2 Tim' 3:1417

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Young People "Wise Unto Salvation"

• 2 Tim. 314-17

By Ron Halbrook
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation

• Introduction
• 1. 2 Tim. 314-17 Focus on 3 most important
  things we can ever know

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14 But continue thou in the things which thou
hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of
whom thou hast learned them 15 And that from a
child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which
are able to make thee wise unto salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All
scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in
righteousness 17 That the man of God may be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation

• Introduction
• 1. 2 Tim. 314-17 focus on 3 most important
  things we can ever know
• Existence of God
• Inspiration of the Bible
• Salvation in Jesus Christ alone

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation

• Introduction
• 2. Study these basic truths related truths
  which make us wise unto salvation
• Receive salvation from sin now
• Receive eternal salvation in heaven

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• A. Foundation of a Good Life
• Prov. 17

The fear of the LORD is the beginning
of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and
instruction.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• B. Made Us in His Image,
  Cares for Our Soul
• Ps. 81-5

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Psalm 81-5 1 O LORD our Lord,
how excellent is thy
name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory
above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes
and sucklings hast thou ordained strength
because of thine enemies,

that thou mightest still the enemy
and the avenger.
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Psalm 81-5 3 When I consider thy heavens,
the work of thy
fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained 4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and
the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 For
thou hast made him a little lower
than the angels,
and hast crowned him with
glory and honour.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• B. Made Us in His Image,
  Cares for Our Soul
• Ps. 1424-5

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Psalm 1424-5 4 I looked on my right hand, and
beheld, but there was no man that would know
me refuge failed me no man cared for my soul.
5 I cried unto thee, O LORD
I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion
in the land of the living.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• C. Sent Christ to Save Us,
  Wants None Lost
• Jn. 316

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Jn. 316 16 For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should
not perish,
but have everlasting life.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• C. Sent Christ to Save Us,
  Wants None Lost
• 2 Pet. 39

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2 Pet. 39 The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness
but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that
all should come to repentance.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
I. Recognize God as God

• D. Created to Serve Glorify God
• Rom. 121

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Rom. 121 Because that, when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God,
neither were thankful
but became vain in their
imaginations, and their foolish heart was
darkened.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
II. Accept the Bible As Our Perfect Guide

• A. Infallible Guide Given by God
• 2 Tim. 315-17

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2 Tim. 315-17 15 And that from a child thou
hast known the holy scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and is
profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction,
for instruction in
righteousness 17 That the man of God may be
perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
II. Accept the Bible As Our Perfect Guide

• B. Cleanse from Sin, Lift Us Up
• Ps. 197-14

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Psalm 197-14 7 The law of the LORD is perfect,
converting the
soul the
testimony of the LORD is sure,
making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the
LORD are right, rejoicing the heart

the commandment of the LORD is pure,
enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is
clean, enduring
for ever
the judgments of the
LORD are true and righteous
altogether.
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Psalm 197-14 10 More to be desired are they
than gold, yea, than much fine gold
sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb. 11 Moreover by them is
thy servant warned and in keeping of them there
is great reward.
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Psalm 197-14 12 Who can understand his errors?
cleanse thou me from secret
faults. 13 Keep back thy servant also
from presumptuous sins
let
them not have dominion over me
then shall I be upright, and
I shall be innocent from the
great transgression. 14 Let the words of my
mouth, and
the meditation of my heart,
be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD,
my strength, and
my redeemer.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
II. Accept the Bible As Our Perfect Guide

• B. Cleanse from Sin, Lift Us Up
• Ps. 1199-11

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Psalm 1199-11 9 Wherewithal shall a young
man cleanse his way? by taking
heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my
whole heart have I sought thee O let me not
wander
from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in
mine heart, that I might not sin
against thee.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
III. Confess Christ As Gods Son Our Savior

• A. Bible Filled with Evidence
• 2 Tim. 315

And that from a child thou hast known
the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee
wise unto salvation
through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
III. Confess Christ As Gods Son Our Savior

• A. Bible Filled with Evidence
• Jn. 2030-31

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Jn. 2030-31 30 And many other signs truly did
Jesus in the presence of his
disciples, which are
not written in this book 31 But these are
written,
that ye might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God and that believing ye might have
life through his name.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
III. Confess Christ As Gods Son Our Savior

• B. Perfect Sacrifice for Our Sins
• Rom. 323-26

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
III. Confess Christ As Gods Son Our Savior

• C. Confess Him at All Costs
• Matt. 1028-37

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Rom. 323-26 23 For all have sinned,
and come short
of the glory of God 24 Being justified freely
by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus 25 Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith
in his blood, to declare his righteousness for
the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God 26 To declare, I
say, at this time his
righteousness that he might be just, and
the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
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Matt. 1028-31 28 And fear not them which kill
the body, but are not able to
kill the soul
but rather fear him which is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell. 29 Are not two
sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them
shall not fall on the ground without your
Father. 30 But the very hairs of your head
are all numbered. 31
Fear ye not therefore,
ye are of more value than
many sparrows.
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Matt. 1032-33 32 Whosoever therefore shall
confess me before men,
him will I confess
also before
my Father which is in heaven. 33 But whosoever
shall deny me before men,

him will I also deny
before my Father which is in
heaven.
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Matt. 1034-37 34 Think not that I am come to
send peace on earth

I came not to send peace, but a
sword. 35 For I am come to set a man at variance
against his father,
and
the daughter against her mother,
and
the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they
of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than me
is not worthy of me and he that loveth son
or daughter more than me is not
worthy of me.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• A. Foundation for Life to Please God
• Eph. 61-3

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Eph. 61-3 1 Children, obey your parents in the
Lord for this is right. 2 Honour thy father and
mother (which is the first
commandment with promise)
3 That it may be well with thee,
and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• B. Disobey Parents, Wrath of God
• Prov. 3017

The eye that mocketh at his father,
and despiseth to obey his mother,
the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out, and the young
eagles shall eat it.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• B. Disobey Parents, Wrath of God
• Rom. 130

Backbiters, haters of God,
despiteful, proud, boasters,
inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• B. Disobey Parents, Wrath of God
• 2 Tim. 31-3

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2 Tim. 31-3 1 This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall
be lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• C. Accept Chastening,
  Learn Submission
• Heb. 129-11

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Heb. 129-11 9 Furthermore we have had fathers
of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them
reverence shall we not much rather be in
subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us
after their own pleasure but he for our profit,
that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be
joyous, but grievous nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness
unto them which are exercised
thereby.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• C. Accept Chastening,
  Learn Submission
• Prov. 155

A fool despiseth his father's instruction but
he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
IV. Honor Obey Parents

• D. Mothers, Grandmothers Teach
• 2 Tim. 314

But continue thou in the things which
thou hast learned and hast
been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast
learned them
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
V. Choose Friends Carefully

• A. Direction of Life
• Ps. 11-2

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Psalm 11-2 1 Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor
sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2 But his
delight is in the law of the LORD and in his law
doth he meditate day and night.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
V. Choose Friends Carefully

• B. Become Like Companions
• Ps. 11963

I am a companion of all them that fear thee,
and of them that keep thy precepts.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
V. Choose Friends Carefully

• B. Become Like Companions
• Prov. 1320

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise
but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
V. Choose Friends Carefully

• B. Become Like Companions
• 1 Cor. 1533

Be not deceived
evil communications corrupt good
manners.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
V. Choose Friends Carefully

• C. Careful in Dating Choosing Mate
• Closest Companion for Life!
• Recognize God as God?
• Accept Bible as perfect guide?
• Confess Christ?
• Honor obey parents?

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VI. Seek Counsel of
Mature Christians

• A. Experience Maturity
  Source of Wisdom
• Prov. 246

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war
and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VI. Seek Counsel of
Mature Christians

• A. Experience Maturity
  Source of Wisdom
• Prov. 41-4

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Prov. 41-4 1 Hear, ye children, the
instruction of a father, and attend to know
understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine,
forsake ye
not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender
and only beloved in
the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and
said unto me, Let thine heart
retain my words
keep my commandments, and live.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VI. Seek Counsel of
Mature Christians

• B. Folly Advice of Young Over Old
• 1 Kg. 126-11, 19

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1 Kg. 126-11 6 And king Rehoboam consulted
with the old men,
that stood before Solomon his father while
he yet lived, and said,
How do ye advise that I may answer this
people? 7 And they spake unto him, saying,
If thou wilt be a
servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve
them, and answer them, and
speak good words to them,
then they will be thy servants for ever. 8
But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which
they had given him, and consulted
with the young men that were grown up with him,
and which stood before him
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9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye
that we may answer this people,
who have spoken to me, saying, Make
the yoke which thy father did put upon us
lighter? 10 And the young men that were grown up
with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt
thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee,
saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make
thou it lighter unto us thus shalt thou say unto
them, My little finger shall be thicker than my
father's loins. 11 And now whereas my father did
lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your
yoke my father hath chastised you with whips,
but I will chastise you with scorpions.
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1 Kg. 1219 19 So Israel rebelled
against the house of David
unto this day.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VI. Seek Counsel of
Mature Christians

• C. When Face Problems, Decisions
• 1 Tim. 34-5

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1 Tim. 34-5 4 One that ruleth well his own
house, having his children in subjection
with all gravity 5 (For if a man know not how
to rule his own house,
how shall he take care
of the church
of God?)
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VI. Seek Counsel of
Mature Christians

• D. Young, Weak, Worldly Not Mature Poor Advice,
  Disaster

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• A. Accept OR Reject Gods Plan
• 2 Thess. 17-9

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2 Thess. 17-9 7 And to you who are troubled
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that
know not God,
and that obey not the gospel
of our Lord Jesus
Christ 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the Lord, and
from the glory of his power
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• B. First Steps
  Faith, Repent, Confess, Baptized
• Mk. 1616

He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved but he that believeth not shall be damned.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• B. First Steps
  Faith, Repent, Confess, Baptized
• Acts 238

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Acts 238 38 Then Peter said unto them,
Repent, and be baptized
every one of you
in the name of Jesus
Christ for
the remission of sins,
and ye shall receive the gift
of the Holy Ghost.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• B. First Steps
  Faith, Repent, Confess, Baptized
• Acts 837-38

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Acts 837-38 37 And Philip said,
If
thou believest with all thine heart,
thou mayest.
And he answered and
said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the
Son of God. 38 And he commanded the chariot
to stand still
and
they went down both into the water, both Philip
and the eunuch and
he baptized him.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• C. Continue, Learn, Grow
• 2 Tim. 314

But continue thou in the things which
thou hast learned and hast been
assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned
them
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• C. Continue, Learn, Grow
• 1 Pet. 21-3

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1 Pet. 21-3 1 Wherefore laying aside all
malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies,
and envies, and all evil speakings, 2
As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the word, that
ye may grow thereby 3 If so be ye have tasted
that the Lord is
gracious.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation
VII. Learn Obey Gods Plan of
Salvation

• C. Continue, Learn, Grow
• Rev. 210

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Rev. 210 10 Fear none of those things
which thou shalt suffer
behold, the devil shall cast some of
you into prison, that ye may be tried
and ye shall have tribulation ten days
be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown of life.
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Young People Wise Unto Salvation

• Invitation
• 1. 2 Tim. 314-17 focus on 3 most important
  things we can ever know
• Existence of God
• Inspiration of the Bible
• Salvation in Jesus Christ alone

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Young People Wise Unto Salvation

• Invitation
• 2. Study these basic truths related truths
  which make us wise unto salvation
• Receive salvation from sin now
• Receive eternal salvation in heaven