Biblical Honor: It’s a God Thing!
Biblical Honor is a Good Work! Is it yours?
Many wonder what these “good works” are in the Born Again Christian. The Righteous ones in Jesus Christ are made by His sacrifice, but we have also been created a peculiar way to live and live forth until The Day of the Lord. You are formed to operate a specific WAY in your making. Do you know how you are made to work “honor” in Christ? This simply means as you are made and created by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, you are formed by the Word of God to operate a in a Godly way, and this way is very strange to the world.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
Romans 12:10 Be devoted to one another in love, honor one another above yourselves.
One of the righteous ways in the Way of Jesus Christ is HONOR! Honor has been so mangled in church organizations that many who devoted themselves to God in these environments have come to have a bad taste in their mouths of the very word “honor”. Others who do not have an understanding of biblical honor ignore it all together or only have a worldly concept of thinking. Unfortunately, now as people of the world and those who are the people of God, both have very arrogant, twisted concepts of honor.
Honor is a biblical term that is both a thought and an action. The action of honor is always directly related to your thoughts of one who is respected or highly esteemed. But the thoughts and thinking of respected ones are of your perceptions formed in your own mind!
The worldly concept of honor is founded on the accolades and preference for governmental authorities, the wealthy, and those who are exalted as ‘greater” or “better” than others by their talents or charisma of themselves.
However, the Born Again Christian has the mind of Christ. Therefore we THINK AND PROCESS, we make decisions based on THE WORD OF GOD! Our thoughts are His thoughts when we apply His wisdom in our lives and it is His Word that proves itself in our lives that the Glory of God is evident to others.
True Biblical Honor for the Born Again Believer is spelled out in The Bible! God tells US to “honor one another above yourselves”! Think and Do toward others because God says they are worth it!
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE!
Not because they did it right, no because they made it a good thing for you, not because you have to, but because you are the righteous one of Jesus Christ, we are to HONOR ONE ANOTHER, ABOVE THE HONOR OF OURSELVES!
To Honor, another one above yourself is NOT to take away or demean yourselves but to:
Not only look out for your interest, but ALSO for the interest of others (Phil 2:3-4)
Do for others as you want others to do for you( Luke 6:31, Matt 7:12)
Love your neighbor as yourself (Matt 22:39)
Bear the shortcomings of the weak and not please ourselves(Romans 15:1)
We are to honor, highly esteem, respect, highly value, and protect our brothers and sisters in Christ! This is the Way of Jesus Christ that he demonstrated, he experienced the presence and lack of, He taught and greatly expounded through the lives of His Apostles and their teachings concerning this Godly life in Christ.
Honor is Biblical and Honor is The Way of Christ! And Holy Spirit has made sure in The Bible that WE as Born Again Believers know who we are to honor for His Name Sake!
We are Renewing Our Minds in Honor! The holy Honor that Jesus Christ teaches, not what the world teaches, that WE are the proof of His good and pleasing will on the earth!
Hebrews 5:4
And no one takes the honor for himself but receives it when he is called by God,
just as Aaron also was.
Join me tomorrow as we continue to examine, Biblical Honor!
