GOD'S WORD FOR THE CHRISTIAN TEENAGER

When choosing entertainment...

"Abstain from all appearance of evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

When ridiculed for witnessing...

"And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing

that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name" (Acts

5:41).

When instructed by parents...

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right"

(Ephesians 6:1)

When tempted to smoke...

"An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a

burning fire" (Proverbs 16:27). "Know ye not that ye are the temple

of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" (1 Corinthians

3:16).

When taking a test...

"Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all

things willing to live honestly" (Hebrews 13:18).

When speaking to others...

"To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gently, shewing

all meekness unto all men" (Titus 3:2).

When participating in sports...

"And if a man also strive for masterise, yet is he not crowned

except he strive lawfully" (2 Timothy 2:5).

When tempted to drink beer, wine or liquor...

"But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile

himself with the portion of the King's meat, nor with the wine which

he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of eunuchs that he

might not defile himself" (Daniel 1:8). "At the last it biteth like a

serpent, and stingeth like an adder" (Proverbs 23:32).

When planning for the future...

"Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have

dominion over me" (Psalms 119:133).

When choosing companions...

"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what

fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion

hath light with darkness?" (2 Corinthians 6:14).

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God has a plan for YOU! He earnestly desires to work out this

plan in your life. Don't spoil the plan! Just ask yourself the

question, "What would Jesus do?"

Remember God loves us as His children. We love Him as our Father

but we also fear His wrath.

"And ye have forgotten the exortation which speaketh unto you as

unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening the Lord, nor

faint when thou are rebuked of Him: For whom the Lord loveth he

chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If we endure

chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom

the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof

all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us,

and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection

unto the Father of spirits, and live?

For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own

pleasure, but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his

holiness.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but

grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of

righteousness unto them which be exercised thereby." (Hebrews 12:5-

11).

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world, If

any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him" (1 John

2:15).

"Let no man despise thy youth; but he thou an example of the

believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith

in purity" (1 Timothy 4:12).

The Christian Teen-ager must be as different from the world as

the world is different from the Bible.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Elzinga

P.O. Box 386 Galesburg, Mich. 49053-0386

From S.O.N. BBS, WI

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