OLD AND SATISFIED - IITB 11.09

 

Chapter 11.9

Old and Satisfied

Uplifting In Speech, Teaching Good Things, Reverent and Holy In Behavior

Grounded In Faith, Serious Minded, Sensible, Reasonable, Loving & Patient

 

 

First Word

     Man’s average life span is about 70 years, but if we want, we can live 10 more years, and still even more years by just observing God’s statutes.[1]  His desire is that we have life and have it more abundantly[2] and that it will be long enough to SATISFY us.[3]  My neighbor Georgia, is 96 and has had her share of Hospital visits, but never complains, she still attends church, has a boyfriend and eats out four nights a week with family and friends.  She cooks and bakes and sends goodies to us often. You can be old and still have fun, you just need to get started early before the Silver Cord is broken

     For the man that is righteous, God says that his GRAY HAIR is a Crown of Glory.[4]  God cares about people who are up in age.  He made us and will support us, carry us and deliver us; it’s a promise.[5]  

It’s in the Book

 

Length of Days

     How can we live a long life?

      By asking God for our life to be lengthened.[6] 

      By keeping Gods laws and Concepts.[7] 

      By respecting God and honoring Him.[8]

      By asking God for the Understanding of Spiritual things.[9] 

      By helping, respecting and speaking well of our parents.[10] 

      By guarding our tongue that we not speak evil.[11]  

      By showing love.  It doesn’t matter how old your life gets to be, if you have not shown love, compassion and goodness, you could be destined for another place and not even know it.[12]  We will all live forever somewhere;[13] that choice is made on this side of eternity.

What does Old look like?

     Old should mean sensible, serious minded, reasonable, grounded in faith, loving and patient, Holy behavior, uplifting in speech, teaching good things, reverent in behavior, not slanderers and not given to much wine.[14]

     God adds wisdom and knowledge to us as we grow old[15] and the youth look to us for guidance.  Age does not necessarily mean wise or good understanding; it’s directly proportional to the Spirit that we put inside us through the reading of God’s Word.[16]  Therefore start putting God’s Word in your heart while you are still young. 

 

Our Place in His Plan

     Old age is a wonderful time that we can shine forth like we’ve never shown before.[17]  We can still bear fruit in our old age,[18] not necessarily children, but good works.  Old does not have to mean sick or feeble.  When we are old God wants us to still be found in Church with the young folks and children praising His name.[19]  Old folks should be a witness to the youth to show God’s strength and power.[20]  When we go home to the Father, it will be at a full ripe age[21] at the peak of our season.[22]

It’s in the Book.

The Silver Cord

     You should remember God during your youth[23] before the days of evil, before your sight is dimmed and you shake when you move and your hearing is diminished; before fear of the terror and meanness of the streets.

     Before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.  Put God in your Spirit in your Youth.

 

When the Silver Cord is broken, and our Spirit returns to the One who made it,

we will have completed the thing which we were created to do.

We will be absent from our body, but present with our Lord.[24]  SELAH

 

Isaiah 55:11 – Our assignment will be completed at homecoming.

11 So shall my WORD[25] be that goes forth out of my mouth:

IT SHALL NOT RETURN UNTO ME VOID,

but it SHALL ACCOMPLISH that which I please,

and it SHALL PROSPER in the thing whereto I sent it.

KJV

 

OLD - SATISFIED - COMPLETED

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[1] Psalm 90:10 – Live 70 or 80 years; even more

[2] John 10:10 – God’s will is for us to have LIFE and have it MORE ABUNDANTLY

[3] Psalm 91:16 – We will be SATISFIED with a long life

[4] Proverbs 16:31 - GRAY HAIR is a CROWN OF GLORY

[5] Isaiah 46:4 – God will carry the aged and deliver them

How can we live a long life?

[6] Psalm 21:4 - We can ask for our life to be lengthened

[7] 1 Kings 3:14 – Keeping Gods Laws lengthens your life

[8] Proverbs 10:27 – Respecting & Honoring God adds more life

[9] Proverbs 3:1-2 - Ask for Understanding of God’s Laws; it lengthens your life

[10] Exodus 20:12 – Honoring your parents will Lengthen your life

[11] Psalm 34:12-13 – Guarding your tongue adds length of days to your life -- 1 Peter 3:10-11 – If you keep your tongue from evil & deceit it will add length of days to your life

[12] Ecclesiastes 6:3 – Long life without love is destined for hell

[13] Luke 16:22-24 - Two different places at death; Torment and Paradise

 

[14] Titus 2:2-3 – Be sober Minded, Steadfast, Dignified reverent in behavior with Self-Control and not a slave to much wine

[15] Job 12:12 - God adds wisdom and understanding as we age

[16] Job 32:7-8 – It’s the Holy Spirit in man that gives him understanding

[17] Job 11:17 – Old Age; A time to let our life show fourth light

[18] Psalm 92:14 – You can bear fruit; good works in your old age

[19] Psalm 148:12-13 – Old Folks are found in Church praising God -- Hebrews 10:24-25 – Don’t neglect the fellowship of church; Go to Church

[20] Psalm 71:18 – Old Folks are a witness to the youth of God’s power

[21] Job 5:26 – When we die it will be at a full ripe old age

[22] Deuteronomy 34:7 – Old age can be full of health; Moses was 120 years old when he died.  His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated

[23] Ecclesiastes 12:1-7 – Remember God while you are still young.

[24] 2 Corinthians 5:8 – The Believer; Absent from the body; Present with the Lord

[25] Genesis 2:7 And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL.