Respecting Your Elders

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Respecting Your Elders

• You shall rise before the gray headed and
  honor the presence of an old man, and fear your
  God I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 1932

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Responsibility OF Older People

• Never Retire from Gods Work
• Revelation 210

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Revelation 210

• Do not fear any of those things
  which you are about to suffer.
  Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of
  you into prison, that you may be tested, and you
  will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until
  death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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Responsibility OF Older People

• Never Retire from Gods Work
• Revelation 210
• Dont be Ashamed of Your Age
• Proverbs 1631

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Proverbs 1631

• The silver-haired head is a
  crown of glory, If it is found in the
  way of righteousness.

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Responsibility OF Older People

• Never Retire from Gods Work
• Revelation 210
• Dont be Ashamed of Your Age
• Proverbs 1631
• Serve as a Moral Example to Others
• Titus 22-3

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Titus 22-3

• That the older men be sober,
  reverent, temperate, sound in
  faith, in love, in patience 3 the older
  women likewise, that they be reverent in
  behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine,
  teachers of good things.

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Responsibility OF Older People

• Never Retire from Gods Work
• Revelation 210
• Dont be Ashamed of Your Age
• Proverbs 1631
• Serve as a Moral Example to Others
• Titus 22-3
• Older Women Train Younger Women
• Titus 24-5

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Titus 24-5

• That they older women
  admonish the young women to
  love their husbands, to love their children, 5
  to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good,
  obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
  God may not be blasphemed.

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Responsibility TO Older People

• Respect/Esteem/Honor
• Proverbs 1631 2322

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Proverbs 1631 2322

• (1631), The silver-haired head
  is a crown of glory, If it is found in
  the way of righteousness.
• (2322), Listen to your father who begot you, And
  do not despise your mother when she is old.

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Responsibility TO Older People

• Respect/Esteem/Honor
• Proverbs 1631 2322
• Provide for Them
• 1 Timothy 54,8 Mark 79-13

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1 Timothy 54,8

• (4), But if any widow has
  children or grandchildren, let
  them first learn to show piety at home and
  to repay their parents for this is good and
  acceptable before God.
• (8), But if anyone does not provide for his own,
  and especially for those of his household, he has
  denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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Mark 79-13

• He said to them, All too well you
  reject the commandment of God, that
  you may keep your
  tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor your father
  and your mother and, He who curses father or
  mother, let him be put to death. 11 But you
  say, If a man says to his father or mother,
  Whatever profit you might have received from me
  is Corban- (that is, a gift to God), 12 then
  you no longer let him do anything for his father
  or his mother, 13 making the word of God of no
  effect through your tradition which you have
  handed down. And many such things you do.

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Responsibility TO Older People

• Respect/Esteem/Honor
• Proverbs 1631 2322
• Provide for Them
• 1 Timothy 54,8 Mark 79-13
• Do Not Cast them Off
• Psalm 719

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Psalm 719

• Do not cast me off in the time
  of old age Do not forsake me
  when my strength fails.
• Question How is it that God providentially
  helps the older righteous man? Through the means
  of the saints!
• Secondary continue to use the elderly (their
  wise counsel remains helpful).

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Responsibility TO Older People

• Respect/Esteem/Honor
• Proverbs 1631 2322
• Provide for Them
• 1 Timothy 54,8 Mark 79-13
• Do Not Cast them Off
• Psalm 719
• Children Respect Obey
• Ephesians 61-3

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Ephesians 61-3

• Children, obey your parents in
  the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor
  your father and mother, which is the
  first commandment with promise 3 that it may be
  well with you and you may live long on the earth.

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Old Age is a Blessing

• The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He
  shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those who
  are planted in the house of the LORD Shall
  flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall
  still bear fruit in old age They shall be
  fresh and flourishing.
• Psalm 9212-14