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2. The Role of Parents, Part 4 Transitioning Teens
Every member of the family needs to fulfill their God given roles
Wives - follow the leadership of the husband, show him respect, be a suitable helpmeet

3. The Role of Parents, Part 4 Transitioning Teens
Husbands - love your wives, lead, provide and protect
Children - obey your parents - obedience is the foundation for learning all other skills

4. The Role of Parents, Part 4 Transitioning Teens
Three major periods of parenting:
1) Train them to obey.
2) Train their hearts.
3) Transition them to adulthood.
Teen rebellion is a phenomenon of modern western society that has abandoned Biblical principles

5. Youth Culture
Context of a Scripture passage tells you the approximate age of a “youth”
False assumption 1: Teens are wise enough to make their own decisions without parental involvement

6. The Weakness of Youth
Proverbs is written to give “youth knowledge and discretion” - even intelligent youth lack experience
Teens need counsel from those older and wiser - starting with parents (Proverbs 1:8; 4:1; 1:5)
Even Jesus had to increase in wisdom and stature - Luke 2:52

7. The Weakness of Youth
Indiscretion is seen in passages mentioning the sins of youth (Job 1:1; 13:26, Psalm 25:7; 1 Tim. 6:11)
Evil people in the entertainment and advertising industries target teens to entice them to sin
Youth lack proper confidence because of inexperience - Jeremiah 1:6; 1 Timothy 4:12 cf 1 Cor. 6:10)

8. The Strength of Youth
False assumption 2: Youth are not able to do anything very hard or of great importance
Joseph as a “youth” in his early 20's became second in command of all of Egypt (Genesis 39-41)
David as a “youth” kept his father’s sheep, learned to trust God and so defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17)

9. The Strength of Youth
Daniel & his three friends were “youths” who obeyed God and were exalted (Daniel 1,2, 3, 6)
Youths need some protection, but they also need to learn how to stand firm for God

10. The Strength of Youth
False assumption 3: Youth should have freedom, and should be protected from negative consequences
Negative consequence is the teacher of the naive, the proud and the sinful - and we all learn from it

11. The Importance of Purpose
Poor parenting and its tragic results on youth is primarily due to wrong purposes and philosophy
We are to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord (Eph. 6:4) and to be wise
Salvation is in God’s hands, but parents are to teach God’s commandments & train obedience to them

12. The Importance of Purpose
To produce a wise adult, you must set a wise example. Don’t be hypocritical
Reprove them for their sin, and even more if you were guilty of the same or similar sins
You don’t have to be a perfect parent, only an honest and humble one
Will you raise your children according to the wisdom of God or the wisdom of the world?

13. The Importance of Purpose
Raising godly children will result in conflicts with them, the world and even other professing Christians
Godly parents train their children to become wise, responsible adults who stand firm against the world
Raise your children so that they are those who influence others, not those influenced by others

14. Becoming Responsible
It takes prayer, hard work, patience and diligence to raise a child to be a wise and responsible adult
There is no magical age when you finish all of your parenting responsibilities - it varies with each child

15. Young children have very restricted worlds & few responsibilities
Becoming Responsible
³ Freedom º
Young children have very restricted worlds & few responsibilities
As children learn to obey, their world is enlarged & they take on responsibilities
Responsibility º

16. Becoming Responsible
³ Freedom º
As children’s hearts are trained, their world expands even more & they take on more responsibilities
Responsibility º

17. Becoming Responsible
³ Freedom º
We teach youth the responsibilities & skills need to live life & establish their own homes
Responsibility º

18. Freedom & responsibility must be tied together
Becoming Responsible
³ Freedom º
Freedom & responsibility must be tied together
You transition from childhood to pre- adolescence to adolescence & youth to adulthood incrementally
Responsibility º

19. Conclusions
Now therefore, O sons, listen to me, For blessed are they who keep my ways Proverbs 8:32
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, & he who begets a wise son will be glad in him Proverbs 23:4

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