# Danger of Never Growing Up

> Song 8:9 &mdsh; If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

> Hebrews 6 read

## I. The Danger is Real

- **casual**: relaxed and unconcerned.
- PICKING AT THE THE RUST SPOT, not just letting things slip
- 2018 surevy discovered, Americans are getting shorter. For Most of US History Americans were among the tallest people in the world. Colonial army was by average 3 inches taller than British soldiers. (WW2 2" taller than germans) AMERICANS WERE TALL BECAUSE AMERICANS WERE HEALTHY.
- Annebelle Tuttle (4'6")

## II.  Stunted Growth
- Are we  **PREPARING**? Getting Ready?
1. **Genetics** - Genetics account for 86% of height 
2. **Environment** - Diet, Habits of Life (Diet in child hood  is crucial to height development)

- There has never been so many **CHRISTIAN THINGS** = Integrity (honest, moral uprightness -- You can live upright in an upside down world. 3 Hebrew Children)
- "Unisex Alpaca Slippers" --- NO
- Sneaking Kisses in the Youth Camp Closet
- Loseness men and women
- Not everyone is "god's children" ==> Must be Born AGain

## III. How Do We Grow?

- **HOW WE GROW** Growth doesn't come just cause I "want to grow up" like a preteen wanting to be a teen or a teenager grown up - Development 
- Development not Wishful thinking (Do things)
- Integrity: 
	- Do for Someone that cannot repay.
    - Ask for instruction and Correction. "Preacher talk to us about movies"
    - Bear the Loss yourself
    - NO matter how skilled you are, let your EFFORT be your greater quality.
    
### 1. Not Enough to Hear the Word but are we "DIGESTING IT" (Chew your food!)

- WE need the Word of God DAiLY

### 3. Worship

- Spiritual beings and the Holy Ghost
- God is a Spirit and they that worship him MUST worship HIM in Spirit and in Truth.
- WHAT ARE WE WIRSHIPLIBG IF NOT GOD 
- Danger of not going anywhere