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When an elder passes away, it’s like a library burning down

When an elder passes away, it’s like a library burning down Moral : don’t let wise older people slip away w/o taking advantage of their lessons for life 2 Kings 2. I. Parents Are Essential In Training Children. Dt.6:4-9. Treasure , 4-5. Relationships

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When an elder passes away, it’s like a library burning down

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  1. When an elder passes away, it’s like a library burning down • Moral: don’t let wise older people slip away w/o taking advantage of their lessons for life • 2 Kings 2

  2. I. Parents Are Essential In Training Children

  3. Dt.6:4-9 • Treasure, 4-5. Relationships • Trust, 6-7a. Excuses get in the way • Time, 7b. • Commitment, 8. • Concentration, 8-9. (Proverbs 1, 6…) • Consistency, 20-25

  4. Good point! Eccl.12:9-11 • 9, taught…knowledge. 1 K.4:32 • 10, acceptable words (come from God, lead to God) • 11, goads…nails Pointed sayings spur the will and stick in the memory Truth drives these sayings into the mindas a hammer drives a nail into a board

  5. GIGO: Mt.13:52 Instructed in Kingdom of Heaven • Like a householder who uses his knowledge of food to feed the family • Strengthen, enlighten, admonish, encourage, etc. • Things lately learned, and things laid up for a long time Brings out(as occasion demands) New and Old

  6. It can be done, Ep.6:4 • Abraham, Gn.18:19. Gn.22:6-7; Mt.8:11 • Joshua, Josh.24:15 • Lord’s contemporaries, Mt.21:15 • Eunice and Lois, 2 Tim.1:5; 3:14-15 Learned Assured Child

  7. Implications (2 Tim.3): • Essentials are simple (a child can understand) 15. 1 Sm.2:18 • OT can be “known,” 15. Ga.3:24-25 • Leads to salvation, 15 • 2 Chr.34:2-3 • Ec.12:1

  8. I. Parents Are Essential In Training Children II. The Goal: Children Train Themselves

  9. In formative years, children need guidance • Pro.1:8; 7:1; 1 Co. 14:20; Ep.4:14; 6:1 • Gradually, children take on responsi-bilities that once belonged to parents Dress Feed Move

  10. Transfer of power Discipline, Hb.12 Instruction, 2 Pt.3:18 Faith, Gn.39

  11. Serious parents, Spiritual children: Dan. 1 • Quick,4 • Energetic,5. Three years • Confident, 8. Conviction can cost • Manners, 8. Requested, not demanded • Faith, 12-13. Their own, not parents’ • Companions, 17-20. Ps.119:63

  12. I. Parents Are Essential In Training Children II. The Goal: Children Train Themselves III. Why EmphasizeBible Study?

  13. Common knowledge in other pursuits History Spiritual? Eternal? God? Soul? Church? Heaven? Hell? Principal Architect Pilot

  14. Study is even more important in spiritual goals • First step in achieving self-training • W/o it, you will be at someone else’s mercy. Ac.17:11 • How To Read A Book

  15. Young men: aspire to become… Deacons 1 Tim.3:8-9 Ministers 2 Tim.2:24 Teachers 2 Tim.2:2, 25 Elders Tit.1:9-11 Preachers Jn.5; Ac.18:24-26 Christians Ac.17:11

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