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  DON'T BE A YOUNG, PROUD, KNOW IT ALL
  by Clint Leiter
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Summary: This sermon addresses the negative stigma associated with
youthfulness, emphasizing the importance of humility over pride,
especially in young people. It highlights instances where young
individuals are noisy and self-assertive, lacking humility and
credibility in their opinions and actions. The message encourages young
people to be quiet examples of genuine believers, valuing humility and
leading by example rather than being assertive and noisy.

Topics: "Humility in Youth", "Leading by Example"
Scripture References: 1 Timothy 4:12, Proverbs 11:2, Philippians 2:3, James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5

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This sermon addresses the negative stigma associated with youthfulness,
emphasizing the importance of humility over pride, especially in young
people. It highlights instances where young individuals are noisy and
self-assertive, lacking humility and credibility in their opinions and
actions. The message encourages young people to be quiet examples of
genuine believers, valuing humility and leading by example rather than
being assertive and noisy.

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CONTENT
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At times, youthfulness carries with it a negative stigma. Mark Twain
said, youth is wasted on the young. And I believe the reason he said
that is because, typically, young people are not humble but proud.

And so, we sure don't want that lack of humility. We don't want, as
young people, to be noisy and self-assertive know-it-alls. I've seen
that before.

On the news I was watching recently, there were young people, college
age, millennials, as they're called, that were advocating socialism in
the government. Communism, basically, socialism. They were advocating
that.

There were high schoolers that were also very vocal in what the school
system should do to fix itself so that it would be safe. You know, we've
had recent shootings in school systems. And these kids were being put on
news programs.

They were hosting rallies. They had a voice given to them. And they were
very noisy and very assertive.

This is what our country should do. We should go the way of socialism,
or this is the reforms that we should make in our school system in order
to make it safe. And I couldn't help it, but I had the thought, you
know, you high schoolers, how is it you've become an expert on such a
difficult matter when you've only had your driver's license two months?
I mean, there are great minds at work trying to figure out what we
should and shouldn't do in these ways.

And here are these kids that are noisily asserting that this is what we
ought to do. I've seen young people, unmarried teenagers, who had
assertive, confident advice for older married couples how they should
handle their kids and their marriages. I have seen, and these are
examples that I'm aware of, I've seen teenagers reprove their pastors
with confident, assertive opinions on how the pastors should handle
their church policies and the way things should be handled in the
church.

You see that noisy, confident, assertive viewpoint. That ought not to be
our young people. There ought to be an element of humility because what
that causes is it takes away all their credibility and it gives people a
reason to look down on them because of their youthfulness.

Rather than being noisy and self-assertive, we ought to concentrate on
this right here that we find at the very end of that verse, an example.
Be an example. A quiet example of a genuine believer.

And I say that such a simple example as that is often undervalued. You
look at a young person and you say this is an example of a young
believer. That's good.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/afTq48O0KN4.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/clint-leiter/dont-be-a-young-proud-know-it-all/
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