let me talk to you about sudden destruction. 

Notice what our text says he that being often reproved that spiritual conviction harness his neck. That is, is stubborn rebellion, shall suddenly be destroyed. That is sudden destruction. 

You see there’s an end to God’s patience. 

God does speak God does speak, but finally God’s patience wears out. Let me show you how a man may be destroyed there three ways that he may be destroyed. 

He may be his mind may suddenly be destroyed by strong delusion. There may be the destruction of his mind through strong delusion. 

That’s the reason that many people are in fault cults today. Jehovah’s Witnesses and other cults like this today because when they heard the truth. They refuse the truth and now they believe a lie second Thessalonians. 

The second chapter, verses 11 and 12 says this. For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who received not the love of the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. What is that burst out, it means that when a person hears the true and he doesn’t act upon the truth. God’s judgment is that this man will be to see and there are many people who I said this morning that no man can believe until God opens his eyes, but this judgment is worse than that. Not only does God not open his eyes but God sends him delusion and judgment that he might be damned. 

And so, so many times the mind. The mind is destroyed through strong delusion and a person gets a live firm interest is mine will continue with part two of this message coming up on Monday. I hope you can join us then. In the meantime you may have questions about who Jesus is or what he means to you or how to begin a relationship with God. It’s so important to have those answers and we invite you to go to were discovered. Jesus page@lwf.org/radio you find resources and materials that can answer questions you might have right now. Again, go to LWF.org/radio and click Discover Jesus you like to order a copy of today’s message. 

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Are you rebelling against God without knowing this into Adrian Rogers God as those of women and children to be safe. 

Time and time and time and time again, God is dated May often reproved an apartment is not. Have you done that justify procrastination about dry. Also, the pleasures of this world have you put all your heart to the Lord Jesus. Have you hardened your name you make calls that place where your broken beyond repair beyond repair and then the Bible says that there will be no limit to me. I just beg you to come to Jesus while you can weld the word find inviting people into a relationship with Jesus, master teacher and author Adrian Rogers said I’m not inviting you to a funeral. I’m inviting you to a feast, I’m not inviting you to death, inviting you to live as we learned in part one of today’s message on Friday. God lovingly speaks correction and reproof to us in several ways. Time after time. Yet sometimes, when God convicts us. We still rebel we harden our necks as Scripture says, but what happens when we’ve reached God’s deadline still entrenched in our rebellion. If you have your Bible turn to Proverbs chapter 29 verse one is Adrian Rogers gives this solemn warning in broken beyond repair Bibles and turn to the book of Proverbs chapter 29 and verse one we ever had a solemn text text tonight is a solemn and a serious text. He then may often reproved harness his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. He will be broken beyond repair, he enters into a situation that I would call hopeless in the Bible tells us that it is hopeless to me, hopelessness is the saddest word in English language onto the notice for definite thoughts that come out of this text denied the very first thing is I want you to notice God’s merciful conviction the spiritual conviction that God often gives he that may often reproved just underscore the phrase often you see God and loving, patient deals with the center over and over and over and over and over and over again. We are often reproved what patients God had what God had what mercy God show God had spoken only one time, it would have been more than justice demands. But God does drive with us God’s Holy Spirit doesn’t knock on my heart. God does reprove our sins. 

God does call over and over and over again. I don’t know how God is spoken to you with is not a mother’s child in this building that God has not spoken to an end, God speaks where often reproved but I want you to see not only spiritual conviction but I want you to see stubborn rebellion. Notice what happens. He that may often reproved harness his neck. 

That means a person who stiffens his neck. He refuses to get right after God has spoken and I’ve seen people harden the neck. I’ve seen people stiff in the next I’ve seen people stubbornly rebel against God. Sometimes people harden the neck by procrastination, which is a form of disobedience they say. Well, I’ll get saved but not now. You and Proverbs 29 one parent. 

Proverbs 27, one God’s word says and does not myself tomorrow. For thou knowest not want a day may bring forth some harden the neck by procrastination not taken away the people harden the neck, not only by procrastination but by pride. They do know the reason that many people will not come down and I’ll make a public decision for the Lord Jesus Christ. They’re afraid about what other people will think it if they come down and and confess the Lord Jesus as their personal savior leg on the fly. 

Will these folks around here think will think that I’m an old sinner. If I go down there. That’s right but that’s what you are in Olson but so is everybody else. For all the sin and come short of the glory of God. You stiffen your knees and you harden your heart and you lift up your head and you walk right now. Do you do because pride has kept you from coming to Jesus Christ. 

But another way the people harden our not only through procrastination, pride, but through pleasures pleasures. The Bible speaks of these people second Timothy chapter 3 verse four. They are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God are certain things I say well if I give my heart to Jesus that I would have to give this up or give that up. So I’m not going to give it up. 

I so stupid is so foolish goes, the only thing got asked you to give up her things that hurt you make a good healthy holy wholesome God says help yourself and my dear friend what you give up is nothing compared what he gave up for you. And thirdly what you give up is nothing compared what you get. Who would give up dirt for diamonds. My dear friend, listen, I’m not inviting you to a funeral. I’m inviting you to feast on not inviting it all the data I’m inviting you to life my dear friend the Lord thy God is a sun and she’ll know what thing will he withhold from them that walk up rightly but you see people harden their heart by the silly excuses and indeed they are silly excuses. Now I’ve talked about spiritual conviction. I’ve talked to you about stubborn rebellion. Let me talk to you about sudden destruction. Notice what our text says he that may often reproved that spiritual conviction harness his neck. 

That is, is stubborn rebellion, shall suddenly be destroyed that is set in destruction. 

You see there’s an end to God’s patients. God speak God does speak, but finally God’s patients wears out. Let me show you how a man may be destroyed there three ways that he may be destroyed. He may be his mind may suddenly be destroyed by strong delusion that may be the destruction of his mind through strong delusion. That’s the reason that many people are in false cults today. 

Jehovah’s Witnesses and other cults like this today because when they heard the truth. 

They refuse the truth and now they believe a lie second Thessalonians. 

The second chapter, verses 11 and 12 says this. 

For this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned who received not the love of the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. What is that burst out, it means that when a person hears the true and he doesn’t act upon the truth. God’s judgment is that this man will be to see and there are many people who I said this morning that no man can believe until God opens his eyes, but this judgment is worse than that. Not only does God not open his eyes but God sends him delusion and judgment that he might be damned. 

And so, so many times the mind. The mind is destroyed through strong delusion and a person gets alive firmly entrenched in his mind. But not only may the mind be destroyed. Often there’s the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion. What I mean by that is that the Holy Spirit of God can be insulted and send again until the Holy Spirit no longer speaks to an unsaved man. 

The Holy Spirit just withdraws himself. The Holy Spirit just desserts. 

The center and leaves him alone you say with the Holy Spirit just dessert a person yes he would. 

Let me give you some Scriptures Genesis chapter 6 in verse three and the Lord said, my spirit shall not strive with man forever are shall not always strive with man Romans one verse 24 therefore God also gave them. 

Romans chapter 1 verse 26 for this reason God gave them up to vile passions. 

Romans one verse 28 and even as they did not like to retain God in the knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind. 

God gave them up. God gave them up and God gave them over to a reprobate mind is a verse of Scripture in the Old Testament, the says that Ephraim is joined to his idols. 

Let them alone. Let them alone. 

There may be the destruction of the mind through strong delusion that may be the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion. The Holy Spirit of God, just desserts. 

A person that person is no longer able to come to Christ because he’s no longer convicted. I’m sure you terrifying passage over here in Hebrews chapter 6. Keep one finger where you are in turn with me to Hebrews chapter 6 now theologians of race. The theological motors about the Hebrews chapter 6 and what it says on to what I believe it deals with I believe it deals with the unpardonable sin. 

Hebrews chapter 6 verse four he speaks of an impossibility. 

Look at it in verse four, for it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away to renew them again to repentance, saying they crucify themselves the son of God afresh and put him to an open shame how this verse says there certain people that it is impossible renew to repent. Who are these people, these are people who have been often reproved. Notice it is impossible for those who were once enlightened. The Holy Spirit enlightens you and have tasted of the heavenly gift, the Holy Spirit gives you samples of heaven were made partakers of the Holy Ghost word partaker means have gone along with the Holy Ghost have been dealt with by the Holy Ghost and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come. 

That is, God has worked on them if they shall fall away. 

That is if they harden their neck. There comes a time when it is impossible to renew them to repentance. 

The illustration I can think of. 

If you go into the back of the supermarket. Sometime I went to the supermarket to and it was a lady there. She had little tidbits of sausage on toothpicks and to give you the kind of wet your appetite just a taste, just a muscle and the idea is that they do that to to show you what’s in the showcase to get you carried out, and by I suppose you go back there by the meat market in the giving way little samples of cheese and will say that your cheese found in, and that you really love cheese and is there’s an exotic and imported cheese and you taste that you rolled around, and on your tongue assess just what I want. Give me 3 pounds of cheese and so they wrap it up in you take it out there to the checkout counter and the girl dragged it over that thing in the little things and be and you look at their and you see that it says $26. So what is $26 $26 forward and you buy that cheese that’s imported cheese that’s $26 for 3000 Jesus right. You gotta be kidding not put it back so just leave it there and go out now that’s exactly an and in a way that’s what this verse is talking about here is a person who knows what he’s dealing with. He has tasted the good Word of God. 

He has been made to partake of the Holy Ghost. 

He knows what is happening. But when it comes to paying the price. He says put it back. I don’t want it is not that he doesn’t know he does know he has been enlightened God has dealt with him. 

He has been often reproved but he says no Bible says you be suddenly destroyed. 

There may be the destruction of his mind through strong delusion. There may be the destruction of the spirit through spiritual desertion are there may be the destruction of the body through sudden-death through sudden-death many times the body dies suddenly because a person says no to the Lord. 

It it may be a physical destruction. I read that in God’s dealing with a Amorites in the Old Testament the Amorites were wicked people, but God spoke to them and spoke to them and spoke to them they did not repent in Genesis chapter 15 and verse 16 God said that the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. That is, there’s a time when iniquity is full. That is, there’s a time when people cannot go any further. 

I’m afraid that America is coming close to that place. And God said of the Amorites, the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. 

But if you continue through the Bible become to Deuteronomy chapter 7 in verse 17 then God says something else about the Amorites. This time God says thou shalt utterly destroy them. You see at first the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full God’s patience dealt with them, and God spoke and God worn and God spoken God more. With it came a time when their iniquity was full and God said, utterly destroy them. I’m wondering if the cup of God’s indignation is filled to the brim with you today you say well I’m not a very wicked person, friend, let me tell you something. The worst sin is not right is not incest you know what the worst sin is. You know what the the most vile sin in this world is. It is on belief that you may not believe that what Jesus Christ said to Capernaum, one of the most cultured and beautiful cities in his time I visited the ruins of Capernaum many times there in the north shores of Galilee. Jesus said flat city. 

It would be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the judgment than for the city of Capernaum, and he explained why he said because so many wonderful works were done here and yet you did not repent. You say he said if these other cities had heard what you heard, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes and I’m telling you my dear friend, you might be sitting here saying for God’s cup may not be full to the brim with me because at least on my living of wicked life are you hardening your heart against getting saved you taking the knowledge of the truth that you heard I’m telling you their souls in darkness, who would leap for joy to hear what some people heard in this building tonight. They tell us when Ralph buffet was here. He told about being down in Kenya and handing out tracts and people almost tear them out of his hands. 

Warning the truth all over the world that we sit in an air-conditioned upholstered church and have a preacher tear his heart out in Vegas to come to Jesus at we think will maybe one of these days we might just do God a favor and give our hearts to him. 

I’m telling you my dear friend the cup of iniquity is getting fuller and fuller and fuller QC hated being often reproved and harness his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy the mind may be destroyed by strong delusion, the spirit may be destroyed by spiritual desertion and the body may be destroyed by sudden death is one other thing in our solemn text that I want you to see is what I want to call not only sudden destruction but settled. Destiny look again. He that being often reproved that spiritual conviction hardness his neck that stubborn rebellion shall suddenly be destroyed. That sudden destruction. 

Now watch this and that with out remedy that my friend is a settled condition and what the Bible makes clear, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that once you have crossed the deadline once you have come to this point, and judgment begins. There is no turning back. 

I said that I I read this text in a number of different translation. 

Let me give you a way different translations give this ours that we just read is without remedy. Another says never have another chance. Another says beyond healing. Another says broken beyond repair. Another says he shall suddenly be done for. Remember the story that Jesus told about the rich man who died and he went to hell and when he got to hell. Then he began to talk about mercy and begging for mercy and send up and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, and what was God’s answer given to this man. It was this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us who would come from things. What is it me, it means different than when you’re in hell you never get out. 

There is no remedy. You are broken beyond repair. I know that a lot of people believe in reincarnation, or diamonds, and I just me putting the milk back in the can. A lot of people to believe you can be recycled, as all of the devil. 

The Bible says you be suddenly destroyed and you be broken beyond repair. Hebrews 927 says, as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment. It doesn’t say wants to dine after this a second chance. 

There is no way out. Once you inhale, let me give you, Jesus description of hell. Matthew chapter 25 in verse 46 and they shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous to life eternal. 

My friend of hell is not everlasting. Neither is heaven for the same Bible uses the same words to describe the same condition. Hell and heaven are both described as ever lasting the duration of heaven and the duration of hell. 

The saying at death. 

When a man is destroy whether a he is destroyed by the unpardonable sin or whether he is destroyed by sudden death. Whenever that happens is destiny is settled for ever and eternally decided maybe a verse from the Old Testament. 

Ecclesiastes 11 three. If the clouds are full of rain. They empty themselves upon the earth. If a tree falls to the south of the north, in the place where the tree falls, so shall it lie and then God makes that application to the way that a man dies, someone wrote these words as the tree falls so must it lie as a man lives so must he die as a man dies, so he will be all through the years of eternity he’s broken beyond repair bill. What hell is spoken of in the Bible. Among the many figures of speech and descriptions of hell. 

Hell is also called a bottomless pit friend nobody can climb out of a bottomless pit because is no way to climb Hill is a place where you to send ever lower and lower and lower and lower as is a solemn text tonight. God has spoken to some hearts tonight and God is still some women man children that you need to be saying listen to the text again. 

Listen to the word of God. 

He that being often reproved. Hasn’t God been good to you time and time and time and time again God is reproved heatedly often reproved and hard with his neck. 

Have you done that just by procrastination or by pride through the pleasures of this world have you put all your heart to the Lord Jesus Christ. Have you hardening your name. Then God says you’re going to be suddenly destroy I mean tonight may be the last call that God liberty, or you may not die physically. 

Just something inside of you made. 

You may cross the deadline. You make cross that place where you are broken beyond repair beyond repair and then the Bible says that there will be no limit to be to I just beg you to come to Jesus while you can. Father I pray that many in this building will say yes to Jesus whole spirit of the living God brought them to the Savior. 

Tonight’s name. I put a man if you want to say and everlasting yes to Jesus Christ right now. 

Would you pray something like this from your heart of God in heaven. 

I know that I’m a sinner and I don’t want to harden my neck stiffen my neck anymore. I don’t want to rebel against you. I want to receive the free gift that your offering me in Jesus. I believe he died in my place on the cross and he rose again to new life so that I might have my sin taken from me and you would replace it with Jesus righteousness. I don’t trust in my good works. 

I trust in what Jesus has done for me. Come into my life, save me Jesus make me a new creation in you. I trust you now as Savior and Lord. Your name I pray, amen. If you prayed a prayer like that from your heart. We would love to celebrate you and offer you an insightful resource go to the website and click the Discover Jesus page link to find answers there that you may need about your faith as well as a response section. You can share what this message is meant to you. You can tell us about your testimony go to LWF.org/radio and click Discover Jesus at the top of the page LWF.org/radio. We can’t wait to hear from you today maybe today you’re saying I cannot have that message all I want to hear it again or I want someone else to hear it. 

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Proverbs 26New Living Translation

26 Honor is no more associated with fools
    than snow with summer or rain with harvest.

² Like a fluttering sparrow or a darting swallow,
    an undeserved curse will not land on its intended victim.

³ Guide a horse with a whip, a donkey with a bridle,
    and a fool with a rod to his back!

⁴ Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools,
    or you will become as foolish as they are.

⁵ Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools,
    or they will become wise in their own estimation.

⁶ Trusting a fool to convey a message
    is like cutting off one’s feet or drinking poison!

⁷ A proverb in the mouth of a fool
    is as useless as a paralyzed leg.

⁸ Honoring a fool
    is as foolish as tying a stone to a slingshot.

⁹ A proverb in the mouth of a fool
    is like a thorny branch brandished by a drunk.

¹⁰ An employer who hires a fool or a bystander
    is like an archer who shoots at random.

¹¹ As a dog returns to its vomit,
    so a fool repeats his foolishness.

¹² There is more hope for fools
    than for people who think they are wise.

¹³ The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion on the road!
    Yes, I’m sure there’s a lion out there!”

¹⁴ As a door swings back and forth on its hinges,
    so the lazy person turns over in bed.

¹⁵ Lazy people take food in their hand
    but don’t even lift it to their mouth.

¹⁶ Lazy people consider themselves smarter
    than seven wise counselors.

¹⁷ Interfering in someone else’s argument
    is as foolish as yanking a dog’s ears.

¹⁸ Just as damaging
    as a madman shooting a deadly weapon
¹⁹ is someone who lies to a friend
    and then says, “I was only joking.”

²⁰ Fire goes out without wood,
    and quarrels disappear when gossip stops.

²¹ A quarrelsome person starts fights
    as easily as hot embers light charcoal or fire lights wood.

²² Rumors are dainty morsels
    that sink deep into one’s heart.

²³ Smooth^[a] words may hide a wicked heart,
    just as a pretty glaze covers a clay pot.

²⁴ People may cover their hatred with pleasant words,
    but they’re deceiving you.
²⁵ They pretend to be kind, but don’t believe them.
    Their hearts are full of many evils.^[b]
26 While their hatred may be concealed by trickery,
    their wrongdoing will be exposed in public.

²⁷ If you set a trap for others,
    you will get caught in it yourself.
If you roll a boulder down on others,
    it will crush you instead.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates its victims,
    and flattering words cause ruin.

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1) INTRODUCTION
a) Teenagersaremoreaffectedbyfriendsthanalmostanythingelse,including
sometimes parents and pastors combined.
b) Thedeepestneedofallofus,whetheryoungorold,isforenduring
friendships.
i) The deepest longing of the human heart is for a friend who loves us.
(1) Someone we can share with and commune with.
(2) Someone who truly understands our deepest needs, highest
aspirations and our worst fears.
c) Atruefriendisagreattreasure,butthewrongkindoffriendisthegreatest
danger that a teenager can possibly have.
d) Proverbs17:17
e) Today’smessagewillexplaintwodifferentcategoriesoffriends,three
different categories of teenagers, and will give practical advice to parents as they help their children choose friends wisely.
2) TWOCATEGORIESOFFRIENDS
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a) b)
c)
d)
e) f)
Wehavecasualfriendsthatweministerto.
i) We all have casual friends.
ii) Theseareacquaintancesthatincludeunsavedfriends. Weneedtomakeacquaintanceswiththeunsaved.
i) The Lord Jesus did.
(1) Luke 7:34
(a) Jesus was crucified for being a friend to sinners.
Therearecertaincasualfriendsthatwearetohave.
i) As Christians, we are to be the salt of the Earth.
ii) Wearetobeseparate,butseparationisnotisolation.
(1) We’re to be separated from the sin but not the sinner.
iii) We are to have these casual friends so that we can bring them to Christ. 1Corinthians9:20-23
i) The Apostle Paul is saying in this passage that he knew how to
accommodate unsaved people without making them angry and without compromising his convictions.
(1) This does not mean that those casual friends are to become intimate
friends.
(2) This does not mean that we are to have fellowship with them so that
they are to become our companions. 2Corinthians6:14,17-18
i) The word for “fellowship” in this passage means “intimacy.”
ii) Wearenottohavefellowshipandcommunionwithunsavedpeople. With casual friends, we are making friends for Jesus.
i) Accommodation without compromise
ii) Weinvitethemtochurch.
iii) We show love and friendship.

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iv) But we have no communion, fellowship or intimacy with casual friends. g) Therearecasualfriendswhomwewitnessto,andthenthereareintimate
friends that we fellowship with.
i) Parents should know who their children’s intimate friends are.
(1) Children will be made or broken by their companions. h) Proverbs13:20
i) This passage is not referring to casual acquaintances but is talking about companionship and fellowship.
ii) Ifwehaveungodlypeopleforourcompanions,thenwewillbedestroyed. i) 2 Samuel 13:1-29, 2 Samuel 18:9
i) This is one of the saddest stories in the Bible.
ii) Thiswholetragic,sordidmessbeganbecauseAmnonhadafriend.
(1) Amnon’s friend made a devilish suggestion. j) We will be like our friends.
i) It is not uncommon for teenagers to begin drug habits or drinking because of a friend.
ii) Kidsgethookedonpornographybecausetheywereatsomeone’shouse watching R-rated or X-rated movies.
k) Parentscanevaluatethespiritualconditionoftheirchildrenbytheirfriends.
i) Kids who don’t want to serve God will find other kids just like them.
ii) Godlykidswillalsofindoneanother.
iii) You can learn the spiritual state of your children by watching their
friends.
(1) Listen to their conversation.
(2) See how they are dressed.
(3) Pay attention to the music they listen to.
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b)
i) This passage contains the three categories of young people. ii) Everyteenagerisinoneofthesecategories. Thefirstcategoryisthesimple.
i) If your child is simple, it does not mean that he isn’t intelligent or smart.
ii) Theword“simple”means“open.”
iii) Proverbs 1:22
(1) The simple one loves simplicity.
(a) This means that he loves the easy way.
(b) He wants to go through life without any restraint or discipline.
iv) The simple also lacks understanding.
(1) Proverbs 9:1-4
v) A simple person is easily led into sin and error.
(1) Proverbs 14:15
(2) If the simple does not believe God’s Word, then he will believe
anything.

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(a) He will believe Madison Avenue. (b) He will believe false cults.
(c) He will believe sinful friends.
(d) The simple is living in danger.
vi) By nature, all teenagers are simple.
vii) Proverbs 22:3
viii) Simple teenagers think that they are indestructible.
ix) Being simple doesn’t mean that they don’t have character, but they just
don’t understand until they get wisdom from God.
c) Everyteenagerstartsoutassimple,buthecanbecomeascorner.
i) Proverbs 1:22
(1) The simple one loves simplicity, but the scorner delights in scorning.
(a) The scorner has a warped character.
(b) He’s an evil person.
ii) Youcan’ttellhimanything.
(1) You can instruct the simple, but you can’t instruct the scorner.
(2) Proverbs 13:1
iii) He refuses instructions, and he despises godly people.
iv) Proverbs 15:12
(1) Rebuke a scorner, and he will insult you to your face.
v) Proverbs 9:7-8
vi) Proverbs 13:1
vii) Proverbs 13:13
(1) This is referring to everlasting destruction.
viii) A synonym for “scorner” is “smart-aleck.”
d) Thethirdcategoryisthefool.
i) Proverbs 1:22
(1) Fools hate knowledge.
ii) Proverbs1:7
iii) A fool will ridicule righteousness.
(1) Proverbs 14:9
(2) He will laugh at ungodliness, such as immorality, homosexuality,
drunkenness, etc.
iv) He rejoices in sin.
(1) Proverbs 15:21
(2) His moral sense has been perverted.
(a) He doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong.
(b) Isaiah 5:20
v) Proverbs 26:11
vi) Proverbs 17:10
vii) His heart is hard, his conscience is seared, and his mind is defiled. (1) Punishment will not change him.
(2) His moral sensibilities have been destroyed.
viii) Don’t let your children hang around scorners or fools.
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4) WHATCANPARENTSDOTOHELPTHEIRCHILDREN?
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a)
Helpthemunderstandthedangersthatareinvolved. i) They do not understand the dangers.
ii) Proverbs19:25
(1) Young people do not see the consequences of sin because we have so dumbed down those consequences.
(2) Young people need to understand that there are consequences to sin. iii) Parents should take their children to the rescue mission so that they can
see the other side of addictions.
(1) The advertising that kids see for alcoholic beverages will never show
this other side.
iv) Your children need to understand that sin has repercussions. Carefullyguardtheircompany.
i) Proverbs 13:20
ii) Proverbs22:10
iii) Don’t allow your kids to hang around a scorner or fool.
iv) Parents should meet any boy who wants to date their daughter. Teachthemtheimportanceoftheirchoices.
i) Life is the sum total of our choices.
ii) Everychoicechangesus.
iii) We are free to choose, but we’re not free to choose the consequences of
our choice.
(1) After we choose, then our choice chooses for us. Helpyourchildrenselecttheirfriends.
i) One of the best things you can do is to make your home the most fun
place in town.
ii) Haveyourchildrenandtheirfriendsinyourhomesothatyoucanwatch
them and see what they’re like. Refusetohonorfools.
i) Proverbs 26:1
(1) Don’t get your entertainment from a fool.
ii) Don’tletyourchildrengotoconcertsorotherentertainmentvenues
where they will be entertained by those who have set themselves against
God and against wisdom.
There are additional things that parents need to do:
i) Have a positive attitude.
(1) Don’t talk down to your kids. (a) Words can hurt children.
(2) Don’t use words that belittle or put them down.
(3) Use words that build them up.
ii) Learntolistentothem.
iii) Try to see life from their point of view.
(1) Kids today are facing things that their parents never had to face.
b)
c)
d)
e)
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iv) Be gentle with them.
(1) Psalm 18:35
(2) Fathers whose children adore them are strong and wise, but gentle.
(a) They are not harsh, and they don’t yell. v) Learn to touch and hug your teenager.
(1) Learn to show non-verbal expression.
(2) Be gentle with your kids. vi) Be transparent.
(1) Let them know your faults.
(a) They already know that you’re not perfect.
(2) Your kids don’t necessarily want you to be perfect; they just don’t want you to be a phony.
vii) Be available to your kids.
(1) A lack of a close relationship with a father is one of the biggest factors
to encouraging promiscuity in young girls, even more so than poverty. (a) Promiscuity is much less likely when there is a close relationship to
the father.
5) CONCLUSION
a) Itisokaytohavecasualfriendships.
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b) c)
d)
e) f)
g) h)
i) Invite them to church.
ii) Befriendly.
iii) Go out to eat together after the church service.
iv) But your teenagers should not make these kids their companions.
(1) Proverbs 13:20
Atruefriendissomeonewhoisfaithful.
i) Proverbs 17:17 Atruefriendissomeonewhoencouragesyouandmakesyoubetter.
i) They will sharpen you.
ii) Proverbs27:17 Oneofthemarksastowhetherornotyourfriendisatrue,godlyfriendis are you a better person for having been with that friend, or is he or she a better person for having been with you?
i) A true friend will challenge you.
ii) Proverbs27:6
Chooseyourfriendscarefully.
One of the greatest joys of your life or one of the greatest disappointments will be your friends. Thereisonefriendwhostickscloserthanabrother,andHisnameisJesus. i) Proverbs 18:24
ii) He’stheonewhowillguideyoutotherightfriendships. DoyouknowJesuspersonally?Ifnot,youcanpraytoHimtodaybyasking Him to come into your life.

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Call upon Jesus today. Repent (turn) from your sins, and turn to Jesus. Ask Him to forgive you of your sins, and acknowledge Him as Lord of your life.
i) Romans 3:23
ii) Romans10:9-10
iii) Romans 10:13
iv) Acts 16:31
v) John 3:16

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