Part 2 | When Aging Becomes an Asset, Not an Enemy
From Psalm 71
is the of those without .
📖 Psalm 71:9 ESV Do not cast me off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength is spent.
doesn’t God’s people from , it gives you an elevated in it.
📖 Psalm 71:18 ESV So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
Age becomes an asset when we give the next generation:
1. together in God’s and .
📖 Psalm 71:1–3 ESV In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame! 2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to me, and save me! 3 Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come; you have given the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.
Age becomes an asset when we give the next generation:
2. of God’s in our lives.
📖 Psalm 71:14 ESV But I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more.
📖 Psalm 71:15 ESV My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge.
📖 Psalm 71:16 ESV With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
Age becomes an asset when we give the next generation:
3. temporarily to us.
📖 Luke 12:16–19 ESV And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, 17 and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” ’
📖 Luke 12:20–21 ESV But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
📖 1 Chronicles 22:14, 16 ESV With great pains I have provided for the house of the LORD 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided … 16 Arise and work! The LORD be with you!”
Age becomes an asset when we give the next generation:
4. in the hope of .
📖 Psalm 71:20 ESV You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up again.
📖 1 Peter 1:3–4 ESV Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Age becomes an asset when it is spent God’s might, God’s faithfulness, and in God’s children for life.
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