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Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure - Secret #2 (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure - Secret #2 (Part 2) | July 10, 2026

♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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Every christian parent longs to see their child develop
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Their own personal relationship with jesus christ.
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So how can moms and dads draw their children toward the faith
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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 to becoming
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A successful parent.
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These time-tested principles will help you make a lasting,
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Christ-like impression on your children and your grandchildren.
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My message is titled "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 gonna go unseen. ♪
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♪ yes, it will. ♪
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♪ oh, until then. ♪
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♪ with joy i'll carry on. ♪
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♪ until the day. ♪
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♪ my eyes behold that city. ♪
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♪ until the day. ♪
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♪ oh, until the day. ♪
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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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Announcer: god wants you to experience his best in every
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Area of life, and the wisdom to get there is found in his word.
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In "the solomon's secrets," dr. robert jeffress draws on the
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Life of the wisest and most successful man who ever lived to
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Bring you ten life-changing principles from proverbs.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: and in that time you have with your child,
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Go through billy graham's "steps to peace with god,"
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Or the "roman road," or "the four spiritual laws."
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And when you're finished ask them,
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"would you like to become a christian right now?"
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And more likely than not, they'll be ready to pray
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To receive christ as their savior at that point.
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You know, like many of you, i was in the delivery room
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When both of my children were born.
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That was exciting; but that excitement pales
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In comparison to the thrill of seeing my children born again,
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When i knew for sure from that point on that i would see them
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Forever and ever because of their relationship with christ.
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Parents, commit to leading your children to christ.
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The second c the--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.
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In proverbs chapter 6, there are numerous
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Spiritual values we need 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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Why does this--why is it that it's essential
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To teach spiritual values to our children?
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Dr. albert siegel said in the stanford observer,
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"when it comes to rearing children,
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Every society is only 20 years away from barbarianism.
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Twenty years is all we have to accomplish the task
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Of civilizing infants who are born into our midst each year."
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Parents, listen to me.
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If you're trying to raise godly children
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In this godless culture, you're swimming upstream.
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Every day your children are being assaulted through
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The media, through friends, through life experiences that--
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With values that are completely contrary to your values
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But more importantly to god's values, and that's why we have
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To be proactive in teaching spiritual truth to our children.
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Moses understood the importance of doing that.
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Turn over to deuteronomy chapter 6.
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Remember, moses was preparing his spiritual children,
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The israelites, to enter into canaan.
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He knew in this promised land they were going to face
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Numerous temptations of immorality and idolatry,
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And he knew the only way israel was going to steer clear
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Of those temptations was by training their children
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To remain faithful to god.
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Now, listen to the urgency you find in deuteronomy 6.
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Moses said, "hear, o israel.
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The lord is our god, the lord is one.
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And you shall love the lord your god with all of your heart
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And with all of your soul and with all of your might.
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And these words, which i," moses, "am commanding you today,
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Shall be on your heart and you shall teach them
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Diligently to your sons,
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And you shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when
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You walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up."
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I want you to notice in verse 7 the two ways
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We're to communicate spiritual truth to our children.
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First of all, we are to do it diligently.
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That hebrew word diligently there means
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To intensely sharpen.
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There's a sense of urgency there.
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No, when we talk about spiritual values,
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We're not talking about nice little platitudes to tell
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Your children like, "be sweet to people,"
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Or, "cleanliness is next to godliness."
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No.
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These are urgent truths that have to be communicated.
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We've got to remind our children that they have an adversary
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The devil who is doing everything he can to destroy
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Every part of their life.
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We need to be proactive.
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We need to be intense.
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We need to sound the alarm.
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But notice also in verse 7 in teaching us how to teach
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This truth, he tells us it ought to be
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In the course of everyday life.
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The way you communicate spiritual truth to your children
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Is not by bringing them to church just once a week
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On sunday morning for a great program
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In sunday school and worship.
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That's important.
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Don't neglect doing that.
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But that's not the only thing we're to do.
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It doesn't mean, you know, pulling out the old family bible
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And dusting it off once a week and having a forced
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Devotional time with your children.
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It's fine to have a devotional time.
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But what moses is saying is our spiritual instruction
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Ought to be a part of our everyday life.
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He says it ought to happen when you sit down
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At the dinner table or in some cases
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When you're in your car in the drive through
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Through chick-fil-a, you know, wherever dinner is for you.
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Use that time to talk about spiritual truth.
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When you're driving someplace, use that time.
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Use natural conversation to talk about spiritual truth.
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When you're sitting around and watching a television program,
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A television program that maybe goes against god's truth,
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Use that as a teaching opportunity.
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Look for those teachable moments to communicate spiritual truth.
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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 i was preaching a message in my
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Last church 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 who was about 11
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At the time, and she had been in the first service and she said,
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"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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And then she listed about four or five suggestions.
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Guess what?
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They were great suggestions, and she was listening
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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 5.
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He addressed his 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 5, "you shall love the lord your god
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With all of your heart, with all of your soul,
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With all of your might.
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And these words, which i'm commanding you,
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Shall be on," underline that, "your heart."
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And then and only then can you teach them diligently
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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 to discipline
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Their children consistently.
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Solomon devotes a lot of ink to the subject of the discipline
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Of children in the book of proverbs.
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We don't have time this morning to examine everything he says
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About proverb--about discipline in the book of proverbs,
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But i can distill everything he says about disciplining children
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With these three principles from the book of proverbs.
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First of all, solomon says discipline should begin
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Early in life.
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In proverbs 13:24 he says, "he who spares his rod hates
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His son, but he who loves him disciplines him diligently."
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And there the word diligently literally means at early dawn.
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If you love your child, 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.
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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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Secondly, discipline should be tailor-made for the child.
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It needs to be tailor-made for the child.
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You know, there's this running debate in christian circles
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And educational circles.
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What's more effective, physical corporal punishment
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Or verbal reproof?
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The answer is yes.
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Both are effective.
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Both are necessary depending upon the child
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And depending upon the situation.
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Yes, the bible does advocate physical discipline.
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In proverbs 23, verses 13 and 14 solomon said,
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"do not hold back discipline from the child.
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Although you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
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You shall beat him with the rod and deliver
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His soul from sheol."
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Now, before you call child protective services on me
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Or solomon,
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Understand what solomon is saying and not saying.
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He is not advocating the abuse of children.
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I believe that hell's hottest flames will be reserved
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For those who abuse children.
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That's not just my conjecture.
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Jesus said if anybody hurts a child,
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It would be better that a millstone be tied around
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His neck and he be cast into the depths of the sea
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Than to face god.
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Now, we're not talking about child abuse here.
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What solomon is talking about is the appropriate
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Physical discipline of a child that's done in love,
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Not out of anger.
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If it's done correctly, it will not only stop
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Their rebellion against their parents
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But against ultimately god.
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Because you see, parents, a child's rebellion
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If left unchecked, unchallenged will eventually metastasize
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Into rebellion against god that will lead that child into hell.
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That's why the most loving thing we can do is to discipline
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Our children, and that leads also to another side of this.
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Sometimes, proverbs 19, verse 17 says,
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The more effective way to discipline is
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With verbal correction.
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My brother who's a lieutenant in the police department,
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My dad used to beat the bejesus out of me and my brother would
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Run around the house while my father would chase him
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Outside the house, and he'd just beat him within an inch
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Of his life and my brother would say, "that didn't hurt.
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Do it again."
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You know, some people are like that.
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Other people respond better to verbal correction,
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And that's why proverbs 29, verse 17 says,
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"correct your son, and he will give you comfort.
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He will also delight your soul."
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That word correct literally means verbally reprove
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Your child.
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Number three, discipline should be grounded in love.
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One way we know that god loves us is
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He doesn't let us get away with anything.
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If you're a child of god, god is not going to let you
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Get away with rebellion.
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He is going to bring discipline into your life.
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In proverbs 3:11 to 12 solomon says,
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"my son, do not reject the discipline of the lord
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Or loathe his reproof," correction,
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"for whom the lord loves he reproves,
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Even as a father the son in whom he delights."
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The sign of god's love for you and me is that he disciplines us
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When we stray from him.
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The way we demonstrate love toward our children is we refuse
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To allow them to get away with rebellion against us
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Or against god.
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One writer said it this way: "the parent must convince
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Himself that punishment is not something he does to the child,
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It is something he does for the child.
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The parent's attitude toward his disobedient youngster is this:
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'i love you too much to allow you to behave like that.'"
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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 there is no proverb specifically
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That says that, but it's 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 their--
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Your child's bent.
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It takes time.
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It takes a quality of time, but it also takes
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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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I read a study recently that said a century ago parents
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Spent 54% of their waking hours with their children.
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You know what the figure is today 100 years later?
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Eighteen percent.
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I read one study that said the average middle-aged father
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Interacts with his children an average of 37 seconds every day.
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You can't have any impact on your children's lives
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Doing that, and many people aren't.
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Usa today had a survey one time.
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They asked a group of teenagers, "when you run into problems,
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If you were to run into serious trouble,
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Where would you turn first?"
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You know what the number one response was for children,
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Teenagers turn when they run into trouble?
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Number one response was friends.
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The second response was music.
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The third response was television.
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Moms, you know where you ranked on the list?
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You were number 31.
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Dads, we were number 48.
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It takes time--devoted time spending with our children
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To be a successful parent.
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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
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According to god's principles and you're overwhelmed
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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 were adam
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And eve.
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They had a perfect heavenly father,
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They lived in a perfect environment,
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The garden of eden, and yet they rebelled against god.
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Wherever there is freedom, there's the possibility
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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 no money-back guarantee that if you do everything
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We talked about this morning you're going to raise
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Perfect godly children, but here's the promise.
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Parents who follow these principles are going to be
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More successful than parents who ignore these principles
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From god's word.
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There's a fascinating story that comes from our nation's history.
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Steve farrar recounts it in his book, "anchorman."
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Listen to this.
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"george s. patton from an early age was groomed
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By his father for admission 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, latin,
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Geology, and chemistry.
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Patton was described by one who knew him well as an arrogant,
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A smart dresser; and he displayed
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Classic chivalry toward ladies, making him a dashing,
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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 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 in his pocket successfully deflected
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The bullet, 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 or saw the movie
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Released in 1970, but there is a problem.
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The patton i just described-- the george s. patton
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I just described was the grandfather
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Of the patton 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
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So well is george s. patton iii, but the patton about whom
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It was said 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 in the children
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And the grandchildren you leave behind.
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That's why solomon says success without succession is failure.
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Jeffress: ready to get started?
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Are you prepared to take your next step?
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I'm urging you to begin deploying
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These powerful principles 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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Ten principles from the book of proverbs for success in every
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Jeffress: solomon had more wealth and opportunity than
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Anyone of his era.
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Build your life on the wisdom god provides.
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But the bible teaches that our children are a gift from god
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Everything we can to lead them to faith in jesus christ.
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In our series "the solomon secrets."
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We won't end up where god wants us to be.
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It is important that we have a detailed plan to take us
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From where we are right now to where we believe god wants
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To take us in our finances, in our work,
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In our relationships,
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And in our spiritual life as well.
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Robert Jeffress - Success Without Succession Is Failure - Secret #2 (Part 2)

July 10, 2026 | 27:29

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