5/7/08 sermon--5th commandment-Honouring our parents!
>One of the saddest thing in our lives is fracturing of families.
-2 Tim 1:3-6
>Satan's plan is to destroy the very pillar of life,the home.
>If you get it right with God,you will get it right with people
-Eph. 6
-Col. 3
>Godliness begins with home.
>This is the
FIRST command with a direct promise(long life)
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Home is the place with authority is learnt.>Everyone can be a deliquent.
-Prov 22:15
>An undisciplined child is a deprived child
2>
Home is where heritage is acquired-Prov 16:31
-Prov 20:29
-Psa 119:100
3>
Home is a place where love is experienced.}2 forces going against you:
[i]You are trying to find your identity.
[ii]You tend to feel very intense about things.
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practical things that we can do to honour our parents:
1>
Providing for them physically and financially}Give them enough to take care of expenses to your parents
2>
Living honourable lives-Prov 23:24-25
3>
Acknowledging and involving them in your life}Honouring them is not with our way,but with THEIR way.
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Taking care of them all their lives5>
Leading them to know Jesus!-end-