The Fifth Commandment 5.5 Honor others We are to show respect to the elderly, the poor, and all other people, because they are the image-bearers of God. Leviticus 19:32 “You shall stand up before the gray head and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am ...
The Fifth Commandment Deuteronomy 25:1-3 “If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in ...
The Fifth Commandment 5.2 Honor God’s Prophet and His prophets Hear and obey those who speak God’s Word in the tradition of Moses, the prophets, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the apostles. Deuteronomy 18:15-20 “The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers–it ...
The Fifth Commandment 5.1 Honor your parents God’s people must hold their parents in high regard and not allow any evil thought or practice to affect this most basic social relationship. Leviticus 19:3 “Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father…” Exodus 21:17 “Whoever curses his father or his mother shall ...
The Fifth Commandment Honor your father and your mother We are called to observe, respect, and honor the God-ordained order of the cosmos, beginning with honoring our parents, and extend to all properly-constituted authorities and powers, others, and the creation itself. Exodus 20:12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may ...
The Fourth Commandment Year of Jubilee Leviticus 25:8-22 “You shall count seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so that the time of the seven weeks of years shall give you forty-nine years. Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of ...
The Fourth Commandment 4.4 Observe Sabbath years By Sabbath and Jubilee years, God reminded the people of His sovereign ownership and provision, of their need to trust in him, and of their duty to the creation and one another. Leviticus 25:1-7 The LORD spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, “Speak to the ...
The Fourth Commandment Exodus 34:22-24 “You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year’s end. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel. For I will cast out nations before ...
The Fourth Commandment Leviticus 23:4-6 “These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the LORD’s Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the ...
The Fourth Commandment Exodus 23:12 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.” Exodus 35:2, 3 “ Six days work shall be done, but ...