OLD IS GOLD

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OLD IS GOLD!?

• I. GOLDEN STATISTICSIS OLD GOLD?
• When is Old Old?
• When is Old Gold?
• The Golden Scriptures
• The Golden Samples
• The Golden Statements

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II. GOLDEN SERVICE CAN OLD BE GOLD?

• A. Be a Spiritual/Community Consultant
• B. Be a Servant in the Church
• C. Be Enterprising in your Silver Sixties and
  Golden Seventies

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A. WHEN IS OLD OLD?When does Someone Attain
Old Age?

• At what age do you
• consider yourself old?
• - the Malaysian Government
• considers 56 years as old.

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• Old Age is really a social category that is
  defined differently by various cultures.
• Statistics In the United States, old is
  defined in a number of ways as defined in their
  various Acts
• Age 40 and beyond no discrimination in
  employment
• Age 55 subsidized employment for low income
  individuals they learn new work skills
• Age 60 eligibility for Older Americans Act
  services

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• d. Age 62 - persons can take early retirement
• e. Age 65 - the traditional age for full
  retirement. Now for people born after 1938, it
  varies from 65 to 67.
• f. Age 70 mandatory retirement for the members
  of some professions.

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• 2. What are the physical or mental indications
  that tell you that you are old?
• Hard of Hearing?
• Waning Vision?
• Aches and Arthritis/Rheumatism setting in?
• Difficulties with Diet and Digestion?
• Forgetting and Failing to remember?

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• Statistics Typically, the beginnings of change
  in the five senses are as follows
• Hearing the mid 40s
• Vision the mid 50s
• Touch the mid 50s
• Taste the late 50s
• Smell the mid 70s
• Because individuals cope differently, the effect
  of those aging losses differs with individuals

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B. IS OLD GOLD?

• For GOD, Old is Gold
• Consider these Golden Scriptures
• i. Isa.464 (NIV) Even to your old age and
  gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you.
  I have made you and I will carry youand I will
  rescue you.
• ii. Psa.3725 I have been young, and now
  am old yet have I not seen the righteous
  forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

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• iii. Psa.719 Let my mouth be filled with
  praise and with thy honour all the day. Cast me
  not off in the time of old age forsake me not
  when my strength faileth.
• iv. Psa.7118 Now also when I am old and
  greyheaded, O God, forsake me not until I have
  showed Thy strength unto this generation, and thy
  power to every one that is to come.
• v. 1Tim.59,10 No widow may be put on the list
  of widows unless she is over sixty.

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vi. Psalm 9212-15

• The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
  they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon planted
  in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in
  the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit
  in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
  proclaiming, The LORD is upright he is my Rock,
  and there is no wickedness in him.

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• b. Consider these Golden Samples
• i. Caleb - Forty years old forty and five
  years fourscore and five years old.
  Josh.146-14
• I am as strong this day as I was in the day
  that Moses sent me as my strength was then, even
  so is my strength now, for war, both to go out,
  and to come in. Now..give me this mountain.
• ii. Anna - a widow of about fourscore and four
  years. Lk.237,38
• worshipped night and day, fasting and praying
• iii. Moses- Moses was a hundred and twenty years
  old when he died yet his eyes were not weak nor
  his strength gone. Deut.347

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• 2. For Certain Others,
• Old can still be Gold
• Consider these
• Golden Statements

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• Satchel Paige Age is a question of mind over
  matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter.

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b. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFor age is
opportunity no less Than youth itself,
though in another dress, And as the evening
twilight fades away, The sky is filled with
stars invisible by day.
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c. Samuel Ullman Nobody grows old merely by
living a number of years. We grow old by
deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin,
but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
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d. ShakespeareI never knew so young a body with
so old a head
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Melinda Doolittle of American Idol was eliminated
from the Contest she may have been the oldest
of the sixth season finalists, but Doolittle said
youre never too old to do something new.
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• The biggest thing that I will take away is
  that I know that I was really scared to do this
  at the beginning, and the fact that I was able to
  step
• out and do it even in the midst of fear kind
  of
• just gave me an outlook on how strong God has
  helped me become and how much Ive grown from it
  she said. I found my own voice as opposed to my
  own voice singing background and I couldnt have
  asked for more from this experience.

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• 3. For the person Concerned Old can be Gold.
  Over the years, he has accumulated
• More Experiences Be they Blissful, Blessed
  and/or Bitter
• More Expediency to handle People in Practical
  situations
• More Expertise in spiritual, mental, physical,
  social, professional skills, etc.

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• 4. For others Connected with the person
• Old may or may not be Gold.
• For the Person concerned.
• To be Gold to others
• Grow Old Gracefully Grumble not!
• Live out Gods Graces beautifully
• Grouch not!
  Tit.22-5
• iii. Be Relevant and be a Referent
• Get out of the shell!

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• b. For other People
• Treat them not as Old nor leave them out in the
  Cold get their Advice 1Tim.54
• Treasure them as Gold and bring them into your
  Fold be their Associates. 1 Tim.51,2
• Respect them and Regard their being
• Consult them and seek their Counsel

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• Thus far
• GOLDEN STATISTICS
• IS OLD GOLD?
• Now
• II. GOLDEN SERVICE
• CAN OLD BE GOLD?
• BE A SPIRITUAL/COMMUNITY CONSULTANT

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• B. BE A SERVANT IN THE CHURCH
• Practise good deeds Well reported of for good
  works 1Tim 510
• Pass on good counsel That they may teach the
  younger.to be. Tit.22-5 (NIV)
• Pursue Purposeful Development Be relevant and
  be a Referent!
• Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
  workman that needeth not to be ashamed 2Tim. 21
• IN A LIFE-LONG PROCESS OF LEARNING

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C. BE ENTERPRISING IN YOUR SILVER SIXTIES AND
GOLDEN SEVENTIES

• Psa. 9010
• The days of our years are threescore years and
  ten and if by reason of strength they be
  fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and
  sorrow for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

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A Senior reaching his Seventy

• Blessed 70th Birthday

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LIFE BEGINS FOR A SENIOR IN HIS SEVENTIES

• Up to the Seventies
• God intends Life to be a Blessing.
• After the Seventies
• Life is Gods Bonus
• Day by Day enjoy His Blessing,
• and be a Blessing

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Old is Gold!

• The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
  they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon planted
  in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in
  the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit
  in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
  proclaiming,
• The LORD is upright he is my Rock
• Psalm 9212-15

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Old is Gold!

• May God Grant
• Your Golden Years
• Ever be Years of Gold
• To You and to All