Bible In Real Life

Episode 31 Honor Mother and Father in Real Life (Part 2)

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What if the Parent is Less than honorable? Should we still honor our parents? What if they were abusive? These and many other tough questions will be answered in this episode. Let's get ready to be challenged and here how to live the Bible in Real Life.

Learning how to embrace, steward, and sometimes endure our parents is a big indicator of our trust in the sovereignty and all the providences of God.

  • The Greek word for honor means “to revere, prize, and value.” Honor is giving respect not only for merit but also for rank.
  • An example of those that have rejected God is that they are disobedient to parents.
  • Romans 1:30 - 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
  • 2 Timothy 3:1-2 - But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

    • Is there ever a time to be disobedient to parents: When they instruct you to do things contrary to God's Word.

    • Ezekiel 20:18-19 - 18 “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, nor defile yourselves with their idols. 19 I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules,
    • If the commands or instructions clearly contradict scripture we are to obey God rather than man. Acts 5:29

      • Dealing with an abusive parent

      • God is working it together for good. Romans 8:28 - 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
      • God can give you a new heart. Ezekiel 36:26 26 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
      • We are to love those that don't seem to love us. Matthew 5:44-48 44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
      • God calls us to be forgiving because we are forgiven. Eph 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
      • We are given forgiveness when we forgive. Matthew 6:14-15 - 14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

        • The command to honor and obey still has a promise on it! We are called to do it.


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        Bible In Real LifeBy Lee Fuller
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