- 6/7/2025
In this fifth installment of our Ten Commandments series, we explore the commandment that lays the foundation for authority, respect, and structure in society: "Respect your father and your mother". Why is this the first commandment with a promise? What does “honor” truly mean from a Scriptural lens? How does this command extend beyond childhood?
Come with us as we peel back tradition and dig deep into the ancient Hebraic meaning, the cultural context, and the lasting implications of this command for today’s world. In a time when the family structure is under siege and respect for elders wanes, this teaching restores clarity and conviction.
So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about the fifth commandment!
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00:00In a world where rebellion is often praised and put up on a pedestal, and where reverence
00:08is rare in today's world, especially here in America, there is still one commandment
00:14that stands tall and strong and continues, and that is the fifth commandment of honor
00:20your father and your mother.
00:23In this video, we uncover the fifth of the Ten Commandments.
00:27It's promise, it's weight, it's reward, so join us as we learn the fifth of the Ten Commandments
00:33in this episode on the Ten Commandments.
00:36So this teaching, or video, or drosh, or whatever you want to call it, is going to be all about
01:00the fifth commandment in our continued series on the Ten Commandments.
01:04And this one is a turning point, as it were, but we'll get into that here in a little bit.
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02:05So, like I said, this teaching is going to be all about the Fifth Commandment, which is...
02:10Oop, I didn't get that title changed.
02:12Anyways, the Fifth Commandment.
02:15Honor your father and your mother.
02:16This is how it is rendered in our preferred translation here at GodHonestTruth from the
02:22Scriptures 2009.
02:23And here is the good old traditional King James rendering.
02:28Honor thy father and thy mother.
02:31The command itself is rather straightforward, but there's a little bit added in there that
02:35really adds some spice to it, I guess you could say.
02:38Makes it even sweeter than normal commands or the rest of the Ten Commandments.
02:44They all carry the same seriousness to them, and they all contain one other thing as well,
02:50which we'll get into here in just a little bit.
02:53But the Fifth Commandment states as such.
02:55From the Scriptures 2009 translation, quote,
02:59Respect your father and your mother so that your days are prolonged upon the soil
03:03which Yahweh your Elohim is giving you.
03:07End quote.
03:08And that is from Exodus chapter 20, verse 12, and also Deuteronomy chapter 5, verse 16.
03:16Now this is rather interesting because here in this whole list of Ten Commandments
03:20were these really major things like having no other gods, only having one god, right?
03:26The First Commandment.
03:27Then you got the Second Commandment, which is no idols.
03:30Don't make any graven images.
03:32Bow down to them.
03:33No statues.
03:33Stuff like that.
03:34Those are pretty serious.
03:35It also, you know, goes on to say, honor the Sabbath, do not murder, do not commit adultery.
03:43Some pretty hefty and serious things.
03:46And then if you're like me and you come from a traditional mainstream like Baptist background,
03:52you have this Fifth Commandment that says, oh, just, you know, respect your honor, honor your father and mother.
03:57Okay, it's not really given the weight and the seriousness that I think it really deserves because it's in here in this major list with all these other weighty things.
04:09And it has just as much weight and we should give it just as much respect as the rest of those.
04:17It's a.
04:18I don't want to say top ten list because, well, it's a ten list, but I wouldn't say top ten.
04:22Let's put it that way.
04:24But here in the Scriptures 2009 translation, it says, respect your father and mother.
04:28But most other translations like the King James, you see here on your screen, says, honor thy father and thy mother.
04:35Now, this word here for honor or respect comes from Strong's H3513.
04:40And that is the Hebrew word kavad.
04:44Kavad.
04:44And it pretty much means what you think it would mean, but it can mean different things in different contexts.
04:52In other contexts, it can mean to be heavy or to make heavy or to weigh down, things like that.
04:59But generally, it means to be honorable, to make honor, to be honored, to honor someone, to glorify someone, et cetera, et cetera.
05:08And this is what it's talking about in the context of the Ten Commandments, to honor or respect your mother and your father.
05:16Here's your Strong's definition for the rest of my fellow nerds out there.
05:21And this pretty much means what we just talked about, to be heavy, burdensome, severe or dull in a negative sense.
05:27But in the sense that we're talking about with the Ten Commandments, it means something like to be numerous, to be rich, to be honorable, respectful.
05:35Brown Driver Briggs, there's the entry for that.
05:40And here's your Jacenius' Hebrew lexicon and your Jastrell's Dictionary of the Targums entry.
05:45And once again, we had to cut these way down.
05:47So if you want the full entry, go to our website at GodHonestTruth.com and click on the post for this particular episode.
05:54And finally, here is your Klein Dictionary entry for kavad.
05:59And this fifth commandment really marks a transition between the various other commandments.
06:07We have the first four commandments.
06:09Those commandments really dealt a lot with Yahweh and how we regard Yahweh, how we treat him, or how we should view him.
06:20Number one, we should only have one God.
06:23No other gods before Yahweh.
06:25Because he's the only God.
06:26He's the only one that's ever existed.
06:28There's no other fake gods like Allah or Zeus or Krishna.
06:33None of those fairy tales.
06:35No, Yahweh is real.
06:36And he's the only quote-unquote God in the way we think of God that has ever existed.
06:41Number two, we should not have any idols or make any graven images or bow down and worship them or serve them or anything like that.
06:51Because the only quote-unquote God, as we understand the term, that we should be worshiping and serving is Yahweh.
07:00Number three, we should not take the name of Yahweh in vain.
07:05Pretty self-explanatory as to how that relates to Yahweh.
07:08And number four is respecting and honoring and celebrating Shabbat.
07:14And we went into that last time about how that commemorates the work of Yahweh and what he did during creation week.
07:23How it's forever.
07:25He even says, this shall continue throughout your generations.
07:28So the first four are dealing with how we interact and regard Yahweh.
07:34But the fifth starts the last six commandments.
07:39And this all deals in how we interact with our fellow humans, with women and men and children, etc., etc., and how they interact with us.
07:50So this is really a transition commandment between the first four that deal with Yahweh and the last six that deal with men.
07:57Like I said, the first four are related to how we regard and treat and go about worshiping Yahweh.
08:06The fifth is that transition point, and it goes towards the human relationships with our neighbors, our spouses, children, parents, as it pertains to this particular commandment tonight.
08:18And like I said, it's a bridge between how we love and interact with Yahweh and how we love and interact with other people.
08:26This is something that was brought up in a similar fashion in the words of Yeshua himself in Matthew 22, verse 37-40.
08:36And Yeshua said to him,
08:38You shall love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being and with all your mind.
08:44This is the first and great commandment.
08:46And the second is like it.
08:48You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
08:51On these two commands hang all the Torah and the prophet.
08:56So here, Yeshua pretty much sums up the Ten Commandments in two different sections.
09:01You shall love Yahweh your Elohim with all your heart and with all your being and with all your mind.
09:06That's the first section, the first four.
09:08Then it goes on and says,
09:10You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
09:11That's the last six.
09:13And that's what we're starting on tonight.
09:15It's those last six that deal with loving your neighbor.
09:20Now, this fifth commandment has long-lasting and far-reaching impact.
09:24That's not just for childhood.
09:28In fact, this particular commandment goes on into our adulthood.
09:32So even when you become an adult, you don't dishonor or disrespect your parents.
09:39You continue to uphold that fifth commandment in honoring and respecting your parents.
09:45And we're even told in Scripture, it alludes to the fact that we should be caring for and taking care of our aging parents.
09:52Support them.
09:53Scripture says that he who cannot provide or does not provide for his own family is worse than an infidel, worse than an unbeliever.
10:03And that extends, of course, our own being our parents.
10:07Because family is something you see throughout Scripture as something that is very, very important.
10:13Disregarding parents in Scripture, and especially in the Torah, is very, very not good.
10:20We look here, this is an example on screen here, from Exodus chapter 21, verse 17.
10:26And he who curses his father or his mother shall certainly be put to death.
10:31And there's other verses like that that we've got in our notes if you want to go check those out on GodHonestTruth.com.
10:37But respecting your parents and bringing honor to them is something that is extremely important to the word of Yahweh.
10:45As parents, we are pretty much always a child's first taste of structure and discipline and love.
10:55And this has far-reaching impacts on into their adult life.
10:58The way a child is treated sets up the stage for the rest of their life a lot of times.
11:04If they're mistreated or not raised correctly, they have mental issues, they have respect issues.
11:10And you see that with adults nowadays, how they were improperly raised, and you can see the way they're living their lives now.
11:18So, take care of your kids.
11:20Teach them respect.
11:21Teach them to honor and respect their parents especially, but elders in general.
11:27I would even go so far as to say.
11:28But teaching children to honor their parents prepares them for later in life to honor and love and respect Yahweh and his word, his commandments.
11:43How many people have you seen that were not raised to respect their parents, and as soon as they went off to especially college,
11:51where they are brainwashed into liberal kind of thinking, now they just totally lose faith.
11:58They go out of the faith.
12:01They become atheists a lot of times, or something even worse.
12:07You can get worse than atheists.
12:08But, yeah.
12:10If a child is taught to honor and respect their parents, this sets them up, gives them a good foundation later on in life for loving and respecting and serving and obeying Yahweh.
12:21And that's one of the biggest things that we can do to honor Yahweh is teaching others and spreading the word to bring more and more worship and service and obedience and glory and honor to Yahweh.
12:34And we can do that through our children.
12:37And to rebel against your parents is often the first step towards rebelling against other authority figures like societal authorities, such as government, such as law enforcement, things like that.
12:53And it also is the first step towards disrespecting and rebelling against Yahweh.
12:58We've already talked about that a little bit previously.
13:02But dishonor in the home often leads to societal collapse.
13:06That's what we mentioned when we first introduced this during tonight's service, is that it's a part of the very foundational basic building block of every society that has ever existed.
13:17You look at any society, at any point in history, at any part of the world, and the basic building block of that society is the family unit.
13:28It's not government.
13:30It's not a military.
13:31It's not a corporation.
13:32It's not a business.
13:34It is the family.
13:35That is the basic building block of any society, and that's the way it's always been.
13:40But when it comes to that basic building block, the family, there has to be order and respect.
13:47And this is a commandment that deals with that very subject, the order and respect, and the basic building block, and then branches out and has effects on the rest of society and the world as a whole.
14:01Think about that.
14:02Way back then, even before Sinai, but let's, you know, just for the sake of argument tonight, start with Sinai.
14:10Even way back then, they understood, and Yahweh gave these instructions and commandments for us to better ourselves, to better our nation, and to better the world through just basic stuff.
14:24All these Ten Commandments, and here tonight we're talking about the Fifth Commandment of respecting and honoring your father and your mother.
14:33You sit down and think about it.
14:34I really think it's amazing, but maybe that's just me.
14:36This commandment also comes with various blessings and curses.
14:41In fact, it's the first commandment in the Ten Commandments that contains a promise.
14:46We're even told that in the book of Ephesians, I think it is.
14:52But anyways, oh yes, there it is.
14:55Ephesians chapter 6, verses 1 through 3.
14:57Children, obey your parents in the Master, for this is right.
15:01Respect your father and mother, which is the first command with promise, in order that it might be well with you, and you might live long on the earth.
15:10So what's the promise that comes along with this?
15:12Length of days.
15:13And we saw that when we read that commandment itself straight from Scripture.
15:18And it shows Yahweh's blessing upon order and obedience.
15:23Because we're told in Scripture and other places, too, that Yahweh is not the author of confusion.
15:29What's the opposite of confusion?
15:32Order.
15:33Opposite of chaos and confusion is order.
15:36So Yahweh is the author of order, and he's given us an orderly way to conduct our lives, to conduct our families, and things like that.
15:45And we are blessed when we obey his order that he has set out.
15:51This promise that we're given, like we alluded to earlier, is long life and well-being in the land that we are being given.
16:00And when it was talking about, back in Leviticus and Exodus and Deuteronomy, that was talking about the promised land.
16:08But pretty much it's anywhere that we go.
16:10Because, like I said, any society, the basic building block on anywhere on earth is going to be the family.
16:17And the thing that really keeps the family together is order and obedience structure.
16:23I could really go down a rabbit-backed trail with that.
16:27But yeah, that is really how the family operates.
16:29If you've ever been in a family, which I'm sure you probably have, you understand that.
16:35Because when things get in disorder, it is, well, it's chaotic.
16:40And Yahweh is not the author of chaos.
16:43But a nation without familial honor, without family honor, will crumble under lawlessness and disrespect.
16:50And we've seen that.
16:51We're seeing that nowadays.
16:53We saw the teardown and the destruction of the family unit.
16:57And I'm speaking for America here.
16:59But now we've got divorce is way too high.
17:04And that's destroying families.
17:06And this destroyed family, there is a tearing of the children and their loyalty and their respect between different parents.
17:15And parents pitting the children against each other.
17:17And there is zero order in that kind of scenario.
17:21There's very little of any respect that comes along with that as well.
17:25We also see that there's not even families that even get started.
17:30These single mothers that go out there and they get pregnant.
17:34And, you know, good on them for not killing it before it's born.
17:36But then they raise or try to raise this child without a father.
17:43And that's the children deserve a father and a mother.
17:45And when a child only has a single mother who's never been married.
17:50I'm not talking about widows.
17:51That's another discussion all together.
17:54But I'm talking about women who have never been married.
17:57And they have these children out of wedlock.
18:00And they try to raise them without a father.
18:02And the children are definitely hindered by being raised that way.
18:10Children deserve and need a father and a mother.
18:15I'm not going to say that, you know, a guy can go out there and raise children and be just fine without benefit of the children having a mother.
18:22No.
18:23Children need a father and a mother.
18:25So this whole single mother thing, that is certainly not ideal.
18:29And it's definitely not as good as having a home with a father and a mother.
18:35I'll refer back to our polygyny series as a one way of helping to remedy that particular crisis epidemic that is happening, especially within America and probably other places around the world as well.
18:52This fifth commandment, when kept, brings restoration to homes.
18:57And like I said, since the family is the basic building block of a society, once the restoration comes to the homes, then restoration comes to the nations as well.
19:08So just keep that in mind.
19:11There is a lot of times when thinking about this respecting or honoring your father and your mother, the people who like to throw monkey wrenches and things, they come up with these things.
19:22Well, what if the parents are evil and they tell them to do bad things?
19:26And of course, you can fill in the blank that, you know, parent does blank, you know, but there's a difference between.
19:37Well, there's obedience and there's honor.
19:39There is limits to obedience and what we should be doing, but there is no limit to honor and how we can honor someone.
19:48Even if our parents are doing incorrect things, we can still honor them, even if we sometimes don't obey.
19:57Does that make sense?
19:57Kind of anxious about how examples should be given.
20:05Anyways, when we obey our parents, we are obeying the command of Yahweh, especially when our parents are telling us to do something that is righteous and in line or even in, you know, the gray area that's not prohibited by scripture.
20:22But if it's something that is evil and wrong and we're commanded to do that, then we should be obeying Yahweh.
20:30If a parent commands sin, Yahweh and his commandments, what he tells us, should come first.
20:37We look at Acts chapter 5, verse 29.
20:40And Kepha and the other emissaries answering said, we have to obey Elohim rather than men.
20:46And likewise, in Acts chapter 4, verse 19, but Kepha and Yohanan answering them said, whether it is right in the sight of Elohim to listen to you more than to Elohim, you judge.
20:59So this is not scriptural examples of people disobeying a bad command from their parents, but it is very similar.
21:10Here, Kepha and Peter and Yohanan or John, they're talking about obeying God rather than the authorities who are over them, the Sanhedrin, the Roman government, things like that.
21:24And here in these two examples, they're saying, well, we have to obey God.
21:28We have to obey Yahweh rather than you.
21:31Now, as we look through scripture, we went over this before in previous episodes, but we look through scripture, there is a call to submit to government.
21:43And this is very similar, goes along the same lines as obeying and honoring your parents.
21:49But in scripture, it tells you to submit to government, those who are over you.
21:53But here, you see these examples, there are times when you should disobey and not follow the commands of government.
22:04Likewise, there are times, well, I won't say there will be times, but there can be times when a parent is not doing the right thing.
22:12They're doing something unrighteous.
22:14They're doing something sinful and they might even command it and tell their children to do it.
22:18And the child, hopefully they've gotten some good direction in their life, but hopefully they will know the right thing to do, even though it contradicts what their parents told them to do.
22:32And they would obey Yahweh and his commands rather than obeying their parents.
22:38But those situations are very few and far between.
22:41And let's go back to the general rule of thumb.
22:45Honor and respect your father and your mother.
22:48And we can still show honor, even though if it's a command that should not be given by a parent, we can still show honor to the unbelieving parent, to the abusive parent, or to a wayward parent without condoning or even participating in sin.
23:06There is nuance and difference between obedience and honor.
23:13We should always obey Yahweh.
23:16We should always honor Yahweh.
23:19He's our heavenly father and he's not going to tell us to do anything wrong.
23:23But our earthly parents, we may not always be able to obey them, given what commands or what they tell us to do.
23:32But we can always honor and respect them, regardless of what they do, even if it's a horrible situation where they're abusive or whether they're an unbeliever or if they're wayward, things like that.
23:49But we can still honor them, even though we might not should obey them.
23:56Now, hopefully that's clear.
23:59It comes across as straightforward in my mind.
24:01But if it doesn't, then let us know down in the comments or write to us through our email at team at GodHonestTruth.com.
24:10So, in summary, the Fifth Commandment is the first of the Ten Commandments that comes with a promise.
24:19You can find that in Ephesians 6, verses 1-3 for that promise, or at least expounding on that promise a little bit.
24:27It marks a transition between the first four commandments, which concern Yahweh and how we should regard Yahweh, and the last six, which regard our interactions with our fellow humans.
24:42This commandment extends even into adulthood.
24:45Just like the rest of the commandments that are extremely serious, this Fifth Commandment is extremely serious.
24:51Just like the rest of the commandments that apply to us throughout our entire lives, this, likewise, goes along with the other commandments, and this commandment applies all throughout our lives.
25:03There are limits, as we discussed just then.
25:07There are limits to obedience and what should be obeyed, but there is no limit to honor.
25:13Even though we may not be obeying for whatever particular reason, we can still honor our mother and our father.
25:22And the Fifth Commandment is a commandment that shows Yahweh's blessing upon order and obedience, because we should be having order and obedience to Yahweh in our lives.
25:34Because, like we said earlier, Yahweh is not the author of confusion.
25:38Yahweh is not the author of chaos, but Yahweh is the author of order and obedience, as we see through His Word.
25:47And that's just the God honest truth.
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