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Today is Wednesday, July 1st, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are talking about the Fourth Commandment to honor your father and mother.

We have already talked about how Jesus himself honored a father and mother when he was here on earth. And yesterday we started talking about obedience. How obedience means

that we submit our will to a person that has legitimate authority over us, how God has been

working to teach obedience since the beginning of time, and he does this

through the Ten Commandments. And also how every time we say yes to our parents, we are more able

to say yes to God. Now, today we are going to keep talking about obedience, but we are going to

talk about two key things. Number one, without obedience,

everything falls apart. And number two, obedience is actually a gift. So first of all, why does

everything fall apart without obedience? Well, let's think about the government, for example.

If there was no obedience in our country,

if people didn't respect the laws about driving, for example, and people thought, well, sure,

the government says I have to drive on this side of the road, but I'm going to make my own decision and drive on the other side of the road.

Well, what would happen? How would it affect the way that we get around? Well, it would be chaos, right?

Everything would fall apart. If people were driving on all sides of the road or driving in vehicles

that were way too wide and taking up

all the road. It would be a mess. It would be nearly impossible to drive our car and get where we

wanted to go. The roads only work because we respect the authority of those that have made the

decisions and we all obey. We drive in the

correct way, at the correct speed, at the correct distance from each other. So the same is true

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