Preamble: As we continue to go through this month, instead of harping on what the world is trying to turn this into, I'm going to continue speaking faith, hope, and love. Today's post continues the theme of sharing the love of God through Jesus Christ and what He promises to all those who surrender control of their lives to Him and follow Him as Lord and Savior.
Church 5/13/2023
Offertory scripture:
Colossians 1:12-14
Sermon message:
Happy Mother’s Day
Series: knowing God’s heart
Tonight: part 3: motherhood is God’s plan
(Along with manhood, womanhood, and fatherhood)
Moms are needed for birthing, nursing, and nurturing.
Moms who love God are very important for their children’s development
Exodus 20:12
The very first miracle in the Bible, at the wedding feast of Cana, Jesus honored His mother by obeying her. She told Him to change the water into wine.
On the cross, Jesus told John to take care of His mother.
For those whose moms didn’t take care of them, there are mothers in the Bible that God can use to get you what you need.
Consider the case of Egypt from Joseph’s day until the time of Moses. Egypt was grateful for the Jews at first. But then the future generations forgot about Joseph and rewrote history and painted the Jews as the problem/evil.
Same thing with Christianity and the United States of America.
Then, when Moses was born, the edict from pharaoh was that every Hebrew boy was to be thrown into the Nile River and killed.
Consider the fortitude of Moses’s mother from Exodus 1.
Exodus 1:21
Point #1: (Moses’s mom) She refused to cooperate with that which is wrong
Exodus 2:1-4
Consider the tender-heartedness of pharaoh’s daughter toward the Jews, who found Moses floating in a boat on the Nile River and took care of him.
Point #2: (Moses’s mom) She placed God’s word into her son’s heart.
Exodus 2:9-10
Point #3: (Moses’s mom) She placed her faith and her son in God’s hands.
Don’t speak unbelief if your child is rebellious. The seed of faith is still there; don’t dig it up.
Hebrews 11:23
Point #4: She changed the world.
Moses is one of the most famous and memorable people in the Bible. He wrote the first 5 books of the Bible. Moses’s mother bore him, nursed him, prayed for him.
Hebrews 11:25-27
Like his mother, Moses refused to do what is wrong when the Israelites made a golden calf to worship.
Like his mother who had done for him, Moses placed God’s word into an entire nation’s heart.
Like his mother had done, Moses put the entire nation of Israel in God’s hands.
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