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And now at this time, please turn in your Bibles to Psalm 139.

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That is Psalm 139 in your Bibles.

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As is our custom, we will read the entire chapter.

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Psalm 139, the Bible reads, O Lord, thou hast searched me and known me.

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Thou knowest my down-sitting and my uprising.

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Thou understandest my thought afar off.

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Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

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For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.

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Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

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Such knowledge is too wonderful for me.

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It is high, I cannot attain unto it.

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Whither shall I go from thy spirit, or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

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If I stand up into heaven, thou art there.

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If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

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If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there

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shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.

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If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me, even the night shall be light about me.

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Yea, the darkness hideeth not from thee, but the night shineth as the day.

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The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

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For thou hast possessed my reigns, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

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I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.

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My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought

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in the lowest parts of the earth.

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Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being un-perfect, and in thy book all my members

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were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

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How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!

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How great is the sum of them!

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If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand.

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When I awake, I am still with thee.

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Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God!

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Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men, for they speak against thee wickedly, and thine

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enemies take thy name in vain.

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Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?

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And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

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I hate them with perfect hatred.

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I count them mine enemies.

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Search me, O God, and know my heart.

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Try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the

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way everlasting.

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Brother Eli, would you pray for us?

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Amen.

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All right.

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The title this morning is Mother.

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Just Mother.

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And what I'm doing this morning is I'm going out on a ledge here and preaching my points

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as an acrostic point sermon.

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And it's not an acronym, but an acrostic point sermon.

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And I've never done this before, so forgive me if I fail.

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I have it kind of laid out in that way.

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And what that is is just one of the letters.

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The letters in my points are going to line up acrostically, not just necessarily the

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word, which would be an acronym.

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But acrostically, one of these letters are going to be one of the letters in the word

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of my point.

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So hopefully that makes sense to you as we go along here.

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But Psalm 139, I'm not preaching about hatred this morning.

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I'm preaching about motherhood.

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So my first point here is amazing.

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And mothers are amazing.

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They can do a lot of amazing things.

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And over the years, I've watched my wife work and deal with our children as they've

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grown up and even as they've become adults.

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And my wife does a lot of amazing things that I'm not able to do.

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And so let's look down at the Bible at verse number 14.

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The Bible says, I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.

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Marvelous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.

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David is musing at the fact that he's fearfully and wonderfully made.

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And of course, we know that God forms us in our mother's wombs.

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But he uses mother's wombs to do this.

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And he doesn't use men.

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We of course engage in an act that brings forth children.

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But as far as carrying them and the gestation period and the nine months of dealing with

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all the changes in the body and all the things that happen.

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And we watch these things as they happen.

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But we don't feel these things.

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We don't go through all the trauma, of course, at the end and the tribulation that comes

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upon them at the very end and all the pain and suffering.

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And we feel a different type of joy when we see our children born.

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But it's not the joy that they feel because the joy they feel is like, oh, this baby's

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out.

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And they definitely feel a joy.

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But it's definitely probably a thousand times different than the joy that we feel.

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Of course, we feel joy when our children are born.

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But it's amazing that God uses mothers to bring forth children.

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And he uses mothers to create children.

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All these children in our church come from mothers.

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They don't come from fathers.

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I mean, they do in a way, but not, of course, like I just explained.

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So in this nine-month period, this beautiful little creation comes out.

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And of course, we all think our little creations are the most beautiful thing that's ever come

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out.

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And nobody's going to tell us anything different.

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And no matter whether that's true or not, some people are like, isn't he beautiful?

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It's like, not as beautiful as mine.

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But he chooses women to bring forth.

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And the Bible says that he forms them in the womb, like I said.

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And it's a blessing and a privilege for women to be able to bring forth children and to

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make them mothers.

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And a lot of times, people say that women are downgraded or something in the Bible.

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And I don't think this is true at all.

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I think that they get a lot of blessings that men will never know.

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And Jesus was ministered to by mothers.

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And they understood and took care of the needs of the disciples.

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How many times in the Bible do you see the disciples cooking Jesus' meals?

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You don't see that happening.

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Because men just don't.

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And maybe they did.

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I don't know.

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They're out camping a lot.

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But you see Jesus cooking them meals.

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He cooked them meals and brought them meals multiple times.

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And just made meals out of, just created meals for them.

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But that's probably a lot easier than, it's even easier than the microwave.

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But the women in his life, they did minister to his needs in that way.

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And women have a great role in the Bible.

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A lot of times, you see that it's through wanting children, wanting a man child, wanting

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for their line to move on and to bring forth a great man of God that they're begging God

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for children.

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They're begging God to bring forth children.

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And God rewards their faith.

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And they have these meetings with angels.

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And Jesus Christ actually, in a pre-incarnate form, appears to them.

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And then their husbands are like, they're the second ones that get to see.

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They're like, oh, like Manoah, for instance.

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He's the second one to come upon the blessing or whatever.

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But Hannah gets blessed greatly by having the miracle of Samuel being born.

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There's just a lot of blessings that women get in the Bible.

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And one of those things is being able to have children.

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And some women are like, I don't know if that's really a blessing.

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It is a blessing.

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It's a great, it's a huge blessing.

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And I will never forget the day that my children were born, each child that's been born.

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I'll never forget the day that they were born.

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I'll never forget the moment they were born.

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And that'll be etched forever unless I have Alzheimer's or something.

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That'll always be something that I'll never forget.

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And I'm sure that my wife never forgets it either because it was different for her.

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We definitely have different points of view, too.

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It's like they don't really get to see the child born or whatever.

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But it's an awesome thing.

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And when your first child is born, it changes you.

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I always tell men when they have their first child that I said, it's going to change you.

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And I can't really explain how that feels.

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When you become a dad, it's something that just changes you.

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You can't really explain it.

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I'm sure most anybody that's a dad here understands that feeling.

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But it changes women, too.

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And there's a special bond that takes place with mothers and their children.

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And it's an instant bond that is very hard to sever and very hard to break.

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And there's another thing that is amazing about women is that they're

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able to multitask in ways that I can never even imagine doing.

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I mean, I can barely even pat my head and rub my tummy at the same time.

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And my wife can be on the phone stopping a fight from happening,

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cooking at the same time, telling me that women could just multitask in ways that I

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could never even dream of.

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And I see the women in this church that they'll take all their children out soul winning.

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I mean, just getting your children ready for church in the morning is a huge deal.

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And most of the men are like, they're trying to get themselves ready.

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And that's a chore in itself, just trying to get us ready, right?

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Ourselves ready.

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And then they all have all their clothes all laid out.

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I mean, getting little girls ready for church is a task.

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There's a lot of little girls in this church.

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And all their special dresses and their leotards and the little shoes,

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getting their hair ready.

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I mean, guys, they're just like, pssst, and then they're out the door.

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Pretty much.

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I mean, I didn't have to shave really until I was way older.

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Little boys don't have to shave.

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You just get the cowlick down, and then you're out the door with a pair of pants and a shirt.

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You're good to go.

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But girls, they're hard to get ready.

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And if you have multiple little girls, it's harder.

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So the multitasking that takes place with women, it's amazing.

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What I've seen my wife do over the years, it's amazing to me.

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And so my first point is that mothers are amazing.

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The Bible says, low children are in heritage of the Lord,

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and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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And look, God expects a return on the children that are born from the womb.

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He expects it's a reward to him.

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He's seeking a godly seed, the Bible says.

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He wants more children to be born and to enter into his kingdom.

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And so it's a great responsibility for mothers to raise their children

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and the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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And for dads to facilitate these things and to make it happen also,

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so it's very important for fathers and mothers to stay together.

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It's very important.

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It's something, it goes beyond our little petty squabbles.

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It goes beyond how we feel.

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Sometimes how we feel doesn't really matter.

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It's what does God say?

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He says to stay together.

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He says, he hateth the putting away.

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And so a lot of times people just can't get past their own selves

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and think about their children.

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And it's very important that families stay together.

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And you're like, well, no matter what, yeah, it's what the Bible says.

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So it's very important.

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It's very important for mothers to nurture their children,

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to have a bond with their children, to love their children.

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And it's an amazing thing that he allows you to have children.

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And your children are a heritage of the Lord, so treat them that way.

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The Lord's reward.

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And like even Hannah, when she had Samuel, she made a vow to him

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and said that she would lend him to the Lord all the days of his life.

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And she kept that vow.

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And how hard was it for her to give Samuel over to Eli?

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We'll probably never know how hard that was.

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But she made the vow once he was weaned and gave him to Eli.

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And I'm sure that broke her heart.

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But she still came to visit him.

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But you know what?

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She had hope.

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She had the faith that Samuel would one day be with her in heaven forever.

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I mean, I'm sure she was looking past the life on Earth

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and hoping his life on Earth would mean something,

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that it would mean something for the Lord.

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And we have to look past sometimes just our surface level life

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and the life that we live day to day and think

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about eternity and think about the future and think about

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what is our child going to be when they grow up?

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What is their life going to be like?

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And women are really good about not being selfish.

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But we've got to keep the distant future and eternity future sometimes

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in our vision and in our circumspect wisdom

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and think about the reward that God is looking for.

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It says in Proverbs 31 verse 29,

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many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excelest them all.

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So mothers can multitask, like I said, like no other.

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And a virtuous woman, like I said, can just do a lot of things

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at the same time.

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And to me, that is just amazing.

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And women are amazing.

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Mothers are amazing.

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Number two, mothers are loving, loving.

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Turn to Titus chapter 2 verse 4.

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Titus chapter 2 verse 4.

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Now, the Bible says in Titus chapter 2 verse 4,

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and I've always thought that this is kind of a funny verse,

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because to me, I've just never seen mothers have to be told this before.

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But it is true.

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Sometimes they do have to be told this.

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And because of the day and age we live in,

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but there's nothing new under the sun.

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What's been had to be told to women today

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has had to been told to them in times past.

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It says in Titus 2, 4, it says that they may teach the young women

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to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.

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Mothers need to love their husbands.

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They need to love their children.

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But notice the order that it says there.

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And if you don't love your husbands, you're

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going to have a hard time in this life,

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because if you don't love your husband,

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you're going to have a hard time loving your children,

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because if you're not together again with your husband,

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you're going to have a hard time loving your children.

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And it just kind of shows that you don't love them as much

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as you might think that you do.

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So in most cases, this isn't something that needs to be taught.

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But just in case, make sure that you do love your husband.

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Make sure that you do love your children.

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And turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, verse 4.

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1 Corinthians chapter 13, verse 4.

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Now, this is the charity chapter.

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And charity means love.

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And a lot of times, love can just

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be a word in the English language just thrown around.

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But actual love, godly love, love that's actually real.

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Because you can just say, well, I really

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love that Thai time restaurant, which I do.

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But it's the best Thai place in town, by the way.

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Not a great neighborhood, but it's

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buying Applebee's that's not in a great neighborhood.

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But anyway, Thai time is good.

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But do I love it like I love my wife?

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Of course not.

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So I mean, there's degrees of love.

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But love that it's talking about in this chapter here

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is talking about a love that is like an unconditional love here.

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So it's a brotherly, godly love here.

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And it's talking about, so when it's saying charity,

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it's talking about this type of love that

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is like an actual love, OK?

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So not just I love food, or I love pizza,

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or I love hot dogs or something.

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Charity suffereth long, verse 4, and is kind.

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Charity envieth not.

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Charity vaunteth not.

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Not itself is not puffed up, doth not behave itself

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unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,

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thinketh no evil.

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And when I think about moms and their love

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towards their children, this is how most moms

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are with their children.

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They don't seek their own.

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They seek the love of their children.

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They think about their children first.

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They think about they're not easily

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provoked by their children.

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Children will claw at their face and stuff,

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and it's not like they go, push, get off me, kid.

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They're just like, no, no, no, honey.

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They're very loving towards their children.

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And of course, they should be.

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They should be.

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And they're not easily provoked by their children.

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Moms are very loving towards their children.

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They're not thinking evil of their children.

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They're not trying to do harm to their children.

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In most cases, now of course, there's a caveat, of course,

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where some moms aren't like this.

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I'm talking about in general, though.

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Most moms are not like this.

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And then it says, rejoiceth not in iniquity,

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but rejoiceth in truth.

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Beareth all things.

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Moms put up with a lot of stuff from their children,

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more than they would from anybody else.

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Believeth all things.

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Moms want to believe the best about their children.

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They want to believe every whopper

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that their children tell them to.

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Why just believe them?

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And as husbands, sometimes we're like, come on.

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You actually believe that?

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No, I do.

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And then you have to just like, yeah, anyway, you guys

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know what I'm talking about.

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But look, you want to believe the best about your children,

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moms, because you love your children.

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And that's great.

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Hopeth all things.

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What you hope, all things the best for your children,

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that is love.

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Because you love your children.

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Endureth all things.

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There's a lot of things your children will put you

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through in this life.

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You endure all the heartbreak.

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You endure all the pain that they go through

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when they hurt themselves.

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You endure all things, and even the hurt,

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because children can hurt you too.

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And moms are amazing, and they're

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able to do a lot of wonderful things,

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but they're also very loving.

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And keep being that way, moms, because your children

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need your love.

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Because a lot of times, that's all they have.

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Sometimes, when times are tough, the one person

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they know they can come to is their mom,

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who will understand where they're coming from.

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And sometimes, even dads can be pretty cold

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when it comes to stuff.

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But mom is there to listen, and sometimes, that's

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what kids need when they're going through a hard time.

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So keep loving them.

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And moms love a lot, and they're definitely, in most cases,

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the most loving of the two parents in reality.

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They're the ones that spend the most time with their kids,

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in most cases.

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I mean, they're the ones that are there

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from the beginning, nurturing them, with them most

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of the time, caring for them.

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The Bible says in Isaiah 66, verse 13,

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as one whom his mother comfortheth,

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so will I comfort you.

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I mean, God is even saying it.

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It's not like it says that, as your dad comfortheth you,

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dad's like, get out of here.

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Go rub some dirt on it or something.

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When the kids are come crying, who do they come crying to?

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They didn't come crying to me.

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They came crying to my mom, to my wife.

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No, my mom.

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My wife.

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Whenever my kids got hurt, they did not come crying to me.

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Maybe Nia did, but she knew I was going to pick her up

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and take her.

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She broke her ankle.

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She did come crying to me, because she

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knew I could pick her up and carry her to the car

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and take her to the hospital.

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But yeah, my wife usually just freaks out

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when the kids get hurt and starts to, ah, you know.

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She's a nurse, but I'm the one that had to be the actual nurse.

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So she's flipping out.

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But Josh does this trick.

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But mother's comfort, mother's love,

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mother's love unconditionally.

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And no matter how much you've hurt them,

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no matter how much you've failed them,

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no matter how bad you screwed up, your mom loves you.

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Judges chapter 5.

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Go ahead and turn to Judges chapter 5.

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Now this is a verse.

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And Deborah is singing this song,

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and she's talking about the death of Cicero.

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And Cicero is a bad guy.

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And he's been killed by a tent stake through the temple.

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And he's been given the good night chef's kiss

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with the butter and a lordly dish.

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And then she tricked him and then killed him, right?

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But in verse 27, it says, at her feet he bowed, he fell.

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He lay down.

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At her feet he bowed, he fell.

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Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

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This is poetry.

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And verse 28 says, the mother of Cicero looked out a window

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and cried through the lattice, why is his chariot

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so long and coming?

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Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

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Her wise ladies answered her, yea,

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she returned answer to herself.

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Have they not sped?

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Have they not divided the prey?

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To every man of damnslore too, to Cicero,

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a prey of diverse colors, a prey of diverse colors

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of needlework, of diverse colors of needlework on both sides,

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meet for the necks of them that take the spoil.

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So I mean, her son is dead, but she's still

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looking out the window waiting for her son to come back.

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But even though he's a bad guy, and yeah, he deserved to die

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and he's a wicked person, but every mother,

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no matter how bad their kid is, is still

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looking out the window waiting for their son to return.

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So I know that that might seem like, wow,

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that's kind of a weird point to make,

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but I'm just saying, you can be pretty bad

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and your mom still loves you.

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And so even mothers of wayward children

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still love their children.

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They fret about them all the time.

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And it's not something that anyone can understand.

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It's a mother's love, though, isn't it?

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And mothers love their children, and even sometimes

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when they're very rotten.

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But like I said, it's a really strong bond that mothers love.

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And number three, mothers are strong.

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So look at Proverbs chapter 31, Proverbs chapter 31.

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Now Proverbs 31, before I start preaching out of this,

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just know this.

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Nobody's going to stand up to the Proverbs 31.

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Not every woman that's a virtuous woman

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is going to be able to meet all the criteria of Proverbs 31.

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This is kind of like Job.

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Job is like the human man in the Bible

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that every man should be able to look up to,

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besides obviously Jesus Christ is the man that we should

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optimally look up to.

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But we can never meet that criteria fully.

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Job was the greatest man in the whole Bible

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until Jesus came, right?

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So this is like something that you would want to attain to.

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But these are just characteristics

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that you should look up to as the Proverbs 31 woman, OK?

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So let's look at Proverbs 31, verse 10.

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The Bible says, who can find a virtuous woman for her price

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is far above rubies?

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And just so you know, rubies are more rare than diamonds.

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Rubies are actually more valuable than diamonds.

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The rarest ruby gem is far more valuable.

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And it says, the heart of her husband

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does safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil.

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She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly

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with her hands.

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She is like the merchant's ships.

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She bringeth her food from afar.

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She riseth also while it is yet night,

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and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens.

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And see, so right off the bat, you already

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see that this Proverbs 31 woman, she's

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making meals for her family.

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She's getting up while it's still dark.

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She's bringing her food from afar.

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She's getting like, you know, looks

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like she's getting all the best types of food.

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She's making her own clothes, the kids' clothes.

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Obviously, we don't live in a time where you have to do that.

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That's probably nice.

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But she's finding the deals on wherever you find the deals at.

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I don't know where women find the deals at now,

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but the thrift stores and after sale places and whatever.

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She considered it the field and buyeth it.

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With the fruit of her hands, she planted the vineyard.

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So this woman here, she's working hard.

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And she's strong.

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She isn't weak and depending on her husband

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to do everything for her.

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She girdeth her loins with, what's it say there?

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Strength.

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So she's strong and strengtheneth her arms.

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So I'm not saying that she's like a bodybuilder or something,

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but she's not weak.

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So a mother does need to be strong.

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And so not a delicate flower that can't put her feet down

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on the ground, a princess that can't

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be bothered to do any work says she perceiveth

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that her merchandise is good.

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Her candle goeth not out by night.

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What's that saying?

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She's not getting a lot of sleep.

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And a lot of mothers, and I'm sure there's

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a lot of mothers in this room, that you lack sleep,

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especially when your children are sick a lot,

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because once one kid gets it, they all get it.

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Remy and Kylie got the pukeys last night.

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And Kylie's like, I don't know if I've ever

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been this sick before.

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After midnight last night, that's how it is.

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I mean, I know that there's ladies in this church, mothers

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in this church, that, hey, my kids are sick

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in the middle of the night.

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You get these plagues go through,

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and your husband's got to go to work,

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and you're the one that's up all night taking care of the kids.

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Well, they've got the fevers, and they've got the sickness.

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And then dinner's not going to make itself,

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and the house isn't going to clean itself.

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So this is the type of women that mothers are

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and that mothers have to be.

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It says, she layeth her hands to the spindle,

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and her hands hold the distaff.

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She stretcheth out her hands to the poor.

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Yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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She helps out people.

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She's not afraid of the snow for her household,

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for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

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So again, making sure that her family has clothes and things

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that they need.

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She maketh herself coverings for tapestry.

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Her clothing is silk and purple.

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What makes her strong?

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Well, she's not lazy.

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And mothers can't afford to be lazy, especially

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when they have multiple children.

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Her husband is known in the gates.

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When he sitteth among the elders of the land,

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she maketh fine linen, and selleth it,

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and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

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Strength and honor are her clothing,

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and she shall rejoice in time to come.

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So notice how it says strength again.

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Strength and honor are her clothing.

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And mothers are known.

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The Bible says that children are known by their doings,

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but so are mothers.

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People notice when mothers are hard workers

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and when they're strong.

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And I joke around about this a lot,

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but one of the things I noticed about Sherry

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is that she was a hard worker when I met her.

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And it's not like that was my criteria, but I did notice it.

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But it's nice to know that your wife,

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the mother of your children, is a hardworking woman.

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And it says, she openeth her mouth with wisdom,

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and her tongue is the law of kindness.

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She looketh well to the ways of her household,

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and eateth not the bread of idleness.

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See, it's hard to be strong if you're idle.

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When you're idle, you're soft.

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When you're idle, you're weak.

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But being strong requires you to actually exercise

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the muscles in your body.

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And how do you strengthen your arms if you never have anything

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in them to lift?

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So mothers have to be strong.

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To carry these babies around sometimes,

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I'll just hold a baby for like five minutes,

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and I'm already feeling weak.

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How do you hold these babies all the time?

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Here, take this baby back.

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But these moms, they have strong arms

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from holding these babies all the time.

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Verse 28, her children will rise up and call her blessed,

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her husband also, and he prays with her.

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And moms, you do have to be a hard worker

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and exercise those arms and be a strong,

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to be a strong mother, you have to actually work at it.

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So many daughters have done virtuously,

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but thou excelest them all.

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Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain,

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but a woman that fearth the Lord, she shall be praised.

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And guys, looks aren't everything.

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A lot of times, men are just looking for the bombshell

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that they can score or whatever.

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But a lot of times, those bombshells

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come with a lot of problems.

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And what I mean by bombshell is like the most beautiful woman

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that you can find.

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And a lot of times, the most beautiful woman

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that you can find is very shallow, very vain,

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and men are just looking for, you're also

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looking at a lot of problems, probably.

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And I'm not saying that that's all the time,

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but sometimes you need to look past

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trying to find the most beautiful woman

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that you can find.

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It's great to find.

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Now, obviously, marry someone that you're attracted to.

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Obviously.

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But why don't you try to find some virtuous quality

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characters about someone and just balance that out

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a little bit?

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Because if you think that, look, that's

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what the world teaches, that you try to find the most

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beautiful person you can.

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But thinking that that beautiful person

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is going to be the most virtuous also, it's just not true.

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It's just not going to happen.

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And you're fooling yourself if you think that that's reality.

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That's why this verse is here.

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Favor is deceitful.

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Beauty is vain.

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It's a vanity.

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It means nothing.

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But a woman that fear the Lord, she shall be praised.

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Give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise

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her in the gates.

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So what does God value?

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He values the works that a mother would do.

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He values the strength of what she

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does for her household, for her children, for her husband.

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This is what God values.

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And most importantly, for God.

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Because ultimately, that role of motherhood in that household

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is what God values the most.

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And her price is far above rubies.

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Isn't that what the Bible says?

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Psalm 46, verse 1 says, God is our refuge and strength,

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a very present help in trouble.

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So her true strength, though, comes from God

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because God made women and he also designed them.

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This is how he designed them to be.

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This is what God wants.

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And he is the one that truly, if a woman is saved,

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and even if she's not saved, look,

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he designed women to be a certain way.

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And it's the world that pushes mothers to be where they're

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just like, as soon as they have a child, it's like, oh,

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six weeks, back to work, back to the workforce.

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Stick them in, give them all their vaccines,

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stick them in the Somalian daycare center or whatever,

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and then hope for the best.

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It's like, really?

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That's not what God intended.

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And it's not what God wants.

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Stick them in the public fool system.

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That's not what God wants.

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You can challenge me on that all you want,

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but the last place I'd want to put my children right now

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is in the public education system.

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Sorry, not sorry.

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And what is it producing?

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What is the fruit of the public education system

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producing right now?

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It's not producing anything good.

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I mean, it was bad when I went, but I

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can imagine what it's like now.

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It's probably, I mean, people are walking up

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and sticking whatever's on their phone with no parameters

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in other children's faces.

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It's probably pretty bad.

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So the H in mother is hopeful, hopeful.

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1 Samuel chapter 10, 1 Samuel chapter 10.

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1 Samuel chapter 10.

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The Bible says, and this is talking about Hannah.

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And she's upset.

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I kind of briefly mentioned this before.

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And she was in bitterness of soul, says Hannah.

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She was in bitterness of soul and prayed unto the Lord

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and wept sore.

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She's upset because she can't have a child.

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And it says, and she vowed to vow and said, O Lord of hosts,

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if thou will indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid

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and remember me and not forget thine handmaid,

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but will give unto thine handmaid a man child,

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then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life,

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and there shall no razor come upon his head.

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So here's the vow that Hannah made.

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And she, at the end of this, she has hope.

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At the end of talking to Eli, she has hope.

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And one thing about mothers is that they're hopeful.

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They don't look and just have all the despair.

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In most cases, mothers have hope for their children,

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hope that they're going to turn out good,

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hope that things are going to work out well.

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And even if things are going bad,

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they still have hope that their children are going

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to turn the corner and turn it around and get better

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and do better.

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They have hope that their marriage

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is going to do better, unless some wicked person gets

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in their ear or something.

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But for the most part, women are hopeful for their children.

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Look at verse 17.

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It says, then Eli said, go in peace, and the God of Israel

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grant thee thy petition that thou has asked him.

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So she tells Eli that she has this,

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that she's a sorrowful heart because she's being tormented

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by the second wife or whatever.

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And she isn't able to have children.

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This is the problem is that she's barren

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and cannot have children, and she's being mocked

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by her husband's other wife.

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And she's upset about it.

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She said, let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight

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so that the woman went her way and did eat,

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and her countenance was no more sad.

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Because what?

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Eli said, go in peace, and the God of Israel

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grant thee thy petition that thou has asked of him.

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So why did she have hope?

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Because the man of God told her, go in peace,

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and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition.

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So this is what gave her hope.

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Hope of what?

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That she's going to have a son like she asked for.

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It says, and they rose up in the morning early

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and worshiped before the Lord and returned

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and came to their house to Ramah.

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And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife,

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and the Lord remembered her.

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Wherefore, it came to pass when the time

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was come about after Hannah had conceived

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that she bear a son and called his name Samuel,

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saying, because I have asked him of the Lord.

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And the man, Elkanah, and all his house

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went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice

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that Hannah went not up.

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For she said unto her husband, I will not go up

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until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him

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and that he may appear before the Lord there

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and abide forever.

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And Elkanah her husband said unto her,

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do what seemeth thee good.

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Tarry until thou have weaned him,

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only the Lord establish the word, or his word.

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So the woman abode and gave her suck until she weaned him.

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And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her

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with three bullocks and an ephah of flour, a bottle of wine,

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and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh.

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And the child was young, and they slew a bullock

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and brought the child to Eli.

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She said, O Lord, as I so liveth my Lord,

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I am the woman that stood by thee here

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praying unto the Lord.

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For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me

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my petition which I asked of him.

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Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord

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as long as he liveth.

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He shall be lent to the Lord,

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and he worshiped the Lord there.

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So what was her hope?

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That she would have a son.

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Who gave her that hope?

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The Lord gave her that hope when she prayed.

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And Eli, he gave her that affirmation that,

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yeah, hey, the Lord grant thee thy petition.

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And what do mothers have?

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They have hope.

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They have hope that things are gonna turn out right.

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And God is the one that can give you that hope.

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And a lot of times mothers will be barren like this,

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and just like Hannah prayed to the Lord,

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and he opened her womb, just like that.

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And I'm not saying that you should vow, vow.

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Don't do that necessarily.

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We're not supposed to do that in the New Testament,

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the Bible says, but you can do all that.

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You can ask God, and he'll grant your petitions.

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You just don't vow the vow.

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But if you're having trouble having a child,

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just ask God.

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Just ask him for the things that you want,

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and he will grant you your petition.

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Let's look at John chapter 16.

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And I know that this is a source of heartache

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in some Christians' lives, in some couples' lives,

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and they have a hard time with this.

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But God, just like he did this for Hannah,

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can do these things for you.

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Look at John chapter 16, verse 18.

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John chapter 16, verse 18.

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The Bible says,

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Mm.

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They said therefore, what is this that he saith?

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And Jesus has said that he's gonna go away and come back.

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A little while, we cannot tell what he saith.

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Now Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him

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and said unto him, do you inquire among yourselves

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of what I said, a little while,

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and ye shall not see me again,

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a little while, and ye shall see me?

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Verily, verily, I say unto you,

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that ye shall weep and lament,

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but the world shall rejoice.

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What's he talking about?

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When he dies on the cross,

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they're gonna weep and lament over the fact

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that he dies on the cross.

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And what's it saying?

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But the world shall rejoice.

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I'll tell you what, if Jesus was here

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and he, you know, in this modern time

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and he died on the cross, the world would rejoice again.

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Just like Sarah Silverman.

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Just like all these people that are still glad

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that Jesus died.

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But we would weep and lament too.

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But it says, and ye shall be sorrowful,

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but your sorrow shall be turned into joy.

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A woman, when she is in travail,

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has sorrow because her hour has come.

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But as soon as she's delivered of the child,

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she remembereth no more of the anguish

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for joy that a man is born into the world.

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And you now therefore have sorrow,

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but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice,

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and your joy no man taketh from you.

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And in that day, ye shall ask me nothing.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you,

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whatsoever ye shall ask, the Father in my name,

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he will give it you.

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Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name.

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Ask and ye shall receive that your joy may be full.

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So what's he saying?

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What's he teaching here?

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He's teaching hope.

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He's teaching hope that he will come again.

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He's teaching hope that, hey,

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even though you're gonna see me die on the cross,

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you're gonna see me, but I am gonna resurrect again.

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There's hope in the resurrection.

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But there's also hope in the fact

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that he is gonna come again.

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And though we see tribulation in our lives,

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though we see tribulation in the world,

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he is gonna come back again,

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and there will be joy in our lives.

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But we should have hope.

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And mothers, and wives, and ladies,

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hey, you might be barren today, but you know what?

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There is hope that you can have a child.

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And what's he saying in this last verse here, verse 24?

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Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name.

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You know what?

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If you don't ask, you're not gonna get anything.

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You have not because you ask not.

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And maybe you're asking to miss.

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Maybe you're sad, but maybe you're just not asking.

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Maybe you haven't gotten on your knees.

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Maybe you haven't fasted.

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Maybe you haven't wept.

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Hannah got on our knees.

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She came to the house of God and got on our knees

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and cried out to God for him to give her a man child.

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And you know what?

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He granted her petition.

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Maybe she shouldn't have vowed that vow,

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but he did still do what she asked.

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And you know what?

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God will answer our prayers.

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And he specifically says,

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hitherto you have asked nothing in my name.

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And you know what?

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The fact that we're saved,

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and the fact that we can pray in Jesus' name to the Father,

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he will grant our petitions.

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And look, hope is,

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because to try to explain what hope means sometimes

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can be a little bit,

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there's a lot of meanings for hope sometimes,

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but when we're hoping for something,

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it's an expectation that something good is going to happen,

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or that something that's been promised to us

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is going to happen.

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It's not like,

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you know, because sometimes we'll be at the door

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and we'll say, hey, are you 100% sure

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you know you're going to heaven?

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They'll be like, I hope so.

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But that doesn't necessarily mean

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that they're hoping something

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that they know for sure is going to happen.

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But when we say we have hope in the resurrection,

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that's that we know it's going to happen

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and we're looking forward to an expectation

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that is for sure going to happen.

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So, and a lot of times people will pray about something,

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they'll say a prayer,

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but how fervently are they actually asking for it?

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Do they actually believe in what they're asking for,

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or are they just going through emotion?

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And you know, sometimes people are heartbroken,

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but maybe you just need to get serious

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about what you're praying about

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and actually ask God and really mean what you're asking.

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And you know, sometimes you do have to wait.

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You know, I've seen this with people,

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you know, even people in our own church

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that have had to wait for a while,

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but then joy cometh in the morning.

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Joy cometh when that child is actually born

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and one that they've been waiting for for a long time.

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Romans chapter 12 verse nine says,

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"'Let love be without dissimulation,

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"'abhor that which is evil,

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"'cleave to that which is good,

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"'be kindly affection one toward another

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"'with brotherly love and honor,

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"'preferring one another,

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"'not slothful in business,

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"'fervent in spirit, serving the Lord,

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"'rejoicing in hope.'"

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You know, we have a lot of things to hope for

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in the Christian life.

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And you know, as a mother that wants to have a child,

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hey, rejoice in the hope that you're going to have a child.

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Look, God opens and closes the womb.

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That's what the Bible says.

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So if you have that hope to have a child,

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then look, rejoice in that hope

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because God will open up the womb.

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He says he will do it.

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Patient in tribulation, continuing instant in prayer.

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Mothers rejoice in hope probably more than all others do

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because they believe that God can help them have children.

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But if that's not you, or is that not you,

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God can help you too though.

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Rejoice in hope.

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You have to rejoice in it.

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You have to actually believe that he's gonna do it

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because Jesus went to many places

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and sometimes he wouldn't do things

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because they didn't really believe.

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They had no faith.

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You have to have faith to please him.

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He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek him.

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Proverbs 23 verse 18 says,

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"'For surely there is an end,

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"'and thine expectation shall not be cut off.'"

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Proverbs 13, excuse me, 1 Corinthians 13, seven says,

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"'Beareth all things, believeth all things,

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"'hopeth all things, endureth all things.'"

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Can God fix things?

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He absolutely can.

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And with mothers, they're very hopeful

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about a lot of things when it concerns their kids.

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Can God help my kids?

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Yes, he can.

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Can God help my grandkids?

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Yes, he can.

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Can God help your marriage?

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Yes, he can.

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Can God help my husband?

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Yes, he can.

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Can God help your elements?

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Yes, he can.

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But you gotta hope all things.

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You gotta be patient.

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You gotta be joyful and hope all things.

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Sometimes we can lose track of things

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and get all soul and sorrowful,

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but just remember that what Jesus said,

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you haven't even asked anything in my name yet.

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You have to ask.

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And sometimes we just get bogged down.

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We just get to where we forget to ask.

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Ask and you shall receive.

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Knock and she'll be open unto you.

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But a lot of times moms are very hopeful,

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and I just wanna be an encouragement to you

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that if you're maybe barren or looking to have children,

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that you should hope for and rejoice and hope

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because God will give it to you.

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If he said he'll grant your request,

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you just have to ask him.

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And mothers are also selfless.

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They're selfless.

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A lot of times they'll go without

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so that their children can have.

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They'll give children their last bite of food

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I mean, they'll do stuff that men just definitely won't do.

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A lot of times.

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Eventually kids get to the age

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where you're fighting the dads for the food on the table.

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They're like, boy, have you ever back off?

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That's my, that biggest steak is mine still.

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When you start putting the steaks on the table,

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you can have the biggest one.

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The first plate's mine.

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I worked all day.

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You didn't do nothing.

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But let's look at 1 Kings here.

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1 Kings chapter 17.

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I'll try to speed this up here.

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1 Kings chapter 17.

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So you have this woman of Zarephath

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and this is a story that Jesus talked about in the Bible.

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And she is starving to death.

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And her husband, or not her husband,

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but her and her son, she's a widow.

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And her and her son are about to make

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the last bit of food that they have.

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And look at what it says in verse 12.

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It says, and she said as the Lord, thy God liveth,

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I have not a cake, but a handful of meal and a barrel

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and a little oil and a cruise.

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And behold, I am gathering two sticks

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that I may go in and dress it for me and my son

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that we may eat it and die.

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And Elijah said unto her, fear not,

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go and do as thou hast said,

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but make me thereof a little cake first

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and bring it unto me and after make for thee

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and for thy son.

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For thus saith the Lord God of Israel,

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the barrel of meal shall not waste,

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neither shall the cruise,

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excuse me, I lost my place here for a second.

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Neither shall the cruise of oil fail

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until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth

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and she went and did according to the saying of Elijah

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and she and he and her house did eat many days.

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So I mean, she ended up putting God first

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because that's what Elijah had told her to do.

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But she was what?

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She was gonna eat with her and her son

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and she was being selfless, but she put God first

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because look, we're supposed to put God first.

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And so this is what she was asked to do,

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but she was selfless in the fact that she was thinking

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about her and her son.

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She didn't say I was gonna have it for myself

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and who cares what happens to him.

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No, she was selfless in the fact that she was gonna make it

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for her and him and then they were gonna die.

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In Exodus chapter two, verse two,

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you have Moses' mother who was under,

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basically if you had a son,

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you were supposed to throw them in the,

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give them to the midwife so they could throw them

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in the river and the crocodiles could eat them or whatever.

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But what did she do?

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She had faith in God and she hid him three months

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and she was just trying to keep him alive.

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She was selfless.

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She didn't care whether she was gonna die or not

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and hid Moses for three months until he was old enough

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and then she obviously did put him in the ark

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and had Miriam watch from the banks

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to see what would happen to him.

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But she was selfless in the fact that she kept Moses alive

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when there was nobody else that was doing that.

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What do you think everybody else was doing with their sons?

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They were probably just letting them die.

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But she was selfless in the fact

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that she was keeping him alive.

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Now, let's go to 1 Kings chapter three.

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1 Kings chapter three.

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I got one more after this and we're done.

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1 Kings chapter three.

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Now this is the story of Solomon and the two harlots.

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So, and this is like where people first started to notice

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just how wise Solomon was.

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And it's a famous story in the Bible.

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But this woman is very selfless also.

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And look, moms are very selfless.

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Like I said, they'll do a lot of selfless acts

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for their children.

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They'll even die for their children trying to protect them.

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And look what it says in 1 Kings 3.16.

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It says, then came there two women

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that were harlots unto the king and stood before him.

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And one woman said, oh my Lord,

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and this woman dwelt in one house

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and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

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And it came to pass the third day that I was delivered

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and the woman was delivered also.

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And we were together and there was no stranger

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with us in the house save we two in the house.

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And this woman's child died in the night

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because she overlaid it.

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And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me

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while a vine handmaid slept and laid it in her bosom

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and laid her dead child in my bosom.

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And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck,

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behold it was dead.

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But when I considered it in the morning,

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behold, it was not my son which I did bear.

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And the other woman said, nay, but the living is my son.

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And the dead is thy son.

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And this said, no, but the dead is thy son

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and the living is my son.

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Thus they spake before the king.

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Then said the king, the one said,

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this is my son that liveth and my son is dead.

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And the other said, saith, nay, but thy son is the dead

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and my son is the living.

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And the king said, bring me a sword.

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And they brought a sword before the king.

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And the king said, divide the living child in two

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and give half to one and half to the other.

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Then spake the woman whose the living child was

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unto the king for her bowels yearned upon her son.

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And she said, oh, my Lord, give her the living child

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and in no wise slay it.

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But the other said, let it be neither mine nor thine

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but divide it.

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Then the king answered and said, give her the living child

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and in no wise slay it, she is the mother thereof.

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Now, of course, this is a wise thing that Solomon did,

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but the point I wanna make here is that she loved her child

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so much that she was willing to give it to the other woman

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just so her child wouldn't be slain.

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And this just shows that she is willing to be so selfless

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that she's willing to let her child just to stay alive,

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go with this other woman, even though she's obviously

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an awful person, but she didn't want her child to die.

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So selfless in the fact that she doesn't care

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about the pride of being right or wrong,

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she just wants her child to live.

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Jesus said, greater hath no man than this

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that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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And of course, Jesus died for the whole world

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and he loved every single individual when he did that,

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but mothers will often get in the middle

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between even ferocious animals and between,

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you see these videos where people are trying to carjack

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and take their children away and women will fight like crazy

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to try to fight off intruders and all types of things

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and animal, ferocious animals and all kinds of stuff.

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They are selfless and they will literally give

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their last morsel of food to their children

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and that's a great characteristic of mothers.

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And like I said, men are not, I mean obviously men

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will protect their whole families

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and die for their families too.

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I'm not saying that they won't,

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but women will sacrifice a lot for their children.

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So they're very selfless and will do anything

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to protect them.

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Last thing is grace, graceful.

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Now Isaiah chapter 49, I won't have you turn there

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because I just wanna hurry up and get finished

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with the sermon here, but mothers are graceful.

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Isaiah 49, 15 says, can a woman forget her suckling child

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that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?

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Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee?

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Now of course most women will not forget that, of course,

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but God's saying even if they did, I won't forget you.

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But women aren't gonna just forget their children,

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in most cases again, of course.

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But mothers are full of grace,

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very forgiving towards their children.

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Their children can say all manner of evil about them

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and make horrific mistakes.

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I mean even see sometimes these,

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and I'm not saying that this is right,

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but sometimes these serial killers even,

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they'll still be like, I still love my son.

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It's like, okay, that's a little too far, okay?

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But that's how graceful mothers are sometimes.

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They'll just be like, my son didn't do it or whatever,

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and it's like clearly your son did it, all right?

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But again, I think that might be too far.

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I know it's too far, but mothers are very graceful

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and very forgiving, and God's graceful.

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It's a very great characteristic to have

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for mothers to be graceful towards their children

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and forgiving towards their children,

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and it's a great quality to have.

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Proverbs 31 verse 26 says,

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"'So openeth her mouth with wisdom,

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"'and her tongue is the law of kindness.'"

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And a lot of times mothers will give kind words

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to their children and give them lots of encouragement

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when, you know, a lot of times they just know what to say.

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And dads are sometimes a little more gruff and rough

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in these types of areas, but Proverbs 11, 16 says,

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"'A gracious woman retaineth honor.'"

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So it's a great thing.

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It's a great quality of moms to be gracious.

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It's a great quality for mothers to be gracious.

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Colossians 4, 6 says,

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"'Let your speech be all way with grace,

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"'season with salt,

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"'that you may know how you ought to answer every man.'"

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So in general purpose, it's great for all Christians

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to have this and to have our speech be with grace,

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season with salt, of course, you know,

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not to just completely be a pushover all the time.

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I'm not saying that.

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And Ephesians 4, 32 says,

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"'And be kind one to another,

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"'tender-hearted forgiving one another,

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"'even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.'"

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So this is an edict for all Christians to be.

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And Christ forgave us for a lot of things.

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And so it is a high quality for Christians to be forgiving,

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to be tender-hearted, to forgive one another.

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Hey, if someone asks you to forgive them,

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it's actually a commandment from God to forgive.

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And it's nice that moms are already like that

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with their children, but we should be like that.

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As Christians, we should be like that with all people,

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all Christians, as much as possible.

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So Colossians 3, 13 says,

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"'Forbearing one another and forgiving one another.

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"'If any man have a quarrel against any,

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"'even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.'"

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And, you know, I think a big problem in Christianity

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is forgiving people when they've done you wrong.

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And we'll forgive a lot of people for a lot of things.

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We'll even forgive family members that aren't even saved

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over things that you wouldn't forgive other Christians for.

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And I think that's wrong.

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But, you know, I don't wanna get too far off track

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with the mom, the Mother's Day thing,

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but in general, Christians should be more forgiving.

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And moms already have this built-in grace

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with their children.

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But also, you know, don't forget to have some tough love, too.

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You do have to have borders and boundaries.

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I'm not saying that, you know, you should just forgive

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no matter what all the time.

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Obviously, you can't be, you know,

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just a wilted flower on everything.

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But there's reward and rejoicing of motherhood.

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Proverbs 31, 28 says,

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"'Her children rise up and call her blessed.'"

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And Proverbs, or Psalm 113 verse 9 says,

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"'He maketh the barren woman to keep house

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"'and to be a joyful mother of children.'"

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Embracing the God-given role that you've been given

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is a blessing also.

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Like I said earlier, children are a heritage of the Lord,

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and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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Proverbs 14, 1 says,

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"'Every wise woman buildeth her house,

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"'but the foolish pluggeth it down with her hands.'"

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So, you know, sometimes the world that we're in today

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will try to steer you away from the roles

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that God has given us in the Bible.

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And the feminism is a real danger in our world today,

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especially in the Christian worldview.

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It's always just constantly trying to pulverize

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the walls of Christianity and telling you,

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no, just go back to work, just go back to work.

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And you don't need a husband,

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and this isn't a man's world anymore.

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Burn your bra or whatever.

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It's just, look, it's ridiculous.

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And we should just be what we're meant to be.

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And there's nothing wrong with that.

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It's not degrading at all.

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And we should, at home, husbands,

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we should not make them feel like it is a degrading thing.

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2 Timothy 1, 5, the role of grandmothers.

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You know, let me touch on grandmothers real quick.

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Grandmothers are very important in your grandchildren's lives.

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It says,

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"'When I called to remembrance the unfeigned faith

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"'that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother

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"'Lois, and thy mother Eunice,

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"'I am persuaded that in thee also.'"

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Timothy had a big,

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his grandmother had a big influence on his life.

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You know, when grandmothers get,

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you know, the retirement thing happens,

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and they wanna go off and sail around the world

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or whatever, and just leave their,

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sorry, I raised my kids and all that.

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You know, if you're a saved grandmother,

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you should have an influence in your grandchildren's lives

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if your children will allow you to.

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Titus 2, 3, and 4 says that the aged women likewise,

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that they teach young women to be sober,

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to love their husbands and love their children.

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Children's duty is to honor and to obey

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and to avoid shaming their mother and father.

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Exodus 20 verse 12 says,

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"'Honor thy father and thy mother,

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"'that the days may be long upon the land

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"'which the Lord thy God giveth thee.'"

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Ephesians chapter six, verse one and two says,

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"'Children, obey your parents and the Lord,

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"'for this is right.

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"'Honor thy father and mother,'

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which is the first commandment with promise.

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Proverbs 23 verse 22 says,

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"'Hearken unto thy father that beget thee,

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"'and despise not thy mother when she is old.'"

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So look, these are commandments that go through

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the whole part of your life.

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It's not just, hey, when I'm 18, I'm gonna leave the house

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and, you know, I don't care about my mom and dad anymore.

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No, it says, "'Despise not thy mother when she's old.'"

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Proverbs 10 and one says,

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"'A wise son maketh a glad father,

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"'but a foolish son is the heaviness

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"'of his mother.'"

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Proverbs 29, 15,

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"'The rod and reproof give wisdom,

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"'but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.'"

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And so just to wrap it up here,

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the M was, you know, the amazing,

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the M was in amazing.

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We honor the amazing design of motherhood

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here at this church,

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and the Bible definitely lifts mothers up in these areas,

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recognizing that when a mother embraces her God-given role

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to build her house,

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she creates a legacy that is a true heritage of the Lord.

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The O in loving, a mother's loving nature

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is a foundation in the home.

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Children and adults alike are commanded

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to despise not their mother,

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returning that love through lifelong honor and respect

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so they do not become her heaviness.

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The T in strong,

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the strong spiritual garment of a mother

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is often woven by the aged women and grandmothers

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like Lois.

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Grandmothers provide the strength of experience

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teaching the next generation how to walk in unfeigned faith.

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The H in hopeful,

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because a mother remains hopeful and rejoices in hope,

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she eventually reaps the rewards of labor.

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This hope is realized when her children

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arise up and call her blessed.

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The E in selfless,

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the selfless sacrifices of a mother

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must be met with the obedience of children.

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To live selfishly or foolishly is to bring shame

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to one who gave everything to ensure her children

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would not know the bread of idleness.

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The R in grace,

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a graceful mother who speaks with the law of kindness

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becomes the joyful mother of children.

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Her grace ensures that her house is a place of rejoicing

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rather than reproach.

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So that's it.

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That is the sermon for this morning.

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I hope that if your mom is able to be contacted,

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maybe your mom's passed on,

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but maybe your wife is still a mom if you're married,

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or if your mom is still alive,

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reach out to her today and tell her Happy Mother's Day.

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And you're like, well, you don't know my mom.

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She's mean, or she did this or that.

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Just honor her where you can.

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You know, and that's,

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there's nothing good about, you know,

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saying evil and wicked things about your parents.

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There's nothing good about it,

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regardless of how bad they are.

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And I don't think anybody in here has serial killers

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for parents or anything like that.

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So, I mean, I just,

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I don't see anything good about just bad talking

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to your parents.

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I think that you should honor them

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where they're able to be honored.

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And, you know, God doesn't say,

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hey, honor them except for this or except for that.

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There's no exceptions.

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But obviously people get these millennial ideas

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where, you know, you go on podcasts

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and talk about your parents and how bad they were

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and get all in your feelings and stuff.

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I just don't think that's healthy.

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I'm an 80s kid though, so what do I know?

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You know, I've had some challenges in my life,

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but I don't necessarily feel the need

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to get up and talk about them.

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So I don't necessarily need to talk about them

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in podcasts either.

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So anyway, honor your parents.

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And, you know, if you can, do something nice for your mom

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and tell her happy Mother's Day.

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All right, let's pray.

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Lord, thank you so much for the moms in this room

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and for the sacrifices that they make

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and for the willingness to accept their roles

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and what the Bible says.

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Lord, I pray that you just bless each and every mother here

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represented in the future moms

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and Lord that they would be blessed mothers in the future.

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And we thank you for the Woods family

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and thank you for Miss Kayla.

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Pray that you just bless baby Esmeralda

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and pray that you just bless Miss Kayla

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as she is postpartum and as she heals.

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And thank you for the blessing of her being in our church

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for all these years.

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And thank you for our wives

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and pray that you just bless them with a special blessing.

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We thank you for the food that we're gonna partake in

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and ask that you bless the soul wanting today as we go out.

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And we thank you for the beautiful day outside, Lord.

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And I pray that you just bless everything done in your house

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for the rest of the day.

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In Jesus' name we pray, amen.