Honor Parents (5 of 10)
Series: 10 Commandments
Zach Terry
Exodus 20:12
OPENING: In our study of the 10 commandments we come to a significant shift in the focus. The first 4 commands are VERTICAL in their implications. They have to do with our, ''Loving God''
Worship God Alone.
Form No Graven Images to Worship.
Take not the name of the Lord in Vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy.
Those four commands have to do with your relationship with God and your worship of Him.
The remaining six commandments are HORIZONTAL. They pertain to your relationship with other people. In other words, we might assume, that before we can get our relationship right with people, we must first make it right with God.
Our vertical relationship with God, enables and directs our horizontal relationship with others.
The 6 commands that remain, provide the building blocks of a healthy and prosperous society. Take away any one of these values and a nation crumbles.
CONTEXT: Remember, these commands are given to a couple million Jews who were between EGYPT and CANAAN. These laws were not only the moral law of God, they were the constitution of a new Nation. These were the values they were uphold, maintain and defend.
That is why an incentive is attached to this fifth commandment. Look at it with me.
TEXT: Exodus 20:12 (ESV)
12 ''Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Now this is not particularly a command to a PERSON, but rather to a PEOPLE. If Israel wishes to be established as a great nation - they must weave this value into their society. So in other words, this is not saying that if you keep this command God will extend your life. But rather, if WE keep this commandment, God will establish our Nation. There are PATRIOTIC implications of this verse.
It is not necessarily saying that if we, ''honor father and mother'' God will supernaturally come to our defense an ...
Series: 10 Commandments
Zach Terry
Exodus 20:12
OPENING: In our study of the 10 commandments we come to a significant shift in the focus. The first 4 commands are VERTICAL in their implications. They have to do with our, ''Loving God''
Worship God Alone.
Form No Graven Images to Worship.
Take not the name of the Lord in Vain.
Remember the Sabbath Day to Keep it Holy.
Those four commands have to do with your relationship with God and your worship of Him.
The remaining six commandments are HORIZONTAL. They pertain to your relationship with other people. In other words, we might assume, that before we can get our relationship right with people, we must first make it right with God.
Our vertical relationship with God, enables and directs our horizontal relationship with others.
The 6 commands that remain, provide the building blocks of a healthy and prosperous society. Take away any one of these values and a nation crumbles.
CONTEXT: Remember, these commands are given to a couple million Jews who were between EGYPT and CANAAN. These laws were not only the moral law of God, they were the constitution of a new Nation. These were the values they were uphold, maintain and defend.
That is why an incentive is attached to this fifth commandment. Look at it with me.
TEXT: Exodus 20:12 (ESV)
12 ''Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Now this is not particularly a command to a PERSON, but rather to a PEOPLE. If Israel wishes to be established as a great nation - they must weave this value into their society. So in other words, this is not saying that if you keep this command God will extend your life. But rather, if WE keep this commandment, God will establish our Nation. There are PATRIOTIC implications of this verse.
It is not necessarily saying that if we, ''honor father and mother'' God will supernaturally come to our defense an ...
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