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Question: What are your greatest fears

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for young believers in our generation?

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Clint: One of my greatest fears

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for young believers in this day and age

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is that they will succumb 
to peer pressure.

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They won't stand alone.

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It's hard to stand alone,

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whether it's on the job,

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whether it's your companions in some club

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or some organization you're a part of.

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Being willing to stand alone -

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that takes a certain amount of character.

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You know, the hard times we go through

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are designed in the providence of God

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to mold us and to develop character in us.

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In this day and age, 
the younger generation,

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I think they haven't faced 
that in a general way

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like the older generation did.

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Those that lived through depressions;

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those that lived through world wars;

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those that grew up with difficulties -

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you don't have to go back but 
maybe a generation or two

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and you find that they suffered hardship

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and they were able to stand alone.

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They were tougher.

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They were more gritty that way.

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I think that helps.

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I think that's good.

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In the way of discipline,

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you know, we might be disciplined -

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we tend to think of discipline

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as spanking your children.

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There's an infraction, 
there's a rebellion.

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And you take them off to the side

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and you give them a spanking.

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And we tend to view discipline 
in the Bible that way.

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But there's another form of discipline

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that is simply hardship brought 
into the life of a person

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to develop their character.

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You've got it in Romans 5.

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Proven character comes as 
a result of tribulation.

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And so God does that lovingly

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for a believer.

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He doesn't do that for the worldly man.

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That man might face difficulty

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as a consequence of his sin

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or his life choices or whatever,

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but God's not involved in that.

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It's the similar situation to a parent

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being in a Walmart with their child.

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Their child acts up. 
They discipline their child.

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Over here is another child acting up.

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They don't discipline that child.

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They might want to.

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They might want to do that,

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but they don't have 
anything to do with that child.

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It's the same way with God

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in the life of a believer.

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You know, He disciplines His child

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through tribulations,

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develops their character,

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fashions them for what 
He wants them to do.

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But He's not concerned about 
the worldly man that way.

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For him it's judgment; for him it's wrath;

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for him it's consequential.

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But for young people, I fear for them

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when they're not able 
to stand on their own;

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when they're not able to say to the world

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this is me - like it or leave it.

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This is the way I am.

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Take me how I am or not.

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And stand against those things.

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The world is becoming 
so militant in its sin.

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The alternative lifestyles

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and the far left liberalism

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is very militant in our country nowadays.

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And if you're a Christian, 
to stand against that

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you've got to be able to have courage

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and stand up against those pressures.

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