Pastor Calvin Lee
Many people have failed to honour relationships, parents, friendship, grandparents. Example : The Tates Family
What is the solution to bring honour in your family?
Transformation is the answer.
It has to be from the inside out.
Allowing Jesus to be the Lord of our lives and in our famiy.
Ephesians 6:1-9
Exodus 20:12
We give
Respect
Esteem
Significance
Honour to one another
(1) Command with a Priority
- children honour your parents
- an elevation to recognize
- an experience to regard
Honouring your parents is not about their performance. Honouring our parents is about their position, their personhood. No matter how bad they are, God is still their God. Jesus died on the cross for everyone including our parents. Honouring them does not mean we overlook their wrongs and faults, does not mean we give ways to their demands and hurtful ways.
You are ultimately honouring God Himself. It is a step of obedience and a step of faith to believe God that He will intervene and because of that, when you honour God, God will honour you.
This is the only commandment that it will come a day when we cannot keep it. When they are not with us anymore.
(2) command with a Promise
Ephesians 6:2-3
- it may go well with you
- your family will be well
- our days will be lightened
- our days will be lengthened
- our souls may be well
(3) Command with a Principle
- honour begets honour
- what goes round comes around
(4) command with a Purpose
- simply to glorify God
1 Peter 2:17
Learn to honour others who are above or below us. Honour the people who are despised, lowly.
(5) command with a Posture
- a heart of humility
God has meant the home to be a place of rest and refuge. But sadly it has become a daily combat ground and battered souls. Instead of hope and harmony, homes have become lack of love and filled with hatred.
We have to tear down every sins, habits, patterns that are breaking into the family. Breakdown every strongholds with the weapons that God given us. We all have great roles to play.
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