Today,
reply is on whether a child who undergoes parental neglect or other
abuse must still honor their father and mother in response to the Ten
Commandments. Sacred law promotes fruitful relationships with
divinity; and laws that are righteous promote industry, security, and
stability. Just as Christians are neither justified by their own
sins nor by their own good works, in divine judgment the behavior and
conduct of children are not justified by their own sins, nor by the
sins of their parents. Grace, reconciliation, redemption and
salvation are aspects of being in correct relationship with divinity
through Jesus Christ and through the Holy Spirit. While divine law
establishes a knowledge of sin and transgressions that otherwise
would not exist, the law also provides a framework and structure that
allow the living to acknowledge sanctification, resurrection life,
and relationship with GOD as the
new creation. It is written:
Deuteronomy 7: 1-10, King James Version (KJV): 1 When the LORD
thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess
it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater
and mightier than thou; 2 And when the LORD
thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and
utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew
mercy unto them: 3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy
daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt
thou take unto thy son. 4 For they will turn away thy son from
following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of
the LORD
be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. 5 But thus shall
ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down
their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images
with fire. 6 For thou art
an holy people unto the LORD
thy God: the LORD
thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above
all people that are
upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD
did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more
in number than any people; for ye were
the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD
loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto
your fathers, hath the LORD
brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house
of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore
that the Lord thy God, he is
God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them
that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
10 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them:
he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his
face. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo! Answers” public forum
on Religion & Spirituality who uses the ID “Anonymous” (no
profile was shown) posted the following:
Since
I hate my Dad and he has wronged me terribly through emotional
neglect do I have to still honor him like the 10 commandments read?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Your eyes have seen what the LORD
did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the
LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are
alive every one of you this day. Behold, I have taught you statutes
and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded
me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and
your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all
these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise
and understanding people. For what nation is there so great,
who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD
our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you
this day? Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently,
lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they
depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy
sons, and thy sons’ sons;
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD
thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me,
Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words,
that they may learn to fear
me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that
they may teach their children. (Deuteronomy 4: 3-10, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Grace Abounds Much More (04/02/2020); While We Are
Growing (03/09/2020); Mankind A Divine Instrument (02/16/2020); GOD
Also Uses Children (12/19/2019); More Required Than Crucifixion?
(12/10/2019); Anger Against Our Parents? (01/10/2019); What Young
People Need? (06/26/2017); Who Deserves Divine Love? (06/23/2017)
“Anonymous”,
more than establishing and maintaining a correct relationship with
your own parents, the law from GOD is provided to ensure your correct
relationship with divinity. The Creator does not call children to
act as judge, jury, and executioners against their own parents; and
few offspring become connected to their caretakers as though their
parents are equals, peers or playmates. Even so, for a child to
become a complete person, a full adult, and someone who is
emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually healthy before GOD,
both their connection to mankind on the earth, and their connection
to divinity must be sound. Things that have no meaning, and that
seem only to be negative and wicked while we are minor children must
become part of what we grasp in our maturity in order to experience
the full release that comes through forbearance, forgiveness, and
understanding of our shared human predicament.
The
sacred law spoken to mankind as the Ten Commandments can be thought
of as a divine tool used to transform the 12 tribes of Jacob and the
mixed multitude of Gentiles and heathens that left Egypt along with
Moses to serve as a new nation under GOD. In Egypt, the Pharaohs had
dominion and ownership of the livestock, the land, and the Egyptian
people; and only the Pharaohs could bestow or receive any
inheritance. The law proclaimed to Israel was an infrastructure to
guide Jacob as they would exchange, interact, and respond to one
another through their lifestyles and daily routines; and was to serve
as a framework for their ongoing relationship with divinity. Israel
was to exist as an heir and a son to GOD who would carry out divine
judgment against the seven tribes that occupied Canaan as the first
covenant partners to GOD. More than this, Israel was to fulfill
divine promises and prophecies that were not to be broken or
forgotten that had been shared with the Patriarchs Adam, Noah, and
Abraham.
Sinners
who turn to GOD acknowledging Jesus Christ as their redeemer and
savior are to receive a fresh endowment of the same life essence
(breath; spirit; utterance; word) that was in Christ. Those who
become “born again” and will exist as developing believers are to
“grow up again,” become mature/ripe while living on the earth,
and be harvested by the Lord at his appearing (Advent, the Rapture,
the Second Coming). The inborn spirit must undergo death, burial,
and resurrection (rebirth from divine DNA, so to speak). This occurs
through operations among the inseparable aspects of spirit substance
imparted from the makeup of GOD. Included are balance, faith,
forbearance, gratitude, holiness, longsuffering, lovingkindness,
oneness without sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Believers
undergo permanent change within their own spirit through discovery,
gradual growth, sacred practice (e.g., discernment, forgiveness,
praise, prayer), study of the holy writings, unselfish service, and
suffering. In addition to acknowledging accountability, maintaining
godly commitments and performing ones duty, mature Christian behavior
will display the image of GOD, and will resemble, reflect, and reveal
the character and likeness of Jesus Christ. Consider again the
following that uses language from the Bible, and a selection from the
music ministry of John Michael Talbot:
(1.)
Ezekiel 18: 19-24, King James Version (KJV): 19 Yet say ye, Why?
doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath
done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my
statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. 20 The soul that
sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the
father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the
righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness
of the wicked shall be upon him. 21 But if the wicked will turn from
all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do
that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not
die. 22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall
not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he
shall live. 23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should
die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he
should return from his ways, and live? 24 But when the righteous
turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and
doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man
doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall
not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in
his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
(2.)
Colossians 3: 2-13, KJV: 2 Set your affection on things above, not
on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with
Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear,
then shall ye also appear with him in glory. 5 Mortify therefore
your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness,
inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is
idolatry: 6 For which things’
sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In
the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now
ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy
communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing
that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on
the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of
him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free: but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on therefore, as
the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness,
humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one
another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against
any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
(3.)
Titus 3: 1-7, KJV: 1 Put them in mind to be subject to
principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every
good work, 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but
gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 3 For we ourselves also
were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts
and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating
one another. 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our
Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which
we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing
of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on
us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being
justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope
of eternal life.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7j10za_3gQ.) Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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