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CHILDHOOD

“It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth” Lamentations 3:27. CHILDHOOD. Biblical Guidance Through the. CHILDHOOD. Challenges of Childhood. Limited Choices. No One Understands You. Time Takes So Long to Pass. 1 Day 1 Week 1 Year Sleep 2/3 30 Years 80 Years. 1/24

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CHILDHOOD

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  1. “It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth” Lamentations 3:27 CHILDHOOD

  2. Biblical Guidance Through the CHILDHOOD

  3. Challenges of Childhood Limited Choices No One Understands You Time Takes So Long to Pass

  4. 1 Day 1 Week 1 Year Sleep 2/3 30 Years 80 Years 1/24 1/168 1/8760 1/2920 1/262,800 1/700,800 One Hour

  5. Challenges of Childhood Limited Choices No One Understands You Time Takes So Long to Pass Everything Seems So Hard

  6. “Child*” New King James Version 1842 Times! * In various forms of the word

  7. Biblical Guidance to Children Seek Wisdom – Proverbs 4:1-11 1 “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding; For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law. When I was my father’s son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, He also taught me, and said to me: ‘Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live…’”

  8. Biblical Guidance to Children Seek Wisdom – Proverbs 4:1-11 1 “‘…Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; Love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; She will bring you honor, when you embrace her…’”

  9. Biblical Guidance to Children Seek Wisdom – Proverbs 4:1-11 1 “‘…She will place on your head an ornament of grace; A crown of glory she will deliver to you.” Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And the years of your life will be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.’”

  10. “Elisha, son of Abuya, said, ‘If one learns as a child, what is it like? Like ink written on clean paper. If one learns as an old man, what is it like? Like ink written on blotted paper.’” Jewish Mishnah Perke Aboth, 4.25 CHILDHOOD

  11. “Give me a child for the first seven years and you may do what you like with him afterwards.” Jesuit Motto CHILDHOOD

  12. “Give us the child for eight years, and it will be a Bolshevist forever.” Nickolai Lenin Speech to the Commissars of Education in 1923 CHILDHOOD

  13. “My law” (vs. 2). Christian Parents, “Training and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). • “My Law” = God’s Law. • While “Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother” (vs. 3). • “He taught me” (vs. 4).

  14. “Get wisdom!” (vs. 5). • Not the “word of human wisdom” (1 Corinthians 2:4). • Not wisdom that is “Earthly” and “sensual” (James 3:15,16). • “Wisdom that is from above” (James 3:17,18). • “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding” (Prov. 9:10). • “…To man He said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.’” (Job 28:28).

  15. “Wisdom is the principal thing” (vs. 7). • Wisdom will “preserve” and “keep” you (vs. 6). • Wisdom will “promote” and “bring you honor” (vs. 8). • Wisdom will give you an “ornament of grace” and “a crown of glory” (vs. 9). To the Christian, “A crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him” (James 1:12).

  16. Biblical Guidance to Children Remember Your Creator – Ecclesiastes 12:1 2 “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them’”

  17. “Remember Your Creator” (vs. 1a). • “In the days of your youth” (1b). • Before “the difficult days come” (1c). Parable of the Sower the thorns, “choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life ” and bring no “fruit to maturity” (Luke 8:14).

  18. What is Involved in Remembering Our Creator? Recognize that we are a creation

  19. “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well…” CHILDHOOD

  20. “…My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed. And in Your book they all were written, The days fashioned for me, When as yet there were none of them.” Psalm 139:13-16 CHILDHOOD

  21. What is Involved in Remembering Our Creator? Recognize that we are a creation Give God His proper place in our lives

  22. Biblical Guidance to Children Obey His Commandments – Proverbs 6:20-23 3 “My son, keep your father’s command, And do not forsake the law of your mother. Bind them continually upon your heart; Tie them around your neck. When you roam, they will lead you; When you sleep, they will keep you; And when you awake, they will speak with you. For the commandment is a lamp, And the law a light; Reproofs of instruction are the way of life.”

  23. “Bind” His Commands (vs.21) Deuteronomy 6:8; 11:18 • When we “roam” and when we “sleep” (vs. 22a). • His word “will speak with you” (vs. 22b). • God’s commandment is a “lamp” and “light”... • Which leads in the “way of life” (vs. 23).

  24. “Childhood shews the man, as morning shews the day” Milton Paradise Regained Bk. iv, l.220,221 CHILDHOOD

  25. Biblical Guidance to Children Honor Father and Mother – Ephesians 6:1-3 4 “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother,’ which is the first commandment with promise: ‘that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.’”

  26. “…We ought to obey God rather than men.” Acts 5:29 CHILDHOOD

  27. “You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:2 CHILDHOOD

  28. Obedience to Parents in the Bible • Law of Moses, a rebellious and disobedient son was stoned (Deuteronomy 21:18-21). • One who cursed father or mother put to death (Leviticus 20:9). • Jesus cites this (Matthew 15:4). • Paul, cites “disobedient to parents” among mankind’s sins (Romans 1:30).

  29. Biblical Guidance to Children Keep Yourself Pure – Ecclesiates 11:9,10 5 “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity.”

  30. “Childhood and Youth” • Are “vanity” (vs. 10c). Heb. “breath” or “vapor” (Gesenius). • Let our heart “cheer” us but remember we will face judgment (vs. 9). • “Remove sorrow from your heart” (vs. 10a). • “Put away evil from your flesh” (vs. 10b).

  31. “A child of whom her playmates said: ‘It was easier to be good when she was with us!’” Tombstone Epitaph CHILDHOOD

  32. “…Unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:3 “…Of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14 CHILDHOOD

  33. “Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought the child of Action” Benjamin Disraeli Vivian Grey, Bk. v, ch. 1 CHILDHOOD

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