it's certainly an honor to stand before you I feel a little bit
uncomfortable in dealing with mothers.
Because it's probably nobody. There's probably two people in
my life, probably maybe for who are mothers and grandmothers and
my wife that have had the most impact on my life.
Really the unsung hero I guess. And it's difficult to talk about
what it really means to be the kind of mother that God wants.
and you know, on the television in society.
People have made a mockery of marriage. and, God, originally
designed marriage. For the greatest amount of
happiness. While we live in this world.
However, unfortunately. It's not always happy in the
home. and because of that, People often grow up with a
deluded vision. Of what the home should be.
And so even though it is difficult for me to talk about
family life and realizing that, I'm not always the example I
need to be or always the kind of person.
I ought to be Well, it's difficult.
I realize how necessary it is. And how important it is to
continually put before the people.
The principles that we have in the Bible.
Because whatever's in the world affects the church.
You know, the church, first of all, supposed to be a place
where people can come and change. and so, sometimes we
bring people From the world into the church and it's sort of like
God taking Israel out of Egypt, you know God took Egypt or took
Israel out of Egypt in one night, but it took him 40 years.
To get Egypt out of Israel. You see Moses and the children
of Israel left that place in one night, but 40 years later, they
finally had enough Egypt out of their lives that they entered
the land, the promise. And so in the church sometimes
there are things that shouldn't be.
And so it's important for us to look at the true standard for
everything in our lives, and the true standard for everything in
our lives is found in the Bible. It's found in the word of God
and so in the scripture, We have an example of a mom, a maximum
mom. A mom that every child needs by
the name of henna, and there are five characteristics that we
want to look at this evening now.
We can't exhaust everything that might be said about Hannah.
In fact, time will not permit us, and I don't have the ability
even to talk about everything that could be said, but there
are five characteristics that I want us to concentrate on
tonight and see if we can glean from those five characteristics
of Better, portrait of what a Godly mom is and what every
child needs in a mother number one principle number one, Every
child needs a mother whose commitment.
Takes priority two years whose commitment to her family takes
priority over her comfort in family.
How many times have you heard about somebody who said, I'm out
of here? I've had all I can take.
I'm going to go somewhere where it's better.
I'll never forget little Jessica. some high, the years
have gone by It's been probably 25 years, well, not 25 years, 20
years since she first came to our home.
And one day those she was a very well-mannered and well-tempered
little girl. She's in kindergarten.
One day, she was very upset and just at the drop of a hat.
She was start shedding tears and cry. and I took her up in my nap
or lie, And I said, Jessica what's wrong?
And she broke down crying. She said, I want my mama to love
me. I want my mama to love me.
Her mama a deserted it, a few years previous.
And that particular day, her mama had had her for a few hours
and she dropped her off at our home.
But she lived with her daddy. She needed.
She wanted and she desired her. Momma's love I want to tell you
something. Loving your family.
Loving and taking care of your family, being the kind of person
who is committed to your family, even in spite of the fact that
sometimes you're going to be out of your comfort zone.
It's the number one principle. I want you to see in the life of
Hannah. In spite of her circumstance, in
spite of her environment, her family was first, her family was
beyond her comfort zone. Listen to this first Samuel
chapter 1, verse 6, and her rival talking about the other
woman. You see during this period of
Bible history of man would often take a second wife.
Now, the reason he would take a second wife Was not necessarily
because he did not love his first wife.
But because she was Barren, she couldn't have children, and so
he would take another wife, so that he could have children.
Now, there are several reasons for that, but we need to
understand that there was a, there was a special shame placed
upon a person who could not bear children.
And any father who did not have children was in danger because
the family inheritance was to be passed down through the Sun.
And if you didn't have a son, Son, you didn't have anything.
Well today we live in a different kind of world.
In fact, Chuck Swindoll, I don't necessarily agree with much
Chuck Swindoll says, but I thought this was a pretty good
comment that I read one of his family books.
One time he said we live in a day and time when we have two
kinds of families he said we have on can beat He said one
income, no kids. Double income.
No kids. Now, I don't understand why a
family would choose not to have children.
I didn't make sense to me. Now, some situations sometimes
in this life. We can't have children maybe for
some reason. I don't understand that either.
I don't know why that is. And I want to tell you right up
front right now that I see sometimes people who are able to
conceive who do not need the children.
And I see other people who can't conceive who want and would be
wonderful parents. And I don't have all the answers
about that. And I'm going to tell you
something else. There are some situations.
There are some people who can pray from now until doomsday and
they'll never have any children. Now, I've heard people talk
about Hannah and tell people. The reason they don't have
children not prayed hard up. That's a, that's hogwash.
That's garbage. God's only one that has that
answer. We don't have Revelation today
and so we don't know why things happen sometimes like they
happen. but now listen, it'll mean God closed up your womb.
If you can't have a child either, in fact anything that's
evil in your life has caused by the devil.
It's not God. And if you be faithful to him,
then someday you can talk to about your problem and he'll
give you the answers because he's got him off.
I don't have all the answers, but he does now.
Henna wanted more than she wanted her own life to have a
son. She wanted a son to pass the
family name through, she wanted a son so that the inherits could
be given to that son. That's why they had the letter
right law, where if a man died then his younger brother was to
take or one of his brothers wants to take his wife and bear
seed to the brother who has died.
That's why that levirate law was initiated so that so that the
sun could be born because if, if a brother took his brother's
wife who had died and he bore a son by that woman, it the seed
or the son that he had was, not his but his brothers by God.
Is Law and the family inheritance.
We would be passed down and retained by that son.
You know, we don't realize how imperative it was in Hebrew
society to have children. We're so far removed from the
attitude that God's people had them about family, life and
children. We have families who are on
kindig. Sometimes even in the church.
Now, listen to me, folks. If you don't want children.
They don't have them. But if you're using some selfish
reason not to have your children, you better reassess,
your attitude. You better reassess your life.
Because God intended for families to have children.
Well, Hannah was in a very bad situation but she retains her
faith. I think about this.
In fact, I wonder if it had been a modern scene, if you wouldn't
have heard Hannah say, I'm out of here.
She's living in the environment. In fact, she's changing diapers
of the babies from The Other Woman.
The Bible says that the other woman was a rival to her.
What's meant by that? The point is that other woman
kept rubbing it in her face. You may be the favorite of Elkin
of. You might be the first wife but
I'm the one that's got the children.
The Bible says she provoked. Her severely Hannah's life is
miserable. Hannah's life is provoked.
Her life is tormented listen friends.
So it was what he had to do. So it was year by year when she
went up to the house of the Lord that she provoked, her.
Therefore, she wept and did not eat.
Not she's miserable. There's no doubt about it.
But she keeps doing what she knows is, right?
Now, I mentioned this last night, sometimes when I talk to
people and they're having marriage problems and they've
separated, they say I'm not happy.
Well my reply to that is. So what when you marry you've
got responsibilities to that relationship.
And if you're not happy everyday effect, you can't live on
emotions and happiness is an emotion.
It's a state of mind. And you can't live output Cloud9
every day of the week. Now listen to me folks, I know
my servant is not on marriage but it's connected.
This idea that there's some special person out there
designed and made just for you. Is a Lie from hell?
That is hogwash. Now.
You can get married. But you need to remember that no
matter who you marry. The only original match was out
of me. When you get married in order
for it to become the kind of marriage, it ought to be.
It takes a lot of work. And it can't be one-sided.
This idea that young girls sometimes think that they can go
out here and get some drunken, sot, for a husband, and change
them is foolish. If he's a drunkard before you
married, he's probably going to be a drunkard after you're
married to him for 50 years. Now, you know what happens when
you make it work? You have storms, you have
problems. You have difficulties.
But you know, what happens, you know, my aunt and uncle Claude
McClelland seal up their Escalon, California, they're
gone. Now, they died around 100 years
old and you know how long they've been married. 78 years
In fact, I was in that Zambia but seems like they maybe even
celebrated their 80th year. Now, that's amazing.
And you know what? When you looked at them in their
90's, they looked like they looked a lot alike.
In fact, they look so much alike.
They look like brother and sister.
But guess what? You looked at their picture,
when Lucille the 16 and Uncle? Claude was 16 and they married
they didn't look a lot, dude. They didn't look like at all.
But after all those years of living together, Of waking up
together. A walking together going to
church together of traveling together.
I start looking like each other. That's what it means.
You see. They twain shall become one
flesh. That's what that means.
Now Hannah lived in a bad situation, but even in spite of
that difficult situation, she was she was determined to make
it work because she had in her Lockhart a priority and that
priority was to be what she was supposed to be to fulfill her
job to fulfill her responsibilities and she
remained in that marriage and continue to do what she knew was
right. even though sometimes it was hard, Even though sometimes
it seemed impossible. So it was here my year when she
went up to the house of the Lord that she provoked.
Her. Therefore, she wept and did not
eat Hannah's commitment to the family took priority over her
comfort. In the family hand, his heart is
grieved, physically socially and mentally her heart is broken
into pieces. But she sticks to it.
Now sisters, what would you have done?
What would you do? Hard questions.
Hard hard questions? Another example.
Abigail was married to a fool, his name was a ball but that's
what the word. Nabal means a fool.
The servant came to Abigail and said that, that scoundrel, and
that means he was a son of the devil, the son of Belial.
That scoundrel, sit David's men on their way and they were sure
that David was coming and going to take Vengeance on that house,
and sure that David was David had a temper.
He sometimes got hot and this is one of the times when he got
hot. The Bible says, he told his
Green Beret to put their swords on and they were charging down
into the camp of the table and they were going to kill every
million in that place. But Abigail was told by.
The servant what happened? Now, she knew what her husband
was like. She might have if it had been a
modern seen her. Thought this is my opportunity
David's going to get rid of him. I'm going to be free.
Not what you did. Because she knew her
responsibility. Was her family.
So the Bible says she put some raisins together.
She put some wine together. She put some other Provisions
together. She had her donkey saddled up
and she headed in the direction and she met David in the way.
Well, she changed David's mind. And you know what happened?
And a ball, had a stroke and died.
And she became his wife. Now, in the back of her mind,
she might have wanted that. But because she knew who she
was, she knew what she was. She knew what God wanted, she
was intending to do anything she could to stop.
The death of her family. And God turned it Opposite.
Now, your husband may not have a stroke and died, but I'll
guarantee you're not going to ever regret.
Making it work. If you can now add takes two to
make it work. I understood that and I know
some situations cannot work. I want to tell you tonight.
Hannah. Hannah had an attitude that you
need that. I need.
That my wife has. She put her commitment to the
family. Above her personal comfort, and
whatever circumstance, she faced well in first Samuel, chapter 1
verse 9. So Hannah Rose after they had
finished eating and drinking in Shiloh now, Eli the priest will
sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the Tabernacle of
the Lord. And she was in bitterness of
soul and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish.
Then she made a vow and said, O Lord, of hosts, if you will, in
He'd look on the Affliction of your maidservant.
And remember me and not forget your maidservant but will give
your maid servant in Manchild and male child.
Then I will give him to the Lord, all the days of his life
and no razor shall come upon his head.
Well she tells the Lord you give me the boy and I'm going to
prepare him so well that he'll serve you all of his life.
Now, I wonder how many of us would be willing to make a
promise like that. Have you made a promise like
that about your children? She said he's going to be a
Nazarite. A lot of things about that there
were not pleasant. But she made him a Nazarite
before he's even born. Well God, her prayer.
In fact. This brings us to the second
point. Hannah's commitment was beyond
her personal Comfort but secondly, every child needs a
mother who wants loves and cares for her children.
Is there anybody that loved her son more than Hannah?
You know, it's interesting. Listen to this in first Samuel
chapter 1 verse 19, Samuel is born and, of course, Hannah
conceives and Samuels born, and he's brought into this world.
Now, the man L can. I had all these house went up to
offer, to the Lord, the yearly sacrifice and his vow.
This is what they always did. They do this every year.
This was the annual trip, the annual trek that they would
make. And Hannah had gone with him
year after year, after year, but this year, she chooses not to
go. But Hannah did not go up for.
She said to her husband, not until the child is weaned.
Then will I take him that he may appear before the Lord and
remain there forever? Praise God for him as I know a
woman. She's not so young today, but
she was, when she made this decision, she was electrical
engineering, she worked for a computer company and had a
six-digit income. And when her first child was
born, she gave up that job because she felt like, That her
career would get in the way of her children.
She had four daughters. They're all grown children day.
They love her as much as they love their own families.
She made a sacrifice. It cost her dearly.
But she didn't regret a minute of it.
Hannah made a sacrifice. She changed her life.
She altered her life for her family.
Now Sister think about this. Are you willing to alter your
life for your family? Are you willing to make whatever
sacrifices necessary even do to your own?
Your own sacrifice your own life so that your family can have and
be what they need to be hannumas willing, but Hannah did not go
up for. She said to her husband, not
until the child is weaned. Then I will go and I will leave
him forever. Listen to me in Titus.
Chapter 2, Verse 3, the Bible says, the older women, likewise
that they be reverent in Behavior, not slanderers.
Not given to much wine teachers. Teachers of good things verse 4
that they admonish, the young women to love their husbands, to
love their children. Now, do you, I can see him Anna.
She must have brought Samuel up on her knee and she wants to sit
all son. You're so special to me.
I long for the day that you were born and every moment that I
have with you is such a precious moment.
You're my treasure Joy. You ever tell your children that
You know. You don't have to tell your
children. I don't love you.
God, forbid, that any woman in this assembly?
Whatever do that. You don't realize how many
people have heard in this world because their mama didn't love
them. I knew a dad that told his son.
I hate you. I wish you would have never been
born and I've dreaded every day since you were here.
That boy, turned out to be a drug addict.
And just about as worthless. But you know what?
You don't have to tell you. Kids that All you have to do is
every time they come home, excited about something.
Push your boy. All you have to do.
Is make your life so important, and so busy.
That use don't spend much time with them.
You don't help them with homework, you don't volunteer at
school, you don't look at their grades, that's all you have to
do. In fact, you can Pat him on the
shoulders and say I love you. but if you don't spend the time
with them, that they deserve, They're not going to believe a
word of it, you know. It's you know what's been
discovered in studies? You know, Lord, I did daycare
for seven years. We took some classes and it's
interesting. Some of the things we learned,
one of the things that we were taught us in several
psychological studies, it has been shown mathematically that
if you spend five minutes with your child, when that child is
an infant. That saves you an hour when
they're teenagers. Of Heartache.
Now think about that. Have you ever just turned the
television on said, watch TV? Is it possible to television is
the babysitter? You know, I'm going to ask you a
question now. I don't believe it's wrong for a
woman to work. I don't believe that fact.
When you read proverbs, 31, obviously, how the world you can
say that, it's wrong for a woman to work outside the home, The
problem with working outside the home.
She has two jobs two full-time jobs when she does that.
Sometimes we as men, we don't understand that and we make it
harder for them to sisters. but the point is, if you are
consumed with everything, except your family, did you got to
change something? You got to change something.
Hannah was willing to make whatever change was necessary so
that her children would have the love that they needed.
The Bible says that women are to be taught to love their
children. Love is not something you feel.
Love is not something. You say, love is something you
do listen to me. Bible Godly love is not a
feeling, it's not a feeling or a romance.
It's something. It's something that you do.
It's love Bible of is a decision.
Even when you don't feel like it, you love.
Even when it hurts you love. That's what Bible love is.
That's the kind of love your child needs.
That's the kind of love. That should exist between a man
and a woman. Listen, in Proverbs chapter 31
verse 27, the Bible, speaking of The Virtuous Woman, she watches
over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of
idleness. Gar with that says, that means
she doesn't sleep till noon, she gets up and fixes a hot
breakfast for her children. That means that when her
children need clean, clothes are need a Band-Aid.
She's available to take care of that.
And you can ignore it if you want to.
But that's a virtuous woman. She watches over the ways of her
household and does not eat the bread.
Of items. 1st John 3:18 says, my little children.
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue but in deed and in
truth, it's not wrong. Say I love you.
But your life, the actions must be behind that.
Or those words become empty words. well, the commitment the
love number 3, every child needs a mother who is an example of
loving God Now, what does it mean to love God?
What does it mean to be an example of loving God?
Well, no one thing is. You ought to go to church?
Don't send your children to church but take them to church.
Teach them how to have relationships with people of the
church. Teach them how to select friends
in the church. Listen to me.
Not everybody in the church is the kind of person necessarily
you want your children to marry. You know you should marry in the
Lord. There's no doubt about that.
There are passages that teach that but listen to me not
everybody, the church is fit to be married.
Sometimes we have to learn that the hard way.
Now, how is Hannah? An example of what it means to
love. God.
How is it that she is, that example, look at this.
She trusted God. She wanted a child but she
didn't give up. Even when she didn't get a child
she kept doing what she knew was, right?
even if she never got a child, she would have kept right on
That's the kind of person she was she was an individual that
put God first. Is that kind of person your
children seeing you? Jesus said, but seek ye first,
the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you. Now, think about this Think
about it. Maybe you come home a little bit
tired. In fact, maybe you're more than
a little bit, tired, you're exhausted.
And you can either go to church tonight or you can stay home.
What do you do? Jesus said, seek me first.
What are you telling your children when you miss the
assembly? You see attending church is not
all there is to Christianity. But that's a very intricate part
of it. Even how you sit in the
assembly, educate your children as to, what you really believe
in your heart about God. Listen to a nephew sleep while
the preachers preaching. If you're ignoring with the
preachers saying, you're teaching your children to do
that. You're teaching your children.
It's not that important. Henna trusted God in her life.
She trusted God every single day, she obeyed God, whatever
his voice said, that's what she obeyed.
In first Samuel, chapter 1, verse 29.
Now, when she had weaned him that his cellular, she took him
up with her with three Bulls, one F of the flower and a skin
of wine and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh.
And the child was young, then they slaughtered a bull and
brought the child to Eli. And he said, oh Lord.
As your soul lives. My Lord.
I am the woman, who stood by you, here praying to the Lord.
Now, you remember what happened when she's pray to the Lord?
I didn't talk about that when we read it.
But, you know, she's praying in the temple.
The Bible says, her lips are moving, but there's no voice.
And Eli Cesar there. And he says, you're drunk.
You get out of here. Now, what's the point of all
that? They're always going to be
problems. And sometimes when you do the
right thing, you're going to be accused of the wrong thing.
Don't forget that, don't just become disheartened, don't
become downtrodden. Don't expect people to
appreciate you. Expect the Lord, to appreciate
you. You know, we're not serving each
other. Now it's true.
If I'm serving God as I should that, I'm going to be willing to
serve others. But even if others do not like
me, I can please God be that Jesus said Beware.
When all men speak, well of you. For they did the same thing with
those false prophets. Think about it.
We serve the Lord. And we need to give him our all,
we need to demonstrate that attitude with our children, O My
Lord, as your soul lives. My Lord, I am the woman who
stood by you, here praying to the Lord for this child, I
prayed and the Lord has granted me, my petition which I asked of
him. Therefore I also have led him to
the Lord as long as he lives. He shall be lent to the Lord.
So they Worship the Lord there. Truly she made a vow.
She made a promise she was given this sun and even while he's
still young when the time comes for her to fulfill her vow, she
keeps it just to the letter. And this brings us to the fourth
point. You see every child needs a
mother. Who was Willie, who is willing.
And successful to give her son to the Lord.
You see while they serve you. While they're under the umbrella
of your Authority, it's easy to persuade your children.
That is why they're in the house. but what you have to do
is you have to prepare them for the day that when they leave
your house there, under God's care And even though they're not
in your house, even though they're not hearing your voice,
even though they're out of your jurisdiction, they still serve
the Lord. My mom said you have to convince
your children to do what you want them to do.
And that and when you're done they need to think it was their
idea. And that's true.
That's true because you see, you're going to teach your
children, your everyday that they live there.
The remember this, it's hard for us to accept that.
You know, we talked about the empty nest syndrome.
It's hard to see our children leave, but the truth of the
matter is right now, while little Emma's so small and so
precious, her parents need to be praying.
Lord help us to prepare for the day that m is grown.
You need to be looking forward to that day.
Not looking forward to the day because you wanted to go because
you wanted to leave your house but because it's right.
That's the design. But you don't happen sometimes.
We wait till it's too late. And they don't have any
relationship with the Lord. And when they leave our homes,
they're ready to get out. They want to get away.
They want to sow to the wind and they reap the Whirlwind.
All children will go through a rebellious stage, but if you had
developed a relationship between them and the Lord, they'll have
a conscience. Now, don't misunderstand me
today. I don't have all the answers.
And I know that if you're perfect the devil still real and
he's going to, he's going to do what he can to destroy your
family. And sometimes I look at a man
and his wife, and I think, what good people and when their
children grow up, they leave the church.
I look at somebody else, maybe the dads are drunkard, maybe
even the children were physically or sexually abused
and when they grow up, they're all faithful to the Lord.
I don't understand all that. so what we're talking about, Is the
pattern that God has given us. The pattern that Hannah has left
for us, she decided before her son was born.
I'm going to give him to the Lord.
I'm going to lend him to the Lord.
I'm going to, I'm going to give him as a servant.
And you know what happened when she gave saying to the Lord is
the nation of Israel. Geez.
He that old saying The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, rocks the
nation. I'm telling you this little girl
right here. You don't have any idea where
she's going to end up or what's going to happen in real life.
It's like that passage. We LED read last night in the
Book of Psalms a great Archer shoots his bow at a venture and
his hope is to shoot the are Way Beyond he could even see that's
what's going to happen to these kids.
So what's going to happen to these children?
Our hope is they go beyond what we did.
Do greater things than we did. And we're a part of that.
Anna changed the future of a Nation.
Hannah was able to influence people that she never saw or met
through her son. And you can too. sit your son
down and say son, why don't you become a Free talk to him about
what you think it might take to be a preacher.
Give brother Frank or some of the other leaders to come and
talk to you and talk to him and tell him what he needs to do, to
prepare himself to be a preacher.
Getting the thinking about the future.
Teach your daughters to find. A young man who's strong in the
church and teach her how she can be an asset to that man in the
church. Talk about these things.
You need to teach your children. How to marry you need to talk
about who they should marry. You need to talk about
characteristics develop within their little Minds.
What they really need. Because you wait till they find
somebody, it's too late. You got to start early.
And that's what Hannah did. We need mothers like Hannah.
Who are able to give their children to the Lord.
Now, how did she manage to do that?
Look at Deuteronomy chapter, 11, verse 18.
Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and
in your soul. Now, she had access to these
words. Listen to this.
And Brian is a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. You shall teach them to your
children. Speaking of them when you sit in
your house when you walk, by the way, when you lie down and when
you rise up, how did she manage Age to do that and you shall
write them on the doorposts of your house and your Gates that
your days and the days of your children, may be multiplied to
the land of which the Lord swore to your father's, to give them
like the days of the heavens above the Earth.
Listen to me. This verse is telling us that
you do not develop this attitude in a day.
It's daily. When you walk outside.
At night. You can talk about the Big
Dipper. And you go over there and the
Book of Job where it talks about the bear, that's the same
constellation. And you could show them that job
lived 4,000 years ago. And he saw the same stars that
God created. You can find when you're out for
a walk a caterpillar inching along.
You can get excited and get down through a little girl, your
little boy. And you can say look at here,
look at this, this is a worm but it's going to become a
butterfly. You teach him a lesson?
About transforming. From a worm to a beautiful
butterfly. You can take horses.
And teach your children, you can take paint and teach your
children about God. That's what it's all about.
That's what he's talking about practice.
What you know is, right? And then when you sit in the
house, when you walk, by the way, when you lie down and when
you rise up at every opportunity and every situation, teach him
that God is on your mind. That's what it's all about.
But listen, we get so busy. We get so consumed with our
lives, we fail to do that. that there's not any of us, you know,
I'm so thankful for Midland Texas, you know, I was Raising
home where you work You get up early and work, you could eat
lunch and your work afterwards, you work in the afternoon, you
work at night when you're tired, your work.
Brother already Eastman came to me.
When my son was about 16. He said, brother, we love you so
much. We're so thankful that you live
here. You've done so much work, you've
helped us in so many ways, but please listen to me.
You need to quit working so much.
You need to spend some more time with your family.
You need to take your son golfing.
Me to take him fishing. We appreciate you.
But you're working too much. Pretty hard to argue with that,
what? I'm so thankful for art.
Maybe that really made a difference in our family.
I don't know. I'm going to tell you something.
If you want your children to love the Lord.
It takes time. it takes years, it takes days, upon days, upon
days of effort, And you can mold their life.
I'm telling you, you can change their life.
And they'll become what God wants them to become and the
potential in their lives is beyond anything we can imagine.
if we give them the hope and the determination to go forth, Well,
I preach too long already. We need to take her children to
heaven. When you go to heaven, you going
to lose everything. unless you take your family with you,
whatever you used to be. I used to tell the people in
Zambia, listen if you'll obey the gospel, If you and serve the
Lord didn't Heaven someday. I'll introduce you to my
grandchildren that tickle death. That's the way to be.
Whatever this life has. Whatever we do in this life,
it's not worth it. If you lose your family.
Our families are the most prized possessions of our life.
And you need to take your children to heaven in proverbs
4, but I was my Father's son. Tender.
And the only one who decided my mother.
He also taught me and said to me, let your heart retain my
words and keep my commands and live.
Well, we talked about that last evening so I'm going to skip.
Now toward the end. Our children rise up and call
her blessed. Her husband also, and he Praises
her many daughters have done well, but you Excel them.
All charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman
who fears the Lord shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works.
Praise her in the gates, you'll never regret.
Whatever sacrifice you make. For your family.
And someday the Lord blesses you with many children.
When you get old, you'll be praised every child needs a
mother, like Hannah who had a commitment that took priority
over her comfort in the family who wants and loves and cares
for her children, who is an example of what it means to
love. God, who is willing to give her
children to God? Who loved her husband?
And that love was requited every child.
Needs a henna for a mother. You go home and read the story
to give Read the story of Abigail.
Read the story of Aquila and Priscilla.
And you think about what kind of character they demonstrate for
us and you try to practice it. If you're here tonight and
you're not a Christian, we want you to become one.
Your mother wants you to become one.
They'll be nothing like it when you get to heaven.
You'll walk on a street of gold, you'll live forever, no pain, no
sorrow. Never being tired, never be
weary. You'll be with Jesus.
You'll be with God, the Father, you'll be with the Holy Spirit.
You'll live forever in a mansion.
Don't you want to go there? Don't you want to get there?
Well, you can You obey the gospel.
The Bible says, though, he were a son yet learned.
He obedience by the things, which he suffered being then
made perfect. He became the author of Eternal
salvation unto all that obey, him obey him today.
And he will save you Come believe you with all of your
heart, repent of your sins confessing him before men being
buried with him in baptism for the remission of your sins.
If you here and you've obeyed that gospel but you've allowed
your life to go away from Jesus. Come back tonight.
Jesus says, behold I stand at the door and knock If any man
will hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and
will sup with him. And he with me what a blessing.
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