Honor Your Father and Mother

Sermon:              Honor Your Father & Mother                Exodus 20:12

Exodus 20:12   “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Leviticus 19:3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father…

Leviticus 19:32  “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Proverbs 15:5  A fool despises his father’s instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 30:17  The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

Ephesians 6:1  Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”

1 Timothy 5:1  Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Romans 13:1   Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. … 7 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.

I.  The Position & Importance of the Fifth Commandment

II.  Our Responsibilities Regarding the Fifth Commandment

III.  Jesus & the Fifth Commandment