Happy Mother’s Day
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Every daughter’s father is but some mother’s son.
We don’t get to life without a mother.
The one who brought you to life, is equipped to help you through life.
The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. (William Wallace)
(Perhaps other quotes from the last page of this sermon before our: …)
Key Scripture: Psalms 113:9 He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD. (KJV)
I. Judges 5:6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways.
A. In the days of Shamgar & Jael
1. Shamgar killed 600 Philistines with an ox goad ...
> Judges 3:31 And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered
2. Jael, she went softly and drove a tent peg into Sisera’s head
> Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber’s wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
Note: (Even though in those days there were mighty men and women of God … Judges 5:6 tells us that:)
B. The right ways were abandoned (good paths --- highways)
C. People walked a hard, dark and dangerous path (byways)
II. Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased …
A. Village Life Ceased?
1. No community
2. No family, friends or social life
3. Everyone afraid of everyone else
4. No common bond with others
B. Judges 5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in
Until … when it gets bad enough for mama to get up, something is going to change.
Conversely, when mothers do not arise, things often deteriorate.
What Happens When A Mother’s Job Goes Undone?
Proverbs 29:15 ¶ The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame. (KJV)
III. Judges 5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in
A. On top of what we have already read:
1. v.6: People abandon the right way for the wrong way
2. v.7: Family, community & eventually society will cease to meaningfully exist
B. When there are no mothers making their voice & demands heard:
3. v.8: People will choose new gods and stray from Jehovah God
4. v.8: Fussing, fighting and all out war comes into the house
5. v.8: People grow defenseless without a Mother’s protection, or perhaps without a mother to protect.
IV. Mothers We Need You … Arise … Take Your Place
Note: When God needs a job done, a child is born … however, God entrust these children to Mothers!
Remember, Mary gave her Firstborn & Moses’ Mother gave her son, but they raised them first!
Every man and woman is nothing more than some mother’s child.
Mothers, we need you to:
A. Teach us the straight ways of life
1. not to lie, cheat, steal, lose our tempers, be dishonest
2. to respect our elders and honor our parents
3. to keep our commitments and pay our just and honest debts
B. Build our family and give us community relationships
1. you have the grace for intimacy - for kononia - relationship
2. you have the pattern for family imprinted in your lives
C. Introduce us to the Living God
1. Don’t leave us to our own imaginations
2. Don’t leave us to fashion our own gods
D. Keep our homes free of fussing, fighting & all out war
1. make us a peaceful people
2. teach us the value in others
E. Arm us against our enemies
Teach us to both defend ourselves and conquer our enemies
Defense & Offense
> Ephesians 6:16-18
* The Shield of Faith
* The Sword of the Spirit
* The Spear of Prayer
Mothers Arise – Lets Pray For Mothers & Women To Be Mothers
Biological Mothers
Spiritual Mothers
Mothers who rise to the day
Make Mother’s Day a Happy Mother’s Day!
Mother’s Day Quotes
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. ~Oscar Wilde, 1895
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. ~Irish Proverb
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~Haim Ginott
There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. ~Chinese Proverb
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
A mother understands what a child does not say.
One ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. Spanish Proverb
God could not be everywhere so He made mothers. Jewish Proverb quoted by Rudyard Kipling
“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother” Abraham Lincoln
No one makes it to life without a mother. (rlh)
The one who brought you to life is equipped to help you through life. (rlh)
Every daughter’s father is but some mother’s son. (rlh)
Each time a child comes into this world, a mother is born. (rlh)
