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5th Commandment
The first 4 commandments speak to our relationship with God, while the last 5 speak to our relationship to others.
This 5th commandment is a bridge from our vertical relationship with God to our horizontal relationships with others.
There is a link between the 3rd and the 5th commandments.
The honor I show God will reflect in the honor I show my parents.
There is a direct correlation.
Reveals God to us:
Asking the question: who would write something like this?
1) God cares deeply about FAMILY.
Someone who treasures the institution of the family.
Family is the foundation societies are built on.
Authoritarian regimes have historically attacked the family unit.
Devaluing the role and responsibilities of the parents.
God created the family and has been passionate about the family from day one.
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Marriage and family were God’s crowning creation and the mechanism He designed to fill and rule the earth.
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Paul speaks about family order both in and in .
One of the most popular analogies for the Church in the NT is the “Family of God”
We relate within the context of the church as family members.
The institution of the family speaks the the very nature of God as Father and Son.
The 5th commandment shows us how deeply God cares about the family.
2) God is the perfect PARENT.
The 5th commandment speaks to the parenthood of God.
The 5th Commandment is an application of the first 4 commandments.
Providing, protecting, caring for, disciplining, teaching...
But also the “mothering” characteristics of God.
Don’t worship any other God before me, worship me for who I am, speak my name with honor, rest in who I am.
Nurturing, caring, teaching, training, correcting...
And show the same kind of honor to the most influential 2 people in your life on earth.
The 5th Commandment has deep lengths to the 3rd commandment, which is all about honor and respect of the Name of God.
Parents are the representations of God to their children (flawed as they are).
Parents point their children to God.
Our discipline, our providing, our nurturing, our caring, our cleaning up, our playing, our teaching, and our coaching are all meant to direct our children to their true Father, God.
We screw this up royally, but, in an odd way, that just makes Him look that much better.
Because God is the perfect parent.
He is patient and kind
He is faithful and steady
He is gracious, yet stern.
He is loving, but does not coddle.
He is comforting and protective.
He is a loving shepherd and a mighty fortress.
When we honor our parents, we are honoring the position God has given them to reveal Himself to us.
3) God values AUTHORITY.
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The 5th commandment isn’t just concerned about your relationship with your parents, it is concerned about your posture toward others in authority over you.
This is reflected not only in the commandment, but in God Himself.
God exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—Three-in-one
A mystery for us to understand fully.
But what has been revealed is 3 persons of the Godhead, existing in unity and equality, but with differing functions (or work).
And within this “work” there exists a submissiveness between the persons.
Jesus was submissive to the Father while He was on earth.
The HS was submissive to Jesus as the Helper for Christians.
The 5th Commandment reveals that God values our submissiveness to authority.
Something that we by nature struggle with.
Confronts our sinfulness:
1) Confronts our devaluing of the FAMILY.
The prevalence of Divorce, cohabitation, premarital-sex, adultery, non-monogamy, pornography, acceptance of same-genderism.
I do not mention these things to heap shame on those who have been divorced, those that have or are cohabitating, or whatever.
Your history doesn’t have to define your future.
God can redeem your family, and has in many of the families here.
But the perversion of marriage and family erodes the foundation of society and destroys the witness of God’s church.
The 5th commandment is demanding that we take family seriously
We embrace our roles as husbands and fathers MEN.
You embrace your roles as wives and mothers WOMEN.
We fight for our marriage.
We resist the ways our culture redefines or simply devalues the purpose and power of marriage.
We pray for our children, train them to know, love, and follow the Lord, and discipline them with truth and grace.
THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL AGENDA OR TALKING POINT.
It is an embracing of the 5th commandment as it was intended.
HONOR THE ROLE OF FATHER AND MOTHER!!
2) Confronts our REBELLIOUSNESS toward AUTHORITY.
We have a natural bent to resist authority.
We don’t like people telling us what to do.
Probably refers to the spies who went into the promise land, came back, and refused to go into the land because of fear of the ones they would need to overtake.
God had told them to go in, to trust Him, and to obey Him, then they would be blessed.
But they didn’t, they chose their OWN PATH and were punished because of it.
We live in a culture of independent individuality, where our purpose is defined by what we decide, not what is decided for us.
You see it early on as mom drags their screaming kids out of the McDonald’s play area.
But it translated into adulthood as we disrespect our bosses, disregard laws and expectations, and as we dishonor authorities over us.
I do not love the politicians in office over our country, but says I must “be subject” to them because “those that exist have been instituted by God.”
It isn’t agreement, it is submission from a posture of respect.
I see the bigger issue with our rebellion toward authority is in our propensity toward selfishness.
Selfishness with our money, with our time, with our attention.
“Who are you to tell me how to spend my weekend…how much I should give…how I should use my house…how I should live my life...”
The 5th commandment is as much concerned with your selfishly rebellious heart as it is with the way you treat your parents.
Instructs our following:
1) Instructs our ROLES as PARENTS.
Parents are representative of God for their children.
Don’t get this wrong!
Your job is not to protect your children from everything that could harm them.
Your job is not to mode your kids into obedient
Your job is not to provide your children with a “comfortable life”.
Your job is not to raise your children to be successful in the way the world would define it.
We try to BE GOD to our children, rather than lead them to the TRUE God.
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And when we do we lead them further away from the source of light and life rather than to the well that never leaves them thirsty.
Our job is to guide our kids to the Lord...
Every hug and kiss,
Every word of correction or redirection,
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