Sermon Guide 4.7.24
April 5, 2024

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Focal verse for the year:

The greatest among you will be your servant. —Matthew 23:11 NIV

ELI5

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. —Proverbs 22:6 ESV


Train
Devote or dedicate…


Train up a child
Devote or dedicate…


Train up a child
Devote or dedicate a child, lad, boy, youth, a teenager…


Train up a child in the way he should go
Devote or dedicate a child, lad, boy, youth, teenager in his way, his path, according to his will. Even when he is old he will not depart from it.


Dedicate a child in the way of his mouth and when he is old he will not turn aside from it.


Initiate for the child on the mouth of his way ecen when he is old he will not turn from it.


Train an adolescent in his own way and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Dedicate your child to his desire and he’ll be happy to go there…and stay there.

ELI5

Children have childish ways.

There is a way that seems right to a. man, but its end is the way to death. —Proverbs 14:12 ESV


Discipline to do the hard things.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child… —1 Corinthians 13:11 NASB


Instruction to do the wise thing.

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. —1 Corinthians 13:11 NASB

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. —Proverbs 3:5-6