John Piper Sermons How Can I Honor My Parents If I Don’t Respect Them?
This new teaching by Pastor John Piper titled “How Can I Honor My Parents If I Don’t Respect Them?” is what we are bringing to you to listen to and meditate on
Pastor John in answer to the question started by saying there is a great difference between the terms honor and respect. “Respect, I think, refers most often to our inner assessment of someone’s character or achievement, while honor more often refers to our various demonstrations toward them in words or behaviors that express our respect
According to him the real question is this: How do we honor or respect parents who, without any repentance, act in dishonorable and blameworthy ways? This is a very crucial question, not only because every Christian has to come to terms with the biblical command of Jesus in Matthew 19:19 to “honor your father and mother” — even though thousands of people have had parents who consistently acted in dishonorable and blameworthy ways — but it’s also a crucial question because the same issue faces all of us in regard to all people, because 1 Peter 2:17 says, “Honor everyone” — not just “honor your parents” but “honor all people” — “Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the emperor.” And there are horrible people in the world who have done despicable things all their lives and have died viciously hating people and rejecting God and seemingly having nothing honorable about them.
Pastor John went ahead to give to us what he calls the Seven Grounds for Honor. They are:
- some acts of honoring others are owing to the image of God,
- some to natural human relations that God has appointed,
- some to authority structures that God has put in place,
- some to the worth of the work that others do,
- some to the relationship of love that we have,
- some to a person’s weakness, and
- some is absolutely free, in order to display the freedom of the grace of God to others.
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