Langhorne Presbyterian Church FaithActs – Fall, 2011

The Ten Commandments: What God Expects from Ordinary People

The Fifth Command – Parents as Heavyweights or Parents as Heavy Weights

1 And God spoke all these words, saying, 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.” • The content of the Second Tablet• Why Parents always matter and matter always• Working at it when your parents are sinners (too)• Applying the principle – Inferiors, Superiors and

Equals (Reconciling 2011 with 1646 and 1776)

dBeK; to make heavy or weighty, to glorify, to honor

The command, as given, is specifically not about parenting. It is about being a righteous son or daughter particularly as an adult. (The command as later applied especially in Ephesians 6 speaks to the corollary call to be a righteous father or mother.)

Father of the Bride

How might Kate honor, treat with the weight due them, Jim as her biological father and Jack as her dad?

The Helicopter is Still Hovering

How might Josh honor his mother now that he is a father?

My parents are pagans

How might Kobe honor his parents as he prepares for college?

And Daddy Makes Three

How might Steve honor Norm in this new chapter in his life?

Inferior to Superior:• reverence • prayer and thanksgiving • imitation • obedience • due submission • defense • bearing • loving

•defense •bearing •loving

Superior to Inferior:• love• prayer • instruction, counsel and admonition • commendation and reward• reproof and chastisement• protection and provision• example

Equal to Equal:• High regard• Honor• Joy