Honor Exodus 20

Honor

Exodus 20:12 NKJV

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

This commandment is the first one with a promise attached to it.

Honor your father and mother so that the promises of God in your life may be long lasting.

Honor Hebrew word means , heaviness, burden, heavily upon, weighty.

This word sounds negative but its not. Honor means to give ear to to recognize the weight a person carries. Their identity and authority.

Its easy to loose that. We loose it when we diminish people, when we are condescending, when we put people down, we treat them as if they have to importance to us. We believe they don’t deserve honor.

This attitude does us no good! It brings us down low.

Honor Builds and Edifies

Proverbs 20:3 AMP

It is an honor for a man to cease from strife and keep aloof from it, but every fool will quarrel.

Romans 13:7 AMP

Render to all men their dues. [Pay] taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, and honor to whom honor is due.

The bible tells us to give honor to whom honor is due.

Our father and mother are weighty people in our lives they carry a heavy burden laid upon them to raise children and manage a household.

This position is due honor. a recognition of the position they have been placed.

To honor someone requires us to see the burden that is placed upon them.

Honor Brings Understanding and Wisdom

Every person carries a burden. It doesn’t matter if we agree with their burden or not. It is not our place to treat them with dishonor.

In Matthew 15 Jesus confronted the Jews about their traditions and Jesus called them out on their lack of honor towards their fathers and mothers.

We can find ways and reasons to treat people poorly but should we?

We should consider our ways...

Honor Preserves Unity

David is a great example of someone who understood honor when it came to King Saul.

1 Samuel 24:5–15 NKJV

Now it happened afterward that David’s heart troubled him because he had cut Saul’s robe. And he said to his men, “The Lord forbid that I should do this thing to my master, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord.” So David restrained his servants with these words, and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave and went on his way. David also arose afterward, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, saying, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed down. And David said to Saul: “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Indeed David seeks your harm’? Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you, and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’ Moreover, my father, see! Yes, see the corner of your robe in my hand! For in that I cut off the corner of your robe, and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor rebellion in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my life to take it. Let the Lord judge between you and me, and let the Lord avenge me on you. But my hand shall not be against you. As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand shall not be against you. After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea? Therefore let the Lord be judge, and judge between you and me, and see and plead my case, and deliver me out of your hand.”

An Attitude of Honor Trusts God