Honor Before Love
Following Things Step-by-Step
John W. Ritenbaugh
Sermon; #135; 76 minutes
Given 25-Jun-941994-06-25
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In this sermon on spiritual cause and effect, John Ritenbaugh, using the old cliché, "You can't put the cart before the horse," reveals that there is a definite cause and effect, "reap what you sow" principle introduced in Genesis 2:16 and radiating throughout the entire contents of the Bible. There is an order into which elements of attitude and conduct will follow. This principle can be seen in the consequences of delayed justice and increased crime, pride preceding a fall, humility preceding honor, and honor preceding love (in both human and God-plane contexts). Agape love will not occur unless we first learn to honor, esteem, and cherish God and the preciousness of Christ's sacrifice for us.
- Advice, Rejecting
- agape
- Cause and Effect Principle
- Change, Personal
- Character, Building
- Contempt
- Contention
- Crime
- Delay, Effects of
- Despising Others
- Enmity against God
- Environment, Influence of
- Esteeming Others
- Exalted by God
- Family Problems
- Franklin, Benjamin
- God's Calling, Value of
- God's Governance
- God's Law
- God's Name, Meditating on
- God's Silence
- God's Truth, Rejecting
- Growth, Stunted
- Heart, Lifted Up
- Honor
- Honoring God
- Humbling Ourselves
- Humility, Before Honor
- Husbands, Loving Wives
- Husbands, Responsibility of
- Justice
- Justice, Delayed
- Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
- Learning
- Love
- Love as Action
- Love as Choice
- Marriage Problems
- Natural Law
- Our Value to God
- Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
- Parents, Honoring
- Pride
- Pride as Father of all Sin
- Pride, Before a Fall
- Pride, Cause of Strife
- Pride, Fruit of
- Pride, Resists God
- Punishment, Delayed
- Rebellion
- Rebellion, Consequences of
- Relationship Problems
- Relationship With God
- Relationships
- Relationships, Husband-Wife
- Rulers, Appointed by God
- Satan's Pride
- Self Sufficiency
- Sentence, Deferred
- Sin Entering the World
- Sin Produces Death
- Sin, Effects of
- Sin, First
- Sin, Responsibility for
- Sin, Universality of
- Sin, Will Find You Out
- Social Engineering
- Sowing and Reaping
- Spouse, Honoring
- Strife
- Teachable
- Valuation
- Values
- Wise in One's Own Eyes
- Witness, Quality of
- More...
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