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intro:
‘intro:
Examples of honor shown:
Killeen, Tx: Honoring Air Force veteran who had no family.
Story of man who gave up 1st class airline seat to deployed officer on her way home.
Part of series on “one another.”
Paul’s command to honor each other in .
What’s going on here?
What Is Honor?
Translates a word that originally had to do with something or someone’s material value.
Later, became a quality of character.
“this person is honorable.”
In other words, we value this individual for a specific reason.
For the most part our cultural context is similar.
We think of honoring a person for her civic efforts, or to acknowledge a military action.
We honor people in business or the arts for their contributions.
These are all accurate and good.
The biblical focus on how we honor one another is a bit different, however.
Be Like Jesus
We want to learn to honor others the way Jesus did.
He taught us to honor by serving.
We express our understanding of someone’s value by serving them.
Notice something fascinating about this story:
The disciples hadn’t done anything to “deserve” this honor.
In fact, in purely human terms, Jesus would have been cheered if he had chosen to criticize their lack of love and concern for each other.
Instead, he chose to teach them how to love and honor one another - not for what they had or hadn’t done but for a simple reason: He valued them.
jesus taught a very tangible way of honoring others.
This is rather counter-cultural.
Our instinct isn’t to put someone ahead of ourselves but to get in first.
Self-preservation and self-interest war in our minds and hearts against honoring others.
This kind of honoring takes humility.
Honoring Takes Humility
Paul taught us how to think about this:
Honoring Take
What’s required to be able to honor others?
To see their value?
Unselfishness
Humility
Self-sacrifice
phil 2:
Result:
Jesus the servant is exalted to be Lord of Lords and King of Kings.
When we honor others and lift them up, we too, will one day be exalted as well.
Steps to Honoring Others
Learning to see the value in others.
Going back to some of the original meaning of honor.
Find the value in someone or something.
Looking past the dirt, rust, condition of something to see its truest value.
We need to learn to do that for one another.
What’s Your “honor quotient?”
When was the last time you purposely attempted to honor someone above yourself?
What tangible way did you show your sincere appreciation?
Let’s keep it simple and practical on how to honor someone in your life:
Make complimenting “normal.”
Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.”
Remember: It’s not about us.
If we’re not used to giving compliments:
Share some of the compliments from list.
Is it about insecurity?
One thing I admire about you...
If you’re not sure WHO to compliment:
who should be valued for their ability to be a peacemaker.
who should be valued for how they keep the golden rule?
who should be valued for their servant heart?
Conclusion
While it is always appropriate for us to honor those who have served, the Bible teaches us to honor one another in the church - whether we’ve “earned it” or not.
What would happen if we truly looked for the value in each person here and found tangible ways to acknowledge that value?
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