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The Importance of Honoring Parents 0:01 Okay, friends. This is gonna be, I think, really good. Let's go.0:36 Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the deep dive bible study. My name is Tim. I'm your host. If you hit the like and the subscribe button and the notification bell to get notified every time we go live, that would0:46 be a real huge blessing to me, to the channel, bringing this content to you. This is a wonderful labor of love. I absolutely enjoy what I do on this0:58 channel. Last night, deep end, we talked about something that I believe pertains to tonight's deep dive. So we are in deep dive. Torah study part 5 and I don't1:09 say this often, but this 1 is a can't miss. This 1 is an important episode, perhaps 1 of the most important episodes that I have to offer1:21 you. And the reason is very simple is because what we're gonna talk about today on the deep dive is fundamental to who we are1:33 as a society, as a community, as a nation. If you destroy the family, you destroy a nation. And, by destroy, I mean, you redefine a nation. And that is that is1:45 what we are experiencing. That is the cultural revolution that we are happening right now and we are in number 5 of the 10 Commandments and you might know what that 1 is. I'll tell you what it is. It's about parents.1:54 It's about honoring fathers and mothers. And so with that in mind, let's get started. The Deep Dive season 7 presents2:07 The Door of Life. Okay. So the plan for the next few weeks, and I wanna unpack this for a reason2:19 because I I wanna give you the directions where we're going for the next few episodes. Number 1, today, commandment number 5. Number 2, next week's episode, we will deal with commandments, 62:31 through 9 there as you see on the screen. And then we're gonna take a break for a week because I have a church service on Tuesday nights with my church, and so that will be coming up2:43 after that week. We will do that the following week, and I'm just adjusting things all over the place tonight. I'm sorry about that. There we go. Much better. So that will happen on November eighth.2:56 Then we will have our first episode of difficult passages on November fifteenth. We will deal with the passage on the captured girl. So when Israel goes into war against her enemies and they3:08 see a young girl and they wanna take her as their wife and their, you know, it looks bad on the page and good preachers will admit that looks bad to our modern sensibilities since that's gonna3:20 happen on November fifteenth. You say, why are you telling me this now? Because I want you to make sure I want to make sure that you know where we're going, that you are anticipating where we're going, that you tune in3:28 every week. But, most importantly, maybe some of you and I don't advise this, but you say, well, I really wanna get to those difficult passages because that's what I was looking forward to in the study. Well, that's when3:38 it's gonna start. It's gonna start November fifteenth. But today is just as important. Next week is just as important. November eighth is just as important. But I want you tuned in as to where we are going. When we talk3:49 about parents, here's, an article that came across my desk today, made me sad. The article is from an insider, website insider website says there's never been a better time to be a dink.4:01 Now that's funny. Right? Dink. But what is a dink? Dink means dual income, no kids. So these are people with no children and money. And this article goes on and states how they have more4:12 money than their, contemporaries with children. In fact, they have a median net worth of almost 400000 dollars which I think is an astounding amount of money, to be4:24 honest with you. I mean, if you have 400000 dollars net worth, you should be having kids. But that's a hundred thousand dollars more than it was in 2019. So a lot of that probably from the COVID money, the stimulus4:33 relief money, all that stuff that people just kinda save, put into their bank accounts or into their 4 0 1 k's or whatever. Meanwhile, it says couples with children have the second highest net worth out of all family4:42 structures, 250000, and there's an extra 0 there, so ignore that extra 0. But in my opinion, they do deserve that extra 0 because children, the scripture says, are a reward, are a4:54 heritage from the Lord. You can't put a value on children. You can't put a monetary value on children. It's it's it's it's beyond money, the value that having children and especially godly5:06 children is in your life. Interestingly enough, that article, talks about the fact that childlessness is becoming more common amongst young adults ages, 55 to5:17 64 ages 55 to 64. 1 fifth of them are childless, but the real fact of the matter is that amongst Americans 18 to5:29 49, 44 percent of them who don't have children say they're unlikely to have any children. And that that goes all the way down to 18 years old. So there is a disavowal, if you5:41 will, of the first commandment which we talked about on this show. The first commandment is not you shall have the lord your god, beside me. You shall have no other god beside me. The first commandment is be fruitful and5:51 multiply. That's the first literal command. Words that god told men what to do is in Genesis chapter 1 It's it's the most important thing. We have to breed. We have to create families. That's6:03 otherwise, there's no more human beings. But we it brings us to our modern culture. It brings us to a lot of the societal ills that we are experiencing right now is an6:15 abandonment of that command, an abandonment of of rearing children. And so here on Torah part 5, we're gonna talk about the importance of parents and children6:26 honoring your father and mother. Dennis Prager, big fan of his and he says in his book on the Torah, civilization cannot be sustained when parents lose authority over their6:38 children. My sentiments exactly I a hundred percent agree with this. You need to agree with this too. You need to understand how cultural revolutions happen and they have happened throughout human history. And when6:50 we talk about cultural revolutions, which there is a side to the political aisle in America right now that is all in on a, overflowing nation changing7:02 cultural revolution that needs to happen right now, a lot of the Black Lives Matter thing, a lot of the Palestinian chants right now on the streets right now, that's the fruit of this culture revolution that has been7:11 brewing under the surface. And and tonight, I am gonna share with you details. I might get a little deep end y tonight. I'm sorry, but these details matter for what is happening in our culture.7:23 And I am so excited to share this stuff with you because it's it's it's mind blowing and I can't express it enough. Stay the whole episode. Make sure that you are subscribed and liking the video and hitting the7:35 notification bell so that you always know when we go live. But cultural revolutions happen when parents are disconnected from children or children are disconnected from parents, and it's both and.7:47 But in the Eastern world, it has happened repeatedly where the government, the state has undermined authority the authority of parents. All you have to do is go back to the 19,7:59 fifties to, Red China. They, or sorry, the 19 sixties, seventies. The Cultural Revolution that was inspired by Mao Zedong, he used Red Guard8:11 youth to question their parents' ideology to really mock their parents for, according to Mao, holding on to the 4 olds, the old tradition, old ways, old values.8:23 And it was the youth that Mao Zedong, leveraged against their parents to bring about a sweeping cultural revolution that led to communism8:34 and really the economic slowdown of China that was that was the reality of the 19 sixties and seventies. China was booming up until recently, and that is in large part because the trade opportunities opened up8:46 between China and the West. But the propaganda to create co communism in a society was grounded in dividing parents from8:58 children or really from children from parents. Casting off the vestiges of the old. Let me put this next quote up. This is an astonishing quote, a very9:10 shocking quote, and it is from a guy you are very familiar with, Adolf Hitler. Here's what he said. He said, he alone who owns the youth gains the future.9:22 He alone who hold owns the youth gains the future. And that is a very telling quote from Adolf Hitler. I went online and I found this article9:34 from history dot com, an interesting article about how Hitler literally took away historic youth organizations and then literally removed them from society so that only Hitler's youth would be where9:46 young people went to learn about the world, learn about themselves. And he was against the Boy Scouts as it says here. Literally, amazing, to just kind of unpack this.9:58 The article says the Nazi party knew that families provide cohesive, groups that are not usually under political sway. They were an obstacle to Hitler's goals. The Hitler youth was a10:10 way to get Hitler's ideology into the family unit, and some members of Hitler youth even denounced their parents when they behaved in ways not appropriate, to or not approved by the Reich. So 1 of his10:22 biggest moves, the article explains, was in 19 37 when he abolished the Boy Scouts. And, in January of 19 33, there were 50000 members of Hitler Hitler's youth. By the end of10:34 the year, there were 2000000 Hitler youths and then after they removed the scouting organizations, the only ways for kids to get scouting experience or to learn life skills was to join Hitler's youth in10:45 Germany And so that by 19 39, 90 percent of German youth were part of Hitler's youth because all other youth programs were dissolved according to the state. This is how a10:57 cultural revolution happens. These things matter. And if you look at America, you see the same thing happening in so many ways. This article from World News Daily says the slow and tragic death11:09 of the Boy Scouts of America, back in 2000. I remember the struggle to include gay leaders was a huge deal. It went all the way up to the Supreme Court. Supreme Court allowed gay leaders to take over scouting groups. And11:21 and from that point forward, the Boy Scouts became less and less of what they were. Boy Scouts learning how to forage, build tents, live outdoors, learning how to be good civil servants, members of11:33 society, work together, leaders. This is a foregone value in American culture and you look at the roots of its deterioration, it all stems back to a very,11:44 very subversive force active in America, something that I take on repeatedly on this channel. But the LGBT movement, subversive marriage, subverting, family, children, what it means to be a man, what it means to be a11:56 woman, and subverting organizations, same organizations that Hitler went after, they go after. And today, this article unpacks how so far the, scouting organization in America has12:08 literally been decimated. Then you look at the educational system. I bring you this article from the Daily Mail. Los Angeles elementary schools with students as young as 5 will celebrate National Coming Out Day with a12:18 week of LGBT lessons including an identity map activity. Should should schools I'm asking you now and you can tell me. Should schools be talking to your 5 year old about their sexual12:30 proclivities, about celebrating, adverse sexual proclivities to your faith, to your biblical understanding of manhood and womanhood? This is the the trend of12:42 culture, the subversive undermining of society and ultimately the separation of children from their parents. 5 think about it. 5 year olds. Then another article that I12:54 have to share with you. This is from Oregon, The Oregonian. Talks about Oregon again says students don't need to prove mastery of reading reading, writing, or math to graduate citing harm to13:06 students of color. I guess for the next 5 years, Oregon High School Diploma will no longer guarantee that the student, earned it, can read, write, or do math at a high school level. This this is what you have happening13:17 in progressive states, blue states primarily, where you have this dumbing down of the educational system all in the name of equity. So instead of saying, let's change how we teach to empower students to learn,13:29 no. Let's just remove the standards. This is insane. This is the dumbing down of an entire generation. Ultimately, a generation that is not informed and not educated is a very controllable education,13:42 society generation. And that is what is happening. I believe that is the subversive elements, born from our, the devil who wants to seek to devour the family,13:54 to destroy, to divide children from their parents. This is how you get a cultural revolution and I bring you even worse news on this regard and I14:06 want it to tie into last night's deep end for a reason because it's gonna have everything to do with what we're talking about on the deep dive, tonight. So we discussed a couple14:18 weeks ago on the deep end and last night a little bit about how colleges and elite universities have indoctrinated students. And you say, how did this happen? Well, my crack research team finds details14:30 that just stun me, and then I have to share them with you. Okay? This from the Free Press, the headline is the following. Just check out the headline. Qatar's war for young14:42 American minds. Now, Qatar, as I stipulated 2 weeks ago on the deep end, that's the home base of Hamas' current president and it is also where Hamas14:53 leaders bow down to Mecca in celebration and worship of Allah after the vicious violent terrorist attacks upon Israeli citizens and children happened on October seventh. So you have15:05 the home base of Hamas in Qatar and look at what's happening. Money is flowing according to the according to this study from the National Association of Scholars. Money is flowing from Qatar into15:17 American universities. The study found that between 2001 and 2021, the, a a whopping 4700000000.0 dollars was donated to US colleges.15:29 The largest recipients are some of America's most prestigious institutions of higher learning. These schools have partnered with the regime to build campuses in Doha's educational sit city. That's in Qatar, a special15:40 district of the capital that holds, satellite colleges for American universities. You say, I can't believe it. Neither can I? Let me give you the details, the receipts. So since15:52 19 97, Qatar donated a hundred and 30000000 a hundred and 3000000 to Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2001, they donated 1800000000.0 to Cornell for a medical school. Since 2003, they donated 700000000 to Texas16:04 A and M. 2004, they donated 740000000 to Carnegie Mellon. 2005, they donated 760000000 to, Georgetown University. That's since 2005, since 2004. And then since 2008, Qatar has donated16:15 602000000 dollars to Northwestern University for a school of journalism. Oh my it is starting to make sense. It is starting to make sense and this should be alarming16:28 to you that that our educational system has been hijacked by the leaders of Qatar the leaders of Hamas who live in Qatar and have been in16:39 conjunction with the Qatari government to basically form your kids' minds at elite and very expensive universities in America. This is a16:51 cultural revolution that is happening right now. And all that I'm sharing, I know, very deep end y so far tonight, but stay with me because it will. It will lead us right to the discussion that we have to have tonight.17:03 I'm going to share more details about this on the deep end next to this Tuesday coming up. Please tune in. Please subscribe. Please hit the notification bell because this content, if you get a hold of it, it's going to17:13 save your family, but I just want you to think about it. I put this little I'm gonna put a little map here up on the screen to kind of illustrate what we're talking about when it comes to what Dennis Prager said,17:22 civilization cannot be sustained when parents lose authority of their children. Here's the graphic that I wanna give you. So a parent pays 78 to 82000 dollars a year to send their little loved ones to Cornell University.17:33 Meanwhile, Cornell University taking mom and dad's 70 to 80000 dollars a year, also taking money from Qatar, and then pouring out, pro Palestinian17:45 kids, pro Palestinian adults or I guess you could call them their adults. They're they're they're very immature in how they see the world and very uninformed. But they're not they're not misinformed because the17:57 colleges and universities are doing exactly what the Qatari government wants them to do. And that is separate your children from you, from your values, from Western civilization, from your culture. And and Christians,18:09 hear me because this is particularly important for Christians. They wanna separate your young people from your faith, from your God, from Jesus Christ. Okay.18:21 That I know. Deep Endy. Pastor Tim, I tune in tonight for the word and all you're giving me is, you know, current events stuff and I'm I'm a little bit shaken. I don't like this. Guys, you gotta know what's going on so18:32 that you can protect yourself and then you can understand why god says commandment number 5, you're gonna honor your father and mother. You're gonna honor your father and mother. Exodus 20 verse 12. That18:43 your days may be long in the land that the lord your god has given you. Inherent in that text is the reality that god is saying, if this is not right, your civilization is18:55 gone. Your civilization crumbles. The Deuteronomy passage 5 5 16, honor your father and mother as lord your god commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the lord your19:05 god is giving you. So we've gotta talk about the relationship between mothers and fathers and children.19:18 So let's start. I wanna open up with this idea of the original hearers. How did the original hearers listen to this commandment from Mount Sinai through the mouth of Moses? Well, the original19:30 hearers were adults in the community with parents who could no longer provide economic assets. Literally, all the commentators say this, that this is an admonition primarily19:42 to care for, respect, and value, parents who could no longer support themselves. That's the first and primary,19:56 picture here in the community, of Israel. Now in the 20 first century, we have modern medicine. Mom and dad can get modern medicine. They're on Medicare many times and they can get whatever medicines20:07 they need. I have a father who has gone beaten cancer twice now and is still alive. Praise god. But we have modern medicine. We have nursing homes. We have modern care facilities for our elderly. We have social20:19 security, social safety nets, financial safety nets for older people. But the ancient world did not have those things. The ancient world, your father got sick. It was it was detrimental to his life. They couldn't maybe20:30 they lost a limb. Maybe they got dysentery. Maybe they got, you know, an infection and they lost, you know, the use of a body part. Who knows what would happen? You are you are susceptible.20:42 You are a weak member of society and the older you get, and this is true, the older you get you get, the more susceptible that you are to these infirmities, the more weak you are. So20:54 what does God command? You're going to honor the people who gave you life, number 1, but you're going to honor the people who are older than you, number 2. And then number 3, you're going to honor the people who are21:06 going where you're going. I want you to think about it in those terms. You're going to honor the people who are headed the way of all the living as Paul says or sorry, as Solomon says in Ecclesiastes. This is the21:18 end of all the living death. We all grow old. We all die. Fabulous chapter in Ecclesiastes 12 where it talks about how your your teeth fall out, your hair falls out, your hands start to shake21:30 and your knees start to buckle and your eyes grow dim, very poetic language. You can read it for yourself. I have a book coming out about Ecclesiastes where we unpack that a little bit more deeply. But he says this is21:41 the way of all the living. So as you grow older and as your parents, as you watch your parents' old, age and get weak, you better keep them in honor. That is the original21:55 thought here. So it's actually, informing us of the original intent of this command. And the original intent is the weaker members22:07 of society will be honored in God's community. This is now remember, I said the first 4 commandments deal with our relationship to God. The second 6 commandments22:19 deal with our relationship to each other. So we're on the horizontal plane commandments now. The vertical commandments have come down. Now the horizontal plane commandments come. The first 1 is about22:30 who gave you life and who gave them life is their parents, but ultimately, that traces all the way back to Adam and ultimately back to god. So you have in this commandment a bridge from god to us and22:42 how we treat each other starts with I this is so important. I hope you get it. We've got to treat the weaker members and the members of society that will grow weaker because that's just life. We have22:54 to honor them. That, my friends, is the original intention of this law. Really important,23:08 framework for reading this properly because this commandment is repeated and is enunciated in several different ways and in both testaments and then23:20 further extrapolated in other passages as we're going to talk about tonight. So when we get to Exodus chapter, 20 verse 12, honor your father and mother that your days may be long in the land the23:31 lord your god is giving you, couple things. Number 1, he's talking to dads and moms. This is important. Let me tell you why that's important. Go back to the fourth commandment. Go back to23:43 the fourth commandment. Let's do that on the Logos bible cam for a moment. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 6 days you shall labor, do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath. On it you23:55 shall not do any work. Now look at who's mentioned in who will not do any work. You, okay, you, which is singular, or your son24:07 or your daughter or your male servant or female servant or livestock or the sojourner within your gates. That that's who God lists as they will not work. Look at who's missing in the list.24:19 The the word that's missing in the list, maybe you've already picked up on it, is what? Wives. Wives are busy because the commandments were given, this is so good, to husbands and wives24:31 together, heads of households together. Now, yes, the New Testament unpacks this. The husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the husband. And there is authority. There's a final authority. The24:40 father is ultimately the final authority in the home. And I know that there's this new school of evangelical thought that believes that that's old school and outdated. It is not. Read the Bible. Read the New Testament24:49 particularly. Paul unpacks it very clearly in first Corinthians chapter 11. But, ultimately, you have God speaking to husbands and wives in these commandments. You are going to,25:01 husbands and wives, direct your family to not work. And so then the next commandment is now honor husbands and wives, adult peep. This is so25:13 this brings me to the next point. This is how adults are supposed to live. Husbands and wives honor your parents. Okay? There's a lot of good reason for that. We're going to get to the the reasons coming up. There25:25 should be reverence exhibited in the home by the adult members and leaders of the home. And the children in the home should see mom and dad25:37 show reverence and care and concern for aging parents. Okay. This is how we're supposed to read Torah, just giving you original context so that we can not dumb down this25:49 commandment to just, okay, my children should obey me because I'm mom, because I'm dad. Yes. That's true. Yes. That's true. But there's more to it than that. There's a contextual insight we have to get a hold of. By the26:00 way, Moses is speaking to an ancient world where ancestor worship was considered acceptable, if not admonished, and extolled.26:12 So ancestor worship was part of the ancient culture, part of the ancient world. Now this is kind of interesting because in our modern world, let's be honest, kiddos, young people listen to26:24 me, who's it easier to honor? Mom and dad or great mom and great, grandmom and dad or great grandmom and dad? Who who's easier to honor? It's way easier to honor the people26:36 that you are disconnected from socially and you only see on weekends or maybe holidays or whatever or or birthdays. It's so much easier to love grandma and grandpa than it is to love mom and dad, isn't it? So much easier26:47 to honor them and respect them. Now I know there are, of course, exceptions to every rule and statement that I make. I'm generalizing here. But it's kind of amazing how the commandment26:58 strikes right against that. No. You're not going to have this this affinity to honor people who are disconnected from you. You've got to honor those who are most connected to27:10 you, the ones who came before you. This is God challenging the human heart, the the, the sinful condition really. And then27:22 the last thing that I wanna share here from this commandment as a kind of way of just foundational view is this is a bridge from god to our fellow man. We already talked about that. This is the bridge commandment. Now27:33 we're going to go from vertical commandments to horizontal commandments, and isn't it amazing that it deals with how we treat our parents? So this is the foundation. Now let's talk about what it27:45 means to honor because I think a lot of you will immediately say to me, okay. What is what does honor mean? And this is hard for me because my parents are hard to honor. And I27:57 would like to say that as a pastor that I have heard that complaint about this commandment growing, not decreasing. I think it's a testimony to the cultural rot in our society. Let me explain.28:11 The fact that more and more people find it hard to honor mom and dad makes me ask a simple question. Was it that your parents were really28:23 actually bad to you? Or, and stay with me now, is it possible that you have subconsciously, maybe not28:35 even, you know, intentionally, but perhaps, you know, subconsciously is the only word I can come up with here, inherited a bit of a victim28:47 mindset from the culture around you to the point where every infraction and wrongdoing on your parents will always be held against them till the end of time. For instance, just having other children.28:59 You hold your parents accountable for having other children and therefore not being able to give you the attention that you want. Or maybe they had a child after you and you went from baby to middle child or baby to29:08 oldest child and now you are the resentful older child. Child. Sometimes, I believe it is a combination of both. Yes. Parents can be awful to their children, but sometimes,29:20 and I think it's almost 50 50, children can grow up to be resentful for a victimhood mentality. Oh, my parents did this. Well, really? Did they29:32 little anecdote here. I was watching Everybody Loves Raymond last night. I'm a big sucker for reruns from from old sitcoms. And Raymond was having a crisis, an emotional crisis. And the emotional crisis was29:44 that he quit piano. His mother taught him piano. He quit piano because his father made fun of him when he was taking piano lessons with his mother. And he kinda hashes this out with his father. And credit to the writers29:55 of the episode because the father fights back and he says, oh, I'm sorry. I was too busy busy taking you to soccer games, taking you to baseball practice, throwing the football with you in the back of the in the back of30:04 the house and making sure that you were into sports, which, by the way, worked out for you because you became a very successful sports writer. So so kudos to the writers for kind of pushing back against that that that30:15 minor victimhood in Raymond's life there of everything that's wrong with me is because of my parents' fault. And so much of our of our current psychological analysis30:27 is tell me what your parents did to you. Tell me what your father did to you. And now now an entire generation and maybe multiple generations at this point have had this carte blanche ability to blame previous30:39 generations for everything wrong in their generation. And I just wanna say as a way of practical advice, be careful of how much you blame those who raised you in front of those you are raising30:50 because they will someday grow up and do the exact same thing to you. In fact, I can almost guarantee it. I can guarantee it. You know when scripture says watch how you judge because you will be judged the31:02 same way? Yeah. That passage comes to mind here. Watch how you judge your parents and speak about them in front of your children because your children are learning from you how to treat you 131:14 day. Have I gotten too heavy too fast? Let's talk about the word honor. The word honor is kavud or kabad depending on how you pronounce it. It means to be heavy or grievous or hard or rich or honorable. There's a couple31:26 of, practical ways that this is illustrated in the Old Testament. Eli was a priest of Israel. He was fat. He was overweight, and they called him kavud. Absalom's hair was weighed on a a scale because it was so heavy31:36 kavud. Pharaoh's heart was hardened. The word is kavud. But the figure of speech here in the word is who gets the weight? Who's heaviest in your life? When you're weighing between 2 opinions, whose opinion31:48 carries the most weight in your life? And here's what God is saying in the fifth commandment. I want your parents to carry the weight in your heart. I want them I want them to be someone that you go to, that you listen32:00 to, that you honor, that you reverence. Here's another here's another point that we can take from the text. Reverence is a godly value for a healthy community. Proverbs 16 31, gray hair is a crown of glory. It is a it is32:12 gained in a righteous life. Now, of course, not every old person is righteous. That's not Proverbs are not a promise. Proverbs are principles. That's what they are. They're wise sayings. And so what what the pro what32:23 Proverbs is saying is that usually gray hair is illustrative of someone who lived a healthy and wise and righteous life. Usually. Not all the time.32:35 Usually. And for that, there should be reverence. There should be respect. There should be a weightiness in your heart to defer to your parents and give them the honor32:47 that they deserve because they have lived longer than you. They have done more life than you. I'm just looking at my time here seeing how far we've gone so far. And I'm I'm imploring you,32:59 scripture says, to give them the respect that is due them because they know a little bit more than you. Reverence is a godly value for a healthy community. Okay. Going on, this33:11 is commended throughout the scriptures. Proverbs 23 22, listen to your father who gave you life. Do not despise your mother when she is old. This is in the New Testament in several passages from the mouth of Jesus,33:23 from the mouth of Paul. Ephesians 6 1 to 3, children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. And then he quotes Exodus 20 verse 12, honor your father and mother. This is the first commandment with a promise the33:34 first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you that you may live long in the land. Colossians 3 20, children, obey your parents in everything for this pleases the Lord. Little qualifier there about this is33:44 the first commandment with the promise. All the commandments are are already stipulated with the promise. God has already stipulated in the in the Torah several times. If you obey these commandments, it will go well with33:54 you. So all of them are tied to that promise. But this is the first commandment where God pauses and and then reinforces that that promise. If you obey this, you will live long34:06 in the land, which is the Torah's way of saying, hey, stop, lean in here, pay attention. I know this one's hard, but this one's important for your life to be blessed. So those34:18 are some old New Testament references to the same commandment, the same idea. By the way, Paul talks about the last days in second Timothy chapter, 3, and he says this. He describes the bad the the34:29 badness of the last days in verse 1. Understand this, that in last days, there will come times of difficulty for people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive. And look at the34:41 stipulation here. Disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy. And disobedient to parents is sandwiched between abusive and ungrateful. Isn't that amazing? Oh, and proud, by the34:53 way. So you have proud, pride, arrogance, abuse, disobedient to parents, and then you have ungrateful, unholy. How many people blame their parents simply because they have a lack of gratitude?35:05 Simply because they can never find the good things that their parents did for them? And I will say to those of you who right now you're saying I have a hard time honoring my parents. Can you find something that they did35:15 good? I mean, really? Was your father just beating you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week? Is that really what your upbringing was? Then you should have called the police. And I know children can't always do that and35:26 but I'm I'm I'm I'm exaggerating here because with every bad parent, I'm sure there were good parts of that parent's life in your involved in your life. And ungratitude is the root35:38 of bitterness, really, that leads to blaming other people for what's wrong in your life instead of taking responsibility. Inherent in this commandment is35:51 a kind of a I don't know what you wanna say, subliminal command to take responsibility for your life and stop blaming mom and dad. That's really inherent36:03 here. How how long are you going to hold their sins against them? How long are you going to be a victim of what they've done? How long? Until you're 40? Until you're 50? You know, when you36:15 turn 40, chances are you've lived more life outside of your parents' home than inside your parents' home. So if you're still blaming them at 40 for who you are, maybe take a good hard look at who36:26 you chose to be around from age 20 to age 40. And you say, well, I lived with my parents until age 36. That's just because you never decided to take responsibility for yourself. So maybe it's appropriate that you36:37 mentally or emotionally blame mom and dad. I know I'm being harsh here, but this is near and dear to my heart. Maybe because I had great parents, and I have great children, and I'm blessed and I'm fortunate in that36:47 respect. And I do struggle with empathy. I will tell you that. So maybe there's a little bit of that there. But the reality is is that I think we have strayed far away from this commandment to our own detriment, to the36:58 fact where to the point where we have Qatari government literally parenting our children who grow up with an axe to grind against their parents and their parents' philosophies, and it's leading to a37:10 cultural revolution which we are seeing right now. My thoughts. That's my thoughts. Okay? If you don't like them, start your own YouTube channel. Leviticus talks about this being an an attitude of37:22 holiness. Leviticus 19. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, you shall be holy for I, the Lord, you God, am holy. That means separate. That means, you're37:32 distinct. And and how are we gonna be be distinct? Every 1 of you shall revere. Now this is different than the word honor in Hebrew. Revere here in Hebrew is yare. It means to fear, to stand in awe37:44 of, to have a a a reverence for, to revere. Right? You reverence your mother and your father and you keep the Sabbaths. I am the lord and god. Do not turn37:55 aside to idols. By the way, this there is an inclusio here in the Leviticus text. Inclusio means that the thought begins and ends. This pair this section begins and ends with the same thought. So38:07 where it's it begins in Leviticus 19. It ends in Leviticus 20, re emphasizing respect for parents by saying the following in Leviticus 20 verse 8, keep my statues and38:19 do them. I am the lord who sanctifies you. For anyone who curses, and the word, kalalalal can mean to make small or to revile your father or mother, shall surely be put to death.38:31 He has cursed his father or or his mother. His blood is upon him. Now that right there is going to stir some feathers. Really death for dishonoring or reviling38:43 my parents. Really? This is why I have a hard time with the Torah. Okay. You ain't seen nothing yet. Let me first give you an even more troubling passage from Torah38:55 about what happens to you if you revile your parents. Then I'm gonna give you an Old Testament example and then we're gonna circle back to this idea of why it is punishable by death when you dishonor your parentsShow more In this video 0:01 The Importance of Honoring Parents
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