Honor the Key to Healthy Relationships

We Are A Community of Honor

"Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other." (John 13:34-35, The Message)

The Results of Honor:

• God's Response to Honoring Him

“Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I promised that your branch of the tribe of Levi would always be my priests. But I will honor those who honor me, and I will despise those who think lightly of me." (I Samuel 2:30, NLT)

The Fruit of Living with Honor

“By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches (wealth) and honor and life." (Proverbs 22:4, NKJV)

The encouragement to Honor one another

• "Love each other as brothers and sisters and honor others more than you do yourself."

(Romans 12:10, CEV)

The Bond we share flourishes in an atmosphere of Honor

"If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it, and if one part is honored, all the parts are glad." (I Corinthians 12:26, NLT)

Functional Definitions of Honor

In the New Testament carries the idea of something so valuable that is held as precious, prized, cherished, treasured, valuable, and very dear. It is to respond to someone with great esteem and respect and to treat them like valued treasure.

Contemporary Cultural Perspective:

“Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.”

-Wiston Auden.

Two Spheres of Life that our Relationships would be Transformed by Living with Honor

God Creates Man and then woman out of man "one flesh" Union (Genesis 2:24)

This bond is a system of Health, Loyalty, and Stability

White blood cells determine mine/not mine. "Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the LORD your God is giving you" (Duet. 5:16, NIV)The blessing of a child honoring their father and mother:1.Long-Life 2. Healthy and whole 3. Stability

"If you insult your father or mother, your light will be snuffed out in total darkness." (Proverbs 20:20, NLT)

1. This child will have no purpose.2. This child will have no spirit or wind. He/she will just hang out.

C. Parents as GatekeepersThe father strengthens the moral immune system of the child "maintaining the internal structure" of the child.

Father as Gatekeeper "Husbands give honor to your wives" (I Peter 3:7)

Violations of the bonds become the greatest source of feeding rebellion.

"Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged." (Colossians 3:20-22, NIV)

Acceptance is not approval.

Honor Does Three Things

Honor Keeps Commitments:

•"And may you treat me with the faithful love of the Lord as long as I live. But if I die, treat my family with this faithful love, even when the Lord destroys all your enemies from the face of the earth.”

(I Samuel 20:14-15, NLT)

Second Dynamic Honor Creates

“Honor Creates a Place in which people who walk with a limp receive Love, Acceptance and Forgiveness..!””

“”Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”

― Henri J.M. Nouwen

Third Dynamic Honor Creates

• Honor Lovingly Restores People to their Destiny & Purpose!

• "All that my master the king has ordered his servant," answered Ziba, "your servant will surely do." And Mephibosheth ate at David's table, just like one of the royal family. Mephibosheth also had a small son named Mica. All who were part of Ziba's household were now the servants of Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, taking all his meals at the king's table. He was lame in both feet."

(2 Samuel 9:11-13, The Message)

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Grasp your Significance Act with honor intentionally Honor all relationships both Biological and Relational Make Your Home a Place of Honor Honor all those in authority.

Honor the Key to Healthy Relationships

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