Honor Your Father and Your Mother
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Not many people think of honor as a virtue these days, yet the law of God remains unchanged: "Honor your father and your mother" (Ex. 20:12). Today, R.C. Sproul expresses our duty to give dignity and respect to parents.
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| 0:00.0 | How do you respond viscerally and your gut to the word honor? |
| 0:06.6 | People may laugh at us for even considering this a virtue anymore, but I don't think that |
| 0:18.3 | one has to be religious to understand the value of human dignity and the value of showing |
| 0:29.1 | respect to each other, to those who are in authority over us and particularly within the bounds |
| 0:37.2 | of the family. If you're a parent, do you not want the respect of your children? Do you not |
| 0:47.6 | feel embarrassed for the ways in which you have failed to honor your own parents? |
| 0:54.7 | Yes. And you may say, but my father was not an honorable man, or my mother was not an honorable |
| 1:03.0 | woman. But God doesn't say honor your father and mother only when they're honorable. |
| 1:12.1 | But there's a position. They hold an office, and even if they're unworthy of that office, |
| 1:21.2 | the office itself is still to be honored so that Christians should be scrupulous in demonstrating |
| 1:31.9 | honor dignity and respect to every parent. |
| 1:40.8 | Thanks for listening to Ultimately with RC Sproul. This is a podcast from Ligonier Ministries. |
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| 1:52.1 | in your Christian faith, visit ligonier.org. |
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