“A son honors
his father, and a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the
honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty.
“It is you priests who show contempt for my
name.
“But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt
for your name?’
2. We honor by our words.
James 3:9-10
New International Version
9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father,
and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness.10 Out
of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should
not be.
Ephesians 4:29-30
New International Version
29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of
your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others
up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.30 And
do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for
the day of redemption.
3. We honor by protecting them.
John 7:18
New International Version
Whoever speaks on their own does so to gain
personal glory, but he who seeks the glory of the one who sent him is a
man of truth; there is nothing false about him.
Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one
another in showing honor.
Who or What to honor.
1. Honor others.
1 Peter 2:17
English
Standard Version
Honor everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.
Honor the emperor.
2. Honor authority.
Romans 13:1-2
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Let everyone
be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except
that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been
established by God.2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling
against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment
on themselves.
Types of
authority...
A. Government
B. Work or School
C.
Family
D.
Spiritual
3. Honor
parents.
Ephesians 6:2-3
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2 “Honor your father and
mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—3 “so that
it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”
4. Honor marriage.
Hebrews 13:4
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Marriage should be honored by all, and the
marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually
immoral.
1 Peter 3:7
New
Living Translation
In the same way, you husbands must
give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live
together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in
God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be
hindered.
5. Honor age.
Leviticus 19:32
New
Living Translation
“Stand up in the presence of the elderly, and show
respect for the aged. Fear your God. I am the Lord.
Job 12:12
New Living Translation
Wisdom belongs to the aged,
and understanding to the old.
6.
Honor nature.
Genesis
1:28
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God
blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in
number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the
sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the
ground.”
7. Honor God.
Malachi 1:6
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“A son honors his father, and
a slave his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a
master, where is the respect due me?” says the Lord Almighty.
“It is you priests who show contempt for my name.
“But you ask, ‘How have we shown contempt for
your name?
The greatest lessons of life are almost always taught in the
classroom of suffering. Where does pain come from? It does not come
from God, but God is the pain taker.
John 10:10
English
Standard Version
10 The thief comes only to steal andkill and
destroy. I (Jesus) came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Where does Satan target us for pain. He targets our
weaknesses. Weakness is another name for our blindspots. Areas that we do not see. Satan also targets our pride. Areas that we think that we are strong. We need
people who tell us what we need.
Hebrews 12:1
New
Living Translation
Therefore,
since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith,
let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so
easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before
us.
James
4:6
New Living
Translation
6 And he gives grace
generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.
1 John 1:9
New
Living Translation
9 But
if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins
and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
James 5:16
New
Living Translation
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so
that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great
power and produces wonderful results.
2 Corinthians 11:24-29
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24 Five
times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with
stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in
the open sea,26 I
have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger
from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in
danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in
danger from false believers.27 I have labored and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I
have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been
cold and naked.28 Besides
everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.29 Who is weak, and I do not feel weak? Who is led into
sin, and I do not inwardly burn?
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
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7 or because of these surpassingly great
revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was
given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.8 Three
times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.9 But he said to me, “My grace is
sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in
insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I
am weak, then I am strong.
31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not
read what was said to you by God:32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of
Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”33 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his
(Jesus's) teaching.
Jesus teaches
that those who know God live on through out eternity even when we consider them
to be dead.
John 11:25-26
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25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the
life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,26 and
everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe
this?”
In other
words, we who know Jesus don't actually die. The Bible teaches
that only our bodies die.
James 2:26
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...the
body apart from the spirit is dead...
But those who have died and know Christ have never been
more alive. People
on earth whose bodies are alive may actually be spiritually dead.
If they are spiritually separated from God's Holy Spirit they spiritually
dead.
When
the human spirit leaves the human body that body becomes dead. When the
human spirit is separated from God's Holy Spirit, they are spiritually dead right
here while alive on earth. If you physically die
in that condition, that condition becomes eternal, but it doesn't have to be.
Romans 10:13
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13 For “everyone who calls on the
name of the Lord (Jesus) will be saved.”
Jesus can hear you. Call out for His help right now as Lord (or Boss of your life) in
faith, and He promises to help you. Turn your life completely over to
Him. That makes all the difference. He can make you Spiritually
alive! His death for us removes the separation between our spirit and
God's Holy Spirit!
Romans 8:1-11
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8 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in
Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you] free in Christ Jesus from
the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the
flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh and for sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit.
5 For those
who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the
flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the
things of the Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind
on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it
does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in
fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not
have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because
of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from
the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who
dwells in you.
