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MR. YAN
 NEW FORMAT
• DIFFERENT TEACHERS
• DIFFERENT METHODS
 GETTING OLDER,
GROWING WISER
• 1 SAMUEL 3:19; 2:26
• 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9
 CHILI DAVIS
GROWING OLD IS MANDATORY, GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL
WE ARE GETTING OLDER, EVERY DAY,
MONTH, YEAR
 ABRAHAM LINCOLN
“It is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”
 TONYA HARDING
• American figure skater
• Ruined her future in the sport when she was implicated in the attack
on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Winter Olympic trials
In 1994, she earned notoriety when ex-husband Jeff Gillooly hired a
hitman to assault skater Nancy Kerrigan at the Olympic trials. Harding
pleaded guilty to hindering the investigation into Kerrigan's attack, and
was subsequently banned from competing in the U.S. for life. 
 REFLECTION
THOSE WHO HAD BEEN ADULTS,
YET CANNOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM ADULTS
 DAS SEIN (BEING/EXISTING)
• Quick temper
• Overly sensitive to criticism
• Overreactive to conflict
• Defensive
 DAS SOLLEN (WHAT SHOULD BE)
• Calm under pressure
• Difficult to provoke
• Uses criticism to learn
• Skilled at conflict resolution
• Rarely defensive
 SAMUEL
HOFNI AND PINEHAS (THE SONS OF
ELI)
1 SAMUEL 2-3
 1 SAMUEL 12: 12-17
• 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• 13 And the priests' custom with the people was, that
, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, w
ith a
fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
• 14 And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook
brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came t
hither.
• 15
Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed,
Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.
• 16 And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take 
as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me
 now: and if not, I will take it by force.
• 17
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the o
 HOFNI AND PINEHAS
• QUICK TEMPER
• SELFISH
• The sons of Belial
 SAMUEL
• 1 SAMUEL 3:19
• And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his
words fall to the ground.
• EMOTIONAL MATURITY
• PERSONAL MATURITY
 Splits and Quarrels in the Church
• 1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even
 as unto babes in Christ.
• 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it
, neither yet now are ye able.
• 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is
 among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?
• 5 Who then is Paul, and who is
 Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?
• 6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
• 7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
• 8 Now he that planteth and he that watereth
are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
• 9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.
 PAUL
• 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11
• When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
things.
 PERSONAL MATURITY
• When we became a man, we put away childish things
• Calm under pressure
• Difficult to provoke
• Uses criticism to learn
• Skilled at conflict resolution
• Rarely defensive
 WISDOM
• 1 KINGS 4: 29-30
• 29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding mu
ch, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that 
is on the sea shore.
• 30 And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of
the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• PROVERBS 2:6
• For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh
 knowledge and understanding.
GETTING OLDER,
GROWING WISER