The document discusses the responsibilities of both older and younger people. For older people, it emphasizes never retiring from serving God, not being ashamed of one's age, serving as a moral example, and older women training younger women. For younger people, it stresses respecting, esteeming, and honoring elders, providing for them financially, not casting them off, and children obeying their parents. Overall, it presents aging and old age as a blessing when lived righteously through continued service to God and others.

1. 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 19:32

2. Responsibility OF Older People
Never Retire from God’s Work
Revelation 2:10

3. Revelation 2:10
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.

4. Responsibility OF Older People
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Never Retire from God’s Work
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be Ashamed of Your Age
Proverbs 16:31

5. Proverbs 16:31
The silver-haired head is a
crown of glory, If it is found in the
way of righteousness.

6. Responsibility OF Older People
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Never Retire from God’s Work
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be Ashamed of Your Age
Proverbs 16:31
Serve as a Moral Example to Others
Titus 2:2-3

7. Titus 2:2-3
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.

8. Responsibility OF Older People
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Never Retire from God’s Work
Revelation 2:10
Don’t be Ashamed of Your Age
Proverbs 16:31
Serve as a Moral Example to Others
Titus 2:2-3
Older Women Train Younger Women
Titus 2:4-5

9. Titus 2:4-5
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.

10. Responsibility TO Older People
Respect/Esteem/Honor
Proverbs 16:31; 23:22

11. Proverbs 16:31; 23:22
(16:31), The silver-haired head
is a crown of glory, If it is found in
the way of righteousness.
(23:22), Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is
old.

12. Responsibility TO Older People
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Respect/Esteem/Honor
Proverbs 16:31; 23:22
Provide for Them
1 Timothy 5:4,8; Mark 7:9-13

13. 1 Timothy 5:4,8
(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.

14. Mark 7:9-13
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.”

15. Responsibility TO Older People
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Respect/Esteem/Honor
Proverbs 16:31; 23:22
Provide for Them
1 Timothy 5:4,8; Mark 7:9-13
Do Not Cast them Off
Psalm 71:9

16. Psalm 71:9
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).

17. Responsibility TO Older People
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Respect/Esteem/Honor
Proverbs 16:31; 23:22
Provide for Them
1 Timothy 5:4,8; Mark 7:9-13
Do Not Cast them Off
Psalm 71:9
Children – Respect & Obey
Ephesians 6:1-3

18. Ephesians 6:1-3
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.”

19. 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 92:12-14