Showing Honor

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Confess my mind is, alert 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.400 my heart is. RECEPTIVE i will never be the. Same 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:08.760 In jesus', Name god bless. YOU i want to talk 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:12.560 to you today about showing honor everywhere we. 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.040 Go we should look. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.360 For opportunities to bring honor in our, conversations in the 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.959 way we treat people at, home at, work at the grocery. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.480 Store as, believers we are carriers of. 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.960 Honor we have something to. Give if you see someone. 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:33.320 Doing a good, job honor them by telling them what 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:38.280 a great job they're. Doing recognize their, accomplishments give them 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:40.040 credit in front of their. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:41.720 Colleagues that's bringing. 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.320 Honor you're not just doing them a, Favor you're doing 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:49.280 yourself a. Favor when you show, honor there is a 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.920 commanded blessing that is released back into your own. Life 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:57.240 someone comes to the grocery line at the same time as, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.760 you honor them by letting them go first, first prefer one. 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:05.760 Another a simple way to show. Honor honor those in 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.560 authority by doing what they. Ask honor the police officer 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.480 by taking the detour and not. Complaining honor the usher 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.560 by sitting where he asks and not, arguing. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.800 WELL i shouldn't have to sit in this. Section i'm 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:21.839 going to give him a piece of my. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.960 Mind now that's the reason you don't have many pieces. 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:30.359 Left show honor by respecting his. Position you may not 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:34.680 agree with the, policy but because you're a person of, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.480 honor you respect the authority and do it. ANYWAY i 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.440 found the amount of honor that you show will be 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.720 directly related to the amount Of god's. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.080 Favor that you. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.839 See if you are stingy with your honor and you 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.680 THINK i can't give them credit they'll look better than, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.240 me then you won't See god's favor like you. 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.039 Should but when you're. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:02.520 Generous with your, honor you're always giving people, credit treating 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.719 them with, respect Then god will be generous with his 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:06.560 favor back to. 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.720 You if you want to see. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.679 More Of god's goodness than show honor in a greater. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.920 Way one Time jesus was at a house about to have. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.760 Dinner this woman came in that was a notorious sinner 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.280 and knelt, down and she poured this expensive bottle of 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.000 oil on his feet and began to wash. Them oil 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.880 in the scripture represents. Honor you could say she poured 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:37.520 her honor on. Him the religious leaders got. Upset they, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.200 said why did she waste the? Oil we could have 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.200 sold it and given the money to the. Poor jesus, 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.440 said don't bother the. 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.719 Woman she has. Done the best. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:51.440 Thing anytime you show Honor god is saying you are 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.279 doing the best. Thing jesus looked at her and, said, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:06:00.560 woman your sins are. Forgiven notice she gave honor and 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.800 she received. Favor when you pour out that oil of, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.880 honor it becomes the blessing that is returned back to. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:13.640 You but with no, oil with no, honor no, blessing 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.480 you will never receive what you're not willing to. Give 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.280 if you don't give, honor you won't have. Honor and 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:23.479 some of you could go to a new. Level you 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.480 could see a breakthrough in what you've been praying about 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.719 if you would just start honoring the People god put 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.160 in your life in a greater. Way in the, scripture 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.560 it talks about How jesus couldn't do any miracles in 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.480 his hometown because of their. Unbelief they thought there's nothing 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.320 special About. Jesus we grew up with. HIM i taught 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.680 him third. Grade he's just like my other. STUDENTS i 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.720 played little league with. Him he wasn't any different than 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:55.000 the rest of. Us it was a lack of honor 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.480 that kept him from doing any. Miracles in, Fact jesus 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.280 went on to, say a prophet has no honor in 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:02.839 his own. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.680 Home the same principle is true. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.680 Today where there's no, honor there will be no, miracles no, 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:14.720 honor no, healing no, honor no. Promotion god's power is 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:19.679 directly linked to showing. Honor paul said In ephesian, six 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.600 honor your father and mother so that all will be 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:25.120 well with. 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.480 You that's the commanded. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.440 Blessing if you show, honor all will be well with. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:36.320 You you may go through some difficult, seasons people may do you, 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.120 wrong but because you're a person of, honor you can 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.680 stay in that place of peace knowing that all will 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.280 be well with. 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:45.240 You that's What god's. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.240 Promised this says honor should start in our. Homes it 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.840 should start in our own, families with those closest to. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.320 US i know people that. 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.000 Treat complete strangers better than they treat their own. Space 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.080 it should be just the. Opposite we should treat our 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.160 own family with more. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.280 Honor than anyone. 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:12.120 Else every several months we meet with pastors here as 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.880 a part of Our Champion's pastor's. Network many times the 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.160 pastors will come in and see the beautiful facility And 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:23.080 god's blessings and, favor and they'll look at me, Like, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.840 wow look what all you've. Accomplished BUT i always start 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:31.560 those meetings off by honoring by. PARENTS i REALIZE i 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:35.240 would not be standing here today if my parents had 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:39.120 not gone before me and for forty, years given and. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:40.120 Served and made. 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:46.360 Sacrifices the scripture, says give honor to whom honor is. 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.080 Due when you're, honorable you don't suck up all the 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.040 attention in the room and, say look how GREAT i, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:54.840 Am look What i've. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.720 Accomplished, no you'll quick to give other people. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:02.040 Credit you realize no person gets to where they are 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.200 on their. Own you honor those that have gone before, 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.240 you and those that are praying for you and believing 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.480 in you and encouraging you all along the. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.360 Way and in those, MEETINGS i always Honor. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.880 VICTORIA i honor my, brother my, sisters my in, laws 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:21.319 and invariably they'll turn around and honor. Me one pastor, 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:25.760 SAID i have never seen such a culture of. Honor 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.000 that's one of the greatest compliments we could ever. Have 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.040 let's develop a culture of. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:32.920 Honor in our. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.120 Families we got enough people trying to pull us, down 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.920 enough critics and. Naysayers our families should be a place 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:45.640 of respect and admiration where we don't focus on all 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.120 the petty. Differences we don't let pride cause us to 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.720 compete and. Compare try to figure out who's the most. 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.440 Important AND i can't compliment, them OR i may look. Weak, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.480 no showing honor is not a sign of. Weakness it's 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:05.000 a sign of. Strength celebrating others will not decrease, You 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:09.959 it will increase. You giving an employee credit that works 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.760 under you is not going to make you look less 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:13.880 than in other people's. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.720 Eyes it's going to give you more. 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:20.240 Credibility the more respect you, show the more respect you're 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:24.600 going to. HAVE i found where there's, honor there's. Unity 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:26.600 where there's, honor people get. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:28.320 Along where there's. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:33.400 Respect and, admiration there's a, team there's, enthusiasm there's. Motivation 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.320 why is that when you pour out the oil of, 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:41.440 honor it will come back to you As god's blessings and. 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:45.839 Favor you may be around people that are, dishonorable people 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:50.520 that are hard to, love hard to. Respect sometimes you 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.840 have to honor people by. Faith you have to treat 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:56.920 people not the way they, are but the way you 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.200 want them to. Become when you honor some that's, dishonorable 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.600 you give someone respect that doesn't really deserve. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.280 Respect when you're. 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.280 Kind even though they're not, kind you are sowing a 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.200 seed for them to become the way you're treating. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.360 Them but our mind will. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.679 Always tell us be disrespectful back to. Them they didn't 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.680 give you the time of. Day just blow them. Off 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.559 they talk bad about, you talk bad about. Them, no 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.800 you never change a dishonorable situation by piling on more. 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.280 Dishonor that's only going to make matters. Worse you have 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.640 to do just the opposite and bring honor to that. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.080 Situation treat the person the way you want them to. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.960 Become it's like a cork at the bottom of a 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:44.600 bucket with no water in. 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.040 It the honor is the. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:53.120 Water as long as there's, disrespect, sarcasm, jealousy, pride the 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.520 bucket is empty and the cork will say at the. 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.240 Bottom but when you start to honor that person and 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.760 treat them the way you want them to, become and 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.800 you're kind even though they're not, kind little by, little 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.560 as you're pouring the honor in the cork will start 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.880 to come off the. Bottom in other, words that person 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.760 will start to come up higher and. Higher and if 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:17.120 you'll just keep pouring the honor. In before, long they 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.440 will be living at the Level god created them to live. 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:24.560 At not because you fought with, them not because you 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:25.760 treated them the way they. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.240 Treated, you but because you were a person of honor 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:32.520 and you just kept pouring the honor. In that's what 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.240 causes people to rise to new. 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.000 Levels. NOW i know some of. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.400 You you have family members that don't deserve. Honor a 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.719 parent that did you, wrong a relative that cheated, you 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.000 a brother in law that's always talking bad about. You 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.080 the way to win is not through. Dishonor stay on 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.640 the high, road don't sink down to that. Level just 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.560 keep showing more and more. HONOR i know this. Lady 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.400 she was mistreated by her father for many. Years she 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.800 went through. Abuse she, Said, joel how AM i supposed 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.800 to honor my? FATHER i hate the? Man AND i 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:10.880 realize you may not be at a point where you 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:14.160 can interact with that person just, yet but it's an 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.079 act of honor just to pray for them to. Change 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:21.439 you can honor them by not getting angry and bitter 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:22.920 in living life hating. 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.480 Them but you. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:29.160 Never make a dishonorable situation better by adding more. Dishonor 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.800 the way to change it is by adding honor to the. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:36.040 SITUATION i have a good friend that when he was 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.679 in his early, twenties he had a big disagreement with his, 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:39.360 father big. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:40.720 Argument he left. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.800 The house very, angry and for nearly thirty years he 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.200 had never spoken to his, father wouldn't have anything to 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.160 do with. Him his whole life was a, struggle couldn't 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.600 seem to get, ahead never got any good. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.720 Breaks year after, year he was living in a small 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.000 apartment with his. 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:02.319 Family one day he heard through his sister that his 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:06.000 father was very ill in a, hospital and something told 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.880 him he needed to make things. Right he got in 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.600 the car and drove four hours to the, hospital and 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:13.960 when he went in and saw his, dad they both 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.320 wept and. Wept he, Said, dad it was my. Fault i'm. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.040 Sorry i'm going to make it up to. You he 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:24.920 started honoring his. Father he would take his children up 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.680 there to see his dad on a regular. Basis this 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.720 father would come spend the week ends at his house 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:35.480 with his. Family he changed from a culture of dishonor 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.000 to a culture of. Honor it wasn't long after that 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.600 that he got a promotion that he'd been trying to 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.800 Get for over ten, years he didn't know how he 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.000 was going to send his oldest daughter to. College but 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.280 out of the, blue she got a scholarship. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.640 To the university she was hoping to get. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.000 In after all those years of living in a small, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.960 apartment they were finally able to purchase their first. Time 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:04.960 one thing after another begin to fall into. Place why 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.920 was that when there's a culture of, Dishonor god's blessing 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:13.040 is pulled back from your, life you will not walk 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.360 in the fullness of What god has in. Store but 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.600 if you will do like this, son and find any 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:24.240 area of dishonor and start bringing, honor bring in, respect 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.920 then you can break the curse that comes from, dishonor 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.840 and you will See god's favor in a greater. Way 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.760 the scripture, says show honor and all will. 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.000 Be well with. You we can take just the. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:41.320 Opposite if we don't show, honor all will not be. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:47.600 Well if we allow, disrespect, jealousy, sarcasm pride to keep 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.080 us from showing. Honor it's not going to hurt the other. 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.720 Person the lack of honor will hold us. Back, NOW 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.520 i believe one reason That i've Seen god's favor in 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.120 my own life is Because i've done my best to 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:05.720 honor my. Parents there is a special, reward a special 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.600 blessing that comes from honoring your. Parents you may not 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.800 agree with, them but it doesn't say if you agree honor. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:18.960 Them it simply, says honor your. Parents young, people listen 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.840 to your parents'. Advice they've been around longer than you. 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.280 Have they're trying to keep you from making the same 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.440 mistakes that they. Made Mark twain, said WHEN i was, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.120 fourteen my father was so DUMB i could hardly stand 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.880 to be around. Him but WHEN i got to be twenty, 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.480 ONE i was amazed at how much the man had. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.880 Learned if you want all to be well with. 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:44.920 You you need. 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.600 To show honor and respect to your, parents not just 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.680 with your, words but with your. Actions the other, day 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.400 my mother asked me to not say something during one 0:16:56.400 --> 0:16:56.600 of my. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.000 Messages she heard. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.840 Me saturday, night she texts me and, Said, JOEL i 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:04.040 wish you wouldn't use this phrase tomorrow when you. Speak 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.679 it wasn't anything. Bad it was a medical, term just 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:10.840 something kind of. Funny to my, generation it's no big, 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.040 Deal but when you're one hundred and six years, old 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.560 you see things. DIFFERENTLY i just dishonored talking about. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.040 Honor but. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.160 She texts me and asked me not to use that. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.240 Phrase NOW i understand there is a special blessing that 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.080 comes from honoring your. Parents SO i chose not to say. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.920 It not BECAUSE i had, to not because she pressured. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.320 ME i did it because she's my, mother AND i 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.400 know all will be well with you when you honor your. 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:45.760 PARENTS i can say today all is well with. Me i'm, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:49.040 Happy i'm Blessed god a great. FAMILY i believe one 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:53.520 reason is Because i've chosen to show. HONOR i used 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.520 to go over to my parents' house Every saturday night 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.560 and pick out a suit and tie for my father 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.280 to wear the next day on television at, CHURCH i 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.439 produced the. Program in those. Days it was just a 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.920 simple way THAT i could honor my. FATHER i never 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.560 dreamed one DAY i would be picking out a suit 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.080 and tie for me to wear up. Here but when 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.480 you show, honor that's the Seed god will use to 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:19.560 bring honor back to. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.960 YOU i have a friend. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.080 He grew up in a very strict environment overseas in another. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.600 Country his father as, well was a. Minister but his 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.440 dad didn't think it was right to wear short. Pants 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.800 he didn't think you should show your. Legs they lived 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.880 in a climate that was extremely. Hot this son did 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.960 not agree with his. Father all of his friends wore, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.760 shorts all of his cousins and his other, relatives they wore. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.439 Shorts everybody did in that. Area but he, Said, joel 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.960 out of respect to my. Father growing, UP i never 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.960 once wore. Shorts, today that young man is blessed with 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.119 a happy, family he's got a great, job he's Got god's. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.800 Favor plus he wears shorts everywhere he. Goes but a 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.159 lot of times we THINK i don't have to do. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:11.560 That that's not. Right my mother can't tell me what 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.080 to say or not to. Say my name's on the 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:14.600 sign out. 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.760 Front, no there are a lot of things that we 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.920 may not think we need to. Do but in order 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.919 to show, honor we need to swallow our pride and 0:19:23.960 --> 0:19:27.160 do it. Anyway where there is, honor there is. Promotion 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:32.480 it's not enough to just honor with our. Words let's 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:36.480 honor people with our. Actions i'm convinced if we would 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.480 show more, honor we not only have better, relationships but 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.560 we'd enjoy our life a whole lot. More wives is 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:49.120 especially important that you honor your husband's honor is one 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.720 of your husband's greatest. Needs you can say the right, 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:56.119 thing but if you say it in a dishonorable, way 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.600 he's not going to hear anything you're, saying because if 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:04.800 there's the the smallest hint of, disrespect dishonor, sarcasm his 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.840 defenses will come up and nothing that's said will be 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:10.960 taken the right. Way and in our, relationships we're not 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.720 always going to. Agree so often if that other person 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:18.120 doesn't see it our, way we get. Upset we let 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.440 the voice tones go up and maybe a little bit, 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.160 sarcastic and before. 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.280 Long we're at odds with each. 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.119 Other if you can just learn to keep the, honor 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.960 keep the respect even when you don't, agree then it 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.680 won't damage the. Relationship victoria AND i have been married 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.520 now going on twenty five. Years people ask us what 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:39.200 the secret. Is we always tell them the same two. 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.760 Things number, one we laugh a, lot we keep humor 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:46.000 in our. Home and number, two we always treat each 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.639 other with respect even when we. Disagree we do our 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.960 best not to lose respect for each. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:53.199 Other when we. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.560 First got, married Something victoria didn't like was for me 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.280 to come in the kitchen AFTER i had worked out 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:02.800 and walk my hands in the kitchen. Sink she didn't 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.120 want my sweat to be around the food or where 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.840 they would be preparing. Dinner she doesn't realize my sweat is. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:13.560 Holy but the problem was WHEN i came in from the, 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:16.800 outside the most convenient sink was in the. 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.119 KITCHEN i didn't wash my hands. There i'd have to 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:20.080 go all the way to. 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.040 The, Back and for a long, TIME i just went in, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.520 there washed my hands real quickly and hoped that she 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:28.520 didn't see. Me and she never harped on me about, 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.240 it BUT i knew it bothered. Her she had asked 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:33.359 me not to do. It one, DAY i was in 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:36.200 there about to wash my, hands hoping that she wouldn't see, 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:39.600 me AND i Heard god say something to. Me i'm 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:41.879 not talking about out, loud just an impression down in. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:45.439 Here he, Said, joel when are you going to start 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.159 honoring your wife by doing what. 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.800 She's asking you to? DO i thought that couldn't Be. 0:21:50.840 --> 0:21:57.800 God the scripture, says it's the little foxes that spoil the. 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:02.439 Vines it's the little acts of this honor disrespect that 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:06.920 brings strife division. DISCORD i made a decision that day 0:22:07.320 --> 0:22:10.240 THAT i was going to Honor god by honoring my. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.120 WIFE a lot of times we, think, WELL i shouldn't 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:15.119 have to do, that shouldn't have to walk all the 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.320 way to the, back shouldn't have to sit in that, 0:22:17.400 --> 0:22:20.000 SECTION i shouldn't have to clean up after that. Mess 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.760 But god is, saying will you do it for? Me 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:25.800 will you walk to the back for? Me will you 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.320 clean up the mess for? Me will you not use 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.320 that phrase in your sermon for? Me do it Under? 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:34.560 God if you will Honor, God god will always honor. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:40.840 You Verse peter three seven, says, husbands honor your wives 0:22:40.920 --> 0:22:44.760 so that nothing will hinder your. Prayers this is, saying 0:22:44.840 --> 0:22:47.520 if we don't show, honor our prayers may not be. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.679 Answered if we don't show, honor the dream may not 0:22:50.760 --> 0:22:51.040 come to. 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.960 PASS i know a minister. Friend when he was a young, 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:55.800 man he and. 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.280 His wife were trying to have a, baby, praying, believing 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:03.280 taking fertility, treatments doing everything they, could but year after 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.800 year went by with no. Success they were so, disappointed so. 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:10.959 Frustrated one day he was on an airplane returning from 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:14.400 a missionary trip. Overseas he began to talk To god 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.840 under his. Breath he, Said, god it's not. Fair i'm 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.119 doing what you want me to. Do why can't we 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.080 have a? Baby god spoke something to his. Heart he, said, 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:27.199 son you're not going to have a baby until you 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.960 start treating your wife. Better now, understand he wasn't doing 0:23:31.000 --> 0:23:34.920 anything major. Wrong he just wasn't treating her the way 0:23:34.960 --> 0:23:38.040 he knew he. Should he was big enough when he 0:23:38.040 --> 0:23:41.919 heard this to make. Changes he started honoring his, wife 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.400 started being more, loving more. Respectful he would go out 0:23:45.400 --> 0:23:48.840 of his way to make her feel. Special it was 0:23:48.920 --> 0:23:52.520 within that next year that his wife conceived the day 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.879 they have a beautiful. Child could it be that if 0:23:55.920 --> 0:23:59.080 we would start showing more, honor a dream would come to, 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.880 pass a prayer would be, answered. 0:24:01.560 --> 0:24:03.399 We would see the breakthrough that we're hoping. 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:08.160 For let's step up our honor, level not just in our. 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.719 Homes certainly we should start, there but make sure that 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:15.680 you're showing honor at, work honor to the person at 0:24:15.680 --> 0:24:18.480 the grocery, store honor to the coach at little, league 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:22.600 and honor to those that are in. Authority years, AGO 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.919 i went to a ballgame at a big. STADIUM i 0:24:25.960 --> 0:24:28.840 always park in the same place and go in the same. 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:31.679 INTERESTS i knew right where my seats were a couple 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:35.200 of sections to the, Left but this particular day there 0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:38.640 was an usher at the entrance forcing everybody to go. 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:41.399 Right in, fact they had put up these little ropes 0:24:41.640 --> 0:24:44.639 making everyone go that. Way, well my seats were to the. 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:46.959 Left IF i went to the, RIGHT i was going 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:49.600 to have to walk around the whole. Stadium there were 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:52.240 hundreds of people going. In of, course everyone was going 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:54.919 to the, right but many of those, people once they 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.560 got about twenty feet away from the, usher they were 0:24:57.600 --> 0:25:00.400 holding up the, ropes going under and then back left 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:03.400 toward my, Section AND i knew the usher could still see. 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:05.240 Us SO i, Thought i'm not going to do it, 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:07.399 here but WHEN i get around the, Corner i'm going 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:08.960 to go under that rope and go back to my. 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:13.400 Section just WHEN i started to go under that, ROPE 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:17.119 i heard that still small voice, Say, joel don't do. 0:25:17.240 --> 0:25:21.399 It you're a person of. Honor he's an. Authority respect his. 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:24.399 POSITION i just kept walking all the way around the. 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:28.000 STADIUM i did the right, thing not BECAUSE i felt like, 0:25:28.080 --> 0:25:29.240 it not BECAUSE i. 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:32.159 Thought it was, fair BUT i did it to honor that. 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:37.160 USHER i know when you honor, people you are ultimately Honoring. 0:25:37.200 --> 0:25:41.800 God you are so inceeges for, promotions AND i wonder 0:25:42.400 --> 0:25:45.439 how many opportunities we miss out on to come up, 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:49.080 higher to see more Of god's favor because we are 0:25:49.119 --> 0:25:52.800 not showing honor to those that are in. Authority you, 0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.680 Say joe us not hurting. Anything maybe, not but it's 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:59.200 a test of your. Character god is watching to. See 0:25:59.320 --> 0:26:01.680 are you going to pay as the test and show 0:26:01.800 --> 0:26:04.960 honor and respect that position of authority so. 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:05.560 You can come up? 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:08.360 Higher or are you going to take the easy way 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.000 out and just do what you feel and get stuck 0:26:11.040 --> 0:26:11.359 where you. 0:26:11.400 --> 0:26:15.120 Are, now let's pass the, Test let's stay on the high. 0:26:15.240 --> 0:26:15.800 Road let's be. 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:19.680 Honorable the more honor you, show the More god will honor. 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:25.560 YOU i think About David. King saul dishonored him again and. 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.280 Again david did. 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:30.840 Nothing but good For. Saul But saul was jealous and 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:31.520 tried to Kill. 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:34.800 David he threw spears at him and chased him through the. 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:39.040 Wilderness But david was so filled with, honor he so 0:26:39.240 --> 0:26:43.640 respected that position of authority that several times he had 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:46.560 the opportunity to Kill, saul but he would not do. 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:50.159 It he kept passing the, test showing more, honor And 0:26:50.240 --> 0:26:54.640 god kept Showing david more. Favor When david finally did 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:58.080 take the throne several years, later first thing he did 0:26:58.760 --> 0:27:01.080 was not have a big, parade not say look how 0:27:01.119 --> 0:27:01.560 GREAT i. 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:04.360 Am, no he said to his, staff. 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:07.880 Is there anyone from the house Of jonathan still? Alive 0:27:08.280 --> 0:27:12.360 SO i can show honor to? Them honor was always 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:15.880 On david's. Mind no Wonder god blessed him in such 0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:19.760 a great. Way jonathan was his best friend that had 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:23.919 been killed much earlier in a. Battle the men said To, david, 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:26.320 yes one Of jonathan's. 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:27.080 Youngest sons is still. 0:27:27.119 --> 0:27:32.959 Alive the scripture, Says david set out to honor. Him 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:37.199 that's my challenge. Today set out to honor someone this. 0:27:37.320 --> 0:27:40.480 Week set out to honor your spouse in a greater. 0:27:40.560 --> 0:27:44.639 Way set out to show more respect to that. Coworker 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:47.600 set out to make that friend feel more. 0:27:47.680 --> 0:27:52.160 Special the staff brought the son. In he had been 0:27:52.200 --> 0:27:54.760 living in the poorest. City he was. 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:57.800 Crippled david looked at him and, said young, MAN i 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:01.960 loved your, father and because because of our, friendship you're 0:28:02.000 --> 0:28:04.360 not going to live in the slums. Anymore you're going 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:06.800 to live in the palace with. Me you're going to 0:28:06.840 --> 0:28:10.240 eat at my dinner table each. Night Plus i'm going 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:13.200 to make sure you get all the land that belonged 0:28:13.200 --> 0:28:13.480 to your. 0:28:13.480 --> 0:28:14.800 Father that's. 0:28:14.920 --> 0:28:19.239 Honor let's be Like david and develop this culture of, 0:28:19.320 --> 0:28:22.880 honor where honor is always on our, minds in our, 0:28:22.920 --> 0:28:27.360 conversations in the way we treat people every opportunity we can, 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:31.720 find let's show. Honor, remember the amount of honor that 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:34.840 you show will be directly related to the amount Of 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:38.360 god's favor that you can. See i'm asking us to 0:28:38.440 --> 0:28:42.720 step it up a, notch be, kinder be more, respectful. 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:44.440 Go out of your way to show. 0:28:44.520 --> 0:28:47.440 Honor if you will make it a priority to show 0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:51.520 honor everywhere you, Go god promises all will be well 0:28:51.520 --> 0:28:54.800 with you because you are. Honorable you will not only 0:28:54.880 --> 0:28:58.600 always have, honor but you will live a, long, blessed, 0:28:58.840 --> 0:29:03.320 satisfied express victorious. LIFE i believe, it AND i declare 0:29:03.320 --> 0:29:05.360 it over each one of you In jesus'. 0:29:05.480 --> 0:29:07.320 Name if you receive, it can you say? 0:29:07.360 --> 0:29:12.760 Amen thank you for listening to The Joelus deine. 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