Honoring Parents
Building Strong Families – Part 5
Life Church – March 13, 2011
Pastor Dan Walker
Exodus 20:12 (NIV) Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
1. Why did God give the 5th commandment?
A. There are no ____________ parents
Romans 3:23 (NIV) For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
B. Respect for _____________ begins at home
Colossians 3:20 (NIV) Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
C. Your relationship to parents affects other _____________
Romans 1:30 (NIV) They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents;
2. How can I honor my parents?
A. As a child, _______ and ______________ them
Ephesians 6:1 (NIV) Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Matt. 19:19 (CEV) Respect your father and mother.
B. As a young person , __________ and ____________ them
Proverbs 23:22 (NIV) Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 20:20 (NIV) If a man curses his father or mother, his lamp will be snuffed out in pitch darkness.
Proverbs 30:11-12 (NIV) There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers; those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not cleansed of their filth;
C. As an adult, __________ and not ____________ them
1 Timothy 5:4 (NIV) Children or grandchildren should learn first of all to put their religion into practice by caring for their own family and so repaying their parents and grandparents, for this is pleasing to God.
1 Timothy 5:8 (NIV) If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.