Honoring Our Parents

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Pastor Vincent - 10 October 2013

Follow The Lord's Instruction Closely In Spiritual Battle

It is human nature to worry about tomorrow. What if I can't do this, what if things don't work well tomorrow.. what if we often let what has yet to happen to rob away our present happiness in Lord. Before Jericho, the Lord said to Joshua, " See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.." God is always there, He is always present in your sadness, your current helplessness, your current family problem, relationship problems and even your insufficiency. But we often forget, we are often being frightened by what have yet to comeÉ the what if's in your mind - Satan is always instilling the fear, the deceptions and confuse our spirits so that we cannot look at the truth of God and draw strength from it. Behind the problem we are seeing everyday is actually the deeper spiritual battles that we need to fight against Satan - who is attacking us in every possible way just to divert us away from God's truth so that we feel the gospel irrelevant. But God has a precise instruction to our problems now, so that we can stand against the devil's scheme. Be in sync with God, hear what the Lord says and follow it carefully. As we wait upon the Lord and see what He is doing right now in our lives, we will then not be distracted by Satan into following our own desires and emotions. The Lord is not slow in fulfilling His promise and He has time for everything, therefore, go into prayer and ask God to reveal the very next thing we can do while waiting for His timetable. As we develop the instinct to hear Him through prayers, our faithful God will not hide from you and when the perfect time comes, your Jericho will be conquered, as you become more intimate with God.

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Problematic attitudes toward parents.

  • Young children >>> Adult children
  • More independent, feel smarter >>> Despise parents
  • Pride
  • Familiarity breeds contempt (take for granted)
  • Self-entitlement

 

Why should we honor parents?

  • Unique parents given by God
  • Give us life
  • They have loved us
  • God’s clear command:
    • <Ex 20:12> “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
    • <Ep 6> 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
  • Honoring parents is like honoring God.
  • <Mt 15> 4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’

5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

  • Jesus is best example of honoring God and parents.
  • “But what if my parents are not honorable?”
    • “Honor” given not just for “merits” but also for “rank”.
    • Forgive them as God has forgiven us.
  • “But what if my parents are non-Christians?”
    • Respect them for the wisdom that comes with age <Job 12:12>.
    • But if they ask us to contradict God, then obey God rather than them.
    • <Eze 20> 18 I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God; follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
  • Honor parents >>> Submit to other forms of authority

 

How should we honor our parents?

  • Very young children >>> obey parents
  • Adult children?
  • God gives us parents for us to minister grace and love unto them
  • Accept them for who they are, don’t be too critical of them
  • Care most for their salvation
  • Take good care of them
    • <1 Ti 5:8> Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
  • Seek to delight them
    • <Prov 23:25> May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!
    • Intimacy
    • Seek to understand them
    • Express appreciation
    • Seek their advice
    • Mutual sibling love
  • Honor parents not with material, but with heart (love).
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Preacher Hui Jun
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Huijun serves as Secretary of The Blessed RUN Ministries. She is also the Preacher at The Life Church and Missions (Singapore). She graduated from Singapore Bible College and currently lives in Singapore with her husband, Chengji.

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