Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure | July 19, 2026

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Every christian parent longs
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To see their child develop their own personal relationship
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With jesus christ.
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So how can moms and dads draw their children
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Toward the faith rather than away from it?
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Well, today i'm going to take the word success
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And use it as an acrostic.
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Each letter represents one of the seven keys
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To becoming a successful parent.
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These time-tested principles
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Will help you make a lasting christ-like impression
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On your children and your grandchildren.
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My message is titled,
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"success without succession is failure"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ all the things of earth ♪
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♪ they will dim and lose their value ♪
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♪ but if we recall ♪
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♪ they're just borrowed for a while ♪
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♪ and the things of earth ♪
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♪ that cause my heart to tremble ♪
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♪ remembered there ♪
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♪ will only bring a smile ♪
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♪ in the sweet by and by ♪
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♪ we shall meet on that beautiful shore ♪
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♪ but until then ♪
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♪ but until then ♪
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♪ my heart is going to go on singing ♪
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♪ oh, until then ♪
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♪ with real joy ♪
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♪ i'm going to carry on ♪
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♪ until the day ♪
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♪ my eyes behold the city ♪
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♪ until the day ♪
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♪ god calls me home ♪
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♪ god calls me home ♪
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(audience applauding and cheering)
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God wants you to experience his best
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In every area of life,
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And the wisdom to get there is found in his word.
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In "the solomon secrets,"
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Dr. robert jeffress draws on the life of the wisest
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And most successful man who ever lived
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To bring you 10 life-changing principles from proverbs.
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Finances, your career, your purpose, and so much more.
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The key to experiencing success
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In every part of your life is wisdom,
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And someone who said that wisdom
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Is the skill to live your life according to god's plan,
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According to his pattern.
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And the book of proverbs is really a depository of wisdom
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That guarantees success in every part of your life.
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And that's why we're studying, over these 10 weeks,
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Solomon's book of proverbs.
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We're looking specifically at 10 keys
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To experiencing extraordinary success in life.
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Now, the reason it's so important
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To get this skill called wisdom
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That solomon says is more valuable than silver or gold,
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The reason wisdom is important is because god's wisdom
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Is often opposite of man's wisdom.
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And that's why i call these secrets,
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I call them the solomon secrets,
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10 pieces of uncommon sense.
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They go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
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Last time, we looked at the first
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Of solomon's secrets for success.
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Man's wisdom says if you want to succeed in life,
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Avoid failure at all costs.
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No, god's wisdom says if you want to succeed more in life,
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Fail more in life.
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Now that goes against our wisdom,
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But you see, god says the more times you try something,
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Yes, the more times you'll fail,
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But also the more times you will succeed.
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Well, today we're going to look
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At a second solomon secret for success
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That's especially appropriate today.
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Man's wisdom says our influence
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In this world ends the moment that we die.
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No, god's wisdom says our greatest influence
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On this world continues after we die
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In the children and the grandchildren we leave behind.
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The fact is, all of us are going to die.
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Have you come to grips with that fact?
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You are going to die.
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And that's why it is so critical
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That we prepare those who follow us
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To live life successfully.
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You know, a company ceo who does not prepare a successor
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For his business is ensuring the demise of that business
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In a future generation.
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In the same way, those of us as parents need to realize
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That soon we're going to be off life's stage,
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And it's important that we give our children
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And our grandchildren the keys they need
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To live successfully in this life
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As well as the life to come.
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And that's why the second solomon secret we're going
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To look at today, success without succession is failure.
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Actually, that truth comes from god's word itself.
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If you have your bibles, turn to proverbs 22,
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And what i would like to do
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Is i would like to take that word success
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And use it as an acrostic
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For seven keys of being a successful mom or dad.
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If you want to be a successful parent and grandparent,
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Mark these seven steps down.
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The first s in the word success stands for this:
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Successful parents see their children as a gift from god.
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A successful parent is one who sees his children
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As a gift from god.
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Now let's all be honest,
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Being a parent can be frustrating at times, amen?
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Amen.
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I think about the story of the mother of eight
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Who was talking to a neighbor one morning, and she said:
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"it got so wild and loud around our house today,
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I finally said the next person who screams
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Is going to have his mouth washed out with soap."
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Then the mom said to her friend, "you know what?
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I can still taste the stuff in my mouth."
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(congregation laughing)
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A successful parent is one who doesn't see his child
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As an irritant or an inconvenience,
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But instead sees his child as an inheritance,
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A gift from god.
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In psalm 127:3, the psalmist said,
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"behold, children are a gift of the lord,
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The fruit of the womb is a reward."
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That word gift in hebrew is a word
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That literally means inheritance.
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Children are an inheritance from god.
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In fact, that word inheritance is the same hebrew word
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That was used to describe the promised land
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That god gave to israel.
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Secondly, successful parents,
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The u stands for understand, accept,
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And develop their child's bent.
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Understand, accept, and develop their child's bent.
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A successful parent is one who understands how unique his
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Or her child is and seeks to develop that uniqueness
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And maximize it.
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Our friend, dr. james dobson, says,
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"each child is hand-stitched by the lord,
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Not mass-manufactured in some sweatshop.
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Their personality is cut from a unique bolt of cloth.
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Like snowflakes and fingerprints,
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No two children are alike."
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Solomon understood that truth.
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Look at proverbs 22:6.
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This is one of the most familiar verses about parenting
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In all of the bible.
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Most of us can say it by heart,
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And yet most people don't have a clue what it really means
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And have actually misapplied it
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And caused themself unnecessary guilt as parents.
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You know what proverbs 22:6 says,
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"train up a child in the way he should go,
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And when he is old, he will not depart from it."
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What solomon is saying: understand your children.
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Train them according to their natural inclination.
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Do you know, by the way, your child's unique bent?
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I wish i had time to center on this,
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But dr. john maxwell lists 10 questions that every parent
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Or grandparent should be able to answer about his child.
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Number one, what gives my child joy?
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Who is my child's hero?
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Third, what does my child fear the most?
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Fourth, what activities give my child energy?
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Five, what activities wear my child out?
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Number six, if my child got to choose this year's vacation,
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Where would they want to go?
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Number seven, if my child could pick one activity
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For me to do with him, what would it be?
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Number eight, what kind of music does my child like?
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Number nine, other than going to school or sleeping,
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What does my child spend most time doing each week?
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Number 10, what does my child want to be
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When he or she grows up?
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Could you answer those questions about your child?
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Shakespeare once said it is a wise parent
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Who knows his child.
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Solomon said it is a successful parent who knows,
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Understands, develops,
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And maximizes his child's unique bent.
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Number three, successful parents:
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The c stands for commit to lead their children to christ.
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Successful parents number three:
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Commit to lead their children to christ.
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A visitor was at the estate
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Of the english poet, samuel taylor coleridge,
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And they got into an argument,
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And this visitor said to coleridge,
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"i don't think parents ought to interfere
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With their kids' spiritual development.
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I don't think parents ought
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To religiously indoctrinate their children.
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Instead, they ought to let them grow however they want to grow
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Without any interference from them."
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Coleridge didn't say anything in response.
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Instead, he invited his visitor to come out back
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To look at the garden he had prepared.
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And when they got to the so-called garden,
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The visitor pointed at it and said, "that's not a garden,
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That's just a patch of weeds."
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Coleridge said, "well, it used to be a garden,
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But then i decided to let it grow however it wanted to grow
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Without any interference from me."
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The fact is, our responsibility as a parent
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Is to teach our children.
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It is to allow them to come to faith in jesus christ.
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And we see that in solomon's words as well.
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In proverbs 4, solomon encourages his children
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To follow the same spiritual teaching he had received
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From his father, david.
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It wasn't passive; it was very intentional.
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In proverbs 4:3-4, solomon said,
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"when i was a son to my father,
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Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,
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Then he taught me and said to me,
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'let your heart hold fast my words;
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Keep my commandments and live.'"
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Solomon said, "i learned invaluable spiritual truth
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From both my mother and my father."
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Now you remember who his father was.
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Solomon's father was king david.
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King david had a phd from the university of hard knocks.
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He taught his son where to go
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To experience god's forgiveness in his life.
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In psalm 32:1-2, david said, "how blessed,
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How happy is he whose transgression is forgiven,
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Whose sin is covered?
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How blessed is the man to whom the lord does not count
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Or impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit?"
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Mom, dad, grandmother, grandfather,
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Do your children know how to experience god's forgiveness?
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Do you recognize the fact that that child you look
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Across the breakfast table at every morning,
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Do you realize that unless something happens
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In that child's life and he comes to faith in christ,
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That he is headed for an eternity of separation from god?
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The most important task we have as parents
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Is leading our children to faith in christ.
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Successful parents commit
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To leading their children to faith in christ.
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The second c in this, number four,
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Is communicate spiritual values to your children.
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Communicate spiritual values to your children.
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You see, your responsibility as a parent doesn't end
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When they become a christian;
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It actually begins at that point.
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Solomon said that in proverbs 6,
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There are numerous spiritual values we need
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To pass on to our children.
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Look at verse 20:
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"my son, observe the commandment of your father
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And do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
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Bind them continually on your heart.
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Tie them around your neck.
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When you walk about, they will guide you;
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When you sleep, they will watch over you,
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And when you awake, they will talk to you.
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For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light
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And reproofs for discipline are the way of life."
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Number five, successful parents:
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The e stands for exemplify godly character.
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They exemplify godly character.
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Perhaps you've heard this saying,
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"some truths are better caught than taught."
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That's true when it comes to spiritual values.
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Yes, our words are very important,
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But our words have to be reinforced by our actions.
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It's not enough to just talk the talk;
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We have to be willing to walk the walk.
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That's what the bible is talking about here as well.
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We need to exemplify godly character.
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One time, a number of years ago,
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I was preaching a message in my last church
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On how husbands can meet the needs of their wives
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And after the first service, the 8:15 service,
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I went back to my office to check on something
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And i was surprised to find a note from julia
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Who was about 11 at the time,
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And she had been in the first service
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And she said, "dear dad, that was a wonderful message.
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Now here are some ways you can apply it in our family."
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(congregation laughing)
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And then she listed about four or five suggestions.
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Guess what? they were great suggestions.
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And she was listening to what i was saying.
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She was listening, but she was also watching
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In how i lived out those truths in my life.
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I'm not the only one.
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Your kids are listening, but they're also watching.
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That's why moses said, look at deuteronomy 6.
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Go back to verse five.
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He addresses parents first.
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He said, "parents, you can't give away something
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You don't possess."
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He says in verse five,
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"you shall love the lord your god with all of your heart,
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With all of your soul, with all of your might.
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And these words, which i'm commanding you shall be on,"
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Underline that, "your heart.
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And then, and only then,
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Can you teach them diligently to your children."
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Make sure that you exemplify godly character.
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Yes, our children are listening, but they're also watching.
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Number six, successful parents seek
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To discipline their children consistently.
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Solomon devotes a lot of ink
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To the subject of the discipline of children
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In the book of proverbs.
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In proverbs 13:24,
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He says, "he who spares his rod hates his son,
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But he who loves him disciplines him diligently."
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And there, the word diligently literally means
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At early dawn.
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If you love your child,
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You will discipline him at early dawn.
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Now, that doesn't mean you wake your kid up every morning
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At 5:30 for their daily beating, okay?
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That's not what he's talking about.
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The phrase at early dawn means early in life.
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Don't wait until your child is 13 or 14
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To try to discipline them.
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Effective discipline begins early in life.
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Number seven, successful parents are those who spend time
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With their children.
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Now, i'll admit,
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There's no proverb specifically that says that,
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But it certainly inferred
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By everything else we've looked at this morning.
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It takes time to communicate spiritual truth
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To your children, to lead them to faith in christ,
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To understand, develop, and maximize your child's bent.
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It takes time.
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It takes a quality of time,
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But it also takes a quantity of time.
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Unfortunately, many parents today aren't spending time
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With their children.
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Now, i realize i'm speaking to some of you who are parents
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Who have done the best you knew to do.
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You tried to apply these principles,
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But you feel like you have failed as a parent.
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Maybe there's a broken relationship you have
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With your child, or maybe your child is not living according
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To god's principles,
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And you're overwhelmed with guilt over that.
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Let me remind you of something.
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The first two people who lived on this planet
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Were adam and eve.
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They had a perfect heavenly father.
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They lived in a perfect environment, the garden of eden,
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And yet they rebelled against god.
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Wherever there is freedom,
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There's the possibility of rebellion.
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And that's why this book we're studying on sunday mornings,
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You know what the title of it is?
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The title is not promises; it's proverbs.
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There's a fascinating story
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That comes from our nation's histories.
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Steve farrar recounts it in his book, "anchor man."
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Listen to this.
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"george s. patton, from an early age,
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Was groomed by his father for admission
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To the virginia military institute.
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When patton graduated, he was second in his class
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And rated first in tactics, mathematics,
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Latin, geology, and chemistry.
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Patton was described by one who knew him well
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As an arrogant, a smart dresser,
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And he displayed classic chivalry toward ladies,
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Making him a dashing, romantic figure.
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Devoutly religious, or at least by his own standards,
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General patton also encouraged his men to attend chapel
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And rarely missed an opportunity
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To pray on his knees before god.
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According to one of his biographers,
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Patton was a visionary who saw war clouds on the horizon
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And was determined to prepare for action.
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He was virtually fearless in combat.
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On one occasion, an enemy's bullet did find its way to him,
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But a $10 gold piece
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In his pocket successfully deflected the bullet,
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Leaving him with only a slight wound."
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Perhaps none of this information is news to you.
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Maybe you read the biography about patton
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Or saw the movie released in 1970.
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But there's a problem.
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The patton i just described,
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The george s. patton i just described,
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Was the grandfather of the patton
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Whom america knows so well.
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He was the george s. patton who died in 1864
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From wounds sustained in the civil war.
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The george s. patton that america knows so well
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Is george s. patton iii.
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But the patton about whom it was said,
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"we shall never look upon his kind again,"
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Was his grandfather.
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The truth is, we did see his kind again,
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And we saw it in his grandson.
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Don't neglect one of solomon's most basic truths,
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And that truth is this:
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When you leave this world, you don't really leave.
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When you exit life's stage for the last time,
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Your likeness appears again and again
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In the children and the grandchildren you leave behind.
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That's why solomon says,
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"success without succession is failure."
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(epic music)
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I'm urging you to begin deploying these powerful principles
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From solomon's book of proverbs.
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Some books in the bible are devoted to life in the future
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Or preparing for eternity, and that's all very important,
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But the book of proverbs is about life right now.
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All around us, people are struggling in their finances,
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Their marriages, and their careers,
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Not because they don't want to live well,
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But because no one has given them the wisdom to do it.
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That wisdom is found in god's word,
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And it's exactly what dr. robert jeffress unpacks
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In this practical biblical guide,
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You'll discover 10 principles from the book of proverbs
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For success in every area of your life.
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Solomon had more wealth and opportunity
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Than anyone of his era,
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And he discovered that real success only comes
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When you build your life on the wisdom god provides.
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In my book "the solomon secrets,"
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(joyful music)
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Parenting is a difficult task
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And usually the hard days far outweigh the easy ones,
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But the bible teaches that our children are a gift from god,
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And as parents and grandparents,
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It's our responsibility to do everything we can
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To lead them to faith in jesus christ.
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Well, next time on "pathway to victory,"
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We'll move forward to secret number three
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In our series, "the solomon secrets."
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God desires that all of us would enjoy success in life,
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But if we don't consult a biblical roadmap,
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We won't end up where god wants us to be.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next
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On "pathway to victory."
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Somebody has said, "a dream without a plan is only a wish."
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It is important that we have a detailed plan
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To take us from where we are right now
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To where we believe god wants to take us in our finances,
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In our work, in our relationships,
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And in our spiritual life as well.
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You see, we don't ever arrive anywhere by accident.
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Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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"if you don't know where you're going,
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You're going to end up somewhere else,"
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Here on "pathway to victory."
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Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure

July 19, 2026 | 27:30

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