Skunks Don't Like The Be Squeezed

Mama would want you to get saved

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MAMA WOULD WANT YOU TO BRING UP YOUR CHILDREN IN CHURCH

This Parable of the Sower is all about how Faith produces fruit.

“the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it.

This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Verse 23

Where better to start making Christian than in your own home

With you own children

With your own family.

MAMA you are designed and made to raise, teach and protect your children.

Think about it from the time a child is one year old and starting to walk you are teaching them

“Hot” don’t touch.

“No” that’s not good for you.

“Eat” you are feeding them puree pea and carrots, vegetable…,

If becoming a Christian were as easy as spelling “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”

We would all be teaching our children the ABC until they could spell it.

But we start with a three letter word that everyone needs to be taught about

It is S-I-N. (+SLIDE+)

This word is more than just “hot and no”

This word is more than just right and wrong.

This word S-I-N is about Adam and God in the Garden.

Genesis 3 God shows up and Adam runs and hides behind a tree.

Can he see me?

God asks Adam…, “Where were you…”

Adam… well…, I…, Okay…, So…, Alright…, Wait…, Okay…, See…,

What happened was…,

You came…, and then…,

And I…,

Well I hid because…, cause I was… naked. (+SLIDE+)

And then probably the greatest question in the whole bible…

“Adam. Who told you…., you were naked?”

Cause you been naked the whole time.

You ate from the Tree didn’t you.

Sin enters in.

Guilt and shame.

So this violation of Trust.

This violation of relationship

This disobedience has happened.

Yes, God loves all people

And we use the term “unconditional love”

Yet “unconditional love” means God still loves you.

But he loves you enough not to leave you ruined, damaged, broken, lost and separated because of sin.

He loves you unconditionally.

But he loves you enough not to leave you the way you are.

Which is hiding, denying and lost because of sin.

So, God sent Christ who became flesh and dwelt among us. John 1:14

The death of Jesus Christ was His sacrifice to pay the penalty for our sins.

Think about how much God loves you.

That Jesus died on the cross and purchased our forgiveness.

He purchased a place in Heaven for us.

So, the way to be saved is

• Admit you have sinned

• Believe that Jesus Christ died for you on the cross and rose from the grave.

• Commit your life to living for Jesus Christ.

Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Direct your children onto the right path, and when they are older, they will not leave it.

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

Motherhood is not a hobby; it is a calling from God.

Well I guess it is time to explain the title of todays sermon.

Skunks Don’t Like to Be Squeezed

A mother came home one afternoon from the grocery store and walked into her house

everything looked pretty much the same, though it was a little bit quieter than usual.