Love, Marriage and Family

              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 The S.O.N. BBS, WI