Teach Them to Make Wise Choices, Part 1

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

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Summary

Kids facing a big decision? Teach them how to evaluate their options. Helping them choose wisely saves years of heartache and pain.

Transferable Concept #4: Teach them to make WISE choices.

A theology of holiness

God is high and holy, “TOTALLY other.” -Rev 4:8-11
God is absolute TRUTH. -Jn 14:6
God’s WORD defines absolute truth. -Jn 17:17
God’s LAW (morals) are for our protection. -Ps 119
God’s ultimate aim is to make us HOLY. -Rom 8:29
Old Testament roots -Ex 3:5-6; Is 6:1-8
Biblical profiles: Moses, Stephen
New Testament command: 1 Pt 1:15-16

Help them learn to make wise choices:

1. Encourage them to saturate their minds with the TRUTH. The Bible, great books, videos -Rom 8:5-8, Jn 8:32

2. Encourage them to HANG OUT with wise, godly people. -Pr 13:20

3. Model for them how to ASK GOD for discernment and wisdom. -Ph 1:9-11, Jas 1:5

4. Teach them to monitor their EXPOSURE to the media.-Rom 12:2

Life message: Holy living allows you to experience God’s BEST for your life.

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:04.0	Are you facing a big decision, maybe a big decision about money, maybe about work or career,
0:11.0	or more importantly maybe a very big decision about a relationship?
0:16.0	How do you make wise choices?
0:19.0	That's today.
0:22.4	We're living in upside-down times, where our culture brazenly calls evil good and godly
0:28.2	behavior evil.
0:30.2	This moral chaos is rooted in faulty thinking that's been absorbed drop by drop, screen
0:35.2	by screen, choice by choice. Today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram continues his teaching series called Leaving a Legacy
0:42.3	that lasts forever.
0:44.3	In this study, I'll explain why exposing the cultural chaos is the greatest legacy we might leave our
0:50.3	offspring.
0:51.3	And then just after, Chip's message will explain how you can leverage your year-end
0:56.1	giving through the match that's active right now.
0:59.3	Until December 31st, every dollar given to support living on the edge is automatically
1:04.5	matched and therefore doubled in size and impact because of this match.
1:09.7	More later, but right now the message from Chip Ingram.
1:12.7	We make our choices, and then our choices make us.
1:18.7	Some of our good choices have resulted in a happy marriage, a great job, and deep personal satisfaction.
1:25.5	Some of our poor choices have resulted in destroying a marriage,
1:30.3	losing a job, and suffering shame and reproach. Few things will determine the quality
1:38.8	and the fulfillment of your life more than the choices you make for better or for worse.
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