Wanderings & Wonders - "Passing the Baton" - Deuteronomy 31; Joshua 1:1-9 - Tim Nay

Passing the Baton

Deuteronomy 31; Joshua 1:1-9
Tim Nay

Part of Wanderings & WondersLessons from the Wilderness

August 24, 2025

Deuteronomy 34:7-9 

Four Zones of Passing the Baton:

1. OBSERVATION zone 
   
   Exodus 24:13 
   
   

11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. —Exodus 33:11

• Observation Zone - Set the EXAMPLE. 
  
  1 “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” —I Corinthians 11:1 
• ACCELERATION zone 
  
   —Numbers 11:27-30 
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• Acceleration Zone - Share your LIFE 
  
  8 “So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God BUT ALSO OUR OWN SELVES, because you had become very dear to us.” —1 Thessalonians 2:8 
• HANDOFF zone

18 So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him.” —Numbers 27:18

22 And Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and made him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, 23 and he laid his hands on him and commissioned him as the Lord directed through Moses. —Numbers 27:22-23 

 —Deuteronomy 31:2-6 

44 Moses came and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun. —Deuteronomy 32:44 

3. Handoff Zone - Encourage others with OPPORTUNITIES for ministry. 

 —Exodus 17:8-13 

2 Timothy 1:6 “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,”

2 Timothy 2:2 ““and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.”

2 Timothy 4:2 “preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.”

4. RUNNING zone 

3 “Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. 5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you. 6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[a] wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” —Joshua 1:3-9 

- God is WITH you. 
- Be strong and COURAGEOUS. 
- MEDITATE day and night on God’s WORD. 
- Do not FEAR. 
- God is WITH you. 

4. Running zone - Let them TAKE OWNERSHIP of ministry. 

TAKEAWAY: BEGIN passing on the baton of your FAITH and MINISTRY.