Honor: Exodus 20:12

The command to honor parents is intended for adults, not children. It is a commandment to take care of the elderly, and, more broadly, all those living within the boarders who are not able to take care of themselves. Recorded at our service on 7/11/10 by Jon MacDonald.

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Exodus 20:12 (New International Version)

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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Deuteronomy 11:18-21 (New International Version)

18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.

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The Poor
Deuteronomy 24:14-15 (Today’s New International Version)

14 Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is an Israelite or is a foreigner residing in one of your towns. 15 Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

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Widows & Orphans
Deuteronomy 27:19 (Today’s New International Version)

19 “Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.”Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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The Foreigner
Leviticus 19:33-34 (Today’s New International Version)

33 “‘When foreigners reside among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigners residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

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Animals
Deuteronomy 25:4 (Today’s New International Version)

4 Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

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1 Peter 2:1-5 (Today’s New International Version)

1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. The Living Stone and a Chosen People 4 As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by human beings but chosen by God and precious to him— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house [a] to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Footnotes:

1. 1 Peter 2:5 Or into a temple of the Spirit