Honor Your Father and Your Mother
Scripture: Exodus 20:1-12
Refuse to Treat Them Lightly
“Honor your father and your mother” (v12)
“Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regards to lying words.” (Exodus 5:9)
Respect the Role God Assigned Them
“Moses listened to the voice of his father-in-law and did all that he had said.” (Exodus 18:24)
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.” (Colossians 3:20)
Receive the Reward of God’s Promises
“. . . that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” (v12)
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’ (this is the first commandment with a promise), ‘that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land’.” (Ephesians 6:1-3)
“(Jesus) answered them, And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother’, and ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die’, But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, what you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father’, so for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God. You hypocrites!” (Matthew 15:3-7)