Honoring Dad and Mom “God’s Top Ten”
Exodus 20:12, “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
- Who is my father and mother?
Exodus 18:24, ”Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.”
Ruth 1:16-18, “But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. 17 Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.’ 18 When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.”
- What does it mean “to honor” them?
“The honor we are called to give is not about the person. It’s about __________________.”
- Why should I honor them?
“How you choose to ___________ your parents will often determine how you will be ___________ by your kids.”
See Matthew 15:1-9; John 19:25-27; and Timothy 5:3-8