Command and Teach These Things (1 Tim. 4:11)

11 Command and teach thesethings. 12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity. 13 Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching. 14 Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you. Command is not a word we use much these days. But many are aware of C:\. It's called the Command Prompt, and it goes to back to the MS-DOS days. It's where the user commands the computer to do something, and it immediately does exactly what is being commanded. Way back in the ancient days of Card Punch programming, when I was studying at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, I did a Computer and Information Science course, where I learned the rudiments of Algol, Fortran, and APL. And I will never forget the very first thing the prof said: "Always remember that computers are amazingly stupid. They do exactly what you tell them to do." Forty-eight years later, it's still true. Even as AI is making a huge mark on our world, we're seeing the influence of the code-writers on its output. A command is something that is to be done immediately. We understand it from a military perspective - the Commander gives the commands, and his or her underlings obey. In the US, the President is the Commander in Chief. From the military perspective, no one has more authority or power.