S3:015 Proverbs 16
Join The Journey
Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
"Gray hair is a crown of glory?" On today's episode, Emma Dotter is talking all about a biblical perspective on age and how it does not disqualify you, but it is worth acknowledging.
Additional Scripture referenced in this episode:
1 Kings 3:7-8, "But I am like a little child"
1 Timothy 4:12, "Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young."
Jeremiah 1:7-8, "Don’t say, ‘I’m too young,’"
1 Kings 3:9 "Give me an understanding heart"
1 Kings 12:6 "Discussed the matter with the older men who had counseled his father"
Leviticus 19:32, "“You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man"
Job 12:12, "Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days."
Deuteronomy 32:7, "consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you."
Isaiah 46:4, "even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you."
Psalm 92:14, "They still bear fruit in old age;"
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, join the Journey family, friends, and guests. |
| 0:04.5 | You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. |
| 0:10.5 | Thanks for joining. |
| 0:11.8 | Today, if you're following along in a Join-the-Journey guided journal, which we've linked in the episode description, |
| 0:17.1 | you know that we're talking all about verse 31. |
| 0:20.3 | Gray hair is a crown of glory and a biblical perspective on age. |
| 0:23.8 | But before we do, two very quick announcements. |
| 0:26.2 | Number one, if you have kids, make sure to check out the Join the Junior Podcast, |
| 0:32.0 | which we've linked in the episode description. |
| 0:33.9 | And number two, if you've got social media, connect with us on Instagram as we recently launched an account and would love to connect at underscore join the journey underscore. |
| 0:44.0 | Moving right along, let's get started on our lesson for today. |
| 0:48.1 | What is a biblical perspective on age? |
| 0:51.3 | When I was in high school, I was introduced to this idea, and the idea was simple. |
| 0:56.2 | Our culture has a low expectation of teenagers. And it looks like this. The oldest kid in the family |
| 1:02.3 | turns 13, and other parents are like, oh, no, the teenage years are here. Or the youngest kid in the |
| 1:08.8 | family turns 13, and other parents are like, uh-oh, a house |
| 1:13.3 | full of teenagers. Vandalism in the neighborhood? Probably teenagers. Someone's house got toilet |
| 1:19.4 | papered? Probably teenagers. But back in 1732, there was a guy named George. He was born in Virginia and came from a pretty normal middle-class family, but when he was 11 years old, he lost his father. So he had some obstacles or challenges to overcome. But something else you should know about George is that even though his peers or friends didn't really think he was super smart or anything special. He was diligent in school, |
| 1:46.8 | and he became really great at geometry, trigonometry, and surveying, think like algebra and |
| 1:53.9 | calculus combined. By the time he was 16, he was pretty good at math. And I read that, and I was |
| 1:58.8 | stunned because I failed algebra two in high school |
| 2:02.4 | and had to do credit recovery. But at 17 years old, George had the chance to put his studies to good |
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