Good evening and happy Mother's Day to all the mothers.
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
We're gonna get started with song number 210.
Song number 210, "Wonderful Grace of Jesus."
And if you are able to,
let's all stand together for our first song.
Song number 210, "Wonderful Grace of Jesus."
210, let's see it on that first verse.
♪ Wonderful grace of Jesus ♪
♪ Greater than all my sin ♪
♪ Shall my tongue ♪
♪ Praise the wonderful grace of this grace of Jesus ♪
♪ The mighty role it sees ♪
♪ In grace for even me ♪
♪ Greater than the scope of my transgressions ♪
♪ Far than all my sin it shares us ♪
♪ Wonderful grace of Jesus ♪
♪ Grace of Jesus ♪
♪ Greater than the scope of my transgressions ♪
♪ Greater than all my sin ♪
♪ Wonderful grace of Jesus ♪
♪ Most beautiful the matchless grace of Jesus ♪
♪ Greater than the mighty role it sees ♪
♪ Partly like the scope of my transgressions ♪
♪ Greater than all my sin and shame ♪
- Well, singing Happy Mother's Day
to all the moms out there.
Shout out to all the women who put up
with all their kids every single week.
Those who make dinner, lunch, and breakfast.
Make special days for the little ones who raise children.
We're thankful for you, mom.
And so we just want to take this day, of course,
to honor and just, you know, give you honor,
give remembrance to everything
that our moms have done for us.
And so we do have a little gift
that we're gonna be giving out during the announcements.
And so just as a way of saying thank you
for being such an awesome mom.
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you so much for a great day.
Thank you so much for our salvation.
And thank you for giving us our moms.
And we would not be the men we are today without them.
So I pray, Lord, that you'd bless our service,
bless the singing, bless the sermon
as we seek to honor the mothers
that you've provided for us in our lives, Lord.
And may all things be done for your honor and for your glory.
We love you.
We pray this thing is in Jesus' name.
Amen, you may be seated.
Man, song number 180.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Song number 180.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful
on that first verse?
♪ There will never be a sweeter story ♪
♪ A story of the Savior's love divine ♪
♪ Love that brought up all around the world ♪
♪ Just to save a sinful soul like mine ♪
♪ Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful ♪
♪ Wonderful ♪
♪ Something wonderful it is to ♪
♪ Boundless as a universal map ♪
♪ Watching to the farthest soul away ♪
♪ Saving, keeping love it was that path ♪
♪ That is why my heart can truly say ♪
♪ Love of Jesus something wonderful ♪
♪ Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful ♪
♪ Beyond our love of God in Christ ♪
♪ How can it be ♪
♪ This will be my ending never end ♪
♪ Great redeeming love of Calvary ♪
♪ Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful ♪
♪ Wonderful it is to me ♪
- Great singing.
Welcome to First Works Baptist Church.
Just a few announcements here.
Before we sing our next song,
which will be 136 if you wanna get that ready.
136, Master of the Tempest is Raging.
If you did not get a bulletin,
go ahead and raise your hand.
One of the ushers can get one for you.
Some important information on there.
Of course, we welcome you to come back
to our Sunday evening service tonight at 5 p.m.
And then we have a Thursday night Bible study at seven o'clock.
We are currently going through the book of Isaiah
and we're almost done.
And so we'll be in chapter 60 this coming Thursday.
So hope to see you then.
For those of you visiting with us,
we are a family integrated church.
And so infants and children are,
stay with their parents in the service,
but for your convenience,
we do have mother-baby rooms located in the building.
Should your child need some diversion,
you can talk to one of our ushers
if you need some instructions or directions
as to where those rooms are.
Changing tables are available there as well,
as well as speakers and screens
so you can still tune into the preaching
and come back in at your discretion.
You see the soul winning times in teams there in the middle,
the list of expecting mothers,
if you can keep them in prayer,
and then the stats for salvations and baptisms
for the month of April.
Great month there.
Now, today's actually our offering Sunday.
And so mothers, if you can tune us out
for just the next couple of minutes,
this is actually for our members.
And so we scheduled an offering Sunday
due to the fact that we are preparing
to purchase a building in the coming years.
And so as a church,
we are collectively just pitching in together
in order to start saving up for a down payment on that.
And so if you are a member of our church,
you probably have a offering envelope within your bulletin
that's labeled, "Sow Thy Seed Offering."
If you can do us a favor and put in your offering,
the one-time gift into that,
put your name on it and put it into the offering plate
when it comes by at this time.
We're not gonna pass out the plates yet,
but I'm saying you can start doing that now
to prepare for when we do take our offering.
And please be in prayer.
Obviously our building here is getting full
and eventually we're gonna have to tear down these walls here
to make some more space,
put about 40 to 50 more chairs there.
But that's eventually gonna get full as well.
And instead of just continuing to go back further
and back further and tear down more walls,
probably just be best for us to buy
an actual church building that we can grow into
for the next couple of years.
It's a good problem to have, amen.
And that means that our church is growing,
our church is reaching people.
And so we welcome that problem.
And so thank you for those of you who are participating
in the Sold I Seat offering today.
And we will give you the number at the,
we'll end up telling our members the number tomorrow
just when we get the full number by then.
And so be in prayer over that, we're excited about it.
We have the TJ Missions trip coming up on Saturday,
May 24th, meeting at the building at 9.15 a.m.
And the expenses are paid for.
If you'd like to participate in that,
just make sure you talk to Brother Ulysses Hernandez
and bring your passport so that you're able to come back
and not be a permanent missionary there.
Graduation ceremonies coming up on Sunday, May 25th.
The morning will be for the elementary graduation,
the evening will be high school.
And so we'll give you more info on that as we approach.
And then we have a ladies prayer breakfast
coming up on Saturday, June 7th.
Meeting at the building at 10 a.m.
And if you'd like to participate in that,
or you have any questions, you wanna be of help,
you can talk to brother, or not brother,
Ms. Janelle Gonzalez for that.
She's the one who heads that up.
And that is it for our announcements at this time.
Brother Alex, if you can play a little passing out music.
We're gonna pass out some gifts to all the moms
for being wonderful.
So moms, if you can raise your hands nice and high.
Don't be modest about it,
just raise your hand nice and high
so the ushers can see you.
And if not, I'm gonna point you out.
Make sure that no one is missed.
You guys don't get anything, you're not moms.
If you are moms, you're in the wrong church, amen.
Raise your hands nice and high, nice and high.
Small way to say thank you for being such a great mom.
It's a gift card to everyone's favorite place,
which is Starbucks.
And if you don't drink coffee,
there's all kinds of pastries there you can get,
or you can buy us a coffee.
I don't know, it works too.
Oh, we need one for Caitlin too, 'cause she's not here.
Oh wait, did you get one?
Okay, oh there's two there, all right.
Yes, thank you for telling me.
Does anybody have the stats?
Do you have the stats on Caitlin's baby?
Who has the stats?
Gio, you have the stats for Caitlin's baby?
We're waiting.
Anybody else?
My mom needs one back there,
please give one to my mom back there.
Raise your hand, mom.
Oh, right here, okay, I got one.
All right, so congratulations, by the way,
to a new mom, Caitlin, and her husband, John,
and their baby was born, let's see,
baby Albert Roy Sieber, the second,
man, is this a Mexican baby?
No, I'm just kidding, was born on the 7th at 12.43 PM,
7 pounds, 6 ounces, 21 inches.
Let's give them a round of applause.
Congratulations to them.
And we'll be-- oh, she's already taken off
of the "Expecting Mothers" list, and so be in prayer
for her recovery.
What a blessing to hear that.
And so happy Mother's Day, mothers.
Thank you so much for being our moms.
Hope you enjoyed that little gift.
Let's go ahead and sing our next song, "136,
Master of the Tempest is Raging."
"136, Master of the Tempest is Raging" is our third song.
"136," on that first verse.
"Master of the Tempest is raging, the billows are tossing high.
Sky is o'ershattered with blackness, nor shelter or help is nigh.
Rest doubt not that we perish, how can thou buy us sleep?
When each moment so badly is drowning, a grave and the angry demons in the waves shall obey my will.
Be either the wrath of the storm-tossed sea, or demons or men, or whatever it be.
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and sky.
They all shall sweetly obey my will, peace be still, peace be still.
They all shall sweetly obey my will, peace be still.
Master with anguished fear, the dance of my sad heart are troubled.
Awaken and save my prayer, prince of sin and of anguish.
Sweet for my seeking soul, and I perish, I perish, dear master.
O hasten and take control, and who waits shall obey.
Will the wrath of the storm toss thee, or demons, or men, or whatever it be.
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace be still, peace be still.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace, peace, be still.
Master, the terror is over.
The elements sweetly rest.
Sun in the calm lake is mere, and heaven's within my breath.
Bring girls and redeemer me alone.
Shall make the blest heart rest on that blissful shore.
Wrath of the storm-tossed sea, or demons, or man, or whatever it be.
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and sky.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
and so the sow thy seed offering and let's go ahead and pray for the offering so that God would
bless the giver and the gift alike let's pray father we thank you so much for a wonderful church
we're thankful for all the wonderful members lord and all the things that you've done in and through
our church all the souls that you've allowed us to see saved and baptized and serve you i pray that
you bless this offering lord and we know that you can do all things you can do exceedingly abundantly
above all that we can ask or think and i pray that you make up the difference for that which we give
lord and may you be honored and glorified through this offering as we continue to cast vision and
save up for a future building where the work of god can continue in a greater way we love you we
thank you pray this things in jesus name amen you could also turn to proverbs 31 chapter 31
verbs chapter 1 the bible reads words of king lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him
what my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows give not thy strength unto
women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings it's not for kings oh lemuel it's not for kings
to drink wine nor for princes strong drink lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the
judgment of any of the afflicted give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine
into those that be of heavy hearts let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no
more open thy mouth for the dumb and the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction
open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy who can find a virtuous
woman for her price is far above rubies the heart of her husband to safely trust in her so that he
shall have no need of spoil she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life she seeketh
wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands she's like the merchant's ships she bringeth her
food from afar she rises also while this yet night giveth meat to her household and a portion
to her maidens she considereth a field and buyeth it with the fruit of her hand she planteth a
vineyard she girdeth her loins with strength and strengtheneth her arms she perceiveth that a
merchandise is good her candle goeth not out by night she layeth her hands to the spindle and her
hands hold to the distaff she stretcheth out her hand to the poor yea she reacheth forth her hands
to the needy she's not afraid of the snow for her household for all her household are clothed with
scarlet she maketh herself coverings of tapestry her clothing is silk and purple her husband is
known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land she maketh fine linen and selleth it
and delivereth girdles under the merchant strength and honor are her clothing and she shall rejoice
in time to come she openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness she
looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness her children
arise up and call her blessed her husband also and he prays with her many daughters have done
virtuously but thou excellest them all favor is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that
feareth the lord she shall be praised give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works
praise her in the gates let's pray dear lord god thank you again for everything you bless us with
thank you for this church and for our pastor just ask that you would fill him with the holy spirit
now and please bless the preaching and continue to bless our church and in Jesus name we pray amen
amen okay we're in Proverbs chapter 31 this morning verse number one says the words of
king Lemuel the prophecy that his mother taught him and the time I started this morning is the
influence of godly mothers the influence of godly mothers here in Proverbs chapter 31
we see king Lemuel expounding upon virtuous living and that will actually be my first point
but before I get into that I want to address the fact that Proverbs 31 is king Lemuel talking about
these virtues but really they're things that his mother taught him and it says here that it's the
prophecy or preaching biblical teaching that his mother imparted unto him and that's a very
powerful statement if you think about it because king Lemuel he's a king obviously we could assume
he's a father he's a husband he's probably in his latter years yet he hasn't forgotten what his mom
taught him right and it obviously shows that whoever king Lemuel's mother was she obviously
had a major impact on his life she influenced him in a great way she molded him to the man
that he was to the point that he became a king and the point that I want to make here by way
of introduction is that you know moms you play a major role in our lives in the lives of your
children and sometimes people think well you know isn't the dad the most important well of course
you know of course what kind of question is that no i'm just kidding no obviously they play a major
role but if you think about it you know moms are very intricate to the lives of their children
the lives of their boys the lives of their daughters and you know when you think of all
the great men in the bible for example all the great kings the great prophets the great men of
god who did great exploits for the lord accomplished great things for god they all had a mom that played
a role in that you know that mom raised that prophet that mom raised that man of god that mom
raised that king that mom was exceedingly influential in the lives of their children
and you know we want to make sure that as god's people we give honor to where honor is due right
we want to make sure that we honor our mothers honor our wives who are mothers
and not be this generation that the bible talks about that curses their father and does not bless
their mother right we don't want to be the type of generation that despises our mothers
that dishonors our mothers and you know there's a lot of people out there who maybe blame their
parents for certain things you know they blame their parents for certain traumas in their life
they blame their mom or their dad because of certain circumstances that maybe their parents
allow them to go through or maybe because their parents weren't perfect you know at the end of
the day no one is perfect and every single child when they grow up to become a parent
they will realize the struggles that their parents went through you know to get them to where they
are today and quite frankly you know we are spoiled why because we're christians we have
the bible we have church we have other godly influences you know a lot of our parents if
you're a first generation christian you know they have to kind of just learn it on their own without
the bible and yet they produce you who sought after the bible who sought after god who sought
after the things of god and so give honor where honors do make sure you thank your mom today
for being such a wonderful woman and a godly influence in your life because yes she did play
a role in your success whatever success you may experience today she she has a hand in that god
selected your mom to bear you and god selected you to be her child and he knew that she was fit for
the job and do our parents fall short of course they do but so do we and you know we can point
to maybe the flaws of our parents and maybe some areas that maybe they didn't you know fulfill
in the in the in the best way maybe they weren't the best parents but quite frankly our children
will be able to say the same thing about us and so be careful you know how much of that of the
flaws you want to accentuate of your parents because quite frankly what goes around comes
around and so mom i love you you know you're the best mom in the world you're the greatest
you know kids take notes okay we want to make sure that we bless our mothers honor our mothers
and recognize that they've been a great influence and you know when we started the word of god
we actually see that there's many great influences in the bible many great mothers who are great
influences within the word of god and of course we want to start off here in proverbs chapter 31
with king lemuel's mother now the first thing we're going to look at here is that godly mothers
teach their children virtue now let me just say this is that obviously through this sermon i want
to honor the mothers who have done some of these things and if you feel as though like well as a
mom i feel like i fell short of these areas well take this as a challenge then right take it as a
challenge but then also take it as an opportunity to be thankful for those for the moms who have
done these great exploits and so the first thing i want to mention here is that godly mothers teach
their children virtue he says in verse one the words of king lemuel the prophecy that his mother
taught him what my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows give not thy
strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings now this is a powerful statement
here right king lemuel's mom comes to her son and one of the first things that she teaches her son
is like hey don't be this guy who's just led about by another woman right he says don't give your
strength unto women and obviously king lemuel's mother understands the influence that women can
have over men the power that women can have over men and so king lemuel's mother warns him and
tells him hey this can destroy you make sure that you remain a strong young man make sure you select
a strong bride who will follow you a virtuous woman who will follow you a godly woman who will
follow you don't give your strength unto women don't base your life on well you know will i be
accepted amongst women right well i'm going to make i want to make a ton of money because i
want to attract women i want to look a certain way because i want to attract women don't give
your strength to the women don't base your life off of how you will affect the women in your life
or how women will perceive you he says nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings it is not for
kings olemiel it is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink and we'll get into
the women more so later but king lemuel's mother is trying to impart virtue into her son by telling
her hey by telling him stay away from the wrong women but then also stay away from that which
destroys kings and what she referring to alcohol because he says hey it's not for you king short
king my little king for you to drink wine nor for princes strong drink lest they drink and forget
the law and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted he says if you drink alcohol if you
drink wine if you're given over to those vices you're gonna end up forgetting the laws of god
what's she doing she's promoting virtue godly virtue saying you know you need to remember the
laws of god you need to remember the commandments of the lord you need to remember the word of god
and part of doing that is making sure you stay away from alcohol why because then you will
pervert the judgment of the afflicted you won't have compassion for those who are afflicted in
our morning look at verse six give strong drink into them unto him that is ready to perish and
wine unto those that be of heavy hearts what she's saying you know you're not a person who's
depressed you're not a person who's about ready to die you're a person who's living who is strong
that type of substance abuse belongs to people who just have no hope is what she's saying verse
seven says let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more open thy mouth
for the dumb and the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction open thy mouth judge
righteously and plead the cause of the poor needy so what do we see here we see that king lemuel's
mother speaking to him like a grown man she's like be virtuous stay away from the wrong women
stay away from alcohol stay away from and obviously we can infer this because of 2025
stay away from weed stay away from drugs stay away from substance abuse stay away from those
things which which can destroy you as a prince that can destroy you as a king what is king lemuel's
mother doing she's imparting virtue and moms let me just say this give virtue into your sons
teach them virtue help them to realize how valuable there are as males as men right and make no
mistake about it they're listening you think king lemuel when he's however old he is here he's just
yawning he doesn't really care what mom's saying he's just like all right mom okay mom no obviously
he penned this down and god saw it fit to be written within scripture as inspired and it affected
him so deeply that it ends up being one of the proverbs of the bible very powerful and then he
says in verse 10 who can find a virtuous woman for a price as far above rubies so then he gets into
what type of women he should be looking for so he imparts virtue by saying stay away from the wrong
women he imparts virtue by saying stay away from substance abuse and alcohol that which can destroy
kings and then he says son go look for a good woman a virtuous woman and you know she didn't
just say go look for a good girl because he he spends the remainder of the chapter explaining
what a virtuous woman is you know this is the kind of woman that i want you to marry right
now hold your place there actually you don't have to hold your place go to proverbs chapter one
and then we're going to go to proverbs chapter six proverbs chapter one get yourself a good woman
you know and i think i i think i'm speaking correctly here where when i say that every mom
kind of worries for their sons you know we're just kind of like man what kind of woman is going to
marry my son and i don't think they mean that in a bad way but just you know that it's their son
you know they're just worried because that's their future right and i i think king lemuel's
mother has that burden she wants him to have a godly marriage to have a godly wife and so
she's very explicit in her instructions of what type of woman she should uh he should have look
at probably chapter one uh probably chapter one verse number eight it says my son hear the
instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother now the law of his mother isn't
necessarily referring to the laws of god this is referring to mom's rules right mom and dad's
instructions mom's rules mom's laws which according to the bible is on par with god's laws and you
know if you grew up with your mom you know that mom has rules she has laws and if you're anything
like me they're just they just seem unreasonable sometimes you know man all these rules and mom
don't let me go out and don't let me have fun those are laws that we should obey though
and it says here that we should not forsake the law of our mother now obviously this is very
specific to when we are living in there under the roof but i believe that this is essentially
telling us that we should carry those laws even throughout our life because here's the thing
folks is that our moms want what's best for us and there's a lot of wisdom in the warnings
and instructions and laws of our mother and so he says don't forsake the law of your mother now
i'm nearing 40 i know i don't look it i'm nearing 40 and you know what i'm remembering now the laws
of my mother when i was younger and now my mom's like yeah you're a little too strict i'm thinking
you taught me this what do you mean you're too strict i'm like i got this from you but you know
grandmas have a tendency to be more lenient with their grandkids you know and they have a tendency
not to remember the past as we do you know like i don't remember ever doing that you know but it
tells us here don't forsake and you know part of that is just embedding those instructions those
laws into our hearts because of the fact that there's wisdom found within those laws and rules
and it says in verse 9 for they shall be an ornament of grace into thy head and chains about
thy neck now when they're younger it's more like chains about the neck right because when we have
the laws of our the rules of our mothers on our neck it's just like oh man i just got to do what
my mom tells me to do i got i can't go out my mom says i can't go out and play you know it's just
all these rules but it also says that it's an ornament of grace into the head in other words
you know people who look at children who obey their parents it's a very gracious sight it's
like an ornament of grace upon their heads when we see obedient children just mark it down like wow
you know they must have really good parents who are teaching them right he says verse number 10
and i don't believe this is on accident here verse 10 says my son if sinners entice thee consent thou
not if they say come with us let us lay wait for blood let us lurk privily for the innocent without
cause let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit
we shall find all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil cast in thy lot among us
let us all have one purse my son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path
for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood i believe that these are some of
the instructions and some of the laws that the parents had for this young man he's basically
saying stay away from the wrong people learn to discern between good and bad people if someone
comes to you wanting to do wrong consent thou not if they're telling you let us look privily
let's rob let's steal let's fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the mind he's like don't do it
get away from those people you know what young people we need to be thankful for moms and dads
who protect us from the wrong types of people your best friend who you just want to go on and be
with and your cousins and you know the bad influences in your life you may not appreciate
it now but i'm telling you right now you will thank god for it later you know i think of my
mom you know where she was willing to you know we were raised in a single parent home it was just my
mom and it was three of us and the age differences were pretty crazy you know my brother is 13 years
older than me my sister was 10 years older than me and so you know we grew up together and i
remember you know my mom having to move us from one city to another because there are some bad
influences in my brother's life really bad influences and it came to a point where my mom
said you know what the only solution here because he's not going to listen to me is that we just
need to move locations completely i mean you people might think that's a little extreme but
you know what my brother's still alive though and you know what the bad influences the cousins that
he have they're not alive they died and in fact they never even saw 20 years of age hey thank god
that my mom put that that chain about the neck of my brother and about my sister in a way and
dragged them to another city because it kept them alive you know don't despise the law of your mother
there's wisdom found in it and you know you think to yourself yeah but my mom's not a christian
though she don't know the bible you know and she's not saved yeah but i'm just going to tell you
right now parents because of experience because of love for their or their children they have
somewhat of an innate wisdom that god gives to them and and quite frankly you know god imparts
wisdom even without the bible sometimes because of life because of experience obviously the word of
god is the source of all wisdom and quite frankly much of the wisdom that people find out in the
world even outside of the bible still comes from the bible because you can find it within the word
of god but at the end of the day there's wisdom in the chains that your mother's putting about your
neck it'll keep you alive it'll keep you from the wrong people it'll keep you from the bad
influences in your life go to chapter six chapter six we see the king lemuel's mother is teaching
her son virtuous living stay away from the wrong kind of people stay away from the wrong type of
friends the wrong type of uh associations and influences not only that as we mentioned in the
very beginning you know she's teaching him to stay away from the wrong kind of woman too look at
verse 20 my son keep thy father's commandments and forsake not the law of thy mother we see that
statement once again bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck so i would
say you know this stage here is maybe when they're a little older because the chains about the neck
could be compared to when a child is young you know you put those chains about the neck and then
you're dragging them everywhere right bringing them you're dragging them to church you're dragging them
away from the wrong people you're dragging them away from the wrong influences whereas here he says
hey make sure you tie them about your neck so the bible's assuming here that you would have enough
wisdom and discernment to realize hey these rules that my mom had for me these are pretty good you
know i'm gonna put them around my own neck tie them about your neck he says in verse 22 when
thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee when thou awakest it shall
talk with thee in other words as you live life you will be reminded of these these wisdom principles
that your parents gave you verse 23 says for the commandment is the lamp and the laws light and
reproofs of instruction are the way of life now when it says the commandment is lamp laws light
it's referring to the word of god right but when it says the reproofs of instruction i believe is
referring to the reproof of instruction of your parents and you know what i can quote verses to
you of wisdom and instruction but i can also quote verses and instruction for my mother you know
things that she would say to me since i was a little kid reproofs and instructions and rebukes
and and whoopens and all that you know and you know what it's the way of life hey can i say this
young young people don't despise the chastening of your parents and i mean the physical chastening
of your parents you know because at the end of the day you know if you despise it or you don't
want to be spanked you're just basically saying you want to be the worst possible person on the
face of the planet because spoiled brats who don't respect authority spoiled brats who don't
respect their parents they don't respect the police they don't respect government they don't
respect magistrates are people who have never been whooped in their lives are is there exception to
the rule of course there's an exception but in general spankings produce godly people law
abiding citizens and you know what it's the way of life that's what it says the repulsive instruction
are the ways of life join the club oh man my mom spanked me join the club it's the way of life
this is how life is oh man you don't know my dad whooped me join the club it's the way of life
now it's just like oh man my mom took away my xbox that's not the way of life verse 24 says to
keep thee so these instructions these reproofs of life to keep thee from the evil woman and
interesting it's like the parent is like you can't see her you can't be with that woman she's not
good for you she's going to destroy your life and then the son is just like oh man mom you're so
unfair we love each other but it's saying here he's doing it to keep you from the evil woman
from the flattery of the tongue of the strange woman lest not after her beauty in thine heart
neither let her take thee with her eyelids you know you right now you it may seem as though your
parents are just trying to make your life a living hell but quite frankly that's not what it is they
they want what's best for you they want to keep you from the bloody and deceitful man they want
to keep you from bad company they want to keep you from the evil woman they want to keep you from
destruction they want to keep you from alcohol they want to keep you from substance abuse they
want to keep you from just total misery and destruction is that so bad not so bad and you
know what your brain hasn't formed fully enough to understand that yet but when you when you start
getting a little older and you start going through your own trials you realize oh man my mom had a
point there and then you start saying some things to your mom you start saying things to your kids
that your mom used to say to you and you're like oh man i am my mother's child now the point that
i'm making is that a godly mother teaches her child virtue even sometimes without the bible
now moms here your girl you're in church you're listening to the bible you have more more wisdom
more knowledge more discernment to go along with the wisdom that you've received but just living
this life you know you have a higher chance of raising a godly child but the point that i'm
making here is that a godly mother will teach her child virtue hey teach your sons to choose the
right wife teach your sons to stay away from alcohol well they're too young no they're never
too young for it teach them now what alcohol does teach them now what smoking pot does teach them
now what doing drugs does teach them now what happens to the young men who get along the wrong
types of people in the wrong types of crowds teach them what happens to them if they go down that
route teach them what happens to them if they choose the evil woman destroy their lives go to
exodus if you would exodus chapter one exodus chapter one a godly mother will teach her son
virtue not only that let's look at another mother here a godly mother will not only teach her
children virtue but a godly mother mother will also teach her children courage it's important to
teach children how to be courageous why because they're always scared of everything you know
scared of the dark and look i used to be scared of the dark too but then i became an adult and
now i'm scared of the light why because the light bill that's the only thing that scares me now
before it was just like the night it was scary you know but now it's just like turn off turn off
all the lights this light bill is gonna be crazy you know how hot it's gonna be in there in the
summer and i'm scared of the light and i'm scared of my kids legos in the dark but children are
naturally fearful they're naturally afraid and they require parents to teach them courage i
remember being a kid and just always being afraid of different things and i remember telling my mom
like i'm scared of the monsters my mom would say i'm the only monster here you know and she did her
best to teach me courage to not be afraid you know and that's important my friends they carry
that with them throughout their life look at exodus chapter one verse 15 we're going to look
at the story here of the midwife saving the children of israel from uh the uh from the killing
from death of the decree from uh pharaoh of egypt it says in verse 15 it says in the king of egypt
spake to the hebrew midwives of which the name of one was shifrah and the name of the other was
puah and he said when you do the office of a midwife to the hebrew women and see them upon
the stools if it be a son then you shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live
but the midwives feared god and did not as the king of egypt commanded them but save the men
children alive and the king of egypt called for the midwives and said to them why have you done
this thing and have saved the men children alive and the midwife said to pharaoh because the hebrew
women are not as the egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come
in unto them now what's going on here well pharaoh it has enslaved israel okay and israel of course
are living according to the commands of god so they're being fruitful and multiplying they're
having a lot of children and he's afraid that because they're multiplying and because egypt
is practicing abortion and infanticide that eventually the Israelites will outnumber them
and so there can you know arise a civil war and a revolt of the Israelites against the egyptian so
pharaoh sees this and says we need to kill off this next generation so if they produce a man child
you need to make sure that you kill them and you know they he wants to basically decree for them
all male children to die but the midwives fear god and they don't want to do that because it's
evil it's wicked not what god wants and so they allow them to deliver the children and the the
excuse they bring is like hey they're just really healthy women by the time we come to deliver the
child it's already delivered so the baby's already born look what it says in verse 22 it says in
pharaoh charged all his people saying every son that is born ye shall cast into the river and every
daughter you shall save a life so his solution is okay then if they are too healthy and they end up
bearing a son then take all the sons and i want you to drown them in the river very evil right
very wicked now skip down to skip skip to chapter two if you would and look at verse number one
it says and there went a man out of the house of levi and took to wife a daughter of levi
and the woman conceived embarrassed son and when she saw him that he was a goodly child
she hid him three months so she's not going to go according to this decree she's not going to kill
her son she's not going to destroy him you know obviously egypt is a very wicked place to to
raise a child but she's not allowing that to be an excuse to murder her child so what does she do
she has her child and she tries to hide him for three months now anybody who's ever had a baby
realize how difficult it is to hide a child for three months or to keep them quiet for three
months put it that way okay we have a lot of children we can't even keep children quiet for
an hour here you know what i mean you just hear them so she's like hiding him because he's making
and obviously by the time three months pass he's probably being louder and louder so it's hard to
hide him from the authorities and from egypt and it says in verse three when she could no longer
hide him because obviously he's making a lot of noise she took for him an ark of bulrushes and
daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the chowder in and she laid it in the flags by the
river's bank and his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him and the daughter
of pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked along by the river's side
and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it and when she had opened it
she saw the child and behold the baby wept and she had compassion on it and said this is one
of the hebrew's children now by the way this is a side note here you know i i like the fact that
you know moses mother because she was in danger instead of aborting the child she essentially
gave it up for adoption so to speak right now we'll see later on that basically what she's
doing is she's allowing moses to be placed situated by the river in such a way that she knew
that feral's daughter would end up seeing the child and taking it unto herself we'll see this
later on look what it says in verse number seven then said that his sister to feral feral's daughter
shall i go and call to thee a nurse of the hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee
and feral's daughter said to her go the maid went and called the child's mother and feral's daughter
said to her take this child and nurse it for me and i will give thee thy wages and the woman took
the child and nursed it so what happened so moses mother comes and says all right we're going to put
him in archibald rushes in the riverbank but she obviously knows that you know uh feral's daughter
is going to see the child moses sister just kind of you know waits on the side there to see what's
going to happen and so once she views feral's daughter finding moses she goes up and says
hey you know i can find one of the hebrew women to come and feed the child obviously she knows
what hebrew women is being referred to there it's her mama and they end up coming out with him
because the feral's daughter says yeah finds the mom and says i'll pay you to nurse your child
right and of course he's going to be safe he's going to be growing up in feral's home says in
verse 10 that the child grew and she brought him up to feral's daughter and he became her son and
she called her name his name moses and she said because i drew him out of the water now go to
hebrews chapter 11 if you would hebrews chapter 11 see the midwives are very brave you know they
disobeyed the commandment of fero in order to save the men children alive but then also moses mother
was very brave and courageous because of the fact that she was not willing to kill him but she
constructed a plan by which he would survive and obviously he would end up being raised in egypt
with all the knowledge of egypt the military power of egypt because god had a plan for him
to lead about an entire nation out of egypt as a general so it's very powerful there look at
hebrews 11 verse 23 it says here by faith moses when he was born was hit three months of his
parents because they saw that he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's
commandment in other words they don't care what feral thought they don't care what the authorities
were saying they're like you're saying to kill our child we're not going to do it i don't care
what happens i'm not afraid of the king's commandment verse 24 by faith moses when he was
come to years refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of god than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the
reproach of christ greater riches than the treasures in egypt for he had respect into
the recompense of the reward by faith he forsook egypt and i want you to notice this not fearing
the wrath of the king for he endured as seen him who is invisible not fearing the wrath of the king
man i wonder where he got that from got it from his mama got it from his papa right he inherited
that courage from his parents let me say to his parents you know i know we want to protect our
children from suffering and pain and harm and disappointment but some of that stuff is necessary
and instead of working out protecting our children from suffering and pain and heartache and
disillusionment we need to instill within them courage in the face of discouragement pain
suffering disillusionment because folks we're not always going to be there the parents are not
always going to be there and if you're constantly trying to protect your child from pain and
suffering and disappointment folks you're going to raise a weak child a weak adult who will end
up being destroyed in the long run once you're gone we need to instill courage within our
children courage to serve god despite what the commandment of the king is courage to obey the
commandments of the lord despite the circumstances we want to teach them to stand on their own two
feet and look let me just say this that would mean that we can't bail them out all the time
that means when they're little and they hurt themselves we need to tell them to get up and
i'll be oh you know i know moms have a tendency to do that sometimes you know just like it's just the
end of the world because they got a strawberry on their knee and you know what we need to be
compassionate and kind but sometimes we just need to say you're fine get up because let's just be
honest they are fine and let's just be honest if you wouldn't have noticed them crying they
probably would have just quit crying look i'm not gonna say who i have a tendency to say who a lot
you know i've seen kids in our church you know who fall and they hurt themselves and we all
just kind of look away they're just like and they just get up and walk away they're just like no
one's even paying attention just a waste of time but but i'm telling you if we would have paid
attention though all hell would have broke loose you know my kids are like that too i have i have
one particular kid who's just brother's going to be a great preacher when he grows up the amount of
volume that he has you're a great preacher a great singer i don't know one of the two he can he can
lift up his voice like a trumpet let's just put it that way and but sometimes we just have to just
tell him like just get up you're fine you need to toughen up you're a man toughen up we got to tell
our sons that and you know when they're older and look i'm not saying parents we do not want
to see our kids suffer i don't innately i don't want to see my kids suffer it's painful painful
for us it's a difficult thing to have to experience but you have to understand that like the reason we
are the way we are is because we suffered pain the reason we have strength is because of pain
pain is a great teacher it's a horrible teacher but he's a great teacher you know it's very
uncomfortable teacher but he's a great teacher and quite frankly we need to be able to instead of
keeping our children from trials and difficulties and tribulation and sufferings what we need to
teach them as they grow is to be courageous courageous you'd be surprised how far that goes
you know the now river i'm assuming that's where moses was placed you know that can picture the
world and we can't keep our kids from the now river but what we can do is place them in the
ark of bulrushes when they go into the now river right you know she couldn't keep she couldn't get
out of egypt she couldn't escape the decree what she could do is put moses in ark of bulrushes
to protect them from the elements of the river now we can we can say we can compare that to
parents placing our children within christ right that's why it's important folks listen to me it's
important for you to teach get your kids saved teach them the word of god because they need to
build their lives upon the rock you say man i just don't know what's going to happen when i go away
well you better make sure you teach your son and your daughters how to walk with god you better
teach them how to read the bible you better teach them to keep the commandments of god you better
put them in that ark of bulrushes because you know what you can't dry up that that river that river
is going to be that river was here before you came it'll be here long after you're gone and all we
can do as parents is place our children within the ark of bulrushes which is jesus christ the bible
hey here's another comparison to that ark of bulrushes put them in church make sure they go
to church which would mean that you have to go to church oh yeah that's how it works huh
make sure they're in church do the your best to put them in a church with preaching with the work
of god place them in the ark of bulrushes of the local new testament church to make sure they make
it through that now river mothers need to protect their children from the dangers of the river how
do we do that by making sure we make an ark of bulrushes which is the word of god we we give to
them convictions this is why hey don't waste time with your kids when they're younger talk about the
bible to them turn off cocoa melon and turn on alexander scorby turn off whatever they're
watching i'm not saying that's bad all the time but you know what if we just constantly use that
as a hey by the way you turn off your adult cocoa melon too whatever that is you know instead of
playing video games on your phone all day long why don't you actually spend some time with your
children and teach them the word of god you know in your car ride home talk about the bible talk
about salvation folks we only have like 10 18 years at the most and then it's it's they're on
their own we need to make sure that we take advantage of this time to to build and construct
a fortified arc of bulrushes for them to go into because guess what there's going to be a time when
we put the arc of bulrushes into the river and it's bye-bye and hopefully if we did it right they
end up coming back that's the plan train up a child and the way he should go when he is old
he will not depart from it we need to teach him courage your children are going to experience
sufferings that you you can't even imagine when they're older as adults they're going to experience
sufferings and trials that you can't deliver them from and you know what you can't pick them up at
that time and say it's going to be okay you can't deliver them you can't you you can't do anything
for them but instilling within them now though how to respond to those trials that's what matters
hold your place there in hebrew chapter 11 and go to genesis 21 genesis chapter 21
a godly mother will teach her child virtue a godly mother will teach her child courage
man moses is so courageous the man was just used greatly i mean he's one of the most he's like
top tier bible characters right and you know jacobed doesn't get a lot of honor for that but
man jacobed did a great job when we get to heaven we're going to meet moses and but i want to meet
jacobed too who's the woman who raised this child right thirdly a godly mother teaches her children
to increase their faith genesis 21 verse 1 says the lord visited sarah as he had said and the lord
did unto sarah as he had spoken for sarah conceived and bear abraham a son in his old age at the set
time of which god had spoken to him and abraham called the name of his son that was born to him
whom sarah bared to him isaac and abraham circumcised his son isaac being eight days old as
god had commanded him and abraham was a hundred years old when his son isaac was born unto him
and sarah said god hath made me to laugh so that all that will hear will laugh with me and she said
who would have said unto abraham that sarah should have given children suck for i've born him a son
in his old age and the child grew and was weaned and abraham made a great feast the same day that
isaac was weaned now this is obviously a miracle because of the fact that god had promised abraham
that he would bear that he would have many children as the stars of the sky right and he's
like a hundred years old sarah's really old and they have no children as of yet and so they had
to like exercise faith and believe that god would come through on his promises and he ended up
coming through by giving them isaac and for that reason that god places sarah and abraham in the
hall of faith in hebrew chapter 11 because it took a lot of faith for that that's why she says god
has made me to laugh because i bore a child in my old age and gave abraham a child in his old age
like who would have thought we could still have children go back to hebrews if you would hebrew
chapter 11 i want you to notice here in hebrew chapter 11 verse 11 says through faith also sarah
herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age
because she judged him faithful who hath promised therefore sprang there even of one and him as good
as dead so many as the stars of the sky and multitude and as the sand which is by the seashore
innumerable now the point that i want to make here and obviously we can infer this upon the text but
i'm sure a lot of that influenced isaac to have faith how could it not it influenced us those who
are hearing about his second third fourth hand through the word of god right and i think it's
important for moms to teach their children how to exercise their faith how to have faith in god
let me just encourage moms today make it a habit to pray with your children regarding things that
they want and things that they need it's a great practice oh you want this why don't you pray for
it you know i'll use my mother-in-law's example uh that you know my my wife grew up in a pastor's
home and you know as a pastor you don't make a lot of money and you have a lot of kids kids cost
money anybody kids want things right and i think well if i remember the story correctly the kids
they wanted coconuts like mom can we have coconuts because they like coconuts coconuts are delicious
and they're like can we have coconuts and mom you know my mother-in-law was just like no we don't
have money to just go buy coconuts she's like pray for coconuts if you want coconuts you need
to pray for coconuts they pray for coconuts and guess what someone brought a box of coconuts to
their front door oh someone must have said something okay oh ye of little faith you probably would have
gone to go buy the coconuts instead of pay for the instead of pray for the coconuts you would have
paid for coconuts instead of pray for coconuts but you know what i i promise you that increased the
faith of the kids and they realized you know we need to pray for things more and i can i can attest
that my brother-in-laws and my sister-in-laws are people of faith constantly praying for things i
want to teach my kids how to get things from god and i want to teach my kids that mom and dad can't
provide everything for you sometimes you're just going to have to pray it down you know i think of
the offering my kids want to participate in the offer but we can't you know kids we got our own
offer we gotta give we can't give you an awesome offering you need to pray for that and work for
that and you know they did and they gave to the offering today this sunday they're excited about
it but you know what they prayed for it too though and i can't tell you how many times a need comes
up and both of them all my kids but my sons will say let's pray for it dad let's pray for it mom i
want them to have faith why because that goes further than me providing and look i'm not saying
let's not give our kids good things obviously we want to provide for them and you know there's
this attitude is just like i want to give my kids everything that i never had don't do that
don't do that i know it sounds great i know it sounds novel that's not always the best though
just remember this you are the person you are because you didn't get everything you wanted
just remember that however you know maybe we can give them something but we need to teach them how
to pray for it as well and don't undermine the power of a child's prayer children pray for our
kids pray for things all the time and they get things all the time they're constantly increasing
their faith and i want them to live a life of faith i want them to realize that when a need comes up
small or big a trial comes up in their life they don't bail out on god they don't stop serving god
they don't get out of church they don't compromise their convictions to get what they want you know
what they're going to do they're going to pray for it i want them to have a button on their heart
that says pray pray we need to pray for this why because i want to instill faith in my children
and you know if you are well to do praise god for that you need to work twice as hard to make
sure your kids have faith harder for you it's easy for us we're broke son we can't have that okay
pray that was easy it's like but if you do have money to pay you know what you need you need to
work twice as hard at that because you don't want them to place their faith in your bank account
or mom will mom and dad will always buy this for us we're always going to have these things
no you need to teach them that no you're not always going to have these things and if you
want something pray for it if you don't get it means that god doesn't want you to have it these
are the lessons that you need to take with you throughout your life that's how it works by the
way when you do that it makes them even more grateful when they get things that's a fact you
know when they don't get everything that they want when they do get something it's like great
you know that means that means like when we take our kids to the uh to the dollar tree or Daiso
my kids love it to them it's like we we take them there for Christmas they just love it they're
just like this is great awesome they're they're super grateful you know because of the fact that
we try not to give them everything that they want but the point that I'm making here is instill
faith in your children teach them to pray teach them when the need comes up the need to seek the
Lord seek the Bible because that is that is far more valuable than all the money inheritance that
they can receive from you is faith okay go to first Peter chapter three first Peter chapter three
you know Sarah was a great example of faith in that regard but she also exercised faith by
obeying her husband took a lot of faith Abraham was a great guy but I'm not all the time though
he had flaws right the guy was a coward sometimes you know he just didn't want to you just read the
story you'll find out you know we love Abraham but you know thankfully you know he's not a perfect
man so we can use as an example that we're not perfect too right we can we can relate to that
now look at first Peter chapter three verse one likewise he wives being subjection to your own
husband's subjection means that you need to obey your husband you are under your husband as far as
the authority is concerned this is what the bible teaches that if any obey not the word they also
may be may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives and what this is
simply saying is that you know if you have a husband who's not a christian maybe they're or
they are christian but they don't they're not in the bible they're not interested in the things of
god they're not going to church you can win them to the things of god without the bible by your
mere conduct which is referring to the conversation so your godliness your subjection your submissiveness
can actually win them over now i know sometimes people will say well you know you can have just
the best wife and still have the worst husband that's true but hold on a second the bible does
say though here there is a verse right here though that says that if a wife is submissive
and does exercise that they can win the husband to the lord he says in verse two while they behold
your chaste conversation coupled with fear who's adorning let it not be the outward adorning of
the plating of the hair wearing of gold putting on of apparel but let it be the hidden man of the
heart and that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit which is in
the sight of god of great price so he's based you know this is another way of saying don't nag your
husband you know be meek be quiet make sure you adorn yourself with godly chaste conversation
coupled with fear he's giving a lot of marriage counseling here good stuff by the way and then
he gets into the example here verse five for after this manner in the old time the holy women also
who trusted in god adorn themselves being in subjection to their own husbands so this isn't
an instruction that just came out in 2025 he's saying you know let me just show you the track
record of women who have done this and have succeeded and had godly marriages right and
talks about the holy women who trusted in god because of that verse six even as sarah obeyed
abraham and i want you to notice this calling him lord what what did she want now this doesn't
mean like she's calling him lord like you're god okay a lot of people would interpret it as that
because in general lord we associate that with the lord but the word lord means boss okay so with
someone who's in charge and so sarah exercised faith because she recognized that even though
abraham was an imperfect man he's still the boss that's good stuff right there he's the hefe
right that's how you say it in spanish and you know that requires a lot of faith why because of
the fact that husbands are perfect and listen up ladies this is not the time to tune out time to
look up eyes up here eyes up here your kids are doing fine all right look up here hey this is what
the bible teaches and you know what you want to exercise faith obey your husband follow your
husband as unto the lord because it says here that she trusted god how did she show that she was
trusting god i'll tell you how by obeying abraham now obviously this is referring to sinful things
abraham never had sarah do sinful things and if your husband's trying to get you to do sinful
things obviously that's the exception right there right but in general the bible is teaching here
that you should treat your husband as the boss and that is an expression of faith listen look
look at this whose daughters ye are as long as you do well and are not afraid with any amazement
what does that mean like in fact we don't be my husband don't be afraid with any amazement don't
be amazed at that commandment yeah but you don't know my husband do we know you though goes both
ways don't be afraid with any amazement hey if you want to be hashtag godly mom have on your
bio christian mom you know what number one thing you can do according to the bible is obey your
husband and let me say this is that that actually ends up transferring to your children you
disrespect your husband your daughters will disrespect their husbands you disrespect your
husband your son will marry someone who you would not want them to marry who will end up
disrespecting them that's just how it goes i know there's a mother's day sermon but hey
you know this is good stuff right here right folks you know sarah did well which is why isaac did
well he married someone probably like his mom that's a good thing woman of faith and so this
is important it says verse seven likewise he husbands dwell with them according to knowledge
giving honor into the wife as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace
of life that your prayers be not hindered so obviously the instruction goes both ways
right women should be in subjection to their husbands but in like manner husbands need to
make sure that they give honor to their wives not disrespect their wives not make their wives an
enemy and recognize that they are the weaker vessel meaning they're more susceptible to the
things of the flesh maybe to disrespecting you maybe to lacking reverence and when that happens
you need to forgive well she needs to obey me okay but when she doesn't forgive her though
because that's just what the bible tells us to do and if both parties end up doing their part
in general not all the time but in general because the bible is telling us here you can't have a
godly marriage what that i'm making here is that both sides require faith though and if you are
experiencing tumultuous times in your marriage you know this requires faith like i gotta obey this guy
this guy is just he makes so many bad decisions though well just exercise faith in god that
eventually he will god will honor you for your obedience to your husband and it happens all the
time look i make bad decisions not all the time but i do make bad decisions in my marriage with my
family and you know what something my wife goes along with it and and sometimes i disregard her
wisdom and i go with plan a and i realize i actually was a plan c it was a bad idea and then
you know god honors my wife and ends up we end up resulting in winning anyways because of the fact
that she obeyed me and look folks and we don't hold it against each other either i'm not you
know she's not like writing that down like i'll bring this up in the next argument make sure i
remember that you know women have really good memories right and you know it could work their
detriment though she's not like all right and then you know four months down the road will remember
when you you know no you've got to kind of forgive and forget your team work together you're not
enemies you're not adversaries and just remember you your marriage is be it's it's an example of
what your children are going to look for when they're older just keep that in mind i'm running out
of time here let me uh go to first timothy or second timothy chapter one second timothy chapter
one let me just breeze over this next point a godly mother teaches her children to keep their
promises and i don't have time to expound upon this but hannah which is samuel's mother the
prophet samuel she was sorely distressed that she could not have children she prayed unto god and
basically told him if you give me a child i'll give him back he will serve you who become a
servant in the in the temple and she ends up bearing samuel and she ended up keeping her promise
she gave him unto the lord he ended up being uh serving in the temple and being a great man of
god i mean samuel is one of the top tier people of the bible as well but it's because of his
mother's prayer and you know what we can learn from samuel's mother hannah is that we as parents
need to make sure that we teach our children honesty and how to perform their oaths and their
promises even to our hurt and to their hurt right in other words we need to make sure that when we
say we're going to do something like your yay be yay and your nay be nay make sure we keep our
promises and you know what that's extremely important and they will carry that even into
marriage because let me just remind you that marriage is a covenant agreement what is a
covenant's old way of saying a contract and here's here's the contract till death do us part
and we want to teach our children that you know what you made a promise before god to stay married
until you die or until she dies and no matter what happens they're thick and thin better for
worse rich or for poor no matter what happens you need to keep that covenant and that promise
teach them how to keep perform their oaths teach them how to keep their promises teach them to be
honest individuals that is very important next one here and i'm almost done a godly mother passes
their faith to their children look at second timothy chapter one verse five when i call to
remember this is the apostle paul writing to timothy he says when i call to remembrance the
unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy grandmother lois wow and thy mother unis
and i'm persuaded that in thee also so timothy you know his dad's not in the picture we don't
know anything about his dad he's out of the picture however his grandma is and so was his mother and
you know the apostle paul obviously came into contact with both of these women because he's
like your grandma has unfeigned faith and he's like and so does your mom and i'm persuaded that
you have the same exact faith that they had i mean this is a wonderful i mean i'm getting
goosebumps right i'm just thinking about it i'll just be honest with you how powerful that statement
is because you know the ideal situation is for both mom and dad to raise children for the lord
that's the ideal situation that's the biblical model but you know what not everyone's in that
situation you're not in that situation you know i didn't grow up in that situation so i'm with you
on that one that's not ideal but you know it doesn't mean you can't raise the timothy though
and if you have unfeigned faith grandma pass it on to your daughter unis and unis can pass it also
on to timothy you know we have a family in here like that and you know all three of them i would
say have unfeigned faith they're always with the preaching they love the word of god and you know
what they passed it on to their grandson he's a godly young man in our church people love him
in our church they're all three of them are great examples they have unfeigned faith they've
obviously passed it on from one generation to the next you know mom do that like i don't know what
to what to give to my children i don't have a house to give to my children i don't have vehicles
to give to my children i don't have possessions then give your faith though give unfeigned faith
i don't have like millions of dollars to pass on to my children join the club none of us do
i want to pass on something of monetary wealth to my kids but you know what quite frankly if it
never happens it's okay because i'm gonna pass my faith through them their belief in the bible
salvation their love for church you know how to pass on the discipline of going to church
that's extremely that's extremely valuable the fact that my kids will grow up and say no matter
what we're going to be in church no matter what we're going to read the bible no matter what
we're going to win souls to christ no matter what we're going to believe and practice what the word
of god says that's an unfamed faith look at second timothy chapter 3 and verse 14 where does it start
though look at verse 14 but continue down the things which i was learning has been assured of
knowing of whom that was learned them and that from a child this is timothy paul speaking to timothy
and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise into
salvation through faith which is in christ jesus so as a child timothy was learning the word of
god and you know who was teaching him the word of god unis grandma lois you know they were teaching
him the word of god because paul is like you've known the bible you know what the word of god says
and that's why he tells them continue into things which you have learned and have been assured of
knowing of whom thou has learned them in other words timothy give credit to where credits do
you learned a lot of the word of god from mom now my kids learned the word of god from me because
they're in church listening to me preach but i'm just going to tell you right now the majority of
the content that they learned is from mom because she's she's at home with them and you know sometimes
in the morning i'm i'm in my room i'm reading doing my thing and i can just hear my wife teaching
the word of god to my kids now who can tell me and then you know they're just listening to the word
of god she's teaching in principles you know and kids are giving silly answers and you know
there's being kids but i promise you i promise you it's it's it's working though seeds are being
planted in their hearts the faith is being transferred we live in a generation that we
just live on our phones that's a fact parents you live on your phone all you want to do is consume
what the phone gives but you know what it's it's detrimental and you're wasting time precious time
that you can be using transferring your faith if you even have faith that is you better make
sure you're building your faith and you have something something of substance to transfer
to your children for them in the long run a godly mother passes their faith to their children and
here's my last point and i'm done and that is that a godly mother exemplifies that no one is
the exception to the rule of salvation i think of mary mary's a godly woman we love mary at this
church amen we just don't think she's sinless nor is she the mother of god obviously she's the
mother of jesus christ while he was here on this earth we don't believe in the immaculate conception
all these false doctrines that the roman catholic church teaches however mary is a godly woman
because the bible tells us in luke chapter one that she needed a savior jesus christ had to
save her too you know mary oh man she gave birth to jesus but even mary herself needed salvation
now how can we apply that well you know moms you can do no wrong to your children they think like
you're like the best right like the way children view their parents when they're little is just
like you're their heroes you have no flaws like you're just perfect like mom and dad are just
like the best and you know what that's that's a complete normal thing for them to for them to
view us as that's like a god-given thing but in light of that we need to communicate to them
dad needed salvation mom needed salvation son you need salvation too and as perfect as you
think mom and dad are we all sin and come short of the glory of god you know and so mothers make
sure that as you spend time with your children you plant seeds of salvation you plant seeds of
being a sinner deserving of hell but that jesus christ came and died on the cross to pay for your
sins because you have the most influence in that area for your little one you're the one who's
following that field of their hearts teaching them about salvation you know most of my kids
have heard salvation from from my wife now i got my daughter saved but my eldest son my wife got
him saved and i'm gonna tell you right now it came through her putting him to bed and as he's laying
there just contemplating about the things of god he would just ask her questions like what is hell
you know what is heaven what is eternal life sin what is sin and she'd just sit there with them
just explaining the biblical concepts just being patient with them and every night every couple of
nights she would just explain more and more until finally one day you know she gave him she would
give him the gospel all the time but finally one day he just got out went into his closet and called
upon the name of the lord but it was because mom was just constantly she wasn't just like just go
to bed talk about hell tomorrow watch cocoa melon it'll explain everything you know i'm sure my wife
was exhausted tired probably has a lot of things to do but you know she just right next to his bed
just answering all the questions about salvation eternity and then you know my wife would say that
he would ask a question she would answer and he would go good night mom you just kind of roll
over go to sleep but it was mulling over in his mind it was going in his in his heart you know it
produced salvation moms i'm telling you right now you hold that key that is the example of a godly
mother what am i saying this morning man moms you are important a major role in our lives thank you
putting up with us thank you for providing for us thank you for exemplifying what a mother is
thank you for giving us life and for those of you who are christians you know thank you for
preaching the gospel to us and teaching us the word of god let's pray father we thank you so much
for your word thank you so much for moms and everything that they mean to us lord pray that
we would honor them all the days of their life no mother is perfect but every mother is perfect for
us and i pray father god that you just bless us as we go on our way lord as we thank you for
our lives lord and everything you bless us with the parents you've given to us
and trials that come situations that arise lord and realizing that everything we experience as
children are preparing us for this moment and i just pray that you bless us as we go on our way
and thank you so much for the offering lord whatever it is they came in may all things
be done for your honor for your glory in jesus name we pray amen 119 song number 119 is our last song
till the storm passes by song number 119
sing on that first verse in the dark of the midnight have i haunted my face while the storm
blows above me and there's no hiding place in the crash of the thunder precious floor hear my cry
did we see there the storm passes by the storm says over wonder sounds so more till the cloud
roars from the sky holy is no trauma tomorrow the thunder sounds so more the cloud be sent
camping home may a great singing happy mother's day one last reminder that we do have the photo
booth there and so moms go take pictures make sure you tag us at first works bc and then if
you did not get a gift for mother's day please make sure you see one of our ushers for that
we want to get you a gift before you leave all right god bless you and have a great day