Grow Up
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· 17 viewsPutting away childish behavior and moving on Maturiy
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Introduction:
Introduction:
1. College Story about: Big Will & Perry
-Perry I don’t think ever graduated. I have good friends who started college but never finished and are paying student loans for a degree they don’t have.
-Graduates my intent today is to give you the most important principle as you leave college and endeavor into the adult world.
GROW UP
-My college experience
-In the Adult world consequences are real. Every decision good or bad is an investment into your future.
-I just want to take a look at a one passage that will help to ground our ceremony today
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
-Corinthians was written by the Apostle Paul. It was a letter he wrote to bunch of grown people who were still acting like children.
(v.11) Paul takes us back to his childhood and gives us a snapshot of his mindset while he was a boy. In this Chapter Paul’s concern is that believers would grow into maturity and stop behaving like children. Let’s take a look back at
1 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
(v.1) Paul tells the believers the reason he could not take them deeper was because of their thinking. Notice what he says “I could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to Infants in Christ” Paul is writing to a church full of grown infants.
(v.1) “could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh” Paul point in this text is that children & infants have a tendency to do what’s best for them in the moment. Children have a problem weighing the long-term consequences of their current decision. Paul talking to yall is like talking to little children without an attention span.
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
(v.1)
(v.11) “when I was a child” Paul then list three places that he grew up
(v.11) “when I was a child, I used to speak like a child”
A. Watch your Tongue
A. Watch your Tongue
How do children speak?
Irrationally-Children usually do not think before they speak
7 The mouths of fools are their ruin; they trap themselves with their lips.
28 Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is considered wise; When he closes his lips, he is considered prudent.
ii. Lie-Children usually lie when they think they are in trouble or when the want something and try to hide it.
ii. Lie-Children usually lie when they think they are in trouble or when they want something and try to hide it
Lie-Children usually lie when they think they are in trouble or when the want something and try to hide it.
ii. Lie-Children usually lie when they think they are in trouble or when the want something and try to hide it.
22 Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, But those who deal faithfully are His delight.
proverbs 12:22
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iii. Selfish-Children with the mouths are usually very selfish it is always about them. Children have a problem seeing that they are not the only one on the earth
Application
Think before you speak. Be quick listen and slow to speaking
Have intergrity be known as a person who speaks the truth in all situation
Slow down an observe that you are not the only one in the world, and that ultimately “it is not about you”
B. Guard your thinking
B. Guard your thinking
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
(v.11) “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child” That word think means to have childlike interest. Paul says when I was a child I thought about childish things. My mind was consumed with childish. Children have a tendency to have little knowledge but to think they not it all.
7 And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,
(v.7) That word “naive” means moron-open door. The bible describe the mind of a youth as an open door. Children don’t know how to closed their mind of to certain things. The Mature mind is able to hear many things and “eat the meat but spit out the bones
Immature thinking is the mindset that says I have every thing figured out and don’t need any help. Generally speaking this immature thinker will keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result. Then they have the nerve to go back to the person they didn’t listen to and ask for help.
Just looking at this room I see a lot of parents in support of their children. Small piece of advice:
I know you have friends that you can seek advice from but often that is a case of the blind leading the blind. When you leave for college, trade school keep your Parents in the loop. Come to your parents for wisdom they have live a long time that can save you a lot of heartache.
Sidenote: A lot of the reason some of boy s drop out of college and never recovered had nothing to do with school, it was the issues outside of school that caught them up. It is wise and mature to seek advice from your Parents. You will remember the only commandment with a promise
12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
exodus
Parents small piece of advice: Your child has become a young-man or young-woman let them breathe it is time for you let go of the reigns and let the Lord do what he does best.
Moving off Campus with friends
C. Watch your steps
C. Watch your steps
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
(v.11) “When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child”
a. Reason-Calculate-weight out
Paul says as a child a reasoned like a child.
What did he mean by this?
-Why do children touch hot stoves?
-Why do children stick stuff into plugs?
-Why do small children have to watched by a pool?
They do these things because small children don’t look at the long-term consequences of current decision.
Immature folks look only at what’s in front of their face. They do not think that their current decision will affect them in the future.
-Immature folks will go out the night before a big final, immature folks will look on the internet for papers on their topic and turn them in, immature folks will engage in sexual immorality, Immature folks will go and start drinking in college(believing that when college is over they will get serious and stop drinking only to realize that all the behaviors they started in college follow you)
What was Paul’s remedy?
11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
(v.11) “when I became a man, I did away with childish things” Paul says It dawn on me oneday in my personal journey that I am not longer a child and that it is time for me to Grow Up:
(v.11) Look at what Paul’s says “I did away with childish things” Paul is speaking strongly about how he grew up. Like Garbage being thrown away. Paul took all of his childish ways and put them into a garbage dump
a. Paul says:
The first thing I did is learn to control my tongue: before I open my mouth I spent some time thinking about what I am going to say. I no longer used my tongue for lies and deception or excuses.
Paul says the second things I did is: I put away childish thinking. I stop believing everything I hear from others, and I also learn to listen to those who had some wisdom to help me navigate life. I put the video game down, I learn to prioritize my life in order: God first, Human Relationships next, then my own personal improvements( school, working out, hobbies) last
Pauls says finally I: I learned to reason like a man. I made the planting/harvesting principle a priority in my life. It is pretty basic Paul understood that current decisions have eternal consequences listen to him in
2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
-When I say planting and harvesting this should tell you that there are not quick, gimmicky, and fast ways to success. Success is a slow, methodical, and longterm journey…It is getting up on time, sitting in the front of the class, making a schedule an following it, it is saying no to some parties, it is saying no to some relationships, it is getting up on Sunday and driving to church....When you do those things success will be on your fingertips. Listen to the Lord in Proverbs:
3 Commit your works to the Lord And your plans will be established.
Conclusion:
Story of Solomon the wisest King to ever live:
Solomon ask for wisdom instead of power & riches
Solomon Chased Women
Solomon built houses
Solomon started partying
Solomon chased knowledge
In the End what was his conclusion:
6 Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; 7 then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it. 8 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”
12 But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless, and excessive devotion to books is wearying to the body. 13 The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.
Ecc 12:
12 But beyond these, my son, be warned: there is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body. 13 When all has been heard, the conclusion of the matter is this: fear God and keep his commands, because this is for all humanity. 14 For God will bring every act to judgment, including every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
-For the beginning of Wisdom and Maturity is to “Fear God and Keep his Commandments”
-When it gets dark and you feel like quitting Remember these Words: Fear God and Keep his Commandments.
a. Childish Speaking