A The Baptist Deacon

Comandment 5 with a correction in the text.

deaconfarley | July 26, 2008 06:24

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12 ~ The Fifth Commandment.

Here we will study the 5th commandment. The first thing that comes to my mind is what a lesson there is in this commandment and how contrary it is to the way the world acts.

Honor (spelled differently above) thy father and thy mother, is a commandment for all of us, from our birth until our death.  We should honor our parents with the way we act even after they are gone. I owe a great deal of my character today to my parents.

Proverbs teaches us that we should train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it. http://deaconfarley.christianblogsites.com/blog/post/2008/04/11/train-up-a-child. This puts it on the parent. I want my children to honor there mother and I. In order for that to happen I must first have there respect. It is my job, not the school teacher, the Sunday school teacher or the pastor, but my job to teach my children to the best of my ability.

I’m sure you have been in a store at one time or another when there have been unruly children, causing problems for there parents. They say I want this, or I want that, then Momma will say no you can’t have this or that. What happens next? The child (as most children will do) will throw a tantrum in the store. Then Momma (or Daddy) will reluctantly give in, in order to restore order or make the child happy.   

Now I want you to look at my childhood.  If I was in a store with Momma and I asked for something if she said no that was the end of it. Why? Because I knew what would happen. Let me explain as I get to my point today. It wasn’t so much that I was afraid of Momma or that she might smack my hands or worse, but I had been taught to respect her, and besides if I had made her mad enough to tell Dad, well let me just say it was enough to make sure I always respected and honored her.

When I stepped out of line I was corrected. I have told people before that I at the time thought they were going to kill me and that it was abuse, but looking back it was neither. It was needed correction, that’s right needed. It made me what I am.

Years ago it was common to see a mother spank her child in a store, or anywhere as far as that goes if the child was misbehaving. What about today? It is a rare thing to see a child corrected in public. Parents are afraid to correct there child in public. There are so many people out there that say don’t spank a child or if you spank that child I’m going to call child services its abuse. They say to put the child in time out.  Well hello, have you seen the mess the world is in because of time out? Now if you are one of these people that think time out is the best option, I pray your eyes will be opened. There is a difference between abuse and correction.

A child that is corrected in the proper way will learn from it. They will learn to honor there parents, and when they become parents themselves, they will have an example to teach their children.

Lets look at the second part of the commandment; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

We will see with the study of the sixth commandment that there is a penalty for disobedience. That penalty is death and yes disobeying your parents carried the penalty of death under the law.  Aren’t you glad that we are no longer under the law?  That thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. What a promise from God. Obedience or in this case obeying your parents means your days may be long upon the land.

Let us fast forward to today, we are under  grace, there is however a comparison we can make with this commandment from the law to grace. Salvation (obedience) means our days will be extended eternally with one eternal day, when we shed this flesh.  We will be in a place to serve and worship our Heavenly Father and the Son with eternal peace and joy. What a great reward!

The lost (disobedient) will one day shed this flesh as well. There one eternal day will be filled with torment, pain, unhappiness in a place called the Lake of Fire.  Why? Because they were not obedient to the will of God, but chose to stay in the world, where there is pleasure in sin for a season. The penalty is death. This is referred to as the second death.

 We may be under grace today, but the law with the Ten Commandments are a good rule of thumb for us to go by.

God Bless You!

To be continued…

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