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Be a person who honors your parents

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"Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your
God is giving you

(Exodus 20:12)

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Every year, the second Sunday in May is observed as Parents' Sunday.
It is now observed as Parents' Day, but in the beginning it was observed as Mother's Day.

How did the second Sunday in May come to be designated as Parents' Day?

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In the small town of Webster, West Virginia, USA, there was a man named Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis(1832-1905).

This woman has served as a Bible teacher for her children for over 25 years.

Many children there were influenced by her teachings.

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After Mrs. Jarvis passed away, people could not forget the love she gave to children and people throughout her life. So they started having her gatherings to remember her every year. Jarvis' daughter, Anna Maria Jarvis, was invited to attend this event.
People came to ask Anna to tell her the story of her mother, Mrs. Jarvis.

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Anna passed on to them the words she heard from her mother when she was a child in Sunday school. “There was a time when my mother told us about the love of parents at the time.
My mother once gave us a homework assignment while teaching us to honor your parents,
which is the fifth of the ten commandments.”

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“Children, the Bible tells us to serve our parents well.
It is God's command to us that we should serve our parents well. In the future,
I hope you all think about how you can express your sincere gratitude for your mother's great love and devotion, and how you should do it.”

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“Today, thinking of my mother’s words, as a way of expressing my sincere gratitude,
I will give you the carnation flowers that my mother always liked.”
Anna put carnations on the chests of all the mothers who were there. Anna did the homework that her mother had given her while she was alive to her grown-ups who had gathered there.

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Everyone who attended the event was very moved.

From that day on, they set that day every year as a day to thank mothers for their love.
Gradually, this gathering to thank 'Mother's Love' began to spread to nearby churches.

The Mother's Day gatherings that started in this way have been observed throughout the United States a few years later.

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The church in Korea started to observe Mother' Sunday in 1930.
After that, May 8, 1955 was declared and observed as Mother's Day by the Korean government. After that, Mother's Day was renamed to Parents' Day and celebrated as a day to thank parents for their love.

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It is one of the things that pleases God that we observe Parents' Sunday.

God directly told us how we should behave toward our parents through the 5th of the Ten Commandments.
[Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.(Ex 20:12)]

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The Heidelberg Catechism, created to help you better understand the meaning of the Bible,
explains the deeper meaning of the fifth commandment, 'Honor your father and mother'.
Let's read it together.
[That I honor, love, and be loyal to my father and mother and all those in authority over me; that I submit myself with proper obedience to all their good teaching and discipline;
and also that I be patient with their failings for through them God chooses to rule us.]

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To keep the 5th commandment well means to serve not only the parents who gave birth to me, but also all the adults above me, and faithfully obey their right requests.
Even if they have weaknesses and shortcomings, they should overcome them wisely without arguing or arguing about them.

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David set an example for those who honor their parents.

When David's father, Jesse, asked David to play the harp for King Saul, he obeyed.
And in obedience to his father's command to go to the battlefield where his brothers were, he left home early the next morning to run errands to the battlefield.

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King Saul, whom David served while playing the harp, was jealous of David and tried to kill him several times. King Saul was a man with a bad defect of being jealous of David.

David had no choice but to run away from King Saul.

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David, who was running away from King Saul, had an opportunity to kill King Saul.
But David did not kill King Saul.

Saul was a wicked man with great shortcomings, but David was courteous and respectful to him until the end, entrusting everything to God, and persevering.

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God knew everything David did.
God appointed David to succeed King Saul as king of Israel.

God exalts and uses those who honor his parents like David.

David became a witness of the faith that received the blessings of those who honor their parents.

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[Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.(Ex 20:12)]
God has clearly promised that those who honor their parents will prosper on earth.
I must be polite and respectful not only of the parents who gave birth to me,
but also of the adults I meet.
Then that person will become a person who will receive the blessing that God has bestowed upon him or her.

(This is the sample conclusion provided by CTM. Please feel free to change the conclusion to best suit the listeners of your sermon.)