1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:03,200 I invite you tonight to read with me from God's word in the 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:09,400 book of 1st, Samuel, 1st Samuel, and I planned over the next 3 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:14,200 couple of evenings to talk about two, great women, not only in 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:17,200 the Bible, but in my estimation, in the history of the world, 5 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:20,900 great Women of Faith, great women of Courage, great, women 6 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:26,200 of decisiveness, who made a difference in the history of the 7 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,800 Lord's people tonight, I want to talk about one of the greatest. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,700 Mothers who ever lived. I want to read to you beginning 9 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:36,900 in the first chapter of 1st Samuel, beginning in verse 19, 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:41,100 where the scripture says they rose up in the morning early and 11 00:00:41,100 --> 00:00:44,500 worship before the Lord and returned and came to their house 12 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:48,900 to ramoth and elkanah knew Hannah, his wife and the Lord 13 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:52,700 remembered her, wherefore it came to pass when the time was 14 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:55,100 come about after. Hannah had conceived that she 15 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:59,500 bare a son and called his name Samuel say because I have asked 16 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:02,500 him. The Lord and the man elkanah and 17 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,600 all his house, went up to offer, unto the Lord, the yearly 18 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,500 sacrifice and his vow. But Hannah went not up for. 19 00:01:09,500 --> 00:01:12,500 She said, unto her husband, I will not go up until the child 20 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:16,000 be weaned, and then I will bring him that he may appear before 21 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,700 the Lord and there abide forever. 22 00:01:19,500 --> 00:01:22,600 And elkanah her husband said unto her, do what seemeth be 23 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,700 good. Terry until thou have weaned him 24 00:01:25,900 --> 00:01:30,600 only the Lord establishes word. So the woman abode Road and gave 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,300 her son suck until she weaned them and when she had weaned him 26 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:37,600 she took him up with her with three bollocks and one Eva 27 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:41,700 flower and a bottle of wine and brought him unto the house of 28 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:46,900 the Lord in Shiloh. And the child was young for a 29 00:01:46,908 --> 00:01:49,100 little while tonight. I want to talk to you about a 30 00:01:49,100 --> 00:01:53,900 parents promised for anyone who thinks that God does not think 31 00:01:53,900 --> 00:01:57,800 highly of women. They need to take another look 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,700 through the Bible particularly The Old Testament because God 33 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,900 emphasizes in his holy book, the role of women in the history of 34 00:02:06,900 --> 00:02:12,800 his people and he places a great premium upon the faith of some 35 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,300 great women. I think of women who had 36 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:19,600 tremendous faith and they made great decisions. 37 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,200 Based upon that Faith who altered the history. 38 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,600 The course of the nation of Israel. 39 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,700 God's people and ultimately affected are very Redemption. 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,000 I think Of Jacob. And a long time ago, who in 41 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,800 faith hid the Baby Moses, because of that, horrible ethnic 42 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,400 that came down, that those baby boys be thrown into the Nile 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:42,000 River. And it was because that she took 44 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:46,900 and she hid that goodly baby child, and saved him from Death 45 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:49,900 that Providence, brought him into the household of pharaoh 46 00:02:49,900 --> 00:02:52,800 himself. And some 40 years later, he 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:57,600 would make a great decision and his own life, that later in his 48 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:01,900 life would lead him to the height of The leader of Israel 49 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:05,700 out of Egyptian bondage and ultimately the great lawgiver 50 00:03:05,700 --> 00:03:09,700 and prophet of Israel, the nation that God had promised 51 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:13,200 unto Abraham so long before I think of Ruth, and we'll talk 52 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,800 about Ruth a little bit more tomorrow night, the Lord 53 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,200 willing. And we think about, in this 54 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,200 case, Hannah and Hannah was, as well. 55 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:25,500 A woman of great faith and we see that in this decision that 56 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:30,100 she made in her life now, and of course, had a very sad Sad 57 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:33,400 story. Hannah was Barren, she could not 58 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:37,200 have children, and it was a particularly blessed thing in 59 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,900 that time for a woman, to be able to Bear children unto her 60 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:42,500 husband. There was a great significance 61 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:46,200 in spiritual significance, even upon that among God's people, 62 00:03:46,700 --> 00:03:50,200 and elkanah had married, Hannah and she was not able to Bear 63 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:52,000 children unto him, but that didn't change. 64 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:55,500 The fact that elkanah loved her and he favored her. 65 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:59,300 Now polygamy was tolerated in that day and don't read into 66 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:03,100 that that Whatever really desired for his people to live 67 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:06,900 and polygamous relationships because that's not what God 68 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:10,400 instituted in the beginning. We later read and the 19th 69 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,900 chapter of Matthew that God allowed putting away, for 70 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:16,399 example, under the time of Moses, because of the hardness 71 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:22,900 of men's hearts and polygamy was for a Time tolerated by God and 72 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:26,600 elkanah entered into a polygamous marriage. 73 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,800 He married, another woman and perhaps He married her for the 74 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:34,700 purpose that she could bear children unto him and I would 75 00:04:34,700 --> 00:04:37,600 doubt that these two women had a whole lot of interaction and 76 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,600 communication from day to day, but every year the family would 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:44,900 make the Journey about 20 miles north from Jerusalem up to 78 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:48,400 Shiloh where the Tabernacle was stationed at this time and they 79 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,000 would go up for this particular feast day. 80 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,800 Perhaps the Feast of Tabernacles, there were 81 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,600 different feast days and different times that Drew the 82 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,600 people to the temple and great numbers and elkanah His family 83 00:05:00,600 --> 00:05:03,600 would make the journey up here to Shiloh on this particular day 84 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,200 of the year. And this would put these two 85 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,300 women in contact with one another. 86 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,800 And the Bible says that alkane has wife, taunted Hannah, she 87 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,200 provoked her because she was Barren unable to have children. 88 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,700 Well, that greatly Disturbed, Hannah and that's what we read 89 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:24,900 here in this text. That Hannah was very, very 90 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:27,700 bitter of Soul. She was, she was very, very 91 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:32,400 emotionally moved. And disturbed by this treatment 92 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,200 that this other woman was heaping upon her. 93 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,400 And not only that the fact that she herself could not bear 94 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,600 children under her beloved, husband elkanah. 95 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,900 And so when they go to the Tabernacle there at Shiloh, she 96 00:05:46,900 --> 00:05:51,200 outside the Tabernacle near the door, she decides that she is 97 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:58,100 going to beg God to give her a baby and she just falls down 98 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:59,700 right there outside the Tabernacle. 99 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:04,400 Against to pray to God and Eli. The priest is sitting over here 100 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,200 on a chair by the doorpost of the Tabernacle. 101 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:11,700 And he sees this, the Bible says that she's weeping sore, she's 102 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:16,100 in great bitterness of soul and he looks over and he can see 103 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:18,800 her. As she is praying and her mouth 104 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,000 is moving, but he hears no words. 105 00:06:22,500 --> 00:06:25,800 You ever prayed, have you ever been so emotionally distraught 106 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,700 and moved over some great, dilemma or great problem in your 107 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,700 A life that that words almost didn't even seem to come out. 108 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:38,800 Well, Hannah was in a great position of distress and she's 109 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:44,100 praying, she's pouring out her heart unto the Lord, and Eli is 110 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:47,300 able to see her mouth move but not able to hear her prayer. 111 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:51,100 And he assumes that she's drunk and so he would rebuke her for 112 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:54,900 being drunk there in the in the vicinity there of the 113 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,200 Tabernacle, but she wasn't drunk at all. 114 00:06:57,300 --> 00:06:59,800 She was distraught and she explains to him. 115 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:05,000 Who applied and So He blesses her and she goes on her way and 116 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,800 the prayer that she prayed there at the Tabernacle that day was a 117 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,600 wonderful, and it is a powerful prayer that God answered, and I 118 00:07:13,608 --> 00:07:16,700 want to talk to you about that prayer, that she prayed and the 119 00:07:16,700 --> 00:07:21,300 promise that she made to God, that day as she poured out, her 120 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:24,400 heart unto him. Now, first of all, I want to 121 00:07:24,407 --> 00:07:28,800 talk about the priority that Hannah had in her life and had a 122 00:07:28,808 --> 00:07:32,200 wouldn't be very popular. Earlier in today's world, Hannah 123 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,400 in fact might be ridiculed like she was this other woman but for 124 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:40,200 an altogether different reason in this day and time because she 125 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,400 may not have had a child at this point, but she wanted a child 126 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:46,800 and it wasn't that she just wanted a child because children 127 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,900 are fun to watch grow up, wasn't the, she just wanted a child 128 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,200 because she wanted the experience of holding a little 129 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,500 baby in her arms and all of the joy that that brings to new 130 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:00,800 parents. She wanted to have a Child that 131 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:02,800 she could dedicate unto the Lord. 132 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:06,800 She wants to be a mother and not onto that. 133 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:11,700 She wants to be a Godly mother and so she prays. 134 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:16,000 Oh God I want a baby. This woman had an instinct if 135 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,600 you please to desire a child because she understands the 136 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:23,000 principle that's found in God's word time and time again. 137 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:27,300 And that is that children are an unmistakable gift and blessing 138 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,500 from the Lord, Psalm 127, and verse Three says, low children 139 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:35,500 are in Heritage of the Lord. And the fruit of the womb is his 140 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:37,700 reward. Children are a blessing in the 141 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,200 sight of God. Certainly not a burden, and 142 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:42,900 notice how God describes the husband in the very next. 143 00:08:42,900 --> 00:08:45,500 Psalm, Psalm 128 beginning in verse 3. 144 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:48,300 He says, thy wife shall be as a fruitful Vine. 145 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,200 But besides of thine house, that children like all it plants 146 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,800 roundabout by table behold that the shall the man be blessed 147 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,700 that feareth the Lord, it was a sign of God's blessing. 148 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:03,500 Upon a man and upon a woman if they were able to Bear children. 149 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:05,300 And what does that say about our culture? 150 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:09,100 Today, when babies, for example, are being put to death by the 151 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:13,000 millions in their mothers wombs and it's often justified by the 152 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:16,100 argument that it's a woman's life and it's a woman's body and 153 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:19,400 therefore, it's a woman's choice, you know, a mother's 154 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:23,900 womb ought to be the safest place on the face of the Earth 155 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,800 but unfortunately many a mother's womb has become an 156 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:32,500 execution chamber. For Untold numbers of babies, 157 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:36,900 who were simply not wanted many children, who are born are 158 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:39,800 nothing more than an accident. In the eyes of their parents. 159 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:42,100 Their unwanted from the day, they're conceived. 160 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:44,900 And as a result, they're often brought into the world to be 161 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,500 shoved aside, and to be, neglected and raised by others 162 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,000 or even abused. For some people children are an 163 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,300 inconvenience, they're an added Financial strain. 164 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,100 They're a distraction from career and other life goes some, 165 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,400 don't desire. Hire a child because they want 166 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,400 more of this world's things. Or they don't want a child 167 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,000 taking away from their time and from there, their dreams and 168 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,700 their Ambitions. And if that's their attitude, 169 00:10:10,700 --> 00:10:13,700 and they shouldn't be parents. But may I remind you that. 170 00:10:13,700 --> 00:10:17,900 The Bible says that children are a blessing from the Lord and 171 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:20,800 they're one of God's primary means of transmitting and 172 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,300 preserving the truth from what age under the next. 173 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:28,000 And one of the things that makes Hannah such a great woman and 174 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,700 ultimately such a great mother. Was the fact that she has a 175 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:35,500 priority that she did not think that it was anything less than 176 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:40,300 the very best that life could afford her to be a mother. 177 00:10:40,300 --> 00:10:42,800 You know, there were other women in the Bible who were in a 178 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:47,100 similar situation is Hannah and they long to be mothers. 179 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,500 They besought the Lord to give them children. 180 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,300 They begged God even for a child and God heard their prayers, and 181 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:57,900 God gave them children and you know, there's a remarkable thing 182 00:10:57,900 --> 00:11:01,200 when you see all of those. Reyes episodes in the Old 183 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:04,800 Testament, particularly that when a woman was Barren and 184 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,200 begged, the Lord for a child and the lord gave them that child. 185 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,500 That child was always seemingly. Very remarkable and that child 186 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,800 and one way or another change the world, you think about Sarah 187 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,700 who was some 90 years old and she was Barren. 188 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:23,900 But the Lord blessed her and she had a son and her son's name 189 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,300 was, of course, Isaac. And Isaac, of course, blessed 190 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,600 the world according to Genesis chapter 20. 191 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:34,100 As we read the story, Rachel prayed and she said, Lord give 192 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:38,100 me children or I die. And the Lord heard her prayer 193 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:42,100 and gave her a son. His name was Joseph, one of the 194 00:11:42,108 --> 00:11:45,600 greatest men who ever live and one of the grace greatest types 195 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,100 of the Lord Jesus Christ, in all of the Old Testament. 196 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:53,000 Elizabeth later, did not have a child and her husband Zacharias, 197 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,300 and she prayed and God gave her a child. 198 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:59,000 And his name, was John, the Baptist who became the 199 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:02,900 Forerunner of Of the Lord Jesus Christ and of whom Jesus said No 200 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:06,200 Greater had ever been born of woman and here we come to 201 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:10,800 Hannah's a woman who desperately wants a son and God gives her a 202 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,300 son. Little Samuel, who was the 203 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:17,000 greatest and most influential man to live in the Old Testament 204 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,000 between Moses and King, David for a fact, children are a 205 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:26,600 blessing of the Lord and God blesses, those who desire to 206 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,600 have children to raise for him. If you ever thought about what a 207 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,000 difference, what a difference. We would see in our world 208 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,400 tonight. If every child brought into this 209 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:41,600 world, with a result of prayer. If every child brought into this 210 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:44,400 world were given back to God In Prayer. 211 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,400 What would the world have been like? 212 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,000 Had there? Been no icing. 213 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:52,600 Had there been no Joseph had there been no John Hannah's. 214 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,800 A marvelous mother because she wants to be a mother. 215 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:01,800 She wants to have a child. And sometimes you hear women and 216 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,000 they'll say someone will ask them. 217 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,300 Well what do you do? And they'll say well, I'm a 218 00:13:06,308 --> 00:13:09,500 so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so and 219 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,200 oftentimes that's very impressive. 220 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,600 I know a lot of women that they're so, and so's. 221 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:17,400 And so, and so, and they're very good at what they do and they've 222 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,500 made their Mark in the business world or in the classroom or 223 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,800 wherever it might be, and they can do that. 224 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,700 And if they can raise a family for the Lord, Jesus Christ, 225 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:29,200 that's wonderful. But then you turn around to some 226 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,900 woman. Here and you say and what do you 227 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:33,200 do? And she says, well, I'm just a 228 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:41,500 housewife or I'm just a mother just a housewife just a mother 229 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:46,200 Folks, there's no greater calling that you can have in 230 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:51,200 life as a Christian woman than to raise a child for the Lord 231 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,300 Jesus Christ. And if you can be a so-and-so 232 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,400 and so-and-so and so-and-so and still raise children for the 233 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:00,800 Lord, Jesus Christ more power to you, but I want to tell you your 234 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,700 number one responsibility in this life and this is not a 235 00:14:03,708 --> 00:14:06,900 demeaning thing to say, it is not a degrading thing to say. 236 00:14:06,900 --> 00:14:10,900 God values you as a woman, God values you as a wife, and as a 237 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:13,600 mother, one of the most impactful And influential and 238 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,600 Powerful things you can do and all of the world is to raise a 239 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:19,500 child to know the Lord Jesus Christ head. 240 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:22,700 I wanted a baby and I want you to not only see Hannah's 241 00:14:22,700 --> 00:14:24,200 priority. I want you to see Hannah's 242 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,500 purpose. She didn't want to just have a 243 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:29,100 baby in order that she might have the joy of holding a 244 00:14:29,108 --> 00:14:31,300 newborn baby in her arms. She didn't want to just see a 245 00:14:31,308 --> 00:14:34,100 little boy, grow up and wonder what he might grow up to be 246 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:35,400 loyal. She knew before she ever 247 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,600 conceived this child when she poured, our her heart to God, 248 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:43,800 she had a plan for this baby. Listen in Just 10 and 11 of 1st 249 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,300 Samuel one, she was in bitterness of Soul, she prayed 250 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:51,200 unto the Lord and wet sore and she vowed of Hal and said, O, 251 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,700 Lord, of hosts. If thou Wilt indeed look on the 252 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:57,300 Affliction of thine handmaid and remember me and not forget, 253 00:14:57,300 --> 00:15:01,600 thine handmaid, but will give unto thine handmaid, a man-child 254 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:07,200 that I will give him unto the Lord, all the days of his life 255 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:10,500 and there shall no razor come upon his head. 256 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:11,800 What does that last state in the mean? 257 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:14,100 There's still no real. Razor come upon his head. 258 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:16,000 Well, you have to understand something of course, about the 259 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,100 Old Testament and that means that she would give her son to 260 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:22,800 be a Nazarite, has to do with the Nazarite vow. 261 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,500 Now, the nazarites were very special group of people who were 262 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:29,500 given over to God in a very special way and Numbers Chapter 263 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:33,800 6 and verse 5 tells us how these nazirites were to be raised. 264 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,900 Their Moses says all the days of the value of his separation. 265 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:40,300 There shall no razor come upon his head until the day's be 266 00:15:40,300 --> 00:15:44,600 fulfilled in the which he It's himself unto the Lord. 267 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:48,900 He shall be holy and shall let the locks of the hair of his 268 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:52,200 head grow. Here's a very special situation. 269 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,500 It is an exception by Nature. A man's hair is to be short. 270 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,400 A woman's hair is to be long. But in this particular case in 271 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,900 that culture and that dispensation of time this 272 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:06,900 Nazarite vow, this was marked by the growing of their hair and it 273 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:11,700 was a sir and that this person had been set apart to the holy 274 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,000 unto God. God and that's what Hannah's in 275 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,700 essence, pray. She is saying God, I want to 276 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:22,300 have a holy child. I want a child that is separated 277 00:16:22,300 --> 00:16:25,500 unto you. She's asking for a child as a 278 00:16:25,500 --> 00:16:27,700 gift from the Lord, which they are. 279 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,200 And realizing that that child came from the Lord, he purposed 280 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,600 in her prayer that she would turn right around and give that 281 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:40,300 child back unto the Lord. Do you pray for your children? 282 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:44,400 Surely, you do we all pray for our children? 283 00:16:45,100 --> 00:16:48,500 Well, when did you start praying for your children after they 284 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:52,700 were born or whether that's a little too late, Hannah prayed 285 00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:56,200 before Samuel was even conceived, not just that she 286 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,800 might have a baby. She wants to have a baby in 287 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:04,099 order that she might raise him for God and literally, turn 288 00:17:04,099 --> 00:17:09,900 around and give them over to the service of The Lord. 289 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,700 What do you pray for your children? 290 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,400 You pray for your children to be healthy. 291 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:16,000 Well, there's nothing wrong with that. 292 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,300 We all desire that our children would grow up to be healthy. 293 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:22,000 Do you pray for your child's success in life? 294 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,800 There's not necessarily thing wrong with that. 295 00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:27,300 Do you pray for their happiness? Do you pray for opportunities 296 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:29,300 and education and career? Do you pray? 297 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:33,000 That they'll find friends and acceptance and there might be 298 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 any list of things that you regularly have or continue to 299 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,500 pray for for your children and for your grandchildren. 300 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:43,400 Children and we've all prayed those prayers to one degree or 301 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,900 another. But is that really your priority 302 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,900 for your child? What is your desire for your 303 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:50,500 child? Because let me tell you, your 304 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:54,400 desire is going to be expressed. Consistently in. 305 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,900 What you pray for? What do you really desire for 306 00:17:57,900 --> 00:18:00,900 your children? What is most important? 307 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,500 Do you desire for your children? A good education. 308 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:06,900 Do you desire for them? A high-paying, lucrative, 309 00:18:06,900 --> 00:18:10,100 career, full of opportunity. Do you pay for them? 310 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:12,400 A desirable spouse. Certainly nothing wrong with 311 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,600 that. We should hope that our children 312 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,900 grow up certain to make Christians and people that will 313 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:19,000 help them get to heaven. Do you pray that they'll be 314 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,100 happy and healthy and give you grandchildren one day to enjoy 315 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:23,300 and so forth. Do you dream? 316 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:25,500 What do you dream about? When you bring a baby boy or a 317 00:18:25,508 --> 00:18:28,700 baby girl into the world and you hold them and you gaze at them 318 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:31,700 and you try to imagine the future and wonder what life will 319 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:34,600 hold and what they will be. You know, there are many people 320 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:36,600 who would think that it was a great tragedy. 321 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:38,500 They would think that somehow they went wrong. 322 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,200 Wrong. If their children grow up 323 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,700 without the things that I mentioned, but yet know the 324 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:46,600 Lord, they would somehow think that they've fallen short. 325 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,600 If their son grew up in simply said, I want to be a gospel 326 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,400 preacher or if their daughter said I simply want to be a 327 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,000 preacher's wife. Oh no. 328 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,200 We want Little Johnny to be a star athlete. 329 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,700 We want Little Susie to be a movie star or a famous musician. 330 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:03,600 That's the attitude of most people in the world and to one 331 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,600 degree or another. Sadly, that's the attitude of 332 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:09,300 some people in the church. They think a lot more about the 333 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,300 financial future of their child than they do about the spiritual 334 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:15,900 future of their children. You know what my desire is for 335 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:17,900 my children? If my heart deceive me, not 336 00:19:17,900 --> 00:19:21,500 tonight and I believe I can honestly say this my desire for 337 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,700 my children was worded by the Apostle. 338 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:28,700 John long ago in 3rd John verse 4 when he said I have no Greater 339 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:32,700 Joy than to know that my children walk in truth and 340 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:36,400 that's it. I have no Greater Joy than to 341 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:39,600 know that my children. Walking truth and I'm not nearly 342 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,600 as concerned with them being poor in material things. 343 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:46,400 As I am to being poor in spiritual things, I have prayed 344 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:49,200 many prayers throughout their life, that they will grow up to 345 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:50,900 know. The Lord, that they will always 346 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:53,900 serve him all the days of their life. 347 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,000 I think that's what a parent should pray for. 348 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,000 I think that's what a parent should promised unto the Lord. 349 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,300 God has given me this child, they are a gift from the Lord. 350 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,900 They are a solemn and sacred responsibility. 351 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,400 And I have an obligation to the Lord to do everything within my 352 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:13,200 power to take this child and to dedicate them under the service 353 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,400 of the, under the service of the Lord and the service of his 354 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:18,700 kingdom. It's a sad thing to me when I 355 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,800 see Christian parents, who are obviously more wrapped up and 356 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,800 more worried about whether their kids succeed in the classroom, 357 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:27,700 or on the ball field. That's the big one today on the 358 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:30,300 ball field, whether they're rather than what whether they 359 00:20:30,300 --> 00:20:37,000 succeed in the eyes of the Lord. There's a brother down in the 360 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 south Not far from where I live. I was holding a meeting and his 361 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:46,300 home congregation a few years ago, he raised five children. 362 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:49,900 One afternoon, we were driving through the countryside on our 363 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:53,300 way to a meal appointment. And we were talking about the 364 00:20:53,300 --> 00:20:56,800 challenges that young parents face in today's world. 365 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,500 We were talking about how difficult it seems to be to 366 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:03,700 shelter, our children from so many of The Temptations and the 367 00:21:03,700 --> 00:21:10,300 evil influences of the world. And he said, you know, he said, 368 00:21:10,300 --> 00:21:15,500 I had five kids, they really didn't give me much trouble. 369 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:19,400 He said I was very blessed. My children were always pretty 370 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:25,200 easy to raise. He said I had one rule in my 371 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:29,900 house. He said one steadfast Rule and 372 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:35,000 that was a curfew He said and it was kind of a strict curfew. 373 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,700 I mean, it was an early curfew dude. 374 00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:39,500 Most kids, of course, wouldn't like that but he said I said 375 00:21:39,500 --> 00:21:42,200 that curfew fairly early and my children do the when it came to 376 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,400 that curfew. I meant business and he said, I 377 00:21:45,408 --> 00:21:49,400 couldn't go to sleep until I knew that all of my children had 378 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,400 kept that curfew and were in my house. 379 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:56,200 He said Friday night whenever the time would come when other 380 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,600 kids were out with, who knows what involved, in whatever he 381 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,800 said. It was a wonderful sound too. 382 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:05,800 Me to hear the door open and close one, two, three, four, 383 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:08,400 five times. And to know that all of my 384 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,800 children were safe and sound under my roof, where they ought 385 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,200 to be and he said, I could go to sleep. 386 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:19,700 And then he said and this was very moving to me. 387 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:23,300 He said, you know, now what the greatest and sweetest sound to 388 00:22:23,308 --> 00:22:29,400 my ears is on the Lord's Day. At 10:30, in the morning, when I 389 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,900 hear the door closed at the back of the church building for the 390 00:22:31,900 --> 00:22:35,700 last time, and I turn around and I see all five of my children 391 00:22:36,700 --> 00:22:40,200 sitting in the house of God. Now, I will tell you that in 392 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,000 happened by accident, that didn't happen by itself that 393 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,400 happened because there was a Christian father and a Christian 394 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,100 mother who took their responsibility. 395 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:52,700 Seriously, it happened because there was a Christian father and 396 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:56,300 a Christian mother who had the priority when they had children. 397 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:59,400 And Raise their children to raise their children for God. 398 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:02,300 And as a result, the church was their life and the church is 399 00:23:02,300 --> 00:23:05,700 there life yet today. Does that describe your family? 400 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:07,500 Does that describe your children? 401 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:13,000 Rather than praying for your children to be rich, rather than 402 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,600 praying for them to be successful. 403 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,100 Let me give you a prayer to pray for your children and is right 404 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:19,400 out of the word of God. In fact, you ever struggled with 405 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,800 what to pray for. If you're on praying turns with 406 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,300 God, I don't think you can do any better than to Simply pray. 407 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:26,400 A Bible prayer and let me read you. 408 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,000 A prayer of the Apostle Paul over and Ephesians chapter 3. 409 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:31,500 And here, Paul was, praying for Spiritual children. 410 00:23:31,500 --> 00:23:34,300 So to speak is a prairie, offered for the church. 411 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:36,300 I don't want you to listen to this, and I want you to see if 412 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,500 this isn't a wonderful prayer to pray for your children. 413 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,600 Beginning in verse 14, for this cause I bow my knees under the 414 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,800 father of our Lord, Jesus Christ of whom the whole family in 415 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,300 Heaven and Earth is named that he would Grant you. 416 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:50,300 According to the riches of his glory. 417 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,700 To be strengthened with might, by his spirit in the inner man, 418 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,100 that Christ May dwell in your hearts by faith, that you being 419 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:00,900 rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with All 420 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:03,900 Saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height and 421 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:06,900 to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge that ye 422 00:24:06,900 --> 00:24:09,400 might be filled with all the fullness of God. 423 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:13,000 Now, on to him, that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above 424 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,700 all that we ask or think, according to the power that 425 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:18,800 worketh within us, isn't that a wonderful thing to pray for your 426 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:22,500 children? If they might know the Lord, 427 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,800 they might be strengthened in the things that count and the 428 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,800 things that matter. Had a had a purpose and our 429 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,800 purpose was God, I want a child that will serve you and listen 430 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:37,900 she wasn't just making a promise to the Lord in order to get a 431 00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:41,400 child. She kept Promise, little 432 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:47,300 samuelosborne, little Samuel and she tells elkanah the first time 433 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:50,900 that the sacrifice comes around and there to make the journey to 434 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:53,900 Shiloh. She says, I'll not go this time. 435 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:57,600 She was going to attend to her responsibilities in her Duty as 436 00:24:57,600 --> 00:25:02,800 a mother to this new little boy. And she says, when he is weaned 437 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:04,700 which back in that time probably would have been about three 438 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,800 years old. She said when he is weaned I 439 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,600 will take him to Shiloh. Whoa, and I would imagine in 440 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:15,500 those three years, she sang to him as she rocked him the songs 441 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:18,500 of Israel. I would imagine that she told 442 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:23,000 him about God and maybe told him the stories of Moses and the 443 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 children of Israel that she recited to him, perhaps The Ten 444 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:31,500 Commandments and the law. When that little boy was 445 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:36,200 probably about three years old, she took him to the Tabernacle. 446 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,100 She took him to Shiloh. And she left him. 447 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:46,100 She took him to the priest Eli and she committed him onto the 448 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:49,700 service of the Lord. You talk about faith. 449 00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:54,200 You talk about courage, here's a woman who meant what? 450 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,400 She prayed for and shit. Takes a little little toddler of 451 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:03,400 a boy and entrusts him in the keeping of the priest there at 452 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,800 the Tabernacle to remain there, and she would see him from year 453 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:10,200 to year as they would go back to the Tabernacle to offer 454 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,200 sacrifice, and she would even make a sweet little story in the 455 00:26:13,208 --> 00:26:14,500 Bible. Of course, she'd make a little 456 00:26:14,500 --> 00:26:17,300 coat for him, and she would take it to him there at the 457 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:21,400 Tabernacle, and he would grow up, of course, to be the great 458 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:24,800 prophet of God. She not only had a priority, she 459 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,100 not only had a purpose, she not only prayed a prayer. 460 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:31,600 She not only made a promise. She kept her promise and she 461 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,700 influence that child for the Lord. 462 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:36,100 Jesus Christ. Don't underestimate your Godly 463 00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:38,500 example. Take your children to Shiloh. 464 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:40,000 Mmm. Immerse them in the things of 465 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:43,200 God, seek first, the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 466 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,900 Don't underestimate the power of that. 467 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,400 I wasn't raised in the home of a Preacher. 468 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:56,400 I wasn't raised by parents that you might consider influential 469 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,200 in the kingdom of God, rather inconspicuous. 470 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,300 But I was raised by two parents who believed that. 471 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:08,700 Three times a week. We went to church I was raised 472 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:11,400 by two parents who believe that the church is having a gospel 473 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:12,900 meeting. We go. 474 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:20,400 I was not immersed in football and baseball and basketball and 475 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,200 that's all. All right. 476 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:25,500 And it's Place into a point that wasn't our life. 477 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:30,000 Our life was the church, there was no debate, there was no 478 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,600 deliberation, we didn't have to wonder, will we go Wednesday 479 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:33,900 night? We didn't have to wonder if 480 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,300 there was a gospel meeting where we go tonight, where we go 481 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:39,500 tomorrow, night will be attending the meeting this week. 482 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,500 If there was a gospel meeting, we win if there was a meeting 483 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:44,800 within driving distance of. Our congregation. 484 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,600 If it was at all possible, we went and my life from the time. 485 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:56,100 I can remember was the church. And one of the most one of the 486 00:27:56,108 --> 00:28:02,100 most Vivid memories that I will always have Of my time at home 487 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:06,000 and my mother particularly was early in the morning when I 488 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,500 would get up to go to school, my mother had her chair there in 489 00:28:10,500 --> 00:28:13,100 the living room. She had a little side table and 490 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:18,000 a lamp and every morning you could just count on it, you 491 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:20,700 would walk in the room and there would be an Open Bible laying 492 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:22,700 there on the table into that burning lamp. 493 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:29,300 And a notebook nearly full and she did that every day she would 494 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:32,000 get up before anybody else. And she would spend an hour 495 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:34,700 reading and studying the Bible, we didn't have a lot of times in 496 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:37,300 my home of sitting down and having what you might think of 497 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:40,700 as a structured time of Bible study and so forth. 498 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:43,600 But I grew up knowing that the Bible the word of God was an 499 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,700 important and a sacred book I grow up knowing that it knowing 500 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:49,800 that it's worthy of our time and worthy of reading it and Worthy 501 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:53,000 is studying it and certainly worthy of obeying it and I'm 502 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,400 reminded Minded of a tender and a sweet passage in the New 503 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,600 Testament. When Paul wrote the young man 504 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,200 Timothy, and second Timothy chapter 1 and verse 5. 505 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:03,000 And he said, when I called remembrance the unfeigned faith, 506 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,800 that is in thee, which dwelt first in my grandmother, Lois, 507 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,600 and my mother Eunice and I am persuaded that in the also. 508 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:18,300 Well, Louis grows into a woman, she gets married and she has a 509 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,900 little baby girl. She names her Eunice, she holds 510 00:29:21,900 --> 00:29:25,000 her and she rocks her. You probably sang lullabies to 511 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:28,700 her and I'd like to think that she whispered in his ear or 512 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:33,000 whispered in her ear rather in those formative years God loves 513 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,700 you. The she sang to him the songs of 514 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:42,600 God's people. And years later, Lois, she would 515 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:45,900 grow into a woman and she would fall in love, and she would get 516 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:48,300 married, and she would have a baby, and she would name that 517 00:29:48,300 --> 00:29:52,000 little bouncing baby boy, Timothy, and just as her own 518 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,200 mother had done, she would swaddle him, and she would rock 519 00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:57,100 him. And she would whisper in his 520 00:29:57,100 --> 00:29:59,200 ear. Jesus Loves You Timothy. 521 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:07,300 And now Paul says the unfeigned faith it is in thee was in your 522 00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:09,900 mother, it was in your grandmother. 523 00:30:11,900 --> 00:30:15,100 A father has a powerful influence on a child, but a 524 00:30:15,100 --> 00:30:18,900 mother makes such a deep deep impression and shapes and molds 525 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,100 that child, Hannah was persistent. 526 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:24,700 She persuaded that little boy, Samuel, she dedicated him unto 527 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,600 the Lord. And listen, she changed the 528 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,500 course of history. There's nothing greater than to 529 00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:34,600 raise a baby for Jesus Christ. And for his kingdom, I want to 530 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:36,900 close tonight with two true stories. 531 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:42,300 Nancy Hanks was a woman who arose out of a dark and Troubled 532 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:45,800 life, she lived a humble. And in many ways, a very 533 00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:49,500 difficult life, but she was a woman of deep faith. 534 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,800 For many years, she was illiterate and it said that she 535 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,900 learned to read by reading the Bible. 536 00:30:57,100 --> 00:31:01,300 She was married, she had a son when he was just a boy Nancy 537 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:06,400 died at just 9 years of age. That little boy helped his 538 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,500 father, build his mother's Coffin by whittling, the pegs 539 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:11,600 that held the wooden planks together. 540 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,000 Some 50 years later when he was the president of the United 541 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:20,200 States Abraham, Lincoln recalled, the prayers. 542 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,900 That he'd heard a mother pray and he said, all I am or ever 543 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,600 hope to be. I owe to my angel mother. 544 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,100 You've probably heard that story. 545 00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,400 You certainly heard that quotation. 546 00:31:33,900 --> 00:31:36,700 But there was another young man who lived about 100 years later 547 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:39,300 and he had a very different story. 548 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,500 This boy also had a mother. She was a mean. 549 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,800 Cruel dominating woman. A selfish woman. 550 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:52,700 She had no time or love or anyone else but herself she was 551 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:56,300 married three times. It said that her second husband 552 00:31:56,300 --> 00:31:58,700 divorced her because she abused him. 553 00:31:59,700 --> 00:32:02,100 This little boy, when he was a child never experienced. 554 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:04,300 Love he never experienced discipline. 555 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:08,500 He was neglected, he was shoved around, he was overlooked one 556 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:10,400 time. It said that his mother Then 557 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,900 when he called upon her at work and said, don't you ever bother 558 00:32:13,900 --> 00:32:17,000 me while I'm at work? I don't need you pestering me. 559 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:22,800 He felt totally rejected. This boy had a high IQ but he 560 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:27,000 dropped out of high school. He tried the military, join the 561 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,700 Marines, but was given a dishonorable discharge. 562 00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:33,700 He really had no Talent no skills, he was lost in life. 563 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,600 He later ended up in a foreign country. 564 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,400 He married a woman from that country. 565 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,200 The marriage began to fail and she left him. 566 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,100 He hit the bobbin. He felt he was a failure. 567 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,400 He begged her to come back. She eventually did come back and 568 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,200 they moved back to the United States. 569 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,000 The only appreciable skill that this young man had was handling, 570 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,800 a rifle. He learned that during his time 571 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:04,700 in the Marines and on November 22nd of 1963, he took his rifle 572 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,100 up into the upper story of a book storage building in 573 00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:12,600 Downtown Dallas, Texas. And he fired three shots. 574 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:19,100 That changed the world that changed the world. 575 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,900 Any historian will tell you that, that was the moment that 576 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,900 America changed forever. And in many ways, the world 577 00:33:26,900 --> 00:33:32,200 changed at that moment in time. Ever wondered how different the 578 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,700 world might be had Lee Harvey Oswald had a mother who actually 579 00:33:35,700 --> 00:33:38,700 loved him. If he had a mother who took him 580 00:33:38,700 --> 00:33:43,600 to church, had he had a mother that read the Bible to him, who 581 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,600 prayed to him, who sang to him? Jesus loves me this. 582 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,500 I know for the Bible tells me, so how different the world would 583 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:55,900 be you as a mother. You as a parent tonight, have 584 00:33:55,900 --> 00:34:00,700 the power to change the world. You certainly have the power to 585 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:06,500 change the course and ensure the future of the kingdom of God 586 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,500 upon this Earth. And I hope you take that promise 587 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:14,100 to the Lord very seriously. We thank you for listening to 588 00:34:14,100 --> 00:34:18,900 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 589 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:22,500 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 590 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:25,800 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 591 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,800 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at 592 00:34:31,100 --> 00:34:34,900 search of Christ. 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