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Good morning everyone welcome to steadfast Baptist Church
If you could please find your seats and grab your songbooks, we're gonna sing 409 the fight is on
409 the fight is on
Let's start it out this morning 409 the fight is on
The fight
The trumpet sound is ringing out the
The price will soon
The fight is on
Soldier and face-to-face
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With
The fight is on
409 409 on the second
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The fight
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Great singing let's open up in a word of prayer Heavenly Father
Thank you for the opportunity to be in such a great church this morning
And thank you for all the mothers and all of our lives and all the sacrifices that they've made for us and the great works
That they do
Spiritually and physically pray that you bless them all this morning. Do you say we pray? Amen?
All right, let's go to 230
heavenly sunlight
Two three zero heavenly sunlight
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Good morning, happy Mother's Day. Thank you so much for coming. If you need a bulletin just lift up your hand nice and high
Also, we do have a small gift that we wanted to give to all the mothers today and so brother
Oz and our ushers will be coming by and it's either I figured a coffee or an ice cream
So you get to pick and we have we have enough to give everyone a coffee if that's what you prefer
I figured that's what people would like so they'll come by and for all you mothers that are in the service this morning
We would love to just hand you a small simple gift on the front of
Bulletin we have a Bible memory passage Psalm 59 verse 2 so we're working on a new Psalm
If you can quote this as a child 18 or under you can get receive a special treat on Wednesday night service
If you are able to quote the entire chapter, then there's a prize for all ages
You just have to quote that to a non family member on the inside
we have our service and soul winning time as well as our church stats down below and
Then on the right we have a list of several expecting ladies and
We have our prayer list if you have any additional prayer requests
You can always email those in or you could even fill out one of our communication cards slip that into the offering plate
upcoming events
May 18th
That is this upcoming Saturday is our preaching class. It's a final one
May 19th is a graduation
Celebration for those who have graduated
also, there is a wedding in honor of Josh Garcia and Cynthia Navajar that's planned for June 8th and
They actually live down in the pure words area down in Houston area
But they still want to just invite people if they would like to come to the ceremony and get to meet them
And so even though you may not have met them before or know them if you want to attend you're welcome
I believe it's gonna be 3 p.m. On that Saturday
That's pretty much all I have as far as announcements. We're gonna sing Psalm
147 this morning. It's actually in our special handouts Psalm 147
They're on the first
To our God for it is pleasant and praises come
Really heal it the broken in our divided
Now
He called it by their names
And great
The meek
Sing on to the Lord with thanks giving sing praise upon
our
Oh
The young Ravens which cry
He the lighted in the strength of the horse he take
My pleasure
The legs of a man the Lord take pleasure in them that fear him in those
That hope in his mercy
Great
Oh
Then the bars of I can't see
My children
With the finest of the wheat he sent
for these
Commandment upon earth his word run it very swiftly
Scattered
Scatter it like
His eyes like
He's in his word and melted
And the waters flow
Word on to take up his statutes and his judgments on to
He
Great singing if you turn your Bibles to Proverbs 23
We'll pass the offering plates around and we'll read Proverbs chapter 23 the entire chapter
Proverbs 23 the entire chapter
You
Proverbs 23 the Bible reads when thou sit is to eat with a ruler consider
diligently what is before thee and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite be not desirous of
His dainties for they are deceitful meet labor not to be rich cease from thine own wisdom
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings
They fly away as an eagle toward heaven eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye neither
Desire thou his dainty meets for as he thinketh in his heart
So is he eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words
Speak not in the ears of a fool for he will despise the wisdom of thy words
Remove not the old landmark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless for their Redeemer is mighty
He shall plead their cause with thee
Apply thine heart unto instruction in thine ears to the words of knowledge
Withhold not correction from the child for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die
Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell
My son if thine heart be wise my heart shall rejoice even mine
Yea, my reigns shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things
Let not thine heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long
For surely there is an end and thine expectation shall not be cut off
Hear thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way be not among wine bibbers among
riotous eaters of flesh for the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags
Harken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old buy the truth and sell it not
Also wisdom and instruction and understanding
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice and he that beget it the wise child shall have joy of him
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bear thee shall rejoice
My son give me thine heart and let not thine eyes observe my ways
For a whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit
She also lieth and weighed as for a prey and increase at the transgressors among men who hath woe
Who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixed wine
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth this color in the cup what it moveth itself aright
At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder
Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things
Gay thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top
Of a mast they have stricken me shout thou say and I was not sick
They have beaten me and I felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again
Let's bow our heads for a word of prayer father in heaven. I pray that you would bless all the mothers out there and
Especially those who are raising their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord
I also pray that you fill pastor Shelly with your spirit and enable him to preach his sermon for us this morning with power
We love you in in Jesus name. I pray. Amen
Amen I want to look at verse 22. The Bible says harken unto thy father that begat thee and
despise not thy mother
when she is old and
Here in this proverb. It's giving us a specific scenario specific
timeline as far as when people might have some kind of ill will or
May despise their mother when she gets older
And of course as your mother gets older you get older as well. And I believe that it's very common
It's very natural for us to distance ourselves from our parents as we get older
Sometimes we think we're smarter wiser and frankly we often forget
What our parents have done for us and so there's a tendency for humanity to be a little bit disrespectful
Towards their mother to not appreciate their mother
to look at their mother as being a burden or being a problem or being someone they don't want to be around and
I believe that this proverb is trying to give us some some great advice here that even if your mother gets older
We need to make sure that we're still loving her and appreciating her and specifically saying thanks to mom
You know today is Mother's Day and I have no problem celebrating that day. I think it's a great idea. It's a great
Concept for us to thank our moms to bless our moms to appreciate our moms
And so the title of my sermon is say thanks to mom
Say thanks to mom and I have three points as to why I believe you should be saying thank you to your mother
But I want to also make it clear that many people are not doing this
This is something that I know it's the celebration of Mother's Day, but people are not doing this in general
You know a lot of people think like okay
I said thanks on one day out of 365 days out of the year on Mother's Day specifically, so I'm good
But you know the reminder should be not just for today
The reminder should be for every day of your life that you're thankful towards your mother and have an appreciation for her on
Every day and every part of your life that you're not just despising or
364 days and then oh
Thanks, mom on one day or if it's a leap year, of course 365 and then the one sorry
That's for flat earthers. They're stupid. They don't understand the calendars and stuff like that
Go go to Proverbs chapter 30 go to Proverbs chapter 30
but we need to say thanks to our mother and it's a
Evil and a wicked generation that does not appreciate their mother
Being a mother today is looked down upon in society
it's looked as being inferior to having a career or elevating self or
Indulging oneself today many women praise the fact that they don't have children
Many women today are going out and pretending like their lives are so much happier and better because they're not a mother
So many women today look at the idea of having a lot of children as being such a negative thing
Or a horrible thing or I could never imagine myself doing this
And it's just a shame that our culture has gotten to a point where they really look down on motherhood
When it's one of the greatest things that we have in our society is women being a mother and in fact
None of us would be here without a mother
You know all these people that are pro-abortion
What hypocrisy for them to even have a position that their their mother didn't abort them
If there's such an advocate for abortion, why don't they start with themselves?
Because a lot of them are late-term abortionists. Okay. Well, let's go really late-term and you can start with yourself
Okay, because you know what mothers are great mothers are wonderful
we are here because of our mother and I think sometimes we just forget that point and
We just kind of focus on ourselves or our current situation and people look at their mother. Oh, she's old
My mother's a burden
My mother doesn't know as much information as I know
She wasn't she didn't grow up with the internet and she didn't grow up with all these cool things
so she's ignorant or foolish, but you know, there's just a bad attitude and
Proverbs chapter 30 verse 11 warns
It says there is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother
The Bible warns that there are generations there are groups of people there are cultures that do not generally bless their mother
And I believe we're seeing that in our current society in America that many people have a negative
attitude towards their parents they they have a strong
Distaste or just ill-favoredness towards their mother and you know what it's a wicked ideology
We should be saying thanks to mom and not just a day but on a regular basis
we should be blessing our mother and loving our mother and
I'm gonna give you three points as to why you should always be saying and thanks to your mom
But go if you would back to Proverbs chapter 4 point number one is the fact that your mom loved you
It doesn't matter what mom you had. It doesn't matter who your mother was. She did love you now again
Do some mothers love more than others
Absolutely, does everybody have the exact same scenario and the exact same mother?
No, but your mom did love you to some degree. Otherwise, you wouldn't even exist
She
Carried you in her womb. She gave birth to you
she gave you food and nourishment and
I'm sure that she even did many other things than that, but your mother did give you life
And so, you know today when abortion and alternatives
Are ever increasing just the fact that she would even carry you in her womb shows at least some
level of love
okay, and so we need to make sure that we're willing to say thank you to our mother and
Some people may not even have been raised by their biological mother
Maybe they were raised by someone else or they were adopted and they had some other woman in their life
That was like a mother unto them whether that was a grandparent whether that was an adoptive mother
You know what that person should also be told
Thank you and can be looked to as a mother figure in your life. And so we should make sure that we
appreciate our mothers for the love that they shared towards us for the love that they bestowed upon us and
Proverbs chapter 4. I wanted to look at verse number 3
You
Know no one really loves
Like a mother and I think of this proverb is really important to that point
it says this for I was my father's son tender and it says this and
Only beloved in the sight of my mother. Have you ever heard this phrase a face that only a mother can love?
Some people have that
But isn't it nice. There's always that caveat. It's like boy, you're so ugly
But your mother still loves you. Okay, it's like you could be the ugliest duckling
You could be just having everything wrong, but somehow the mother just still loves you
Okay, and it just goes to show how much a mother
Just maternal instinct. She just has so much more love
For her children than anybody else and that should be appreciated
that should be
Told thank you for having such a great love and many times in
Comparison even myself. I feel like my wife shows a lot more love to our children in all kinds of ways
Now, of course, I love my children greatly
I would be willing to die for them
But there are certain things that my wife does and loves them more than I do
You know whenever they need comfort whenever they need support, you know, I'm just kind of like get over it
It's not like I don't love them
But I don't love them the same way that my wife does my wife will love them in a unique way
She'll empathize with them in a different way and she bestows so much more care and attention
And affection towards them then perhaps I would especially even the babies
You know as a dude, I love my baby, but I'm just not like super into babies
Okay, like I'm not just like the goo gaga and I just want to hold them all the time
And and show them as much affection and my wife. She's the you know, almost the antithesis in some ways
She just loves holding her babies and giving them so much love and affection and and care and attention
And I just know that my child would not get that if it was only up to me
If it's only up to dudes, you know
Babies would just not have that same love and care and affection and attention to detail, you know, especially
I mean she thinks about everything every breath. I'm just like it's fine. You know, it's just like whatever
Go if you would to Titus chapter 2. I want to go to the New Testament for a moment. Go to Titus chapter number 2
You know, there's there's certain things that
Women instinctively think about care about there's this maternal instinct that's inside women. That's just so much different
and you know what God bless that I'm so glad that my
Infants and my babies and my toddlers get all this extra special attention and love and affection from their mother and
The thing is is I can't remember that part of my life. I
Mean who in here remembers when they were one year old or two years old
But see I know that that happened for me
Not because I know like I can remember the experience or I pictures or video evidence, but I just know that's how it works
That's just how it happens
I see how my wife treats my children and I know someone must have done that for me and
I even know specifically because my mom's told me I was breastfed. So my mom
obviously went through a lot of
Difficulty and and all kinds of the nuances that it comes with breastfeeding breastfeeding can be difficult for some it can be painful at times
It can be frustrating to be on demand
You know what I greatly appreciate that my mother loved me in that way and
Even though I can't remember that even though I have zero memory of that
You know, I should still be appreciative of that fact and I think that the Bible is trying to warn us
Hey, you probably forgot all the great things your mom did. That's why you have such a negative attitude towards your mother
And you should pay attention especially you women that have little children. You should recognize wow, this is pretty hard
There's a lot of effort energy here. My mom must have done a lot for me and
Let's be honest you women that have children. You have a lot of thankless days
It's not like your little babies and toddlers and kids are constantly saying like thanks for that meal and thanks for this
You know, they're usually pretty unappreciative by nature
They're pretty
Narcissistic by nature they kind of only care about themselves
They're kind of focused on me
And in fact, I would say and probably argue that most children are
More likely to complain about the meals that they receive then say thanks for the meals that they receive, right?
I'm not gonna name in from all the ladies, but I'm sure it's it's probably pretty loud out there. Okay, I
mean that's just that's just kind of the reality and
Unfortunately, people are just not appreciating their moms
For what they do now the aged women in the Bible are supposed to instruct the younger women
In a particular way it says in Titus chapter number 2 verse 3 through 4 the aged women
likewise that they be in behavior as
Become of holiness not false accusers not given to much wine
Teachers of good things that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love
Their children, you know what this tells me is it tells me that women sometimes
They may not always understand all the best ways to love their children
that maybe there's actually a learning curve that we can take some guidance and we can take some instruction from
the older generation and ask them advice on how to
love our children and the things to do and
Where does that come from it comes from your mother who's older?
You know don't look at oh, my mom's older. She doesn't know what's going on
No, oftentimes we need to look to our mother and ask her advice on
How to raise our children how to love our children. What are some tips? What are some?
Tools and again, some people might think like my mom's not even saved or my mom's not a Christian
Yeah
But she's a mother and there's just so much you can learn from experience and it's great to take the experiences that you have from
Your mother and your grandmother and your aunt's and just older ladies and help have them help you
Understand what it means to love a child what it means to love your husband and you know, it's a shame that
We don't have more good examples of this
But and you ladies as you grow older
You need to remind yourself of these things and say I want to be a good example under the younger generation and to show them
Love their children because it's such an important aspect of motherhood and we know that mothers
Just love differently than the rest of us go view it to 1st
Corinthians chapter number 13 go to 1st Corinthians chapter number 13
You know the Bible
Talks about love in a very specific way in 1st Corinthians chapter 13. It uses the word charity and
my
Way of understanding the word charity is
The if you couple two different words together
because some modern versions will translate the word charity in 1st Corinthians 13 is love and
That that's not inaccurate
That's not saying that's not like a bad word to substitute there because that's what that means
But I think to get maybe a truer sense of what charity is. I usually say it's true love
It's true love because our word for love's pretty broad
We can talk about like loving pizza or loving football or in fact, sometimes people even love things that are bad
Loving iniquity or loving evil or loving money, you know, those are not good forms of love
They're not a true sense of love. And so when we talk about charity, I believe what we're talking about is true
love
Now charity is in the Bible is kind of the pinnacle of Christianity
it really is the ultimate goal like we should all strive to have charity in our lives and
The charity demonstrated in the Bible is towards other people
It's not towards ourselves and specifically Jesus Christ really emphasizes charity towards those
Whom do not deserve it
Are not people that are necessarily already your friends or close relatives or family because he says even the unsaved
love their own
even the ungodly love their own and
What I think first Corinthians 13 kind of shows us is how mothers in general
exhibit a lot of attributes of charity towards their children and we should learn and notice how a mother treats her children and
Then we should take from that an example of how we should exhibit charity towards the ungodly towards the unsaved
Towards other people in our lives and showing that same kind of compassion
Love and appreciation for people and we have in 1st Corinthians 13 verse 4. It says this charity suffereth long and
is kind so just as mothers show just a
Unwavering kindness towards their children is how we should treat other people and and it's just kind of incredible to me
Sometimes when I think about it
Just how especially my certain toddlers and some of the children that we have
Just my wife just always has such a positive attitude towards them now
Sometimes it gets to a point where it changes
Okay, and then we have to apply a lot of discipline
But I'm just saying like there's there's especially this special moment in time
where they kind of transition from a baby to a toddler and
it's just like my wife just only ever has positive feelings towards that child and
It's kind of funny because we had Jane when we had James he was kind of a tougher baby, but we had this phrase
We always say we always say we never spank James
Okay, and it was just because he's kind of in this age where you don't really he wouldn't really get discipline
And so we're not gonna do that and we were just kind of talking about it in a funny way
Like we just love him, right?
We only ever show compassion and and love and affection towards him now that phrase doesn't last forever
Okay, folks
but it obviously changed eventually and once he can understand discipline boy did he need some and still does but
There's this moment in time where you know, you just have these little tiny infants and babies and as they're transitioning
it's kind of like this only love phase and
Kindness that you show towards those babies and it's special. It's unique
It's it's fun. It's exciting and it's it's fun to see my wife just kind of light up with joy and she's just so
Enamored with her own child and I believe that that innate
personality trait that innate
emotion is something that we should strive towards having towards the lost and having towards people and and having a general
Kindness towards individuals. I know there's a lot of articles about our church that suggests that we're not very kind
But we should be kind in our personal one-on-one relationships and many times people don't experience
What they assume or expect from a fundamental badness, they'll say oh you guys are mean and harsh and whatever
But in reality when they talk to us and they're around us, they should they should feel kindness now again
I'm not saying that the false prophets are gonna feel kindness from me because they won't okay
I'm not saying that certain evil
Reprobates of our society that I'm gonna go and love and be sweet and kind to but you know the people that are not those
rare exceptions should feel the love coming from genuine Christianity the
charity and the kindness and you know where that comes from you can learn that from the mothers of today and
That's a reason why we should thank our moms is because there was a point in our lives where your mom just showed
You love and you didn't deserve it
You didn't deserve it you were a brat you threw up on yourself
or you made a mess or you soiled yourself or you had a blowout or
You just you ruined something. I mean babies and toddlers break things and ruin things
I've seen my toddlers. They'll grab my wife's earrings and just rip them or grab her hair or scratch her
I mean, there's just all kinds of things that babies and toddlers do but they don't know any better
And you know, it's so wonderful to see my wife and to see mothers just showing grace and kindness
And love and compassion towards that individual and just like this toddler doesn't know what they're doing
That's how we should view the loss today that yeah
Maybe they make claws and scratches and pull and throw up on themselves and do whatever
But we can still show them grace and kindness just like our moms did to us. Oh
Oh
We should render evil for evil
No
We should render good for evil and blessing for cursing and we should be kind under them just like mothers were kind and us and
We should recognize that's a reason to say
Thanks to mom is the kindness and the grace that she showed towards us and I guarantee most of that you don't even remember
But I know it happened I know it happened
Look at this verse a little bit further. Let's keep reading. It says charity envious not
Charity Vontith not itself is not puffed up
You know, it's not about mom getting her way or what she wants
but rather she's caring about the best for her children and she's putting her children first and she's not getting envious of
the things that her children have
Verse five does not behave itself unseemly seeketh not her own
You know as a mother
You're having to elevate the needs and the desires of other people I constantly see my wife and other mothers
Sacrificing in all kinds of different ways, you know when it comes to meals, they're not getting served first
They're serving the children first getting dressed. They're getting them dressed first getting to bed. They're putting them to bed first, right?
They're kind of just elevating the needs of their children
Above their own they're not seeking their own
They're not looking at children as servants
But rather they're serving their children and I know that that happened for us as well
Another great reason to see the love of our our mothers. It says is he's not easily provoked
You know, I mean that's that's difficult because children will provoke you I
Mean children they get on like every last nerve
I'm sometimes sometimes I have to watch the kids for a few hours and I'm thinking how does she do this all day?
Like I don't even know how that's possible because I'm much obviously easier provoked than they than she is, right?
She's so much more willing to be around them and want to be around them and that just goes to show like women just
Have just this ability to be around frustrating situations more than we do. I
Mean that's incredible to think about how much they have to put put up with and go through and be provoked
And again, that's an abs that's a picture of charity
It's an example of charity verse 5 also says think it no evil
You know, there's nothing quite like how much a mother believes in her child
You you see especially in sporting events
Mom's going out and cheering for their sons and being excited for their children, even though their children are terrible at that sport
Even though their child is not good and there's no one else cheering them on but mom is
Right, and it's just it's kind of an incredible thing
She's not thinking evil of her child. She's thinking the best of her child. She believes in her child. She roots for a child and
It's even crazy when you think about it, but certain evil people of our society
Certain people that go out and commit horrible crimes and do horrible things
There will be kids that go out and they'll commit a drunk driving accident. They'll kill someone they'll rob from someone
They'll steal from someone and then they'll have an interviewer come and report her come and interview the mom and she's like
He's really a good kid at heart
You're just thinking like no, he's not
He really just is pretty evil, okay
But it's just like somehow mom just sees the good in her child
Even when he's a rotten person and again, sometimes that can be taken to too much of an extreme
but isn't it nice to have someone that's willing to just kind of always be on your side and
Always be an advocate and always think the best of you and always feel like you could be a better person and you know what?
That's typically your mother
It's typically your mother who has that just gracious attitude
That just always kind of believed in you always kind of thinks the best of you is always kind of on your side
It's always kind of on your team and you know what?
That's a special thing to have in a mother and that's a reason to say thanks to your mom
Now again, that doesn't mean that we don't have sometimes disagreements with our parents
That doesn't mean sometimes our parents don't disappoint us or let us down
But I guarantee there's been many times where your mom believed in you when no one else did
there's been many times when your mom thought positively of you when it probably wasn't warranted and
most of the time moms probably think better of you than you think of yourself and
it's just encouraging to have that thought process to have a mom that's
Thinking of us and on our team and thinking good of us showing us compassion when we fail
Comforting us when we fail
whenever you do
Compete or you do
Go out in business and maybe you fail
It's usually the mom that's still there to try and encourage you to support you to come for you
Whereas maybe your teammates are like quit the team, you know find a different hobby
Like take two weeks off and quit, you know
They're just that's that's typically a lot of the response you get but your mom is still there to come for you and encourage
You and try to support you even in your failures even in your miseries even in your lowest moments often a mother is there
to come alongside and to comfort and to
Just assist in your life and it's an aspect of charity again. I'm not saying that
Every single mom is always doing this all the time
But what I'm trying to help you understand is that much of your life this probably did happen and many of these things you may
Have forgotten or you may never remember because you're too young
but your mom did these things most of our mothers are doing these things even today and
You know for those of us that still have a mom
My mom is not with me today, and that's very sad. My mom never got to meet any of my children, which definitely
makes me
Sad when I think about it just because my mom was such a great mom
And my mom loved grandchildren greatly and she really believed in them
And I could see this from her example in many ways where?
Some of my nieces and nephews
Which were her grandchildren?
Were not good had a lot of problems
but my mom just still had just like a
positive attitude towards that child and thought good for that child and tried to encourage that child to do good and I know that she
Constantly prayed for them and loved them and showered them with gifts and attention and affection and
You know it's it's really it was really special at least that I got to see it
Even if it wasn't for me or my children just to see that example set
And I know that my mom she always believed in me and was really positive
And you know I played a lot of sports growing up. That was just my life
I played a lot of different sports played soccer played hockey and
Mostly I played golf competitively, and I played golf even in college and
You know my dad
His attitude would always be dependent upon how I did in sports, okay?
If I did great he was really happy and positive about it, and if I was not doing good
It was a very different story, okay?
It's a lot of let go Brandon type. You know story, okay?
but
My mom it didn't matter if I won the golf tournament, or if I got dead last
She still loved me and treated me the same every time you know I was around her
You know that's that's kind of nice to know like hey at least somebody's
Positive and encouraging and just loves you no matter what and is gonna treat you differently based on that particular experience
and my mom would still believe in me even if I had struggles or failures and
My mom would constantly praise me when I did not feel like it was it was warranted whatsoever, and you know my mom was a great mom
I I really I
Can't complain at all because I know that my mom loved me greatly, and she showed me all kinds of special affection
In my life, and it's good to remind ourselves of these things
And you know I wish that I could remind myself so I could say thank you to mom today
But at the end of the day
You know what I can do is I can take that love that she showed towards me
And I can love other people in that way, and that's a better way to say thanks to my mom a better way
to say thanks to my mom is to love people like she did as
Opposed to just telling her. Thank you, and I guarantee at the end of the day your mom cares more about you being a good
person
About you loving people and being kind and having charity in your life, then she cares about you just saying thanks to her
Moms would care way more that you're a good child
And you love other people and you love your children and never tell her thank you and never send her a card
Then to be someone that doesn't love her love your children doesn't do the right thing
But sends her a really fancy bouquet on Mother's Day
You know it's not about the symbol
Obviously there's nothing wrong with blessing your mom or doing something special for her on this day
But you know what makes moms happy on Mother's Day
Good children
You know makes them sad bad children that makes them disappointed
Because for a mom her children is her work for a mom
This is her portfolio for a mom. This is her career. You know. There's no greater career than your children and
You are a reflection of her work
And so when you're a good child you're encouraging your mother to say you did a good job. You loved me
I'm not taking the grace and the compassion and the charity that you bestowed on me, and I'm
Throwing it away
it's not in vain but rather you can see the fruit of the love and the
compassion and the joy and the effort and the energy and the investment that you made and
It's not about just oh, I called my mom and said thanks on Mother's Day. Oh, I sent her a text
Oh, I sent her a meme look. You know it's it's about being a good child. It's about loving your spouse
It's about loving your children
It's about doing the right thing and taking the love she gave you and loving other people
That is gonna say thanks to mom
It
Says in verse number six rejoiceth not iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth
Beareth all things believeth all things hopeeth all things endureth all things how many things have mothers endured today all of your attitudes
All of your disobedience I
Know that my mom had to put up with a lot because my children disobey a lot
Okay, and sometimes it's like that seems like that's me. You know that's my attitude
or that's my problem and
You know just how much did moms have to deal with?
Did they have to just endure and go through but they just still loved they still did good under their children
Hope of all things. They're believing all things. They're bearing. I mean, it's not even just enduring
it's like notice in this it's like bearing and
Enduring just so many different things that mothers have to go through
hormones I
You know and especially in the later years I
Hear I don't have a lot of experience of this
but I hear that it's sometimes even harder when they're teenagers because
They say little kids little problems big kids big problems, and you have to go through the heartaches the
Disappointments the the big the bigger problems the bigger fights. You know it's a lot easier to
Lose an argument when you're five
Okay, but when they're 15 16 17 and they just the teenagers think they've literally conquered the world mentally
They think that they are so much wiser than their parents and this the arguments
the
disagreements the grief that we can give towards our parents when we
Disobey them and go against their instruction and go against their wisdom
You know it's a lot. It's a lot to bear. It's a lot to endure and
Even frankly speaking how many parents have to endure and bear?
bad adult children and
That's just that's just got to hurt
You know that's got to hurt. It's got to be painful and
Yet many times they still love their children. They still show compassion and affection towards them
Maybe they don't agree with some of the decisions. They've made I know that a lot of parents
Have even sacrificed for their children to go to college, and then they literally wasted it
You know I know people like they started out going to college
I know individuals whose parents put a lot of money and energy they spent a lot of time working hard and
their child went to college and they literally failed every single class and
didn't do anything and then like
even on top of that they like knock people up and do drugs and just like commit crimes and
Total cars and just like all kinds of horrible things
you know that's difficult and
It's difficult because not only that could be your brother that could be your sister that could be someone else
And then they still have to love you they still have to go through all these different
Difficulties, it'd be easy to go through that experience and be like well. I'm done
I'm done showing any love and compassion towards you brats, right
It's over and you know sometimes people can get that way and that's sad
But many times mothers they just keep loving anyways they keep saying you know what I'm gonna still love my children
Even though I might have been burned by your brother or burned by your sister or even burned by you
I'm still gonna show love and compassion and charity and grace towards you
And you know I think we can learn a lot from mothers in general that they show a love that's unique to us
Just just being picky on food
And I get to experience this on a slight scale because sometimes I make dinner
And when I do make dinner it is there's an extra special
Irritation when the child doesn't want to eat it
Like it's it's irritating when your kids don't want to eat
But there's just this little extra special irritation when you've made the meal
Okay, and so you know for us men many of us don't necessarily cook or make the meals
But we need to appreciate that our wives and our mothers that are spending all this time effort and energy making the meal
You know that when a child is like ew I don't want this I don't like this whatever
You know it's like you're gonna eat it. You know it's like shut up. You know
Now of course when they're really young sometimes they can't even control it
I remember one time there's there's only been like one time I can think of my wife making a meal
That wasn't very good, but it was funny. Just because it wasn't very good
I wasn't gonna say anything, but her little baby toddler. He just tries a bite, and he's like mommy. This is gross
And we just both laughed because it was just it was just kind of funny
But you know if you're old enough to have gotten that joke you never say that okay
Never say that you just grin and grin and eat it and just choke it down and just say
You know this is great. I don't need anymore. I'm so really satisfied
But at the end of the day you know
Moms have to put up with a lot of disappointment a lot of the pickiness the moodiness
Attitudes I know me as a kid. I constantly changed what food I liked
I don't know whose kids constantly change what food they like okay? There's a few people all right
I mean for me my my parents and my sister especially got really mad because it would be like they would make me a
Meal thinking I really like it
And I'm like I don't like that anymore, and it would just really rub the wrong way
It's like no you like that meal. You're gonna keep liking that meal right and
It's just there's so many little nuances like this the moms have to go through all the time
Fighting on clothes fighting on bedtime fighting on food fighting on just using the bathroom
Appropriately fighting on cleaning fighting on schooling fighting on everything
You know fighting on just getting in the car
fighting on getting out of the car
Them fighting with their brother and their sister
You know they're just so much that the mom has to constantly just deal with and she's just a constant conflict
Resolution manager you know she's constantly having to get in there mediate between all these parties and and fix all these problems and
There's just so much love that's there that I think we just forget and we don't appreciate it
You know that's the wrong attitude go to Proverbs 31 go to Proverbs chapter 31. I want to highlight a few more verses here, but
Mothers have a lot of love that I think we sometimes forget. We don't appreciate and it's good to remind ourselves
It's good to remind ourselves what they do and what they've done
The example that they set the natural in
Instinct that God has placed inside mothers
and I think that also you know mothers have a special intuition about their children and
And make a lot of decisions they have to make a lot of decisions for their children on a regular basis
What food to give them?
What medicine to possibly give them?
What kind of treatments to give them when they're sick or when they're ill or what kind of problems they have?
They play nurse they play doctor they play
Nutrition this they play basically chef Baker tutor
I mean, they're just playing so many different roles in their child's life, and it just goes to show
No one would do this for free
In fact, almost all these services are some of those expensive things you could ever pay for
Because no one wants to do them and yet your mom's doing it for free all the time
24-7 staying and having sleepless nights
Going through all kinds of pain and suffering and it just goes to show the love that they have
Proverbs 31 talks about some of the attributes of a great woman and
I believe that we see this in a lot of mothers verse 15
It says this she rises also wild as yet night and giveth meat to her household and portion her maidens
Just the fact I mean just feeding us on a regular basis such an important task
it's a task that we all love and appreciate and
specifically it's saying even here this woman is
Inconvenienced
Personally to provide meals and to provide food
You know, that's great and you know
I grew up in a household where my mom served the men of the household and you know
I just greatly appreciate that, you know
She really sacrificed and really labored and really loved us and she would make all the meals
Make sure all them in fact
It was her policy that the men would like get to go through the line first and get to eat first
you know because she wanted to take care of the men and to love the men and
You know, it was a really rude awakening when I'd be around other people that were feminist
So it's like I'm thinking like I'm used to showing up and it's like the men are taken care of
The men are appreciated, you know
We go out and work and then we're kind of served and and it's kind of the woman's chance to shine
It's the woman's chance to shine and the work and the service and the effort that she puts in
I mean, isn't that what women do when they're at the restaurant as the waitress as
Whatever the role they have it's their time to shine
like can you imagine going to the restaurant and the waitress walks up and and
You're like, hey, can we get some drinks? I don't know
Why don't you get them yourself? I
Haven't had a drink in a while
Okay
Can we order I don't feel like it right now I
Don't want I don't want to take care of you guys you'd be like can we get a new server
Over here. I mean you want the server and I mean think about how servers typically treat you
They're just like yes, sir. Yes, ma'am. And here's this attitude whatever you want
Wow, what an amazing attitude
you know, but I mean my mom really exhibited this at attribute in this attitude and I
Greatly appreciated that it is it is by far gone in our society
Like it just almost doesn't even exist anymore
Sometimes you can be around it
But boy, it is a special and unique experience to be in some lady's house and she is just serving
The men she's serving the children
She's serving everybody and she recognizes that's her job and she doesn't look at it as like
Demeaning or negative or a bad thing. I mean notice this Proverbs 31 verse 15
She rises also a lot as yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maiden
This woman is the queen of the castle, but instead of sitting on a throne she's getting on her knees and serving
She's going and she's serving and she's even serving her servants
Did you notice what it says and give her the portion to her maidens that's talking about her servants her young women
She's going out there and doing the hard work doing the labor setting forth the example and teaching the young ladies
So the young ladies aren't thinking I can't wait till I elevate to Queen B
They're seeing. Oh when I get to that position
I'm gonna be the one serving and and and helping others and doing all of this work doing all the work
You know and again, I'm all for teaching your children to do stuff, you know, whatever I can replace myself and my wife
Let's get our children in there and active but at the same time it's not so I can lay back and do nothing
It's so I can do different work. It's so I can do more important work. You know, we shouldn't we shouldn't try to
Escape working, but we can by employing our children and putting other people to work
We can do even greater works, you know as a pastor
I
Try my best to try and incorporate other people in the congregation and get other individuals into the into the fight
we've got ushers and we've got all kinds of musicians and we've got
people that lead the song leading and we've got people doing all kinds of different tasks and activities and
You know, I think that that's great, but it's not so I can just lay down and do nothing
It's so I can focus on other tasks or try to do other work
You know, I want to make sure that I'm working too and setting a good example
I don't want to just sit here and do nothing
You know, that's the problem with CEOs and Kings and presidents and leaders today
They just want to be served rather than working hard and setting good example
And you know who can instill this example into young men?
mothers
mothers and we should learn from mothers example how they are serving and doing good and other individuals and
Loving other individuals and working super hard. I remember my mother would always be the last person to eat
in our family and
You know what? I
Never even really I was probably really selfish as a kid
I didn't really think about it, but I did think this my mom's great
You know, that's what it says in the latter portion of this in verse 28 her children rise up and call her blessed
Her husband also any praise there
You know if my mom just served herself and said go take care of you know, do you later
There wouldn't be a lot for me to praise with there
You know, I can praise my mother is because she put me first and put the men first and served us
That's why she got praised. You know, there's a lot of women out there there. Oh, no one's praising me
It's like okay. Well, what are you doing?
You know in order to get praise you got to do something and it's like the feminism movement
They want praise for doing nothing
They want praise for existing
It's its entitlement attitude
They don't want to serve and they think that serving other people makes them of an inferior
Position or somehow lesser of an individual. It's like I can't serve my husband
So I'll go serve the manager at subway and it's so funny because they literally
Demean themselves by trying to elevate themselves
You know the Bible talks about when you talk about pride and humility and everything like that
It says hey when you try to elevate yourself and you lift yourself up
you're actually gonna go down and when you actually go down you're gonna lift yourself up and
these feminists are constantly trying to lift themselves up and it just makes them look worse and
Get demeaned and made fun of and ridiculed and people look down upon them
And frankly speaking if you think that you as a woman are going to go into the workplace and earn the respect of men
You're only fooling yourself
Because men don't want you to be there they don't think you're doing a very good job
I heard someone else explain this so I can't take credit for it, but it was kind of funny
They were talking about how mothers
Whenever they have young children, they're often brought gifts and when they're brought gifts from the children
They're not like fancy chocolates and stuff from the store. They're homemade creations, right?
They're just they're going and finding paper and cups and they're finding all kinds of crazy things in the house
and sometimes they're even finding stuff outside the house like dirt and bugs and whatever and
They're like putting together like these little creations, you know
And sometimes they even have boogers and snot and they're they're kind of missing stuff and it's wet and you're like
Why is this wet, you know?
Like but then they present it to their mom and and you know how mom treats it
This is so wonderful, honey. This is so amazing. You did such a good job on this. This is so great
And then he said now this is how men view women at work
It's like your little booger infested cup that's wet. They're just like you did such a good job
But it's like nobody thinks they did a good job
Okay, because it's just not the reality and you know what women that are in the household though
That's not the burger and first infested cup
You know the stuff that my wife bakes and makes I'm thinking like I don't know how to do that. That's incredible
This is wonderful. You know the affection and the attention she shows her children the things he does
I'm not seeing like oh I could easily replace that I'm thinking this is unique to her. She's special. She's gifted
She's wonderful in this area
You know, we should praise women for being mothers because no one can be a mother like mothers
Anybody can go to Subway and serve a sandwich anybody can go into the workplace and do all this
I mean, there's nothing really special and unique about that and there's nothing special or unique doing 65% of the work that a man can do
You know what? Why don't you do 200% what a man could do in the household?
And
women today
That our mothers are showing the greatest love in our society. They always want to talk about love, you know loves the most mothers
Not elevating self
Elevating their others elevating their children. Look at verse 21
She is not afraid of the snow for a household for all her household or clothes scarlet
Nobody cares about how you're dressed more than your mother
boy, I just throw stuff on and it's just like so do our kids and
Here's the thing
Sometimes I have the kids and we're gonna go out and I'm like, hey y'all go dress yourself and they come back
And I'm thinking like what's wrong with you?
Obviously your mother must dress you because you look weird
Okay
I mean they're wearing like
different kinds of plaid with different colors and then like these green socks up to their knees and I'm thinking like
How did you even come up with this creation? Did you like to grab stuff like this?
Like why did you choose that clothing and it's like nobody dresses children like their mother plus a lot of the clothes
Let's be honest all of the clothes my wife somehow acquired
She either went out and purchased found shop thrifted traded whatever. I don't know what else she's doing
But my children look great and I'm thinking like if I was in charge of this task
It would probably be rough. It just we'd all wear the same like red uniform shirt or something
Oh, yeah, it's like like five days a week or something
Is I don't even know I mean look at when guys are in charge of the outfits
It's just like they all wear camo right? I mean, that's that's your one outfit you get camo
Okay, just wear this son, you know, or it's like a gray jumpsuit or something, right?
It's not these nice looking clothing. It may not even really matter
I mean if Hitler is your boss
He doesn't even give you warm enough clothing to survive the winter and he just puts you out there and kills you
Literally Hitler literally put his army up against the Russians in the coldest winter and literally just killed
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers through just frigid temperatures, but you know mothers would never do that
Mothers would never send their young sons out on the front lines without a nice coat
Without warm durable clothing. Okay, men. Just don't care the same way that a mother or a woman cares
In fact, I remember my mom one time when it snowed
She helped me because I didn't have a snow suit
so she looked literally took like Walmart sacks and
She just like wrapped them all around like my feet and my hands and all this stuff and like
Just Jerry rigged this weird snow suit out of like Walmart sacks and stuff
But you know what it kept me warm and it was a lot of fun and I might have looked like a homeless
Person, but I was having a blast. Okay, I
I
Didn't care kids don't care what they're wearing verse 26
She opened her their mouth of wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness, you know
Mothers are just the most kind people we have got a first Samuel chapter one. I want to
Look at a quick story here
Point one is this, you know
We should say thanks to mom for their love and that's the most important point because it really encompasses everything
Mothers love in a special way and when I see other people interact with my children when it's me
When it's my my parents when it's her parents
no one loves my children like my wife does no one loves children like their mother and
It's a special unique love and affection and kindness and attention and you know what I guarantee all of us have had
Experiences like that whether you can remember them or not
And there's no reason to sit here and despise your mother even though she's old
because you should be appreciative of what she's done for you a
Second point and again this may not apply to every single person
But for most of us and a lot of us
We even had mothers who may have had some level of of Christian faith
Okay, and if you had a mother that had any level of faith that is a special thing to say thank you for
That is a special thing to say. Thank you for the faith you got and you know, praise God
I did have a mother who loved the Bible who loved church
who talked about God all the time prayed for me and our children all the time and
She wasn't right on a lot of doctrine
She definitely had things wrong to say the least but you know, just that example of loving the Bible and loving church
really has carried with me my whole life and
It's special now in first Samuel chapter 1 we talked about Hannah a woman who?
Greatly desires to have a child to love and it says in verse number eight
Then said Al-qayna her husband to her Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not and why is thy heart grieved and
Not I better to thee than ten sons. And so, you know, this is how guys don't understand empathy at all
And they're just like hey, am I not better than ten sons? Well, here's the thing technically. Yes
I agree with him that a husband is technically better than sons
And my wife is more valuable than all of my children combined
But but it's not like one or the other
It's not like you just have to say just because my wife is more important than my children
Doesn't mean that children aren't important. And so that's where the guy doesn't get empathy. It's like hey, yeah having a husband great
You're wonderful. I'm not trying to take away from that. You know what she wants children, too, and that's okay
That's that's fine for her to desire to have children and she can be disappointed in not having children
and
She desires these children
She ends up praying for them
specifically look at verse 9 and so Hannah rose up after they had eaten in silo and
After they had drunk now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple the Lord and she was in
bitterness of soul and prayed
Unto the Lord and wept sore. Hey, here's some good advice when you're upset pray
Hey, I'm really upset I'm really sad about something what did she do she prayed verse 11 and
She vowed a vow and
Said Oh Lord of hosts if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid and remember me and not forget thine handmaid
But will give unto thy handmaid a man child then I will give him
Unto the Lord all the days of his life and there shall no razor come
Upon his head notice the faith that this woman has she says Lord if you will bless me with a child
And I promise to raise this child for you
You know what to God that women would dedicate their children to serving God
Like that would be the most important thing some women the most important thing for their child is to be a famous actor
for them to be a professional sports athlete or
to go into the family business or to do all kinds of certain accolades to help their mom or to be a
Professional football player and then buy their mom a house when they finally get their first contract
But you know what's the most important thing is a child that loves God and you know what?
Many women are just blessed with children
Irrespective of their actual desires or faith
But you know
It's a special thing that God wants to bless this woman with a child who's struggling to have a child
Because she wants to dedicate him to the Lord and she's gonna have a special child
In fact, that's what the book of the Bible is named after is this child Samuel?
What a great man of God Samuel was and he was a child dedicated in the Lord verse 20. It says this
Wherefore it came to pass when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived that she bear a son and called his name Samuel saying
Because I have asked him of the Lord notice his name
specifically is
Attributed the fact that he was asked of by God
She wanted a child. She asked God for a child and she got a child why?
Because she asked God, you know, praise God for mothers that pray and understand that sometimes you have not
Because he asked not
Praise God for mothers that asked, you know, my mom even and my dad would tell me
But specifically my mother would tell me that they had constantly prayed
that God would give me a great spouse and
I do have a great spouse and
I believe that's in part due to the fact that my mother was asking for me to have a great spouse
How many other things that my mother asked the Lord for me specifically and give it to me?
I know that my mom I don't know why but my mom literally would pray and tell me all the time that she
Asked the Lord that I'd be greatly used by him and that I would you know
Understand the Holy Spirit now. She might have had a Pentecostal view of that
But you know what just because I'm not Pentecostal doesn't mean I deny the Holy Ghost. Okay mark Driscoll
Yes, I do believe in the Holy Ghost. And yes, I do believe the Holy Ghost is active today
And yes, I do believe the Holy Ghost is powerful and can do miracles a day
I don't have the signs of an apostle because I'm not an apostle literally, okay
But praise God for mothers that would ask for things for their children and not just carnal things spiritual things
She didn't ask for Samuel to be the greatest athlete of all time and have lots of money and have lots of accolades
She wanted a son to be dedicated into God and to serve the Lord. That's what she wanted and
She literally names him
I've asked him of the Lord verse 21 in the man Elkanah and all his house went up
To offer out of the Lord the yearly sacrifice in his vow, but Hannah went up
For she said unto her husband
I will not go up until the child be weaned and then I will bring him that he may appear before the Lord and
There abide forever. So she wants to dedicate her child to the Lord forever
Keep her finger. I want to go to one more verse here. Go to 2nd Timothy chapter 1
2nd Timothy chapter 1 I
Think because the Bible
Tends to emphasize men more and their leadership and the prophets of God
It could be easy to forget that God cares about women just as much
It could be easy to forget that women are just as important just as valuable that praying it's not like God
only cares about prayers from men he equally cares about prayers and
It would be great if we had an army of women that would pray to God
That would pray to God to raise up the next generation a godly generation
Women that are praying for God to intercede on our behalf women praying for revival in our country
Women praying for our church to be blessed and to be greatly used by God
For women to pray that the stupid feminism would be destroyed and shown for the folly that it is
You know, we need women to pray and you know women get so frustrated they can't preach in church
But you know what you can preach in your prayer closet all day long
You can pray and ask God things all day long, but you know what?
it takes a humble person to do such a thing, you know, praise God for my mom who's a very humble woman and
sought the Lord and prayed for many things and
You know, we should praise the women in our lives that love to pray and love to seek the Lord
you know, there are women that really love the Lord and
Really seek the Lord and you know
those women should be greatly praised if you have a wife or a mother or a
Grandmother or an aunt that loves God or goes to church or takes these things seriously
They should be greatly praised for their faith
Not just their love but their faith because it is a rare thing to have women that love God today
It's a difficult thing to find
You know what the Apostle Paul also praised this in young Timothy and Timothy which is interesting didn't even have a
Strong male leader in his personal life until the Apostle Paul came wrong to show him the faith
he had women that were showing him great faith in
second Timothy chapter 1 verse 3
It says this I thank God whom I serve for my forefathers with pure conscience that without ceasing
I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day greatly
Desiring to see thee being mindful of thy tears that I may be filled with joy when I call to remembrance
the unfeigned faith that is in thee which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice and
I am persuaded that in the also, you know what he's saying. I'm persuaded that you have your mother's faith
He's not persuaded that the mom has a great faith. He knows the mom has a great faith
He's not persuaded that the grandmother has a great faith
He knows the grandmother the great faith. He's persuaded that Timothy has the faith like his mom like his grandmother
Meaning what that women can have great faith and he's not even saying your faith exceeds them
He's saying I hope you have the same level of faith as they did
Saying it would be great if you could attain
Unto their faith and unto the example that they said, you know
There's so many great women in the Bible and we could have great women today
And if you had a mother who loved the Lord
You know that is something to praise is the faith of your mom. That's something to say. Thanks mom. Thanks for taking church seriously
You know, my mom took church seriously. She took the Bible seriously
She took these things here if you had that you have no excuse not to say thanks to your mom
Say well, my mom wasn't a fundamental Baptist
I don't care if she took religion seriously if she took the faith of the Bible seriously in any capacity
You need to be thanking her for such a thing to have such a great example
Go back to first Samuel point one. We need to say thanks to our moms for the love. They've shown point two
We need to say thanks to mom for the faith that they've shown and and lastly here's the thing
Even if you felt like my mom didn't have the best love or faith
All of them all of them are in this category and that's the sacrifice
It's a sacrifice to be pregnant and to deliver a child is a sacrifice and without it
You can't exist. No one was born in a Petri dish. No one was spontaneously generated
Okay, no big bang event happened for you
and
Your mom had to go through sacrifice and this is a reason why many women today will not have children is they refuse
The sacrifice of pregnancy they refuse the sacrifice of delivery. They refuse it in
order to have life you must go through this process and
And let's be honest when a woman gets pregnant and gives birth in
Ninety nine point nine nine nine percent of cases. There's going to be scars
There's going to be permanent body marks for doing such a thing. Their body will be different as a result
It's just how it works
But you know who also took scars
Jesus Christ
In order to give us physical life our mothers have scars in order to give us eternal life
Jesus Christ had to also take scars
And so Jesus is the perfect example both to men and women and you know
What women can take honor and respect and glory under the fact that they too?
Just like Jesus had to partake in suffering and sacrifice to give us eternal life
Mothers must have the same sacrifice in order to give life under the children
You
Know the Bible says that Jesus had holes in his hands even after he rose again and he showed them
He literally showed them under doubting Thomas
He had the hole in his side, you know, some women literally have a hole in their side because they had to have a c-section
And you know what that was a sacrifice there's no way to say that that isn't that's a that's an amazing sacrifice
It's incredible sacrifice
You know, you could look at Adam Adam had to have the rib, you know, essentially
Taken out a woman was taken out of the rib and Jesus Christ was stabbed with the spear in the side
and you know what that gave us life is the scars and the wounds of
Jesus Christ the scars and the wounds of a mother
The sacrifice of a mother that's something to say thank you for that's something to appreciate
It doesn't matter how old she is doesn't matter if she has Alzheimer's and I've seen my grandmother have Alzheimer's and it's a horrible disease
It's one of the worst things you can ever imagine
They don't even know who they are
They scream and they bite and they're angry
But you know what? I appreciated my parents still went visited her in the nursing home and regularly
My dad would play the piano for her and they loved her into the end
They said thank you to her in the end
And you know what if I have the opportunity to repay the favor, I'm gonna do that
To visit my parents and say thank you to them and appreciate them in their older age
Not to sit here and think. Oh, what a burden
Let's get some feminist nurse to take care of them
You know, some of those nurses will literally punch their patients in the face because they can't they can't tell anyone
They can't warn anyone it happens all the time
How sad to literally have your parents sacrifice for you?
And then you just ship them off to somebody that literally abuses them and you just don't even care
First Samuel chapter 1 look at verse 27 for this child. I prayed and the Lord have given me my petition which I asked of him
Therefore also I've lent him to the Lord as long as he liveth
He should be lent to the Lord and he worshiped the Lord there, you know, she's making a great sacrifice
She doesn't get to raise the child. She's giving him to God
Look at chapter 2 verse 18. Here's another couple sacrifices that she made
But Samuel ministered before the Lord being a child
Girded with a linen efod
Moreover his mother made him a little coat and
Brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice
so when she's sacrificing unto the Lord, she also remembers her child and
Sacrificially makes him a little coat and I love the phrase just little coat
Because it's not just a coat
It's not just a coat
it's a little coat and
You know again does Eli care about him having a little coat or is he just like here just grab this thing
It doesn't even fit
I mean to have a little coat means that she took the attention to detail to make it to his size
To fit him she cares about his needs
you know
There's so much that our our mothers and our wives sacrifice
The least we can do is say thanks
And you know you little children out there you need to learn to start saying thanks to mom on a regular basis
Not just today when your mom
Makes you a meal you say thanks
When your mom helps you get dressed you say thanks
When your mom helps you get in the car and out of the car you say thanks
You need to say thanks to your mom on a regular basis
Just get in the habit of always saying thank you to her and appreciating what she's doing for you
Because you know those change your attitude towards your mom, and you know what those of us that have an older mom
Start saying thanks to your mom now
you may not you may not have your mom tomorrow and
You'll you'll never regret how many times you said thanks to your mom
But you will regret
The times that you didn't say, thank you
You won't regret the time that you spent with your mom, but you'll regret the time you didn't spend with your mom
And
You'll regret the times that you're angry and dissatisfied and treated your mom bad
but you'll never regret the times that you appreciated and loved and
Told your mom. Thank you. Let's close in prayer. Thank you Heavenly Father so much for giving us
mothers
Thank you for giving us their example and the love and the faith and the sacrifice that they've made
I pray that we would just have the right attitude towards mothers
Towards our mother towards our grandmother
Towards all mothers towards our wives
Towards our young daughters who will one day be mothers. I pray that we would be a culture that
honors and blesses and praises mothers I
Pray that we would just have the right attitude and affection and heart towards them
And I I pray that we'd say thank you to them for the things they've done for us and we ultimately know it's
Their example is coming from the example of your son and his sacrifice and his love and his faith and
I pray that we would just have the right mentality and the right attitude and I pray that you just bless
Continue to bless all of these mothers in Jesus name we pray. Amen
All right for a final song this morning, let's turn to four hundred and seventy one cleanse me
Four hundred and seventy one cleanse me four seven one. Let's sing it out. Cleanse me
Oh
Thank you all for coming happy Mother's Day to ladies god bless