Thank you very much for watching.
Hey man, 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.
Song number 210, let's sing on that first verse.
Wonderful grace of Jesus, greater than all my sins.
How shall my tongue describe it?
Where shall his praise begin?
Taking away my burden
Zetting my spirit free
For the wonderful grace of Jesus
Reaches me
Wonderful the magic grace of Jesus
Fish and grace for even me.
Broughter than the scope of my transgressions,
Greater far than all my sin and shame.
Oh, magnify the precious leg of Jesus,
Raise His name.
Wonderful grace of Jesus, reaching to all the lost.
The map says praise of Jesus,
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea,
Higher than the mountain, sparkly like a fountain,
All sufficient grace for even being.
Rather than the scope of my transgressions,
Greater more than all my sins.
The purple grace of Jesus, reaching the mostly.
All the matches grace of Jesus
Deeper than the mighty rolling sea
Higher than the mountain
Sparkling like a fountain
Old sufficient grace for even wean
Rather than the scope of my transgression
Greater far than all my sin and shame
wonderful 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, who 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 going to 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
and thank you for giving us our moms.
And we would not be the men we are today without them.
And 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, for your glory.
We love you, we thank you, pray the sins in Jesus' name.
Amen, you may be seated.
Amen. Song number 180. Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Song number 180.
Song number 180. Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful on that first verse?
Just to save a simple soul like mine
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Wonderful, wonderful
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Wonderful it is to me
Foundless as the universe around me
Reaching to the forest all the way
Saving, keeping, love, it was that power that is why my heart can truly save.
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful, wonderful, wonderful?
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Love of God in Christ, how can it be?
This will be my end in ever-ending
Great redeeming love of Calvary
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Wonderful, wonderful
Isn't the love of Jesus something wonderful?
Wonderful it is to me
All right, 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 want to 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 7 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
children, or 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
so many times in teams there in the middle, the list of expecting mothers if you can keep
for the month of April, great month there.
Now, we do have, 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,
probably have a offering envelope within your bulletin that's labeled so die 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 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 going to have to tear down these walls here to make some more space,
put about 40 to 50 more chairs there, but...
that's eventually going to get full as well and instead of just continuing to go back further and
back further and tear them down more walls, probably just be best for us to buy an actual church
building that we can grow into for the next couple 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
Soda Seat offering today, and we will give you the number at the, we'll end up telling our members
when we get the full number by then and so being prayer over that we're excited
about it we have the TJ mission strip 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
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 want to be
of help, you can talk to Brother, or not Brother, Miss 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
To 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 you know
That works too
Oh, we need one for Caitlyn too because she's not here. Oh, wait. Oh, did you get one? Okay. Oh, there's two there, right?
Yes, thank you for telling me. Does anybody have a stat? Do you have the stats on Caitlyn's baby?
Who, who has the stats?
Geo, you have the stats for Caitlyn's baby? Oh, yeah.
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, that's a lot.
Is this a Mexican baby? No, I'm just kidding.
was born on the 7th at
1243 p.m. 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 mother's list and so being prayer for her 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 enjoy that little gift. Let's go ahead and sing our next song 136 master the tempest is raging
Number 136, Master the Tempest is Raging as our third song.
Song number 136.
Sing it on that first verse.
Master the Tempest is Raging.
The pillows are tossing high.
The sky is or shadowed with blackness.
No shelter or help is nigh.
Parasail, not that we perish, how can Salvia sleep?
When each moment so madly is madly aggraved in the angry deep,
No wind and no way shall obey my will, please be still.
Whether the wrath of the storm tossee, or demons, or men, or whatever it be,
no water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies.
Day home shall sweetly obey my will, peace be still.
Peace be still, they all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace, peace be still, master with anguish of spirit.
I will be my leader today.
The dads of my sad heart are troubled.
Awaken and save my prayer.
of sin and of anguish, sweet for my seeking soul.
And I perish, I perish, dear master, o hasten and take control.
The winds and the waves shall obey my will.
Whether the wrath of the storm tossing, or demons, or men, or whatever it be,
no water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey my will, peace be still, peace.
Peace be still, they hush out sweetly, Obey my will.
Peace, peace be still, master the terror is over.
The elements sweetly rest, earth, sun, in the calm lake is mirrored,
and heavens within my breast linger.
Leave me alone no more, and with joy I shall make the blessed harbor, and rest on that blissful shore.
Peace be still, whether the wrath of the storm taunts thee, or demons, or men, or whatever it is.
No water can swallow the ship where lies the master of ocean and earth and skies.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Peace be still, peace be still.
They all shall sweetly obey my will.
Great seeing and I forgot to mention also that we have a Mother's Day photo booth here in the corner
and so feel free to go use that after the service and if you can please tag us at our church at First Works BC
with those great pictures, and so I want to remind you about that.
And then a second thing about our offering that we're going to take right now,
you don't have to give through the envelope, you can give through Zell, you can give through PayPal,
just make sure you label it as the offering for the building.
And so, the Soda Seed offering, and let's go ahead and pray for the offering so that God would bless the giver and the gift of the like.
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 and we thank you. Pray the things in Jesus' name. Amen.
You could also turn to Proverbs 31.
Proverbs, chapter 31, the Bible reads,
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.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes strong drink, lest they drink and forget the law,
Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto 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 is our 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 doth 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 is like the merchant's ships, she bringeth her food from afar.
She riseeth also while it is yet night,
and giveeth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She considereth a field, and byeth it.
With the fruit of her hand, she planteth a vineyard.
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
She perceiveth that her merchandise is good.
Her candle goeth not out by night.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold to the dista.
She stretches out her hand to the poor, yea, she reaches 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 unto the merchant.
Strength and honor are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come.
She opened up her mouth with wisdom, and entered her tongue as the law of kindness.
She looked up well to the ways of her household, and needed 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 excelest 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 your 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 would 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
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
and 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 wanna make sure that as God's people,
we give honor to where honors do, right?
We wanna 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.
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 blamed 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 had to kind of just learn it on their own without the Bible.
And yet, they produced 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 bury 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 fulfill
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'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
Lynn 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 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 into women.
Don't base your life on, well, you know,
will I be accepted amongst women?
Right?
Well, I'm gonna 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, O Lemuel.
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 destroyeth kings.
And what did she refer into?
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 he 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 6 give strong drink unto that unto him that is ready to perish and
Wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. What's she saying? You know, you're not a person who's depressed
You're not a person who is 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 is 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
They 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.
It's very powerful.
And then he says in verse 10,
who can find a virtuous woman for a price
as far above ruby?
So then he gets into what type of woman
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 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 gonna go to Proverbs chapter six Proverbs chapter one
Get yourself a good woman
You know, and I think I think I'm speaking correctly here where when I say that every mom kind of worries for their sons
You know, we just kind of like, man,
what kind of woman is gonna marry my son?
And I don't think they mean that in a bad way,
but just, you know, it's their son.
You know, they're just worried
because that's their future, right?
And 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 he should have.
Look at Proverbs 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 just seem unreasonable sometimes, you know?
Man, all these rules and mom, you know,
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 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, hey, you're a little too strict.
I'm thinking, you taught me this.
What do you mean?
You're too strict, so I'm like, I got this from you.
But you know, grandmothers 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 just got to do with my mom tell 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 and other words
You know people who look at children who obey their parents. It's a very gracious site
It's like an ornament of grace upon their heads.
When we see obedient children, just marking down,
it's like, wow, they must have really good parents
who are teaching them right.
He says in 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 out not.
If they're telling you, let us look privilege,
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're 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 gonna listen to me,
is that we just need to move locations completely.
I mean, 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 die.
And in fact, they never even saw 20 years of age.
Hey, thank God that my mom put that chain
about the neck of my brother and about my sister.
in a way and drag 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 gonna tell you right now,
parents, because of experience,
because of love for their children,
they have somewhat of an innate wisdom
that God gives to them.
And quite frankly, 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.
Go to chapter 6, 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 associations and influences.
Not only that, as we mentioned in the very beginning, 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 tide 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 tied 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 wakeest 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 a lamp and the law's lighting reproofs of instruction are the way of life
Now when it says the commandment is lamp laws lights refer into the word of God, right?
But when it says the reproofs of instruction,
I believe it's 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 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 whipped in their lives.
Is there an exception to the rule?
Of course there's an exception,
but in general, Spankins produce godly people.
Law abiding citizens.
And you know what, it's the way of life.
That's what it says.
The reproofs of 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 whoop me join the club
It's the way of life
Now I was 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 then 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 gonna destroy your life.
And then the son's just like,
oh man, 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.
Let's not after her beauty in thine heart,
neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
You know, right now 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 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?
It's not so bad.
And you know what?
Your brain hasn't formed fully enough
to understand that yet.
But 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, mom's here, you're in church,
you're listening to the Bible,
you have more wisdom, more knowledge,
more discernment to go along with the wisdom
that you've received just living this life.
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
and 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 like it's always
scared of everything you know scared of the dark and look I used to be scared of
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 that was scary, you know?
But now it's just like, turn off all the lights.
This light bill is going to be crazy.
You know how hot it's going to be in the summer?
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.
And my mom would say, I'm the only monster here.
And she did her best to teach me courage to not be afraid.
And that's important, my friends.
They carry that with them throughout their life.
Look at Exodus chapter one, verse 15.
We're gonna look at the story here of the midwife
saving the children of Israel from the...
from the killing, from death of the decree from 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 Pua.
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, they need 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 saved 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 midwives sentence of 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 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.
He's afraid that because they're multiplying and because Egypt is practicing abortion and infanticide
that eventually the Israelites will outnumber them.
So there can arise a civil war and a revolt of the Israelites against the Egyptians.
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.
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, it's not what God
wants and so they allow them to deliver the children and 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 is already born.
Look what it says in verse 22 it says in pharaoh charge 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 2 if you would and look at verse number one
It says 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, obviously Egypt is a very wicked place to raise a child
but she's not allowing that to be an excuse to murder her child.
So what did she do?
She has her child and she tries to hide him for three months.
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 make and obviously by the time three months past
He's probably being louder and louder
So it's hard to hide him from the authorities and from Egypt and it says at verse three when she could no longer hide him
Because obviously he's making a lot of noise
She took for him an arc of bull rushes and dobbed it with slime and with pitch and put the child therein
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 Farrell 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 children.
Now, by the way, this is a side note here.
I like the fact that 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
Pharaoh'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 Pharaoh, Pharaoh's daughter,
shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew woman,
that she may nurse the child for thee?
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go, the maid went,
and called the child's mother.
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her,
take this child, then 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 gonna put him in an archable rushes in the riverbank, but she obviously knows that you know
Pharaoh's daughter is gonna see the child
Moses sister just kind of you know waits on the side there to see what's gonna happen
And so once she views
Pharaoh'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 we refer to there. It's our mama
And they end up coming out with him because the Pharaoh'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 Pharaoh's home.
It says in verse 10 that the child grew, and she brought him up unto Pharaoh's daughter,
and he became her son, and she called 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.
You see, the midwives are very brave.
They disobeyed the commandment of Pharaoh in order to save the men and 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. 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 Pharaoh 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's greater riches
than the treasures in Egypt.
For he had respect and to 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 gonna be there.
The parents are not always gonna be there.
And if you're constantly trying to protect your child
from pain and suffering and disappointment,
folks, you're gonna 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 wanna 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.
That's good.
And I'll be, oh, oh, oh, 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
We know I've seen kids in our church, you know who fall and they hurt themselves and we all just kind of look away
And they're just like
And they're just gonna walk
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 broke loose.
Ah!
You know, my kids are like that too.
I have one particular kid who's just,
brother's gonna be a great preacher when he grows up.
The amount of volume that he has.
You're a great preacher or a great singer.
I don't know one of the two.
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 tough enough 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 it 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 Nile 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 Nile River.
But what we can do is place them in the Ark of Bullrushes
when they go into the Nile 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 Bullrushes
to protect them from the elements of the river.
Now 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 gonna happen when I go away
Well, you better make sure you teach your son and your daughter's 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 arc of bullrushes
Because you know what, you can't dry up that river.
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 archival rushes,
which is Jesus Christ, the Bible.
Hey, here's another comparison to that archival rushes.
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 your best to put them in a church with preaching,
with the work of God.
Place them in the Ark of Bullrushes
of the local New Testament church
to make sure they make it through that Nile 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 Bullrushes,
which is the word of God.
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 Coco 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 bit. Hey, by the way, you turn off your adult Coco 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 bull rushes for them to go into
Because guess what there's gonna be a time when we put the archable rushes 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's 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
And 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 Hebrews 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, Jocobat doesn't get a lot of honor for that, but man, Jocobat did a great job.
When we get to heaven, we're going to meet Moses, but I want to meet Jocobat 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 didn't to 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 bear 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 have borne 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 have many children as the stars of the sky,
right?
And he's like 100 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 Hebrews 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?
Now go back to Hebrews, if you would.
Hebrews chapter 11, I want you to notice here,
in Hebrews 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
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 a 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.
That's a great practice.
Oh, you want this?
Why don't you pray for it?
You know, I use my mother-in-law's example
that, you know, 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, 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 is 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 friend or oh
Someone must have said something okay. Oh you have little faith
You probably would have gone to go buy the coconuts
instead of pray for the coconuts.
You would have paid for the coconuts
instead of pray for coconuts.
But you know what, I promise you
that increased the faith of the kids.
And they realize, you know, we need to pray for things more.
And I can attest that my brother-in-laws
and my sister-in-laws are people of faith.
Constantly praying for things.
I wanna teach my kids how to get things from God.
And I wanna teach my kids that mom and dad
can't provide everything for you.
Sometimes you're just gonna have to pray it down.
You know, I think of the offering my kids want to participate in the offering, but we can't you know
Kids we got our own offer. We gotta give we can't give you
Also an offering you need to pray for that and work for that and you know what 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 a dad. Let's pray for it mom. I
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 the art kids pray for things all the times 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 gonna do?
They're gonna 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 wanna instill faith in my children.
And you know what?
If you are well to do, praise God for that.
You need to work twice as hard
to make sure your kids have faith.
It's harder for you.
It's easy for us.
We're broke, son.
We can't have that, okay?
Pray.
That was easy.
But if you do have money to pay,
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 and dad will always buy this for us.
We're always gonna have these things.
No, you need to teach them that no,
you're not always gonna have these things.
And if you want something, pray for it,
and if you don't get it,
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.
And 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 what that means?
That means like when we take our kids to the Dollar Tree
or Daiso, my kids love it.
To them it's like, we take them there for Christmas,
they just love it.
They're just like, this is great.
Awesome.
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 1st Peter chapter 3 1st Peter chapter 3, 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?
You just didn't want to, you just read the story,
you'll find out, you know?
We love Abraham, but you know, thankfully,
he's not a perfect man, so we can use as an example
that we're not perfect too, right?
We can relate to that.
Now look at 1 Peter 3 verse 1, likewise you wives being subjection to your own husbands.
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 made 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 there 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 2 while they behold your chase 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 hitter 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're adorn yourself with godly chase conversation
Coupled with fear. He's giving a lot of marriage counseling here. Good stuff by the way
And then he gives into the example here in verse 5,
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 he talks about the holy women who trusted in God because of that verse 6
Even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, and I want you to notice this calling him Lord. Whoo
Dang what is what what did she want?
Now this doesn't mean like she's calling him Lord like your 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 it's someone who's in charge and so Sarah
exercise 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 what you say 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. It's time to look up eyes up here eyes up here
Your kids were 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 isn't 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's teaching here
that you should treat your husband as the boss,
and that is an expression of faith.
Listen, look at this.
Whose daughters ye are as long as ye do well
and are not afraid with any amazement?
What does that mean?
You expect me to obey 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 would disrespect their husbands
You disrespect your husband your son would 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, this says in verse seven,
likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge,
giving honor unto 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.
But the point 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 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?
My wife goes along with it,
and sometimes I disregard her wisdom,
and I go with plan A,
and I realize I actually was a plan C.
That 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.
I'll make sure I remember that.
You know, women have really good memories, right?
And you know, it could work there to detriment though.
She's not like, all right, I'm gonna,
and then you know, four months down the road,
we'll remember when you, you know,
no, you gotta kind of forgive and forget.
Your team worked together, you're not enemies,
you're not adversaries.
And just remember, your marriage is an example of what your children are going to look for when they're older.
So keep that in mind.
I'm running out of time here.
Let me go to 2 Timothy 1.
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 temple.
And she ends up bearing Samuel
and she ended up keeping her promise.
She gave him unto the Lord.
He ended up serving in the temple
and being a great man of God.
I mean, Samuel's one of the top tier people
of the Bible as well,
but it's because of his mother's prayer.
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 gonna do something,
let 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?
It's an old way of saying a contract.
And 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, through thick and thin, better for worse, richer for poorer,
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 1 verse 5 when I call to remember this is the Apostle Paul writing to Timothy
He says when I call to remembrance the unfaith faith that is in thee which dwell first in thy grandmother Lois
Wow
and thy mother Eunice, 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 is his mother.
And you know what?
The apostle Paul obviously came into contact
with both of these women.
Cause he's like, your grandma has unfaithing 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 now, 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 unfaithful faith, grandma,
pass it on to your daughter, Eunice,
and Eunice can pass it also on to Timothy.
You know, we have a family in here like that.
And you know what, all three of them,
I would say have unfaithful 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 unfaithful faith.
They've obviously passed it on
from one generation to the next.
You know what mom, do that.
Like I don't know what to give to my children.
I don't know how the house to give to my children.
I don't have vehicles to give to my children.
I don't know how to possess.
Then give your faith though.
Give unfaithful 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 going to pass my faith in that.
Their belief in the Bible, salvation,
their love for church.
You don't want to pass on the discipline of going to church.
That's extremely, that's extremely valuable.
In fact, my kids will grow up and say,
no matter what, we're gonna be in church.
No matter what, we're gonna read the Bible.
No matter what, we're gonna win souls to Christ.
No matter what, we're gonna believe and practice
what the Word of God says.
That's an unfaithful faith.
Look at 2 Timothy chapter three,
and verse 14, where does this start though?
Look at verse 14, but continue down the things
which Thou has learned and has been assured of,
knowing of whom Thou has learned them.
And that from a child, this is Timothy,
Paul's speaking to Timothy,
and that from a child,
thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise
and to salvation through faith,
which is in Christ Jesus.
So as a child, Timothy was learned in the word of God.
And you know who was teaching him the word of God?
Eunice.
Grandma Lois.
You know?
They were teaching him the word of God.
because Paul's 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 hast learned them.
In other words, Timothy, give credit to where credit is due.
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 gonna tell you right now,
the majority of the content that they learn is from mom.
Because she's at home with them.
And, you know, sometimes in the morning, 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 them principles, you know,
and kids are giving silly answers, and, you know,
just being kids, but I promise you, I promise you,
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
There'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 1 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 a complete normal thing
for them to view as ass.
That's like a God-given thing.
But in light of that, we need to communicate to them,
But mom needed salvation though, 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.
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
You have the most influence in that area for your little one
You're the one who's bowing 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 by 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 your questions like
Mom, what is hell?
You know, what is heaven?
What is eternal life?
Sin, what is sin?
And she 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.
Till finally one day, 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!
We'll talk about hell tomorrow.
Watch Coco Mellon, it'll explain everything.
You know, I'm sure my wife was exhausted.
She's tired, she probably has a lot of things to do,
but you know what, 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, goodnight, mom.
You just kind of roll over and go to sleep.
But it was mulling over in his mind.
It was going in his heart.
You know what, 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.
You've played a major role in our lives.
Thank you for 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 our moms and everything that they mean to us, Lord.
I 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've blessed us with, the parents you've given
to us, and the trials that come, and the 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 that came in.
May all things be done for your honor and for your glory.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
119 song number 119 as our last song until the storm passes by song number 119
we'll sing it on that first verse
in the dark of the midnight have i huffed hit my face while the storm
House above me, and there's no hiding place Mid the crash of the thunder, precious floor
Hear my cry, keep me safe Till the storm passes by
The thunder sounds the warm till the clouds roll forever from the sky, holy f-
But I know thou art with me, and tomorrow I'll rise
Where the storms never darken the skies
Till the storm passes over
Let me stand in thy presence, on that bright peaceful shore,
where the tempest never comes.
Lord, may I?
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.
I don't know what I'm talking about.