Pass It On!

 Greetings to you all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,

     Second Timothy 2:1-2 says, “Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.  And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.”

     I preached yesterday at the facility to fourteen people, the oldest being 103 years old.  I am 84 and most of the people here are about that same age, some more and some less.  Three of them were asleep the whole time but they were asleep when they came in so it wasn’t my preaching that put them into a slumber.  What do y ou say to a group of people who are a step away from death?  I say the same thing to them that I would say to a young group of people.  It’s not over until God says it’s over.

     The apostle Paul was giving young  Timothy some exhortation in regard to his teaching other people.  When you begin looking at the number of people involved, there was Paul to Timothy, to faithful men to others.  That makes a total of four “generations” so to speak.  If any one of those in the chain of command do not have the excitement nor the desire to pass it on, the chain stops.  Paul had to have the initial zeal to proclaim the Gospel message to Timothy to stir him up with the necessity to pass it on with the same zeal that Paul had.  Each one of the four in the chain had to have their own four as we do today.  Christianity has been propagated by faithful men and women, sharing with others wit h a zeal that cannot be quenched.   While those in places of leadership play an important role, the job is not left to them alone but becomes the responsibility of every believer.  What I shared yesterday to my  group of seniors is that they need to incorporate at least one thing from the last three chapters of Ephesians.  Then, they needed to walk the “light” walk, reflecting the Lord Jesus Christ to others.  When you get to our age, the upper eighties and older, you sometimes have stored up anger, or not as patient with others, or we need to work on our responses to people who aggravate us, being kind one to another and forgiving one another even as Christ forgave  us.  We are all still growing and  hopefully, we are affecting the lives of the next generation so that they will be inspired enough to share it with someone else.  We need to all be found faithful in our daily lives in the sharing of our faith, mostly by example to others.  Praise God today for His using us to promote the Lord Jesus Christ to others right we are at.