Title: Promised Blessings/Ephesians 6:1-4
Contents 1993.5.09 Ephesians 6:1-4 Promised filial piety
Recently in the newspaper, I saw an old man who had been ill and had been thrown away in the countryside. However, these cases are not uncommon. Even back in those days, there were filial piety, and there were many filial piety. Even today, there are filial piety and disloyalty, but as the modern family system has become the nuclear family era, there is no place for elderly parents to stand.
What I'm talking about isn't the whole thing, but some people say they take care of their parents. However, since the parents who serve them still take care of the house and help the children, you will see them taking care of them. They take care of the house, they take care of them with love, because they are grandchildren, and they don't ask for a salary. Besides, they get benefits at work for having their parents. They do it because they get praise from people for having their parents. What's wrong with being sick, useless, and cumbersome? There will be many who will be forsaken like people.
When I go to that town, a couple work. Since there was no one to raise the children, the parents in the countryside said they would force them to take them, sold them all to educate them in the countryside and sold the little land they had left. I saw someone who said that they would live with us now, and that they got a rented room for the elderly and sent them out.
Today we observe as Mother's Day. Every year on Mother's Day, I emphasize filial piety, but I am always ashamed of not being able to serve my parents as filial piety. Today, I hope that we can all once again see if we are doing the children's morality, make a decision, and put it into practice. And today, I will try to explain what filial piety is with various examples.
1. Think about why you should do filial piety.
From my own observation of the people of Jeju, I find that those who live with their parents are blessed. However, many people do not realize this and think that they got it through hard work, and in the end, they think that they will not be able to take good care of their parents and keep their blessings until the end, and they will live happily among themselves. The text says, “Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Do it.” This is a command from God.
You want to be blessed, but you do not realize that the secret of happiness lies here. “Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise, that it may go well with you on the earth and you may live long.” The Bible says that being filial to your parents is the way to receive blessings.
What I am saying is not that you have to do filial piety because you will receive blessings, but here
The emphasis is on the fact that it is a command from God.
And to those who are not filial to their parents, 'Proverbs 30:17 The eyes of those who mock their fathers and do not want to obey their mothers will be plucked by ravens of the valley, and eagles will eat them.
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After that, it is the greatest commandment in human life. Among the ten commandments, the 1st to 4th commandments are the commandments concerning the heavenly world. And the 5th through 10th commandments are the commandments about humanity. The first of these commandments is to honor your parents.
This is received as a saying that in order to be human, one must be able to be filial to one's parents.
Toinbee, a world-renowned historical philosopher, said that the most beautiful family system in the world is the idea of filial piety in Korea. However, looking at the reality that this beautiful human morality is gradually collapsing, I am saddened that the day will come when we too will become old people and breathe our sighs while watching the sunset.
After that, our parents sacrificed their entire lives to give birth to us and raise us.
I hope you will remember how your mother raised you, not just someone else's story. A lifetime was a sacrifice. Therefore, you are saying that filial piety as a child is proper.
2. What should filial piety do?
There is a saying. There is a saying that a father raises ten children, but ten children cannot support one mother. That's right. No matter how well we do, we can't even do ten thousandths of the love and devotion our parents gave us. Therefore, I think the first thing we should do is to put the hearts of our parents at ease.
# According to the Talmud, 'Some people go to hell even if they make their father catch fat fish, and some go to heaven even if they make their father beat the mill in the mill.' The former is 'Son, where did you get this kind of meat?' At that time, he was a person who said, 'Father, do your job quietly,' and the latter was a child who said to his father, keep hitting the mill and I'll go. In ancient Israel, there lived a filial son in a village called Dumah. This man brought diamonds worth 6,000 gold coins. But one day a rabbi came to buy the diamond. But things were not going well, so I put the key to the safe with diamonds under the pillow, and his father was sleeping on the pillow. It is said that the young man said, “You cannot sell diamonds just because you cannot wake up your father.”
Beloved, this is of course not to make the parents feel uncomfortable about food, clothing and shelter, but I believe that the greatest filial piety will put their parents at ease.
3. There are blessings that follow filial piety.
A person who cannot filial piety cannot be called a human being, which is why he taught respect for parents as the first commandment of humanity.
You can't take the grace of your parents, but you pay tribute by doing filial piety. If you don't do filial piety, you end up being ungrateful.
The promise in the Bible is that the secret to success on earth is to be filial to your parents. As I said in the beginning, you will see that the family where you live with your parents will be blessed, and your children will have no problems and become children who respect adults.
# Hyoja-dong is the back left of the old central office.
There is an origin of the name Hyoja-dong. In a house, a child died under the blanket due to the mistake of the father-in-law. The daughter-in-law thought that the father-in-law would be hurt if he knew, so he quickly took the child and ran to her husband. When the husband saw the dead child, he said that he was a disloyal child who almost hurt his grandfather's heart. The dead child is said to be alive. That's why it's called Hyoja-dong.
Beloved, I hope that you will do your best to your parents, who gave my life and made me what I am today, not because we want a reward.
4. Lastly, filial piety should be taught through education for children and filial piety should be passed on as a legacy.
You see rich people these days leaving a huge legacy to their young children, causing a stir in society. Everyone! What do we want to pass on to our children as a legacy? We want to pass on a lot of riches. You want to pass on knowledge or honor. Hannah sees that by having Samuel grow up in the temple, she was able to raise him as a good Israeli judge and prophet. Timothy sees that he has inherited the heritage of faith from his maternal grandmother Lois and mother Eunice, and became a great believer who nurtures many souls to God.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, lost his adoptive parents at the age of 11 and only attended school for one year, but he is said to have lived with the words he learned from his mother in his heart. She was able to become a great person because she lived with the message that she should be content with one Bible book rather than owning a lot of land.
To that end, we ask that our children be raised as children of faith. As I said last time, our children will serve God as much as we serve God. Those who serve God properly will become filial piety. There is a saying. It is said, ‘When I do all filial piety, my children do half filial piety. That's right. Expecting my child to become a filial son even though I did not become a filial son is like a person who waits for the harvest without planting seeds. I hope that we can lead a good life of faith so that we can produce children who serve God well and are filial in our homes. I pray in the name of the Lord that we can all practice filial piety so that we may be blessed and prosper in the land, and our descendants may be blessed and become the beautiful protagonists of tomorrow. Amen