Keys To Better Living: Honor Your Parents | Exodus 20:12

Keys to Better Living: Command #5 Honor Your Parents

Exodus 20:12, Ephesians 6:1-3

1. Honor your parents because they help us understand the principle of .

“The home is the lab where children learn submission to authority. Christian parents train their children to submit to them so that their children will more readily learn to submit to other earthly authorities, and ultimately, to the highest authority, our heavenly Father.”                      

                                                   Jen Wilkin – 10 Words to Live By

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you… Malachi 1:6

2. Parents are honored when you affirm their .

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old. Proverbs 23:22

3. Spiritual parents are to be honored because they contribute to our understanding of the .

“But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” Matthew 12:48-50

Read for next week: ­Isaiah 40:27-31