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Nothing better than to serve God when your a young man.

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There's nothing better than to Serve God when your a young man, because you give the best of your years to the Lord.
Today's youth all they want is pleasure,parties, sex and everything that satisfy their body, its all vanity because it means NOTHING.

Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. 11:10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
For all I know is that the flesh gives u nothing, but the Spirit gives u life.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Psalms 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

And the best verse of all is Ecclesiastes 12:1

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

God Bless you all :)
 

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I don't think that was the op 's point it was a message addressed soecifically to young people. You could just as easily say there is no better time to serve The Lord then while you are old and retired from your job because you have wisdom and time on your hands. Sometimes the young get caught up in the here and now and don't realize how valuable they can be so the op was addressing the young as a target audience and there is nothing wrong with that
 
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"amandatea;61998805"]Why just when you're a young man? Why not all of your life?

Of course your whole life not just when your young, but I'm going thru that I'm 21 years old and to me that's the best time of your life to start serving God and then carry on to the end. Your not saved by just saying you accept him and by doing his will, u have to do it until the end.

Not just by saying oh I accepted Jesus and I've repent already, not thats not enough to be saved, u need works and faith and do God's will to be saved.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

By God's will and by doing it 'til the end you'll be saved.

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
 
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"amandatea;61998805"]Why just when you're a young man? Why not all of your life?

Of course your whole life not just when your young, but I'm going thru that I'm 21 years old and to me that's the best time of your life to start serving God and then carry on to the end. Your not saved by just saying you accept him and by doing his will, u have to do it until the end.

Not just by saying oh I accepted Jesus and I've repent already, not thats not enough to be saved, u need works and faith and do God's will to be saved.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

By God's will and by doing it 'til the end you'll be saved.

Matthew 24:13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

I understand. I don't in any way disagree with your first post. But no time is a bad time to serve God. He is always there with open arms for us. He will wait as long as it takes. It is better for us if we are fortunate enough to always understand how good it is to serve the Lord :) Sorry to be ornery though :p
 
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I understand. I don't in any way disagree with your first post. But no time is a bad time to serve God. He is always there with open arms for us. He will wait as long as it takes. It is better for us if we are fortunate enough to always understand how good it is to serve the Lord :) Sorry to be ornery though :p

Oh for sure, any time is good. But the bible advices us to do it since the youth.
God Bless.

Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

I'm at the right age, so I'll take that advice, anything time is good like u said tho :)
 
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I understand. I don't in any way disagree with your first post. But no time is a bad time to serve God. He is always there with open arms for us. He will wait as long as it takes. It is better for us if we are fortunate enough to always understand how good it is to serve the Lord :) Sorry to be ornery though :p

Oh for sure, any time is good. But the bible advices us to do it since the youth.
God Bless.

Lamentations 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

I'm at the right age, so I'll take that advice, anything time is good like u said tho :)

Yes - it's better for us if we get to know God in childhood - if we're so fortunate (I'm not talking about being brainwashed into it either). If one has that privilege, perhaps he can avoid making grave mistakes as an adolescent like I did. That's mostly what I was trying to get across.
 
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There's nothing better than to Serve God when your a young man, because you give the best of your years to the Lord.
Today's youth all they want is pleasure,parties, sex and everything that satisfy their body, its all vanity because it means NOTHING.

You sound like an old man at church that complains about stuff but never actually does anything with his own life.
 
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You sound like an old man at church that complains about stuff but never actually does anything with his own life.

You are wrong I study and read the bible every single day. God is #1 in my life and I'm 21 that's why I say it's good to start serving God at a young age but that don't mean u can only start at a young age, of course any time of your life is acceptable as long as u do it from your heart and be serious about it
 
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