4th Commandment - Confirmation

Theme Verse

Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Exodus 20:12

Luther’s Small Cat

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Honor your father and your mother.

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

Remember 1 Thing

The Almighty God who created us placed us in families.

God commands us to honor our parents and others in authority by our words and deeds.

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Modern Family

  • How do most children on television today relate to their parents? How did they relate a generation ago?

  • Does television portray an accurate reflection of the American family?

  • How have parenting issues changed over the last generation? How are they the same?

Some Bible Time

  • Read Ephesians 6:1-3

  • Exodus 20

    12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

    13 “You shall not murder.

    14 “You shall not commit adultery.

    15 “You shall not steal.

  • “you will live long and well in this land.” What does that mean?

Who Do I Honor

  • Parents have Authority over us.

  • Who Else has authority over us?

  • Who Has given them authority over us?

Language Themes

  • Define the words “honor” and “respect.” Then add the prefix “dis” to them and redefine them

  • What are we supposed to do if parents or authorities aren’t acting in a respectful fashion? How can we honor a person we don’t respect?

  • Create a list of five common ways we honor and dishonor our parents or guardians

“For if we from the heart are genuinly to honor someone, then we must have him standing truly high and great in our estimation”
— Martin Luther
“Parents are representatives of God and bear in mind that. however poor infirm or eccentric they may be, our father and mother are nevertheless God’s gifts to us. ”
— Martin Luther
“Prize and value them as earth’s greatest treasure. ”
— Martin Luther