{"id":541,"date":"2009-10-06T22:45:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/Correspondence\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-10-06T22:45:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T02:45:25","slug":"honor-thy-father-and-thy-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/541\/honor-thy-father-and-thy-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Honor thy father and thy mother&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about honoring parents.\u00a0 The Lord has been allowing me to see my mother&#8217;s moral state better than I ever have.\u00a0 I see her largely as a bad influence who is also my mom.\u00a0 (Our relationship has always been distant and strange, so I don&#8217;t think I understand &#8220;mom&#8221; like most people do anyway.)\u00a0 For two months recently, I thought it would be good for me not to talk to her; connecting with her feels like spiritual chains.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t want to ignore God&#8217;s commandment (which comes with a promise), or be cruel, yet talking with her as often as it seems she&#8217;d like feels like forcing myself to keep a bad acquaintance.\u00a0 J&#8211; and I are praying about our relationships with our earthly family.\u00a0 What does it mean to honor one&#8217;s parents?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Thank you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">B&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">=============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>B&amp;J,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>That is not the commandment, atvin least, not as Paul gave it to us (in Ephesians 5:1?)\u00a0 The commandment is &#8220;Children, honor your parents IN THE LORD&#8221;.\u00a0 You must be led by the Lord in all your relationships, even with your mother and father.\u00a0 Custom of the culture or the expectations of people cannot be the determining factor.\u00a0 According to everything the gospel teaches, you will please people only if you displease God.\u00a0 But if you please God and displease people, expect to be misunderstood and maligned.\u00a0 Such persecution comes with the honor of hearing from and following Him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>jdc<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor John, I have a question about honoring parents.\u00a0 The Lord has been allowing me to see my mother&#8217;s moral state better than I ever have.\u00a0 I see her largely as a bad influence who is also my mom.\u00a0 (Our relationship has always been distant and strange, so I don&#8217;t think I understand &#8220;mom&#8221; like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}