06.19.2022 | HONOR
HONOR
Romans 12:10 (NLT) – “Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.”
Ephesians 6:2-3 (NLT) – “‘Honor your father and mother.’ This is the first commandment with a promise: If you honor your father and mother, ‘things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.’”
1. We Choose Honor by Giving Value
1 Corinthians 6:20a (NLT) – “For God bought you with a high price.”
Romans 12:10 – “Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another.”
Romans 5:8 (NLT) – “But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”
1 Peter 2:17a – “Honor all people.”
2. We Choose Honor to Empower Transformation
Mark 6:4 (NLT) – “Then Jesus told them, ‘A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own hometown and among his relatives and his own family.’”
Mark 6:5-6 (NLT) – “And because of their unbelief, He couldn’t do any miracles among them except to place His hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.”
Matthew 25:40 (NLT) – “And the King will say, ‘I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!’”
Genesis 9:20-21 (NLT) – “After the flood, Noah began to cultivate the ground, and he planted a vineyard. One day he drank some wine he had made, and he became drunk and lay naked inside his tent.”
Genesis 9:22-23 (NLT) – “Ham, the father of Canaan, saw that his father was naked and went outside and told his brothers. Then Shem and Japheth took a robe, held it over their shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father. As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not see him naked.”
John 13:35 (NLT) – “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are My disciples.”
Isaiah 61:7a – “Instead of your shame you shall have double honor.”
Discussion Questions:
1. How do you normally honor those close to you?
2. Share of a time when honor was difficult for you.
3. Have you ever witnessed honor expressed when it wasn’t deserved (by you or by someone else)?
4. Do you think honor can facilitate transformation?
5. What can you change in your interactions to demonstrate more honor toward people around you?