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How Can I Raise Godly Children?. You Asked For It 2006 Sermon Series - Part 8 Proverbs 22:6 Anthony Grove Baptist Church Rev. Dennis E. Bean September 10, 2006. Proverbs 22:6 . 6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (NIV).
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How Can I Raise Godly Children? You Asked For It 2006 Sermon Series - Part 8 Proverbs 22:6 Anthony Grove Baptist Church Rev. Dennis E. Bean September 10, 2006
Proverbs 22:6 • 6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (NIV)
The Epidemic We Face: • Teen Sex: 60% virgins @ 17 – 40% who had – 70% involuntarily. • Pregnancy: 1,000,000 teens become pregnant each year – 2,800 per day. • Rape: 1of 2 victims under 18, 1 of 6 under 12. 32,130 males sexually assaulted • Homicide: 2nd leading cause of death • Suicide: 3nd leading cause of death • Alcohol: Teens spent 5.5 billion on alcohol
How Can We Prevent Our Kids From Straying? • 1. Live ___ Instead of ___________ It Talking It
Webster’s Definition of Train: • 1. To direct the growth (example a plant) by bending, pruning and tying. 2. To form by instruction, discipline or drill. 3. To make prepared for a test or skill (as by exercise). 4. To aim at an object or objective
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 • 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. (cont.)
7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. (NIV)
Contagious 2. Live a ________________ Life. • 1 Peter 3:1-4 Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, 2 when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4 Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. (NIV)
Consistent 3. Live A ________________ Life. • Philippians 1:27 Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel (NIV)
Cautious 4. Live A ________________ Life. • 1 Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (NIV)
Informed 5. Live An _______________ Life. • Proverbs 22:6 Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. (NIV)