Who s Gonna Fill Their Shoes Matthew 25

“Who’s Gonna Fill Their Shoes? ” Matthew 25: 14 -30

JOHN & JESUS MOSES & JOSHUA PAUL & TIMOTHY JOSHUA & THE JUDGES

1 Peter 2: 21 -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:

1 Peter 2: 21 -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

JOHN & JESUS MOSES & JOSHUA PAUL & TIMOTHY JOSHUA & THE JUDGES

Exodus 24: 13 13 And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

Numbers 14: 7 -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.

Deuteronomy 31: 7 -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.

Joshua 24: 15 • 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.

JOHN & JESUS MOSES & JOSHUA PAUL & TIMOTHY JOSHUA & THE JUDGES

1 Corinthians 4: 17 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.

Philippians 2: 19 -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.

2 Timothy 4: 6 -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.

JOHN & JESUS MOSES & JOSHUA PAUL & TIMOTHY JOSHUA & THE JUDGES

Judges 2: 6 -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.

Judges 2: 9 -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:

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

OUR TIME IS LIMITED BUT OUR INFLUENCE CONTINUES

Proverbs 22: 6 6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Titus 2: 1 -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;

Titus 2: 1 -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.

2 Timothy 2: 1 -2 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. • 1 •

2 Timothy 2: 15 • “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. ”

Two Questions. . Who will fill your shoes? Who's shoes will you fill?