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In a 53 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: couple of years ago, Eustonians had a terrible time evacuating 54 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:26,160 Speaker 5: for Hurricane Katrina, so somebody sent me a new and 55 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,160 Speaker 5: improved Houston area evacuation plan in case of a hurricane. 56 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,640 Speaker 5: Hispanics are to take it ten west to San Antonio, 57 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 5: Cajuns are to take it ten east to Louisiana, Yankees 58 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 5: are to take I forty five north to Oklahoma, and 59 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 5: Aggie's are to. 60 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 4: Take the six' ten. 61 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,120 Speaker 5: Loop hold up Your, bible say it like you mean. 62 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 4: It this is My. 63 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,240 Speaker 5: BIBLE i am what it SAYS i. AM i have 64 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 5: what it SAYS i. HAVE i can do what it 65 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 5: SAYS i can. Do TODAY i will be taught the 66 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 5: word Of. GOD i boldly. Confess my mind is, alert 67 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,400 Speaker 5: my heart is. RECEPTIVE i will never be the. Same 68 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 5: In jesus', Name god bless. YOU i want to talk 69 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,560 Speaker 5: to you today about showing honor everywhere we. 70 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 4: Go we should look. 71 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 5: For opportunities to bring honor in our, conversations in the 72 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 5: way we treat people at, home at, work at the grocery. 73 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,480 Speaker 5: Store as, believers we are carriers of. 74 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 4: Honor we have something to. Give if you see someone. 75 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 5: Doing a good, job honor them by telling them what 76 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 5: a great job they're. Doing recognize their, accomplishments give them 77 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 5: credit in front of their. 78 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: Colleagues that's bringing. 79 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:45,320 Speaker 5: Honor you're not just doing them a, Favor you're doing 80 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 5: yourself a. Favor when you show, honor there is a 81 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 5: commanded blessing that is released back into your own. Life 82 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 5: someone comes to the grocery line at the same time as, 83 00:03:57,280 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 5: you honor them by letting them go first, first prefer one. 84 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 5: Another a simple way to show. Honor honor those in 85 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,560 Speaker 5: authority by doing what they. Ask honor the police officer 86 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 5: by taking the detour and not. Complaining honor the usher 87 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 5: by sitting where he asks and not, arguing. 88 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:20,800 Speaker 4: WELL i shouldn't have to sit in this. Section i'm 89 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 4: going to give him a piece of my. 90 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 5: Mind now that's the reason you don't have many pieces. 91 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,359 Speaker 5: Left show honor by respecting his. Position you may not 92 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 5: agree with the, policy but because you're a person of, 93 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 5: honor you respect the authority and do it. ANYWAY i 94 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 5: found the amount of honor that you show will be 95 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 5: directly related to the amount Of god's. 96 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 4: Favor that you. 97 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 5: See if you are stingy with your honor and you 98 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 5: THINK i can't give them credit they'll look better than, 99 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 5: me then you won't See god's favor like you. 100 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 4: Should but when you're. 101 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 5: Generous with your, honor you're always giving people, credit treating 102 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 5: them with, respect Then god will be generous with his 103 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 5: favor back to. 104 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:08,720 Speaker 4: You if you want to see. 105 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,679 Speaker 5: More Of god's goodness than show honor in a greater. 106 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:15,920 Speaker 5: Way one Time jesus was at a house about to have. 107 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 5: Dinner this woman came in that was a notorious sinner 108 00:05:20,279 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 5: and knelt, down and she poured this expensive bottle of 109 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 5: oil on his feet and began to wash. Them oil 110 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 5: in the scripture represents. Honor you could say she poured 111 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 5: her honor on. Him the religious leaders got. Upset they, 112 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 5: said why did she waste the? Oil we could have 113 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 5: sold it and given the money to the. Poor jesus, 114 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 5: said don't bother the. 115 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 4: Woman she has. Done the best. 116 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 5: Thing anytime you show Honor god is saying you are 117 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:55,279 Speaker 5: doing the best. Thing jesus looked at her and, said, 118 00:05:55,320 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 5: woman your sins are. Forgiven notice she gave honor and 119 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 5: she received. Favor when you pour out that oil of, 120 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 5: honor it becomes the blessing that is returned back to. 121 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 5: You but with no, oil with no, honor no, blessing 122 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 5: you will never receive what you're not willing to. Give 123 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 5: if you don't give, honor you won't have. Honor and 124 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 5: some of you could go to a new. Level you 125 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:26,480 Speaker 5: could see a breakthrough in what you've been praying about 126 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,719 Speaker 5: if you would just start honoring the People god put 127 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 5: in your life in a greater. Way in the, scripture 128 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 5: it talks about How jesus couldn't do any miracles in 129 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 5: his hometown because of their. Unbelief they thought there's nothing 130 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 5: special About. Jesus we grew up with. HIM i taught 131 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 5: him third. Grade he's just like my other. STUDENTS i 132 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:51,720 Speaker 5: played little league with. Him he wasn't any different than 133 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 5: the rest of. Us it was a lack of honor 134 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 5: that kept him from doing any. Miracles in, Fact jesus 135 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 5: went on to, say a prophet has no honor in 136 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 5: his own. 137 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: Home the same principle is true. 138 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 5: Today where there's no, honor there will be no, miracles no, 139 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 5: honor no, healing no, honor no. Promotion god's power is 140 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:19,679 Speaker 5: directly linked to showing. Honor paul said In ephesian, six 141 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:24,600 Speaker 5: honor your father and mother so that all will be 142 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 5: well with. 143 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 4: You that's the commanded. 144 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 5: Blessing if you show, honor all will be well with. 145 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 5: You you may go through some difficult, seasons people may do you, 146 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 5: wrong but because you're a person of, honor you can 147 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,680 Speaker 5: stay in that place of peace knowing that all will 148 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 5: be well with. 149 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 4: You that's What god's. 150 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 5: Promised this says honor should start in our. Homes it 151 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 5: should start in our own, families with those closest to. 152 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 4: US i know people that. 153 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 5: Treat complete strangers better than they treat their own. Space 154 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 5: it should be just the. Opposite we should treat our 155 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 5: own family with more. 156 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 4: Honor than anyone. 157 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 5: Else every several months we meet with pastors here as 158 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 5: a part of Our Champion's pastor's. Network many times the 159 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 5: pastors will come in and see the beautiful facility And 160 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 5: god's blessings and, favor and they'll look at me, Like, 161 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:26,840 Speaker 5: wow look what all you've. Accomplished BUT i always start 162 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 5: those meetings off by honoring by. PARENTS i REALIZE i 163 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,240 Speaker 5: would not be standing here today if my parents had 164 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:39,120 Speaker 5: not gone before me and for forty, years given and. 165 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 4: Served and made. 166 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 5: Sacrifices the scripture, says give honor to whom honor is. 167 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,080 Speaker 5: Due when you're, honorable you don't suck up all the 168 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:54,040 Speaker 5: attention in the room and, say look how GREAT i, 169 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 5: Am look What i've. 170 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 4: Accomplished, no you'll quick to give other people. 171 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 5: Credit you realize no person gets to where they are 172 00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 5: on their. Own you honor those that have gone before, 173 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,240 Speaker 5: you and those that are praying for you and believing 174 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 5: in you and encouraging you all along the. 175 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 4: Way and in those, MEETINGS i always Honor. 176 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 5: VICTORIA i honor my, brother my, sisters my in, laws 177 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,319 Speaker 5: and invariably they'll turn around and honor. Me one pastor, 178 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 5: SAID i have never seen such a culture of. Honor 179 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 5: that's one of the greatest compliments we could ever. Have 180 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 5: let's develop a culture of. 181 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 4: Honor in our. 182 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 5: Families we got enough people trying to pull us, down 183 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 5: enough critics and. Naysayers our families should be a place 184 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 5: of respect and admiration where we don't focus on all 185 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:49,120 Speaker 5: the petty. Differences we don't let pride cause us to 186 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 5: compete and. Compare try to figure out who's the most. 187 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 5: Important AND i can't compliment, them OR i may look. Weak, 188 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 5: no showing honor is not a sign of. Weakness it's 189 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 5: a sign of. Strength celebrating others will not decrease, You 190 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 5: it will increase. You giving an employee credit that works 191 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 5: under you is not going to make you look less 192 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 5: than in other people's. 193 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 4: Eyes it's going to give you more. 194 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,240 Speaker 5: Credibility the more respect you, show the more respect you're 195 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 5: going to. HAVE i found where there's, honor there's. Unity 196 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 5: where there's, honor people get. 197 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 4: Along where there's. 198 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 5: Respect and, admiration there's a, team there's, enthusiasm there's. Motivation 199 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 5: why is that when you pour out the oil of, 200 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 5: honor it will come back to you As god's blessings and. 201 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 5: Favor you may be around people that are, dishonorable people 202 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:50,520 Speaker 5: that are hard to, love hard to. Respect sometimes you 203 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 5: have to honor people by. Faith you have to treat 204 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 5: people not the way they, are but the way you 205 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 5: want them to. Become when you honor some that's, dishonorable 206 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 5: you give someone respect that doesn't really deserve. 207 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 4: Respect when you're. 208 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 5: Kind even though they're not, kind you are sowing a 209 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 5: seed for them to become the way you're treating. 210 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 4: Them but our mind will. 211 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 5: Always tell us be disrespectful back to. Them they didn't 212 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 5: give you the time of. Day just blow them. Off 213 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,559 Speaker 5: they talk bad about, you talk bad about. Them, no 214 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 5: you never change a dishonorable situation by piling on more. 215 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 5: Dishonor that's only going to make matters. Worse you have 216 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 5: to do just the opposite and bring honor to that. 217 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:39,080 Speaker 5: Situation treat the person the way you want them to. 218 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 5: Become it's like a cork at the bottom of a 219 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 5: bucket with no water in. 220 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 4: It the honor is the. 221 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:53,120 Speaker 5: Water as long as there's, disrespect, sarcasm, jealousy, pride the 222 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,520 Speaker 5: bucket is empty and the cork will say at the. 223 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 5: Bottom but when you start to honor that person and 224 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 5: treat them the way you want them to, become and 225 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 5: you're kind even though they're not, kind little by, little 226 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,560 Speaker 5: as you're pouring the honor in the cork will start 227 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 5: to come off the. Bottom in other, words that person 228 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,760 Speaker 5: will start to come up higher and. Higher and if 229 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 5: you'll just keep pouring the honor. In before, long they 230 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 5: will be living at the Level god created them to live. 231 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 4: At not because you fought with, them not because you 232 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 4: treated them the way they. 233 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 5: Treated, you but because you were a person of honor 234 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 5: and you just kept pouring the honor. In that's what 235 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 5: causes people to rise to new. 236 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 4: Levels. NOW i know some of. 237 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 5: You you have family members that don't deserve. Honor a 238 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 5: parent that did you, wrong a relative that cheated, you 239 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 5: a brother in law that's always talking bad about. You 240 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 5: the way to win is not through. Dishonor stay on 241 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 5: the high, road don't sink down to that. Level just 242 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 5: keep showing more and more. HONOR i know this. Lady 243 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 5: she was mistreated by her father for many. Years she 244 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 5: went through. Abuse she, Said, joel how AM i supposed 245 00:13:04,840 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 5: to honor my? FATHER i hate the? Man AND i 246 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 5: realize you may not be at a point where you 247 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 5: can interact with that person just, yet but it's an 248 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:17,079 Speaker 5: act of honor just to pray for them to. Change 249 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 5: you can honor them by not getting angry and bitter 250 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 5: in living life hating. 251 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 4: Them but you. 252 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 5: Never make a dishonorable situation better by adding more. Dishonor 253 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 5: the way to change it is by adding honor to the. 254 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,040 Speaker 5: SITUATION i have a good friend that when he was 255 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 5: in his early, twenties he had a big disagreement with his, 256 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:39,360 Speaker 5: father big. 257 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 4: Argument he left. 258 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,800 Speaker 5: The house very, angry and for nearly thirty years he 259 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 5: had never spoken to his, father wouldn't have anything to 260 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 5: do with. Him his whole life was a, struggle couldn't 261 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 5: seem to get, ahead never got any good. 262 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 4: Breaks year after, year he was living in a small 263 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 4: apartment with his. 264 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:02,319 Speaker 5: Family one day he heard through his sister that his 265 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 5: father was very ill in a, hospital and something told 266 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 5: him he needed to make things. Right he got in 267 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 5: the car and drove four hours to the, hospital and 268 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 5: when he went in and saw his, dad they both 269 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:18,320 Speaker 5: wept and. Wept he, Said, dad it was my. Fault i'm. 270 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 5: Sorry i'm going to make it up to. You he 271 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 5: started honoring his. Father he would take his children up 272 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 5: there to see his dad on a regular. Basis this 273 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 5: father would come spend the week ends at his house 274 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 5: with his. Family he changed from a culture of dishonor 275 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 5: to a culture of. Honor it wasn't long after that 276 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 5: that he got a promotion that he'd been trying to 277 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 5: Get for over ten, years he didn't know how he 278 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 5: was going to send his oldest daughter to. College but 279 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 5: out of the, blue she got a scholarship. 280 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 4: To the university she was hoping to get. 281 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 5: In after all those years of living in a small, 282 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,960 Speaker 5: apartment they were finally able to purchase their first. Time 283 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 5: one thing after another begin to fall into. Place why 284 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 5: was that when there's a culture of, Dishonor god's blessing 285 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:13,040 Speaker 5: is pulled back from your, life you will not walk 286 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 5: in the fullness of What god has in. Store but 287 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,600 Speaker 5: if you will do like this, son and find any 288 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 5: area of dishonor and start bringing, honor bring in, respect 289 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 5: then you can break the curse that comes from, dishonor 290 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 5: and you will See god's favor in a greater. Way 291 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 5: the scripture, says show honor and all will. 292 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 4: Be well with. You we can take just the. 293 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,320 Speaker 5: Opposite if we don't show, honor all will not be. 294 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 5: Well if we allow, disrespect, jealousy, sarcasm pride to keep 295 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,080 Speaker 5: us from showing. Honor it's not going to hurt the other. 296 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 5: Person the lack of honor will hold us. Back, NOW 297 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 5: i believe one reason That i've Seen god's favor in 298 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 5: my own life is Because i've done my best to 299 00:16:01,280 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 5: honor my. Parents there is a special, reward a special 300 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 5: blessing that comes from honoring your. Parents you may not 301 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 5: agree with, them but it doesn't say if you agree honor. 302 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 5: Them it simply, says honor your. Parents young, people listen 303 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 5: to your parents'. Advice they've been around longer than you. 304 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 5: Have they're trying to keep you from making the same 305 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,440 Speaker 5: mistakes that they. Made Mark twain, said WHEN i was, 306 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 5: fourteen my father was so DUMB i could hardly stand 307 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 5: to be around. Him but WHEN i got to be twenty, 308 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 5: ONE i was amazed at how much the man had. 309 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 5: Learned if you want all to be well with. 310 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 4: You you need. 311 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 5: To show honor and respect to your, parents not just 312 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 5: with your, words but with your. Actions the other, day 313 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 5: my mother asked me to not say something during one 314 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 5: of my. 315 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,000 Speaker 4: Messages she heard. 316 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 5: Me saturday, night she texts me and, Said, JOEL i 317 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 5: wish you wouldn't use this phrase tomorrow when you. Speak 318 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 5: it wasn't anything. Bad it was a medical, term just 319 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 5: something kind of. Funny to my, generation it's no big, 320 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,040 Speaker 5: Deal but when you're one hundred and six years, old 321 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 5: you see things. DIFFERENTLY i just dishonored talking about. 322 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 4: Honor but. 323 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 5: She texts me and asked me not to use that. 324 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:26,240 Speaker 5: Phrase NOW i understand there is a special blessing that 325 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,080 Speaker 5: comes from honoring your. Parents SO i chose not to say. 326 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 5: It not BECAUSE i had, to not because she pressured. 327 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,320 Speaker 5: ME i did it because she's my, mother AND i 328 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 5: know all will be well with you when you honor your. 329 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,760 Speaker 5: PARENTS i can say today all is well with. Me i'm, 330 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 5: Happy i'm Blessed god a great. FAMILY i believe one 331 00:17:49,119 --> 00:17:53,520 Speaker 5: reason is Because i've chosen to show. HONOR i used 332 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,520 Speaker 5: to go over to my parents' house Every saturday night 333 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 5: and pick out a suit and tie for my father 334 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 5: to wear the next day on television at, CHURCH i 335 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 5: produced the. Program in those. Days it was just a 336 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,920 Speaker 5: simple way THAT i could honor my. FATHER i never 337 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 5: dreamed one DAY i would be picking out a suit 338 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 5: and tie for me to wear up. Here but when 339 00:18:15,119 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 5: you show, honor that's the Seed god will use to 340 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 5: bring honor back to. 341 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 4: YOU i have a friend. 342 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:26,080 Speaker 5: He grew up in a very strict environment overseas in another. 343 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 5: Country his father as, well was a. Minister but his 344 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 5: dad didn't think it was right to wear short. Pants 345 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 5: he didn't think you should show your. Legs they lived 346 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,880 Speaker 5: in a climate that was extremely. Hot this son did 347 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 5: not agree with his. Father all of his friends wore, 348 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 5: shorts all of his cousins and his other, relatives they wore. 349 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,439 Speaker 5: Shorts everybody did in that. Area but he, Said, joel 350 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 5: out of respect to my. Father growing, UP i never 351 00:18:54,040 --> 00:18:57,960 Speaker 5: once wore. Shorts, today that young man is blessed with 352 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 5: a happy, family he's got a great, job he's Got god's. 353 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 5: Favor plus he wears shorts everywhere he. Goes but a 354 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,159 Speaker 5: lot of times we THINK i don't have to do. 355 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 4: That that's not. Right my mother can't tell me what 356 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 4: to say or not to. Say my name's on the 357 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:14,600 Speaker 4: sign out. 358 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,760 Speaker 5: Front, no there are a lot of things that we 359 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 5: may not think we need to. Do but in order 360 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,919 Speaker 5: to show, honor we need to swallow our pride and 361 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 5: do it. Anyway where there is, honor there is. Promotion 362 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,480 Speaker 5: it's not enough to just honor with our. Words let's 363 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 5: honor people with our. Actions i'm convinced if we would 364 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 5: show more, honor we not only have better, relationships but 365 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 5: we'd enjoy our life a whole lot. More wives is 366 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:49,120 Speaker 5: especially important that you honor your husband's honor is one 367 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,720 Speaker 5: of your husband's greatest. Needs you can say the right, 368 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:56,119 Speaker 5: thing but if you say it in a dishonorable, way 369 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 5: he's not going to hear anything you're, saying because if 370 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 5: there's the the smallest hint of, disrespect dishonor, sarcasm his 371 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 5: defenses will come up and nothing that's said will be 372 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 5: taken the right. Way and in our, relationships we're not 373 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 5: always going to. Agree so often if that other person 374 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,120 Speaker 5: doesn't see it our, way we get. Upset we let 375 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:20,440 Speaker 5: the voice tones go up and maybe a little bit, 376 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 5: sarcastic and before. 377 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 4: Long we're at odds with each. 378 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,119 Speaker 5: Other if you can just learn to keep the, honor 379 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 5: keep the respect even when you don't, agree then it 380 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 5: won't damage the. Relationship victoria AND i have been married 381 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 5: now going on twenty five. Years people ask us what 382 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 5: the secret. Is we always tell them the same two. 383 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,760 Speaker 5: Things number, one we laugh a, lot we keep humor 384 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 5: in our. Home and number, two we always treat each 385 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,639 Speaker 5: other with respect even when we. Disagree we do our 386 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,960 Speaker 5: best not to lose respect for each. 387 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 4: Other when we. 388 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,560 Speaker 5: First got, married Something victoria didn't like was for me 389 00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 5: to come in the kitchen AFTER i had worked out 390 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,800 Speaker 5: and walk my hands in the kitchen. Sink she didn't 391 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:05,120 Speaker 5: want my sweat to be around the food or where 392 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 5: they would be preparing. Dinner she doesn't realize my sweat is. 393 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 5: Holy but the problem was WHEN i came in from the, 394 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 5: outside the most convenient sink was in the. 395 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 4: KITCHEN i didn't wash my hands. There i'd have to 396 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 4: go all the way to. 397 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 5: The, Back and for a long, TIME i just went in, 398 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 5: there washed my hands real quickly and hoped that she 399 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 5: didn't see. Me and she never harped on me about, 400 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:31,240 Speaker 5: it BUT i knew it bothered. Her she had asked 401 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,359 Speaker 5: me not to do. It one, DAY i was in 402 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:36,200 Speaker 5: there about to wash my, hands hoping that she wouldn't see, 403 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 5: me AND i Heard god say something to. Me i'm 404 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:41,879 Speaker 5: not talking about out, loud just an impression down in. 405 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 5: Here he, Said, joel when are you going to start 406 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:48,159 Speaker 5: honoring your wife by doing what. 407 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,800 Speaker 4: She's asking you to? DO i thought that couldn't Be. 408 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 4: God the scripture, says it's the little foxes that spoil the. 409 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:02,439 Speaker 5: Vines it's the little acts of this honor disrespect that 410 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:06,920 Speaker 5: brings strife division. DISCORD i made a decision that day 411 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,240 Speaker 5: THAT i was going to Honor god by honoring my. 412 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 5: WIFE a lot of times we, think, WELL i shouldn't 413 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,119 Speaker 5: have to do, that shouldn't have to walk all the 414 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 5: way to the, back shouldn't have to sit in that, 415 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 5: SECTION i shouldn't have to clean up after that. Mess 416 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 5: But god is, saying will you do it for? Me 417 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,800 Speaker 5: will you walk to the back for? Me will you 418 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 5: clean up the mess for? Me will you not use 419 00:22:28,359 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 5: that phrase in your sermon for? Me do it Under? 420 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,560 Speaker 4: God if you will Honor, God god will always honor. 421 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 5: You Verse peter three seven, says, husbands honor your wives 422 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 5: so that nothing will hinder your. Prayers this is, saying 423 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 5: if we don't show, honor our prayers may not be. 424 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 5: Answered if we don't show, honor the dream may not 425 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 5: come to. 426 00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:54,960 Speaker 4: PASS i know a minister. Friend when he was a young, 427 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 4: man he and. 428 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 5: His wife were trying to have a, baby, praying, believing 429 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 5: taking fertility, treatments doing everything they, could but year after 430 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,800 Speaker 5: year went by with no. Success they were so, disappointed so. 431 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,959 Speaker 5: Frustrated one day he was on an airplane returning from 432 00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,400 Speaker 5: a missionary trip. Overseas he began to talk To god 433 00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:17,840 Speaker 5: under his. Breath he, Said, god it's not. Fair i'm 434 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 5: doing what you want me to. Do why can't we 435 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 5: have a? Baby god spoke something to his. Heart he, said, 436 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 5: son you're not going to have a baby until you 437 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,960 Speaker 5: start treating your wife. Better now, understand he wasn't doing 438 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 5: anything major. Wrong he just wasn't treating her the way 439 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 5: he knew he. Should he was big enough when he 440 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,919 Speaker 5: heard this to make. Changes he started honoring his, wife 441 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 5: started being more, loving more. Respectful he would go out 442 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 5: of his way to make her feel. Special it was 443 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 5: within that next year that his wife conceived the day 444 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 5: they have a beautiful. Child could it be that if 445 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 5: we would start showing more, honor a dream would come to, 446 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 5: pass a prayer would be, answered. 447 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 4: We would see the breakthrough that we're hoping. 448 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:08,160 Speaker 5: For let's step up our honor, level not just in our. 449 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,719 Speaker 5: Homes certainly we should start, there but make sure that 450 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:15,680 Speaker 5: you're showing honor at, work honor to the person at 451 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 5: the grocery, store honor to the coach at little, league 452 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 5: and honor to those that are in. Authority years, AGO 453 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,919 Speaker 5: i went to a ballgame at a big. STADIUM i 454 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 5: always park in the same place and go in the same. 455 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 5: INTERESTS i knew right where my seats were a couple 456 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,200 Speaker 5: of sections to the, Left but this particular day there 457 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 5: was an usher at the entrance forcing everybody to go. 458 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 5: Right in, fact they had put up these little ropes 459 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,639 Speaker 5: making everyone go that. Way, well my seats were to the. 460 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,959 Speaker 5: Left IF i went to the, RIGHT i was going 461 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 5: to have to walk around the whole. Stadium there were 462 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 5: hundreds of people going. In of, course everyone was going 463 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 5: to the, right but many of those, people once they 464 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,560 Speaker 5: got about twenty feet away from the, usher they were 465 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:00,400 Speaker 5: holding up the, ropes going under and then back left 466 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,400 Speaker 5: toward my, Section AND i knew the usher could still see. 467 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,240 Speaker 4: Us SO i, Thought i'm not going to do it, 468 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,399 Speaker 4: here but WHEN i get around the, Corner i'm going 469 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,960 Speaker 4: to go under that rope and go back to my. 470 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 5: Section just WHEN i started to go under that, ROPE 471 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 5: i heard that still small voice, Say, joel don't do. 472 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 5: It you're a person of. Honor he's an. Authority respect his. 473 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 5: POSITION i just kept walking all the way around the. 474 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,000 Speaker 5: STADIUM i did the right, thing not BECAUSE i felt like, 475 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 5: it not BECAUSE i. 476 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 4: Thought it was, fair BUT i did it to honor that. 477 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 5: USHER i know when you honor, people you are ultimately Honoring. 478 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 5: God you are so inceeges for, promotions AND i wonder 479 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,439 Speaker 5: how many opportunities we miss out on to come up, 480 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,080 Speaker 5: higher to see more Of god's favor because we are 481 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 5: not showing honor to those that are in. Authority you, 482 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 5: Say joe us not hurting. Anything maybe, not but it's 483 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 5: a test of your. Character god is watching to. See 484 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,680 Speaker 5: are you going to pay as the test and show 485 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 5: honor and respect that position of authority so. 486 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 4: You can come up? 487 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,360 Speaker 5: Higher or are you going to take the easy way 488 00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 5: out and just do what you feel and get stuck 489 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:11,359 Speaker 5: where you. 490 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,120 Speaker 4: Are, now let's pass the, Test let's stay on the high. 491 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 4: Road let's be. 492 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 5: Honorable the more honor you, show the More god will honor. 493 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 5: YOU i think About David. King saul dishonored him again and. 494 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 5: Again david did. 495 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 4: Nothing but good For. Saul But saul was jealous and 496 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 4: tried to Kill. 497 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,800 Speaker 5: David he threw spears at him and chased him through the. 498 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 5: Wilderness But david was so filled with, honor he so 499 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 5: respected that position of authority that several times he had 500 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 5: the opportunity to Kill, saul but he would not do. 501 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 5: It he kept passing the, test showing more, honor And 502 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 5: god kept Showing david more. Favor When david finally did 503 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 5: take the throne several years, later first thing he did 504 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,080 Speaker 5: was not have a big, parade not say look how 505 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:01,560 Speaker 5: GREAT i. 506 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:04,360 Speaker 4: Am, no he said to his, staff. 507 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:07,880 Speaker 5: Is there anyone from the house Of jonathan still? Alive 508 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,360 Speaker 5: SO i can show honor to? Them honor was always 509 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,880 Speaker 5: On david's. Mind no Wonder god blessed him in such 510 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 5: a great. Way jonathan was his best friend that had 511 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,919 Speaker 5: been killed much earlier in a. Battle the men said To, david, 512 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 5: yes one Of jonathan's. 513 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 4: Youngest sons is still. 514 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:32,959 Speaker 5: Alive the scripture, Says david set out to honor. Him 515 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,199 Speaker 5: that's my challenge. Today set out to honor someone this. 516 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 5: Week set out to honor your spouse in a greater. 517 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,639 Speaker 5: Way set out to show more respect to that. Coworker 518 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 5: set out to make that friend feel more. 519 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,160 Speaker 4: Special the staff brought the son. In he had been 520 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 4: living in the poorest. City he was. 521 00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 5: Crippled david looked at him and, said young, MAN i 522 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,960 Speaker 5: loved your, father and because because of our, friendship you're 523 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,360 Speaker 5: not going to live in the slums. Anymore you're going 524 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 5: to live in the palace with. Me you're going to 525 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 5: eat at my dinner table each. Night Plus i'm going 526 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 5: to make sure you get all the land that belonged 527 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 5: to your. 528 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,800 Speaker 4: Father that's. 529 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:19,239 Speaker 5: Honor let's be Like david and develop this culture of, 530 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,880 Speaker 5: honor where honor is always on our, minds in our, 531 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 5: conversations in the way we treat people every opportunity we can, 532 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 5: find let's show. Honor, remember the amount of honor that 533 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 5: you show will be directly related to the amount Of 534 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 5: god's favor that you can. See i'm asking us to 535 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,720 Speaker 5: step it up a, notch be, kinder be more, respectful. 536 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 4: Go out of your way to show. 537 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,440 Speaker 5: Honor if you will make it a priority to show 538 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 5: honor everywhere you, Go god promises all will be well 539 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 5: with you because you are. Honorable you will not only 540 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 5: always have, honor but you will live a, long, blessed, 541 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 5: satisfied express victorious. LIFE i believe, it AND i declare 542 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 5: it over each one of you In jesus'. 543 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:07,320 Speaker 4: Name if you receive, it can you say? 544 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:12,760 Speaker 6: Amen thank you for listening to The Joelus deine. 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