– 102 year old woman discussing her longevity
Young people are constantly pressured to...
♦ Listen to the music everyone else listens to
♦ Talk and swear like everyone else
♦ Dress like everyone else
♦ Smoke tobacco or worse
♦ Drink alcohol
♦ Have sex
♦ Even deny and speak against God
Jn.12:42,43– “42 Nevertheless even of the rulers
many believed on him; but because of the
Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they should
be put out of the synagogue: 43 for they loved
the glory that is of men more than the glory
that is of God.”
1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”
1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”
1 Pet.4:3,4– “3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries: 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:”
Exo.23:2– “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to
turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:”
Prov.4:14– “Enter not into the path of the
wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.”
Avoid:
The Fool – Prov.14:7; 13:20
The Angry Man – Prov.22:24,25
The Drunkard/Gluttons/Slothful – Prov.23:19-21
Those who teach sinful ways – Prov.4:14,15
The Adulterer – Prov.5:8
1 Cor.5:6– “Your glorying is not good. Know ye not
that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
1 Cor.15:33– “Be not deceived: Evil
companionships corrupt good morals.”
CEV – “Don’t fool yourselves. Bad
friends will destroy you.”
Prov.13:20– “Walk with wise men, and thou
shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall
smart for it.”
ABC News Nightline, March 12, 1982, “Drugs and the Entertainment Business”
Q: “Why get so absorbed
by something (drugs) that
you know is going to tear
you apart?”
John Phillips, formerly of
singing group “the Mamas
and Papas”
A: “You sort of try to
emulate people around
you and if you’re around
people who are doing a lot
of drugs, you sort of start
doing them, you know.”
1 Cor.15:33– “Be not deceived: Evil
companionships corrupt good morals.”
CEV – “Don’t fool yourselves. Bad
friends will destroy you.”
Prov.13:20– “Walk with wise men, and thou
shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall
smart for it.”
Rom.12:2– “And be not fashioned according to this
world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind,Rom.8:29–
and ye may“For
provewhom
what ishe
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good and
acceptable and perfect will of God.”
he also foreordained to be conformed
Eph.4:22-24–
“22 thatofyehisput
away,
concerning
to the image
Son,
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might
your former
of among
life, the old
man, that waxeth
be themanner
firstborn
many
corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that ye be
brethren:”
renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the
new man, that after God hath been created in
righteousness and holiness of truth.”
Matt.5:16– “Even so let your light shine before
men; that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
1 Pet.2:9– “But ye are a elect race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's
own possession, that ye may show forth the
excellencies of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light:”