Exodus 20:12 - The Fifth Commandment - Part 1
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“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
Introduction
Introduction
We have finished the 1st table of the law that pertains to our relationship with God
Today we begin to look at the 2nd table of the law which addresses our relationship to others.
An important reminder as we make this transition is given to us by Jesus in Matthew 22:37-39 when he was asked what is the greatest commandment:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.
And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Two observations:
Love is the fulfilment of the ten commandments.
Even though we are looking at commandments that pertain to others we can not separate it from our relationship to God.
Without love for God, there can be no love for others.
Honor Your Parents
Honor Your Parents
We see this command repeated in Ephesians 6:1-3 “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.””
What does it mean to honor your parents (WLC 127)
all due reverence in heart, word, and behavior
prayer and thanksgiving for them
gratitude - parents sacrifice a lot for their kids.
imitation of their virtues and graces
willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels and due submission to their corrections
faithfulness to, defense, and maintenance of their persons and authority
bearing with their infirmities, and covering them in love
Honoring our parents means: reverence, thankfulness, prayer, imitation, obedience and submission, faithfulness and care, love and forgiveness.
A stubborn and rebellious son was to be put to death in Israel (Dt. 21:18-21)
Applies to adult children with aging parents.
Proverbs 23:22 “Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.”
Not necessarily obedience.
Husband and wives - leave, cleave, and become one flesh.
An example of breaking this commandment is given by Jesus in Mt. 15:3-6
The Pharisees claimed to obey the commandment but they left parents destitute.
He 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.
Limits to this command - This does not mean that we must always obey our parents.
We must always obey God.
Acts 5:29 “But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.”
When our parents ask us to sin, we must obey God over our parents.
To do what God forbids or when they forbid us to do what God commands.
Phone call, “Tell them I am not at home”
WLC 127 - “willing obedience to their lawful commands and counsels and due submission to their corrections
Application
Application
The blessing: “that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. “ (Ex. 20:12b)
He gives us a motivation for holiness.
“is an express promise of long life and prosperity, as far as it shall serve for God’s glory and their own good, to all such as keep this commandment.” (WLC 133)
Not a universal promise, but a biblical principle.
Kevin DeYoung, The phrase really has to do with abundant life. If you want to enjoy to the full the blessings that God has for you in the Promised Land, you’ll listen to your mom and dad
Implied curse for disobedience.
Honor is an expression of love
No one can claim to love their neighbor who does not love or honor their parents.
Love for God is the foundation for love for others.
Go to God when our parents and fail us.
Because they will!
Psalm 27:10 “For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.”
God is described as our Father and the Spirit teaches us to cry out to Him Abba
The prodigal son in Lk. 15:24 “For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate.”
Every failing of our earthly parents should cause us to long for the love of our heavenly Father and the rule of Christ in the New Creation.
Christ is the fulfillment of the commandment
He was submissive to his earthly parents - Luke 2:51 “And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.”
Jesus honored his mother - John 19:26-27 “When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.”
Jesus perfectly honored and obeyed His Father - and has been honored by the Father
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Col. 2:9-10 “For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, and you have been filled in him, who is the head of all rule and authority.”
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
Closing Hymn: 163 At the Name of Jesus
Benediction: to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen