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Introduction
like the person climbing steps:
1st commandment/step - This is who I am
Next step, This is my priority in your life
Next step, This is how you show Me holy to the rest of creation.
Show my name respect
set the Sabbath apart
Next steps, this is how you relate to others
Honor your father and your mother
God does things orderly.
Creation reflects that order
God gave structure to creation and to the systems in creation
God created the family and made it the basis for human society.
All everything else flows out of the family
other relationships
cultural norms
laws
business - healthcare
This command doesn’t just mean
Our honor of one reflects our honor of the other
It began with building our relationship with God
How we respect God influences how we respect our parents and others
“Remember who we are”
The same Hebrew word is used for both honoring God and honoring our parents.
This command has a broader implication then just our own immediate family.
We learn and grow from their experience
We gain experience and wisdom from our “seasoned citizens.”
My work as a Chaplain allows me to meet many “seasoned citizens” and I have found great wisdom and insight in conversation with them.
That brings us to the next big idea
Our honor for Parents reflects our honor for all people.
What starts close to home spreads out to the rest of society.
Our society doesn’t reflect God’s intention in the matter of honoring our parents.
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There is a societal implication in this.
How we treat the young and the old will determine how long we last as a society.
The value we place on the ones at the beginning and ending of life reflects how much we value all life.
Honor has its blessings.
Synopsis
Old age is generally held in honour and the aged in society are to be respected.
Because of the wisdom associated with their advancing years elders had an important role of authority and guidance in Israelite society and the NT speaks of the leadership of elders within the church.
Respect for the aged
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(ESV) — 32 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
(ESV) — 5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders.
Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
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(ESV) — 8 the young men saw me and withdrew, and the aged rose and stood;
(ESV) — 31 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.
(ESV) — 29 The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair.
(ESV) — 1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers,
Respect for parents
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(ESV) — 3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
(ESV) — 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
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(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.
(ESV) — 17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
(ESV) — 9 For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
(ESV) — 16 “ ‘Cursed be anyone who dishonors his father or his mother.’
And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
(ESV) — 17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
(ESV) — 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’
(ESV) — 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
(ESV) — 20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
Old age is associated with wisdom
Deferring to the wisdom of the aged
(ESV) — 6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
7 I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’
See also Rehoboam rejected the advice of elders and rebellion ensued; ; ; Paul refers to his age to add authority to his words.
(ESV) — 6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”
7 And they said to him, “If you will be a servant to this people today and serve them, and speak good words to them when you answer them, then they will be your servants forever.”
8 But he abandoned the counsel that the old men gave him and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him and stood before him.
(ESV) — 12 Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
(ESV) — 10 Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, older than your father.
(ESV) — 9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you—I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus—
Learning from the previous generation
(ESV) — 18 So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim your might to another generation, your power to all those to come.
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(ESV) — 8 “For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out.
(ESV) — 25 I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging for bread.
26 He is ever lending generously, and his children become a blessing.
Old age does not necessarily bring superior wisdom
(ESV) — 13 Better was a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who no longer knew how to take advice.
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(ESV) — 9 It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
(ESV) — 22 to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
Showing disrespect for the elderly is a sign of evil days
(ESV) — 5 And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.
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(ESV) — 50 a hard-faced nation who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young.
(ESV) — 1 “But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
(ESV) — 6 I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy.
(ESV) — 12 Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
The role and status of elders
Elders of non-Israelite nations
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(ESV) — 7 So Joseph went up to bury his father.
With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
(ESV) — 7 So the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the fees for divination in their hand.
And they came to Balaam and gave him Balak’s message.
Elders in Israel
Israel’s elders were probably the heads of families, qualified to lead by virtue of age and experience:
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