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   8 (Ps 19:14; 119:15) This Book of the Law must not depart   
   from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night so that you may act   
   carefully according to all that is written in it. For then you will make   
   your way successful, and you will be wise.   
   9 (Ge 28:15; Dt 31:7-8) Have not I commanded you?   
   Be strong and courageous.   
   Do not be afraid or dismayed, for the Lord   
   your God is with you wherever you go."   
      
   [7] Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do   
   according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not   
   from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper   
   whithersoever thou goest.   
   [8] This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;   
   but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do   
   according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way   
   prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.   
   [9] Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not   
   afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee   
   whithersoever thou goest.   
      
   "How do we provice resources for the questions young adults are asking -   
   espically when they feel the church doesn't allow them to search - and how do   
   we parent our adult children when they're making decisions we don't agree   
   with?"   
      
   Think of the Prodigal Son   
   Stages of Parenting   
      
   During Childhood - parent from autohrity   
   During the teen year - parent from relationship   
   The during adulthood - parent through influence.   
      
   Deuteronomy 6:4-9   
      
   4 (Jn 17:3; Isa 42:8) Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God. The Lord is one!   
   5 (Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30) And you shall love the Lord your God with all   
   your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.   
   6 (Dt 11:18; 32:46) These words, which I am commanding you today,   
   shall be in your heart.   
   7 (Dt 11:19; Eph 6:4) You shall teach them diligently to your children   
   and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk   
   by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.   
   8 (Ex 13:9; Dt 11:18) You shall bind them as a sign on your hand,   
   and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.   
   9 (Dt 11:20; Isa 57:8) You shall write them on the doorposts   
   of your house and on your gates.   
      
   [4] Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:   
   [5] And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all   
   thy soul, and with all thy might.   
   [6] And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:   
   [7] And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk   
   of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,   
   and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.   
   [8] And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be   
   as frontlets between thine eyes.   
   [9] And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.   
      
   "How do we understnad or support an older child, lie a university-aged son,   
   who is very closed off, doesn't share much, and doesn't have friends?"   
      
   Be intentional. Be curious .  Pray for them.   
      
   G) Mental Health questions.   
      
   "How do we protect children from mental health issues - especially as   
   a full-time working mom who feels guilty for missing important time with her   
   kids?"   
      
   Really hard questions   
      
   Mental health is a complex interplay of genetic, biological, psychological,   
   and environmental factors.   
      
   A key role in a parnet is to help child develop resilience.   
      
   Encourage questions, stay curious .   
      
   H) Extended Family Issues   
      
   "How do we nagivate extended family - dysfunctional ways of relating,   
   comparison of grandchildren and favoritism?"   
      
   Godly boundaries are good, and often necessary.   
      
   2 Timothy 3:1-5   
      
   1 (Eze 38:16; 2Pe 3:3) Know this: In the last days perilous times will come.   
   2 (Php 2:21; Jude 1:16) Men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,   
   boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,   
   3 (Ro 1:31; 1Ti 3:11) without natural affection, trucebreakers, slanderers,   
   unrestrained, fierce, despisers of those who are good,   
   4 (1Ti 3:6) traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasures   
   more than lovers of God,   
   5 (1Ti 5:8; Mt 7:15) having a form of godliness,   
   but denying its power. Turn away from such people.   
      
   [1] This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.   
   [2] For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,   
   blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,   
   [3] Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent,   
   fierce, despisers of those that are good,   
   [4] Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of   
   God;   
   [5] Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such   
   turn away.   
      
   Galatians 3:13   
      
   13 (Dt 21:23; Gal 4:5) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law   
   by being made a curse for us-as it is written, "Cursed is everyone   
   who hangs on a tree"(Dt 21:23.)-   
      
   [13] Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse   
   for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:   
      
   Get on the same page as a couple to agree on the values that you intend   
   to live out as a family - reflecting the Person and character   
   of JEsus Christ. And then teach your children.   
      
   1) Hebrews 7,8,9,10   
      
   Hebrews 7   
      
   The Priestly Order of Melchizedek   
      
   1 (Ge 14:18-20; Mk 5:7) For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest   
   of the Most High God, met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings   
   and blessed him.   
   2 To him Abraham also gave a tenth part of everything. In the first place,   
   his name is translated "king of righteousness," and then also he is king   
   of Salem, which means "king of peace."   
   3 (Heb 7:6) Without father, without mother, without descent,   
   having neither beginning of days nor end of life,   
   but made like the Son of God, he continually remains a priest.   
   4 (Ac 2:29; Ge 14:20) Now consider how great this man was, to whom even   
   the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.   
   5 Surely the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have   
   a command to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is,   
   from their brothers, though they also come from the seed of Abraham.   
   6 (Ro 4:13; Ge 14:19-20) But this man, whose descent is not numbered among   
   them, received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.   
   7 Without question, the inferior is blessed by the superior.   
   8 (Heb 5:6; 6:20) In the one case mortal men receive tithes, but in the other   
   he of whom it is witnessed that he is alive receives them.   
   9 One might say that Levi also, who receives tithes,   
   paid tithes through Abraham,   
   10 for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met Abraham.   
   11 (Heb 8:7; Gal 2:21) If perfection were attained through the Levitical   
   priesthood (for through it the people received the law), what further need   
   was there that another priest should rise in the order of Melchizedek,   
   rather than established in the order of Aaron?   
   12 For a change in the priesthood necessitates a change in the law.   
   13 For the One concerning whom these things are spoken pertains to another   
   tribe, from which no man served at the altar.   
   14 (Isa 11:1; Mic 5:2; Lk 3:33) For it is evident that our Lord descended   
   from Judah, a tribe concerning which Moses said nothing about priests.   
   15 This is far more evident when another priest arises in the likeness   
   of Melchizedek,   
   16 who becomes a priest not by a law pertaining to ancestry,   
   but by the power of an endless life.   
      
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