RR: That’s a good word. (Applause) Dave, I know that you understand that young people, high school students, college students, look up to professional athletes. They hold you in such high regard, in some cases they hold you too high. They want to be like you. They, if you’re a football player they want to run with the ball like you run or carry the ball, throw it or kick it or pass it. Or if it’s basketball, they want to shoot like you shoot. Or if it’s golf, they want to hit the ball like you do, or they want to stride down the fairway like a Jack Nicholas or something like that. And young people hold professional athletes in high regard. And what I want to talk to you about and ask you to speak to is, well, concerning the matter that happened recently with the young man from University of Maryland, drafted by the Boston Celtics, who wound up in this cocaine situation apparently for the first time in his life. I don’t know that anyone will ever know all of the circumstances because in those kind of things we don’t always know exactly what happened. They know what perhaps it appears that happened. But I know of your determination against drugs and against that in professional sports, but what would you say to a young person, high school, junior high, college, that has athletic ability but somehow they have either somehow got with drugs or the devil is playing tricks with their minds, what would you say to them? Take a moment and talk out of your heart.
DB: I would say three things to them. The most important thing for a child or someone who is living at home with his parents is, number one, children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right to honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you and you may enjoy a long life in the land the Lord your God has given you. Number one, to obey your parents. Number two, the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15:33, “Do not be deceived, for bad company corrupts good morals.” So number one, to obey your parents and watch who you associate to, with. And number three, oftentimes in life that every generation feels that our parents or another generation is obsolete and we have to experience everything for ourselves. One of the ways we learn is from other people’s experiences. Drugs, the use of alcohol, the abuse of alcohol, those are all dead-end streets. How many people have to die before you wise up? And for me, I don’t have to use drugs or abuse alcohol. I don’t drink for that matter as it is because of all the people that look up to me, and it’s just really a dead-end road. And it’s not glorifying to your body, for the body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
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