What is right and wrong part 5

"Honor your father and mother. Then you will live a long, full life in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

INTRODUCTION

Good evening Southpointe!! we are on part 5 of What is right and wrong!

We have talked about:

Have no other gods before me, don’t have a graven image of anything in heaven or on earth, don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, and remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

So tonight let’s move forward from this, Honor your father and mother.

It is interesting that it begins by telling you to honor your father and mother. It starts with the family. few things can give us as much pleasure in life as our family.

But also on the other hand, few things can give us as much pain in life as our families.

Kids have problems with parents. Parents have problems with kids.

God starts with the family because He created it. It is because our very existence as a culture and nation is contingent on the success of the family.

That is why I believe the devil has declared war o the family today wanting to destroy it.

The sad thing is that in our society today, the mothers and fathers are hardly ever around to be honored.

Let me ask you this: How many of you have come from a broken home?

Think about this: 12% of all women ages 15 to 19 become pregnant each year. Of those 70% are unmarried.

The New York Times has reported that unmarried pregnant teenagers are beginning to be viewed by their peers as role models.

Research has found that a majority of Americans agree that single mothers can raise children as well as married couples.

The family unit was put in order by God. We start messing with God’s order then we will see the backfire.

Listen to this: 70% of juveniles in the state operated institutions come from fatherless homes.

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.

Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.

Since all we have in here is adults we will skip thru Verse 20, except on the word “always”/ for this pleases the Lord.

Now let’s look at verse 21, Fathers, do not aggravate your children, or they will become discouraged.

Do not aggravate your children, This is dealing with using your parental authority to sense to create an environment of hatred as an enemy.

Someone who just show up to bring complaints and pain.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.

To bring the children up in the way that you deserve honor is very important here.

Now I know that the commandment doesn’t say if your parent is honorable than you show them honor.

But if the parent want to be honor do the honorable thing.

"Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise:

"Honor your father and mother." This is the first commandment with a promise:

If you honor your father and mother, "things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth."

Honor--Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; manifestation of respect or reverence.

Here is the problem when you break the commandments, you pay the penalty.

The promise is “things will go well for You and you will have a long life on the earth.

So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked Him, "Why don't Your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony."

Jesus replied, "You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, 'These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.'

For you ignore God's law and substitute your own tradition."

Then He said, "You skillfully sidestep God's law in order to hold on to your own tradition.

For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.'

But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, 'Sorry, I can't help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.'

In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.

And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others."

Here the pharisees were challenging Jesus about His disciples not washing their hands before eating.

Jesus takes an example of the operation of the oral and ceremonial law to show how its observance, that it was far from being obedience to the law of God, actually it was contradiction of the law.

And Jesus tells them that that sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to their tradition.

Jesus brings out the law of God that people should honor their father and mother, then he goes on to say that if anyone says

But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

The tradition of man said it is ok, that person is free from the duty of honoring their father of mother.

But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

That word: Corban--- it is corban.

Corban has two meanings.

Corban can mean that which is dedicated to God. So suppose that a man had a father or mother in poverty and in need and suppose that his poor parent came to him with a request for help.

There was a way in which the man could avoid giving any help. He could say that he officially dedicate all his money and all his property to God and to the temple, his property would then be Corban, being God dedicated, then he could say to his father or mother. I am very sorry i can give you nothing, all my belongings are dedicated to God.

So he could use a ritual practice to evade the basic duty of helping and honoring his father and mother. Basically tradition regulation wiping out one of the Ten commandments.

Cordan has another meaning.

Cordan was used as an oath. A man night say to his father and mother, I will never help you with anything I have.

He was mad and didn’t really mean it. That man repentance and was going to help his parents.

The Pharisees would say this:

If a man vow a vow unto the LORD, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

They would twist things and did not care if it was hurting and destroy people and breaking the ten commandments.