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Text: Ephesians 6:1-9. ‘Children, obey our parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first command with a promise), “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land,”’ verses 1 – 3 (ESV). The children should respect their parents with inward reverence as well[…]

Text: Isaiah 49:8-26. “Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame,’” verse 23 (ESV). The enemies[…]

Text: 2 Kings 2:1-14. ‘And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more,…’ verse 12 (ESV). Elisha used the title father, father as a sign of respect for Elijah who had higher authority in the ministry. We need to respect our elders[…]

Text: 2 Kings 5:1-14 “…My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it…?” verse 13 (ESV). Your leader should be treated like your father and mother. Reflection on verse 13, what is God teaching you? How are you going to apply it to your life? Father, in the name[…]

Texts: Genesis 4:17-26; 45:8. “Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe,” verses, 20-21 (ESV). We need to respect and honour those God has given exceptional gifts. Do not envy them, instead praise God[…]

Text: 1 Timothy 5:1-25. “Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity,” verses 1(ESV). There are parents in a figurative form. Men or women, who originate, found and shepherd extended families, organizations and entities, becoming “elderly” in stature. It[…]

Text: Proverbs 23:1-25. “Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old”, verse 22 (ESV). Whole biological parents are the primary focus in this commandment, so are parents by adoption. Parenting is an awesome responsibility and doing it in a godly way is even harder. In conventional wisdom, it is taught[…]

Text: Jeremiah 17:24-27. “But if you do not listen to me, to keep the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter by the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched,” verse 27.[…]