Fourth Commandment: Honoring Parents and Authorities

The Fourth Commandment Honor your father and your mother

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What does this mean? We should fear and love God so that we do not despise or anger our parents or other authorities, but honor them, serve and obey them, love and cherish them

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What is the clear teaching of the Bible about your relationship to your parents? Honor Exodus 20:12 ____________ your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Exodus 21:17 Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to ____________. death

What is the clear teaching of the Bible about your relationship to your parents? obey Ephesians 6:1 Children, ____________ your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.

What is the clear teaching of the Bible about your relationship to your parents? Colossians 3:20 Children, obey your parents in ____________, for this pleases the Lord. everything honor It is clear that children are to ____________ and ____________ their parents. obey

What is their responsibility towards you? Train Proverbs 22:6 ____________ a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it. Discipline Proverbs 29:17 ____________ your son, and he will give you peace; he will bring delight to your soul.

What is their responsibility towards you? Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the ____________ and instruction of the Lord. training

Civil Government - 1 Peter 2:13-17 What we are to do: Submit to ____________ authority Live as ____________ of God Show proper ____________ to everyone ____________ the king Honor every servants respect

Civil Government Titus 3:1-3 Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be ____________, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate and to show true ____________ toward all men. humility obedient

Civil Government What is the primary limit to obedience to the government? Acts 5:29 Peter and the other apostles replied: We must obey ____________ rather than men! We cannot do anything that goes against the ____________ word of God. clear God

Two other musings Look as what is included among some other pretty nasty and wicked stuff in Romans 1: Wickedness Depravity Malice Insolent Disobey their parents

Two other musings What is your responsibility to your parents and grandparents, especially as they age? 1 Timothy 5:4 If a widow has children or grandchildren, these should learn first of all to put their religion into ____________ by caring for their own family and so ____________ their parents and grandparents, for this is ____________ to God. pleasing practice repaying

The Fifth The Fifth Commandment Commandment You shall not murder.

Three forms of murder Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed you in the ____________ I knew you, before you were ____________ I set you apart. born womb Psalm 139:13 For you created my inmost being; you ____________ me together in my mother s ____________. womb knit

Three forms of murder Abortion ____________. Killing a child in the womb or near birth. Embryonic stem cell research, so called therapeutic cloning, destruction of fertilized eggs (left-overs from fertility treatment) fall under this commandment.

Three forms of murder Proverbs 6:16-19 There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that ____________ ____________ ___________, heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers. shed innocent blood

Three forms of murder Isaiah 46:3-4 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have ____________ since you were conceived, and have ____________ since your birth. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will ____________ you; I will ____________ you and I will rescue you. upheld carried carry sustain

Three forms of murder Euthanasia ____________________. Killing a person who is handicapped in some way or simply too old.

Three forms of murder Psalm 31:14-15 But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, "You are my God." My ____________ are in your hands. times Suicide ____________. My own life is a gift of God to be ended only by Him.

What emotions are to be controlled by this commandment? hates 1 John 3:15 Anyone who ____________ his brother is a ____________, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him. murderer

What emotions are to be controlled by this commandment? Matthew 5:21-22 You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment. But I tell you that anyone who is ____________ with his brother will be subject to judgment. angry

What emotions are to be controlled by this commandment? Anger hatred ____________ and ____________ are to be controlled.

Who has the authority to take another person s life? Romans 13:4 He [the governing authority] is God's servant to do you good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword for nothing. He is God's servant, an agent of ____________ to bring ___________________ on the wrongdoer. punishment Lawful government wrath ____________ ________________, as God s servant, may execute criminals and fight just wars.

What are we to do according to this commandment? The Good Samaritan Luke 10:25-37 Help support physical ____________ and ____________ your neighbor in every ____________ need.

The Sixth Commandment You shall not commit adultery

The Right Use of Gods Good Gift Genesis 39:6b-20 Joseph and Potiphar s wife Joseph is a ____________ slave. handsome His master s wife desires him and tries to get him into bed. refuses He ____________. cloak One day they re alone and she grabs his ____________ to take him.

The Right Use of Gods Good Gift Genesis 39:6b-20 Joseph and Potiphar s wife cloak He runs out, leaving his ____________ behind. attacking She accuses him of ____________ her. prison Joseph is thrown in ____________. God Who would Joseph sinned against?

The Wrong Use of Gods Good Gift 2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba David sees Bathsheba ____________ on a roof top. bathing He brings her to the palace and sleeps with her. pregnant She gets ____________. husband David tries to cover up by bringing her ____________ home.

The Wrong Use of Gods Good Gift 2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba refuses Uriah ____________ to go to his wife because none of his comrades can go home. David sends Uriah back to the war and instructs Joab to put Uriah where the fighting is the worse to _________ him kill wife David takes Bathsheba as his ________.

The Wrong Use of Gods Good Gift 2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba tempted James 1:13-15 says, When ____________, no one should say, God is tempting me. For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his ____________ ____________ ____________, he is dragged away and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to ____________; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to ____________. death own evil desire sin

The Wrong Use of Gods Good Gift 2 Samuel 11 David and Bathsheba How do we see James 1:13-15 in this story? desires David ____________ Bathsheba. sins He brought her to himself and ____________. death spiritual His sin lead to his ____________ (____________ and ____________). physical

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan Genesis 1:26-28, 31 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day.

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan Who is to be involved in a sexual relationship? Male and female What s the primary purpose for sexual relationships? reproduction Is human sexuality a good thing? God calls all creation very good

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan Genesis 2:20b-24 But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he took her to the man. The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, for she was taken out of man. For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan What is the purpose of the woman s creation? To be a companion one like opposite the man Who brought them together? God Father and mother Who does a man leave? His wife To whom is he united? When are they to become one flesh? After they re united - marriage

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan Matthew 19:4-6 Haven t you read, [Jesus] replied, that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female, and said, For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be ____________ to his wife, and the two will become one flesh ? So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what ____________ has joined together, let man not ____________. united God separate

Marriage, Sex, and Gods Plan What does Jesus add to our knowledge of God s plan? husbands and wives. God is the one that unites