Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 ESV Experience Matters by Michael Moen My son, Michael, wrote this on his birthday nine years ago. I think it’s time to read it again. Honor – The word kābēd…
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil.” Jeremiah 13:23 NASB Accustomed– How difficult it is to change how we think about life! We can be presented with all kinds of compelling “evidence,” yet our real operating procedures remain fixed by past experience. …
for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.” 1 Kings 2:9b NASB You will know what you ought to do – yada’ata et asher ta’ase-lo reads the text. You will recognize the verbs yada…
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 2 Timothy 3:2 NASB Disobedient to parents – “Honor your father and mother” says the Law. But sometimes we need a word like goneusin to remind us why respect and deference are required. Goneusin is the Greek…
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the lord your God is giving you. Exodus 20:12 ESV by Michael Moen Honor – The word kabbed is found 376 times in the Hebrew Bible. It is used over half the time as a reference to a “weighty”…
