The document discusses honoring one's parents as commanded in the fifth of the Ten Commandments. It provides biblical references that emphasize showing obedience, respect, and care for parents. Specific ways to practice honoring parents are suggested, including providing for needs, asking for advice, affirming efforts, expressing gratitude, forgiving failures, and sharing time. The document encourages both children and parents to reflect on how they can better fulfill this important biblical commandment.

1. Harold
Camping
May 21, 2011
October 21, 2011

2. Acts 17:11
Now the Bereans were of more
noble character than the
Thessalonians, for they
received the message with
great eagerness and examined
the Scriptures every day to see if
what Paul said was true.

4. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your
mother, so that you may live long
in the land the LORD your God is
giving you.

5. eld in high esteem by God

6. Its POSITION

7. Its PENALTY
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and
rebellious son who does not obey
his father and mother and will not
listen to them when they discipline
him,

8. Its PENALTY
Deuteronomy 21:19
his father and mother shall take
hold of him and bring him to the
elders at the gate of his town.

9. Its PENALTY
Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall say to the elders, “This
son of ours is stubborn and
rebellious. He will not obey us. He
is a profligate and a drunkard.”

10. Its PENALTY
Deuteronomy 21:21
Then all the men of his town shall
stone him to death. You must
purge the evil from among you. All
Israel will hear of it and be afraid.

11. “Success is not dependent upon
what happens at the White House,
but on what happens at your house!”

12. “Those who have
unresolved anger
and resentment
Bill Bright toward their parents
are incapable of
loving and obeying
God with utter
abandonment.”

13. eld in high esteem by God
ne of a kind among the Ten

14. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your
mother, so that you may live
long in the land the LORD your
God is giving you.

15. Ephesians 6:2
“Honor your father and mother" –
which is the first commandment
with a promise.

16. Romans 1:30
(They are) slanderers, God-haters,
insolent, arrogant and boastful;
they invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents . . .

17. 2 Timothy 3:2
People will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy,

18. eld in high esteem by God
ne of a kind among the Ten
ot one qualifier!

19. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your
mother, so that you may live long
in the land the LORD your God is
giving you.

20. Luke 2:51
Then he went down to Nazareth
with them and was obedient to
them. But his mother treasured all
these things in her heart.

21. eld in high esteem by God
ne of a kind among the Ten
ot one qualifier!
bserved through obedience

22. Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the
Lord, for this is right.
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in
everything, for this pleases the
Lord.

23. “When I was a boy of
14, my father was so
ignorant I could
hardly stand to have
the old man around.
Mark Twain But by the time I got
to be 21, I was
astonished at how
much my dad had
learned!”

24. eld in high esteem by God
ne of a kind among the Ten
ot one qualifier!
bserved through obedience
ealized through respect

25. Exodus 20:12
Honor your father and your
mother, so that you may live long
in the land the LORD your God is
giving you.
“cabad” = “heavy”

26. Leviticus 19:3
Each of you must respect his
mother and father, and you must
observe my Sabbaths. I am the
LORD your God.

27. eld in high esteem by God
ne of a kind among the Ten
ot one qualifier!
bserved through obedience
ealized through respect

28. How can we
put this fifth
word of grace
into practice?

29. 1. Provide a need

30. 1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or
grandchildren, these should learn
first of all to put their religion into
practice by caring for their own
family and so repaying their
parents and grandparents, for
this is pleasing to God.

31. 1. Provide a need
2. Ask for advice

32. Proverbs 16:31
Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it
is attained by a righteous life.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father, who gave
you life, and do not despise your
mother when she is old.

33. 1. Provide a need
2. Ask for advice
3. Affirm their efforts
4. Express your gratitude
5. Forgive their failures

34. Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive
whatever grievances you may
have against one another. Forgive
as the Lord forgave you.

35. 1. Provide a need
2. Ask for advice
3. Affirm their efforts
4. Express your gratitude
5. Forgive their failures
6. Share your time

37. ‘11
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38. Can you honestly
say that you are
honoring your
parents?
And parents –
what are you
doing to “deserve”
that honor?