■ Obey your parents – “in the Lord.”
■ Bring children up in the training – “of the Lord.”
Obedience in the Lord is more than mere obedience. Training “of the Lord” is more than mere religious instruction. We honor God with a commitment to lean on, to live by, the words that he gives. This commitment flows from our deep reverence for a God who is high and lifted up. When we consult a different playbook for life, we step away from reverence. When we believe that we have a handle on things without truly consulting God, then we exalt our wisdom and our way above his. We don’t call it that. We may neither admit it nor identify it as such, but this is exactly the dynamic that occurs.
Here are the handouts for October 27, 2013:
