From Mudhut To Bighouse

FROM MUDHUT TO BIG HOUSE

EXODUS 2:1-3

AND THERE WENT A MAN OF THE HOUSE OF LEVI, AND TOOK TO WIFE A DAUGHTER OF LEVI

AND THE WOMAN CONCEIVED AND BARE A SON; AND WHEN SHE SAW HIM THAT HE WAS A GOODLY CHILD, SHE HID HIM FOR 3 MONTHS.

AND WHEN SHE COULD NO LONGER HIDE HIM, SHE TOOK FOR HIM AN ARK OF BULRUSHES AND DAUBED IT WITH SLIME AND WITH PITCH, AND PUT THE CHILD THEREIN; AND SHE LAID IT IN THE FLAGS OF THE RIVER BANK.

PRAY WITH ME FOR THE NEXT LITTLE WHILE AS WE ATTEMPT TO SPEAK TO YOU ON THE SUBJECT, FROM MUDHUT TO BIGHOUSE.

AMEN OR HEY MAN IS ALLOWED DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT I’M ON YOUR STREET. IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SAY AMEN, IT’S OK, I BROUGHT A POCKETFUL OF THEM….AMEN BENITEZ.

TODAY IS THE DAY THAT CONGRESS HAS SET ASIDE TO SAY I REMEMBER MY MOTHER. BY FAR IT IS ONE OF THE BUSIEST DAYS OF THE YEAR.

RESTAURANTS ARE BOOKED TO CAPACITY

THE PHONE LINES ARE EXTREMELY BUSY

MORE GIFTS ARE PURCHASED FOR THIS DAY THAN ANY OTHER DAY OF THE YEAR

MORE FLOWERS ARE DELIVERED JUST TO SAY I LOVE MY MOTHER.

I’M NOT A TRADITIONALIST PER SE, BUT WHEN I WAS ASKED TO BRING THIS MESSAGE I WANTED IT TO BE INFORMATIVE FOR I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT IN THIS TWENTY FIRST CENTURY,

IN THIS ATOMIC AGE, ALL MOTHERS ARE NOT ACTING LIKE MOTHERS.

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN A CHILD COULD WALK DOWN THE STREET BESIDE HIS MOTHER HOLDING ON TO HER DRESS TAIL, BUT NOW THEY CAN’T REACH IT

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THEIR DRESS CAME BELOW THEIR KNEES, NOW YOU CAN SEE ALL YOU PLEASE

AND THAT’S WHY I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT SOMEBODY WHO GOT PREGNANT AND HAD A CHILD, I’M TALKING ABOUT A REAL BONAFIDE, GOD FEARING, 100% U.S. GOVERNMENT GRADE A CHOICE M.O.T.H.E.R WHO KNOWS WHO SHE IS AND WHO’S SHE IS.

A MOTHER THAT RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF HER FAITH AND TRUST IN GOD

THE KIND OF FAITH THAT CAUSES HER TO NURTURE, PROTECT AND CARE FOR HER CHILDREN IN ONLY A WAY A MOTHER CAN AND THAT FAITH CAUSED HER TO RELY ON GOD TO SEE HER THROUGH NO MATTER WHAT.

WHEN I BEGAN TO DO THE RESEARCH FOR THIS MESSAGE, I WENT TO SEVERAL SITES ON THE INTERNET AND CHECKED A FEW HUNDRED SERMONS LOOKING FOR SOME CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT A MOTHER’S DAY SERMON ENTAILED BECAUSE AS I SAID, I’M NOT A TRADITIONALIST.

YOU SEE I’M CRAZY ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THAT EVERYDAY OUGHT TO BE MOTHER’S DAY BECAUSE A MOTHER POSSESSES THAT AGAPE TYPE OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TOWARDS THEIR CHILDREN THAT LAST THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

I SEARCHED AND SEARCHED AND TO MY SURPRISE I COULDN’T FIND ONE SOLITARY MENTION OF JACOBED, THE MOTHER OF MOSES, AND I FOUND THAT AMAZING BECAUSE SHE EPITIMIZES A MOTHER’S FAITH IN GOD WHEN IT COMES TO PROTECTING HER CHILDREN.

SHE EPITIMIZES THE LENGTH A MOTHER WILL GO THROUGH FOR HER CHILDREN AND THE PERILS SHE WILL FACE TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF HER CHILD.

JACOBED’S FEAR AND CONCERN AS A MOTHER BEGAN THE DAY MOSES WAS BORN BECAUSE PHAROAH AFTER LOOKING OVER HIS KINGDOM ONE DAY IMPLEMENTED A NEFARIOUS PLAN CALLED GENOCIDE AND THEN INFANTICIDE THAT WAS MEANT TO EXTERMINATE THE HEBREW RACE.

AND BECAUSE OF HIS SELF INDUCED FEAR HE INSTRUCTED THE MID-WIVES THAT WHEN THEY ATTENDED TO THE HEBREW WOMEN IF IT WAS A MALE CHILD HE WAS TO BE DROWNED IN THE RIVER, BUT THE MID WIVES WERE MORE AFRAID OF THE WRATH OF GOD THAN THEY WERE OF PHAROAH AND WHEN HE QUESTIONED THEM ABOUT DISOBEYING HIS COMMAND, THEY LIED AND TOLD HIM THE HEBREW WOMEN WERE STRONG WOMEN AND WHEN THEY GOT TO THEM THEY HAD ALREADY DELIVERED.

SO PHAROAH ISSUED ANOTHER DECREE THAT SAID ANY MALE UNDER TWO YEARS OF AGE WAS TO BE KILLED.

AND SO JACOBED’S FAITH IN GOD WAS PUT INTO PLAY THE MINUTE MOSES WAS BORN AND SHE DID WHAT SHE COULD TO PROTECT HIM BUT SHE TRUSTED THE REST TO GOD.

SHE BELIEVED MOSES TO BE A SPECIAL CHILD.

SHE SAW HIM SPECIALLY RELATED TO GOD’S PLAN AND SHE DETERMINED THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENED TO HER HE HAD TO LIVE.

I CAN SEE WITH MY WEIRD IMAGINATION, SISTER BERTHA BETTER THAN THOU WHO LIVED NEXT DOOR TO JACOBED.

SHE HAD LOST HER CHILD AND SHE BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF ALL THE ACTIVITY GOING ON AND DECIDED THAT IF SHE COULDN’T HAVE HER SON, JACOBED HAD NO REASON TO BE HAPPY EITHER.

I KNOW WE DON’T HAVE ANYBODY IN HERE LIKE THAT THIS MORNING BECAUSE I KNOW YOU’RE ALL GOD FEARING MOTHERS

WHAT SIS. BERTHA BETTER THAN THOU DIDN’T KNOW WAS GOD’S HAND OF PROVIDENTIALITY WAS STIRRING THE POT OF JACOBED’S CIRCUMSTANCES.