Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Honoring Your Parents

We had a great ending to our year, before summer break, this past Sunday...finishing up Set 5 materials with the topic of Honoring Your Parents.  The weather was beautiful, so for a special treat, I handed out Popsicles and the girls and I walked around the neighborhood discussing our topic...fun!  Have a safe and blessed summer break everyone and hope to see you all back again in September :)

Set 5 Meeting 6 – Honoring Your Parents

Stories:

Jesus going to the temple when He was 12 (Luke 2:  41-52)

Samson’s failure in this area and the results (Judges 14)

Personal testimonies of when you chose to honor your parents, even though you didn’t want to, and the ways you saw the Lord bless your decision


What does “To Honor” look like?

We should honor not only parents, but also grandparents and others in authority.

How do Gratefulness, Complaining and Murmuring, Gossip, Disrespect, Disputing and Arguing relate to honoring our parents?

Scripture:

Ex. 20:12
Deut. 5:16
Prov. 1: 8-9
Prov. 15:5
Prov. 15:20
Prov. 15:31-33
Jer. 35
Mal. 4:6
Matt. 15:3-9
Lk. 2:41-52
Rom. 13
Eph. 6:1-3
Col. 3:20

Main Concepts

We are commanded in both the OT and the NT to honor our parents…and it doesn’t say to honor them when they are right, when we agree with them, or when it is easy – it just says to honor them!

The commandment to honor our parents is so important to God that He has an exciting promise attached to it (Eph. 6:3 “That it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.”)  Honoring our parents may be difficult, but the rewards far outweigh the struggles.  There will be huge blessings for us, both now and for the rest of our lives, as we purpose to honor our parents in everything and respond to them in a godly way.  Ultimately, we are not just honoring our parents – we are honoring the Lord!

Almost every parent desires to have a close relationship with their daughters.  We should do everything we can to seek a close relationship with them in return.  In fact, our relationship with our parents is to be a picture of our relationship with our Heavenly Father. (1 John 3:1)

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