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Intro:
AG: *A corrupt businessman once told Mark Twain: "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
I will climb Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud at the top."
*To that Mark Twain replied: "I have a better idea.
You could stay in Boston and KEEP them."
(Moody Bible Institute’s Today in the Word, September, 1991, p. 32. - Found at Sermonillustrations.com)
TS: With the start of the fifth commandment, we move from a framework of our relationship to God and start to focus on the relationship we have with ourselves and others.
When Jesus summarized all the law and prophets this way:
Love Go
Love Each other
This evening, we move from the commands which spell out loving God to the commands which deal with loving each other.
Verse 12 in particular is dealing with our family relationships.
Specifically the child’s duty to the parents.
“Honor your father and mother.”
This includes respect to their persons (esteeming them inwardly and out, expressed by our conduct toward them),
Obedience to their lawful commands, submission to their instructions (rebukes and corrections),
And trying to be a comfort and help.
RS: The Bible is tells us that we are responsible for giving honor to those God has put over us.
Our parents are the 1st of many in a child’s life to whom we owe honor.
What God is saying, is to treat our father and mother like we would treat Him.
The intention of the Heavenly Father is that our earthly father would provide an example of who God is and how God loves.
Our fathers make lots of mistakes and sometimes can even skew our perception of the Heavenly Father.
But we are responsible for what we do and how we react.
Since God knows our hearts as well as our actions, we cannot comply with the framework for our family relationship with just what we do.
Our attitude needs to be one of submission.
Our inner feelings need to be respect and love.
Okay, maybe we can do that with good parents but what about the bad ones, the ones that abuse or are lost or confused on right and wrong?
Let's look at another passage to get a feel for this:
Proverbs 23:22-25
22Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother when she is old.
23Buy the truth, and do not sell it,
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice,
And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.
25Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her who bore you rejoice.
Again, we see no exception made for quality of parents.
We must bestow honor to whom it is due by virtue of their position.
That is counter to today’s culture!
The Command
The key to societal stability is reverence and respect for parents and for their “high status” כבד, cabad, is nothing else but to pay due honour to God, and to men who are in authority
Calvin, J., & Bingham, C. W. (2010).
Commentaries on the Four Last Books of Moses Arranged in the Form of a Harmony (Vol.
3, p. 7).
Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.authority
The habit of submission to authority begins in the home.
As children, we are to learn to honor our parents.
Honor- to hold in high regard, give great weight to, hold as valuable
respect
Hold their authority in high esteem
By virtue of the fact that they are our parents
They gave us life
They deserve our honor
It is honor owed them by virtue of their position
Obeying them is an indication honor.
It is a simple matter:
Doing what you are told to do!
Living inside the rails established by them
curfews, house rules (no running, don’t hit, etc.)
Shouldn’t have to think: just do!
It is a difficult matter!
We want to argue against this
Our rebellious nature rears its ugly head
Why?
I don’t want to....
I don’t feel like it
Caring and providing for them indicates honor
When the tables are turned, and they need our care, we must not withhold it.
In the Bible, there was Family Security, instead of Social Security
Families took care of each other.
It was also that way in US for many generations
EX: Think about the Waltons
When that failed, the community stepped in
My Dad told me of an incident when they were young
brothers going fishing
saw a house burning
Lost all- next day, all people swarmed and rebuilt.
This is the plan God had for Israel and is a good plan still today
especially for us and our parents
The Reason for the Command
This promise refers primarily to Israel’s dwelling in the promised land.
They would live long lives in the promised land
Both living long to a ripe old age
and living in the land of promise a long time (probably chief meaning).
As they kept the word of God, society would be stronger
They would be blessed with peace
They would learn to obey
They would submit to parents and in turn submit to God
As adults, we must submit to authority in our lives.
This is were the training and practice in the home, pays off for society
We will always have authority over us
Employers
Boards
Governments
If we cannot submit at home where our parents have our best interests at heart, how will we submit to others who probably don’t.
Parents have an awesome responsibility to teach respect to children
Submission doesn’t come naturally for the human heart.
Adam and Eve demonstrated our rebellious spirit
Israel repeatedly rebelled against God
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