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00:04 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:08 ♪♪♪ 00:13 Doug Batchelor: If you want your children to grow up and be 00:16 honorable and serve God, you must be honorable and have 00:19 family worship. 00:21 The whole idea of honoring your father and mother is learned 00:24 through the Word of God, and it's implying that you're 00:26 teaching the Word of God in your family. 00:29 CC by Aberdeen Captioning 1-800-688-6621 abercap.com 00:33 Doug: We're in the midst of a series, actually first time 00:35 since I've been here, that is dedicated solely to 00:38 the Ten Commandments. 00:40 And so today, we're actually on the sixth presentation, but it's 00:44 commandment number five. 00:46 And we've just transferred from the first table of stones over 00:50 to the second table of stones. 00:52 The message title is dealing with honor in the family, Honor 00:57 Within the Family. 00:58 Now, in the Ten Commandments, you've got--you know, I was 01:04 gonna say something really silly, like the Lord is 01:06 brilliant, but it's sort of obvious, isn't it? 01:08 But it is brilliant the way that God designed the Ten 01:11 Commandments. 01:13 On the first table, you've got the relationship between man and 01:17 God. 01:18 It's the vertical relationship. 01:22 The first commandment, if you get the first commandment right, 01:25 "Thou shall not have any other Lord's before me," you will get 01:29 all the other commandments on this table right because if God 01:34 is first in your life, then you'll obey the way that you 01:37 worship him, the day that you worship him, the time, the 01:40 method, his name, that'll all be revered if you worship him 01:45 supremely. 01:46 Now, when you go to the second table, what is the first 01:50 commandment there? 01:52 "Honor your father and mother." 01:53 Now we're dealing with the horizontal relationships in the 01:56 remaining six commandments here. 01:59 If you get this one, right, if there--if things are right in 02:03 the family, all the other commandments would be right. 02:08 If you've got good parents and they're teaching their children 02:12 good truth, you're not gonna find in society that there are 02:15 problems with the lying, and adultery, and the coveting, and 02:18 the killing, and all these other things. 02:20 It's when you don't get the first one right that you have 02:23 problem with all the rest. 02:25 This commandment, probably more than any other, is the 02:28 foundation to the health and success of any culture because 02:34 the family is the most basic unit of a society. 02:39 And what we're talking about is not just children obeying 02:43 parents, we're talking about parents living in an honorable 02:48 way. 02:49 And it's the relationship between the parents, it's a 02:53 relationship of the children and the parents, and the parents and 02:57 the children. 02:58 It's really talking about honor within the family, reverence and 03:01 respect. 03:02 And so, that's our message today. 03:05 It's based upon this commandment. 03:06 You can find it in your Bible, of course, in Exodus 20, verse 03:10 12, "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be 03:15 long upon the land, which the Lord your God is giving you." 03:21 You know, in every culture, for there to be a strong society, 03:26 one of the first things they need to do is they need to 03:28 understand that the authority for the children is not the 03:35 state, it's the parents. 03:39 This idea that it takes a village and that we all raise 03:41 each other's children, it sounds really nice but no. 03:45 In order for a culture to be healthy, we need to understand 03:49 that a family unit, the responsibility of those 03:53 children, belongs, first and foremost, to those who brought 03:58 them into the world, I'm talking about biologically. 04:02 They are made in the image of their parents, just as we are in 04:05 the image of God, that responsibility rests with the 04:08 parents. 04:10 That must be respected by the state, by the government. 04:15 And to some extent, you know, when children are minors, 04:18 they're under the authority under of their parents, there 04:20 still is an element of that respect. 04:22 But more and more, we're finding that the government's acting 04:25 like we're the ones who are gonna tell you how to raise your 04:29 children, instead of the parents having that decision. 04:33 Something else, I don't know if you caught it, it said, "Honor 04:37 your father and your mother." 04:38 There is an implied truth there that a family, according to 04:43 God's design, is not a father and a father, or a mother and a 04:48 mother, but it is a father and a mother. 04:51 That's God's plan. 04:54 And in the same way on the first table of stones, God is saying, 04:57 "Look, I'm the one who saved you, I made you. 05:00 And so, I want you to worship me." 05:02 At the foundation of our relationships with each other, 05:05 it begins with honoring your parents 05:08 because parents are a child's first concept of God. 05:15 They really represent God to the children. 05:18 You think about it, God is the one who created us, 05:24 he sustains us. 05:25 He cares for us, he provides us, he forgives us, he cleanses us. 05:29 And for a child, who is God to that child as they're growing 05:32 up? 05:33 I need to issue a disclaimer here. 05:35 I realized, as I talk about this subject, that, you know, we live 05:38 with all kinds of strange circumstances. 05:40 And some of you maybe have been adopted. 05:43 This is an uncomfortable subject. 05:44 Some of you maybe grew up in a home with just a single parent. 05:48 Some of you maybe you are test two babies, and you're raised by 05:51 some corporation. 05:52 I don't know, we're all kinds of different people out there, and 05:55 there's exceptions. 05:56 So, what we're talking about here is the ideal, does everyone 05:59 appreciate that? 06:00 This is the ideal, and I know all of us have different 06:03 deviations of that ideal in our families. 06:07 And some of us, we were raised by our mother and our 06:11 stepfather, or whatever. 06:13 But so we're talking about the idea, and I understand that I 06:16 just want you to wink at the areas where you realize it 06:18 doesn't perfectly fit your situation. 06:21 But for the normal child, their first concept of God is the 06:26 parents. 06:28 Matter of fact, it's interesting the evolution that children go 06:31 through. 06:33 When they're real little, the parents can do everything. 06:39 They look at their parents in wide-eyed wonder and they think 06:41 they're God. 06:42 They fear them, they respect them, they love them, they look 06:45 to them, they don't want to be away from them. 06:47 They get a little older, you know, and the kid'll say, "My 06:49 dad's the strongest dad in the world." 06:51 And then they get a little older, they get to be about 12 06:52 and they say, "Well, they know almost everything." 06:56 And then they get to be about 14, they say, "They don't know 06:58 very much." 07:01 And then they graduate high school and start college and 07:03 they think, "They don't know anything." 07:07 And then they get to 25 and something changes. 07:11 They call and ask for occasional advice. 07:15 And then they get to be about 30, and they got kids of their 07:18 own and their respect just begins to soar, and they start 07:23 to understand. 07:24 And then they get to be about 60 and they think, "You know, I 07:27 wish I could talk to them again, and I would have asked them more 07:31 questions." 07:33 But it's like it goes from this believing everything, to 07:35 believing nothing, to believing everything again. 07:37 It's kind of strange. 07:39 Have you observed that? 07:42 But they represent our first concept and that's why it's 07:45 important for children to honor their parents. 07:47 It's very important for children--for parents to live 07:51 honorable lives because your child's concept of God is gonna 07:56 largely come from your influence. 07:59 Now, maybe I should take a moment and talk about, what does 08:02 the word honor mean? 08:04 When we say honor our father and our mother, to honor in the 08:07 Hebrew, to honor means to make weighty, to give gravity and 08:13 importance to their, their being, to promote, to glorify, 08:17 to boast about, to revere, that's the Hebrew. 08:20 In Greek it's the word timoreo and it means to prize, to honor, 08:25 to value, also to revere. 08:27 Honor your father and mother. 08:29 By the way, that commandment we read it clearly in Hebrew and 08:31 clearly in Greek, there's no question about what it means 08:34 because we've got it coming from the words of Jesus and from 08:38 the Old Testament example. 08:40 Proverbs 10:1, the Proverbs of Solomon, "A wise son makes a 08:44 glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother." 08:49 Proverbs 15:20, "A wise son makes a father glad, but a 08:53 foolish man despises his mother." 08:56 Proverbs 19:26, "He who mistreats his father and chases 09:01 away his mother is a son who causes shame and brings 09:05 reproach." 09:06 All through the Bible, the principle about revering, and 09:10 honoring, and respecting your father and mother is a pretty 09:15 basic principle. 09:18 Doug: Mary, the mother of Jesus, is one of the most 09:20 fascinating, yet misunderstood, characters in Bible history. 09:24 A godly woman entrusted with one of the most awesome 09:28 responsibilities of any mother, but how are we to understand 09:32 that role and what does it mean to Christians today? 09:35 Does the Bible say that Mary became a goddess that should be 09:39 worshiped? 09:40 Do the Scriptures encourage followers of Jesus to pray to 09:43 Mary? 09:44 To answer these questions, Amazing Facts would like to send 09:47 you a special free resource called "The Mystery of Mary 09:51 the Mother of Jesus." 09:52 This easy-to-understand book delves into the biblical 09:55 principles to explain, in a respectful and loving way, 09:59 what her role was in her time, and in our time. 10:03 Explore Mary's fascinating family tree, discover the nature 10:07 of Mary and the miraculous conception, and understand 10:10 something of her relationship and interaction with Jesus. 10:14 To get your free copy, call the number on your screen, and ask 10:18 for offer number 865 or visit the web address. 10:21 And after you read this inspirational resource, make 10:24 sure and share it with a friend. 10:26 Well, let's get back to today's presentation and learn some 10:29 more amazing facts from the Word of God. 10:33 Doug: Not only will parents represent God to your children, 10:37 but their concept of marriage is gonna come from you. 10:41 Not only is it important that children honor their parents and 10:45 that parents live honorably, but parents must be very careful to 10:50 honor each other. 10:53 Because if a father does not honor his wife, your son 10:59 probably will not honor his. 11:02 If a mother does not respect her husband, your daughter will 11:06 probably not respect her husband. 11:10 And so, the model that the parents establish for those 11:14 children, what goes around will come around, history will repeat 11:19 itself. 11:20 Now, some of you might be thinking, "But pastor Doug, I 11:22 grew up in a family that was so dysfunctional. 11:23 My mother and father were not very honorable. 11:25 They didn't honor each other, and now it's causing me 11:27 problems." 11:28 By God's grace, you need to break the cycle for the next 11:31 generation, and it can happen. 11:34 You know, one of the things I'm amazed at when I read the Bible 11:36 is how some of these rotten kings had good kids, and how 11:42 some of the good kings had rotten kids. 11:45 And so, you can't always say, "Well, I'm a victim because of 11:49 the way I grew up, I can't help it." 11:52 You need to break the cycle. 11:54 "Only take heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest 11:58 you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest they depart 12:01 from your heart all the days of your life. 12:03 And teach them to your children and your grandchildren." 12:08 I don't have time to read you all the verses that talk about 12:11 teaching the Word of God to your children, here a little, there a 12:14 little. 12:15 Put it on the doorpost. 12:18 Put it in your house when you lay down, when you rise up. 12:21 One of the most important things if you want your children to 12:24 grow up and be honorable and serve God, you must be honorable 12:28 and have family worship. 12:30 The whole idea of honoring your father and mother is learned 12:33 through the Word of God, and it's implying that you're 12:36 teaching the Word of God in your family. 12:39 The Bible says these words should be taught to the children 12:41 and your children's children. 12:44 Bible says grandparents and parents teach them to the 12:49 children. 12:50 Colossians 3:21, "Fathers, do 12:53 not provoke your children, lest 12:55 they become discouraged." 12:56 There's a balance between disciplining your children and 12:59 nagging and badgering them so they're exasperated. 13:03 You need to know how to guide them, tell them what's right, 13:05 tell them what's wrong, and when they do something, right, tell 13:08 them, encourage them, thank them. 13:11 If you're not appreciative in the home, they won't be when 13:13 they leave the home. 13:15 And so, children will much more do what they see than what they 13:19 hear. 13:20 So, these things must be modeled. 13:22 Heard about a young boy that was talking to his father and he 13:24 said, "Dad, is it always true that parents know more than 13:28 their children?" 13:29 Said, "Yes, son, it's always true." 13:32 He said, "Dads always know more than their sons?" 13:35 Said, "Yes, son, dad, always--dad's always know more 13:37 than their sons." 13:38 It was quiet and he said, "Who invented the telephone?" 13:42 He said, "Well, Alexander Graham Bell." 13:45 "So, how come his father didn't invent it?" 13:50 Evidently, he knew somebody more than his father is the 13:52 implication. 13:55 You honor your mother and father by not staying a child forever. 14:01 The responsibility of parents is to basically train your children 14:07 for independence. 14:09 From the time they're born, they are utterly dependent and your 14:14 responsibility is to teach them to be independent, responsible, 14:20 good, honest, respectful. 14:23 And you know, there needs to be respect in the family. 14:29 You know, when kids grow up and they see mom and dad yelling at 14:34 each other, but they go out in public and they're nice, they'll 14:38 grow up thinking that yelling is the way that you handle things 14:42 in your families and in your personal relationships, just 14:46 whatever they see in the family ends up being reproduced. 14:50 That's why it's so important to have this model. 14:51 We're to train them for independence. 14:54 You're not honoring your parents by staying at home when you're 14:58 25, not going to school, and you don't have a job. 15:02 Parents, you are not honoring God or helping your children by 15:06 letting them do that. 15:08 There comes a time where the best thing in the world you can 15:11 do for your kids is to practice some tough love and say, "Praise 15:14 the Lord, you're healthy, you're educated, there's the door, 15:19 seize the day. 15:23 You're gonna have an exciting life. 15:25 Send me a postcard when you get a job. 15:28 Keep in touch." 15:31 But you all know what I'm talking about. 15:32 Sometimes people don't understand--you know, the Bible 15:38 says in Genesis, "A man will leave his father and mother and 15:44 cleave unto his wife." 15:45 And some of you are thinking, "Well, I don't have a wife or a 15:46 husband yet, so I'm just staying at home." 15:48 No, no, you're probably not gonna get one either if you're 15:50 45, and still living with mom and dad. 15:53 And you gotta--folks are thinking, "You know, I can't 15:56 compete, he's still bragging about mom's cooking, and he's 30 15:58 years old, and he's living at home. 16:00 How could I ever compete with that?" 16:02 And if you want to be on the market and have your own home, 16:05 there comes a time when you gotta leave the nest. 16:07 And, you know, you even see this in nature. 16:10 When the little eagle is young, eagles are interesting because, 16:13 you know, they mate for life, they're very devoted companions. 16:16 The mother and the father both care for the chick, they work 16:19 together. 16:20 And they make their nests real fluffy when they're babies, 16:26 keeps the eggs from cracking. 16:27 The nest is made out of sticks, and rocks, and all kinds of 16:29 things, and bones and--but they get a lot of down, and fluff. 16:33 And as the chicks get older, pretty soon they get big and 16:38 they're crowding each other in their little nest and they're 16:40 stretching their wings, and they're flapping. 16:41 They get where the parents know, you know, they can fly, but 16:45 they're comfortable 'cause we're bringing them food every day. 16:48 You know what the parents start doing? 16:50 They start bringing less food, and they start getting hungry. 16:56 And then the parents start to scratch up all the down and they 16:59 throw all that soft stuff out of the nest, so they're not only 17:02 hungry, they're uncomfortable. 17:04 They have all these bones, and sharp sticks, and rocks in there 17:07 and they go, "What's happened, don't you love me anymore?" 17:10 And they're basically saying, "You got wings, you gotta learn 17:12 to fly." 17:14 The time comes when you gotta take the leap and yes, there's 17:17 risk and danger out there but, you know, you just can't stay at 17:19 home. 17:20 So, part of that honor relationship of parent and child 17:24 is that you know you're supposed to ultimately prepare them for 17:28 the time when they launch. 17:31 There needs to be a launch time. 17:34 Should children honor a dishonorable parent? 17:39 Now, whenever you talk about the subject about honoring mother 17:41 and father, someone will invariably say, "Well, that's 17:45 easy for you to say. 17:47 You don't know my father, you don't know my mother. 17:51 They are impossible. 17:53 They--the way they treated me growing up. 17:55 I was mistreated." 17:56 How do you deal with those situations? 17:58 Well, there may be areas where you say, "You know, I do try to 18:01 honor but there are the days when I just, you know, I can't 18:05 speak peaceably to them because they're so unreasonable. 18:08 And even after I'm an adult, they keep meddling in my life 18:11 and telling me what to do, or I can't talk to them. 18:13 Every time we talk, we fight." 18:14 And what do you do? 18:16 And you can fill in the blank, whatever your situation is, are 18:19 you, no doubt, in those situations? 18:23 You should always be honorable to their position as your mother 18:28 and your father. 18:29 You need to respect them for that. 18:31 If you cannot communicate peaceably, maybe you're a 18:34 Christian and they're not. 18:35 If they do not ask you to violate some command or 18:38 principle, respect them. 18:41 And if you have problems getting along, write letters if you 18:44 can't talk peacefully. 18:45 Write a note. 18:46 It's hard to argue with a note. 18:48 Write a note and say, "You know--" I've got a lot of people 18:51 I counsel with and they say, "You know, I just--I want to 18:53 honor my parents, but whenever I talk to them, it just--they 18:55 start to badger me and put me down, and it's just painful." 19:00 I say, "All right, well, then say--write them a note, tell 19:03 them you love them, you respect them, and just do it through the 19:05 mail. 19:06 It just creates one little layer of separation where you can 19:08 show, 'I respect you, I want to communicate with you but when we 19:12 talk, it just isn't--'" You know, and there may come a 19:15 time--there are cases where you need to cut off communication 19:20 because it is so toxic, but it doesn't mean you do it in a 19:24 disrespectful way. 19:25 You hear what I'm saying? 19:27 There is one of the kings in the Bible that had to make his 19:29 mother, he had to basically fire her from being Queen because she 19:33 was worshiping pagan idols in the temple. 19:36 And so, you know, sometimes you have to break that off. 19:39 But as far as possible, even the parents who are sometimes 19:43 difficult, respect them, honor them. 19:46 They're your parents, amen? 19:50 That doesn't mean that you need to, once you become an adult, 19:53 it's nice to listen to their advice, you don't always have to 19:56 follow it. 19:57 They don't have to meddle in your lives, but be respectful. 20:01 Remember them, write them an occasional note, make a phone 20:05 call. 20:06 I heard about a woman that called her rabbi and she turned 20:09 60. 20:10 She thought it was time to make out her will. 20:12 She says, "There's two things I want you to help me with." 20:15 She said, "I want to make sure that I'm cremated. 20:17 It's more affordable." 20:20 And she said, "Then I'd like you to take my ashes, and could you 20:22 sprinkle them all around Macy's?" 20:26 He said, "Well, I got the first part, but help me understand the 20:28 second part." 20:30 She said, "Yeah, I just want to be sure my daughters will come 20:32 and see me at least twice a week." 20:36 "Honor your father and mother that your days will be long upon 20:40 the land." 20:41 This is a commandment that actually has a promise in it, 20:44 did you notice that? 20:47 It tells us that your days will be long upon the land. 20:51 It says it a couple of different ways. 20:53 You look in Deuteronomy 5 where the Ten Commandments are given 20:56 there, it's different than you find in Exodus chapter 20. 21:00 "Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has 21:03 commanded you, that your days may be long, that it may be well 21:07 with you in the land where the Lord your God is giving you." 21:11 Why does God promise a blessing? 21:12 By the way, that was in our Scripture reading also, 21:15 Ephesians 6:1, "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, that 21:19 is right. 21:20 Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment, 21:22 with promise that it may be will with you that you may live long 21:27 upon the earth." 21:29 Long life is promised in this commandment, why? 21:33 Couple reasons. 21:34 One, is God will bless you for it. 21:36 The other is, your parents have learned the things they help you 21:39 stay out of trouble. 21:42 Your parents, when your mother and your father say, "Here are 21:44 the car keys, do not drive fast," you honor them, your days 21:48 will be long upon the land. 21:51 You dishonor them, they may not be as long. 21:55 When you disobey, they're giving you advice all the time to try 21:58 and keep you alive. 22:00 And it's interesting that in the countries that have the longest 22:04 life expectancy, they have the best regard for their elders. 22:09 You know, what country has the longest life expectancy? 22:12 Japanese. 22:14 Do they honor their elders there? 22:16 It was amazing when they had that tremendous earthquake a few 22:19 years ago to see the wonderful tender care that people took for 22:24 the elders that were displaced by all of this. 22:27 And they were so conscientious, and so careful to because they 22:32 have--they're trained from infancy to have high regard for 22:36 their elders. 22:37 They even take it too far in some cultures, they got ancestor 22:39 worship, but they're very careful to respect their elders. 22:44 Honor your father and mother that your days might be long. 22:48 You know, there's sin in the world today and the reason 22:49 there's sin in the world today is because our first parents did 22:55 not honor their father. 22:58 Adam and Eve, when they disobeyed God, they disobeyed 23:02 their Heavenly Father, look at all the trouble that it caused. 23:05 Death enter the world from disobeying a parent. 23:10 And people's lives are often shortened, one, by the curses 23:13 that God sends, the other through practically not 23:16 listening to the good information and advice our 23:18 parents give us. 23:19 But he promised your days will be long in the land. 23:21 He was bringing them into the Promised Land. 23:23 He said, "If you want to live and have a long life and a 23:26 peaceful life, honor your parents, and I'll do that for 23:29 you." 23:31 You know, this is a wonderful commandment that has a promise 23:33 in it. 23:35 The children of Israel learn to be faithful. 23:37 There's a story in the Bible, I don't have time to read the 23:39 whole thing. 23:41 But you look in your Bibles in the Book of Jeremiah chapter 35, 23:44 it talks about the Babylonians had surrounded Jerusalem. 23:50 They were about to destroy the city, judgment was coming. 23:53 Jeremiah was told by the Lord, "I want you to call the 23:57 Rechabites, bring them into the temple." 24:01 So this family, this tribe of rehab, who is the son of 24:05 Jehonadab, who is a friend of Jehu, that's another history, 24:10 they were brought into the temple. 24:11 And Jeremiah had some wine poured into pitchers and set 24:16 cups down in front of the leaders of the Rechabites who 24:18 were there in the city, he said, "Have a drink." 24:22 And they said, "No, we'll not drink." 24:24 And he said, "Why not? 24:26 Have something to drink, thus saith the Lord." 24:28 And they said, "No, because our father Rahab," Rahab, that's how 24:33 you say it, "he commanded us never to build a house, never to 24:39 drink anything from the vine, and to live in tents and he said 24:45 we'd have long lives if we followed his advice,' and for 24:48 several generations, they had followed their father's advice, 24:51 and none of the Rechabites ever drank wine. 24:55 And Jeremiah said, "Thus says the Lord, because the Rechabites 25:00 have not disobeyed the Lord, that when Jerusalem is 25:03 destroyed, I am gonna preserve them because they obeyed their 25:07 father and their mother." 25:09 And he said, "They will never fail to have a person to stand 25:13 before me because they've shown respect for their elders this 25:16 way." 25:17 And so, before Jerusalem was destroyed, God made Jeremiah act 25:21 out this whole scenario and basically test them, and they 25:24 would not drink wine, even though their father was long 25:26 dead. 25:27 They said, "Because he commanded us and we've not done it for 25:28 generations. 25:30 And he said don't build a house and only reason we're in the 25:32 city now is 'cause Nebuchadnezzar surrounded the 25:34 city." 25:35 And said, "But we live in tents as our father commanded." 25:37 And God said, "Because you obey your father, I'm gonna bless 25:40 you. 25:41 I wish my people would obey their Father." 25:44 And so, honor your father and mother, first and foremost, it's 25:49 talking about God. 25:50 You know, God is portrayed as our Father in heaven, and he 25:53 also sometimes uses the verbiage of a mother. 25:55 Says, "As a hen protects its chicken under its wing, so I've 25:59 loved you. 26:00 Can a woman forget her nursing child? 26:03 How can I forget you?" 26:04 So, God loves us with the love of a father and a mother. 26:07 And if you want your days to be long, I don't mean just long in 26:10 this world, if you want your days to be long and the earth 26:12 made new, we need to learn to honor our Father in heaven, 26:17 amen. 26:22 announcer: Don't forget to request today's life-changing 26:24 free resource. 26:25 Not only can you receive this free gift in the mail, you can 26:28 download a digital copy straight to your computer or 26:30 mobile device. 26:31 To get your digital copy of today's free gift, simply text 26:35 the keyword on your screen to 40544 or visit the web address 26:39 shown on your screen. 26:41 And be sure to select the digital download option on the 26:44 request page. 26:45 It's now easier 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