2009.05.10.Sermon.Honor thy Mother
By William Akehurst, BA
HSWC
Key Verse: 1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 NKJV
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 Gently Sharing God’s Good News, and our own lives.
2 Timothy 1:5 Faith imparted from Grandmother and mother.
Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 5:16; Ephesians 6:1-3 Honoring our Mothers=long life
Psalm 90:10a life = 70-80 years. Anything more than that = long life
Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Love, Teach and Tell others
THE BIG IDEA: As a Mother Cares for her children, We must not only share and teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but also our lives. Living it, Showing it, Giving it for the help of others
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 NKJV
7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our
own lives, because you had become dear to us.
Hi MOM! Happy Mother’s day
Today we honor our mothers
If you are a mother, put your hand up
Today we honor you!
Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
How many of you here today are over 70 years old? 80? 90?
The bible says this about age:
Psalm 90:10a NLT
10 Seventy years are given to us! Some even live to eighty.
You who have raise your hands and are 70 or older must have honored your Father and Mother!
Today being Mother’s day, I want to take a peak at a mothers love and care for her young. To do so, lets begin with the animals.
I didn’t say you mothers were animals, I’m talking the other kind of animals.
How long do animal mothers care for their young
Chimpanzee-4-5 years
Lions-for about 3 years
Polar bears-2-3 years
Birds-Until they can fly, and perhaps longer a few weeks
Possum - mother opossum puts her young on her back and does not leave them for a moment
Rabbits-Until the babies eyes are opened
Spider-typically dies before the birth of her young
What animals DO NOT CARE for their young?
Most Reptiles
Snakes-never care for their young
Turtles leave their eggs on the beach
Fish-(When a group of children were asked which animals didn’t care for their children, a little girl’s response-Fish, ’cause my fish ate her babies)
Here’s an interesting one, a bird, The Cuckoo, leave their eggs in another birds nest to make the other bird take care of their chicks. Sounds pretty cuckoo to me.
Human mothers typically a whole life time.
By the time a child reaches 18, a mother has had to handle some extra 18,000 hours of child-generated work. In fact, women who never have children enjoy the equivalent of an extra three months a year
in leisure time!
How many kids do you have? Multiply that by 1000 hours a year and you will see how quickly caring for children becomes a full time job.
Lets take a look at some of our
BIBLICAL MOTHERS:
When we look through the bible at mothers, we see:
The mother of Moses: Cared so much for her son that she broke the law in order to teach him the faith of his people.
The Prostitute Mother(s) before King Solomon:
The sacrificial love of the mother who appeared before King Solomon and told him that she was willing to have her son taken away by another woman rather than see any harm come to him.
Mother of James and John: who loved her boys so much that she wanted them to sit by the Lord’s side in the heavenly kingdom.
Mother of King Lemuel: who gave advice to her son about godly living and how to pick a good wife, in Proverbs 31.
Mary, Mother of Jesus: who cared for the Saviour of the world
From Paul to Timothy, a faith imparted from Grandmother and mother.
2 Timothy 1:5 I remember your genuine faith, for you share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and your mother, Eunice. And I know that same faith continues strong in you.
Lois and Eunice had the faith in the LORD, it was a strong faith. Perhaps Deuteronomy 6 was a strong influence in their life. This Lois shared with her daughter Eunice, and grandson Timothy. This was
very apparent as Paul states. Lets take a look.
Love, Teach and Tell others
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And
thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
Lois to Eunice to Timothy. Teaching and passing on the command to love the LORD with everything to their children, and children’s children. It is a godly heritage, past on from one generation to the next.
And it was more than mere words, it was a lifestyle. Talking while sitting, walking, laying down and rising up. Signs in the hand and eyes, written even in the home.
Our love for the LORD must be so evident in our lives that as we pass on the faith, they see its evidence.
We too, must pass on this knowledge, and faith, from our lives to the lives of others. Just as a Mother to her child.
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 NKJV
7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our
own lives, because you had become dear to us.
In this verse, Paul compares presenting the Gospel to others and giving of his time and life to those he shared Christ, with the gentleness and love that a nursing mother gives to her child.
In nursing, the mother holds the child close, there is a bond, the mother gives of herself for the life of the child. She gently nurtures and feeds her child, from her very being.
As a mother cherishes her own children
We are to gently impart the Gospel of God to others, as well as your own lives. Give to others.
Salvation, the Gospel of Christ, is not something that we are to hold to ourselves. We are to take our loved ones, and those around us, and draw them near to us, and share this life giving message.
Furthermore, we are to not only tell it, but also live it.
1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 NKJV
7 But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our
own lives, because you had become dear to us.
Today, let us learn a lesson from mothering. That we all must Gently share the Gospel and our lives, to those around us.
Today, we honor our mothers.
We praise you mothers who take it serious to make a spiritual impact in the lives of your children.
Proverbs 31:28 says, ’her children arise and call her blessed’
31:30, ’a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised’
Today, we praise you moms and women of the LORD, who worship and Love the LORD with all their hearts, and who pass on this message of LOVE to their children
We thank you and say to you mothers, you are blessed.
Happy Mothers day
