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Whos Gonna Fill Their Shoes?

• Matthew 2514-30

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1 Peter 221-25

• 21 For even hereunto were ye called because
  Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an
  example, that ye should follow his steps
• 22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his
  mouth
• 23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again
  when he suffered, he threatened not but
  committed himself to him that judgeth righteously

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1 Peter 221-25

• 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body
  on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should
  live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were
  healed.
• 25 For ye were as sheep going astray but are now
  returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your
  souls

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Exodus 2413

• 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua
  and Moses went up into the mount of God.

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Numbers 147-9

• The land, which we passed through to search it,
  is an exceeding good land.
• 8 If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring
  us into this land, and give it us a land which
  floweth with milk and honey.
• 9 Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither
  fear ye the people of the land for they are
  bread for us their defence is departed from
  them, and the Lord is with us fear them not.

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Deuteronomy 317-8

• 7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him
  in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a
  good courage for thou must go with this people
  unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto
  their fathers to give them and thou shalt cause
  them to inherit it.
• 8 And the Lord, he it is that doth go before
  thee he will be with thee, he will not fail
  thee, neither forsake thee fear not, neither be
  dismayed.

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Joshua 2415

• 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
  Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve
  whether the gods which your fathers served that
  were on the other side of the flood, or the gods
  of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell but as
  for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

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1 Corinthians 417

• 17 For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus,
  who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord,
  who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways
  which be in Christ, as I teach every where in
  every church.

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Philippians 219-22

• 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send
  Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of
  good comfort, when I know your state.
• 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will
  naturally care for your state.
• 21 For all seek their own, not the things which
  are Jesus Christ's.
• 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son
  with the father, he hath served with me in the
  gospel.

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2 Timothy 46-8

• 6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time
  of my departure is at hand.
• 7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my
  course, I have kept the faith
• 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of
  righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
  judge, shall give me at that day and not to me
  only, but unto all them also that love his
  appearing.

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Judges 26-8

• 6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the
  children of Israel went every man unto his
  inheritance to possess the land.
• 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of
  Joshua, and all the days of the elders that
  outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works
  of the Lord, that he did for Israel.
• 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the
  Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

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Judges 29-11

• 9 And they buried him in the border of his
  inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of
  Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
• 10 And also all that generation were gathered
  unto their fathers and there arose another
  generation after them, which knew not the Lord,
  nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
• 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the
  sight of the Lord, and served Baalim

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Why were Joshua Timothy able to step up to
the Challenge?

• Mentoring, Apprenticeship, TEACHING
• Joshua was with Moses from the beginning of his
  time as leader of Israel
• Timothy was trained by Paul from a youth

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Our Time Is LimitedBut Our Influence Continues
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Proverbs 226

• 6 Train up a child in the way he should go and
  when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Titus 21-6

• 1 But speak thou the things which become sound
  doctrine
• 2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate,
  sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
• 3 The aged women likewise, that they be in
  behaviour as becometh holiness, not false
  accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of
  good things

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Titus 21-6

• 4 That they may teach the young women to be
  sober, to love their husbands, to love their
  children,
• 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good,
  obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
  God be not blasphemed.
• 6 Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

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2 Timothy 21-2

• 1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace
  that is in Christ Jesus.
• 2 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.

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2 Timothy 215

• Study to show thyself approved unto God, a
  workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly
  dividing the word of truth.

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Two Questions..

• Who will fill your shoes?
• Who's shoes will you fill?