Relieving Peer Pressure

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"Well, at least I don't have to worry about peer
pressure!"
102 year old woman discussing her longevity
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Young people are constantly pressured to...
? Listen to the music everyone else listens to ?
Talk and swear like everyone else ? Dress like
everyone else ? Smoke tobacco or worse ? Drink
alcohol ? Have sex ? Even deny and speak against
God
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Jn.1242,43 42 Nevertheless even of the rulers
many believed on him but because of the
Pharisees they did not confess it, lest they
should be put out of the synagogue 43 for they
loved the glory that is of men more than the
glory that is of God.
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1 Pet.43,4 3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you
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1 Pet.43,4 3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you
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1 Pet.43,4 3 For the time past may suffice to
have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to
have walked in lasciviousness, lusts,
winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and
abominable idolatries 4 wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them into the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you
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Don't Follow the Crowd
Exo.232 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to
do evil neither shalt thou speak in a cause to
turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice
Prov.414 Enter not into the path of the
wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.
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Avoid Evil Companions
Avoid The Fool Prov.147 1320 The Angry
Man Prov.2224,25 The Drunkard/Gluttons/Slothfu
l Prov.2319-21 Those who teach sinful ways
Prov.414,15 The Adulterer Prov.58
1 Cor.56 Your glorying is not good. Know ye
not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump?
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Choose Good Companions
1 Cor.1533 Be not deceived Evil
companionships corrupt good morals.
CEV Dont fool yourselves. Bad friends will
destroy you.
Prov.1320 Walk with wise men, and thou shalt
be wise But the companion of fools shall smart
for it.
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ABC News Nightline, March 12, 1982, Drugs and
the Entertainment Business
Q Why get so absorbed by something (drugs) that
you know is going to tear you apart?
A You sort of try to emulate people around you
and if youre around people who are doing a lot
of drugs, you sort of start doing them, you know.
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Choose Good Companions
1 Cor.1533 Be not deceived Evil
companionships corrupt good morals.
CEV Dont fool yourselves. Bad friends will
destroy you.
Prov.1320 Walk with wise men, and thou shalt
be wise But the companion of fools shall smart
for it.
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Do Not Conform to the World
Rom.122 And be not fashioned according to this
world but be ye transformed by the renewing of
your mind, and ye may prove what is the good and
acceptable and perfect will of God.
Eph.422-24 22 that ye put away, as concerning
your former manner of life, the old man, that
waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit 23 and
that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24
and put on the new man, that after God hath been
created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
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Be a Good Influence
Matt.516 Even so let your light shine before
men that they may see your good works, and
glorify your Father who is in heaven.
1 Pet.29 But ye are a elect race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own
possession, that ye may show forth the
excellencies of him who called you out of
darkness into his marvellous light
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Don't Follow the Crowd
Avoid Evil Companions
Choose Good Companions
Do Not Conform to the World
Be a Good Influence