Lest You Fall (Teen Guys Bible Study)

Week Four

Lest You Fall

 

Memory Verse: Romans 6:12-14

Day One (Monday)

Meditation 12 Be careful whom you listen to! (p. 80-83)

Read

• Matthew 15:14
  

  Carefully read the How can this affect me? Section again. Notice that it says “do not listen to anyone who justifies sexual sin!” the paragraph goes on to list a number of “excuses” men give to justify their own sinfulness. Be careful whom you listen to! It is not “just a guy thing”. It is a sin thing. Don’t fall into the trap of making excuses for your sin. (remember an excuse is simply a lie wrapped in the skin of reason—the heart is utterly deceitful, who can know it) It might be a “guy thing” to let sinfulness reign in your mind, but it takes a man to say no to sin. Men, be men. If you follow a blind leader who justifies sexual sin in any way, you will end up in a ditch with him. And remember, some ditches are so deep you may never be able to crawl out.
  

 

• 1 Peter 4:3-5
  

  Who do you know, that is bringing you down? Do you have friends at school, co-workers, buddies in the neighborhood, who are bringing you down?? Friends who make a mock of sin, and have a perverse tongue?? You don’t need “the peer pressure from those who live in constant immorality… run from those friends. You owe them absolutely nothing”(p.83). An immature guy cannot say no to peer pressure, but a man will stand for what is right. Be men. Do you know someone that you need to stop hanging out with?? Be men. Protect your own moral purity, besides a real friend would not want you to fall into immorality and sin. A real friend would want to help you stay pure and live godly lives. Are you that kind of a friend?
  

 

Day Two (Tuesday)

Meditation 13 You can’t beat this all by yourself. (p.84-86)

• Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
  

Do you see the importance of having an accountability partner?

Why don’t you call your accountability partner on the phone tonight and thank them for being a true friend. Pray together. Share with each other where you struggle the most, then help each other overcome those temptations together. Help each other. Be accountable to each other. Remember you’re always accountable to God. And you can’t beat this thing all by yourself. But together you can beat it. Help each other have victory.

Look at the list on page 86. Don’t critique your accountability partner. Criticize yourself. Are you being that kind of friend; be that kind of accountability partner.

 

Day Three (Wednesday)

Meditation 14 You are accountable to God Himself! (p. 87-90)

• Romans 14:12
  

  How amazing it is to think that we have “an all-knowing, all powerful accountability partner. He is God! A true accountability partner insists that we honestly share with him what is going on in our lives” (p.88). Share with Him your struggles, your fears, and your failures. He truly does love you. Ask Him for victory. He will give it to you (1 Cor. 10:13). If you do this daily you will experience a life of victory, and joy. Keep a short sin account with God. Pray daily and seek help from the true “accountability partner”, who has the power to actually give you the victory that you desire.
  

 

• 1 Corinthians 3:16-18
  

Put some notes in your Bible:

Underline, “Know ye not”, “ye are the temple of God”, “and let no man deceive himself” (underline “himself” twice, or circle it, or draw some stars around it, or construct a sign with neon flashing lights around it. If you’re deceived in this area , it is yourself that is to blame. You.) Anyway, I digress—write this statement in your Bible next to this verse: “Don’t you know? Don’t deceive yourself!! Don’t be fooled. Don’t be deceived. What you do with your body does matter.”

Meditate on this.

 

Day Four (Thursday)

Meditation 15 Sin can be resisted. Sin must be resisted! (p. 91-96)

 

• Romans 6:12-14
  

  Wow, that was awesome. I am so glad that i get to read this meditation today while i am typing out my thoughts for you, and i get to read it next week(which is actually today) the day that you will be reading it. Anyway…
  

  This is great. Remember Meditation 1, LUST IS CONTROLLING, should already be written in your bible. You should read the How can this affect me? Section on page 92. I read it about ten times. It’s great, meditate on it.
  

  Copy the whole paragraph onto your notes/quotes page in the back of your Bible. And write the reference to these verses with it so you can refer to them later. Another quote that I can remember hearing Rand Hummel say while I was at camp as a teen that would go great with this is,
  

  “There are two choices on the shelf: pleasing God, or pleasing self.”

  “You can choose your sin, but you cannot choose your consequences.”

 

Your choices are so important. This makes me think of a statement made by Oscar Wilde. While it is deep, it is full of meaning. Oscar Wilde was a magnificent writer and thinker. His most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Importance of Being Earnest, and The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He lived in the late 1800’s and has been considered by some to be a modern day Shakespeare. The tragedy of Oscar Wilde’s life is that he lived for pleasure. He lived a life of unspeakable perverse sins. His wicked life style landed him in Reading Prison. While there He wrote a treatise entitled De Profundis. (Latin for Out of the depths, taken from Psalms). The treatise is addressed to the friend who led him astray, who he practiced sin with, but he makes the bold statement that he does not blame his friend for his sinful lifestyle. He blamed himself. Read this quote from De Profundis,

“I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand…. I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease… I surrounded myself with the smaller natures and the meaner minds. I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curios joy. Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensations. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me and passed on I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the housetops. I ceased to be Lord over myself. I was no longer the Captain of my Soul, and did not know it… I ended in horrible disgrace.”

Did you catch that? He said he “forgot that every little action (–CHOICES!!!!!!) Either “makes or unmakes character!!!!”

Choices: make or unmake character.

 

If you’re bored this week, go to the library and check out the book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Or call Pastor Jon and see if you can borrow one of his two copies of the book. (This is one of my all time favorite books)

 

Anyway, meditate on this. Sin can be resisted, it is your CHOICE.

 

• Romans 6:16
  

 

• Ephesians 4:17-19
  

 

Day Five (Friday)

Meditation 15 was so awesome I want you to read it again today. Seriously. Read it again, meditate on it.

Sin can be resisted. Sin must be resisted!

• Romans 6:12-14
  
• Romans 6:16
  
• Ephesians 4:17-19
  

 

Day Six (Saturday)

Use today to get caught up on anything you might have missed in the past few weeks.

Also remember that today is Pastor Jon’s birthday. So buy him a new car… j/k J