STRM Newsletter 7 February – The Fifth Commandment

by | Feb 8, 2015 | Blog

Are you honoring your side of the bargain to receive long life and abundance from YHWH? Or are you manifesting curses on yourself and your family through disobedience to the Fifth Commandment? YHWH commands us, “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which YHWH thy Mighty One giveth thee”.  (Exodus 2:12 KJV) Paul tells us in the letter to the Ephesians that this is the “first Commandment with promise”. If we obey the Commandment we will be blessed with long days on the land. The land YHWH gives us is flowing with milk and honey and He protects us from our enemies. So we can understand this blessing to be peace and abundance for ourselves and our family. The corollary to this is that, if we disobey the Commandment, we will receive curses on ourselves and our children. These curses are a natural progression from the failure of the nucleic family unit. If there is no respect for the parents the children will not grow in a disciplined, nurturing environment and will turn elsewhere for role models. Likewise, parents will feel less responsibility for the upbringing of their children and the family unit collapses. We are now experiencing the terrible consequences of our societal failure to obey this Commandment. 45-50% of couples married in the 70’s and 80’s ended up in divorce. This rate has fallen slightly for those married in the 90’s and 2000’s. But the other side of the story is that people are marrying later in life and more couples cohabit rather than marry. 47% of all young...