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At times, youthfulness carries with it

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a negative stigma.

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Mark Twain said, "youth is 
wasted on the young."

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And I believe the reason he said that

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is because typically young people

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are not humble, but proud.

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And so, we sure don't want that

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lack of humility.

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We don't want as young people

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to be noisy and self-
assertive know-it-all's.

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I've seen that before.

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On the news I was watching recently,

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there were young people -

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college age, millenials 
as they're called -

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that were advocating socialism

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in the government.

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Communism basically - socialism.

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They were advocating that.

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There were high schoolers

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that were also very vocal

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in what the school system should do

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to fix itself so that it would be safe.

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You know, we've had recent shootings

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in school systems.

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And these kids were being 
put on news programs.

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They were hosting rallies.

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They had a voice given to them

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and they were very noisy

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and very assertive.

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"This is what our country should do.

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We should go the way of socialism."

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Or, "this is the reform 
that we should make

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in our school system

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in order to make it safe."

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And I couldn't help it,

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but I had the thought, you know,

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you high schoolers -

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how is it you've become an expert

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on such a difficult matter

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when you've only had your 
driver's license two months.

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I mean, there are great minds at work

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trying to figure out what we should

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and shouldn't do in these ways,

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and here are these kids

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that are noisily asserting that 
this is what we ought to do.

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I've seen young people, unmarried,

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teenagers, who had assertive,

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confident advice for 
older, married couples -

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how they should handle their kids

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and their marriages.

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I have seen, and these are examples

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that I'm aware of -

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I've seen teenagers reprove their pastors

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with confident, assertive opinions

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on how the pastor should handle

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their church policies

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and the way things should be handled

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in the church.

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You see, that noisy, 
confident, assertive viewpoint -

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that ought not to be in our young people.

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There ought to be an element of humility

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because what that causes is

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it takes away all their credibility

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and it gives people a reason

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to look down on them

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because of their youthfulness.

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Rather than being noisy and self-assertive

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we ought to concentrate on this right here

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that we find at the very 
end of that verse:

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an example.

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Be an example.

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A quiet example of a genuine believer.

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And I say that such a 
simple example as that

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is often undervalued.

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You look at a young person and you say

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this is an example of a young believer.

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That's good.