Question 123: What is the fifth commandment?

 

Question 123: What is the fifth commandment?

Answer: The fifth commandment is: Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

The fifth commandment is about Christ, who mediates between God and sinners. Ephesians 5:31-33 says, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery, but I am speaking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband."

The man signifies Christ, the Son of Man. Christ shows the image of leaving God the Father and becoming one with the woman, the wife. Christ leaves the Father and obeys the Father's words and bears the cross. The word honor means obedience. And through his atoning death, he brings repentant people into his arms and leads them to salvation. Therefore, those who die in union with Christ who died on the cross also obey the words of God. The way for people to obey God, their spiritual parent, is to offer themselves as sacrifices to God along with the sacrificial offering.

In Ephesians 5:30-32, salvation is compared to marriage between a man and a woman, and is also expressed in terms of the relationship between Christ and the church. Marriage between a man and a woman is not salvation in itself, but it is through the marital relationship that the meaning of salvation is realized.

In Genesis 2:22-24, "And the rib which the LORD God had taken from man he made he a woman, and he brought her to the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh." Here, "therefore" is originally taking Eve out of one, but it means becoming one again.

The relationship between Christ and the church is the same. Here, the church refers to the saints. “You are the church.” Here, the “you” refers to the spirit. The spirits within the saints were originally one with Christ, but they fell away because they sinned against God. Therefore, they are told to enter Christ again and become one. This is the secret before the creation of the world.

Before the creation of the world, the spirits of evil angels wanted to become like God, so they left God and sinned against God. So God confined the spirits in the dust. Now that the spirits are resurrected, they become one with God in Christ again. Becoming one is not accomplished when the flesh dies, but while the flesh is alive. When we realize that we have left the kingdom of God, repent, and believe that our fleshly body (old self) died on the cross with Jesus, God allows us to be born again as a spiritual body, and our spirits come to life and become one in Christ.

This is what the Apostle Paul explains about marriage as a metaphor. We must realize the things of the kingdom of God through what happened in the Garden of Eden. That is why Jesus prays in John 17. Becoming one means, “Just as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be one in us.” This is eternal life, resurrection, and rebirth.

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