Honor Your Father and Your Mother Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16
Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. (ESV) Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. (ESV)
Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet and he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers Malachi 4:4-6 (ESV)
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1. What God Said Honor your father and mother Exodus 20:12, ESV
Honor your father and mother.
Honor your father and mother. Only commandment of the 10 with a promise. So that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
Honor your father and mother. Only commandment of the 10 with a promise. So that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you. It is a pivot command in the list.
The first four commandments focus on God. 1. Love God with all your heart. 2. Bowing to idols is not smart. 3. Don t say God s name in angry ways. 4. Rest on the Sabbath work for 6 days.
The last five focus on others. 6. Killing people makes God sad. 7. Keep your husband or your wife all the days of your life. 8. Don t take things that don t belong to you. 9. Don t say anything that isn t true. 10. And when you go into your neighbor s home, don t start wishing that it was your own.
Honor your mom and your dad. Parents play an essential role in God s design. God is telling us in the fifth commandment that if there is no respect at home, there will be none anywhere. -Rick Atchley
2. What This Command Means Honor your father and mother Exodus 20:12, ESV
Honor,כ ב ד) kabad) To honor, to carry weight, to assist, to share something burdensome, to show esteem or honor towards.
Seriousness They shall say to the elders, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard. Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid. Deuteronomy 21:20&21 (ESV)
Cultural Collapse But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (ESV)
It s Normal Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth. Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:1-4 (ESV)
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Applied to Leadership He (Overseer) must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? 1 Timothy 3:4&5 (ESV)
3. What Obedience to this Command Looks Like Honor your father and mother Exodus 20:12, ESV
Parents Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 (ESV) Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. Colossians 3:21 (ESV)
Caring for Parents For God commanded, Honor your father and your mother, and, Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die. But you say, If anyone tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father. So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. Matthew 15:4-6 (ESV)
God as Your Father Jesus said to her, Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God. John 20:17 (ESV)
Children And when his parents saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress. And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father s house? And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. Luke 2:48-51 (ESV)
Honor Your Father and Your Mother Exodus 20:12; Deut. 5:16