Would you turn this morning to 1 Samuel, the second chapter, and also John the 12th chapter, 1st Samuel 2 and John 12?

How many believe in God with me this morning?

Yes.

We have been ministering the past few this morning. Amen. Thank you, Lord. We have been ministering the past few Sunday mornings on the honor of God.

Amen.

And it really would have helped to have heard the previous sessions because we're building upon what was taught prior.

But I know many of you did not have that opportunity tapes are available if you're interested but I did not feel

directed to go a different direction but to continue and we have been talking about

practical things about how to show honor, how to demonstrate honor.

I've always believed honor was important and valuable, even as a young boy, preteen.

I didn't know it then, but I know it now.

God was dealing with me about honor.

Something appealed to me in reading books and history and even fiction about, you know,

Native American tribes or the Vikings or different ones.

Something appealed to me about some of those things.

And looking back now, I realize it was honor.

It was different elements of honor that people showed and portrayed that appealed to me.

And then I was able to be in different martial arts activities and different things about the East and the Orient.

And some of it appealed to me.

I didn't know why.

But it was some of the aspects of honor that appealed to me.

And then when I got in the Word, glory to God. And I read in the Old

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