Sermon 1442 - City of Pride in Our Unconscious Will - 15th Message…..(Sun am 5/12/96)

Sermon 1442 - City of Pride in Our Unconscious Will - 15th Message…..(Sun am 5/12/96)

Although this is a Mother’s Day message from Exodus 20:12, which tells us to “Honour thy father and thy mother,” it deals with our unconscious will — the kawbade part that has impressions solidified in it. The Hebrew word for honour is kawbade, which is the lowest level of our will. No matter what kind of parents we have, we need to respect them because they gave us life. Disrespect for one’s parents produces despair. Some time after the flood, Noah drank wine, accidentally became drunk,and was defiled by Ham’s son, Canaan. But, when Noah’s two sons Shem and Japheth heard from Ham that their father was lying naked in his tent, they took a garment and went backward and covered his nakedness. Thus, they made a demonstration of how we are to cover our parents’ faults, failures, and weaknesses with a garment of love.