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It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his
youth Lamentations 327
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Biblical Guidance Through the
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Challenges of Childhood
Limited Choices
No One Understands You
Time Takes So Long to Pass
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Age Fraction of Time





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
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Challenges of Childhood
Limited Choices
No One Understands You
Time Takes So Long to Pass
Everything Seems So Hard
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Child New King James Version 1842 Times!
In various forms of the word
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Biblical Guidance to Children
Seek Wisdom Proverbs 41-11
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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 fathers 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
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Biblical Guidance to Children
Seek Wisdom Proverbs 41-11
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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
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Biblical Guidance to Children
Seek Wisdom Proverbs 41-11
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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.
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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
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Give me a child for the first seven years and
you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Jesuit Motto
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Give us the child for eight years, and it will
be a Bolshevist forever. Nickolai Lenin Speech
to the Commissars of Education in 1923
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My law (vs. 2).
Christian Parents, Training and admonition of
the Lord (Ephesians 64).

• My Law Gods Law.
• While Tender and the only one in the sight of
  my mother (vs. 3).
• He taught me (vs. 4).

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Get wisdom! (vs. 5).

• Not the word of human wisdom (1 Corinthians
  24).
• Not wisdom that is Earthly and sensual
  (James 315,16).

• Wisdom that is from above (James 317,18).
• The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
  wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is
  understanding (Prov. 910).
• To man He said, Behold, the fear of the Lord,
  that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is
  understanding. (Job 2828).

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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 112).
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Biblical Guidance to Children
Remember Your Creator Ecclesiastes 121
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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
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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 814).
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• What is Involved in Remembering Our Creator?
• Recognize that we are a creation

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For You formed my inward parts You covered me
in my mothers womb. I will praise You, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made Marvelous are
Your works, And that my soul knows very well
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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
13913-16
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• What is Involved in Remembering Our Creator?
• Recognize that we are a creation
• Give God His proper place in our lives

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Biblical Guidance to Children
Obey His Commandments Proverbs 620-23
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My son, keep your fathers 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.
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Bind His Commands (vs.21)
Deuteronomy 68 1118

• When we roam and when we
  sleep (vs. 22a).
• His word will speak with you (vs. 22b).
• Gods commandment is a lamp and light...
• Which leads in the way of life (vs. 23).

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Childhood shews the man, as morning shews the
day Milton Paradise Regained Bk. iv, l.220,221
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Biblical Guidance to Children
Honor Father and Mother Ephesians 61-3
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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.
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We ought to obey God rather than men. Acts 529
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You shall rise before the gray headed and honor
the presence of an old man, and fear your God I
am the LORD. Leviticus 192
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Obedience to Parents in the Bible

• Law of Moses, a rebellious and disobedient son
  was stoned (Deuteronomy 2118-21).
• One who cursed father or mother put to death
  (Leviticus 209).

• Jesus cites this (Matthew 154).
• Paul, cites disobedient to parents among
  mankinds sins (Romans 130).

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Biblical Guidance to Children
Keep Yourself Pure Ecclesiates 119,10
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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.
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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).

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A child of whom her playmates said It was
easier to be good when she was with
us! Tombstone Epitaph
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Unless you are converted and become as little
children, you will by no means enter the
kingdom of heaven. Matthew 183 Of
such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 1914
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Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought
the child of Action Benjamin Disraeli Vivian
Grey, Bk. v, ch. 1
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