Teaching Respect
Ephesians 6:1-4
Quote
“Today’s youth love luxury and have bad
manners. They hold authority in
contempt; they no longer stand up when
an adult enters the room; they talk back
to parents and contradict them; they talk
too much in the presence of company;
they talk too much in the presence of
company; they talk nonsense instead of
working; they put themselves all over
the furniture; and they guzzle their food.”
-- Socrates, 400 B.C.
Disrespectful Children In
The Bible!
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(Deuteronomy 21:18-21) "If a man has a stubborn
and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of
his father or the voice of his mother, and, though
they chastise him, will not give heed to them, then
his father and his mother shall take hold of him and
bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of
the place where he lives, and they shall say to the
elders of his city, 'This our son is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton
and a drunkard.' Then all the men of the city shall
stone him to death with stones; so you shall purge
the evil from your midst; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear. (RSV)
Teaching Respect
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Children Must Be Taught To
Respect Parents!
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(Ephesians 6:1-4) Children, obey
your parents in the Lord, for this is
right. "Honor your father and mother"
(this is the first commandment with a
promise), "that it may be well with you
and that you may live long on the
earth." Fathers, do not provoke your
children to anger, but bring them up
in the discipline and instruction of the
Lord. (RSV)
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Four Reasons
Why:
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2.
3.
4.
God Wants
You To.
It is Right!
It may be well
with you.
You may live
long on the
earth.
Teaching Respect
 Children need to learn to respect:
 Older people (Lev. 19:32)
 Government (authority figures; laws; Rom. 13)
 School: principal, teacher, dean ,etc.
 Bible class teachers
 God
• (Psalms 89:6-7) For who in the skies can be compared
to the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like
the LORD, a God feared in the council of the holy ones,
great and terrible above all that are round about him?
(RSV)
• (Hebrews 12:28) Therefore let us be grateful for
receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let
us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and
awe; (RSV)
Teaching Respect
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Some Consequences Of A
Disrespectful Attitude:
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(Proverbs 17:25) A foolish son is a grief to his
father and bitterness to her who bore him. (RSV)
(Proverbs 15:20) A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother. (RSV)
(Proverbs 30:17) The eye that mocks a father
and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by
the ravens of the valley and eaten by the
vultures. (RSV)
Teaching Respect
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God Takes This Serious!
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(Romans 1:28-32) And since they did not see fit
to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a
base mind and to improper conduct. They were
filled with all manner of wickedness, evil,
covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife,
deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers,
haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful,
inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though
they know God's decree that those who do such
things deserve to die, they not only do them but
approve those who practice them. (RSV)
Teaching Respect
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Consequences of a Respectful
Attitude:
(Proverbs 23:24-25) The father of the
righteous will greatly rejoice; he who
begets a wise son will be glad in him. Let
your father and mother be glad, let her
who bore you rejoice. (RSV)
 (Proverbs 23:15-16) My son, if your heart
is wise, my heart too will be glad. My soul
will rejoice when your lips speak what is
right. (RSV)
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Conclusion
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Children are a heritage of the Lord! (Psalm
127:3)
One will have no greater responsibility than to
be a parent. – An Eternal Soul is at stake!
One Final Warning!
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(Luke 17:1-2) And he said to his disciples,
"Temptations to sin are sure to come; but woe
to him by whom they come! It would be better
for him if a millstone were hung round his neck
and he were cast into the sea, than that he
should cause one of these little ones to sin.
(RSV)
Sources
Outline by Gene Taylor
 Material By Steve Higginbotham
 Outline by Johnny Felker
 Material by Jim Deason
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