Back to School

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Back to School

• Young People Reminders
• From Gods Word
• Psalm 1199-11

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School Supplies

• Consider the most needed school supplies
• Take God (Prov. 153 Eccl. 119-121)
• Virtue (Prov. 423 2 Pet. 15)
• Godly priorities (Eccl. 1213-14 Mt. 633)
• Honesty (Rom. 1217 Heb. 1318)
• Hard Work
• Do your best (Eccl. 910 Col. 323)
• Be dependable (Lk. 1610)

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School Supplies

• Respect for Authority
• Respect for others
• Respect at home (Eph. 62)
• Respect at school (Rom. 137 1 Pet. 217)
• Respect for God (Heb. 1228-29)
• Respect displayed
• Respectful words
• Respectful conduct

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Making Friends

• We must choose friends wisely (Prov. 1824)
• We must make friends with
• A wise man (Prov. 1320 279,17)
• A righteous man (Psa. 153 Prov. 220 1717
  276)
• We must not make friends with
• An angry man (Prov. 2224 2922)
• An evil man (2 Sam. 133 Prov. 110,11,15
  Jas.44)
• We must have a friend in God and Jesus (Prov.
  2514 Jn. 1514 Jas. 223)

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Your Example

• Be an example in (1 Timothy 412)
• Word (2 K. 52-4)
• Conduct (Neh. 312 Esther 25-7,20 2 K. 22)
• Love (Ruth 115-18)
• Spirit (Gen. 2415-27 Lk. 249)
• Faith (Dan. 18 31ff 61ff)
• Purity (Gen. 397-12)

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School Clothing

• Does it matter? (1 Pet. 211-12)
• Do your clothes pass the influence test? (Mt.
  516 1 Cor. 1032)
• Do your clothes pass the modesty test?
  (Prov. 710 1 Tim. 29-11 1 Pet. 31-6)
• What message are you sending?
• Look at me!
• I am like the world! (Rom. 121-2)

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Drugs, Alcohol, Tobacco

• We are not to be enslaved to that which harms us
  (1 Cor. 612)
• God wants us to keep our bodies clean and pure
  for his service (1 Cor. 619-20)
• Our minds are to remain sober (1 Pet. 113)
• Even small amounts of alcohol are condemned
  (Prov. 2331 Luke 1245 Eph. 518 1 Pet.
  43)

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Things to Avoid

• Corrupting influence (1 Cor. 1533)
• Fornication (Gal. 519 Heb. 134)
• Bad language (Eph. 429 54)
• Gambling (Prov. 1527 Col. 35)
• Evolution, humanism, situation ethics,
  homosexuality, sex education, etc. (Col. 28)
• Lying, deceit (Eph. 425 Col. 39)
• Anger, violence (Prov. 330-31 1 Tim. 33)

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Things to Avoid

• Peer pressure
• Everyone is (drinking, having premarital sex,
  cheating, going to the prom, etc.)
• Faithful Christians are not doing it! Say no!
  (James 47-8)