WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 We hope that you enjoy this teaching from Christchurch. 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:09.460 This material is copyrighted and no unauthorized duplication, redistribution, or any other 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:13.300 ! use of any part is permitted without prior consent from Christchurch. 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:20.500 Please consider donating to this work in the San Francisco Bay Area online at Christchurcheastbay.org. 00:00:27.780 --> 00:00:28.740 Good morning. 00:00:28.940 --> 00:00:29.920 I'm Julie Brown. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.679 And I'm part of the Women Reading Women and Berkeley El Cerrito Richmond Kensington groups. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:44.100 Today's scripture reading is from Exodus chapter 20 verses 1 through 4, 7, 8, and 12. 00:00:46.359 --> 00:00:48.820 A reading from the book of Exodus. 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.780 And God spoke all these words. 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:59.400 I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt and out of the land of slavery. 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:02.619 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:11.359 You shall not make yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 00:01:12.859 --> 00:01:20.379 You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 00:01:20.379 --> 00:01:24.060 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:33.299 Honor your father and your mother so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 00:01:33.299 --> 00:01:38.099 The grass withers and the flowers fall. 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:41.319 But the word of the Lord your God stands forever. 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:52.439 Well, we want to remember that one afternoon where Jesus was asked a very important question. 00:01:52.439 --> 00:02:03.840 And the question was, what's the first and greatest and most important of all the commands of God? 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:10.120 And Jesus responded and he said, the first and greatest commandment is this. 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:14.300 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:16.099 And the second is like it. 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:17.439 Love your neighbor as yourself. 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:24.580 All the law and all the prophets hang on these two commands. 00:02:24.580 --> 00:02:31.660 And here Jesus gives us a perfect summary of the Ten Commandments, of the moral law. 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:40.200 And the way Jesus expounds them is he says that you can divide the Ten Commandments into two sections or two tables. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:50.200 And that first table of the law, commandments one through four, are all about our attitude towards and our relationship with God. 00:02:50.199 --> 00:03:01.099 And it says, you know, because I am the Lord your God who brought you out, because I'm the Lord who set you free and liberated you and saved you, 00:03:01.819 --> 00:03:03.879 you should have no other gods but me. 00:03:04.939 --> 00:03:07.839 I need to be your love supreme. 00:03:08.519 --> 00:03:14.659 Right, of all the loves and the priorities that are competing for the attention and the affections of your heart, 00:03:15.099 --> 00:03:16.479 you've got to have me first. 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:24.699 And then he says, you cannot make any images of me, either physically or just mentally. 00:03:24.859 --> 00:03:32.719 You can't have images of me that would limit my majesty and my power and my glory in your heart. 00:03:33.819 --> 00:03:40.139 And then he says, you shall honor my name. 00:03:40.819 --> 00:03:46.379 Right, you should not misuse my name, because my name is that which reveals to you who I am 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:47.680 and what I do. 00:03:47.799 --> 00:03:54.180 And so, so important for you to learn how to exalt my name and magnify my name and praise my name. 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:02.180 And then God says, you know, every seventh day, the Lord's Day, you've got to keep holy. 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:07.579 You've got to stop and rest and worship and delight. 00:04:07.580 --> 00:04:19.400 One out of every seven days, you've got to come to me and listen to me and think about me and praise me and talk to me and be with me. 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:24.160 That's the first table of the law. 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:40.680 But then you come to the second table of the law that begins to turn our attention from our attitude towards and our relationship with God to our attitude towards and our relationship with other human beings. 00:04:40.680 --> 00:04:49.519 Our fellow men and women, the people that we live among, the people we're worshiping alongside, the people we go to work with tomorrow. 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:52.519 And what do those next commands say? 00:04:52.600 --> 00:05:00.920 Command 6 through 10 say, don't kill, don't adulterize, don't steal, don't bear false witness, don't covet or desire that which is not yours. 00:05:00.980 --> 00:05:02.100 This is all about you. 00:05:02.100 --> 00:05:05.820 It's all about your relationship with other human beings. 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:14.740 And the hinge, the bridge between this first table about God and the second table about our neighbors is commandment number five. 00:05:15.379 --> 00:05:23.939 And what it says is that how you relate to God is really about how you relate to those first human beings, 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:29.439 those first neighbors that you had who were called to represent God to you. 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.779 That is your father and your mother. 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:35.579 And notice the words your are repeated. 00:05:35.779 --> 00:05:38.620 Your father, your mother, your God. 00:05:38.779 --> 00:05:40.399 All of them gave you life. 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.439 They generated and sustained your existence. 00:05:44.639 --> 00:05:52.420 And so it's so important to explore these unique and special relationships and what they mean in this commandment. 00:05:52.420 --> 00:05:58.100 So what I want you to do is turn in your pew Bible, if you have a pew Bible in front of you, 00:05:58.100 --> 00:06:02.980 I'll give you a minute to find the book of Proverbs. 00:06:04.220 --> 00:06:08.820 We're going to spend some time in Proverbs starting in chapter one. 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:13.120 And then we'll flip over in a little bit to Proverbs chapter 23. 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.860 If you're still searching, it's right there in the middle of the Bible, Proverbs chapter one. 00:06:18.860 --> 00:06:24.759 And what I want to do is talk about three things in the sermon. 00:06:25.939 --> 00:06:29.560 I want to talk first about exercising our God-given authority. 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:33.900 And then I want to talk about honoring our parental authorities. 00:06:34.819 --> 00:06:37.920 And then I want to talk about knowing our heavenly father. 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:44.600 So exercising our God-given authority, honoring our parental authorities, and knowing our heavenly father. 00:06:45.520 --> 00:06:49.759 But let's start by talking about exercising our God-given authority. 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:57.120 The Bible begins with a wedding where God brings one man and one woman together in marriage. 00:06:57.120 --> 00:06:58.980 And those two become one flesh. 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:05.439 This diversity is fashioned and woven into a unity and they form a new family. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:10.339 And that covenant relationship is permanent. 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:11.279 It's lifelong. 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:12.540 It's till death do us part. 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.800 And that covenant relationship is also exclusive. 00:07:16.019 --> 00:07:17.480 There's no room for a third party. 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:19.839 It will not tolerate any rivals. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:23.079 It's a strong covenant commitment. 00:07:23.980 --> 00:07:25.779 And what's the fruit of that union? 00:07:25.779 --> 00:07:27.680 Well, typically it creates new life. 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.759 Children, a child, a growing circle of love. 00:07:31.939 --> 00:07:33.319 And there at the very beginning of the Bible, 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.079 you have this family that's held together by a covenant. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:41.719 And that family is the basic building block of all society. 00:07:42.219 --> 00:07:45.219 And if you want to have a society that's stable and that's strong, 00:07:45.259 --> 00:07:47.560 you cannot have unstable and weak families. 00:07:47.579 --> 00:07:50.300 You've got to have stable and strong families. 00:07:50.300 --> 00:07:52.019 This is why this commandment says, 00:07:52.420 --> 00:07:56.519 honor your father and your mother that it may go well with you, 00:07:56.579 --> 00:07:59.800 that you might live long in the land that God is giving you. 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:04.860 Now, if you read that as a child, you think, oh no, I just dishonored my parents. 00:08:05.100 --> 00:08:07.520 And that means I just lost a year off of my life. 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:12.020 And of course, there have been many godly people who've honored their parents, 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:15.439 but they died young and they did not live a long life. 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.720 So what does this motivational clause mean? 00:08:18.720 --> 00:08:22.439 If we read it not individually, but collectively. 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:28.939 What it means is that to the degree that God's people want their society to go well in the promised land 00:08:28.939 --> 00:08:34.980 is that covenant families must be places that are full of mutual honor. 00:08:36.659 --> 00:08:39.799 That if families are full of honor, then guess what? 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:41.620 The whole society will be full of honor. 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:47.740 And God's people will enjoy long and blessed and a flourishing life in the promised land. 00:08:47.740 --> 00:08:50.460 But if families are full of dishonor, then guess what? 00:08:51.940 --> 00:08:54.120 Families and society is going to fall apart. 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:58.600 It's going to end in exile, which is the trajectory of the Old Testament. 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:01.279 Why is that? 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:05.580 Well, if you dishonor and you disrespect your parents, then who's next? 00:09:06.620 --> 00:09:06.879 Right? 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:10.720 You're going to dishonor your siblings and your extended family and your neighbors 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:18.019 and the people that God has put in charge, your bosses and elders and judges and prophets and priests and kings. 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:20.860 St. Augustine asked the question, 00:09:21.340 --> 00:09:25.139 if anyone fails to honor his parents, is there anyone he will spare? 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:32.779 Society begins to slouch toward ungodliness and unrighteousness right here with our first neighbors, 00:09:32.899 --> 00:09:34.779 right here with our first authorities. 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:38.300 If we want life to go well and to go long in the promised land, 00:09:38.299 --> 00:09:42.879 you've got to pay very careful attention to honor in the family. 00:09:43.979 --> 00:09:46.899 But before we explore what it means to honor our parents, 00:09:46.979 --> 00:09:50.259 I first want to talk to those of you who are parents 00:09:50.259 --> 00:09:55.439 and say to you that you represent God to your child. 00:09:58.639 --> 00:09:59.159 Wow. 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:01.639 Kind of a big deal. 00:10:02.579 --> 00:10:05.919 You represent God to your child. 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:12.120 Fatherhood and motherhood are reflections of God and our relationship to him. 00:10:12.959 --> 00:10:16.740 And God's original design and purpose in creating families 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:20.479 was that this would be the place where we learn from father and mother 00:10:20.479 --> 00:10:24.559 who God is and what it means to know him, 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:26.459 what it means to have a relationship with him. 00:10:27.659 --> 00:10:29.759 And so the question we want to ask today is, 00:10:29.860 --> 00:10:33.579 how do we exercise that authority in an honorable way? 00:10:33.580 --> 00:10:40.060 God has given you immense spiritual, relational, and emotional authority 00:10:40.060 --> 00:10:41.720 in your child's life. 00:10:41.780 --> 00:10:44.800 So how do you exercise that authority? 00:10:45.340 --> 00:10:47.900 And this is where I want us to look at Proverbs chapter 1, 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:50.000 the beginning of this book of wisdom. 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:53.840 And in this chapter, in verse 7, it says this, 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:57.160 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, 00:10:57.259 --> 00:10:59.399 but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.080 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:05.080 and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 00:11:06.860 --> 00:11:09.540 The question here is, what is the fear of the Lord? 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.240 The fear of the Lord objectively is the Lord's special revelation of himself 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:20.259 and his word that can be taught and that can be learned primarily in the home. 00:11:20.259 --> 00:11:29.439 And the fear of the Lord subjectively is a response to that revelation of awe and love and trust. 00:11:30.439 --> 00:11:35.259 That you revere the Lord and you would trust and love him and his word. 00:11:36.539 --> 00:11:39.939 And so what you see here in Proverbs chapter 1 is that mom and dad, 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:44.080 first of all, are to have an affectionate reverence for the Lord. 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:49.299 Your number one priority is to cultivate your own personal relationship with God 00:11:49.299 --> 00:11:53.419 that's marked by the fear of the Lord that can be observed by your child. 00:11:54.740 --> 00:11:59.839 And secondly, what we see here is that mom and dad are to love and cherish and honor each other 00:11:59.839 --> 00:12:05.279 for better or for worse in the context of the fear of the Lord. 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.759 Your number two priority is to cultivate a healthy and a godly marriage 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:15.279 that provides stability and structure in which your child can flourish 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:21.919 and can see the fear of the Lord lived out in love between the two of you. 00:12:23.079 --> 00:12:29.059 And then thirdly, Proverbs 1 says that mom and dad are to instruct and to teach their son or their daughter 00:12:29.059 --> 00:12:34.899 in the fear of the Lord because that is the starting point for true wisdom and true knowledge. 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:42.439 So your number three priority as a parent is to exercise your God-given authority to educate your child 00:12:42.439 --> 00:12:46.419 and to persuade your child that the Lord is worthy of worship, 00:12:46.419 --> 00:12:49.659 that we worship the Lord and we want you to worship the Lord. 00:12:49.720 --> 00:12:53.980 We don't want you to worship yourself, which society is teaching you to do. 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:57.600 We don't want you to worship money, which society wants you to do. 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:03.519 We don't want you to worship power or sex or any of these other substitute gods. 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:07.799 We want you to worship the one true living God in the fear of the Lord. 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:14.399 And the degree to which this teaching authority of parents is exercised and is honored 00:13:14.399 --> 00:13:18.980 is the degree to which Israel will live long and flourish in the promised land. 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.799 Now, I want us to turn over to Proverbs 23. 00:13:21.980 --> 00:13:25.460 It's kind of an extension of this thought in Proverbs 1. 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:30.819 And I want to look at Proverbs 23 because this helps us to see kind of the way 00:13:30.820 --> 00:13:37.440 and the method and the tone by which mom and dad are to exercise their authority 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:42.020 as they instruct and teach their child in the fear of the Lord. 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:43.480 And I'm going to start in verse 12. 00:13:44.520 --> 00:13:45.800 This is a word to the child. 00:13:45.920 --> 00:13:50.660 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:54.200 And now to the parent, do not withhold discipline from children. 00:13:54.500 --> 00:13:56.920 If you punish them with the rod, they will not die. 00:13:56.919 --> 00:13:59.519 Punish them with the rod and save them from death. 00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:03.399 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed. 00:14:03.740 --> 00:14:07.319 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. 00:14:08.339 --> 00:14:11.500 And then in verse 22, listen to your father who gave you life. 00:14:11.779 --> 00:14:13.799 Do not despise your mother when she is old. 00:14:14.579 --> 00:14:16.219 Buy the truth and do not sell it. 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:18.579 Wisdom, instruction, and insight as well. 00:14:18.839 --> 00:14:21.599 The father of a righteous child has great joy. 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:24.620 The man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him. 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:26.940 May your father and your mother rejoice. 00:14:27.340 --> 00:14:30.399 May she who gave you birth be joyful. 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:35.500 Now, if you do a quick internet search on parenting styles, 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:41.080 you'll immediately find Diana Baumrind's landmark theory. 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.779 I think we have a, maybe have a slide about this, 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.340 about the permissive and the authoritarian 00:14:46.340 --> 00:14:49.440 and authoritative parenting styles. 00:14:49.580 --> 00:14:51.039 This was published in 1966. 00:14:51.279 --> 00:14:52.399 Do we have a slide? 00:14:52.860 --> 00:14:53.680 If we don't, it's fine. 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:54.519 I'll try to explain it. 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:59.339 Basically, imagine a vertical and a horizontal axis. 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:06.120 And what Baumrind said was that parents are to exercise 00:15:06.120 --> 00:15:12.279 their God-given authority along this one axis of high invitation, 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:17.759 high responsiveness, but also along this axis of high challenge 00:15:17.759 --> 00:15:20.779 and high demandingness. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:29.860 And basically, she says, if you're a high invitation but low challenge parent, 00:15:30.319 --> 00:15:38.220 and you are highly responsive and warm and kind and affectionate and supportive, 00:15:38.220 --> 00:15:41.480 but without any challenge or any demands on your child, 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:43.139 you're going to be a permissive parent. 00:15:43.139 --> 00:15:52.519 And then she says, if you are a low invitation but a high challenge parent, 00:15:52.580 --> 00:15:56.480 meaning that you're highly demanding and you're all about behavioral control 00:15:56.480 --> 00:16:01.139 and rules and expectations without any invitation, without any warmth, 00:16:01.299 --> 00:16:03.960 then you're going to be an authoritarian parent. 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:11.400 And what Baumrind convinced the whole psychological community about in 1966 00:16:11.400 --> 00:16:16.300 is that both the permissive parent and the authoritarian parent 00:16:16.300 --> 00:16:19.320 are inadvertently hurting their children 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:23.440 and saddling their children with issues they're going to be dealing with 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:25.040 for the rest of their lives. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:32.919 But what you find described in Proverbs 23 is this authoritative style of parenting 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.099 that is not only inviting and responsive, 00:16:35.199 --> 00:16:37.480 and it's not only challenging and demanding, 00:16:37.819 --> 00:16:41.699 but it's a beautifully calibrated combination of both. 00:16:41.819 --> 00:16:46.679 High invitation, high challenge, highly responsive, highly demanding. 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:48.039 And look again at verse 12. 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:53.459 Child, apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. 00:16:53.460 --> 00:16:57.259 Parent, do not withhold discipline from children. 00:16:57.560 --> 00:17:00.220 If you punish them with a rod, they will not die. 00:17:00.780 --> 00:17:03.460 Punish them with a rod and save them from death. 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:06.420 That word discipline there is the same word as training. 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.180 And what this says is that your child needs to be trained. 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.480 Your child needs to be challenged. 00:17:14.980 --> 00:17:19.420 And they need to be challenged with your words of instruction, 00:17:19.420 --> 00:17:24.940 your words of knowledge that come from the Bible about God and humanity 00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:27.180 and the self and salvation. 00:17:28.700 --> 00:17:32.180 Because the Proverbs are suggesting, 00:17:32.759 --> 00:17:34.440 where else are they going to learn it? 00:17:35.700 --> 00:17:38.320 Who else is going to teach them these things? 00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:40.640 Their school, their friends, their phone? 00:17:41.860 --> 00:17:42.200 No. 00:17:43.100 --> 00:17:48.740 Verse 13 says that not only will your child survive your training, 00:17:48.740 --> 00:17:53.880 but your child will survive in life because of your training. 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.960 If you withhold training from your child, they will die. 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:00.400 It says they'll die spiritually. 00:18:00.559 --> 00:18:01.579 They'll die psychologically. 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:02.920 They'll die relationally. 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:04.599 But give your child training. 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:06.140 Give your child discipline. 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:10.240 And you'll save them from many forms of death. 00:18:11.099 --> 00:18:12.799 Now, I was a nightmare as a child. 00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:14.460 I was a nightmare as a youth. 00:18:14.460 --> 00:18:21.660 And I got to admit, I did not appreciate in the moment the high challenge, 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:27.900 the high training, the high demandingness that I received from my parents. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.360 In fact, I chafed against it quite a bit. 00:18:31.100 --> 00:18:33.000 But man, I'm so grateful for it. 00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:35.660 I wouldn't be here now. 00:18:36.259 --> 00:18:40.259 It saved me from so many forms of death. 00:18:40.259 --> 00:18:47.259 But you see here in Proverbs 23 how this high challenge is beautifully balanced 00:18:47.259 --> 00:18:54.500 because there's this accompanying high invitation of kindness and warmth and affection and love. 00:18:54.619 --> 00:18:55.559 Verse 15 says, 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:00.059 My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad indeed. 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:05.599 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right. 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:12.000 And what that says is I'm not just glad that, you know, I taught my child to say please and thank you, 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.679 which parents teach them to say please and thank you. 00:19:16.419 --> 00:19:22.500 But what really causes my heart to be glad is that they're getting the fear of the Lord. 00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:25.459 They're getting the wisdom of the Lord in their heart. 00:19:25.460 --> 00:19:33.079 And what makes my innermost being leap for joy is that their lips are beginning to speak what is true 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.240 and what is right about the Lord and about his word. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:39.200 That's what parenting is for. 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:42.840 Verse 24 says, 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.279 The father of a righteous child has great joy. 00:19:45.360 --> 00:19:48.019 A man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him. 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.460 May your father and mother rejoice. 00:19:50.860 --> 00:19:53.559 May she who gave you birth be joyful. 00:19:53.559 --> 00:20:03.000 This is the honorable exercise of God-given authority is the imprinting of a worldview, 00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:08.720 the imprinting of a lifestyle on your child, teaching your son, teaching your daughter, 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:15.720 us collectively teaching our sons and our daughters to be righteous and wise people who fear the Lord. 00:20:17.099 --> 00:20:20.200 And this applies not only to parental authority, 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:27.279 but to any kind of authority that God has given to you as a worker, as a colleague, as a manager, as a boss, 00:20:27.980 --> 00:20:34.140 a teacher of kids, a mentor of youth, a grandparent, a coach, an elder, a disciple. 00:20:35.080 --> 00:20:38.500 The question is not whether you have authority, 00:20:38.620 --> 00:20:42.400 it's how are you exercising this biblically balanced authority. 00:20:42.400 --> 00:20:49.640 The gospel of John chapter 1 says that Jesus came among us and he was full of both grace and truth. 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:55.019 He wasn't high grace but low truth and so permissive and indulgent. 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:00.640 And he wasn't low grace but high truth and so authoritarian and harsh. 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:11.780 No, Jesus had this biblically informed, beautifully calibrated balance of grace and truth. 00:21:11.980 --> 00:21:14.460 High invitation, high challenge. 00:21:14.620 --> 00:21:17.259 Come follow me, invitation. 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.980 Deny yourself and take up your cross, challenge. 00:21:21.980 --> 00:21:27.759 And the question is how is the Lord wanting to grow us, whatever authority we have, 00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:33.500 in that high invitation and grace and that high challenge and truth. 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.079 So we've talked about exercising our God-given authority. 00:21:39.180 --> 00:21:42.980 I want to talk a little bit also about honoring our parental authorities. 00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:44.759 And what does that mean? 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:45.539 What does that look like? 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:49.400 Again, let's go back to the commandment in Exodus 20. 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:56.140 Honor your father and your mother that it may go well with you in the land God is giving you. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:03.420 This command says that the special way we engage in this unique relationship with our parents 00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:11.280 is this Hebrew word kavod, which a few weeks ago we learned we translate glory or honor. 00:22:11.620 --> 00:22:17.019 Kavod means something weighty, something heavy, something that has substance and worth. 00:22:17.019 --> 00:22:23.460 When something is kavod, we speak about it with sobriety and seriousness, with reverence and respect. 00:22:24.379 --> 00:22:29.839 And the opposite of kavod is something that's light, something that's insubstantial and trivial. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:36.339 And this command says that we're not to treat something weighty as if it were light. 00:22:36.339 --> 00:22:42.899 Whether it's the weightiness of God's name, commandment number three, or it's the weightiness of mom and dad. 00:22:43.199 --> 00:22:47.659 Not literally, physically, but, you know, metaphorically, their weightiness. 00:22:47.660 --> 00:23:01.640 That we are to relate to our parents with humility, with sincerity, with reverence, with seriousness, with gravitas. 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:10.759 And to treat our parents lightly violates the weighty and sacred role and position that God has assigned to them in our lives. 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:18.200 So what does honor look like for a five-year-old and for a 15-year-old and for a 50-year-old? 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:23.180 Obviously, it looks different for a child and a teenager and a mature adult. 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:30.440 Kids that are ages zero to ten, you have to teach them to respect and obey their parents. 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:41.380 And then they go to middle school, ages 11 to 13, and they still need to be taught that, but you've got to start, you know, letting go of them gradually so they can develop their own individual self. 00:23:42.320 --> 00:23:45.420 And then in high school, they still need to learn to respect and obey their parents. 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:53.000 But again, you're beginning to guide them without alienating them as they're aspiring toward this emerging adulthood. 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:59.680 And then yet again, this relationship changes in our 20s and our 30s and our 40s. 00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:05.099 But this is who the command is primarily directed toward as mature adults. 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:14.960 And the command says to us, hey, you remember those first neighbors upon whom you totally depended as a child? 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:18.480 How are you going to relate to them? 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:27.120 Will you honor them when they are aging and ailing and becoming more dependent on you? 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:39.519 God is saying here that this is a relationship that you did not choose to create and also that you cannot choose to abandon even when it gets hard or difficult or inconvenient. 00:24:39.519 --> 00:24:47.639 And what he's saying is that love for our neighbors isn't about loving those people way over there. 00:24:47.859 --> 00:24:52.639 Love for our neighbors is about loving the people right here in our own family circle. 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:59.819 Your most sacred duty after these vertical commands, one through four with God, is commandment number five. 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:06.519 What is your attitude toward and your relationship with your increasingly dependent and vulnerable parents? 00:25:06.519 --> 00:25:16.000 And this is relevant to me and to Catherine who are in this sandwich season between caring for our kids and caring for our parents. 00:25:16.099 --> 00:25:20.639 And one of the best helps we received is from the book of Ruth. 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:27.920 In this book, this amazing Old Testament book, there's no father and there's no son because they're all dead. 00:25:28.299 --> 00:25:30.240 There's not even a mother or a daughter. 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:44.319 But here in Ruth, you have this outsider, this foreigner, this Moabite, this non-Israelite daughter-in-law who's no longer even technically or legally responsible for her mother-in-law, Naomi. 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:58.919 But the whole story is an account of the honor that's rendered by an adult to an aging and ailing non-blood parental figure. 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:09.139 A younger vulnerable woman honoring an older vulnerable woman, neither of whom have access to power or to wealth. 00:26:09.140 --> 00:26:12.240 And what does Ruth say to her mother-in-law? 00:26:13.259 --> 00:26:19.780 She says in Ruth chapter one, Naomi, where you go, I will go. 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.140 And where you stay, I will stay. 00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:29.759 Your people will be my people and your God, my God. 00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:33.600 Where you die, I will die and there I will be buried. 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:39.559 May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, even if death separates you and me. 00:26:41.399 --> 00:26:48.619 It's an incredibly deep and total and permanent commitment on Ruth's part to honor. 00:26:50.259 --> 00:27:01.419 And the rest of the story details for us Ruth's active and labored and strategic efforts on Naomi's behalf to provide practical and emotional and spiritual support. 00:27:01.420 --> 00:27:12.880 And Ruth shows us that honoring is about looking after and sustaining and caring for the vulnerable people that God has put in our lives. 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:30.060 And the book closes with the women of Bethlehem saying that Ruth has so honored Naomi in such a way that could not possibly be matched by the energy and the output of seven sons. 00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:33.340 That's how incredible Ruth is. 00:27:33.339 --> 00:27:56.119 And it's this model of the rich and the happy outcomes that are possible when the honor and the reverence, not only of parents, but of any vulnerable person that God puts in our lives, of what happens when we take that seriously in a sustained way. 00:27:56.119 --> 00:28:00.679 And I think Ruth embodies Proverbs 23. 00:28:01.779 --> 00:28:03.479 Listen to your father who gave you life. 00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.079 Do not despise your mother when she is old. 00:28:07.239 --> 00:28:12.859 May your father and your mother have cause to rejoice because of you and what you do. 00:28:15.919 --> 00:28:25.179 As I've read Ruth, I realize Ruth is really a signpost for us to someone greater, right? 00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:33.740 Ruth is a signpost to Jesus who perfectly fulfilled the fifth commandment in our place. 00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:39.460 In the gospel of John chapter 19, Jesus is on the cross. 00:28:40.600 --> 00:28:47.279 He's in absolute agony, but he forgets his own pain and he begins thinking about his mother. 00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:56.779 And with the most tender love and the most tender care, Jesus begins to draw Mary's attention actually away from himself. 00:28:58.359 --> 00:29:02.319 And he gives to Mary another son, the disciple John. 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:08.339 And he assigns to John the care of his mother. 00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:12.299 John and Mary are not related, but now he's to care for her. 00:29:12.399 --> 00:29:13.599 She's to care for him. 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:23.059 Just as God gave Ruth to Naomi and Naomi to Ruth, Jesus gives John and Mary to one another at the foot of the cross. 00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:38.919 And one of the things that made the early Jesus movement so socially powerful was how it created a sense of family bonds beyond biological kinship, beyond physical lineage. 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:47.680 When Jesus said these words, when he said, whoever does God's will is my mother and my sister and my brother. 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:53.240 Jesus radically expanded the fifth commandment. 00:29:53.240 --> 00:30:05.799 And ever since then, the church has been a place where we come to experience and to honor spiritual mothers and fathers. 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:13.539 And we esteem the elderly and we take care of widows and those who are vulnerable in our midst. 00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:18.339 Now, some of you are in this sandwich season like me and Catherine. 00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:23.579 You're seeking to honor your biological parents after all that they've done for you. 00:30:24.319 --> 00:30:32.299 But I want to encourage all of us to consider the church as our spiritual family, like Jesus taught us. 00:30:32.299 --> 00:30:39.819 And to ask as you kind of look around here and you get our church directory here in a few weeks. 00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:44.940 Who here needs my honor? 00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:49.859 Who here is in need of my care? 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:54.339 Who is the Naomi? 00:30:55.379 --> 00:30:56.319 Who's the Ruth? 00:30:57.519 --> 00:30:58.839 Who's the Mary? 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:00.859 And who's the John? 00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:06.779 Because this is what God loves to create by his grace. 00:31:06.959 --> 00:31:12.740 It's what Jesus loves to create at the foot of his cross is a new spiritual family. 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:24.500 But I also want to say that over the years I've pastored people who actually have a terrible relationship with their parents. 00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:34.200 And I want to speak to you because I understand how painful that is for you. 00:31:34.420 --> 00:31:38.460 If you've experienced the tragedy of abuse and addiction. 00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:43.180 Or if you have experienced neglect and abandonment. 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:49.980 That the church is the place where God wants you to find healing. 00:31:49.980 --> 00:31:56.759 And there are lots of ways that healing can work in your life. 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:07.559 But one of the ways is that if you're a Christian and you take Jesus' commands seriously. 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.980 Jesus says love your enemies. 00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:15.460 And pray for your enemies. 00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:20.779 And forgive the people who sinned against you. 00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:24.440 And as you consider this commandment. 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:26.180 I just want to invite you. 00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:28.099 Even today. 00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:33.480 To ask God to begin a process of forgiveness in your heart. 00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:40.579 To ask God to begin a process of allowing you to release your parents. 00:32:40.579 --> 00:32:43.000 Or maybe other authority figures in your life. 00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:48.440 From the anger and the bitterness and the resentment that you are carrying around in your heart. 00:32:48.579 --> 00:32:51.880 That's actually hurting you way more than it's hurting them. 00:32:54.460 --> 00:32:56.799 And I want to invite you to begin to pray. 00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:57.180 Lord. 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:01.700 Would you position my heart in such a way. 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:04.440 That it would be possible for me. 00:33:05.140 --> 00:33:07.740 To begin to honor my father. 00:33:08.619 --> 00:33:09.980 And to honor my mother. 00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:12.799 That it might go well with me. 00:33:13.640 --> 00:33:14.660 Under the blessing. 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:16.960 That you're wanting to give to me. 00:33:18.319 --> 00:33:21.519 I think that's such an important part. 00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:23.660 Of the mission of the church. 00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:27.799 So we've talked about exercising God-given authority. 00:33:27.940 --> 00:33:31.400 We've talked about honoring parental authorities. 00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:33.759 Whether our biological parents. 00:33:33.860 --> 00:33:35.140 Or our spiritual parents. 00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.380 That we may not yet have. 00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:39.079 But that we desperately need. 00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:44.960 But I want to finish by talking just briefly about knowing our Heavenly Father. 00:33:46.980 --> 00:33:50.000 I think everything about our experience in life. 00:33:50.819 --> 00:33:54.500 Points us to the fact that we were made to be in a family. 00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:57.339 That is completely accepting. 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.680 Where there is unconditional love. 00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:05.360 And yet that never puts up with our self-destructive behavior. 00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:15.639 That's the family that your heart actually needs and wants. 00:34:15.839 --> 00:34:17.019 Completely accepting. 00:34:18.279 --> 00:34:19.380 Unconditional love. 00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:23.359 Never puts up with your self-destructive behavior. 00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:25.599 And BS. 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:31.759 No parent is perfectly capable of that. 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:35.679 Some parents are much better at it than others. 00:34:36.699 --> 00:34:43.059 But I would say my experience is that most people come into adulthood feeling that they haven't been loved properly. 00:34:43.259 --> 00:34:45.019 They haven't been loved completely. 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:46.920 They haven't been loved perfectly. 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:49.119 And the reason they feel that way is because you haven't. 00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:50.119 You haven't. 00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:50.960 You haven't. 00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:55.900 But the thing that Jesus offers us in the gospel. 00:34:56.699 --> 00:35:01.400 Is that through him you can experience perfect parental love. 00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:08.420 And that you can have God as your Heavenly Father who completely accepts you. 00:35:08.659 --> 00:35:10.639 And who unconditionally loves you. 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:13.819 And yet who deals with all of your self-destructive tendencies. 00:35:15.759 --> 00:35:19.559 And you remember that most famous parable that Jesus gave to us. 00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:24.719 Is all about a son who massively dishonored his father. 00:35:25.839 --> 00:35:26.319 Right? 00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:28.500 He said I wish you were dead. 00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:29.879 And he ran away. 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.379 But then his life falls apart. 00:35:32.379 --> 00:35:33.599 And he hits rock bottom. 00:35:33.819 --> 00:35:35.159 And he begins to come home. 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:36.480 And he shows up on the horizon. 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.339 And what is the father that Jesus is describing? 00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:41.220 What does he do? 00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.500 He runs. 00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:45.740 He hugs him. 00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:46.860 He kisses him. 00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:50.800 He overwhelms him with acceptance and with love. 00:35:51.100 --> 00:35:53.860 This father's invitation is perfect. 00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:58.100 And yet his challenge is also perfect. 00:35:58.900 --> 00:36:04.460 Because he won't allow his son to remain in those filthy rags that smell like pigs. 00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:06.360 And he says quick. 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:09.240 We got to put new clothes on him. 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:10.059 Give him my robe. 00:36:10.340 --> 00:36:11.800 He's got to change. 00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:12.620 Give him my robe. 00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:14.700 Give him my ring. 00:36:15.820 --> 00:36:18.140 Give him the shoes. 00:36:18.660 --> 00:36:21.079 Because slaves are barefooted. 00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:22.500 Sons have shoes. 00:36:23.700 --> 00:36:28.000 And the father begins to transform this pauper into a prince. 00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:31.579 Through both his invitation and his challenge. 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:33.880 And he says let's have a feast. 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:35.660 Let there be music. 00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:36.800 Let there be dancing. 00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:37.980 Let there be rejoicing. 00:36:37.980 --> 00:36:40.900 And the question for us is do we know. 00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:42.039 Do you know. 00:36:42.380 --> 00:36:47.019 What it's like to have that unconditional acceptance of the father in heaven. 00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:50.719 In John chapter 14 Jesus said. 00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:53.619 No one comes to this father except through me. 00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:57.599 And in John 17 on the night before his cross. 00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:58.679 Jesus prayed father. 00:36:59.099 --> 00:37:02.219 You have loved them even as you have loved me. 00:37:04.219 --> 00:37:07.440 And you see the reason that Jesus took your place on the cross. 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:08.940 Is to reconcile you. 00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:10.539 To this father. 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:13.059 So that he can lavish his love on you. 00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:15.659 Just as he lavishes his love on Jesus. 00:37:15.659 --> 00:37:15.859 Jesus. 00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:21.239 If you're not a perfect parent. 00:37:22.319 --> 00:37:24.500 And if you did not have perfect parents. 00:37:25.460 --> 00:37:27.559 The good news is that your maker. 00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:30.719 Can become your perfect parent today. 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:33.960 He's faithful in love and care. 00:37:35.059 --> 00:37:36.099 He's generous. 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:37.579 He's thoughtful. 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:40.799 He's interested in all that you do. 00:37:40.899 --> 00:37:43.839 He respects your individuality. 00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:45.140 That you are utterly unique. 00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:48.600 He's skillful in training you. 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:51.800 He's wise in guiding you. 00:37:52.600 --> 00:37:54.600 He's always available to you. 00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:57.420 And he will help you become mature. 00:37:57.740 --> 00:37:58.420 And upright. 00:37:58.579 --> 00:38:00.280 And he has a massive inheritance. 00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:03.360 An infinite and eternal inheritance. 00:38:04.579 --> 00:38:06.280 That he can't wait to give you. 00:38:07.680 --> 00:38:09.200 In John chapter 1. 00:38:10.920 --> 00:38:13.320 It says Jesus came among us. 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:14.300 Full of grace and truth. 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:15.400 It also says this. 00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:18.500 That to all who received Jesus. 00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:20.800 To all who believed. 00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:22.320 In Jesus name. 00:38:23.400 --> 00:38:24.580 He gave the right. 00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:26.320 To become. 00:38:27.140 --> 00:38:28.100 Children of God. 00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:30.620 And friends. 00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.019 If you. 00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:32.500 Believe in Christ. 00:38:33.580 --> 00:38:34.720 That is what you are. 00:38:36.160 --> 00:38:37.340 A treasured son. 00:38:38.340 --> 00:38:39.660 A precious daughter. 00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:40.279 Father. 00:38:41.059 --> 00:38:41.460 Father. 00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:42.119 You've loved. 00:38:42.799 --> 00:38:43.159 Them. 00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:45.500 Even as you. 00:38:45.899 --> 00:38:46.199 Love. 00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:47.259 Me. 00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:49.299 Let's come. 00:38:49.940 --> 00:38:50.619 To Jesus now. 00:38:50.699 --> 00:38:51.219 At this table. 00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:52.339 In the name of the Father. 00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:53.199 Son and Holy Spirit. 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.279 Amen. 00:38:54.279 --> 00:38:54.420 Amen. 00:38:54.420 --> 00:38:54.940 God. 00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:55.000 After. 00:38:55.019 --> 00:38:55.059 God. 00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:55.119 God. 00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:55.159 God. 00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:55.200 God. 00:38:55.260 --> 00:38:55.300 God. 00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:55.380 God. 00:38:55.380 --> 00:38:55.420 God. 00:38:55.420 --> 00:38:55.460 God. 00:38:55.460 --> 00:38:55.500 God. 00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:55.539 God. 00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:55.579 God. 00:38:55.579 --> 00:38:55.599 God. 00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:55.619 God. 00:38:55.619 --> 00:38:55.659 God. 00:38:55.659 --> 00:38:55.680 God. 00:38:55.680 --> 00:38:55.720 God. 00:38:55.720 --> 00:38:55.740 God. 00:38:55.740 --> 00:38:55.760 God. 00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:55.780 God. 00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:55.780 00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:55.800 God. 00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:55.820 God. 00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:55.840 God. 00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:55.880 God. 00:38:55.880 --> 00:38:55.900 God. 00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:55.960 God. 00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:56.019 God. 00:38:56.019 --> 00:38:56.059 God. 00:38:56.059 --> 00:38:56.099 God. 00:38:56.099 --> 00:38:56.119 God. 00:38:56.139 --> 00:38:56.159 God. 00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:56.220 God. 00:38:56.260 --> 00:38:56.300 God. 00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:56.340 God. 00:38:56.340 --> 00:38:56.380 God. 00:38:56.380 --> 00:38:56.480 lip. 00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:56.599 lip. 00:38:56.619 --> 00:38:56.680 lip. 00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:56.800 lip. 00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:57.000 lip. 00:38:57.099 --> 00:38:57.159 lip. 00:38:57.200 --> 00:38:57.240 lip. 00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:57.340 lip. 00:38:57.340 --> 00:38:57.480 lip. 00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:57.680 lip. 00:38:57.680 --> 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