All right. You got your text, right, Josh? I
sent you a text with the questions. Of course,
it was on two pages. Did you see they're making
a He -Man Masters of the Universe movie based
on the He -Man cartoon? We went and saw a movie.
Shout out. Thank you very much. He -Man? Yes.
A movie based on He -Man. The Skeletor? Yeah.
Awesome. Oh, the advertisement. Yes. I forgot
we were playing that movie. I was thinking Masters
of the Universe. He -Man and the Masters of the
Universe. Yeah, we were tripping. Everything
comes around again, you know? They should make
the real -life version of Captain Caveman. Oh
no, I know what you're talking about. Well, I
mean, that's one. That's not too bad. That's
how my dad quit, so I'm just going to go with
him to the picnic. It works, I guess. But I don't
want him. Oh, really? I don't want him. That's
weird. Well, because that's the way Dad said
it. Yeah, she said it's my place. Thank you.
You didn't waste your money on it. The name of
the movie is The AI. It's like they have an AI
court in Los Angeles and this guy is protecting
people from crime. Okay. what power I'm not sure
if I'm going to be able to help with this little
pantry because the way they were whipping my
head around, it's kind of moving my head right
now. Hello Okay, we're going to pray together
and then we'll dismiss the children. Then we
have some Bible study activities that we're going
to do. That's our agenda today. So when we dismiss,
second grade down, we'll go to the classroom.
Third grade and up stays in here with me. And
we've been having some fun on these nights. So
we're going to have a little fun today. It's
going to be different. It's been different every
single time yet. This is how the Lord led me
to do it. So we're going to do it. So new prayer
requests. Obviously, without getting into too
many details, I would encourage you to pray for
Juanita. How is she going to do some life change?
But she had a pretty tragic event last week that
she's recovering from. She's praying for her.
Can you pray for Rachel? I did not get a report
about today. I don't know if you want to share
or let her. It's a so -so report, so we'll just
go with that for now. We'll pray for Rachel.
She's nursing her heart. What's your teacher's
first name? Do you know the first name? You're
going to go visit somebody. Okay, anybody else?
Add them in. All right, let's pray together.
We're all praying together. John's saying the
words, but in your head you're hearing the words,
and you're saying to God whatever it is that
the Lord's laying on your heart. Father in heaven,
you are our all -father. Your name is hallowed
there. It's recognized all throughout the heavens
and all throughout the spiritual realm. We want
it to be recognized everywhere on the earth.
We recognize you alone are God. We submit. That
means that the things that have happened in our
past that we don't agree with, we recognize you're
using them for your glory. You're building us
up. You're creating a future. You have a better
plan. You're taking us somewhere we definitely
want to go. We're grateful for all of it. At
the same time, Lord, we confess to you that some
things that happen, we don't understand why they
happen. We get questioning. Some things that
need to happen, we are reluctant to let them
happen or make them happen. And that's it. Some
things that you want from us, we're reluctant
to render, to surrender. And that's it. So we
confess to you, Lord, that we need your help
to deal with those things. Be forgiven. Thank
you, Lord, that you brought us to this place
tonight. Give us the opportunity to be here.
What a beautiful time. It's a spring day, but
I'm not convinced we're done with winter yet,
but maybe whatever. You can do whatever you want.
We're grateful. Thank you for every person that
made the point of being here. Thank you for every
person that really wanted to be here and could
for whatever reason. Thank you for helping me
personally to overcome certain barriers, for
being so real to us that we know that we can
lift this prayer up to you and that you're not
only hearing that, but you're acting on it. I
ask you, Lord, to do every request that we just
made. Be with Juanita and with what she's going
through and what she just went through. dealing
with the temptation that's kind of in her face
all the time, that you would hold her firmly
and give her strength. Heal her. She repents.
She runs to you. She's looking at you. And so
we actually guide her, going, what we actually
do is just petri, or it's a wake -up call to
realize that people your same age now are passing
away. Life is shorter than most people want to
think. They think, well, it never happened to
me. Nothing ever happens. It's never going to
happen. It's going to be difficult. The truth
is, it is. It happens. You've got to deal with
them when they come up. When you lose loved ones
and you mourn. And as long as you want us to
still be here serving you, working, we pray that.
we'll come to you with that. I ask you for the
lessons that are prepared for tonight, that they
would honor you, that we would be able to speak
when we're spoken to, that we'd be able to listen
to the material, really the verse, and then we
would be reminded that this verse is power packed
for every single one of us when we're in this
room. And I know Ms. Sherry had the great lesson
for the young ones. And I pray, Lord, that you
would work there just the same and maybe, because,
you know, we would sacrifice ourselves for the
young ones. And so, Lord, it would only be one
or the other. It doesn't have to be, but only
one or the other. to take care of that. We need
them because they have a whole life ahead of
them to serve you and to give you glory. Father,
help us with the things that we're facing. We
pray for Rachel, we pray for Caitlin, we pray
for Amalia, we pray for Erin who's stuck away
out of town again. Lord, you can do it and we
trust you with it. We pray all of you can do
it. Okay, this time if you're in the second grade
or down, you can go to the classroom with Miss
Sherry. Now it risks this other person. Okay.
Horses. So I'm handing out a worksheet. Right
now, we are not doing anything with the worksheet.
You can color on it if you really feel bored.
But other than that, we're not doing anything
with the worksheet yet. One, two, three. I have
so many responsibilities already, I can't handle
that one too. Okay, as I said, if you didn't
hear me already, we are not doing anything with
the worksheet just yet. We have some stuff that
we're going to do first, okay? So we're going
to talk briefly today about leadership or a type
of leadership. I've been thinking a lot about
leadership lately because people always tell
pastors that they're supposed to be good leaders.
I mentioned this in my sermon on Sunday that
that's really not a fair assessment. So pastors
are not supposed to be good leaders in the traditional
sense. We're supposed to be maybe an example
of what it means to be a Christian or whatever
like that. In the Bible verse that we're going
to read here in a second, Paul writes to Timothy.
And he flips the script of the idea of that,
like a lot of people think, Ariana needs one
yet. A lot of people think you need decades of
experience or that you need a degree or something
or like that to be a leader. And Paul totally
changes that up. So you're going to see here
in this verse, Paul's idea of what a leader is.
In this verse, he's not giving him a pep talk.
He was giving him a blueprint. Does everybody
know what a blueprint is? You don't even really
hear that term very much anymore. But like an
architectural design, a blueprint, a schematic,
a layout of how things are going to go together.
That's what this verse is. Okay, so let's read
the verse. Anybody want to read it? It is 1 Timothy
4 .12. It's in the worksheet that I gave you
on the book. 1 Timothy 4 .12. It'll seem a little
familiar to you when you hear it. Probably it's
not super uncommon. Going once. Who's going to
read it? Me? All right. Tony, it's eight. Nice
and loud. Yep. Okay. So if this is not a pep
talk, like tell them, hey, do better or hey,
do this and everything will be fine. If it's
not a pep talk. and it's a blueprint, then you
almost could take this and break it down and
say, so if I want to be an example for the believers
in speech, then I could make myself an A, B,
C, I'm going to do this. If I'm going to be an
example in speech, I'm going to be like this.
If I'm going to be an example in life or in that
translation or in conduct in another translation,
then I'm going to be these things. You could
break those things down and follow them, and
then you would be what Paul is telling Timothy
is a leader. So here's the five specific areas
that were in the verse. I'm using the New American
Standard Version, so you'll hear the word conduct.
By the time we're done, we'll hear it a couple
of times. How many more do you need? One? Okay.
I sent one for you. It's okay. If you have an
extra one back there, just hang on to it. Mr.
Tim will come in eventually. Okay, so five specific
areas. Speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.
And conduct or life, sometimes life, it's the
way you live, right? So age is not on the list.
In this room, we have people that are 11. Kyler,
how old are you? I didn't mean to catch you off
guard with that. You knew that, right? You knew
you were eight? Okay, so he's eight, right? And
then we have some people that are... Quite a
bit older than that, okay? We'll just go there,
okay? And so this is not about age. It's not
on the list. You could also say education, not
on the list. You could also say experience, not
really on the list, right? None of those things
are on the list. So integrity doesn't have a
birth date. So integrity is when you're a whole
person and you're functioning. It's working for
you, right? So it doesn't start at a certain
moment in time. Now, if you're a Christian, it's
supposed to sort of start birthing then, but
there's got to be somewhere along the road that
you're picking up, right? So whether you're eight
or 80, your life is a sermon. So let's look at
how that looks in action. Okay, so Kashawn, I
need you to come up here for a second. You're
not going to teach, I promise. All right. Teach,
teach. Okay, so what do you see in the jug? I
see water. Okay, I want you to put one good -sized
drop of this in that jug. Everybody watch the
water for a second there, one good -sized drop.
Right back up in the thing. Okay, now what do
you see in the jug? I see water. Okay, and what
else? I see a color. All right, what color? White.
All right, so you put one drop of... this gel
color in the jug. Do you see one drop now? What
do you see now? Okay, so there's a great big
pile down there. That's probably the one drop.
Oh, yeah. It's spreading. Yeah, it's spreading.
Okay, now I'll show you something. I'm going
to take this highlighter, stir the jug, just
stir the water up. We're waiting. Okay, very
good. All right. Okay. So, as Kishan just demonstrated
to us that, When you put a drop of blue inside
the water, the blue doesn't stay in one spot.
It only takes a drop of blue. And you can see
now, if you look at this water, what do you see?
It's pretty much all blue, right? And it's only
going to get more so because there's still quite
a bit piled up on the bottom down there. It's
disseminating, spreading out through the water.
And that's how it works. Whatever you bring to
a situation. However you behave, and you could
say however you behave in speech, in conduct,
in love, in faith, and in purity, right? However
you behave, but you also could say if you come
with foul language, or if you come with a vindictive
attitude, or if you come with an idea that you're
going to get over on people, you're going to
make out the best in the situation, or if you
come with a desire for control, whatever it might
be, whatever you bring to the situation, that's
going to change the environment around you, okay?
And that's what he's talking about. So, for example,
if you stand up for someone who's being teased,
right, that's conduct, bad conduct being perpetrated
on them, you stand up for them when they're being
teased, then your standing up for them is going
to affect the environment. Now, it's not going
to just make bad behavior suddenly go away. That
bad behavior is also already in the environment,
okay? So it's there. Now, when you come in and
you behave a certain kind of way, you're changing
the environment. So you can think of it like
if someone's being mean and you come in and you're
nice or gentle or kind, you're... polluting the
environment which is filled with their meanness.
with your gentleness and kindness. See that?
And it may not turn the environment to be all
gentleness and kindness. This is blue, but it's
not as blue as the gel, right? Except in that
little spot on the bottom. It'll disseminate
through the whole thing. It'll never be so blue
as to look like the blue that came out of this
tube because it's not enough blue, right? But
your gentleness, kindness, goodness, etc. is
going to affect the whole environment around
you. It doesn't stay in one spot. It spreads,
even though it starts out small, one little act
of kindness, one little thing that you say, one
little act of love. When you live out your faith,
you're not just living for yourself. Has anybody
here ever had fish? Raise your hand if you ever
had a fish in your house. Kyle, you had fish,
didn't you? Did you guys have fish? Okay, so
about half of us have had fish. Tell me something
about fish water. River, go. It stinks. Okay,
does it stink when you first put it in the tank
or later? Yeah, later. Okay. Haley, tell me something
else about fish. Fish water. Yep. Algae grows
in there. And if you get too much algae, your
fish have trouble unless they happen to be an
algae eater. What about you, Kyler? Can you tell
me something about fish water? And what about
the water that you put in that? Can you just
take it right out of the faucet? Or do you have
to do something to it? you put it in the tank
yeah so you treat fish water because city water
is poisonous to freshwater fish also you acclimate
the temperature of the water because you might
have a warm water fish this can handle 78 80
degrees but the water coming out of your faucet
is not 78 to 80 degrees so if you feel if the
tank gets down about a third and then you fill
it all the way up with cold water now you're
lowering the temperature in the tank too much
for the fish to survive possibly or you might
make them sick so basically when you live out
your faith, you aren't just being good for yourself.
You're changing the water around you to give
everybody the best opportunity to survive, to
give everybody the best opportunity to be their
best self. You don't need to be the biggest person
in the room in order to change the color of the
water. We had one tiny little drop. Okay. In
fact, If I had taken, Ari had just finished off
her propel water. If I had taken her propel water
and poured a whole cup of it in this water, the
color would not hardly change at all, even though
that was a cup. And the color changed almost
completely to blue with just a drop, okay? So
the things that you bring in, if somebody's being
mean and you come in and you just be mean, they're
not going to change the water at all. You're
doing the same thing everybody else is doing,
right? But if they're being mean and you come
in and you're gentle or kind, then you're going
to begin to push the water around you in a certain
kind of way. of a direction so that people can,
and then there might actually be somebody else
in the room will go, you know, I think I'd rather
be gentle and kind. And they want to go that
way instead because you're changing the water
for everybody when you change the water. Okay.
All right. So the next part, we're going to have
Ariana come up and she's going to teach the next
part. I did not get my notes today. So, well,
Carson really wanted to, and Sissy is supposed
to be sending him in in a second so that he can
pass. So, okay. We're hearing you real good,
but we're going to put this on you anyway. You're
doing a good job. Then I don't have to talk loudly.
Go. Okay, today we're going to start with an
activity, wake you up a little bit. Everybody
needs to find one person next to them. So if
you don't have somebody sitting next to you,
feel free to move around, find somebody, find
a partner. Everybody has a partner. If we have
an uneven amount, then we can do three for one
person. I promise nobody bites. Not ordinarily.
If someone has a partner, we can move it around.
Stand down here. I don't like this. All right,
tell us what to do. Okay, so once we have a partner...
Everyone done moving? Okay. Once we have a partner,
one of you guys is going to make a silly, funny,
weird face and the other one has to copy it exactly.
Okay, has everyone copied their partner's face?
Okay. Now we see that it's very easy to copy
somebody when they're right in front of you.
Okay, done. Lost my train of thought. You're
doing great. Okay. Sorry about that. So now we
see that when someone is right in front of you,
it's very easy to copy them. So I want everybody
in your mind to think of some kind of word. A
word that you want people around you to copy.
So you could think kindness. You want to be kind
so that people around you will also be kind.
So think of a word in your mind. And we were
supposed to have Carson come in here. Apparently
he's not in here yet. So we're going to pass
out sticky notes. And everybody is going to write
down their word on a... sticky note. And once
we have wrote down our word on the sticky note,
we are going to put it on the mirror that is
outside in the hallway that Pastor Dan has gotten
close and placed out there as a promise. So when
we put the sticky note on the mirror, you are
promising that you are going to do your best
to act in this way so that people around you
can reflect off it. Write your word on your post
-it note, and instead go put it on the mirror
and call it. Please don't pack the mirrors out.
Throw them in the mirror and make a mess. Everybody
got one? Something that you think would be good
for people to follow your example this week.
Something godly. Now if you stick it out in the
back mirror, come back in. It's really hard.
You can always pick speech, conduct, love, faith,
or purity. They're in the verse. If you can't
think of anything else, one of those will do.
Okay, is everybody back in the room? All right.
So don't get too comfy where you are because
now we're going to get up and move. So if you
are an adult, you're going to come to this section
over here. If you are a teenager, you're going
to come to this middle section here. If you are
a child, you're going to meet by the tree. Adults
over there. Teenagers in the middle. Children
over there. Okay, you're with the teenagers.
Josh has the adults. Okay, so what's going to
happen, listen, what's going to happen is we're
going to lead you briefly. Kids, be quiet. Thank
you. We're going to lead you briefly through
a discussion. We're going to ask three questions,
and then you're going to talk about it as your
group. Teenagers in the middle, adults over there,
kids over here. Those who are asking the questions,
once you've done that, just cue me, and then
we'll get everybody back. One drop goes a long
way. Perfect. Okay. So grab your worksheet that
I passed out at the beginning. Okay, can you
step away from that area, please? You were seated
over here. I understand. You can do that after.
You can take her home. We're done in 15 minutes.
You can wait 15 minutes. She can wait 15 minutes.
It gives me an opportunity to talk to her after
anyway. Okay, so we're on the worksheet. Youth
Worth Watching. Okay? So you've got three activities
on this worksheet. One of them is homework. It's
very easy. You can do it later. Okay? So the
first thing we're going to look at is on the
bottom. It is the crossword puzzle. Okay? All
right? You ready? We're going to do it together.
Okay? Number one down. It's the big word right
down the middle. Having traits of a lack of years.
Youthfulness. That's correct. That's the only
really, really long word. So it's Y -O -U -T
-H -F -U -L -N -E -S -S. All the way down that
big long line. Youthfulness. Comes right out
of the verse. Don't let anyone look down on you
because you are young. Youthfulness. Okay. Choosing
to act for another person. Two down. This one's
a little tricky. Think about it. Two down. Four
letter word. Choosing to act for another person.
You could put that there, but it won't get you
what you're trying to get. It's love, okay? So
here's the thing. In society, love is, oh, I
love tacos. They taste so good, right? That is
a misuse of the word love. In the Bible, love
is when you choose to act on behalf of somebody
else. Jesus so loved us. God so loved the world
that he sent his only begotten son. Jesus so
loved us, right? So love is when you act for
somebody else. You can say I love you all that
you want, but if you don't act on behalf of that
person, you're basically using words, not actually
backing up your words, okay? Three down. On the
other hand, but, it's but, B -U -T. Let me know
if you're falling behind. Kyle, you got it. Writing
your tense, you're writing these words in these
blanks. You're a puzzle master. According to
what I hear, you're really good at puzzles. Okay.
Five down. Correct. Show. Josh also is a puzzle
master. Josh and Kyler are puzzle masters in
this room at least. Actually, I think solo is
really good. Aren't you really good at puzzle
solo? That's what I heard. I don't know who told
me that. Okay. Seven down. Talk with your mouth.
Say it again. Speech is correct, sir. Seven down.
Speech. Talk with your mouth. Eleven down. Use
your eyes. Did you say see? Look. It's look.
Or in the... It should be 11 down. Yeah, 11 down
on the left -hand side there. 11 down. Look.
13 down. Okay, the 11 down is all the way over
on the left -hand side. No, the other 11 is across.
Oh, it's not supposed to be 11, though. That's
why. No, it says 14. Where's 11? 11 down. Where's
another 11? Oh, I see it. That's weird. Okay,
the one over there is actually a 1. The little
one is 1 down. No, that's not right. Oh, it's
17. That's what it is. It's 17. Either I didn't
write it good or it didn't copy good. 17 is a
down. It is to allow. We'll do it right now so
we can get it out of the way. To allow is what?
Three words. 17 down. To allow. It's let. L -E
-T. To let someone do something is to allow them
to do something. We haven't done it yet. Okay.
All right. Seven down was talk with mouth. We'll
go over that one again if we need to. All right.
11 down now is on the left -hand side. Use your
eyes. Look. 11 down on the left -hand side. Four
letters. L -O -O -K. 13 down. So you're going
to just over to the right a little bit. The opposite
of up is down. Correct. Okay. 15 down. Where's
15 down at? Next to the black square. Yep. Next
to the black square going straight down. 15 down.
It is only right stuff all the way. Think about
the verse. Now it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 letters.
Love is four letters. Purity is correct. Yep,
purity. So like if you have a loaf of bread and
it's got mold in it, it's not pure because it's
not bread all the way through anymore, right?
So purity means it's all the same stuff. If you
have water and it's pure water, it's just water
all the way through. But if it's got toxic chemicals
in it or something, then it's not pure. Only
write stuff all the way. Okay, 16 down. Correct,
I think. Wait, no. 16 down. No, it's not have.
Where is it at? No. Okay. I see it. It's go over
from purity. It's four letters going straight
down. It's your, Y -O -U -R, when you own it.
It's your house. It's your car when you own it.
Okay. And then 17 down to allow is let, if you
didn't get that already. So you should have all
the downs done. We skipped five though. I think
actually it was exhibit. It is show. Yes. If
you didn't get it already, I don't think I said
it, but it is show. 16 down when you own it.
Your. Y -O -U -R. Your house. Your car. Your
butt. Your hair. Okay. Across. Four across. Something
different. Four across. Something different.
It's a tough one. The hardest one if you ask
me. It's rather. Rather. 17 down is let. You
let someone pick on you. You let someone give
you a present. Okay. Four across. Something different
is rather. The middle top. Rather. Or rat -er.
R -A -T -H -E -R. Six. Six. Multiple. Over there.
Who? Say it again. Correct. Those. Those over
there. And it's kind of in the middle left. Upper
left. Eight. Across. Yes. Someone has read a
Bible verse at one time in their life. Faith
is the correct word. Faith. Hope in something
unseen. Faith. Okay. Nine. Yeah. Nailed it. The
opposite of off is on. It's that tiny little
word on the right -hand side there, on, okay?
10, across, one that stands out of or from. Example
is correct. Right smack dab in the middle. 12,
12 across, choices and behavior. Oh, it's the
furthest left box all the way to the left. It
probably looks like a 17. It's a 12. Okay, anyway,
so we got faith. We got on. One who stands out
is an example. 12, choices and behavior. So it's
all the way the furthest left box across. Say
it again. Conduct. Conduct. Okay, 14 across.
To take it as fact and act. Okay, it's almost
in the middle. Just look down from example. Say
again. No. Believe. To believe. Take it as fact
and act is to believe. And then 16 across is
the last one. Youth to you, yourself. Okay. Help
your neighbors make sure all the blanks are filled.
We're going to do it. That's the last thing we
have to do. Okay. Number five, exhibit is show.
We did do it. I missed it the first time through,
and then I caught it later, and then RJ said
we already did it. Oh, we actually have done
it for sure now. Show. Okay? So now if you look
at words meditation, 14 across, take it as fact,
and act is believe. 16 across is you to you yourself.
We got them? We good? Okay. All right. So we're
going to do an example of meditation. And you've
seen this example once before. So I'm going to
read the verse. And we're going down the left
-hand side. In the first box, I want you to put
the number 2. In the very first box. And then
put a dash. Put 2 dash. And what we're going
to do is we're going to count the number of words
in the verse that have two letters. I'll help
you. It's not that hard. And I'm using the New
American Standard Version. The top box on the
left, you're going to put the number two and
then put a dash. Zayden, are you listening to
me? I'm the one talking, so you've got to listen.
Two, dash. And the top box on the left -hand
side under the word meditation. All right? And
then we're going to read the verse. We're going
to count the number of words with two letters.
And I'll help you. All right? So it says, let
no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather
in speech, conduct, love. faith, and purity,
show yourself an example of those who believe.
Note four. Five. Of is five, all right? So it's
two dash five, all right? Those are all the two
-letter words. So you should, in that top box,
you should have two dash five. And then in the
big long box there, you can write no, on, in,
an, and of, okay? No, on, in, an, and of. No,
on, in, an, an, of. Those are all the two -letter
words, okay? Now we're gonna do three -letter
words. So in the next box, put three dash. You're
getting the idea, I think. Okay. So it's let.
That's a three -letter word. No one look down
on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct,
love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example
of those who believe. So the answer is five.
So it's three -five. And the words are what?
It's not and. It's an. A -N. And is three letters.
You're right, though. You got that right. Okay.
There's no and in the whole verse, actually,
just an and. Oh, yes, there is. There is an and.
It's in the three letters. So the words were
let, one, but, and, who. Now we're kind of almost
kind of get, like, you kind of hear the verse
a little bit. With all the three little words,
you can almost kind of hear the verse a little
bit. Let, one, but, and, who. Okay. Four -letter
words. You get less and less. It goes faster
and faster because you get less and less. All
right. Four -letter words. Let no one look. Down
on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct,
love, faith, and purity, show yourselves an example
of those who believe. So there's five again.
4 -5. I don't get it. I'm going to tell you right
now what they are. Look down your love show.
Well, that's what meditation is for. See, meditation
makes you drill down on those things and figure
it out. Let one. One is the other one. O -N -E.
So you should have two, five, three, five, four,
five. And the words there were look down your
love show. So again, kind of hear the verse in
there. Okay, the next one's pretty fast. Five
letter words. Let no one look down on your youthfulness,
but rather in speech. conduct, love, faith, and
purity. Show yourself an example of those who
believe. So faith and those. Faith and those.
5 -2. Yep. If you look at this, you can start
to see patterns. Okay? Do it again. Everybody
got those two? Faith and those. Six -letter words.
Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but
rather, in speech, Conduct, love, faith, and
purity. Show yourself an example of those who
believe. Rather, speech, purity. 6 -3. Rather,
speech, purity. As it is right now, we only have
five words left in the whole verse. We've done
every word of the verse except for five words.
So that really tells you something. Rather, speech,
purity. Conduct is seven. Is it? Yep, yeah, seven.
Okay? Now seven -letter words. No, you didn't.
You're meditating. This stuff happens when you're
meditating, okay? Let no one look down on your
youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct,
love, faith, purity, show yourself an example
of those who believe. Three. Three words. Seven
-three. Example, believe, conduct. Now we only
have two words left. Does anybody know without
looking what they are? Yourself is one, so it's
8 -1. The box is 8 -1, and then the word is yourself.
That leaves one word left, youthfulness. And
so it's a 12 -letter word, 12 -letter word, 12
-1, youthfulness. And then in the box on the
bottom, you can put 25. Now, if I was doing this
meditation, guess what I would do next? What
would you do next? What would be the very next
thing you would do? Count the total number of
words in the verse and confirm that you have
them all, right? So if you did this, you'd go
2 -5, 3 -5, you add it all up, you get down to
25. Then you go back to the Bible and you go
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and you get to the end and you'll
find there are 25 words. That means you've got
them all. If you had 24 words. but the verse
has 25 words, then you would go through and figure
out which one you're missing. That's called meditating.
By the time you're done, you know more, you feel
more, you hear more, you see more on this verse
than you would if you had just read it and even
memorized it, even if you memorized it. So Jason,
without looking at the Bible, not asking you
to do it from memory, just tell me basically
what does this verse say? Good, okay. So you'd
be a leader through your youthfulness and your
faith. That would be it, right? So if you went
to somebody and said, hey, there's a verse in
the Bible, I don't know, I think it's in 1 Timothy
around chapter four, and it says you should be
an example in your youthfulness and faith. Would
you be telling the truth or lying? No, you'd
be telling the truth because that's what it says,
right? That would be the truth of that verse.
Now, Mike, tell me in your own words, basically,
just something simple. What does this verse say
to you? Say it again. 1 Timothy 4 .12, the one
we've been studying. Shh. What do you think,
Mike? You're not sure? Okay, Holly, you give
it to me. What do you think? Come on, you can
do it. You don't need the whole thing. What would
you do? Based on this, what are you going to
do? Okay, there you go. So you can say 1 Timothy
chapter 4 somewhere. There is a verse that reminds
me that I need to show young people faithfulness.
Would you be telling the truth? Absolutely. And
you didn't get that from memorization. You got
it from meditation. See it? Okay. We're done.
You can write the verse just for fun if you want.
You can write the verse in the Bible I did online
sometime when you want to if you want to write
it again. That was the only other thing. Good
job. All right, let's pray together briefly,
and then we'll go snacking. Father in heaven,
thank you so much for the reminder to the adults
that young people need a good example. Also to
the reminder that we're not as old as we think
we are, that there is a youthfulness to us because
we're born again. So like I've been living for
55, almost 56 years, but the truth is I've been
really living for just over 30 years since you
saved my soul and made me born again. And I pray,
Lord, that we will be an example to the young
people and that we'll be a youthful example to
those who are older than us. I pray that we will
be. an example in conduct and in speech. And
we will believe and let people see us believing
because that changes the water. It changes the
area around so that they also can believe. And
we will be found faithful doing the things that
we're supposed to be doing because that changes
the water. It makes it so that people can be
faithful. And they don't necessarily want to.
They're struggling with their own issues. And
we just pray, Lord, that we'll be able to help
anybody who needs help to draw a little closer
to you. At the very least, we won't be standing
in the way, but be a good example through and
through, from beginning to end, inside, outside.
That's what we desire. We know we have a way
to go, and you can take it there. We pray all
this in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you very much.
On the way out, take a peek at the mirror, if
you would, and think about how you're going to
represent those traits this week. Hi. Hello.