If you look at the world today, human beings from different races and cultures are interwoven together. Until today, many people from some cultures still believe in respect. Here in Western world, a daughter can tell her mother that she’s stupid or foolish, all in the name of joke or being upset. But this is the same generation of people whom the Father used in spreading His Word across the world. This same lack of respect has become an epidemic in the society and nobody is looking to deal with it. If a child fails to respect his patents at home, how will he respect others outside? In the public bus, you’ll see them sitting down while adults are standing. They speak anyhow without limit. And if you look at their background, many of them claim to come from Christian homes. This is why many people are running away to be a teacher in the schools because a pupil in the class can throw paper on his teacher and nothing will happen. They’re breeding lions and tigers everyday and they call them children.

The Bible says in the Book of Exodus 20:12 that, “Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” This is the fifth Commandment. This particular Commandment goes beyond honouring your father and mother. It covers honour and respect for everybody, even for a little child. The Spirit of the Father is in everybody. Therefore, you must respect everybody because you don’t know the kind of Spirit that lives in that person.

If you’re working in a company and you have a manager who’s far younger than yourself, even as young as your grandson, you’ll still call him ‘Sir’ or ‘Ma’. This is the way of life. Though you’re older than him physically, if you fail to respect him, your days may be numbered in that company. If you respect him, if he doesn’t lack respect from home, he too will give you the respect of parents or grandparents. But because we live in a society where many children grew up without parents, nobody taught them how to respect others. If they’re not taught how to respect others, that means they don’t know the reward in respecting others.

As a godly family, respect begins between husband and wife. The Father made one the head while He made the other his neck. The head cannot move itself around without the help of the neck. Though everything in human body is connected to the head. If the head is off, that is an automatic death. The nervous system has five distinctive senses, namely: Sight, Hearing, Taste, Smell, and Touch. The head carries four out of these five senses. This is how important the head is. This is why man has many troubles as well. Yet, the importance of this head doesn’t bypass the neck. Whatever passes through the head cannot bypass the neck to enter the inner parts of the body. This is how important the head is. In a home where the head is lacking, disaster can easily strike such home. There are various reasons why the Father hates His children producing children outside marriage and divorce. This leads to many spiritual issues.

If the wife fails to respect her husband as her head, then she doesn’t respect the Father and His Commandments. If she doesn’t respect her husband, how can she teach her children how to respect their father and others? And the husband as well must value the wife that without her, there’s no home. She cannot carry babies in his womb. As important as he is as the head, so also important the wife as his neck. The children come as their blessing. Therefore, if there is love between husband and wife, there will be respect as well. This will also flow to the children too. This is why that song comes in: “Jesus and His family, happy, happy home.” I pray for you this day that Holy Spirit will help you to understand His Word and give you the grace to follow it with your whole heart in Jesus name. Amen!