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Don't Outgrow Good Instruction · Men's Morning Devotional

• 0:01
  Speaker: Gentlemen, every day is a battle.
• 0:04
  Speaker: A battle for your faith, your family, and your purpose.
• 0:07
  Speaker: The men who stand strong don't prepare when the battle arrives, they prepare before it begins.
• 0:14
  Speaker: Welcome to the Men's Morning Devotional.
• 0:17
  Speaker: Let's get into God's word.
• 0:19
  Speaker: It's time to man up.
• 0:27
  Steve Alessi: Good day, gentlemen.
• 0:28
  Steve Alessi: I'm Steve Alessi, and it's time for another man up moment.
• 0:32
  Steve Alessi: Don't forget to share this devotional with a brother.
• 0:35
  Steve Alessi: You know he's going to need it.
• 0:36
  Steve Alessi: If it's blessing you, it's going to bless him.
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  Steve Alessi: Now we'll continue looking through the book of Proverbs at chapter six, and our devotional today is going to be about a man who is challenged to not outgrow good instruction.
• 0:51
  Steve Alessi: I like this one.
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  Steve Alessi: Proverbs chapter six, twenty through twenty-three.
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  Steve Alessi: My son, keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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  Steve Alessi: Bind them upon your heart forever.
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  Steve Alessi: Fasten them around your neck.
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  Steve Alessi: When you walk, they will guide you.
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  Steve Alessi: When you sleep, they will watch over you.
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  Steve Alessi: When you awake, they will speak to you.
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  Steve Alessi: For those commands are a lamp.
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  Steve Alessi: This teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are the way to life.
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  Steve Alessi: There's something that happens to us as men throughout our life.
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  Steve Alessi: When we're young, we think our parents know everything.
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  Steve Alessi: Then we get a little older and we start thinking our parents know nothing.
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  Steve Alessi: All because we think we know everything.
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  Steve Alessi: And then somewhere along the way, if we're wise, we realize there were some things our father and our mother were trying to teach us that we should have paid more attention to.
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  Steve Alessi: Solomon tells his son, Keep your father's commands and do not forsake your mother's teachings.
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  Steve Alessi: In other words, don't forget what you were taught.
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  Steve Alessi: Now, none of us had perfect parents, and some men may not have had a strong father or mother in their lives.
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  Steve Alessi: But the principle is bigger than that.
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  Steve Alessi: Wise men stay teachable.
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  Steve Alessi: So all of us should have voices in our life that we respect enough to listen to, like a parent, a mentor, a pastor, or even a trusted friend.
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  Steve Alessi: And I would even say we need to let the word of God speak into our lives.
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  Steve Alessi: And when that occurs, Solomon says to bind them upon our hearts.
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  Steve Alessi: Why?
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  Steve Alessi: Because there will be moments when you're going to need that wisdom that you just heard.
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  Steve Alessi: Maybe you'll be sitting in a business meeting and something inside of you says, don't make that deal.
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  Steve Alessi: Maybe you'll be tempted to say something to your wife and remember, a soft answer turns away wrath.
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  Steve Alessi: Maybe you'll even be making a decision about your kids or your finances, your career, your future, or something that you were taught years ago will all of a sudden come back to you and it's going to help you.
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  Steve Alessi: That's exactly what Solomon says.
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  Steve Alessi: When you walk, they will guide you.
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  Steve Alessi: When you awake, they will speak to you.
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  Steve Alessi: See, good instructions has a way of staying with you.
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  Steve Alessi: Now, Solomon then adds something most men don't enjoy.
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  Steve Alessi: I know it hurts, but get this.
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  Steve Alessi: The corrections of discipline are the way of life.
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  Steve Alessi: Now, yeah, guys, we love instruction.
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  Steve Alessi: Tell us how to do it, we'll do it.
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  Steve Alessi: But we don't always like correction.
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  Steve Alessi: There's something in a man that wants to say, I've got this and I know what I'm doing.
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  Steve Alessi: Nobody needs to tell me how to do it.
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  Steve Alessi: But at times the most valuable voice in your life is the person who's willing to say you're wrong.
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  Steve Alessi: You need to rethink that.
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  Steve Alessi: That's tough.
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  Steve Alessi: A foolish man gets offended by correction, but a wise man gets better because of it.
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  Steve Alessi: The older you get, the easier it is to surround yourself with people who agree with you.
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  Steve Alessi: So don't do that.
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  Steve Alessi: But instead, keep people around you who love you enough to encourage you and even correct you.
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  Steve Alessi: We call it calling you up.
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  Steve Alessi: Because according to Proverbs, correction isn't trying to make your life miserable.
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  Steve Alessi: It's trying to keep your life on the right road.
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  Steve Alessi: Here's your man up challenge for today.
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  Steve Alessi: Ask yourself who has permission to correct me?
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  Steve Alessi: Not criticize you, not tear you down, no, but honestly tell you when they see something in your life that needs attention.
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  Steve Alessi: If you can't think of anyone, that's something that you need to work on.
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  Steve Alessi: And if someone gives you correction today, resist the urge to immediately defend yourself.
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  Steve Alessi: Listen first.
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  Steve Alessi: There may be some wisdom in it that keeps you from making a mistake.
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  Steve Alessi: So stay teachable.
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  Steve Alessi: Let's pray.
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  Steve Alessi: Father, keep our hearts teachable.
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  Steve Alessi: Thank you for people you've used to put wisdom into our lives.
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  Steve Alessi: Help us remember what we've been taught and give us humility when we need correction.
• 5:01
  Steve Alessi: Let your word be a lamp that guides our decisions and the light that keeps us on the right path.
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  Steve Alessi: Make us men who never become too old, too successful, or too proud to learn.
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  Steve Alessi: In Jesus' name, amen.
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  Speaker: All right, gentlemen, you've heard God's word.
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  Speaker: Now go live it.
• 5:23
  Speaker: Lead well, stand strong, honor God in everything you do.
• 5:27
  Speaker: Share this devotional with another brother.
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  Speaker: Remember, every day is another opportunity to man up.