A Portrait Of A Mother

Jesus instantly stopped the funeral procession and turned it into a parade by raising that dead boy back to life. Why? One, to heal the heart of his broken mother: two, he, this boy, was the only financial source of finance for his mother. There was no government assistance then. Whenever your husband died, your hopes and dreams died with him. Jesus's was forgiving.

In John 8, a woman was caught in the act of adultery. And the pharisees came, rocks in hand, saying, let's kill her. I always wondered where they were to know that she was committing adultery. But that's for another sermon. Jesus looked at her and said, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more". I mean he broke all the laws of Moses right there on the side of compassion, the amazing grace of God.

In Solomon's mind, and at the pen of God, the successful mother invests herself in her children. I very seldom agree with the communists, but I agree with Joseph Stalin when he made this statement. He said, "America is one generation away from being an atheistic nation". And that's true. Even if it came out of the mouth of a devil, it is true. When one generation of mothers in America or Europe or in the world, seize to teach their children the way of the Lord, and they abandon the house of God, and they fail to teach their children to pray, and they fail to teach their children the principles of morality as established in the Word of God, when they turn their children over to the state, as early as possible, to rear them, and the state has thrown this out and the Ten Commandments out, you need to know that one of the marks of socialism is to get the children away from the parents as soon as possible.

America will fall into the abyss like other nations, rotten to the core, because children have been separated from the Word of God. But you, dad, and you, mother, can instill this into their minds as children, and read it with them, and pray with them. I didn't learn to pray when I went to the schoolhouse. I learned to pray at my house. Parents, quit trying to blame the public school for what's wrong with your children. If you send a hoodlum to school at 8 o'clock, a hoodlum will come home at 3:30! Can I get a witness? You teach them to pray and obey. Get those two words, pray and obey.

God bless the mothers of America and around the world, who are taking time to pray with their children, because you are literally saving their lives. Two of the most dangerous criminals that ever terrorized America were raised by Ma Parker. Her sons became the most vicious gangsters in America, taught by their mother to be criminals.

On the side of the good, there is Susanna Wesley, who had 19 children. Just think of it. She said, "I took time every day to pray with every child". She said, "The house was so full of children: the only way I could get privacy was to throw my apron over my head and pray". But she had two sons, John and Charles Wesley. John and Charles Wesley formed in Europe and in America what became the methodist church. Millions of people were saved by John's organization and by Charles writing songs. And it was built that produced the first spiritual awakening in America. Who did that? One mother with two sons shook the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. God bless you, Susanna Wesley.