WEBVTT 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:09.679 Welcome to Sharper Sword, the publication ministry of White House Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.480 White House believes that individuals can reach their potential for the Lord as they grow in Christ. 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:22.320 We want to hear our Lord say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant. 00:00:22.800 --> 00:00:29.600 Let's join Pastor Doug Fisher as he preaches another important biblical message from the Word of God. 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:38.159 Take your Bible and look at Numbers, the book of Numbers in your Old Testament, chapter number 26. 00:00:38.479 --> 00:00:42.640 Let me introduce you to a family, especially to a mother. 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:44.560 And notice in Numbers chapter 26. 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.039 Look at verse number 59, please. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:48.880 Verse number 59. 00:00:49.200 --> 00:01:03.200 And notice what it says about the family of who we would commonly refer to someone as being in Moses' family, but look at the parents, and the name of Amram's wife was Jacobed. 00:01:03.679 --> 00:01:07.120 Jacobed was the mother, if you would, to Moses. 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:16.400 Notice she's the daughter of a Levite, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt, and she bare unto Amron. 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.439 Notice Jacobed's children. 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:23.120 Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:28.959 May I say to you, if you know anything about the Old Testament, what a family. 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:33.120 Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:41.120 Moses, we know most everybody, whether you know your Bible or not, have heard about Moses. 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:47.599 Moses, look at Exodus chapter number two, the second book in the Bible, Exodus chapter number two. 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:52.000 And Moses had a very unique beginning with mom. 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.400 It was something that God recorded for us in some detail. 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:06.319 Remember that Amron, Amram, the dad, and Jacobed, mom, they had three children, Moses, Miriam, and Aaron. 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:11.039 Notice they were uh they were in a slave situation at the time. 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:14.560 They were under oppression, Exodus chapter number two. 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:30.639 And notice verse number one, there was a man of the house of Levi and took a wife, a daughter of Levi, who he's referring to there as Amram is the man, and Jacobed is the woman. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.120 And notice that Jacobed, the woman, conceived and bare a son. 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:41.199 And when she saw that, saw him that uh he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:50.159 At that time, uh they were, they were, Pharaoh had uh made a proclamation that they would kill all the male children. 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:54.479 And when she saw that he was a goodly child, she she hid him three months. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:07.919 And when she couldn't hide him any longer, when she couldn't uh uh keep him, if you would, uh hidden any longer from from society around, uh she uh she built this little ark, this little boat. 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.360 And it was out of bow rushes, and and they daubed it with the uh the slime and the pitch. 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:35.360 And and then the Bible says that they they put that little baby, Moses, uh, in that little ark, in that little small little boat-like object, and put him in the in the river, right in the side, uh, if you would, on the bank, just just off the banks, and he was floating there, and his sister, his sister, verse 4, Miriam, his sister stood afar off. 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:39.120 And what she was doing, she wondered what would happen to him. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:46.000 Well, Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river to take a bath, if you would, to wash herself and her maidens. 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.280 And and when she got down there, she she saw that little uh that little boat. 00:03:51.520 --> 00:04:00.639 You kind of wonder if uh Jochebed and Amram put it there specially in that certain place where he knew they were likely to bathe. 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:06.719 And notice when she opened it up, when she opened this ark up, this little boat, she saw the child. 00:04:07.120 --> 00:04:09.439 And there was the babe in there weeping. 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:14.719 And she immediately knew it was one of the males, and she knew it was one of the Hebrew children. 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:28.319 The Bible says, verse 7, then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, there's Miriam there, shall I go and and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for thee? 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:39.279 So Miriam was right there and came over and said uh to the daughter of the Pharaoh, if you would, uh, hey, would you would you like me to go get one of the Hebrew women that could nurse that child? 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:42.480 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, uh, Go. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.879 And the maid, Miriam, went and called the child's mother, Jacobed. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:58.160 And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:02.000 And the woman, Jacobed, took the child and nursed it. 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:08.639 And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and became her son, and she called his name Moses. 00:05:09.040 --> 00:05:11.439 Brethren, isn't that an amazing story? 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:31.439 Isn't that an amazing story what God did and how he recorded uh how we uh know Moses came to be, and then there's Miriam right down there saying to the the the lady there, uh the daughter Pharaoh, would you like me to go get a uh a Hebrew woman to nurse the child? 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:33.759 Yes, go. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:36.800 And so she goes and gets her mom. 00:05:38.959 --> 00:05:45.360 And when mom comes, uh the the lady says, I'll pay you to nurse the child. 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:47.920 Take care of that child. 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:53.279 Now, may I say to you, Jacob was gonna have to give Moses up a little bit later. 00:05:53.519 --> 00:05:54.800 What do you mean, give him up? 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:05.600 He was gonna have to let Moses become the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and and Moses would live and be trained as an Egyptian. 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:16.000 In fact, Acts 7 said he was mighty in words and deeds as an Egyptian, but he knew all along the way that he was Hebrew. 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:20.959 May I say to you that uh God was doing something here in a miraculous way. 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:26.480 I want you to see something, please, in the Bible that gives a little bit more depth. 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:28.959 Look at Exodus chapter number seven. 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:30.800 Exodus chapter number seven. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:32.160 You're doing great this morning. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.360 Mom, look at Exodus chapter number seven, follow along. 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:38.000 And notice what it says in Exodus chapter seven. 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:42.800 When Moses, who was called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, look at verse number seven. 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:44.720 Verse number seven. 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:53.600 Moses was fourscore, eighty years old, and Aaron, fourscore and three years old. 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:57.920 So Aaron was eighty three when they spake unto Pharaoh. 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:19.199 So we get a little idea of the uh of the of the age because uh Miriam was there when Moses was uh put in the water, and Miriam was probably the oldest, and then after that would have been uh Aaron at 83 at this time, and uh Moses was the baby of the family, so to speak, and he was 80 years old at this time. 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:21.360 You say, why are you bringing this up? 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:33.680 Because this is when Moses at 80, Aaron at 83, they're gonna go in and say to Pharaoh, let my people go. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.319 Moses is 80. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:43.519 Um, you know, uh Aaron's 83, and it doesn't record anywhere in the Bible how old is Miriam's age is. 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:46.000 You know, you just don't talk about women's age. 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:47.680 You know how that goes. 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:51.040 But I want you to see something else that's kind of interesting. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.360 Look at Exodus chapter 6. 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.120 Exodus chapter 6. 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:56.720 Notice verse 20. 00:07:56.959 --> 00:07:58.480 Notice verse 20. 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:06.079 Amram took him, Jacobed, his father's sister to wife, and she bare him Aaron and Moses. 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:07.680 Remember also Miriam. 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:14.000 And notice the years of the life of Amram were 130 and 7 years. 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:29.759 So we have to think past 80 and past 90 and past 100 and past 110 and past 120, it says Amram was 137 years old when he was going to pass on off the earth. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:31.839 So let's understand something. 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:50.399 If Amram's 137 years old and he dies at that age, we don't know how long Jacobed lives, but may I say there's a good possibility that mom and dad got to watch Aaron and Moses go in and say to Pharaoh, let my people go. 00:08:51.120 --> 00:09:01.200 They were old enough, if you would, still, that when Moses and Aaron were 80 and 83 and they went in and they started doing all the miracles of God and lifting up the rod. 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:13.279 Maybe it's even a possibility, and I would say it's a strong possibility that uh when they crossed the Red Sea on dry ground, that uh Jacobed and Amram were there. 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:14.799 You say, why do you say that? 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:17.759 Because we know Miriam's on the other side. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:28.960 Because when they come up singing the song of Moses of what Gods did in the Red Sea, they're singing the song of Moses, and Miriam goes out with the ladies and leads them in the song. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:42.480 So I'm gonna tell you that the whole family got to be involved, probably, in crossing the Red Sea together, because even at 80 and 83, when you live to be 137, you get to see your children do great things. 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:55.759 Brethren, one of the wonderful things about being a mom and having a walk with the Lord and staying faithful to the Lord is to watch children being blessed of God, to watch grandchildren being blessed of God. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:17.519 My point is that uh there's a good possibility that Jacobed not only was there, obviously, when Moses was put in the bull rushes and when the son of Pharaoh's, when Pharaoh's daughter came out and said, Yes, I'll pay you to nurse and be, if you would, raise this child up a little bit, and later she took the child, and Moses became mighty in words and deed. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:25.519 And at 40 years of age, Moses, according to Acts 7, decided, I'm no longer gonna be the son of Pharaoh's daughter. 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:29.200 I'm no longer gonna be an Egyptian. 00:10:29.679 --> 00:10:34.799 In fact, it came into his heart, Acts chapter 7, to deliver the Hebrews. 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:47.120 And he went in to do that, killed one Egyptian, then fled, and he was, if you would, 40 years waiting, if you would, for the Lord's timing for the bush to burn. 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:51.440 Jacobed, bombs, still over in slavery. 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.039 Amran, dad, is still over in slavery. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:06.720 But the bush burns when Moses is 80 years old, and God sends Moses, and when Moses comes back to Pharaoh, Aaron, his brother, comes to meet him, his three years older brother. 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:11.360 And they go into Pharaoh together and they say, Let my people go. 00:11:11.519 --> 00:11:18.879 So when Moses lifted up that rod and they crossed across that Red Sea, there's a good chance that he took mom and dad with him. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:24.399 What a what a mom that would weigh, wow, we're we're blessed. 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:31.200 What do you mean to have a son or to have a daughter now taking care of a family? 00:11:31.840 --> 00:11:35.679 I I said to the grandmothers in here today, we recognize you. 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:44.799 I hope the grandchildren, and I hope the children have a sense of taking care of the grandmothers. 00:11:45.519 --> 00:11:53.200 Not that they need taken care of, but as we get a little bit older, I hope I live long enough to make problems for my children. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:55.759 What do you mean? 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.840 They made problems for me. 00:11:59.759 --> 00:12:02.000 You say, what a terrible thing to say. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.840 You know, I've been training, and our family knows it. 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:07.519 We take care of mom. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:11.360 I'll get a little cherry eye. 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:13.600 We take care of mom. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:17.200 We take care of grandmother. 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:24.559 I'm not, I shouldn't say this, I'll get in trouble, but there will be a day where we will take care of great-grandmother. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:26.480 My wife. 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.039 There should be an honor and esteem to that. 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:34.080 And we take care of mom. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:38.399 I gotta tell you, it's easier to take care of mom if she has a walk with the Lord. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:40.639 Why do you say that? 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:46.480 If mom has a walk with the Lord, she she typically has a fairly positive spirit. 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.600 She typically would want to see God bless the family. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:57.039 I gotta tell you, in my heart and mind, I think Jacobed had a wonderful spirit. 00:12:57.279 --> 00:12:57.679 Why? 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:06.000 Because Jacobed, if you would, mom put Moses in the bull rushes, and then uh Pharaoh's daughter found him. 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:07.440 Miriam was right there. 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:12.799 Can't you see when Miriam came running up to mom and say, Mom, mom, you know, whatever she said. 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:27.759 Uh, hey, the Pharaoh's daughter wants a nurse, and and I ask if I could go get a Hebrew woman and and and she wants you to come, and she comes walking up, not knowing that that's Moses' real mother, and she says, I'll pay you wages to nurse him. 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:29.679 He's gonna become mine. 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:33.200 Don't you think Jacobed said, God must be in this? 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:40.480 What a miracle! And when moms see miracles that God does, uh, wouldn't you agree that they have a sweet spirit? 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:45.120 How about when Moses is 40 years old and mom's still there? 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.240 Mom's still around if she hasn't passed on. 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.200 Hey, dad lives until 137 years old. 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:53.360 It doesn't say how long mom lives. 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:54.879 The Bible. 00:13:55.200 --> 00:14:11.039 But may I say, if she's still alive, living a normal life at that time, she knew that Pharaoh, if you would, the son of Pharaoh's daughter Moses, she knew that Moses forsake being an Egyptian and decided to become a Hebrew. 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:12.799 She heard, don't you think? 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:14.240 What do you mean? 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:19.039 She heard that Moses, well known in the palace, killed an Egyptian. 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.720 She knew that her son fled to the wilderness. 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:29.679 And may I say, if she was living the normal life, the natural life, she knew when Moses came back again. 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.799 And by the way, when he came back, he was married. 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:34.320 Who'd he marry? 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:40.480 Uh he married a gal out there, if you would, at the Mount of God and came back in, Jethro's daughter. 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:46.879 And uh, may I say to you that if you study this thing out, there's a good possibility that they all went across the Red Sea together? 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:47.679 What do you mean? 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:49.519 Jochebed, Emron. 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.159 Uh, may I say that Aaron was there? 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:55.039 And may I remind you that Miriam was definitely there? 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:56.399 Moses was there. 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:06.639 Hey, can't you see them coming up on the other side of uh of the Red Sea, if you would, and uh, there's Moses out there, and they're all singing the song of Moses, and then Miriam gets involved. 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:10.720 Uh, the the oldest, as we know, is the children, and she's out there singing. 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:15.200 If mom's still alive, don't you think mom's rejoicing of what your family is doing? 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.960 Are you still with me today? 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:24.000 What I'm saying is it's a wonderful thing to walk as a Christian and be a Christian and see God blessing family. 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:29.919 I understand not every child, not every grandchild has a perfect walk with God. 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:39.519 But brethren, as we get older, it's so important for us to keep a good spirit, keep a good attitude, keep our prayer life going. 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:51.759 Uh, keep, if you would, not talking negatively to you about Christians and not negative about the church and telling our children, our grandchildren, hey, the church has got problems, but it's still the church. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.600 It's still God's body. 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:55.600 God can still bless. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.559 May I say you're a little quiet in here today? 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:00.240 What why? 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.360 It's Mother's Day, and you say, well, yeah, he's talking to mothers. 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.120 No, I'm talking to everybody today. 00:16:05.600 --> 00:16:07.519 Everybody that's getting a little bit older. 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:09.840 We do well to have a good spirit. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.480 We do well to have a good walk with the Lord. 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:16.559 We we do well to be a good example to our children and our grandchildren. 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:20.960 We're gonna specially emphasize the ladies today and saying thank you to them. 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:27.120 I'm saying if you study Jacobed out, I think Jacobed was a real blessed woman. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:40.080 If she was out there and watched Aaron and Miriam at 80 and 83 and Miriam at whatever age out there leading the singing, I gotta tell you, don't you think that was a rejoicing day for her? 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:49.200 She got to reflect and see what God had been doing, what God had authorized, what God had orchestrated. 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:51.200 Can I ask you to look at another woman real quick? 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:52.159 Look at Hannah. 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.240 1 Samuel chapter 1. 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.840 1 Samuel chapter 1, look at Hannah, if you would, real quick. 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:01.759 Hannah was another very special, if you would, mother. 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:09.039 And if you know anything about Hannah in 1 Samuel chapter 1, you know that she so desired a child. 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:11.119 She so wanted a child. 00:17:11.279 --> 00:17:19.039 And in 1 Samuel chapter number 1, in verse number uh 11, if you would, it says that she vowed a vow. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:39.039 And she went to God and she was a praying woman, and she vowed about and said, uh, if you'll look upon your handmaid, uh speaking about herself and and not forget me, and and if you would give me the opportunity to give birth to a male child, a man child, she says this, I'll give him. 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:43.039 I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life. 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:46.400 I will give him unto the Lord. 00:17:46.720 --> 00:17:49.119 May I make this statement to you? 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:59.359 When Jochebed walked up and in some way, shape, or form put that little ark into the bulrushes of the river there and walked away. 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:05.359 Don't you think she was trusting that that boy would be whatever he was going to become? 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.920 And may I say she had a faith in God? 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:14.240 And I'm not saying she knew exactly what was going on, I'm not saying that at all, but she gave that boy up. 00:18:15.599 --> 00:18:29.440 Samuel, if you would, was going to be the little boy that was going to be born, and Hannah made an agreement with God that when he gets to a certain age, I will take him to the tabernacle and I will drop him off. 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:34.079 And he will be lent to the Lord and there serve the Lord. 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.960 But she didn't forsake being a mother. 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:43.839 If you know the story, uh, she made a promise and God gave her the opportunity, if you would, to bear a child. 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.720 And notice what she says in verse number 28. 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:48.640 Stay with me, verse number 28. 00:18:48.960 --> 00:19:02.960 Therefore, chapter one of 1 Samuel, verse 28, therefore also I have lent him, I have lent him, I've given him in the Lord, for as long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the Lord. 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.039 And he worshiped the Lord there. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:08.640 She dropped that young boy off to serve God. 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.880 And she walked away, trusting that God would take care of him. 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:18.240 Please listen, she had no idea who Samuel was going to become. 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.759 We just pray that they're used of him in some way, shape, or form. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:29.200 I want to make this very clear. 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:36.960 I'm not talking about all children need to become pastors or missionaries or evangelists or be up here doing this or, you know. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.000 Hey, they just need to be faithful to the Lord. 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:43.839 They need to give glory to God in some way, shape, or form. 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:58.480 And it's good for a praying mother, praying grandmother, praying great-grandmother say, please uh uh use children, use grandchildren, use great-grandchildren, however, whatever capacity, because we're put on this earth to glorify God. 00:19:58.640 --> 00:19:59.680 Would you agree with that? 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:02.319 Well, if you would, this is uh Hanan. 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:07.680 She lends Samuel, if you would, to the Lord, but she didn't, she didn't forget about Samuel. 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:13.440 Notice 1 Samuel 2, 1 Samuel 2, and notice 1 number 18. 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.680 1 Samuel 2, verse 18. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.079 Bible says Samuel ministered. 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:24.079 Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child girded with a linen ephod. 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:26.640 Notice what mom did, verse 19. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:35.440 Moreover, his mother made him a little coat and brought it to him from year to year when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice. 00:20:35.599 --> 00:20:54.319 So every every year, every year that uh that Hannah came back, she had made a little coat a little bit larger, if you would, for her son who was ministering over there uh with Eli at the temple, and she made it a little bit bigger, and a little bit bigger, and a little bit bigger. 00:20:54.480 --> 00:21:04.880 And may I say that uh Samuel had great favor in verse number 26, and the child Samuel grew on and was in favor both with the Lord and also with men. 00:21:05.039 --> 00:21:10.079 Hey, brethren, my point is Jacobed had a son who God blessed. 00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:16.640 And then, if you would, uh here's uh Hannah, who had a son, that God was with the son. 00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:23.039 But I'm saying to you this I think Jacobed had a real good spirit, and I think Hannah had a real good spirit. 00:21:23.359 --> 00:21:25.440 God blessed them in certain ways. 00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:44.400 And it's important whether whether we have male children or female children, it's important that we maintain a good spirit because they watch who we are, what we are, what we think, how we act, how we respond, and they're watching us, and as we age, we still influence them. 00:21:46.000 --> 00:21:49.680 Moms, I want to tell you please don't get bitter at the Lord. 00:21:50.720 --> 00:21:53.359 Please don't get bitter at church. 00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:57.039 Please don't get grudging towards Christians. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.039 Why do you say that? 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:04.319 Brethren, We've got enough problems down here without fighting each other. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:07.039 Please have a good spirit. 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:20.079 Please, and I'm saying this in a very kind way, and I probably have no right to say it, but but please don't be the kind of mother or grandmother or great-grandmother that's always criticizing Christians. 00:22:21.839 --> 00:22:24.240 Don't tell me they won't pick up on it. 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:26.960 Don't tell me they won't listen. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:32.799 Don't tell me it doesn't create an atmosphere in the home and in fellowships. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.119 It's okay to say that? 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:35.839 I have now. 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:37.440 I'm deep in now. 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:52.880 I don't know about you, but when Jochebed, if she's still alive, which I believe he is, was walking through the Red Sea with her son up there leading, with Aaron right next to him, with Miriam a prominent member of the congregation. 00:22:53.039 --> 00:23:00.400 And they came up out of that Red Sea on dry ground, and God destroyed the Egyptian army, and they all began to sing the song of Moses. 00:23:00.720 --> 00:23:05.839 The Bible says Miriam got a timbrel in her hand and started leading the ladies in and singing. 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:10.000 Don't you think that Jacobed was blessed that day? 00:23:10.400 --> 00:23:11.920 How about Hannah? 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:14.079 How about Hannah? 00:23:14.319 --> 00:23:20.880 How about Hannah when her son, if you would, was rising and had favor with God and with man? 00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:25.119 And may I say to you, Samuel was being spoken to by God. 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.960 I'm not saying everybody's a pastor, a preacher, evangelist, a teacher, a prophet. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:35.359 But if your children get spoke to by God, what a blessing. 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:37.519 Male or female, what a blessing. 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:39.200 One more, if you don't mind. 00:23:39.359 --> 00:23:40.160 Look at Luke. 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.960 Stay with me. 00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:42.400 Look at the book of Luke. 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:46.000 In the book of Luke, in your New Testament, watching your time. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:47.519 We don't want you to cook. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:48.799 Come on, amen. 00:23:50.160 --> 00:23:52.319 Luke, Luke, please. 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.799 The book of Luke, chapter number two. 00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:57.039 You say, who are we going to talk about now? 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:59.279 Let's just spend a moment on Mary. 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:01.039 Just a moment. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:04.319 You say, why Mary, the mother Jesus? 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.599 I think Mary rejoiced a little bit, don't you? 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:09.519 What do you mean, Mary? 00:24:09.599 --> 00:24:10.559 The mother Jesus. 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:19.519 And in Luke chapter number two, there was a little, there was a little uh thing that God told uh Mary in verse number 30. 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:22.960 Luke chapter, now I I said Luke 2, look at Luke 1. 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:24.160 Let's go to Luke 1. 00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:25.920 Luke 1, verse number 30. 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:27.039 Sorry, I wrote that down wrong. 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:28.559 Luke 1, verse 30. 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:33.039 The angel says to Mary, fear not Mary. 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:34.960 Luke chapter 1, verse 30. 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:38.799 For thou hast found favor with God. 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:40.000 Oh. 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.119 To have a mom that's in favor with God. 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.279 To have a mom that's in favor with God. 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:55.119 I'll say it again. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:01.839 To have a mother, hey children, grandchildren, to have a mother that's in favor with God. 00:25:02.559 --> 00:25:14.480 I don't want to lift my wife up too high, but I'm so happy that in my in the morning I I find my wife reading her Bible. 00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:18.720 Not because I'm standing over the top of her. 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:21.920 Saying, Did you read your Bible today? 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:24.240 Oh no, not with my wife. 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:25.519 You don't do that. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.759 I'm glad she does it of her own walk with the Lord. 00:25:30.960 --> 00:25:32.720 She's in her Bible in the morning. 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.480 By the way, when my wife's in her Bible, just let her alone. 00:25:39.039 --> 00:25:43.599 I'm not saying she's crabby or nasty, but just let her have that time with God. 00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:47.279 We have children. 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:48.799 We have grandchildren. 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:52.799 What a blessing to have a mom in favor with God. 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:54.319 Is she perfect? 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:54.640 No. 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:56.480 I hope, ladies, you're in your book. 00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:59.039 I hope you're on your knees in prayer. 00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:09.920 Mary was in favor with the Lord, but something happened in Luke chapter 2. 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.759 Notice if you would, in Luke chapter 2, look at verse 49. 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:15.200 Verse 49. 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.960 Stay right with me, verse 49. 00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:18.720 You say, well, this is the mother of Jesus. 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:19.440 Stay with me. 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:21.680 Luke chapter 2, verse 49. 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.400 Oh, he's uh he's uh uh uh just a pre-teenager now. 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:28.559 He's uh 12 years old. 00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:32.559 And uh notice what he says to his mom in verse number 49. 00:26:33.200 --> 00:26:34.960 How is it that you sought me? 00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:40.480 And then Jesus says to mom, wished you not that I must be about my father's business? 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:42.000 Didn't you know? 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:45.759 Don't you know that I've got work to do for my father? 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:48.880 Don't you know that I've got to do what God wants me to do? 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:59.200 I'm gonna, and the Bible says this, watch, verse 51, and he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them. 00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:08.559 Isn't that amazing that God in the flesh was subject to mom and stepdad? 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:09.440 What do you mean? 00:27:09.519 --> 00:27:10.720 Now, what do you mean, stepdad? 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:13.200 The father, his father was the heavenly father. 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:15.119 Come on, is that right? 00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:22.240 Joseph was married, but but she had a miraculous conception, but it says Jesus was subject to them. 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:27.519 Jesus was subject, he was submitted to them. 00:27:28.480 --> 00:27:30.559 Here was the perfect child. 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:32.480 What do you mean, perfect? 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:34.000 He never sinned. 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:36.079 What do you mean? 00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:36.720 Can't you? 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:40.400 What would it be like growing up with a boy that never lies? 00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:44.319 What do you mean, a boy that never lies? 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:46.079 Do you all have boys? 00:27:47.279 --> 00:27:49.440 Did they ever tell a fib to you? 00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:51.839 Jesus never lied. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.119 Somebody says, we got the perfect child. 00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:58.400 They literally did. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:15.519 But I want to say, God takes a little highlight to Mary because it says more than once in verse number 51, he was subject to them, but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. 00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:21.279 In fact, you'll see Mary pondering things about her son in her heart. 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:22.480 Pondering. 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:24.720 Or she stays with him all the way through. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:25.279 What do you mean? 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:27.359 Well, he goes off to serve the Lord, no doubt. 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:31.359 He does all the miracles, but do you remember at the cross? 00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:36.079 Do you remember Jesus looked down? 00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:37.680 And there was John? 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:41.519 And there was Mother right there, too. 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.039 Mother. 00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:47.839 And it says, I won't ask you to turn there, it says to John. 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.160 He said, uh, woman, speaking to Mary, behold thy son. 00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:57.599 And then he says to John, Behold thy mother. 00:28:58.160 --> 00:29:04.640 You know what he does before he dies and resurrects and goes on to be and do what he's supposed to do? 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.480 He said, John, this is now your mother. 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:10.720 Mother, this is now your son. 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:12.799 John will take care of you. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:19.599 You know Mary got to see everything Jesus did as far as miracles. 00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:23.200 Don't think she wasn't in that company following him. 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:25.440 You still with me or not? 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.319 She was at the cross. 00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:30.400 She got to see the miracles. 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:32.400 She also got to see his suffering. 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:38.720 Don't you think she heard about his resurrection? 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:42.799 So what do you say? 00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:48.160 I'm just highlighting three women who had unusual circumstances. 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:59.119 One was Jacobed with Moses, and Moses was being used by God and would go off on a journey and be used by God and come back around and take care of mom and dad again. 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:00.880 Samuel? 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:03.359 Samuel, Hannah dropped him off. 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:09.680 I wonder if Hannah was alive when he anointed Saul, the first king. 00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:14.720 I know Samuel was a little bit older when he anointed David and said he was holding gray hair. 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:22.640 I don't know if mom was alive or not, but I know mom got to see Samuel judge Israel all the days of her life. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:25.440 What a blessing. 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:27.759 Come on, what a blessing. 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:31.200 And then Mary, just a common woman. 00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:35.839 I mean, she wasn't a rich gal, chosen of the Lord. 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.440 She gets to give birth and watch everything, ponder things in her heart, 12 years old. 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:43.599 Don't you know I gotta be about my father's business? 00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:45.759 Then he went back and become subject to them. 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:50.880 And then we know later on, we know at the age of 30 he started his public ministry. 00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:52.240 He was baptized. 00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:54.799 And uh, where's mom and at that time? 00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:56.400 Mom's doing what mom does. 00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:57.359 She's got another family. 00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:58.240 Come on, is that right? 00:30:58.400 --> 00:30:59.839 You say, did she follow him around? 00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:04.480 Well, she was at Nazareth, but don't think she didn't show up to a couple events here and there. 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.200 Are you still with me or do I lose you? 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:09.440 Because she's at the cross. 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:12.480 She's there when they're going to crucify him. 00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.920 By the way, she hung in town long enough. 00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:18.640 Don't think she wasn't going down to the grave. 00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:23.119 Don't think she wasn't going down to anoint his body. 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:27.039 Do you know the many, there's four Marys. 00:31:29.359 --> 00:31:31.519 Everybody's still alright, or did I lose you? 00:31:32.160 --> 00:31:35.440 Don't think she wasn't heading down there with the women to anoint the body. 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:38.319 But she got down there and it wasn't there. 00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:41.119 He's not here, he's risen. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:51.519 What a blessing to be a mom with a good spirit, watching what your children get to do for the Lord in some way, shape, or form, whatever it is. 00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:54.880 I'm gonna tell you, you ought to be blessed if they're faithful in church. 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.759 But we ought to have good attitudes. 00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:00.319 We ought to encourage them along. 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:08.400 We ought to be moms and dads, and especially moms this morning that uh, you know, uh, well, this happened at church. 00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.480 I'm not gonna say anything because I want my children to have a good attitude toward church. 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:18.480 I'm not saying we cover everything up, but what they don't need is begrudging mothers. 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:22.559 They don't need bitter moms. 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:25.519 Bitter at church, bitter at God. 00:32:27.920 --> 00:32:32.000 Don't go out here and say, man, I like the services until he talked about that. 00:32:33.599 --> 00:32:41.920 Man, I I want to tell you, moms have a huge impact on boys and girls. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:47.279 I know who has the biggest influence in our family, and it's not me. 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.240 You talk to our children, you talk to our grandchildren. 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:57.839 I'll say, well, you know, uh Doug Fisher, he has no, no, no, no. 00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:59.519