Showing Honor
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The Biblical Mandate for Showing Honor
The Biblical Mandate for Showing Honor
Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.
What Is Honor?
What Is Honor?
The respect or esteem shown to another.
Example: to rise when someone enters your presence. To defer to them as more worthy. To treat with dignity and respect as in “Ma’am” and “Sir”.
Who Do We Honor?
Who Do We Honor?
God
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.
“Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
Never speak harshly to an older man, but appeal to him respectfully as you would to your own father. Talk to younger men as you would to your own brothers.
Welcome him in the Lord’s love and with great joy, and give him the honor that people like him deserve.
How Do We Obtain Honor?
How Do We Obtain Honor?
Wisdom:
Proverbs 3:16 (NLT)
16 She offers you long life in her right hand,
and riches and honor in her left.
Graciousness:
A gracious woman gains respect,
but ruthless men gain only wealth.
Your kindness will reward you,
but your cruelty will destroy you.
Discipline:
If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace;
if you accept correction, you will be honored.
Humility
Fear of the Lord teaches wisdom;
humility precedes honor.
Peaceableness
Avoiding a fight is a mark of honor;
only fools insist on quarreling.
Righteousness and Mercy
Whoever pursues righteousness and unfailing love
will find life, righteousness, and honor.
Honoring God
“Therefore, the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi would always be my priests. But I will honor those who honor me, and I will despise those who think lightly of me.
Serving Christ
Anyone who wants to serve me must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me.