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Setting a Godly Example, Regardless of Age
Today’s message focuses on 1 Timothy 4:12, exploring how both young and old … (visit YouTube for more)
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Whether or not we consider ourselves to be young, today’s verse has something to say to us. It’s one Timothy chapter four, verse 12. Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
So to those of us who may consider ourselves to be young, this tells us something quite straight, doesn’t it? Just because you’re young, that doesn’t mean you can’t be effective for God. And for those of us who may not consider ourselves to be young, but are looking on young people, it tells us not to despise the young people, rather to look at the example that they’re setting in their speech, in their conduct, in how they operate in this world.
And this setting an example is important. Not because we have standards that we have to follow in order to be accepted by God. But we are Christians. And if we are Christians, our conduct should reflect our salvation.
Now we are gonna stumble, we’re gonna fall, we’re gonna blow it. But so far as it depends on us, we should be reaching for something better in how we live, in how we talk to people, in how we run our lives.
So Paul says to Timothy, your age is not what’s important here. What’s important is how you live. And because you have people whom you influence, it’s doubly important.
So for Timothy, that was the congregation he was leading. But we all have people whom we influence. And so the message is for all of us, we need to be an example in how we talk, in how we live, in how we behave.
Can we do that? I believe with God’s help we can. He has given us everything we need for life and for godliness, and he’s put his Spirit in us to grow his Fruit.
So let us lean into this, asking for God’s help, as always.
