1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:03,320 Amen. Well, let's read together from 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,800 the Word of God. Reading this morning from Judges 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:19,390 chapter 13, Judges 13. For those online, the words will 4 00:00:19,390 --> 00:00:21,950 come up on screen. And we're reading, of course, 5 00:00:21,950 --> 00:00:31,990 from the King James Bible. Judges chapter 13 Let's hear the 6 00:00:31,990 --> 00:00:40,160 Word of God. Judges 13 actually introduces us 7 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:46,280 to the life of Samson. Judges 13 verse one. 8 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:52,040 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the 9 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:57,160 Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the 10 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:03,680 Philistines. 40 years. And there was a certain man of 11 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:10,200 Zora, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah, 12 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:15,840 and his wife was Baron and Bernard. 13 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:20,840 And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and 14 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:28,880 said unto her, Behold now thou art Baron, and bear us not, but 15 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,240 thy shalt conceive and bear a son. 16 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:39,720 Therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine or strong 17 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:43,240 drink, and eat not any unclean thing. 18 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:49,720 For lo, thy shall conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall 19 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,480 come on his head. For the child shall be a 20 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:57,960 Nazarite unto God from the womb, and he shall begin to deliver 21 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,760 Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. 22 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:08,400 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God 23 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,000 came unto me, and his countenance was like the 24 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,200 countenance of an Angel of God, very terrible. 25 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,960 But I asked him not whence he was. 26 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:27,960 Neither told me his name, but he said unto me, Behold, they shall 27 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,120 conceive and bear a son. And now you drink no wine or 28 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:37,160 strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing, for the child 29 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:41,560 shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his 30 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:45,640 death. Then Manoa entreated the Lord, 31 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:52,600 and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou did send, come 32 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:59,120 again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that 33 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,920 shall be born. And God hearken to the voice of 34 00:03:02,920 --> 00:03:06,280 Manoah. And the Angel of God came again 35 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,000 unto the woman as she sat in the field. 36 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,640 But Manoah her husband was not with her. 37 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,600 And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and 38 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,680 said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came 39 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,160 unto me the other day. And Manoah arose and went after 40 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:31,160 his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the 41 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,520 man that speakest unto the woman? 42 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:41,840 And he said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy 43 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:46,720 words come to pass. How shall we order the child, 44 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:53,000 and how shall we do unto him? And the Angel of the Lord said 45 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:59,160 unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her beware, 46 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:03,640 she may not eat of anything that cometh of the vine. 47 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:09,440 Neither let her drink wine, or strong drink, nor eat any 48 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:14,160 unclean thing. All that I commanded her, let 49 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:17,560 her observe. We'll end the reading there at 50 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,959 verse 14, and we pray God will stamp with His own approval and 51 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:25,000 blessing this reading of His own precious and infallible Word. 52 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,920 Amen. This is Mother's Day, or 53 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:37,560 Mothering Sunday 2025, and very often in such a Lord's Day as 54 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,760 this, we focus on well known mothers in the Bible. 55 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,640 In the past, we've thought of Eve, we've thought of Jochebe, 56 00:04:44,640 --> 00:04:47,360 we've thought of Sarah, we've thought of Hannah. 57 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,040 But did you know that the Bible often records the faith of 58 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,800 unnamed mothers? And one such character is 59 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:03,440 revealed here in Judges 13. So my theme today is taken from 60 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,920 our reading Judges 13. My text is found in Judges 13, 61 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:12,000 verses 2 and five. And for this theme I've entitled 62 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:15,920 The Portrait of an Unnamed Mother. 63 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:17,560 Now, I could change the word portrait. 64 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:19,920 I could put in faith of an unnamed mother. 65 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,720 I could put the word testimony of an unnamed mother. 66 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:31,920 I want you to imagine with me a small home in a certain village 67 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:40,280 in the northern part of Israel. Sadly, it's a dark and troubled 68 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:45,920 land, a land full of rage and violence and much bloodshed. 69 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:49,800 The whole of the country is in despair. 70 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,880 The people are very poor, but the people are oppressed and 71 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:00,640 persecuted. Outside, the Philistines rule 72 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,040 with cruel hands. There is much fear, There's lots 73 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:13,000 of death, there's great despair. But inside a certain home in the 74 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,800 northern part of Israel, a woman kneels at her bedside. 75 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:23,440 She prays quietly. Tears roll down her cheeks. 76 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:29,600 She is passionately serious as she pours out her heart to the 77 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,960 Lord. Nobody notices her. 78 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:39,200 Nobody thinks she matters. Nobody maybe loves her except 79 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,440 her husband. Yet that woman's prayers are 80 00:06:43,440 --> 00:06:49,360 heard in heaven. God is listening, He knows her, 81 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,280 He sees her, His ear is open to her cry. 82 00:06:54,560 --> 00:07:00,080 And amazingly, in free sovereign grace, the Lord comes and meets 83 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,200 with her in that room on a particular given day, and 84 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:11,680 announces to her, a child will be born unto her who will begin 85 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,040 to deliver Israel. But the promise, of course, of a 86 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:21,720 deliverer is connected to a life of communion and a life of 87 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,480 consecration unto the Lord. Now that woman is unnamed in 88 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,280 Scripture. She's simply known as the Bible 89 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,360 as Manoah's wife. Look at verse 2. 90 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:38,400 And there was a certain man of Zoraf, the family of the day 91 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,280 Nights, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was Baron. 92 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,200 And Bear not. I want to encourage you today 93 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:53,960 because God is still working through mothers whose names the 94 00:07:53,960 --> 00:07:57,920 world may never know. Think of it. 95 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:06,360 God often works through mothers whose name the world may never 96 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:09,480 know. Now if you're a mother, this 97 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,240 morning here is wonderful encouragement. 98 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:20,480 God works through ordinary unnoticed mothers, unnamed 99 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:24,160 mothers, to accomplish great things. 100 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,480 Now, 4 things this morning. One, the salvation of this 101 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:34,080 unnamed mother. Listen to verses one to three 102 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,039 again. And the children of Israel did 103 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:38,600 evil again in the sight of the Lord, And the Lord delivered 104 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,960 them into the hand of the Philistines 40 years. 105 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:44,080 And there was a certain man of Zora, of the family of the 106 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:47,920 Dayanites, whose name was Manoah, and his wife was Baron, 107 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,600 And she bare not. And the Angel of the Lord 108 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:58,560 appeared unto the woman and said unto her, You see, sadly, the 109 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:02,600 children of Israel are once to gain in the dark cycle of sin 110 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,720 and judgement and oppression. The whole book of Judges. 111 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,680 Let me summarise it for you. Rebellion against God, Israel 112 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:14,480 sins. This leads to ruination. 113 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,240 God judges them, and that judgement leads to retribution. 114 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:25,320 And part of that retribution is part of the punishment for their 115 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:28,960 sin, is that the Lord delivered them into the hand of the 116 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,440 Philistines. The Philistines, of course, came 117 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:39,200 up from Gaza and notice it says 40 years. 118 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,920 There's the time frame, a whole generation, a long time. 119 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:47,920 And then of course, there is repentance. 120 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:53,600 A remnant begin to cry out to God earnestly and passionately. 121 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,480 They seek God. They asked him to forgive their 122 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,040 sin. And then of course, in grace, 123 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:03,360 God raises up a deliverer and that leads to their redemption 124 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:07,160 and their restoration. And that's the story of the book 125 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,240 of Judges. It's all about rebellion and 126 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:15,440 ruination and retribution and repentance and redemption and 127 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,600 restoration. They look with me at verse 3 128 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,720 very carefully, and the Angel of the Lord appeared unto the 129 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,280 woman. The word and is a conjunction. 130 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,840 It joins up to what we have already heard. 131 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:36,480 The word appeared, means manifested, revealed himself. 132 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:43,720 Now notice this, it says, and the Angel of the Lord appeared 133 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:47,960 unto the woman. You see, God's grace doesn't 134 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:56,440 begin with a man's cry. God's grace begins with God's 135 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:04,200 own sovereign initiative. Even in the worst of times, God 136 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,720 is at work. And God is preparing at this 137 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:13,520 point in their history a deliverer, and that deliverers 138 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,680 are ready in the heart and mind of God. 139 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:23,680 Samson was chosen of the Lord long before his mother asked for 140 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,760 a Saviour. Remember what we read in the 141 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:32,280 book of Romans in Romans chapter 5 and in the verse 8? 142 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:37,360 It says there, But God commanded his love toward us, and while we 143 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,200 were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 144 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:45,040 John 3 and 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only 145 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,120 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth an end should not 146 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,400 perish, but have everlasting life. 147 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:56,000 See God's salvation doesn't begin with a man seeking God. 148 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:02,360 It begins with God in sovereign grace coming to the man, God 149 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:07,560 seeking individuals, God redeeming individuals. 150 00:12:07,560 --> 00:12:11,200 And I want you to think this morning of God at work. 151 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,880 I want you to think of the heart and life of Manoah's wife, 152 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,480 because I believe God was working. 153 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:24,320 I believe God was carrying out his covenant work. 154 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:30,920 And God's covenant work usually begins in a quiet space in the 155 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:35,480 corner of a house, doesn't really begin in the battlefield, 156 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,880 doesn't begin in the palace in this instant, I believe it 157 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:45,480 begins with a converted woman, a woman with the fear of God, a 158 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:51,760 woman who believes in the fact we have none to help us but God 159 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:59,960 himself is not what the great cry of David was in Psalm 124A 160 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:05,480 tremendous Psalm, he tells us there in Psalm 124. 161 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:12,840 Let me just quoted directly Psalm 124 and in the verse one, 162 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:19,240 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side, now may Israel 163 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,280 say, if it had not been the Lord who was on our side when man 164 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:29,640 rose up against us. See, this was a saved woman, an 165 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:34,560 Old Testament believer, one of the Saints of God, a woman 166 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:39,560 filled with the fear of God, a woman in fellowship with God. 167 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:43,920 It tells us here in verse 2. And his wife was barren, and 168 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:48,440 bear not. And the Angel of the Lord 169 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:54,280 appeared unto the woman and said unto her, notice she's unnamed. 170 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:58,560 Notice that she's barren. Notice that she's living in 171 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:02,280 terrible times. And yet this was the woman who 172 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:08,080 had an experience and an encounter with the God of 173 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,280 heaven. An ordinary woman. 174 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:17,200 A woman overlooked, a woman undervalued. 175 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:21,720 And isn't it sweet that how often the Lord works through 176 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:28,120 women, that the world overlooks the woman whom the world 177 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,520 undervalues? We could think of Hagar. 178 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:37,520 We could think of Hannah. We could think of Elizabeth. 179 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:41,640 So I'm going to ask mothers, do you feel overlooked today? 180 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:47,040 Do you feel undervalued? Do you feel under stress in the 181 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:52,280 home and in the school and in the workplace and maybe even in 182 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:54,960 church? Well, if you are and you just 183 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,040 feel I'm an ordinary woman, but I'm overlooked, yes. 184 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,320 And I'm undervalued, yes, And I'm under stress, yes. 185 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:01,680 But I want to ask you this question. 186 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,920 Are you saved this morning? Do you know and love Jesus 187 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,600 Christ? Are you living in fear of Him? 188 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,800 Are you living in fellowship and communion with Him? 189 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,040 Do you know Him? Do you do you trust Him? 190 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,640 Are you trusting in one who's your Redeemer? 191 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,320 One who's the builder of your family? 192 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,080 One who's the provider for you, who loves you and knows you and 193 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:26,680 cares for you? One who's your protector? 194 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,400 One who's like a a leader to you? 195 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:36,440 One who's a ruler over you. You see, that's the key to a 196 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:39,600 life of power and victory. That's the key to a life of 197 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:42,920 blessing. When you live a life of 198 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:50,640 dependence and a life of delight unto the Lord, then the Lord is 199 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,600 your Redeemer, your builder, your provider, your leader, your 200 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,400 ruler. Remember Matthew 6 and 33 says, 201 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:03,760 But seek ye first, the Kingdom of God, His righteousness shall 202 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,360 be out unto you. The problem is that many women 203 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:10,280 in Ulster this morning are not putting the Lord first. 204 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:14,480 They're not seeking the Kingdom of God for themselves and their 205 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,040 family. They, they, they, they, they 206 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,440 know nothing of God's righteousness. 207 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,680 They live for time and trinkets, things of the world. 208 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:28,680 Think of the salvation of this room very quickly. 209 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,040 Think of the supplication of this unnoticed mother. 210 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,760 I believe that Menorah's wife was a woman of prayer. 211 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,200 Not just a woman of faith in God, in the true and living God, 212 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:49,240 and dark and difficult days, but also out of that faith she was a 213 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:51,840 woman of prayer. Notice this. 214 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,680 Who did the Angel of the Lord appear to unto the woman? 215 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:59,000 Who did the Angel of the Lord speak to? 216 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,119 1st it says and said unto her, Isn't it striking? 217 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,760 That's a woman unnamed, a barren woman. 218 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:18,119 The Angel said, Behold now the word barren and bear us not and 219 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,400 notice as well. I've no doubt that she probably 220 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:25,720 wanted a child. She was living in terrible 221 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:33,400 times, and yet God saw her, God heard her, God knew her, God 222 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,840 came to her, and God revealed himself unto her. 223 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,800 I put it to you this morning that this was a praying woman. 224 00:17:41,560 --> 00:17:44,000 I believe that's at least the inference here. 225 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:48,360 This woman is pleading the promise of God. 226 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,160 This woman is faith in God. 40 years of fear and oppression and 227 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,320 despair and just trusting in God and in his provinces, even in a 228 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:02,320 dark and difficult, impossible situation, to raise up a 229 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:08,200 deliverer to bring about change. Let me ask you mummies. 230 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,000 Let me ask you young ladies this morning. 231 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,440 They're listening online, maybe planning to get married in a 232 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,560 short while in the future. You profess to be saved, and 233 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,800 that's tremendous. I'm not asking you. 234 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:26,840 Are you only saved? I'm asking you, are you also 235 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:31,320 woman of prayer? Do you believe the promises of 236 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:34,480 God? Do you pray over those promises? 237 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,960 Second Corinthians 1 and 20, it says yay and all the promises of 238 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:46,200 God and hammer yay and Amen. There's 7300 promises in the 239 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:48,040 book, according to Herbert Luckier. 240 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,440 And you can stand in those promises, and you can plead 241 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:54,200 those promises, and you can cry out to the Lord. 242 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:58,680 Yes, the days are dark. Yes, we're living in terrible 243 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,960 times of depravity and sin and iniquity. 244 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:06,720 But where's the woman for prayer? 245 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,160 Now I know it's important that we thank God for men who preach 246 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,400 the Word of God. We thank God for missionaries 247 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,760 who are sent them into different parts of the world, leaders who 248 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:24,760 serve and take it seriously. But I believe that behind the 249 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,600 man who preached the word behind the missionaries, behind the the 250 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:33,560 godly leaders are praying mothers, mothers who have a 251 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:40,160 burden to call on the Lord. And I asked mummies, have you 252 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,280 got such a burden for yourself, for your country and your 253 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,120 family? Let me illustrate very quickly, 254 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,840 Spurgeon said. I cannot tell how much I owe to 255 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,680 the solemn words of my good mother. 256 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:58,440 He testified that her prayers followed him everywhere he went, 257 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,360 even when he was trying to get away from them as a young boy. 258 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:05,720 Do you know that in the early church there was a brilliant 259 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:08,280 young man called Augustine of Hippo? 260 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:11,000 And for years he rejected the Bible. 261 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,160 For years he refused to believe in Christianity. 262 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:20,480 He lived a sinful life. His motto was wine and woman. 263 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,640 His mother was called Monica and she prayed for him. 264 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,480 She wept. She pleaded with God. 265 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:33,040 She asked the Lord to save him. Now, mummies, are you doing that 266 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,800 for your children? Yes, the children have gone AWOL 267 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,280 from God. Yes, the children and the young 268 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,160 people have to face this. In the Free Presbyterian Church, 269 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,520 many young people are growing up with little fear or thought of 270 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,000 God. And in the Sabbath day, they're 271 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:57,160 not in the House of God. They're not with you as you come 272 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,240 to worship. Why? 273 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:07,320 As part of the reason because we have failed to pray, is it 274 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:09,760 because there's been a lack of prayer? 275 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:12,800 Oh yes. It's easy to sigh and despair. 276 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:19,200 Wish all were different. But this woman in her day of 277 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:22,200 darkness and difficulty went to God. 278 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:27,480 She kneeled in prayer and she cried out help Lord. 279 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,800 You see, that's what Monica did in the 4th century. 280 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,680 And one day her boy was in Milan. 281 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,840 He was at a friend's house. He was there for a garden party. 282 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,160 There was girls, of course, in wine. 283 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,200 He became sleepy, probably like a drunken stupor, in the next 284 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:49,040 garden. And he couldn't see anybody, but 285 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:51,200 he could hear children. They were playing. 286 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,760 They were playing a game. And this is what they were 287 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:58,320 playing. Take and read, Take and read. 288 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,160 And in his stupor he woke up and he could hear these words. 289 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:06,240 Take and read, take and read. And somehow there was an urge 290 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,040 come in his heart to find a Bible. 291 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:13,920 And he found the Bible and he just opened it and he opened it 292 00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:17,120 randomly and this is where he opened it at. 293 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,920 He opened it at Romans chapter 13. 294 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,520 And this is what he read. And that knowing the time that 295 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,080 now it is high time to wake out of sleep. 296 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,960 For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed the night 297 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:33,840 is far. Spent the days at hand. 298 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,600 Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, let us put on 299 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,720 the armour of light, Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in 300 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,200 rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not 301 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,840 in striving and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus 302 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:53,680 Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the 303 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:59,880 lusts thereof. And immediately he was convicted 304 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:04,760 and he became convinced of his need for the Lord Jesus Christ. 305 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:09,400 And he was converted and and he was changed. 306 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,960 And afterwards he became one of the most influential theologians 307 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,480 in the history of the early church. 308 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,160 And this is what he said. Now listen to me carefully. 309 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,760 This was Augustine of Hippo's testimony for his mother. 310 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:33,160 My mother wept for me more than mothers wept for the death of 311 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,640 our children. Now, death's a terrible thing, 312 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,800 and a lot in here have experienced death, myself 313 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:46,360 included, in recent times. But you think of the death of a 314 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:53,160 child in the home. You you think of Mrs Clark and 315 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:59,160 the death of her son. You think of the McVeigh home on 316 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,880 the death of their son on Christmas Eve. 317 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:10,880 Now think of the death of our children, not physically but 318 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,600 spiritually. And this is what she said. 319 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:20,840 Augustine said. My mother wept for me more than 320 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:22,880 mother's weep for the death of their children. 321 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:27,480 I want to tell you this morning the land of Ulster is poorer. 322 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,440 Why? Because we're without hundreds 323 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,840 of praying mothers. Mothers, I urge you to go to the 324 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:39,400 prayer meeting. Mothers, I urge you to pray at 325 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,000 home. You, you, you. 326 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,800 Think of the the woman and the mothers in the prayer meeting, 327 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:51,400 crying unto God at private and in public times. 328 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:55,960 Think of the two women in the Isle of Lewis Burden for their 329 00:24:55,960 --> 00:24:59,040 land. You know, it's great to have 330 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,120 rallies, it's great to have conferences. 331 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:05,600 I'm not against that. I'll go and preach if I'm 332 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,080 invited. But I want to tell you our 333 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:13,760 greatest need is for prayer warriors to get before God and 334 00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:17,680 to cry out for God to come and visit Ulster again. 335 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:22,120 Can God do that? I believe he can, but it begins 336 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,080 with a spirit of grace and supplication. 337 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:32,440 Where is the burden to pray? The Bible says you have not Why? 338 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,000 Because you ask not. Or are we too proud? 339 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,520 Are we too poor to beg? Where's the cry? 340 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,560 Oh God? Where's the broken dependent 341 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:47,640 spirit? This woman was barren. 342 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,440 She had no child, and I believe part of it was to cry under God 343 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,680 for a child. This woman believed in God when 344 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,600 the Angel appeared unto her. Are you seeking such a blessing 345 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,400 from God? Am I as a father? 346 00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,600 Are you as a mother? For our children who are absent 347 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:12,040 from the House of God and AWOL from God at this time, Very 348 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:17,480 quickly time always goes the sanctification of this unnamed 349 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,400 mother. Look at verses four and five. 350 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,400 It says, Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine or 351 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,560 strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing. 352 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:28,520 For lo, thou shall conceive and bear a son, and no razors will 353 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,600 come on his head. For the child shall be a 354 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,960 Nazareth unto God from the womb, and he shall begin to deliver 355 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,800 Israel out of the land of the Philistines. 356 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:41,760 Now what is sanctification? The Catechism says question 35. 357 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,760 Here's the answer. Sanctification is the work of 358 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,680 God's free grace, whereby we are renewed and the whole man after 359 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:51,680 the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die 360 00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,440 unto sin and live unto righteousness. 361 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,920 You see, this one was not only saved and this one was not only 362 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:06,000 supplicating God's throne, but this woman had a call when God 363 00:27:06,120 --> 00:27:09,800 met with her to a sanctified life. 364 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,480 Notice it was a life of consecration. 365 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,760 This woman has called you a life of self denial, holiness unto 366 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,720 the Lord, obedience unto the Lord. 367 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,680 Notice she has called and charged a holy living. 368 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,080 The child she will bear will be a nazirite unto God from the 369 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,080 womb. But notice that the life of 370 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,280 consecration begins with the mother. 371 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,880 God gave her instruction before the child is born. 372 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:43,080 Here's a mother who's told your walk with God will impact and 373 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,960 affect the spiritual direction of your son. 374 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,840 And we can link it up this morning to Eunice and Louis in 375 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,520 second Timothy 1:00 and 5:00 because their lifestyle had an 376 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:03,560 impact upon young Timothy. Here is a life of self denial, a 377 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:09,160 life of self-discipline, a life of spiritual dependence and 378 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:14,280 devotion, delight in the Lord, a life of holiness and obedience 379 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,400 unto God. That is the life that God has 380 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,040 called us all to over there. In Ephesians chapter 1 and in 381 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:26,680 the verse 4, the apostle Paul made this emphasis. 382 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,200 Listen to what he said according as He had chosen us and him 383 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,320 before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy 384 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:36,560 and without blame before Him and love. 385 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,960 Our motto should be holiness unto the Lord. 386 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,640 Notice what it says in verse 4. Beware, I pray thee, and drink 387 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:51,920 not wine or strong drink and eat not any unclean thing. 388 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:58,040 That's a call to personal voluntary abstinence from 389 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,680 alcohol and unclean meat unto God. 390 00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,760 This woman was told, You've got to deny self. 391 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:08,680 You've got to say no, but also a life of communion very quickly. 392 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,040 Look at verse 6. Then the woman came and told her 393 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,960 husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his 394 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,480 countenance was like the countenance of an Angel of God, 395 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,320 very terrible. But I asked him not whence he 396 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:25,760 was, neither told me his name. Notice three things, the reality 397 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,000 of her communion. God met her in the secret place, 398 00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,560 and it's not where God meet with us. 399 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:36,280 Remember the Lord Jesus in Matthew chapter 6, whenever he 400 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:40,680 was teaching about prayer and a sermon in the mount. 401 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,640 This is what he says in Matthew 6 and six. 402 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:49,400 But thou, when thou prayest see, it's assumed, enter into thy 403 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:52,800 closet, and when there's shut thy door, pray to thy Father, 404 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,400 which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret 405 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,920 shall reward thee openly. What a tremendous encouragement 406 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,680 it is. I often think of the words of 407 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:08,800 Oswald Chambers in Psalm 91, verse 1. 408 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,240 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall 409 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:17,880 abide under the shadow of the Almighty, choosing the secret 410 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,160 place to meet with God. God met with this woman in the 411 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,880 secret place. Do you have a secret place? 412 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:32,000 Do you have a place where you go to to meet with God, get alone, 413 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:36,040 cry out to him? The Spirit of God works in your 414 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,560 heart and works in your mind and you feel that call. 415 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:43,760 You feel that urge to pray and there's a discipline comes and 416 00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:47,200 there's a a denial comes and, and there's a devotion and 417 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,160 there's a delight and a dependence as you pour out your 418 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,160 heart to the Lord. This was a personal, passionate, 419 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,120 powerful meeting with God. The woman's alone, even the 420 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,920 second time he meets you in the field, she's alone. 421 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,560 A place of loneliness, brokenness, emptiness, a place 422 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:08,720 of darkness. Is that where you're at this 423 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,280 morning? Because that's where this woman 424 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,800 was. And yet a man of God, she says, 425 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,560 came unto me. Here was the reality of her 426 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,120 communion. Something happened. 427 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,720 The Lord came to her home. The Lord met with her. 428 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,120 It was real. It was tangible. 429 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,280 You know, I have to confess something. 430 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,760 As a preacher, it's easy to talk and preach in prayer. 431 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:41,120 It's easy to instruct you about meeting with God and asking you 432 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:46,240 to sing and offer praise. But so often it's all in the 433 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,160 surface. So often it's all second hand. 434 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:55,240 So often it's just words. It's on the surface. 435 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,960 It's easy for me to preach to you do this and do that. 436 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,920 It's easy for me to preach, don't do this and don't do that. 437 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:09,120 This woman was told in a negative way what not to do. 438 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,480 She was called to a life of abstinence from certain drink 439 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:19,400 and certain foods, and yet that was no substitute for a meeting 440 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,080 with God. And I believe we as preachers in 441 00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:29,080 the free church, ourselves and our women, we need to have a 442 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,920 meeting with God. We need to have an encounter 443 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,240 with the Lord. This woman was so overwhelmed. 444 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:36,640 She didn't ask them where you came from. 445 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:38,800 She didn't even ask them her name. 446 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,560 And doesn't the Bible exhort us in the book of Jeremiah? 447 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:48,040 In Jeremiah chapter 6 and verse 16? 448 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,600 Listen to these words. In Jeremiah 6 and 16. 449 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,040 Let's hear the word of God. Here's advice for every Free 450 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,600 Presbyterian. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in 451 00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:04,800 the ways, and see and ask for the old paths, for in is the 452 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,440 good way, and work therein, and ye shall find rest for your 453 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,280 souls. But you know what they did in 454 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,440 the days of the children of Israel in Jeremiah's day, when 455 00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,040 he told them that, when he preached that to them, this is 456 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,240 what they said. We will not walk therein. 457 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,480 May the Lord of mercy, may the Lord deliver us. 458 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,400 Remember what we read again in the book of Isaiah, in Isaiah 459 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:35,160 chapter 58 and over there in the verse 11. 460 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:41,400 In Isaiah 58 and verse 11. We read these words. 461 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,120 And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy 462 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:49,280 soul, and dright, and make fat thy bones, and thou shall be 463 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:53,760 like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters 464 00:33:54,440 --> 00:34:00,280 feel not not only the reality of her communion, but think of the 465 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,280 radiance of the countenance. What did you say about the 466 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:05,520 Angel? The man of God came unto me, and 467 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:09,800 his countenance was like what? The countenance of an Angel of 468 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,920 God. Very terrible. 469 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:17,840 Do you know what that means? It means frightening something 470 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,920 should not seen before. The woman was fearful in the 471 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,280 presence of this Angel of the Lord. 472 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,400 Is that not something that's lacking in our day, in our 473 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,040 lives? Where is the real fear of the 474 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,840 Lord? Where's the sight of His 475 00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,800 Majesty? Where's the delight in His 476 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:43,520 glory? Where's a sense of His Holiness 477 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:47,920 and purity? There's so little reference, so 478 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:53,280 little oh, so little fear of God, and we wonder why things 479 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:57,360 are the way they are. Not only the reality of the 480 00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,920 communion and the radiance of the countenance, but think about 481 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:02,520 the repetition of the consecration. 482 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:09,880 It says here, But He said unto me, Behold, thou shall conceive 483 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,360 and bear a son. There's the promise and thou 484 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,960 drink no wine, nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing. 485 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:19,160 There's the call to purity, for the child shall be a Nazarite to 486 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:23,360 God from the womb to the day of his death. 487 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,560 There's the purpose. See, what was this woman saying 488 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,800 when she got this promise and she heard about this purity, 489 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,680 this holy life that you had to conform to and this purpose that 490 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,360 was being revealed? What she was saying was this, I 491 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:43,400 believe God, I believe God's word. 492 00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:49,760 Gee, God keeps his word. This was a woman of faith, a 493 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,800 woman who feared the Lord, a woman in fellowship with God. 494 00:35:55,560 --> 00:36:00,160 Very quickly the last thing in her time is gone, the service of 495 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:05,720 the unnamed mother. Verse 3 it says, Behold, now 496 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,520 thou word barren and bear us not, but thou shall conceive and 497 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,400 bear a son. Just told the same thing in 498 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:15,080 verse 5. For lo, thou shall conceive and 499 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:19,440 bear a son. And then again in verse 7 But he 500 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:24,600 said unto me, Behold, thou shall conceive and bear a son. 501 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,400 The wonderful thing is that God used this unnamed mother. 502 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,320 He promised her a son and it was fulfilled. 503 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:38,160 Listen to the last verse, Judges 13 and verse 24. 504 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,400 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson. 505 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,200 And the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. 506 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,760 And it was an Angel that announced his birth, just like 507 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,080 an Angel announced the birth of the Lord Jesus. 508 00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,600 For they shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his 509 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:58,240 people from their sins. Samson was deceived from 510 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:03,000 physical enemies. He was strong, but he was 511 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:07,400 flawed. The Lord Jesus was sent to save 512 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,680 us from sin, from death, from hail, from the grave, from Satan 513 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:22,600 himself, a woman to give birth to a son. 514 00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,280 Samsung's life was transitory and temporary. 515 00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,640 It was a foreshadowing of the Saviour who was to come into the 516 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:37,800 world to bring about ultimate deliverance from sin, death, 517 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,320 hail the grave, and Satan himself. 518 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:48,000 Let me finish this morning. God uses mothers, unnamed 519 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,520 mothers, ordinary undervalued woman, and God uses mothers 520 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:58,360 today. And a mother under God, in the 521 00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,840 hand of God, can be helped to shape eternal destinies. 522 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,600 And there's no estimate what 1 godly mother can do. 523 00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,880 A mother who knows God, a mother who prays, a mother who say no 524 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:17,440 to sin. The best mothers pray. 525 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,880 The best mothers point to the Lord Jesus Christ. 526 00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,680 Your prayers, you're teaching, your godly example has an impact 527 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,360 on your children and in your home. 528 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:35,240 And the best mothers have their story recorded by God, even if 529 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:39,160 they're unnamed and undervalued and unknown. 530 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,880 I pray this morning the Lord will take these few remarks our 531 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,880 time has gone, and bless them to you and apply them in our hearts 532 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,960 and in our lives.