Topic: Avoid Bad Company

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Topic Avoid Bad Company

• Only one person should talk at a time.
• No side conversations when somebody is speaking.
• Appreciate the other persons view.
• Give freely of your experience.
• Say what you think courteously.
• Confine your discussion to the topic.
• Thanks
• Combining Topic Do not walk in the way with them
• Study Text Proverb 110-19 Proverb 326 GEN
  397-10 Proverbs 18, 9 Colossians 320
  Proverbs 120 Proverbs 222 Proverbs 327 35
  Proverbs 81 912 Proverbs 35

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Do not walk in the way with them

• When I was ordained as a deacon on Jan 30, 2005
  every sent then God has blessed me in many
  deference ways, both mentally and physically and
  have blessed me and my wife in our finances. God
  was dealing with me long before I was ordained as
  a deacon, but I thank God on that day for all the
  praying hands of men and women and ministers on
  that day. I can still remember and feel the
  praying hands of the ministers on my shoulder and
  some laid hands on my head I can still remember
  and feel that moment, on that day it was a new
  beginnings for me, we all need to have a new
  beginning every now and then especially in the
  Word of God.
• When you become a deacon God has given you some
  great responsibilities and He holds high regards
  for all His Officers in the church. But in order
  for any minister or deacon to avoid bad company
  and not walk in the way with them you are going
  to need the wisdom of God.

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Biblical Importance

• Key word in Proverbs is wisdom Rather you are a
  minister who preach the Word of God, Deacon one
  who is involved in teaching the Word of God or
  what ever your talent maybe, you need the wisdom
  of God. If we walk in the way with them we will
  in no doubt miss the mark that God has set before
  us
• Acknowledge His Glories in the name of Jesus
• Avoid bad company and not walk in the way with
  them is a must for all of Gods ministers
• The Wisdom of God will teach you how to obey
• In the church we have our youth, young adults and
  small childrens that one day will become
  ministers, some will be deacons, some will be
  choir directors and so forth, and this is why it
  is so important that deacon and ministers set the
  example of Christ like mind.

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Biblical Importance

• Obeying your parents is a responsibility, but
  does not limit the responsibility only to the
  circumstances
• There is a kind of influence that is ungodly, and
  there is a kind of influence that is godly and
  uprightness.

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Do not walk in the way with them

• The kind of influence that we are going to
  discuss in this lesson is the kind that can
  affect people as a majority group, or person
  that can have a godly affect or an ungodly
  affect, positive affect or negative affect.
• Influence is the capacity or power of persons or
  things to be a compelling force on or produce
  effects on the actions, or behavior, or opinions.

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Avoid Bad Company Proverbs 110 - 19

• Avoiding bad company and not walking in the way
  with them does not limit the responsibility only
  to certain people.
• Avoiding bad company and not walking in the way
  with them can pertain to Ministers, Deacons,
  trustees, choir members, the kitchen committee,
  parents, adults, youths, children, and self.
• In todays lesson we are going to dwell on the
  Word of God Mainly in the book of Proverbs
  Mainly in the book of Proverbs Mainly in the
  book of Proverbs?
• The book of Proverbs is better known as the
  Wisdom book the key word in Proverbs is wisdom,
  which means the ability to live life skillfully
  but if we walk in the way with them, ungodly
  influence will in no doubt causes one to miss
  the mark that God has set before them.

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Avoid Bad Company 1-2

• You will in no doubt miss out on some blessings
  that God has prepared for you.
• You will in no doubt miss out on obtaining some
  Godly knowledge but rather contain ungodly
  knowledge. Because of this ungodly influence you
  will find your self walking in the way with them
  and serving the world instead of your one and
  only true God.
• So before we really get started you need to get
  your Praise on buy telling the Lord
• I love You Lord I Praise You Lord for your
  wisdom I acknowledge Your Glories in the name of
  Jesus I Praise You for Your Excellencies I
  Praise You for Your work in Your creation I
  Praise You for Your work in redemption Thank You
  Lord in the name of Jesus. Amen

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• Now that youve got your praise on we can move
  on.
• Avoid bad company and not walk in the way with
  them You see a godly life in an ungodly world,
  however, is no simple assignment because the
  world in which we live is where Satans thrown
  is but there is someone who is mightier than all
  who can help you win over these negative forces,
  one who has the power to concur ungodly
  influences.
• We have much to be tempted with, especially our
  youths. Even adults, Gods Ministers and Deacons
  can find themselves sometimes caught up in all
  sorts of things trying to live life without the
  Wisdom of God.
• The world as we know it today is everyone for
  them self, and people are being led down the
  wrong path, but the bible speaks about this very
  same statement.
• But the question is, if we as deacons and
  ministers is to have a Christ like mind, how can
  one avoid bad company and not walk in the way
  with them?

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Avoid Bad Company 1-4

• Well here are some answers to this question
  Proverbs provides Gods detailed instructions for
  His people and how to deal successfully with the
  practical affairs of everyday life in how to
  relate to God, the parents, the children,
  neighbors, and even the government.
• In the Word of God, we can seek Wisdom in how to
  avoid bad company and not walk in the way with
  them.
• You can seek Wisdom in how to obey your parents.
  Both godly affect and godly influence
• In Proverbs one can seek this godly Wisdom if he
  or she chooses to do so or has the desire to do
  so.

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Avoid Bad Company 1-5

• Desire means a longing or craving, or something
  that brings satisfaction or enjoyment, something
  desired.
• Desire can also mean many deference things
  depending on what youre talking about and what
  it is that you desire.
• When you seek this same longing or have this
  craving for the Word of God, He can and will
  bring satisfaction and enjoyment in your life, if
  one has the desire to seek Him this must be done
  in faith and in in truth and it is called the
  Godly Affect.
• Some, while they are sitting in church listens to
  their Pastor preach the word of God they have a
  temporarily desire to seek Him at the time or for
  the moment, but as soon as church is over what
  happens to that godly affect or desire?
• If we have the desire to seek Him, we can then
  learn how to be kind to one another. Godly
  Influence
• One can seek and learn how to praise God for His
  Glories and Wisdom. This kind of desire has a
  thirst or appetite and aspiration and hunger for
  the Word of God and to know Him. Godly Affect

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• The world can learn how to love their Nabors if
  they have a Godly desire to do so, but because
  the world know not Gods ways, the world can not
  obtain His instruction and will not receive the
  words of understanding. Ungodly Affect
• You see walking in the way with them and keeping
  bad company this kind of influence will some how
  get you caught up in all kinds of wrong doing.
• Bad company or ungodly influence will causes you
  to kill, still, cheat, lie, be disrespectful,
  hate one another, children will disobey their
  parents it will even cause you to break your
  convenient with the Lord and disown your Lord and
  savor.
• Bad company will in no doubt cause deacons and
  ministers to mist the mark that God has set
  before them. In GEN 397-10 Joseph did not miss
  the mark that God had set before him, because he
  did not consent to sin, he withheld uprightness.
  Bad company is what it is Bad Company

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• Bad company will causes you to miss the mark
  that God has set before you, bad influence will
  cause you to miss your blessing.
• Bad influence will causes you to walk in the way
  with them.
• I listened to my Pastor one Sunday morning, and
  he touched on this in his sermon that morning
  and it had to do with if one stays around the
  hog pin long enough, the smell will get on you.
  Im sure he was talking about bad company. And if
  one stands close enough to the hog he will even
  sling some mud on you, Im sure he was talk about
  bad company.
• In the book of GEN 397-10 Joseph finds himself
  in the present of bad company one day, and even
  though he did not consent to sin bad company got
  him put in prison. Bad company is what it is Bad
  Company
• Youth, obey your parents and be carful of the
  company you keep, and do not walk in the way with
  them.

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• Proverbs 326
• Have confidence in your faith in the Lord. Yield
  to uprightness like Joseph in Genesis, and do not
  walk in the way with them, and do not be afraid
  of trouble from bad company the Lord has said in
  326 For the Lord will be your confidence And
  will keep your foot from being caught. And
  surely not all will pass this test.

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Obey Parents Proverbs 18, 9

• My son, hear the instruction of your father, And
  do not forsake the law of your mother for they
  will be graceful ornaments on your head, And
  chains about your neck.
• In both the Old and New Testaments agree that
  children have only one responsibility in the
  family to obey their parents. But you see bad
  company will cause you to disobey your parents,
  if you walk in the way with them.
• Youth, take notice of this Twice in the
  scripture god has intervened and directly stated
  what He would have children do.

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Obey Parents 1-2

• The last time was nearly two thousand years ago
  when He gave a revelation to Paul for the church.
• The first time was nearly thirty-four hundred
  years ago when He gave a revelation to Moses and
  Israel in which He commanded, Honor your father
  and mother.
• Obeying your parents is a responsibility, but
  does not limit the responsibility only to the
  circumstances, Colossians 320 clearly points
  out that children are to obey their parents in
  all things, not just in those things pertaining
  to Christian living.

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Seek Wisdom Proverbs 120 Proverbs 222

• Wisdom calls aloud outside She raises her voice
  in the open squares.
• The Lord has said, I will make my words known to
  you, but the question is do you seek Him? Do you
  seek his Wisdom or your own? Do you seek His ways
  or your own?
• Wisdom calls out aloud The Word of God calls out
  aloud, but do your hearts listen for Him, or do
  your heart refuses to hear His call?
• If one has the desire to seek God, His Wisdom,
  and to learn His ways, He has said He will make
  His Word know to you.
• Some people only seek God when things have gone
  wrong in their lives. As long as things are ok,
  they continue to live from day to day without
  giving thanks, without prayer, they dont
  acknowledge him in any way, but as soon as
  something happen that causes much distress and
  pain in their life, then they begin to call up on
  Him.

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Seek Wisdom 1-2

• One should learn to thank Him for the good times
  and the bad time. One who Love their Lord and
  knows Him will do this.
• One who truly knows Him will have no problem
  returning the gratitude of thanksgiving.
• One who truly knows Him will have a desire to
  seek Him on daily bases and not only when trouble
  arises in ones life.
• Those who walk in the way with them are just like
  those whose ways are crooked.
• Those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk
  in the ways of darkness are like those who
  rejoice in doing evil.
• Those who leave the path of uprightness will miss
  the mark that God has set before them. 
• Seek Gods ways and Godly Wisdom, call on Him in
  truth and He will hear, and deliver you from the
  ways of evil.

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Seek Wisdom 1-3

• In the book of Proverbs 122 says that fools
  hate knowledge. Ungodly Aaffect
• Under stand this When the Lord have called and
  you refused, when the Lord have stretched out His
  hand and you would have no regarded, you may one
  day find yourself diligently seeking Him and will
  not fine Him.
• Do not walk in the way with them and avoid bad
  company.

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Be Kind to Others Proverbs 327 35 Can be
godly influence

• Theses verses 27-35 teaches one how to be kind
  to one another.
• Theses verses teaches one how to not withhold
  good from those to whom it is due, when it is in
  the power of your hand to do so.
• You see in theses verse it do not say to your
  neighbor, Go, and come back, and tomorrow I will
  give it.
• In this verse it teaches you how not to devise
  evil against your neighbor.
• Avoid bad company and do not walk in the way with
  them, simply because the curse of the Lord is on
  the house of the wicked. Be kind to one another.
• Let your hearts retain the Words of God God
  blesses those who are kind to others and are kind
  to his Nabors.

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Praise of Wisdom Proverbs 81 912 Godly
affect

• Wisdom is personified wisdom in Proverbs is
  often seen as a foreshadowing of Christ, who is
  Himself wisdom from God.
• Men and women cannot attain to ethical wisdom by
  themselves. We cannot attain to ethical wisdom by
  our selves. We must first acknowledge the Lord in
  all our ways, and then He will direct your paths.
• Ethical wisdom Ethical means Being in
  accordance with the rules or standards for right
  conduct or practice pertaining to right and wrong
  in conduct.
• In the spiritual realm we are talking about
  spiritual wisdom that one receives from God
  Himself, godly wisdom. One cannot receive this
  godly wisdom by themselves. Jesus not only has
  this wisdom, He is the wisdom of God. The bible
  also teaches us that He is the Word of God. One
  cannot receive Ethical Wisdom by themselves.

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Praise of Wisdom 1-2

• We must give praise to Wisdom. We must give
  praise to our Lord and Savor Jesus Christ for He
  Himself is wisdom from God.
• To praise God is to acknowledge the glories of
  His excellent person. This is somewhat differs
  from thanksgiving, which describes what God has
  done rather than what He is. 
• The bible has given us facts about acknowledging
  His glories the bible has given us facts about
  how and why, and when we should praise Him.

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Heres the fact

• God alone is worthy of our praise It is His will
  for us that we praise Him This praise should be
  continuous We are to praise God for His
  Holiness All nature praises God The sun, moon,
  and stars praise Him The angels praise Him We
  are told that on occasion God uses even the wrath
  of men to praise Him.
• It is part of our spiritual life and daily walk
  with Him is to praise Him. And to do this one
  must avoid bad company and the forces of bad
  influence and not walk in the way with them.
• And in closing, Proverbs 35 Trust in the Lord
  with all your heart, And lean not on your own
  understanding

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• Topic Avoid Bad Company
• Combining Topic Do not walk in the way with them
• Study Text Proverb 110-19 GEN 397-10
  Proverbs 18, 9 Colossians 320 Proverbs 120
  Proverbs 222 Proverbs 327 35 Proverbs 81
  912 Proverbs 35