Title: Don't Despise Your Parents
1. Background of the text: Moses' new priesthood
- These words that Moses received from God and preached were written to warn the Israelites who had left Egypt before they entered the land of Canaan. Moses' mission was to lead the Israelites to the wilderness just before Canaan. And after him, Joshua led them to Canaan, so that the people of Israel would take possession of the land. It also shows the fact that it is the gospel.
- What Moses was worried about was the faith of the people of Israel after they entered the land of Canaan. In fact, when the Israelites entered Canaan, they had a fervent faith as if they were in love with God. Nevertheless, Moses was compelled to worry about their faith because of the corrupt nature of the people of Israel who easily left God and the unbelieving environment in the land of Canaan. So, after he entered the land of Canaan, he went to Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim to proclaim God's punishment and blessings and to live with the identity of God's people.
2. The Importance of Honoring Your Parents
3. Not to be neglected
- When we are told not to disrespect our parents here, the Hebrew meaning of the word 'disrespectful' has the meaning of 'to take lightly, to despise, to despise'. However, when Moses proclaimed, “Cursed is those who disrespect their parents,” the people had to respond with “Amen”, which became an oath before God, swearing that they would be cursed if they did not keep it.
- The person you care about is the person you think is valuable. So don't be ignorant means don't underestimate your parents, let their presence have significance, and let your parents have a very important weight in your life and influence your behavior.
- We should all have respect for our parents. Therefore, it is the greatest disobedience for parents to make their children feel that they are an annoyance because of the fact that they are dependent on their children, and those who do so are the ones who deserve to be cursed as the text says. Therefore, the first step in filial piety is to acknowledge and respect the parents in everything.
4. If you love, you value it.
- But the problem is that there are too many people who have been hurt by their parents in this world, and relatively few people who consider their parents worthy of respect. And once the relationship between parent and child is broken, it tends to be passed down from generation to generation. Someone has to break the chain of misfortune, and this is possible through faith, not by manpower. Therefore, the reform of operating the family can only be done by those who know the gospel first and have not believed. Because they did not know the Gospel and did not know the secrets of faith, they may sometimes be hurtful and painful to us. However, we should not be filial to our parents by weighing their weight. The Bible nowhere tells us to love only those we respect. Teach him to love him deeply just because he is a parent. That is the true principle of man, and that is the true principle of the believer.
- What God wants is to respect parents and to practice filial piety because they love their parents deeply. If you love your parents deeply, you cannot neglect them. Love is to cherish, and to neglect it is because there is no love. Therefore, in order not to be neglected, you must love your parents deeply. Evangelical filial piety is not something you can do by looking at your parents. You just have to look to the Lord. Only those who are bound by Jesus will love those who cannot love because of Jesus, forgive the unforgivable, and love those who should be loved more deeply.
- The best service you can do for your parents is to cry for those who do not yet know Jesus or who do not have strong faith. Jesus, who gave life for us, is asking us to love our parents deeply.
★ This shows that the law only leads us before Christ, and it is the gospel that enables us to gain eternal life and enjoy freedom in Jesus Christ.
★★ Compassionate filial piety (positive filial piety) means that the motive of filial piety itself comes from pity, compensatory filial piety comes from the expectation of parental inheritance or other rewards, and legal filial piety is the way of life. It refers to the fulfillment of one's duty by being bound by However, evangelical filial piety (religious filial piety) is that the motive is to be God, not one's parents or oneself. Therefore, this filial piety is a filial piety that only believers can do, and the reward is received from God, not from parents.
2004-04-18