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This text provides guidance on how to educate and nurture young individuals in the ways of God, emphasizing the importance of teaching and embodying His Word. It includes verses, examples, and encouragement for parents and mentors to lead by example and discipline with love. The text also highlights the essential beliefs and steps for a young person's spiritual growth: belief, repentance, confession, and baptism.
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How Shall the Young Secure Their Hearts?
How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Your word. Psalm 119:9
Educate “And when your children say to you, 'What does this rite mean to you?’” Exodus 12:26
Educate “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:6-9
Educate “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals on your forehead. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.” Deuteronomy 6:6-9
Educate “Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’” Joshua 4:6
Example “…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15
Example “Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ.” 1 Corinthians 11:1
“He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.” Proverbs 13:24 Encourage
“It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? …All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Hebrews 12:7,11 Encourage
“Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Ephesians 6:4 Encourage
“For I am mindful of the sincere faith within you, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am sure that it is in you as well.” 2 Timothy 1:5 Embody
“Likewise urge the young men to be sensible; in all things show yourself to be an example of good deeds, with purity in doctrine, dignified, sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.” Titus 2:6-8 Embody
“But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.” Romans 13:14 Embody
“…that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.” Ephesians 4:23-24 Embody
Educate Example Encourage Embody
Believe: Mark 16:16 Repent: Acts 2:38 Confess: Romans 10:10 Baptism: 1 Peter 3:21