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So today, since it is Mother's Day, in

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most parts of the world actually, and I've

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never heard of any Wives' Day.

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I don't know why.

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So presumably we combine wives and mothers together

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on this day and appreciate our wives and

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our mothers and our wives who are mothers.

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And so I thought I would share with

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you from scripture the good and bad examples

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of seven wives and seven mothers from the

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Bible.

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So first of all, wives.

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Most people think of a Christian wife only

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in relation to Ephesians 5.22 where it

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says, wives be subject to your husbands.

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And as the church, verse 24, as the

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church is subject to Christ, so the wives

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must be subject to their husbands and everything.

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So the only example that many people think

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of, particularly, you know, dictatorial husbands, is, think

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of the church, submits to Christ 100%.

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And Christ is perfect, the church is not.

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So it's easy to submit to a perfect

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husband like Christ, but there are none like

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that.

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So we shouldn't forget that.

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When the church is subject to Christ, he's

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being subject to a perfect person.

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So no husband should take that alone as

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an example and try to make his wife

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submit.

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Because the Bible also says in Ephesians 5

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.21, be subject to one another.

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They must, each wife and husband have got

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a boundary which they must respect.

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But that's not the only example of submission.

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You know, wives may feel inferior saying, oh,

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what an example I have.

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My husband's example is Christ, but my example

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is the church, which is not a great

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example.

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No, sisters, your example is Jesus Christ.

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Turn with me to 1 Corinthians 11 and

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verse 3.

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Here it says, read it carefully.

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Christ is the head of every man.

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And man is the head of a woman.

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And God is the head of Christ.

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And so the submission of the ultimate example

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taken here is, he's talking about submission there

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in that first passage.

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That's why I asked the woman to wail

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her head later on.

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It's the submission of Christ to the father.

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That is taken as the first example.

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That's perfect.

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The man submitting to Christ is not a

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perfect example because most men don't submit perfectly

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to Christ.

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So in this verse, the perfect example is

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God is the head of Christ and Christ

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is the head of every man.

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And so the example that a woman has

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ultimately of submission is how did Jesus submit

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to his father?

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That is the example that you have to

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follow ultimately to God, because though your head

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is a man, his head is Christ.

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So you're ultimately under the headship of Christ,

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so that if your husband asks you to

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do something contrary to what Jesus says, you

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don't have to listen.

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Contrary to what Jesus says means not what

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you think Jesus said, but what the Bible

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says.

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So keeping that in mind, Christ is the

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example for every wife.

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We have good and bad examples in scripture.

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The first one I want to turn to

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is of course Eve, the first wife mentioned

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in the Bible.

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And we are told in 1 Timothy about

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Eve and chapter 2.

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The reason why the Holy Spirit says a

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woman must not exercise authority over a man,

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even at home or in the church, is

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because of two reasons.

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1 Timothy 2 verse 13, because Adam was

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That's the number one reason.

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And the second reason is, it was Adam

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was not deceived, very clear.

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Eve was deceived and fell into transgression.

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For those two reasons, the Holy Spirit says

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a woman must not have authority over a

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man, either at home or in the church,

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and she must not teach in the church.

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She can share God's word, prophesying.

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The Bible says men and women can prophesy,

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which means encourage, share things to build up

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others.

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Certainly, sisters can share something that'll bless all

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the children.

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Many Sunday school teachers are women who teach

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children.

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1 Timothy chapter 2 says older women should

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teach younger women.

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The only exception is they're not allowed to

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teach men.

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So looking at Eve, what was her problem?

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that, created to be a helper to Adam,

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and she knew that Adam was created first,

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and when she was created, her eyes were

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open and she didn't see Adam first, she

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saw God first.

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person called Adam.

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So ultimately, a wife must be submitted to

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God first and say, Lord, you're the head

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of my life.

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a helper to my husband, I'll do that.

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She was taken to Adam and she was

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created to be his helper.

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I'm sure she knew that, God would have

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told her.

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She took over the headship.

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As they walked into the garden, there was

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one tree that God kept to test Adam

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and Eve, will they obey me or not?

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That's all.

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If there was no tree like that, their

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obedience would not have been tested.

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And Eve went towards the tree of life,

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to the tree of knowledge, sorry, not the

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tree of life, away from the tree of

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life.

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And when the serpent came up to speak

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to her and suggested something, what should she

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have done?

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She should have consulted with her head.

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She was only the helper.

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Adam, what do you think?

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Let's pray about this.

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Talk about it together.

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This beautiful animal has suggested that I partake

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of this fruit of this tree.

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And together, they could have decided the story

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would have been very different.

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But because she did not care to ask

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her husband and did whatever she felt she

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should do, she took over the headship and

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brought chaos and confusion into her home and

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into the rest of humanity.

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Whenever you come to a decision in your

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home, it's always good to discuss matters with

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your husband.

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Even if your husband's not born again in

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earthly matters, he may be wise.

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then you can consult with godly people.

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But otherwise, a woman has to be submitted

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to her husband.

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A second example, which is, so Eve was

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a bad example.

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A second example in chronological order, is Mrs.

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Have you heard of Mrs. Job?

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Job, the book of Job chapter two, you

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see Job was written before Genesis, by the

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way.

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Because Job lived long before Abraham, and Moses

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wrote Genesis.

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So Job is actually the first book of

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the Bible.

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And in the first book of the Bible,

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you read of an extremely God fearing man,

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such a man that God could point out

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to Satan as an outstanding godly man, but

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who had a very difficult wife.

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That's sad.

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You've seen that through the years.

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I've seen it myself.

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Some wonderful godly men who've got very difficult

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wives.

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And Job's wife was one like that.

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In the beginning, we don't read much about

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her, she accepted the fact that Job bowed

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down and her children are all dead.

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It must have been a terrific time of

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pressure.

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Imagine having 10 children and all of them

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dying in one moment.

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All your husband's property lost in one moment.

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well, the Lord gave, the Lord took away.

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When I came from my mother's womb, I

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was naked.

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When I go there, I'll be naked.

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So I have no complaint against God.

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I worship God.

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And it doesn't say that she said anything

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at that point.

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Okay, well, at least I've got my husband.

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We are together.

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She seemed to be okay up until that

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point.

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I don't know.

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But when she saw that God had removed

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the other hedge, the first hedge was around

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the property and that was everything was destroyed.

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That was also gone.

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The third hedge is around, the hedges are

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described in Job 1 verse 10.

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her husband's body was taken away, that he

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became sick.

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something like that.

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Because you read that he's sitting outside the

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city later on, scratching himself.

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husband in Job chapter 2, with all the

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boils from top to bottom, from the head

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to feet.

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And his wife says in Job 2 verse

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9, look at what we have faced.

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You're still holding fast to your integrity.

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Curse God and commit suicide.

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It's the first example of a wife telling

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her husband to commit suicide because she's fed

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up.

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She doesn't believe in a loving God anymore.

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And Job said, you're speaking as a foolish

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woman speaks.

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If God is God, can't we accept good

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as well as adversity?

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So instead of being a help to when

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her husband was sick, because the loss of

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children was a loss of her husband too,

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husbands too.

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The loss of property was a loss of

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her husbands as well.

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He suffered as much when the children were

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lost and when the property was lost.

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And now when he is suffering with sickness,

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instead of being an encouragement, she was a

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pain to him.

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Here's a warning to wives.

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When you see your husband suffering something or

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going through some type of pressure, don't be

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like Job's wife and add to his problems.

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Maybe he's facing a lot of pressure in

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this case of work.

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You probably don't realize what an evil boss

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he has.

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And you know, that shared all that with

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you.

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Maybe he's in risk of losing his job.

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Don't be like Job's wife.

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Let me go to example number three, a

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third wife.

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And that is Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

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He was known as Abraham in the beginning.

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And we read something about Sarah in 1

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Peter 3, which is very good.

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1 Peter chapter 3, it says here, Sarah

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submitted to her husband, verse 6, 1 Peter

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3, 6.

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Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord.

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And you wives have become children of Sarah.

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If you do what is right without being

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frightened by any fear.

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What was the fear that Sarah would have

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had right at the beginning?

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One day, Abraham comes to her, Abram those

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days, in Ur of the Chaldees where he

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was 75 years old and retired and he

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had built a house and he had enough

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savings to live comfortably there.

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And the wife was very happy though they

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had no children.

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They had a house and a lot of

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money to live on and living comfortably.

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And one day, Abraham says to Sarah, we

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have to leave all this and go leave

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this country, leave this country, house, everything.

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And Sarah says, where are we going?

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And why?

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He says, God has spoken to me last

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night.

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And I don't know where we're going.

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We're just going to follow God.

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How many of you wives would submit to

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a husband like that?

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I'm sure Abraham was, though he didn't know

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the Lord at that time, must have been

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some type of God fearing man like Cornelius,

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didn't know Jesus, but he was a God

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fearing man, a Roman centurion in that extent.

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So Abraham must have been something like that,

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that God chose him.

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And Sarah must have seen this husband of

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mine, he's an upright man.

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And he's not telling me a lie when

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he says God spoke to him.

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She said, Lord, let's follow.

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Amazing that she was willing to chuck her

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home and her land and her relatives and

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everything and go with Abraham to not nowhere,

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just believing that God was leading.

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Abraham submitted to Abraham calling him Lord.

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I'm not saying that you can have the

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same confidence in a husband who's not God

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fearing, but it's an amazing example.

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That's what I say.

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If you have a God fearing husband, you're

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a very fortunate wife.

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I'll tell you that.

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If you have a husband who's listening to

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God, who can hear God speaking to him,

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boy, don't ever devalue that.

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You're a very fortunate, blessed wife.

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If you have a husband who knows how

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to hear God and speak and speaks to

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you what God spoke to him.

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I mean, there are not many husbands like

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that.

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So be thankful that you have a husband.

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But even though Sarah started well, we read

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later on in Genesis 16, she also made

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a mistake.

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No wife is perfect.

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You know, when she didn't have children for

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a long time, Abraham had told her, God

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says he will bless me and bless all

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the families of the earth through me one

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day.

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That was said to him even when he

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was in Ur of the Chaldees.

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You read that in Genesis 12.

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But after a while, you know, when the

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prayer promises of God not fulfilled, many years

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go by, they've already been married 10 years

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and left Ur of the Chaldees 10 years

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ago and still no child.

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And Sarah wonders, where's this promise that 10

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years ago God said to my husband, he

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will bless all the families of the earth

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through my seed.

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And I don't have any children.

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She began to lose faith.

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Very easy after a while for a wife

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to lose faith, even though she started well.

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And so one day she tells Abraham in

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Genesis 16 and verse 2, see the Lord

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has prevented me from bearing children.

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Please marry my servant woman, Hagar, whom they

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brought from Egypt.

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And let's have a child to her and

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I will be there when she bears a

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child.

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And I'll take that as my child and

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let's help God because God seems to have

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a difficulty here.

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And so I don't know whether God's promises

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will be fulfilled.

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So we have to help God to fulfill

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that promise.

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What a crazy idea.

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Don't think you have to ever help God

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to fulfill his promises.

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He can do it very well without your

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help.

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And that trying to help God is what

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created confusion.

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And Ishmael was born and Isaac and Ishmael

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started having it when later on, 14, 15

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years later, when Isaac was born, Isaac, Ishmael

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was 15, 14, 15 years older than Isaac

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and began to fight with him when they

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grew up and a lot of fights.

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And finally Sarah said, send him away.

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And Isaac and Ishmael fought and all these

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4,000 years since then, the descendants of

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Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael have fought

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with each other, continued for years.

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But that is all because of one mistake

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that Sarah made and Abraham, I believe, foolishly

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listened to his wife at that point.

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So we have to be careful when we

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give advice to our husbands, which comes from

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our own mind, contrary to, and which is

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a result of not trusting God's promise.

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If they had said, let's pray God and

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ask God together, in those days, God would

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speak to Abraham clearly.

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Let's ask God together, Sarah should have said,

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why haven't we got children?

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How long do we have to wait?

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God wouldn't have told him how long to

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wait, but he was still reasserted his promise.

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Don't, don't fear Abraham.

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I promised you, you'll see the best of

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all the families on the earth.

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They will be blessed.

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So that was the good and bad of

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Sarah.

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The next example we see is, this is

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Lot.

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In Genesis 19, we read of God's judgment

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on Sodom and Gomorrah where Lot had gone

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to make money and in mercy to Lot,

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because he was Abraham's nephew, God sent angels

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there to pull Lot out of Sodom and

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Gomorrah and told him, get out and take

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your wife and your two daughters, Genesis 19,

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13, and get out of the city because

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God's going to punish the city.

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And even Lot hesitated, but it says in

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Genesis 19, 16, those angels pulled his hand

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in the hand of his wife and two

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daughters and took them out and said, now

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escape for your life and don't look behind

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you, Genesis 19, 17.

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And then go to the mountains.

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And then Lot said, okay, you can't go

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as far as the mountain.

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Can you allow me to stop somewhere halfway

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or something?

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And the angel said, okay, stop in Zohar

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and I will not punish that city.

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And then the Lord rained brimstone on Sodom

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and Gomorrah.

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But it says Lot's wife was 26, was

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just behind Lot, Genesis 19, 26, looked back.

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What did she look back for?

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There's something there.

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Oh, all my ornaments and jewelry and money

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and all the fancy clothes I bought with

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the money that my husband earned in Sodom

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and my lovely house, which I could build

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with the amount of money much better than

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the tents that we were living in when

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we were with Abraham and all that wealth

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lost.

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She turned back and immediately she became a

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pillar of salt.

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The judgment that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah

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fell on her.

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Immediately she became a pillar of salt.

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She couldn't make any more progress.

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That's the point.

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A wife who is more attached to material

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things and looks back when God said, don't

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look at those things, look ahead to what

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God's trying to save you from the judgment

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of the world.

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And you're still occupied with the pleasures and

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maybe not just the riches, but all the

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fun she had in Sodom where it's a

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place full of pleasure and entertainment and everything

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else.

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And a lot of wives can be such

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a drag on their husbands being more interested

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in watching movies that are not good and

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TV serials that defile them and drag their

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husband back.

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Blessed is Lot, he didn't look back at

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all.

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And look back, they become stationary.

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They don't make any more progress.

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You may not become a pillar of salt,

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but what it means you will make no

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more progress in your Christian life.

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You'll be stuck there for the rest of

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your life.

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That's a tragedy.

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One who's supposed to be a helper to

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the husband is now stuck.

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And the result is her children, her daughters

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go astray.

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Imagine the way she brought up her two

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daughters, that they commit adultery with their father

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later on.

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How could two girls do that?

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Even in the world, we don't hear of

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such things happening.

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Sodom must have been such an evil place.

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And this mother, this wife was a pretty

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hopeless wife to Lot and that's a bad

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example.

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Then the next example we see, which is

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a good one, is in the book of

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Ruth, Ruth who married Boaz.

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In Ruth chapter one, we read that an

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Israelite called Elimelech, Ruth 1-2, with his

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wife Naomi, left Israel because there was a

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famine and went into the land of Moab

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and remained there.

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And there his two sons married women from

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Moab.

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One was Ruth and the other was Orpah.

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And then Elimelech, the father died and his

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two sons also died.

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Finally, it was Naomi, the widow, plus her

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two daughters-in-law that were left.

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Those daughters-in-law had no children, Ruth

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and Orpah.

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And finally, Naomi decides to go back to

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her home country and tells her daughters-in

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-law in Ruth chapter one, verse eight, go

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return to your mother's house and may the

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Lord deal kindly with you as you have

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dealt with me.

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And may the Lord grant you to find

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rest and maybe you'll find husbands there.

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And initially they said, no, no, no, both

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of them, we'll return with you to your

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people, Ruth 1-10.

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Both Ruth and Orpah said that.

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But Naomi said, return my daughters.

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Because I don't have any more children to

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be born to be your husbands.

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And I'm too old now to have a

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husband, to have a son, to marry you.

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So are you going to wait till I

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have sons and their sons grow up even

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if I get married again?

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No, it's hard for me.

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So the thought of, you know, that I

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won't get a husband is what she put

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before them.

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You won't get a husband if you come

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back with me to Israel.

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And initially Orpah and Ruth, it says they

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lifted up their voices and they wept.

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Oh, we have to leave you, our dear

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mother-in-law.

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They looked so loving.

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But we read Orpah kissed her mother-in

547
00:23:50,610 --> 00:23:52,330
-law and went back to Moab.

548
00:23:53,530 --> 00:23:58,870
Ruth clung to her and said, her mother

549
00:23:58,870 --> 00:24:00,070
said, see your sister-in-law has gone

550
00:24:00,070 --> 00:24:01,430
back to her people and her gods.

551
00:24:01,910 --> 00:24:03,310
You can also go, you'll find a husband

552
00:24:03,310 --> 00:24:03,630
there.

553
00:24:04,290 --> 00:24:05,970
And Ruth said, please don't ask me to

554
00:24:05,970 --> 00:24:06,270
leave you.

555
00:24:06,330 --> 00:24:07,250
I don't want a husband.

556
00:24:08,490 --> 00:24:09,790
I want the Lord.

557
00:24:10,850 --> 00:24:13,290
Where Ruth 116, your God will be my

558
00:24:13,290 --> 00:24:17,570
God and your people will be my people.

559
00:24:19,150 --> 00:24:21,330
Where you die, verse 17, I'll die.

560
00:24:22,050 --> 00:24:25,750
There I'll be buried and nothing but death

561
00:24:25,750 --> 00:24:26,650
will part you and me.

562
00:24:28,130 --> 00:24:30,030
She was devoted first of all to the

563
00:24:30,030 --> 00:24:30,350
Lord.

564
00:24:30,350 --> 00:24:33,340
She didn't want to go back.

565
00:24:33,540 --> 00:24:37,100
And that one single decision that I want

566
00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:41,260
the Lord more than a husband is what

567
00:24:41,260 --> 00:24:43,080
made her a very blessed woman.

568
00:24:44,380 --> 00:24:47,380
You read later on in the last two

569
00:24:47,380 --> 00:24:53,050
verses of Ruth that she became the great

570
00:24:53,050 --> 00:24:55,310
grandmother of David.

571
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:58,120
Amazing.

572
00:24:58,380 --> 00:25:00,500
She married Boaz who had a son whose

573
00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,780
son was Jesse, the father of David.

574
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:04,540
Amazing.

575
00:25:05,260 --> 00:25:07,260
And you read in Matthew chapter one, she's

576
00:25:07,260 --> 00:25:10,360
in that line of genealogy of Jesus.

577
00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:14,260
She was the great grandmother of David.

578
00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:15,560
How did that happen?

579
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:20,840
A Moabite coming in this line and Jesus

580
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,920
choosing that line because of this wonderful wife,

581
00:25:25,940 --> 00:25:31,080
that Ruth was and faithful to the Lord,

582
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,920
even though her husband had died and a

583
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,740
wonderful daughter-in-law that she was to

584
00:25:37,740 --> 00:25:38,240
a mother-in-law.

585
00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,300
It's very rare to find godly daughters-in

586
00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:45,400
-law who will appreciate a godly mother-in

587
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:47,500
-law and value her.

588
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:50,760
There are bad mothers-in-law.

589
00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:52,000
I know plenty of them in the world.

590
00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,000
Most of them are probably bad, but you're

591
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,480
very fortunate, my dear sister, if you have

592
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,620
a godly mother-in-law.

593
00:26:01,380 --> 00:26:02,980
Sometimes you may not appreciate it.

594
00:26:03,660 --> 00:26:05,100
I've seen enough mothers-in-law in the

595
00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:09,100
world to see how daughters-in-law suffer.

596
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,380
And sometimes you can take a godly mother

597
00:26:12,380 --> 00:26:15,560
-in-law like Naomi for granted.

598
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,080
Ruth did not.

599
00:26:18,140 --> 00:26:20,520
She valued and appreciated her mother-in-law

600
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,320
and so she became a godly wife later

601
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,640
on to Boris.

602
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:26,800
Wonderful example.

603
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:32,020
And example number six now is a bad

604
00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:32,380
one.

605
00:26:33,260 --> 00:26:34,740
If you turn with me to 2 Samuel

606
00:26:34,740 --> 00:26:38,660
chapter six, you read about one of David's

607
00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:38,920
wives.

608
00:26:39,060 --> 00:26:41,220
David married many wives those days.

609
00:26:41,380 --> 00:26:44,300
It was sort of permitted, I presume, unlike

610
00:26:44,300 --> 00:26:44,660
today.

611
00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:50,160
In 2 Samuel chapter six, David married Michal.

612
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,480
Michal was the daughter of Saul.

613
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,160
And Saul had promised, he said, I'll give

614
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,700
you my daughter if you kill so many

615
00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:00,220
Philistines.

616
00:27:01,120 --> 00:27:02,760
And he thought David would be killed by

617
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:03,380
the Philistines.

618
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,900
If you kill 100 Philistines, I'll give you

619
00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:06,300
my daughter.

620
00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:08,680
He thought he'll never kill 100.

621
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,540
He wanted to get rid of David because

622
00:27:11,540 --> 00:27:13,160
David was a threat to his throne.

623
00:27:14,180 --> 00:27:15,700
But David went and killed 100 Philistines.

624
00:27:17,890 --> 00:27:22,210
And so then Saul said, I can't give

625
00:27:22,210 --> 00:27:22,910
you my eldest daughter.

626
00:27:23,030 --> 00:27:24,230
I'm going to give her to somebody else.

627
00:27:24,730 --> 00:27:26,530
But Michal, one of the other daughters of

628
00:27:26,530 --> 00:27:28,610
Saul said, she was in love with David,

629
00:27:28,830 --> 00:27:30,510
this wonderful young man who had killed Goliath.

630
00:27:31,370 --> 00:27:33,950
And so Saul allowed her to marry David

631
00:27:33,950 --> 00:27:35,150
and they were in love with each other.

632
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:39,190
But they didn't remain like that.

633
00:27:40,170 --> 00:27:42,850
One day when David was bringing in 2

634
00:27:42,850 --> 00:27:48,730
Samuel 6, bringing the ark into Jerusalem and

635
00:27:48,730 --> 00:27:50,270
wanted to bring it all the way to

636
00:27:50,270 --> 00:27:50,670
Jerusalem.

637
00:27:52,370 --> 00:27:54,430
We read as the ark was brought to

638
00:27:54,430 --> 00:27:57,430
Jerusalem, you read later on in verse 16,

639
00:27:58,390 --> 00:28:01,030
2 Samuel 6, 16, as the ark of

640
00:28:01,030 --> 00:28:02,650
the Lord came into the city of David,

641
00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:10,210
Michal, who was the daughter of Saul, looked

642
00:28:10,210 --> 00:28:17,670
out of the window and she saw David

643
00:28:17,670 --> 00:28:19,450
dancing there before the Lord.

644
00:28:20,810 --> 00:28:23,650
And she was disturbed.

645
00:28:24,730 --> 00:28:27,730
Oh, my husband is dancing there.

646
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,180
And so when she said she despised him

647
00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:36,920
in 2 Samuel 6 and verse 16.

648
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:43,360
And it says here that when David finished

649
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,040
offering the burnt offering and came back to

650
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,880
the house, Michal began to speak rudely to

651
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,440
him in verse 20.

652
00:28:53,380 --> 00:28:54,820
Oh, how you uncovered yourself.

653
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:56,000
He didn't really uncover himself.

654
00:28:56,220 --> 00:28:56,960
He was just dancing.

655
00:28:57,420 --> 00:28:59,720
What she meant was you made yourself cheap.

656
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:00,540
You're a king.

657
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:03,000
And you made yourself just like one of

658
00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:03,820
the ordinary people.

659
00:29:04,060 --> 00:29:06,140
David was a man who says, I'm just

660
00:29:06,140 --> 00:29:08,700
one of God's people.

661
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,940
He didn't exalt himself as king, but Michal

662
00:29:11,940 --> 00:29:12,680
didn't like that.

663
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,060
I'm the queen.

664
00:29:14,180 --> 00:29:16,980
And how can you behave like that before

665
00:29:16,980 --> 00:29:19,260
these ordinary people?

666
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:20,300
You must have some dignity.

667
00:29:21,820 --> 00:29:25,720
And David said, I will be humble in

668
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,980
my own eyes, verse 22.

669
00:29:28,220 --> 00:29:32,840
And the others don't despise me like you

670
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:33,060
do.

671
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:36,680
And what happened?

672
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:43,100
God punished Michal, 2 Samuel 6, 23, that

673
00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,960
she did not have any children until she

674
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:45,180
died.

675
00:29:46,460 --> 00:29:49,180
That's a bad wife who despises her husband,

676
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,500
not for something evil that he did, because

677
00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:54,400
he took a lowly place to be one

678
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:55,360
like the other people.

679
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,480
Sometimes a wife wants her husband to be

680
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,960
esteemed and equal to the big shots in

681
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:01,420
the world.

682
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,180
And when he is a godly person who

683
00:30:04,180 --> 00:30:05,940
humbles himself and becomes like one of the

684
00:30:05,940 --> 00:30:10,900
ordinary brothers in the church and seeks to

685
00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:14,380
esteem everybody as more important than himself, sometimes

686
00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:16,760
a wife can be disturbed by that.

687
00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:22,020
You see, that's below your dignity to serve

688
00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:22,960
these lowly people.

689
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,040
Sad.

690
00:30:25,220 --> 00:30:26,280
Don't be a wife like that.

691
00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:31,580
Now we turn to one example of a

692
00:30:31,580 --> 00:30:34,640
good wife in Acts of the Apostles in

693
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:35,500
chapter 18.

694
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,280
We've seen some good and bad ones so

695
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:39,620
far.

696
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,800
So example number seven is Acts 18.

697
00:30:45,700 --> 00:30:48,940
You read in Acts 18 that there was

698
00:30:48,940 --> 00:30:51,780
a man called Aquila who had a wife

699
00:30:51,780 --> 00:30:52,420
called Priscilla.

700
00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:57,380
And they had met with Paul and he

701
00:30:57,380 --> 00:30:58,740
was a tent maker.

702
00:30:59,260 --> 00:31:02,920
And through Paul, they got converted.

703
00:31:05,580 --> 00:31:08,920
And interestingly enough, Priscilla seems to have come

704
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,680
to know more of the scriptures than her

705
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:11,980
husband.

706
00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:15,360
Sometimes a wife is more knowledgeable in the

707
00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,200
Bible than her husband.

708
00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:18,660
And here's a good example of that.

709
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,040
And we read that when they went to

710
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:26,080
the synagogue one day, Acts 18, 24, they

711
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,840
heard a man called Apollos, an eloquent man

712
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,180
who was mighty in scriptures, but he knew

713
00:31:33,180 --> 00:31:37,460
only as far as the baptism of John.

714
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:38,220
That's all.

715
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,200
He didn't know anything further.

716
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,220
He esteemed John the Baptist.

717
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,620
He didn't know further about Christ dying and

718
00:31:45,620 --> 00:31:47,560
being raised up and the new covenant and

719
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:47,960
all that.

720
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,240
And he preached as much as he knew

721
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,180
in verse 26, Acts 18, 26.

722
00:31:55,860 --> 00:31:58,320
And it says when Priscilla and Aquila, notice

723
00:31:58,320 --> 00:31:59,880
Priscilla's name comes first, the wife.

724
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:01,660
She heard him.

725
00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:04,000
She didn't go up to him and say,

726
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,180
hey, Apollos, I want to tell you something.

727
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:08,900
Boy, I really love that.

728
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:14,220
She took a humble place, even though she

729
00:32:14,220 --> 00:32:15,940
knew much more of the scriptures than her

730
00:32:15,940 --> 00:32:18,500
husband, Aquila.

731
00:32:19,180 --> 00:32:23,560
She took a humble place and said, can

732
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:24,760
you please come home?

733
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,200
They took him home.

734
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:30,800
I believe they took him home there.

735
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:32,760
It says when it says they took him

736
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:37,480
aside, they took him home and there they

737
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,900
explained the way of God, Acts 18, 26

738
00:32:41,900 --> 00:32:42,960
more accurately.

739
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,560
I believe Priscilla was the one who did

740
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:45,740
that.

741
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:47,840
That's why her name comes there first.

742
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:51,780
And she did that in such a gracious

743
00:32:51,780 --> 00:32:58,120
way, you know, not humbling this man who

744
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,480
was obviously a man well-versed in the

745
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:01,660
scripture, but didn't know any more.

746
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,420
So you think of a wife who knows

747
00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:06,360
about the new covenant because she's submitted to

748
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:10,080
the teaching in the church and is a

749
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:10,680
godly woman.

750
00:33:11,220 --> 00:33:13,800
And she hears someone who's knows only as

751
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:14,660
far as the old covenant.

752
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,040
Even today there are people like that.

753
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:20,160
And you want to share something with that

754
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,720
man, invite him home and sit with your

755
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,700
husband and in submission to your husband, as

756
00:33:27,700 --> 00:33:29,860
he shares, you also share.

757
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,740
Take that place of submission and open the

758
00:33:33,740 --> 00:33:36,140
eyes and God can anoint you to open

759
00:33:36,140 --> 00:33:38,120
the eyes of even brothers who are ignorant

760
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:39,620
of the new covenant.

761
00:33:40,380 --> 00:33:42,380
Not if you act like a bossy woman,

762
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:44,860
but like Priscilla.

763
00:33:45,060 --> 00:33:47,440
And later on you read in Romans 16

764
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,560
about Priscilla and Aquila again, they had a

765
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:51,640
church meeting in their home.

766
00:33:52,100 --> 00:33:52,600
Wonderful.

767
00:33:54,020 --> 00:33:57,240
So there's an example for women who know

768
00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,800
more of the scriptures than their husbands.

769
00:34:00,940 --> 00:34:03,340
So now we've seen seven wives.

770
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:05,620
Now let's look at seven mothers.

771
00:34:07,260 --> 00:34:09,800
So again, for mothers, you know, we all

772
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,080
know God is a father and God is

773
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,719
a loving father, our father who art in

774
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:12,960
heaven.

775
00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:15,800
But we all know that God is also

776
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:16,199
a mother.

777
00:34:16,380 --> 00:34:18,900
I want to encourage all mothers by pointing

778
00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:20,360
out to you that God is also a

779
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,420
mother and Isaiah speaks about that more than

780
00:34:22,420 --> 00:34:23,120
anybody else.

781
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:26,840
Turn with me to Isaiah chapter 66 and

782
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:27,560
verse 13.

783
00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:33,540
The Lord says to Israel, as a mother

784
00:34:33,540 --> 00:34:38,440
comforts her children, so I will comfort you.

785
00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:44,840
As a mother comforts her child, so I

786
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:45,440
will comfort you.

787
00:34:45,540 --> 00:34:47,440
So there God compares himself to a mother.

788
00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:50,400
He's not only a father, he's a mother.

789
00:34:52,139 --> 00:34:53,719
And that's a wonderful example.

790
00:34:56,060 --> 00:35:02,650
And again, in Isaiah chapter 49, he again

791
00:35:02,650 --> 00:35:03,810
uses the example of a mother.

792
00:35:04,230 --> 00:35:08,330
In Isaiah 49, 15, when Zion said, verse

793
00:35:08,330 --> 00:35:10,050
14, the Lord has forgotten about me.

794
00:35:11,030 --> 00:35:12,830
The example he uses is not a father.

795
00:35:13,370 --> 00:35:15,230
He doesn't say a father won't forget his

796
00:35:15,230 --> 00:35:15,530
child.

797
00:35:17,230 --> 00:35:20,730
He says, can a woman, Isaiah 49, 15,

798
00:35:22,510 --> 00:35:25,870
forget a newborn baby whom she's nursing?

799
00:35:27,390 --> 00:35:29,230
She may forget a grown up child, but

800
00:35:29,230 --> 00:35:32,590
a newborn baby whom she's nursing, can a

801
00:35:32,590 --> 00:35:36,170
woman not have compassion on this little baby

802
00:35:36,170 --> 00:35:40,470
when he dirties the diapers or does foolish

803
00:35:40,470 --> 00:35:40,770
things?

804
00:35:41,210 --> 00:35:43,170
It's one she's nursing, a little baby.

805
00:35:45,150 --> 00:35:48,210
Even a mother may forget her baby, but

806
00:35:48,210 --> 00:35:49,230
I will not forget you.

807
00:35:50,130 --> 00:35:53,490
I'm a much more compassionate mother than even

808
00:35:53,490 --> 00:35:53,710
her.

809
00:35:53,770 --> 00:35:56,310
So that's an example for mothers to be

810
00:35:56,310 --> 00:35:58,690
compassionate towards your children.

811
00:35:59,750 --> 00:36:01,030
God is your example.

812
00:36:01,870 --> 00:36:04,530
Whenever you find a difficult child, look at

813
00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:06,530
that verse and say, have compassion on him.

814
00:36:07,370 --> 00:36:11,070
Like God had compassion on a wayward Israel.

815
00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:13,770
It's a great example for mothers.

816
00:36:14,930 --> 00:36:17,050
So now turning to the example of mothers,

817
00:36:17,110 --> 00:36:18,610
again, we have good and bad examples.

818
00:36:19,170 --> 00:36:20,970
The first one I can think of is

819
00:36:20,970 --> 00:36:21,850
Eve again.

820
00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:24,530
We've seen her as a wife.

821
00:36:24,590 --> 00:36:25,910
Now we see her as a mother.

822
00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:30,410
In Genesis 4, 1, she gave birth to

823
00:36:30,410 --> 00:36:30,610
Kim.

824
00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:34,910
Now remember this, no baby had been born

825
00:36:34,910 --> 00:36:35,950
into the world until then.

826
00:36:36,890 --> 00:36:39,910
Nobody ever thought that a human being could

827
00:36:39,910 --> 00:36:40,950
come out of a mother's womb.

828
00:36:41,130 --> 00:36:42,310
Today we are familiar with it.

829
00:36:43,190 --> 00:36:45,070
But think of Adam and Eve who had

830
00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:48,050
seen that only God can create a man,

831
00:36:48,150 --> 00:36:49,270
only God can create a woman.

832
00:36:50,370 --> 00:36:52,470
God made Adam from the dust of the

833
00:36:52,470 --> 00:36:56,350
ground and God made Eve from Adam's rib.

834
00:36:57,430 --> 00:36:58,530
It is God who did it.

835
00:36:59,470 --> 00:37:03,750
But all of a sudden, Eve discovers that

836
00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:06,630
from her womb, a human being has come

837
00:37:06,630 --> 00:37:06,970
out.

838
00:37:07,930 --> 00:37:09,250
And you know what she says?

839
00:37:10,450 --> 00:37:12,990
Literally what she's saying in Genesis 4, verse

840
00:37:12,990 --> 00:37:16,990
1 is, I have made a man.

841
00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:21,080
It's not only God who did it.

842
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:25,500
I have made a man with a little

843
00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:26,360
help from the Lord.

844
00:37:28,420 --> 00:37:31,240
It's very easy for a mother to become

845
00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:36,760
proud of her children or what she accomplished.

846
00:37:37,660 --> 00:37:39,980
See the type of child I brought up.

847
00:37:40,180 --> 00:37:42,240
See the type of so easy.

848
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,280
Of course, the Lord helped me a little

849
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,320
bit to bring up this godly son, but

850
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,820
it was I who did it.

851
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:51,640
Oh, beware of that, dear mothers.

852
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,300
If your children are godly children, put your

853
00:37:54,300 --> 00:37:55,320
face in the dust.

854
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,600
Don't ever follow Eve and say, look at

855
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,120
my godly son or daughter whom I brought

856
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,740
up with a little help from the Lord.

857
00:38:04,660 --> 00:38:07,600
Here's the first example of a proud mother.

858
00:38:09,650 --> 00:38:10,590
And what is the result?

859
00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:15,590
She imparted that spirit to her son Cain.

860
00:38:16,450 --> 00:38:17,270
I'm sure she did.

861
00:38:17,650 --> 00:38:18,370
Cain saw that.

862
00:38:18,830 --> 00:38:20,530
You know, children invite something.

863
00:38:20,610 --> 00:38:21,470
You don't have to say anything.

864
00:38:22,210 --> 00:38:24,330
Children look at their mothers and invite something.

865
00:38:25,190 --> 00:38:30,050
And they, oh, if my mother can do

866
00:38:30,050 --> 00:38:31,810
something like that, I can also do some

867
00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:33,130
things with the help of the Lord, but

868
00:38:33,130 --> 00:38:34,570
I'm going to be somebody.

869
00:38:35,750 --> 00:38:38,690
And it's that pride that finally led Cain

870
00:38:38,690 --> 00:38:42,130
to be a one who became jealous of

871
00:38:42,130 --> 00:38:44,950
his younger brother and murdered his younger brother.

872
00:38:45,150 --> 00:38:49,730
So often, so many children grow up acquiring

873
00:38:49,730 --> 00:38:51,930
habits from their mother, bad habits.

874
00:38:53,330 --> 00:38:55,090
And they become a pain in the home

875
00:38:55,090 --> 00:38:58,150
to the other children and to humanity in

876
00:38:58,150 --> 00:38:58,470
general.

877
00:38:59,410 --> 00:39:01,950
And later on, they have children who turn

878
00:39:01,950 --> 00:39:03,430
out like that because later on, you read

879
00:39:03,430 --> 00:39:05,650
at the end of Genesis chapter four that

880
00:39:05,650 --> 00:39:09,110
Cain's descendants also became murderers as you read

881
00:39:09,110 --> 00:39:11,630
in Genesis four, verse 23.

882
00:39:12,910 --> 00:39:15,330
So we reproduce after our kind.

883
00:39:16,170 --> 00:39:18,870
So there's a bad example of a mother

884
00:39:18,870 --> 00:39:21,850
who thought that she had accomplished something.

885
00:39:22,030 --> 00:39:22,670
Be careful.

886
00:39:23,810 --> 00:39:25,810
The next example of a mother I can

887
00:39:25,810 --> 00:39:29,090
think of is Rebecca, Genesis 25.

888
00:39:30,550 --> 00:39:36,850
In Genesis 25, verse 28.

889
00:39:38,330 --> 00:39:38,810
Sorry.

890
00:39:39,310 --> 00:39:42,430
It says here, Genesis 25, that Rebecca had

891
00:39:42,430 --> 00:39:42,950
twins.

892
00:39:44,530 --> 00:39:46,350
And verse 24.

893
00:39:48,030 --> 00:39:51,370
And when those twins came out and grew

894
00:39:51,370 --> 00:39:54,370
up, verse 27, Esau was a hunter and

895
00:39:54,370 --> 00:39:56,750
Jacob was a simple man who liked to

896
00:39:56,750 --> 00:39:57,250
live in tents.

897
00:39:57,750 --> 00:39:59,350
You know, children can be so different, born

898
00:39:59,350 --> 00:40:01,770
from the same mother, even twins, completely different.

899
00:40:03,030 --> 00:40:06,570
Esau, man who's out in the open all

900
00:40:06,570 --> 00:40:09,810
the time and wants to be playful and

901
00:40:09,810 --> 00:40:13,610
games are more important than Jacob, the more

902
00:40:13,610 --> 00:40:14,370
studious type.

903
00:40:15,790 --> 00:40:16,590
God's plan.

904
00:40:18,070 --> 00:40:21,670
And sometimes a father can be foolish in

905
00:40:21,670 --> 00:40:22,290
favoring one.

906
00:40:22,410 --> 00:40:25,930
Isaac loved Esau just because he loved good

907
00:40:25,930 --> 00:40:26,250
food.

908
00:40:28,070 --> 00:40:30,090
And it's possible that you have a preference

909
00:40:30,090 --> 00:40:31,950
for one son because he's good in something

910
00:40:31,950 --> 00:40:33,970
you want to be good in.

911
00:40:34,670 --> 00:40:38,730
But Jacob, but Rebecca loved Jacob.

912
00:40:40,330 --> 00:40:43,190
So this is what led to finally a

913
00:40:43,190 --> 00:40:45,130
separation between these two brothers.

914
00:40:46,790 --> 00:40:47,950
And that was Rebecca's fault.

915
00:40:48,030 --> 00:40:50,030
She should have loved both her children equally.

916
00:40:51,930 --> 00:40:53,990
And one has got a taste for one

917
00:40:53,990 --> 00:40:55,650
thing, another has got a taste for another.

918
00:40:56,190 --> 00:40:58,330
A good mother will not prefer one over

919
00:40:58,330 --> 00:40:58,810
the other.

920
00:40:59,830 --> 00:41:01,950
She will not prefer the one who's good

921
00:41:01,950 --> 00:41:04,070
at games over the one who's studious, or

922
00:41:04,070 --> 00:41:05,810
the one prefer the one who's studious over

923
00:41:05,810 --> 00:41:07,930
the one who's more interested in games, outdoor

924
00:41:07,930 --> 00:41:08,270
life.

925
00:41:08,950 --> 00:41:10,130
These are two examples here.

926
00:41:10,310 --> 00:41:11,490
One who wanted to be outdoors and one

927
00:41:11,490 --> 00:41:12,770
who was mostly at home.

928
00:41:14,610 --> 00:41:15,950
She could have loved both of them equally.

929
00:41:17,010 --> 00:41:20,130
But because she had preference, and later on,

930
00:41:20,290 --> 00:41:23,150
unfortunately, the father also had a preference, it

931
00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:25,870
brought a division in that family that divided

932
00:41:25,870 --> 00:41:32,090
Jacob and Esau for many years.

933
00:41:32,530 --> 00:41:35,050
And Esau almost wanted to kill Jacob, like

934
00:41:35,050 --> 00:41:37,210
Cain later on, but God spared him.

935
00:41:38,470 --> 00:41:41,530
So there's a bad example of favoritism.

936
00:41:41,710 --> 00:41:43,930
Be careful as a mother that you don't

937
00:41:43,930 --> 00:41:44,870
show favoritism.

938
00:41:45,030 --> 00:41:46,850
It says God has no partiality.

939
00:41:47,910 --> 00:41:49,230
And if you want to be like God,

940
00:41:49,630 --> 00:41:51,930
ensure there's no partiality in your life.

941
00:41:53,270 --> 00:41:54,310
Meditate on these things.

942
00:41:54,390 --> 00:41:55,330
I'm going through them quickly.

943
00:41:55,430 --> 00:41:56,890
You can later on meditate in your own

944
00:41:56,890 --> 00:41:57,070
time.

945
00:41:57,170 --> 00:41:58,770
The third example I have is Hannah.

946
00:41:59,870 --> 00:42:02,130
In 1 Samuel chapter 1, we read she

947
00:42:02,130 --> 00:42:05,270
didn't have, you know, her husband had, again,

948
00:42:05,350 --> 00:42:05,910
two wives.

949
00:42:05,970 --> 00:42:07,170
It was very common those days.

950
00:42:07,850 --> 00:42:09,790
And the first wife had many children.

951
00:42:10,690 --> 00:42:13,310
But Hannah, the second wife, had no children,

952
00:42:14,010 --> 00:42:18,170
we read in the first few verses of

953
00:42:18,170 --> 00:42:19,570
chapter 1 of 1 Samuel.

954
00:42:20,590 --> 00:42:21,750
So she prayed.

955
00:42:21,850 --> 00:42:23,030
She went to the temple and prayed.

956
00:42:23,330 --> 00:42:25,570
And she said, Lord, if you give me

957
00:42:25,570 --> 00:42:29,410
a child, I will dedicate him to you

958
00:42:30,650 --> 00:42:32,110
as long as he lives.

959
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,100
And later on, when the child was born,

960
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:37,280
she kept her promise.

961
00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:38,440
That's wonderful thing.

962
00:42:40,240 --> 00:42:43,660
Only her son was born, Samuel.

963
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,540
And she brought the son to the temple

964
00:42:47,540 --> 00:42:50,180
to the high priest and said, in 1

965
00:42:50,180 --> 00:42:53,100
Samuel 1, 27 and 28, for this boy,

966
00:42:53,220 --> 00:42:53,840
I prayed.

967
00:42:54,700 --> 00:42:57,420
And I promised the Lord that I'll hand

968
00:42:57,420 --> 00:42:58,300
him over to the Lord.

969
00:42:58,940 --> 00:43:00,680
And the Lord granted my petition and I

970
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,300
will not go back on my promise.

971
00:43:02,980 --> 00:43:05,740
I have dedicated him to the Lord as

972
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:07,000
long as he lives.

973
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,880
He's dedicated to the Lord and he worshiped

974
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,540
the Lord there.

975
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,740
And she worshiped too.

976
00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:16,740
And you see her wonderful prayer in chapter

977
00:43:16,740 --> 00:43:19,480
2, verse 1 to 10, which is the

978
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:21,240
prayer from which you read later on in

979
00:43:21,240 --> 00:43:25,920
Luke chapter 1, Mary who bases her prayer

980
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,840
when she hears about Jesus being conceived in

981
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,940
her womb, bases it on the prayer of

982
00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:33,500
Hannah.

983
00:43:33,620 --> 00:43:35,940
You compare Mary's prayer with Hannah's prayer.

984
00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:36,500
It's amazing.

985
00:43:37,220 --> 00:43:40,380
She prayed and thanked the Lord and gave

986
00:43:40,380 --> 00:43:41,740
that son over to the Lord.

987
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:45,260
Now, today we are not called to make

988
00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:47,160
our son full-time Christian worker because there's

989
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:47,880
no temple today.

990
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:50,500
The Lord is everywhere.

991
00:43:51,860 --> 00:43:53,760
What we learned there is not to dedicate

992
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,520
our children for full-time Christian work was

993
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,820
no mother can do that.

994
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,580
No one can go into full-time Christian

995
00:43:59,580 --> 00:44:02,800
work until God calls him.

996
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,580
My mother did not dedicate me to full

997
00:44:06,580 --> 00:44:07,060
-time work.

998
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,520
My parents brought me up in the fear

999
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,000
of the Lord.

1000
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:10,640
That's all.

1001
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,900
God called me specifically 56 years ago.

1002
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,740
It was in the month of May, the

1003
00:44:18,740 --> 00:44:20,700
6th of May, 1964.

1004
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:22,780
God called me specifically.

1005
00:44:23,580 --> 00:44:26,920
And that is when I responded.

1006
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,460
When I will inform my parents, I'm quitting

1007
00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:30,280
my job in the Navy.

1008
00:44:30,620 --> 00:44:34,060
You cannot dedicate yourself, your son or daughter

1009
00:44:34,060 --> 00:44:35,180
to full-time Christian work.

1010
00:44:35,580 --> 00:44:37,100
If God doesn't call them, they'll make a

1011
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:38,880
mess of their life if they go into

1012
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:39,760
full-time Christian work.

1013
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:41,660
Well, what you need to do is dedicate

1014
00:44:41,660 --> 00:44:44,940
them to the Lord, to be wholehearted disciples

1015
00:44:44,940 --> 00:44:47,660
of Jesus in whatever profession He may call

1016
00:44:47,660 --> 00:44:47,900
them.

1017
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,220
And that's the example we have in Hannah,

1018
00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:51,440
to keep your promise.

1019
00:44:51,960 --> 00:44:53,000
Lord, you gave me a child.

1020
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:54,980
I'm going to bring him up to fear

1021
00:44:54,980 --> 00:44:56,380
you and love you and to be your

1022
00:44:56,380 --> 00:44:59,360
disciple, teaching the ways of God from childhood.

1023
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:00,940
Amazing example.

1024
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:02,500
And you see the way Samuel was as

1025
00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:04,200
a young boy and grew up to be

1026
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:04,660
a prophet.

1027
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,720
You have to give a lot of credit

1028
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,740
to what the mother did in the early

1029
00:45:08,740 --> 00:45:12,440
years before she took him to the temple,

1030
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,200
because Eli was a very poor example as

1031
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,060
a high priest.

1032
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:17,780
He could not have helped Samuel at all.

1033
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,080
He was a backslidden, good-for-nothing high

1034
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:21,400
priest.

1035
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,880
How did Samuel become such a godly prophet?

1036
00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:27,600
It was the work of Hannah, the mother.

1037
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:29,600
In a few years, she knew that in

1038
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:30,700
a few years I had to send him

1039
00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:32,920
off and he won't be with me.

1040
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:35,040
I'll only see him once a year or

1041
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:35,240
so.

1042
00:45:35,740 --> 00:45:37,540
But I've got to do everything possible.

1043
00:45:37,740 --> 00:45:40,680
Remember this, my dear sisters, mothers.

1044
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:43,300
Your child is going to be with you

1045
00:45:43,300 --> 00:45:44,320
also only for a short while.

1046
00:45:44,420 --> 00:45:46,400
One day he'll leave home, maybe to college

1047
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,760
or go to work and leave your home.

1048
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:49,760
And if you haven't done a proper job

1049
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,280
by that time of instructing him in the

1050
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,280
ways of the Lord and showing, teaching him

1051
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:57,120
the Word of God, he will fail and

1052
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,820
part of that responsibility will be in your

1053
00:45:58,820 --> 00:45:59,180
hands.

1054
00:45:59,780 --> 00:46:00,960
And if he grows up in a godly

1055
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,640
way, be thankful for that.

1056
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,400
But if you want to be that, then

1057
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,420
give time to God yourself and make sure

1058
00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:11,480
that you teach your children the ways of

1059
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:12,020
God, mothers.

1060
00:46:12,940 --> 00:46:15,880
The next example I have is Jochebed.

1061
00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:17,540
Have you heard of Jochebed?

1062
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,940
Jochebed was the mother of Moses.

1063
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:28,280
She was the daughter of Levi and she

1064
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,380
married Levi's grandson.

1065
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,020
So she married her own nephew.

1066
00:46:37,190 --> 00:46:38,450
And we read about her.

1067
00:46:39,790 --> 00:46:41,570
Levi must have brought her up in some

1068
00:46:41,570 --> 00:46:43,210
godly way because they were all slaves in

1069
00:46:43,210 --> 00:46:43,470
Egypt.

1070
00:46:44,750 --> 00:46:46,250
And Jochebed was a slave and her husband

1071
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:48,570
was a slave many years, not an easy

1072
00:46:48,570 --> 00:46:50,930
environment to bring up a child in.

1073
00:46:51,550 --> 00:46:55,690
And there was a decree that all sons

1074
00:46:55,690 --> 00:46:57,210
were born had to be killed.

1075
00:46:57,970 --> 00:46:59,450
And that was the time when Moses was

1076
00:46:59,450 --> 00:46:59,730
born.

1077
00:46:59,890 --> 00:47:02,770
We read in Hebrews 11 and verse 23.

1078
00:47:03,550 --> 00:47:05,870
White faith, Moses, he's talking about the faith

1079
00:47:05,870 --> 00:47:06,910
of the parents now.

1080
00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:09,870
This faith of the parents is mentioned in

1081
00:47:09,870 --> 00:47:15,030
this wonderful chapter, Hebrews 11, where it speaks

1082
00:47:15,030 --> 00:47:18,050
of fantastic things like the walls of Jericho

1083
00:47:18,050 --> 00:47:20,630
coming down and the Red Sea being split

1084
00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:23,290
and lions being slain by the power of

1085
00:47:23,290 --> 00:47:24,930
God and people being raised from the dead.

1086
00:47:25,290 --> 00:47:26,790
And in the midst of all these fantastic

1087
00:47:26,790 --> 00:47:28,390
things is the faith of a mother.

1088
00:47:30,210 --> 00:47:31,950
That's Jochebed, Moses' mother.

1089
00:47:32,710 --> 00:47:36,730
She did not allow for that child to

1090
00:47:36,730 --> 00:47:37,150
be killed.

1091
00:47:37,410 --> 00:47:38,670
She did not kill that child.

1092
00:47:39,590 --> 00:47:43,050
A warning to mothers not to abort the

1093
00:47:43,050 --> 00:47:44,010
babies God gives them.

1094
00:47:45,510 --> 00:47:47,090
She did not kill that child.

1095
00:47:48,670 --> 00:47:49,910
Thank God she did not.

1096
00:47:50,270 --> 00:47:51,350
There would have been no Moses.

1097
00:47:52,230 --> 00:47:54,690
She said, no, this is the child that

1098
00:47:54,690 --> 00:47:55,190
God has given.

1099
00:47:56,410 --> 00:48:00,690
And so Hebrews 11, 23, as long as

1100
00:48:00,690 --> 00:48:02,650
possible, because soldiers would be going up and

1101
00:48:02,650 --> 00:48:04,210
down the Israeli camp to see if there

1102
00:48:04,210 --> 00:48:04,970
were any babies crying.

1103
00:48:05,570 --> 00:48:06,810
What a job it must have been to

1104
00:48:06,810 --> 00:48:08,730
keep that child quiet for three months.

1105
00:48:09,290 --> 00:48:11,890
I don't know how she did it, but

1106
00:48:11,890 --> 00:48:15,330
she was so concerned that no soldier must

1107
00:48:15,330 --> 00:48:16,430
kill this child of mine.

1108
00:48:16,970 --> 00:48:18,770
Beyond three months, she couldn't do it because

1109
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:20,230
the baby becomes bigger.

1110
00:48:20,910 --> 00:48:23,490
But for three months, she hid it.

1111
00:48:23,710 --> 00:48:26,330
Remember, it was she who did it because

1112
00:48:26,330 --> 00:48:27,710
the father would go to work at six

1113
00:48:27,710 --> 00:48:29,690
o'clock in the morning and come back

1114
00:48:29,690 --> 00:48:30,790
probably at eight o'clock at night.

1115
00:48:30,890 --> 00:48:31,790
He hardly saw that.

1116
00:48:32,370 --> 00:48:34,190
Those slaves were made to work day and

1117
00:48:34,190 --> 00:48:34,450
night.

1118
00:48:35,330 --> 00:48:37,550
And here's Amram, the father going to work

1119
00:48:37,550 --> 00:48:38,710
at six o'clock in the morning, coming

1120
00:48:38,710 --> 00:48:38,970
back.

1121
00:48:39,030 --> 00:48:40,850
By the time he goes, the baby's asleep,

1122
00:48:41,490 --> 00:48:42,290
not woken up yet.

1123
00:48:42,450 --> 00:48:43,650
By the time he comes back, the baby's

1124
00:48:43,650 --> 00:48:44,010
gone to sleep.

1125
00:48:44,110 --> 00:48:46,150
He hardly saw the little baby Moses.

1126
00:48:47,070 --> 00:48:50,190
All the time, it was Jochebed, the mother

1127
00:48:50,190 --> 00:48:51,970
who brought up Moses.

1128
00:48:52,130 --> 00:48:54,990
And she knew that one day, as Pharaoh's

1129
00:48:54,990 --> 00:48:57,770
daughter said, let her bring him, once he's

1130
00:48:57,770 --> 00:48:59,430
old enough to sort of run around and

1131
00:48:59,430 --> 00:49:03,210
take care of himself, bring him to the

1132
00:49:03,210 --> 00:49:03,490
palace.

1133
00:49:03,590 --> 00:49:05,730
And she knew that I have this boy

1134
00:49:05,730 --> 00:49:07,510
with me only for a few years.

1135
00:49:08,370 --> 00:49:09,910
And after that, he's gone.

1136
00:49:10,630 --> 00:49:11,990
And I don't know when I'll ever see

1137
00:49:11,990 --> 00:49:12,390
him again.

1138
00:49:13,550 --> 00:49:14,890
And look what she did as a mother.

1139
00:49:16,250 --> 00:49:17,890
It says when Moses was growing up at

1140
00:49:17,890 --> 00:49:19,410
the age of 40, and out of the

1141
00:49:19,410 --> 00:49:22,650
40 years, maybe about 30 years at least,

1142
00:49:22,810 --> 00:49:26,190
was in the wicked palace of Pharaoh where

1143
00:49:26,190 --> 00:49:29,350
that wealth and simple pleasure and a lot

1144
00:49:29,350 --> 00:49:30,190
of evil company.

1145
00:49:30,930 --> 00:49:33,130
And at the end of that, seeing all

1146
00:49:33,130 --> 00:49:35,550
that for 30 years, at the age of

1147
00:49:35,550 --> 00:49:37,830
40, it says Moses rejected three things.

1148
00:49:38,970 --> 00:49:43,570
He rejected the pleasures of sin, Hebrews 11,

1149
00:49:43,670 --> 00:49:44,090
25.

1150
00:49:45,010 --> 00:49:51,830
He rejected secondly, the wealth, he rejected the

1151
00:49:51,830 --> 00:49:55,550
wealth of Egypt, verse 26.

1152
00:49:56,450 --> 00:49:58,510
And verse 24, first of all, sorry, he

1153
00:49:58,510 --> 00:50:01,890
rejected the honor of men being called the

1154
00:50:01,890 --> 00:50:02,650
son of Pharaoh's daughter.

1155
00:50:03,230 --> 00:50:06,150
Secondly, he rejected the pleasures of sin, verse

1156
00:50:06,150 --> 00:50:08,150
25 and 30, rejected the wealth of Egypt.

1157
00:50:08,410 --> 00:50:10,610
These are the three things that people are

1158
00:50:10,610 --> 00:50:15,700
drawn by in the world, honor, simple pleasure,

1159
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:17,120
and wealth.

1160
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,980
And it says here in verse 24 to

1161
00:50:19,980 --> 00:50:22,120
26, Moses rejected all of them.

1162
00:50:24,220 --> 00:50:25,880
Imagine if you have your son with you

1163
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,820
only for 10 years, and he goes away

1164
00:50:29,820 --> 00:50:31,060
for the next 30 years, you don't even

1165
00:50:31,060 --> 00:50:31,500
see him.

1166
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:34,760
And at the age of 40, he remembers

1167
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:36,460
those values that you put into his head

1168
00:50:37,020 --> 00:50:39,180
and stands up for God, you're a blessed

1169
00:50:39,180 --> 00:50:39,540
mother.

1170
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:43,200
Really, you have to appreciate Jochebed what a

1171
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:47,920
fantastic job she did in preparing Moses to

1172
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,600
be the man of God he became finally.

1173
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:55,760
He made mistakes, but God chose him because

1174
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:57,220
he rejected these three things.

1175
00:50:58,540 --> 00:51:00,220
The next example, of course, we have is

1176
00:51:00,220 --> 00:51:02,680
the most wonderful mother of all, Mary.

1177
00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:06,540
And when we think Mary, you know, many

1178
00:51:06,540 --> 00:51:11,100
Protestants don't appreciate Mary because they're afraid of

1179
00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,880
being Roman Catholic, because Roman Catholics worship Mary,

1180
00:51:15,240 --> 00:51:17,940
almost, or probably they do worship Mary.

1181
00:51:18,620 --> 00:51:19,740
They pray to her and all that.

1182
00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:21,920
So the result is a lot of Protestants

1183
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:22,560
despise her.

1184
00:51:22,620 --> 00:51:23,340
I don't despise her.

1185
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,000
I think Mary is the most wonderful mother,

1186
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,700
perhaps in the whole Bible, because she was

1187
00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:30,360
willing to face the reproach.

1188
00:51:32,020 --> 00:51:33,780
When an angel came to her and said,

1189
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:36,980
you're going to have a child in Luke

1190
00:51:36,980 --> 00:51:40,220
and chapter one, you're going to have a

1191
00:51:40,220 --> 00:51:40,920
baby.

1192
00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:44,080
And she says, how can I have a

1193
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:44,320
baby?

1194
00:51:44,460 --> 00:51:45,920
Luke 134, I'm a virgin.

1195
00:51:46,940 --> 00:51:48,480
Holy Spirit will come upon you.

1196
00:51:49,460 --> 00:51:50,980
You'll have a child and be called the

1197
00:51:50,980 --> 00:51:51,580
son of God.

1198
00:51:52,580 --> 00:51:54,180
And look what Mary says.

1199
00:51:55,620 --> 00:51:59,400
Okay, verse 38, wonderful word for any sister

1200
00:51:59,400 --> 00:51:59,840
to say.

1201
00:52:00,540 --> 00:52:02,500
Here I am Lord, born slave of the

1202
00:52:02,500 --> 00:52:02,740
Lord.

1203
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:04,900
Let it be done to you according to

1204
00:52:04,900 --> 00:52:05,240
your word.

1205
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:08,060
Imagine all the thoughts that went through Mary's

1206
00:52:08,060 --> 00:52:08,860
mind at that time.

1207
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,580
I, a virgin, conceived in a small village

1208
00:52:12,580 --> 00:52:13,260
called Nazareth.

1209
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,240
Imagine how I'll be the gossip of the

1210
00:52:16,240 --> 00:52:16,840
whole village.

1211
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,920
I have a big stomach before I'm married.

1212
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,580
And everybody comes to know this girl is

1213
00:52:24,580 --> 00:52:26,900
engaged to Joseph, not yet married, and she's

1214
00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:27,680
already pregnant.

1215
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:30,200
And then I thought she just gave herself

1216
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,000
to some Roman soldier or something like that.

1217
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:36,420
Imagine the reproach she would have thought that

1218
00:52:36,420 --> 00:52:39,340
will come upon me and my little boy

1219
00:52:39,340 --> 00:52:40,920
will have that reproach all his life as

1220
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:41,540
he grows up.

1221
00:52:42,700 --> 00:52:44,320
She didn't say, oh Lord, this is too

1222
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:44,900
much for me.

1223
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,580
I can't bear that reproach, please choose somebody

1224
00:52:47,580 --> 00:52:47,940
else.

1225
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:50,320
There are many sisters who are not willing

1226
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:51,780
to bear the reproach of Christ.

1227
00:52:53,700 --> 00:52:55,360
Not in this way, this is a tremendous

1228
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:56,660
reproach, but in other ways.

1229
00:52:57,200 --> 00:52:59,320
There is a reproach of being a disciple

1230
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:01,100
of Jesus even today, when you stand up

1231
00:53:01,100 --> 00:53:03,180
for the truth and stand up for the

1232
00:53:03,180 --> 00:53:04,360
principles of God's word.

1233
00:53:05,240 --> 00:53:07,520
Brothers and sisters have faced reproach.

1234
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,180
It says in Hebrews 13, let's go outside

1235
00:53:09,180 --> 00:53:11,480
the camp, bearing the reproach of Christ.

1236
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:12,380
There is a reproach.

1237
00:53:14,820 --> 00:53:16,920
There is a type of Christianity, which is

1238
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:18,700
Babylonian, but you don't have a reproach.

1239
00:53:18,700 --> 00:53:22,560
But if you're wholehearted and radical, yeah, then

1240
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:26,660
there will be a reproach in following Jesus.

1241
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:29,360
And Mary is an example of willing to

1242
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,760
take that reproach because she wanted to glorify

1243
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:33,180
Christ.

1244
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:36,960
And Mary is an example of allowing the

1245
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:39,800
Holy Spirit to come upon her and produce

1246
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:40,500
Christ in her.

1247
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:43,100
And that's an example for all your sisters.

1248
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:45,600
Allow the Holy Spirit to come upon you

1249
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,980
and fill you and produce the life of

1250
00:53:47,980 --> 00:53:49,200
Jesus in you.

1251
00:53:49,660 --> 00:53:52,760
Just like Mary allowed the baby Jesus to

1252
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,140
be born in, little by little that baby

1253
00:53:55,140 --> 00:53:57,580
grew and the likeness to Christ can grow

1254
00:53:57,580 --> 00:53:58,380
more and more in you.

1255
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:00,900
Outstanding example for all sisters.

1256
00:54:02,780 --> 00:54:05,460
And you see later on, when she was

1257
00:54:05,460 --> 00:54:10,020
in Cana and told Jesus, she knew that

1258
00:54:10,020 --> 00:54:12,720
Jesus is the son of God and 30

1259
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:16,060
years he had obeyed her in the home.

1260
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,560
And now in Cana, she goes up to

1261
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,160
him and says, they don't have any wine.

1262
00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:21,980
Can you do something?

1263
00:54:22,740 --> 00:54:24,880
And Jesus turns around to her in John

1264
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,540
2, 4 and says, what have I got

1265
00:54:26,540 --> 00:54:27,340
to do with you woman?

1266
00:54:27,980 --> 00:54:29,180
My time has not yet come.

1267
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,660
She does not get offended.

1268
00:54:33,180 --> 00:54:33,620
Wonderful.

1269
00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:35,700
He had never spoken to her like that

1270
00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:36,420
in 30 years.

1271
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,920
And now he calls her woman.

1272
00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:44,000
You know, he was saying, now I'm under

1273
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:44,620
my father.

1274
00:54:44,820 --> 00:54:46,040
Don't interfere in my life.

1275
00:54:47,180 --> 00:54:48,840
He respected her and cared for her.

1276
00:54:49,460 --> 00:54:51,360
He read of the cross and he was

1277
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:51,980
hanging on the cross.

1278
00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:52,920
He cared for his mother.

1279
00:54:53,740 --> 00:54:56,540
So he didn't forget about her, but he

1280
00:54:56,540 --> 00:54:58,240
wanted her to know right from day one.

1281
00:55:00,020 --> 00:55:01,300
I'm not your son now.

1282
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:03,520
I'm a son of God.

1283
00:55:03,720 --> 00:55:06,020
I have a ministry and please don't interfere

1284
00:55:06,020 --> 00:55:06,520
with me.

1285
00:55:06,820 --> 00:55:07,640
Who is my mother?

1286
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:09,020
Those who hear the word of God and

1287
00:55:09,020 --> 00:55:10,460
do it, he said later on.

1288
00:55:11,020 --> 00:55:12,760
So, and what Mary didn't get offended.

1289
00:55:13,180 --> 00:55:14,100
That's the wonderful thing.

1290
00:55:14,180 --> 00:55:14,880
She didn't get offended.

1291
00:55:15,780 --> 00:55:19,260
Be a mother who's not offended when your

1292
00:55:19,260 --> 00:55:21,340
son is going to wholeheartedly follow the Lord

1293
00:55:21,340 --> 00:55:23,500
in some way, which you can't understand.

1294
00:55:25,300 --> 00:55:26,180
Submit to God.

1295
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,580
And we read here, she goes to servants

1296
00:55:30,580 --> 00:55:32,040
and says, whatever he tells you to do,

1297
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:32,540
do it.

1298
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:34,200
Okay.

1299
00:55:34,380 --> 00:55:38,220
The next example, number six is Mrs. Zebedee.

1300
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:40,360
A bad example.

1301
00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:42,540
I hope you know who Mrs. Zebedee is.

1302
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,100
The mother of James and John.

1303
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:47,700
She was very happy.

1304
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:48,940
She was a disciple of Jesus.

1305
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,060
And she was very happy when Jesus chose

1306
00:55:53,060 --> 00:55:57,940
James, her two sons to be his inner

1307
00:55:57,940 --> 00:55:59,960
circle of three, Peter, James, and John.

1308
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,820
But she knew that Jesus was gradually training

1309
00:56:03,820 --> 00:56:05,160
Peter to be more of a leader.

1310
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,680
And so she comes to try and influence

1311
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,600
Jesus to put her sons a little more

1312
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:11,960
forward.

1313
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:14,380
And so you read in Matthew chapter 20

1314
00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:17,820
and says to Jesus in Matthew 20, verse

1315
00:56:17,820 --> 00:56:21,800
20 and 21, she bowed before Jesus and

1316
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:23,260
said, I have a request of you, Lord

1317
00:56:23,260 --> 00:56:23,540
Jesus.

1318
00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:25,460
Just one request.

1319
00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,440
When you come in your kingdom, you know,

1320
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,240
the thief on the cross already said, please

1321
00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:32,220
remember me when you come in your kingdom.

1322
00:56:32,340 --> 00:56:33,240
That's all I want, Lord.

1323
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:34,320
Just remember me.

1324
00:56:34,900 --> 00:56:36,360
Don't forget about me when you come in

1325
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:36,620
your kingdom.

1326
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:39,780
But the mother of James and John had

1327
00:56:39,780 --> 00:56:40,660
a bigger request.

1328
00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:43,840
When you come in your kingdom, make sure

1329
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,700
my two sons, not Peter, James and John

1330
00:56:48,700 --> 00:56:50,720
will sit one on your right hand and

1331
00:56:50,720 --> 00:56:51,500
one on your left.

1332
00:56:52,820 --> 00:56:56,140
How many mothers there are like that who

1333
00:56:56,140 --> 00:56:59,460
are seeking to push their children forward in

1334
00:56:59,460 --> 00:57:03,620
an unrighteous way to promote their children above

1335
00:57:03,620 --> 00:57:08,020
others, even in the church, or trying to

1336
00:57:08,020 --> 00:57:10,600
show that my children should be exalted over

1337
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:11,980
other children in the church.

1338
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:14,240
Be careful, dear sisters.

1339
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:17,360
Be a good mother and don't follow the

1340
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:19,580
example of Mrs. Zebedee.

1341
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,280
God determines who is going to sit on

1342
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:24,580
the right hand and left hand of Jesus.

1343
00:57:24,700 --> 00:57:27,800
God determines who's going to be anointed to

1344
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,840
serve him.

1345
00:57:29,940 --> 00:57:33,800
James finally died before he could even have

1346
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:34,540
much of a ministry.

1347
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:37,500
You read in Acts 12, and John lived

1348
00:57:37,500 --> 00:57:38,940
more than all the other apostles.

1349
00:57:39,020 --> 00:57:40,260
That's all God's choice.

1350
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,020
Be willing for your children to fulfill God's

1351
00:57:45,020 --> 00:57:45,820
will for their lives.

1352
00:57:45,980 --> 00:57:48,640
Maybe others will have a greater ministry than

1353
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:49,160
your children.

1354
00:57:49,620 --> 00:57:50,220
Submit to them.

1355
00:57:50,380 --> 00:57:50,860
Accept it.

1356
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,960
Don't seek to promote your children over others

1357
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,280
in the church by trying to push your

1358
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,220
children forward in the church.

1359
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:58,180
I've seen this happen.

1360
00:57:59,460 --> 00:58:02,000
Please make my child come forward and do

1361
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:02,400
something.

1362
00:58:02,740 --> 00:58:05,260
Please make my daughter or my son come

1363
00:58:05,260 --> 00:58:06,220
and do this and do that.

1364
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:07,380
And you try to speak to the elders

1365
00:58:07,380 --> 00:58:08,460
and try to influence them.

1366
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,480
The same thing happens today that Mrs. Zebedee

1367
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:11,720
did.

1368
00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:13,260
A very bad example.

1369
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:14,900
Don't be a mother like that.

1370
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:16,240
Let God.

1371
00:58:16,740 --> 00:58:18,360
Promotion comes from the Lord, we read in

1372
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:19,000
Psalm 75.

1373
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,040
If you are a mother like Mrs. Zebedee,

1374
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,280
you're a bad mother trying to promote your

1375
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:24,480
children.

1376
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,500
I tell you this, you will ruin your

1377
00:58:26,500 --> 00:58:26,780
children.

1378
00:58:29,110 --> 00:58:31,170
Fortunately, James and John were not ruined because

1379
00:58:32,210 --> 00:58:34,710
Jesus straightaway told her, you don't know what

1380
00:58:34,710 --> 00:58:35,190
you're asking.

1381
00:58:35,530 --> 00:58:37,570
You don't know what you're asking, Matthew 20

1382
00:58:37,570 --> 00:58:38,170
verse 22.

1383
00:58:38,990 --> 00:58:40,430
It's not in my hands to do these

1384
00:58:40,430 --> 00:58:40,750
things.

1385
00:58:41,550 --> 00:58:43,350
Let them drink the cup which I drink

1386
00:58:43,910 --> 00:58:45,970
and be baptized with the baptism which I'm

1387
00:58:45,970 --> 00:58:46,270
baptized.

1388
00:58:46,350 --> 00:58:47,370
Let them take up the cross.

1389
00:58:47,530 --> 00:58:48,270
That's what Jesus said.

1390
00:58:48,750 --> 00:58:50,010
And that's what I would say to you

1391
00:58:50,010 --> 00:58:51,230
all Mrs. Zebedees today.

1392
00:58:53,150 --> 00:58:55,230
Teach your children to take up the cross,

1393
00:58:55,670 --> 00:58:58,230
to drink the cup that Jesus drank instead

1394
00:58:58,230 --> 00:59:00,610
of trying to promote them in the church.

1395
00:59:01,690 --> 00:59:03,410
I've seen mothers do this.

1396
00:59:04,290 --> 00:59:06,610
And I tell you, I have no respect

1397
00:59:06,610 --> 00:59:09,030
for such sisters who try to promote their

1398
00:59:09,030 --> 00:59:13,630
children secretly, subtly and delighted when their son

1399
00:59:13,630 --> 00:59:16,410
or daughter is pushed above others in the

1400
00:59:16,410 --> 00:59:20,290
church, maybe in playing some instruments or in

1401
00:59:20,290 --> 00:59:21,030
sharing something.

1402
00:59:21,510 --> 00:59:24,150
You're an evil mother if you're trying to

1403
00:59:24,150 --> 00:59:25,950
get your children to be in competition with

1404
00:59:25,950 --> 00:59:26,270
others.

1405
00:59:26,650 --> 00:59:29,350
Humble yourself and say, Lord, if you promote

1406
00:59:29,350 --> 00:59:30,770
them, I'll accept it, but I'm not going

1407
00:59:30,770 --> 00:59:33,010
to do anything behind the scenes to promote

1408
00:59:33,010 --> 00:59:33,350
anybody.

1409
00:59:33,570 --> 00:59:34,950
You will ruin your children.

1410
00:59:35,530 --> 00:59:37,250
They will get the same pride that you

1411
00:59:37,250 --> 00:59:37,550
have.

1412
00:59:37,870 --> 00:59:38,630
I've seen that.

1413
00:59:39,410 --> 00:59:41,390
Some children are promoted by their mother or

1414
00:59:41,390 --> 00:59:44,410
by their mother and the children develop the

1415
00:59:44,410 --> 00:59:46,910
same pride of the mother and exalt themselves

1416
00:59:46,910 --> 00:59:49,370
and they destroy themselves because God is against

1417
00:59:49,370 --> 00:59:52,330
the proud, whether it's a Mrs. Zebedee or

1418
00:59:52,330 --> 00:59:52,590
anyone.

1419
00:59:53,990 --> 00:59:54,250
Okay.

1420
00:59:54,610 --> 00:59:58,470
The last example, number seven is Timothy's mother.

1421
00:59:58,690 --> 00:59:59,730
Wonderful example.

1422
00:59:59,990 --> 01:00:00,930
We conclude with that.

1423
01:00:01,570 --> 01:00:04,210
See, if you read in Acts chapter 16

1424
01:00:04,210 --> 01:00:09,930
and verse one, that Paul came to Lystra,

1425
01:00:11,010 --> 01:00:12,850
Acts 16, verse one, and there was a

1426
01:00:12,850 --> 01:00:14,110
disciple there called Timothy.

1427
01:00:16,190 --> 01:00:18,970
And he was the son of a Jewish

1428
01:00:18,970 --> 01:00:22,700
woman who married a Greek.

1429
01:00:24,180 --> 01:00:26,400
But Timothy had such a good testimony, not

1430
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:28,120
only in Lystra where he was, but even

1431
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:28,960
in other towns.

1432
01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:31,420
People from Typonium who came to Lystra said,

1433
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:33,860
boy, that's a godly young man, only 20

1434
01:00:33,860 --> 01:00:35,020
years old, Timothy.

1435
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:38,300
And Paul is a man of discernment.

1436
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,340
He could see through people in a few

1437
01:00:40,340 --> 01:00:40,720
minutes.

1438
01:00:42,020 --> 01:00:44,020
And he looked at Timothy and really heard

1439
01:00:44,020 --> 01:00:46,180
him testify a little in the church and

1440
01:00:46,180 --> 01:00:49,120
heard the testimony from others and said, I

1441
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:50,540
want you to be my coworker.

1442
01:00:50,680 --> 01:00:54,760
Imagine a godly man like Paul choosing a

1443
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,800
20 year old to be his coworker.

1444
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,880
And that was not because he was promoted

1445
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:01,520
by his mother.

1446
01:01:01,700 --> 01:01:01,900
No.

1447
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,700
Timothy's mother was not like Zebedee.

1448
01:01:05,820 --> 01:01:07,500
This is Zebedee trying to promote her son.

1449
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:09,480
He left it to God.

1450
01:01:10,340 --> 01:01:12,980
And God through Paul chose Timothy.

1451
01:01:13,180 --> 01:01:14,900
And later on when Paul writes to Timothy

1452
01:01:14,900 --> 01:01:24,050
in 2 Timothy chapter one, we read, Paul

1453
01:01:24,050 --> 01:01:30,860
writes to Timothy and says, I am mindful

1454
01:01:30,860 --> 01:01:33,900
of the second Timothy one five, I am

1455
01:01:33,900 --> 01:01:36,620
mindful Timothy of the sincere faith within you.

1456
01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,260
Not Bible knowledge, but faith.

1457
01:01:40,440 --> 01:01:41,360
That's the important thing.

1458
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:43,960
It's not how much Bible knowledge you're cramming

1459
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:44,600
into your child's head.

1460
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:46,100
How much faith in God.

1461
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,820
They didn't have Bibles in those days, but

1462
01:01:48,820 --> 01:01:50,640
she could train her child in faith, which

1463
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,780
was first in your grandmother Lois, and then

1464
01:01:53,780 --> 01:01:54,660
in your mother Eunice.

1465
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,280
I think that's how it's pronounced in the

1466
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:58,060
Greek, Eunice.

1467
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,340
And I'm sure that is in you as

1468
01:02:01,340 --> 01:02:01,540
well.

1469
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,260
So where did he get his faith from?

1470
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:06,720
From his mother.

1471
01:02:08,180 --> 01:02:09,840
And we know his father was a Greek,

1472
01:02:10,140 --> 01:02:11,760
probably a businessman who had no interest in

1473
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:12,020
God.

1474
01:02:12,660 --> 01:02:14,860
He was a mother who single-handedly raised

1475
01:02:14,860 --> 01:02:17,380
this boy to be a godly man.

1476
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:23,000
I wonder how she, you know, she had

1477
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,720
her grandmother also had faith and had put

1478
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:28,080
some of that into her heart, but somehow

1479
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,060
she went astray and married a non-Jew.

1480
01:02:30,540 --> 01:02:32,200
The Jews were not allowed to marry Gentiles,

1481
01:02:33,060 --> 01:02:34,200
but she went and married a Greek.

1482
01:02:34,260 --> 01:02:35,560
Maybe a time in her life when she

1483
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,500
became a little backslidden and wayward and went

1484
01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:39,460
and married this Greek businessman who was rich.

1485
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,260
That happens sometimes to people who have godly

1486
01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:43,660
mothers.

1487
01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:46,820
But I'm sure Eunice prayed and prayed and

1488
01:02:46,820 --> 01:02:46,980
prayed.

1489
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:48,640
Eunice is a great example, prayed and prayed

1490
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:50,260
and prayed for her daughter.

1491
01:02:50,460 --> 01:02:52,640
Sorry, Lois is a great example, prayed and

1492
01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:54,260
prayed and prayed for Eunice and brought her

1493
01:02:54,260 --> 01:02:56,460
back, even though she was still married to

1494
01:02:56,460 --> 01:02:56,720
a Greek.

1495
01:02:57,400 --> 01:03:00,740
And when she had a son, Eunice said,

1496
01:03:00,860 --> 01:03:04,080
Lord, I'm sorry for backsliding and marrying outside

1497
01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:06,280
your will, but now please help me at

1498
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:07,460
least to bring up this son in a

1499
01:03:07,460 --> 01:03:07,980
godly way.

1500
01:03:08,380 --> 01:03:10,460
There are women who miss the will of

1501
01:03:10,460 --> 01:03:13,020
God in marriage, but who have children and

1502
01:03:13,020 --> 01:03:14,600
who bring up that child in a godly

1503
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:16,760
way, even though their husband is ungodly.

1504
01:03:17,260 --> 01:03:19,720
Single-handedly bring up their children to be

1505
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:20,240
like Timothy.

1506
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:23,400
There's hope even for those women who married

1507
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:24,920
unbelievers.

1508
01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:28,480
That's the example here in Eunice, to have

1509
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:31,900
godly children and you'll get your reward in

1510
01:03:31,900 --> 01:03:32,580
the final day.

1511
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:34,760
Just because you missed God's will somewhere in

1512
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:37,020
life, even in marriage, don't get discouraged sister.

1513
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:39,180
God's got a plan for your life and

1514
01:03:39,180 --> 01:03:41,340
God can make your children grow up to

1515
01:03:41,340 --> 01:03:42,680
be servants of God like Timothy.

1516
01:03:43,260 --> 01:03:45,900
But you have to devote yourself and communicate

1517
01:03:45,900 --> 01:03:48,140
faith to them, not just Bible knowledge.

1518
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:50,260
You communicate faith by in a time of

1519
01:03:50,260 --> 01:03:53,300
trial, Timothy must have seen Eunice's mother saying,

1520
01:03:53,560 --> 01:03:54,440
let's pray Timothy.

1521
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,680
And father was not praying, but Timothy and

1522
01:03:57,680 --> 01:03:58,540
the mother would pray.

1523
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,000
And Timothy, we are going through a little

1524
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:02,360
financial struggle now.

1525
01:04:02,500 --> 01:04:03,800
Let's pray and ask God to help us.

1526
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:06,260
Or we're facing some opposition from relatives.

1527
01:04:06,620 --> 01:04:09,420
Let's pray and ask God to forgive them

1528
01:04:09,420 --> 01:04:10,260
and let's love them.

1529
01:04:10,660 --> 01:04:13,120
Or from neighbors who are difficult, Timothy, let's

1530
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:13,320
pray.

1531
01:04:13,400 --> 01:04:14,680
Let's not be evil towards our neighbors.

1532
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:15,560
Let's be good to them.

1533
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,960
And all types of different situations, God allows

1534
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,320
in the life to train Timothy to be

1535
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:21,940
a man of faith.

1536
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:24,320
And the mother was the one who trained

1537
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:26,680
that little child from a young age to

1538
01:04:26,680 --> 01:04:27,120
have faith.

1539
01:04:27,260 --> 01:04:28,860
So that by the time he was 20

1540
01:04:28,860 --> 01:04:30,700
years old, he was a man of God.

1541
01:04:31,340 --> 01:04:34,140
Blessed are you mothers, not if you cram

1542
01:04:34,140 --> 01:04:36,300
your Bible knowledge is important because we have

1543
01:04:36,300 --> 01:04:37,900
a Bible and our children must know the

1544
01:04:37,900 --> 01:04:38,120
Bible.

1545
01:04:38,580 --> 01:04:40,880
But more than that, if you can train

1546
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,700
your children to have faith in God in

1547
01:04:43,700 --> 01:04:46,340
difficult situations, there are many children who have

1548
01:04:46,340 --> 01:04:48,040
Bible knowledge who are useless to God.

1549
01:04:48,860 --> 01:04:51,140
But along with the Bible knowledge, if they

1550
01:04:51,140 --> 01:04:53,640
have faith in God, God is my father.

1551
01:04:53,740 --> 01:04:54,740
He will never let me down.

1552
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:57,220
He loves me just like he loves Jesus.

1553
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,880
He will care for me like he cared

1554
01:04:58,880 --> 01:04:59,300
for Jesus.

1555
01:04:59,860 --> 01:05:03,080
You have trained them for life, even if

1556
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:03,980
they are poor or rich.

1557
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:05,560
Blessed are you mothers.

1558
01:05:06,660 --> 01:05:07,980
I have this picture behind me.

1559
01:05:08,420 --> 01:05:09,260
You can have a look at it.

1560
01:05:09,500 --> 01:05:11,140
Jesus washing Peter's feet.

1561
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:14,480
This is the calling of all wives and

1562
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:17,620
say, Lord, make me a washer on the

1563
01:05:17,620 --> 01:05:20,820
feet, not literally, but one willing to do

1564
01:05:20,820 --> 01:05:22,140
lowly jobs like Jesus.

1565
01:05:22,260 --> 01:05:25,880
Jesus is your example to wash the feet

1566
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:27,380
of your husband, to wash the feet of

1567
01:05:27,380 --> 01:05:27,880
your children.

1568
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,480
One day they will rise up like it

1569
01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:34,620
says in Proverbs 31 and say, you are

1570
01:05:34,620 --> 01:05:35,040
blessed.

1571
01:05:35,580 --> 01:05:36,560
You're a blessed mother.

1572
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:41,800
So dear brothers, mothers, dear wives, follow these

1573
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:46,160
examples and stay away from the bad examples

1574
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:46,840
that we saw.

1575
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:48,760
And God will bless you as a wife

1576
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:49,180
and a mother.

1577
01:05:49,540 --> 01:05:52,040
We want many godly wives and godly mothers

1578
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:53,080
in our churches.

1579
01:05:53,940 --> 01:05:54,680
Let's pray.

1580
01:05:56,930 --> 01:06:00,550
Heavenly Father, as we bow before you, only

1581
01:06:00,550 --> 01:06:02,530
you can raise up a godly wife or

1582
01:06:02,530 --> 01:06:03,150
a godly mother.

1583
01:06:03,850 --> 01:06:07,850
I pray you'll do that in our churches.

1584
01:06:08,130 --> 01:06:08,710
Many, many.

1585
01:06:09,510 --> 01:06:10,750
We pray in Jesus' name.

1586
01:06:11,570 --> 01:06:11,850
Amen.