Would you turn with me to 1 Samuel this morning?

1 Samuel and the second chapter, and let's continue talking about the honor of God.

The honor of God.

1 Samuel 2.30. The latter part of God. 1 Samuel 2.30.

The latter part of it, the Lord is speaking, and he says,

Them that honor me, I will honor.

They that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. The Lord said, those that honor me, I will honor.

How many know you can count on that? Do you believe it would be a good thing if the Lord honored you?

Or when he did, would you know it would you realize it oh

certainly certainly and it is like the law of sewing and reaping you honor him he honors you well

what about the more you honor him when it's going to be the more and the greater you honor him well the

greater he's going to honor you.

You cannot honor the Lord, and that be the end of it.

It's going to come back on you.

Amen.

In blessing and increase in promotion and honor.

In Romans 13, you don't have to turn there, but Romans 13, 7, he said, render to all their dues,

tribute to whom tribute is due, custom to whom custom, fear to whom fear, and honor to whom honor is due, he was saying. Give honor to those to whom it's due. Well, of course, it's honor is due God. He is due honor and glory,

but then there are also people that we should honor as well. And actually, a large part of honoring God

is in honoring his people, honoring what he honors. So we have been talking about this for some weeks now, and I've given you,

as the Lord's given to me, some specific applications of how to show honor. I mean, when we believe

he's going to honor us when we honor him, our next question should be, Lord lord teach me how to honor you show me how teach

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