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June 15, 2008

Life Question: What can help me have a strong and fulfilling family life?

Jimmy Read Proverbs 23:22-25 Stay True!

22 Listen (understand) to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise (disrespect) your mother when she is old.

23 Buy (attain, get, possess) the truth and do not sell (surrender) it; get wisdom, discipline (discipline, correction, chasten) and understanding (perfect knowledge).

24 The father of a righteous (just) man has great joy (will be glad); he who has a wise (in the heart) son delights (be glad, be merry) in him.

25 May your father and mother be glad (joyful, merry); may she who gave you birth rejoice (be glad)!

Question: What two instructions do we find in verse 22?

1. Listen to your father

2. Do not disrespect your mother

Question: What are we to possess in verse 23?

1. Truth

2. Wisdom

3. Discipline

4. Understanding

Question: When a father and mother has a righteous and wise son what is the result in verse 24 and 25?

Answer: A joyful father and mother.

Question: Do you think it makes your father in Heaven joyful when he sees you possess these same traits?

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Question: Have you enjoyed your children in the same manner?

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Read Proverbs 23:26-28 Stay Pure!

26 My son, give me your heart and let your eyes keep to my ways,

27 for a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

28 Like a bandit she lies in wait, and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

Question: Who is “my” in verse 26?

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Question: “My” what in verse 26?

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Question: How would explain “my ways” in verse 26?

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Read Proverbs 22:6

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Question: If the word “way” in Proverbs 22:6 is same word we find in Proverbs 23:26, is it significant? Why?

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Question: Who did Jesus say He was in John 14:6?

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Question: Why do you think Solomon threw in verses 27 and 28?

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Question: What does the sin of adultery do to the witness of a Christian?

Question: What does the sin of adultery do to the marriage covenant?

Question: What does the sin of adultery do to the children in a marriage?

Question: Can the sin of adultery have a lifetime consequence?

Question: Do you know someone who is an adulterer/adulteress?

Read Proverbs 23:29-35 Stay Clear!

29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

30 Those who linger over wine, who go to sample bowls of mixed wine.

31 Do not gaze at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly!

32 In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.

33 Your eyes will see strange sights and your mind imagine confusing things.

34 You will be like one sleeping on the high seas, lying on top of the rigging.

35 "They hit me," you will say, "but I'm not hurt! They beat me, but I don't feel it! When will I wake up so I can find another drink?" (NIV)

Question: What does the sin of alcoholism or drug abuse do to the witness of a Christian?

Question: What does the sin of alcoholism or drug abuse do to the marriage covenant?

Question: What does the sin of alcoholism or drug abuse do to the children in a marriage?

Question: Can the sin of alcoholism or drug abuse have a lifetime consequence.

Question: Do you know someone who is an alcoholic or drug abuser?

Read Proverbs 24:1-2

1 Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company;

2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about making trouble.

Question: Is the sin of corrupt association as bad as the sin of adultery or alcoholism?

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Question: What does the sin of corrupt association do to the witness of a Christian?

Question: What does the sin of corrupt association do to the marriage covenant?

Question: What does the sin of corrupt association corrupt association do to the children in a marriage?

Question: Can the sin of corrupt association have a lifetime consequence?

Question: Do you know someone who is keeping corrupt association?

Read 1 Corinthian 15:33-34

33 Do not be misled “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God – I say this to your shame.

Quote by Simon J. Kistemaker:

“Instead of being followers, the Corinthians should be leaders in the Church of Jesus Christ. They must know that ignorance of God and His Word is a shame to anyone who bears the name Christian.”

Question: What are you going to do about the one you know who is an adulterer/adulteress?

Question: What are you going to do about the one who is an alcoholic or drug abuser?

Question: What are you going to do about the one who keeps corrupt company?

Read Proverbs 24:3-4 The Solution!

3 By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established;

4 through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures. (NIV)

Truth: Ask God for an Understanding Heart, He will give you Wisdom and Riches!