Matthew 10:6-14 (BBE)
6 But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,
7 And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.
8 Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.
9 Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;
10 Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.
11 And into whatever town or small place you go, make search there for someone who is respected, and make his house your resting-place till you go away.
12 And when you go in, say, May peace be on this house.
13 And if the house is good enough, let your peace come on it: but if not, let your peace come back to you.
14 And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.

Pass it on simply means to give to another something that is no longer of use to you, or someone gave you something and you are supposed to give it to another person.
We can pass anything on, positive and good things or negative and bad things; we can pass on physical, material emotional and spiritual things.
We all have had genes, family heirlooms, and characters passed on from our linage. I could say I passed my looks to my son (who is the male version of me), who knows, he may pass it on to his children in future.
Verse 8 says freely we have received, freely give— “pass it on”, we should never hire out what the Lord has passed on to us freely through his death. We are not to charge money for dispensing God-given gifts and talents, but we can receive support for them.
The gospel is on principle a life of pass it on, if we go by Matthew 25:31-46, we realise that every time we pass on something to others, we are in effect giving that thing to the Lord and this should spur us on to do good to all men according to Galatians 6:10 regardless of who they are.
You hear of Christian leaders who expect to be paid for the privilege of anointing, ordaining, or mentoring others, how much did they pay to receive what they are charging others for?
1 Kings 19 is Elijah’s journey of passing on his mantle. Elijah was depressed, fed up and ready to go home but the Lord would not let him off until he passed on all the gifts in him, hence from vs 15, we see him pass on to Hazael, Jehu and finally Elisha-each received specific anointing and grace from him.
Everything the Lord has graced us with is meant to be used on earth, so when we die, we go empty of everything useless in heaven.
Pass it on! Elijah didn’t need anointing (as fiery as it was) where he was going-just like us.
We are meant to pass on whatever we no longer need to someone else to use.
We learn and study the scripture but keep the knowledge bottled in when there are people out there waiting for you to encourage, support, motivate and bless them with it.
Christ has endowed us with all kinds of gifts, we are filled with the spirit of holiness, called to a particular work, instructed in that work, and commissioned to go and testify the Gospel of the grace of God. In effect pass it on!
What have you got that you can pass on?
What is the Lord is asking you to pass on and you are reluctant to do?
When we get to a stage or age in life, we begin to think of who to pass on our legacy to, the Lord expects us to do the same with whatever He gave us because there’s enough for everyone.
Moses in Deuteronomy 34:9 passed his mantle on to Joshua to carry on what he could no longer do.
Don’t keep it, if it’s not in use, don’t waste or squander it, if someone else will benefit from it. Pass it on!
Shalom