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Honor Your Parents - that it may go well with thee Matthew 15:4
We never know the love of a parent until we become parents ourselves.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

Definition of Honor - to revere, true honor involves praise from the lips and reverence from the heart. Mark 7:6, see John 5:23, 8:49 and1st Timothy 5:3 and 1 Peter 2:17

The Honor We Give to Our Earthly Fathers Is an Expression of the Honor We Are Showing to Our Heavenly Father.
'Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the Lord.' Leviticus 19:32

Honor vs. Disrespect - Honor is humbling myself in the presence of a God-given authority and expressing my devotion with an appropriate gift.
To reverence a ruler is to be reminded that God gave him his authority and will work through him to accomplish His will.
"The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." Proverbs 21:1
When we honor a leader, we actually honor ourselves, because the leader represents us.
"Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you." Hebrews 13:17
God never wastes parents on teenagers. He chooses just the right ones to carry our His bigger plans.

Three Levels of Honor
1. Honor through obedience - The command to honor parents is not only established in the Ten Commandments and affirmed by the teaching of Jesus but is also reinforced by Paul in the epistles. "Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord'- Colossians 3:20

Paul expands this command in Ephesians 6, 'Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee, and thou, mayest live long on the earth' - Ephesians 6:1-3

This passage points out that the command to honor parents is the first one to carry with it a promise of reward. The reverse is also tue: To disobey parents is to bring wrath and destruction upon our lives.

Solomon gives a vivid description of such punishment. 'The eye that mocked at his father, and despised to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.; Proverbs 30:17

The instruction of obedience is also explained in Proverbs. 'My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother. Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepiest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest it shall talk with thee.
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman' Proverbs 6:20-24

Obedience to parents is acting with the knowledge that God directs through them to do good.
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right." Ephesians 6:1
"Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy. Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father." Leviticus 19:2-3

2. Honor through wisdom. When a Hebrew boy reaches the age of thirteen, he officially passes from being a child to being an adult. A Special ceremony formally marks his becoming a "on of the commandment" (bar mitzvah). By this age, he is expected to have an obedient spirit toward his parents, but an even higher loyalty to the commandments of God, so that if his parents ask him to do something that is contrary to the Law of God, he cannot do it. (This is the case with Asa and his "mother.'
As a young man, he is personally responsible to God for his words, thoughts, and actions. He will be judged by God and others on the basis of his wisdom or foolishness.

Scripture states: A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother Proverbs 10:1.
Wise children will continue to follow Godly counsel and instruction they received from their parents.
As Scripture says, "A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke" Proverbs 13:1

As the son gets older and is required to make more and more decisions, he will also be open and responsive to the counsel of his father and mother. "Hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old" Proverbs 23:22
The transfer from being under the direct authority of the parents to being under the counsel of the parents can produce some tensions, as it did in the life of Jesus when he reached this significant age.

A son who delights in the Lord and His word is a wise son who makes a father happy. "Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son...." Proverbs 28:7

Choosing wise friends' honors parents. Pro28:7
3. Honor with support when parents become old.