Filial filial piety guaranteed
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In the old days, not only the wisdom and skills of life, but also the land, honor, and status were inherited from the parents, so it was very natural and natural to obey the parents. However, in modern times, the dependence on parents is getting weaker. However, respect for parents is a living study for children. Children learn filial piety from their parents.
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Ⅰ. Filial piety is the first commandment with promise (1,2)
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“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2Honor your father and mother, for this is the first commandment with a promise.”
The first commandment also means the first commandment in order, but it also means that it is the most important commandment in human relationships. The command to “honor your parents” begins with the Ten Commandments God gave to Moses in Exodus 20. The 1-4 commandments deal with relationships instead, that we should serve God rightly, and the core of the 6 commandments that deal with interpersonal relationships is to serve our neighbors well. The order of keeping the Ten Commandments is important: love God first and then love your neighbor. (Matthew 22:37-40) “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment, and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. And these two commandments are the whole law and the prophets.” We were originally sinners who could not keep even one of the Ten Commandments, but now we are able to fulfill all those commandments by the power of Jesus in me. There is a commandment that says, “Honor your father and mother.”
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Ⅱ. Importance of the commandment to honor parents
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When we are born on this earth, the first people we meet are our parents, and it is this family that we have the first relationship with. Therefore, the family is the basis of all human relationships, and its basic ethic is “honor your parents”. This is the first and most important in human relationships. However, today, because the basic relationship of this family has collapsed, it is bringing about many other social crises like the house with the foundation stone collapsed. When Paul points out the various phenomena of separation from God in Romans, he first “disobeys his parents” and in 2 Timothy also says that the times of suffering in the last days will come, and the first phenomenon that appears is “they will disobey parents”. The first phenomenon of the last days will be a society that departs from God, and the second phenomenon is that a society that departs from God will disobey parents. Through these five commandments, we must examine our relationship with God and our relationship with our neighbors.
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Ⅲ. Ignoring your parents' lessons will make you unhappy
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The “parable of the two sons” in Luke 15 is not an actual event, but an example of what Jesus said to help us understand our relationship with God through the relationship between “Father and Son”. If the second son is people outside the church who have left his father, the firstborn son is still in the church, but he's not mature, he doesn't understand and doesn't understand the father's heart, so he's giving us a message that he needs another repentance. Both the younger son and the older son are models of the prodigal son. The command God has given us to “honor our parents” is to be understood in this context. Just as a son who leaves his parents perishes, so when we leave God, we perish.
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Ⅳ. Discover the prototype of the family in the Bible.
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The family is the model of heaven, and the church is the model of heaven. It is said that human beings cannot achieve good by our own strength because reason itself has been corrupted since birth. Therefore, if we want to achieve goodness and filial piety to our parents, we must believe in Jesus and renew our dead spirits. Therefore, today's saying, “Honor your parents,” goes beyond the filial piety of Confucius or Mencius's filial piety. Originally, if the word “filial piety” (孝道) is expressed in Chinese, “filial piety” means a son and a son under the character of old, and it is a figure carrying an elderly mother on its back. There is an old saying, "Man's sins are about 3,000, but the greatest of them is filial piety." Let's give the joy of reconciliation to our parents by honoring those above and loving those below us.
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Ⅴ. Return to the principles of the Bible.
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By believing in Jesus, we can execute the command to honor our parents, which is the foundation for restoring this broken society and collapsed nation. That is why we must return to the Lord. And you must repent. After Jesus establishes the church on this earth and raises us, he commands the restored community of faith. Ephesians 6:1 "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." Parents are the agents of God's rule and order on this earth. The basic order for us to love our neighbors begins with the love of these parents. All families and churches on this earth are derived from the heavenly model. So Paul expressed his spiritual father as his parents and called Timothy his son. If you honor your spiritual parents, your soul will prosper and everything will go well. If you obey God's order of government, and begin by honoring your parents, you say, "It will be well with you and you may live long on the earth."
All the inheritance God has given us, our land, our homes, and our businesses will be prosperous. How sure is that, thank you? We all respect our parents and elders, and I hope that you will be blessed with a good life and a long life on this earth. (May. 5, 2005)