The Effect of Doing Unto Others

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

1 Timothy 4 · chapter mention

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.