1. How Can A Young Man Cleanse His WAY?
Psalm 119:9-11
Lesson 1

2. By taking heed according to Your word
ANSWERED
By taking heed according to Your word
ACTION
EFFECT
Verse 10
Search With Whole Heart
Not Wander
Verse 11
Hide Word in Heart
Not Sin

3. TRAPS TO AVOID

4. 1. Peer Pressure

5. “The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in the LORD shall be safe.”
Proverbs 29:25

6. The majority of people are on the wrong course (Matt. 7:13, 14)
Likely most of your acquaintances are too
Resolve to never do wrong to please anyone
Even friends…Deuteronomy 13:6-8
A real friend of your soul would not want you to do wrong (Prov. 17:17; 27:6, 9)
Proverbs 1:10-15
1. Peer Pressure

7. 2. Youthful Lusts

8. “Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth are vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 11:9, 10

9. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV)
RUN FROM

10. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV)
RUN FROM | RUN TO

11. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”
2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV)
RUN FROM | RUN TO | RUN WITH

12. 3. Pride

13. “But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.”
1 Kings 12:8
3. Pride

14. “Then he went up from there to Bethel; and as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him, ‘Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ So he turned around and looked at them, and pronounced a curse on them in the name of the LORD. And two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.”
2 Kings 2:23, 24
3. Pride

15. Be sober-minded Care to not overestimate your own looks, talents, etc.
ROMANS 12:3
PROVERBS 26:12
Be sober-minded
3. Pride

16. “Likewise exhort the young men to be sober-minded”
Titus 2:6