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God's Honor Roll

Jan 13 pic5// Tad GREGURICH

WINTER BIBLE SEMINAR 2013 Speaker Highlight

In First Samuel 2:30 God says, "For them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed."

"Them that honor Me, I will honor!" This is a law—a principle—by which the Kingdom of God operates. When we honor God, we will be honored!

What does it mean to honor God? The Greek word used for honor in the New Testament means "to view as valuable; to view as precious." When we talk about honoring God, we're talking about valuing Him—and not just in church! We should value and esteem Him in every area of our lives.


If we don't honor God, we will not advance or prosper. That's why I want to talk about four key areas that will get us on God's honor roll in life.

One:
Honor God

To honor God, we must bring Him our first and best. Proverbs 3:9–10 says, "Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the FIRSTFRUITS of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine."

These verses are referring to our substance—what's in our possession—but the word firstfruits" helps us understand something. We cannot honor God with our leftovers. We must always give Him our very best. When we do, verse 10 says there is a reward, an honor, that will come back to us.

Two:
Honor God's Word

Secondly, we must honor God's Word. Proverbs 4:20–22 says, "My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh."

The Word of God is our foundation. It's alive and full of power, and we must put it first place in our lives. We must not treat is as ordinary. That's what dishonor means—"to treat as common, or ordinary."

We must keep the Word in the midst of our hearts. We must stay in love with it and never despise it. You see, if we despise the Word of God, it will profit us nothing. But what we honor, we shall be honored with.

Three:
Honor God's Servants

When Jesus came to His own hometown and began to teach in the synagogue, Mark 6:5 says "he could there do no mighty work."

Why? It wasn't because Jesus wasn't anointed. It was because the people were offended. They treated Him as common saying, "We know you! You're the carpenter's son! Who do You think You are?" (See Mark 6:1–3.) Because they were offended, they could not receive from Him.

Understand that you will always receive from what you honor. There are some things in our lives we probably need to quit honoring and giving so much value to, but not the things of God and not the servants
of God.

Matthew 10:41 says, "He that receiveth [honors] a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth [honors] a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward."

If we will honor and receive from the God-ordained men and women the Lord has placed in the ministry, we will receive the reward of the anointing God has placed upon their lives.

Four:
Honor What God Honors

Finally, to honor God is to love what He loves, and hate what He hates. Proverbs 8:13 says, "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."

In this verse, "fear" does not mean we're afraid of God. It means we're honoring, reverencing, and showing respect for Him. If God hates pride and arrogance, anything to do with evil, and a mouth that speaks against people and the things of God, so must we.

Yet, the primary attribute of God is love. What does He love? People! To love God is to love people, and to honor God is to honor people. That means we must not only reach out to a lost and dying world, but we must also love our brothers and sisters in Christ. Our honor and love for God won't rise any higher than the person we love the least.

I want to ask you: Will you honor God and be named to His roll of honor? If you will, you'll see things come to pass in your life that are above everything you could ever ask or think!
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[Editor's Note: Tad Gregurich is Dean of Rhema Bible Training College and an upcoming speaker at Winter Bible Seminar.]

 


Listen

 

To watch and listen to Tad Gregurich's entire message on honor from Winter Bible Seminar 2012, go to http://www.vlifetech.com/rhema/videos?id=15026