SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Sharper Sword, the publication ministry of White House Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California.
SPEAKER_00: White House believes that individuals can reach their potential for the Lord as they grow in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: We want to hear our Lord say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
SPEAKER_00: Let's join Pastor Doug Fisher as he preaches another important biblical message from the Word of God.
SPEAKER_02: Take your Bible and look at Numbers, the book of Numbers in your Old Testament, chapter number 26.
SPEAKER_02: Let me introduce you to a family, especially to a mother.
SPEAKER_02: And notice in Numbers chapter 26.
SPEAKER_02: Look at verse number 59, please.
SPEAKER_02: Verse number 59.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Jacobed was the mother, if you would, to Moses.
SPEAKER_02: Notice she's the daughter of a Levite, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt, and she bare unto Amron.
SPEAKER_02: Notice Jacobed's children.
SPEAKER_02: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.
SPEAKER_02: May I say to you, if you know anything about the Old Testament, what a family.
SPEAKER_02: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.
SPEAKER_02: Moses, we know most everybody, whether you know your Bible or not, have heard about Moses.
SPEAKER_02: Moses, look at Exodus chapter number two, the second book in the Bible, Exodus chapter number two.
SPEAKER_02: And Moses had a very unique beginning with mom.
SPEAKER_02: It was something that God recorded for us in some detail.
SPEAKER_02: Remember that Amron, Amram, the dad, and Jacobed, mom, they had three children, Moses, Miriam, and Aaron.
SPEAKER_02: Notice they were uh they were in a slave situation at the time.
SPEAKER_02: They were under oppression, Exodus chapter number two.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And notice that Jacobed, the woman, conceived and bare a son.
SPEAKER_02: And when she saw that, saw him that uh he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
SPEAKER_02: At that time, uh they were, they were, Pharaoh had uh made a proclamation that they would kill all the male children.
SPEAKER_02: And when she saw that he was a goodly child, she she hid him three months.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And it was out of bow rushes, and and they daubed it with the uh the slime and the pitch.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And what she was doing, she wondered what would happen to him.
SPEAKER_02: Well, Pharaoh's daughter came down to the river to take a bath, if you would, to wash herself and her maidens.
SPEAKER_02: And and when she got down there, she she saw that little uh that little boat.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And notice when she opened it up, when she opened this ark up, this little boat, she saw the child.
SPEAKER_02: And there was the babe in there weeping.
SPEAKER_02: And she immediately knew it was one of the males, and she knew it was one of the Hebrew children.
SPEAKER_02: 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?
SPEAKER_02: 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?
SPEAKER_02: And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, uh, Go.
SPEAKER_02: And the maid, Miriam, went and called the child's mother, Jacobed.
SPEAKER_02: And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.
SPEAKER_02: And the woman, Jacobed, took the child and nursed it.
SPEAKER_02: And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and became her son, and she called his name Moses.
SPEAKER_02: Brethren, isn't that an amazing story?
SPEAKER_02: 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?
SPEAKER_02: Yes, go.
SPEAKER_02: And so she goes and gets her mom.
SPEAKER_02: And when mom comes, uh the the lady says, I'll pay you to nurse the child.
SPEAKER_02: Take care of that child.
SPEAKER_02: Now, may I say to you, Jacob was gonna have to give Moses up a little bit later.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, give him up?
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: May I say to you that uh God was doing something here in a miraculous way.
SPEAKER_02: I want you to see something, please, in the Bible that gives a little bit more depth.
SPEAKER_02: Look at Exodus chapter number seven.
SPEAKER_02: Exodus chapter number seven.
SPEAKER_02: You're doing great this morning.
SPEAKER_02: Mom, look at Exodus chapter number seven, follow along.
SPEAKER_02: And notice what it says in Exodus chapter seven.
SPEAKER_02: When Moses, who was called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, look at verse number seven.
SPEAKER_02: Verse number seven.
SPEAKER_02: Moses was fourscore, eighty years old, and Aaron, fourscore and three years old.
SPEAKER_02: So Aaron was eighty three when they spake unto Pharaoh.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: You say, why are you bringing this up?
SPEAKER_02: Because this is when Moses at 80, Aaron at 83, they're gonna go in and say to Pharaoh, let my people go.
SPEAKER_02: Moses is 80.
SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, uh Aaron's 83, and it doesn't record anywhere in the Bible how old is Miriam's age is.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you just don't talk about women's age.
SPEAKER_02: You know how that goes.
SPEAKER_02: But I want you to see something else that's kind of interesting.
SPEAKER_02: Look at Exodus chapter 6.
SPEAKER_02: Exodus chapter 6.
SPEAKER_02: Notice verse 20.
SPEAKER_02: Amram took him, Jacobed, his father's sister to wife, and she bare him Aaron and Moses.
SPEAKER_02: Remember also Miriam.
SPEAKER_02: And notice the years of the life of Amram were 130 and 7 years.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: So let's understand something.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: You say, why do you say that?
SPEAKER_02: Because we know Miriam's on the other side.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And at 40 years of age, Moses, according to Acts 7, decided, I'm no longer gonna be the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
SPEAKER_02: I'm no longer gonna be an Egyptian.
SPEAKER_02: In fact, it came into his heart, Acts chapter 7, to deliver the Hebrews.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Jacobed, bombs, still over in slavery.
SPEAKER_02: Amran, dad, is still over in slavery.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And they go into Pharaoh together and they say, Let my people go.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: What a what a mom that would weigh, wow, we're we're blessed.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean to have a son or to have a daughter now taking care of a family?
SPEAKER_02: I I said to the grandmothers in here today, we recognize you.
SPEAKER_02: I hope the grandchildren, and I hope the children have a sense of taking care of the grandmothers.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: They made problems for me.
SPEAKER_02: You say, what a terrible thing to say.
SPEAKER_02: You know, I've been training, and our family knows it.
SPEAKER_02: We take care of mom.
SPEAKER_02: I'll get a little cherry eye.
SPEAKER_02: We take care of mom.
SPEAKER_02: We take care of grandmother.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: My wife.
SPEAKER_02: There should be an honor and esteem to that.
SPEAKER_02: And we take care of mom.
SPEAKER_02: I gotta tell you, it's easier to take care of mom if she has a walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Why do you say that?
SPEAKER_02: If mom has a walk with the Lord, she she typically has a fairly positive spirit.
SPEAKER_02: She typically would want to see God bless the family.
SPEAKER_02: I gotta tell you, in my heart and mind, I think Jacobed had a wonderful spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because Jacobed, if you would, mom put Moses in the bull rushes, and then uh Pharaoh's daughter found him.
SPEAKER_02: Miriam was right there.
SPEAKER_02: Can't you see when Miriam came running up to mom and say, Mom, mom, you know, whatever she said.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: He's gonna become mine.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you think Jacobed said, God must be in this?
SPEAKER_02: What a miracle! And when moms see miracles that God does, uh, wouldn't you agree that they have a sweet spirit?
SPEAKER_02: How about when Moses is 40 years old and mom's still there?
SPEAKER_02: Mom's still around if she hasn't passed on.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, dad lives until 137 years old.
SPEAKER_02: It doesn't say how long mom lives.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: She heard, don't you think?
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: She heard that Moses, well known in the palace, killed an Egyptian.
SPEAKER_02: She knew that her son fled to the wilderness.
SPEAKER_02: And may I say, if she was living the normal life, the natural life, she knew when Moses came back again.
SPEAKER_02: And by the way, when he came back, he was married.
SPEAKER_02: Who'd he marry?
SPEAKER_02: Uh he married a gal out there, if you would, at the Mount of God and came back in, Jethro's daughter.
SPEAKER_02: 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?
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Jochebed, Emron.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, may I say that Aaron was there?
SPEAKER_02: And may I remind you that Miriam was definitely there?
SPEAKER_02: Moses was there.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Uh, the the oldest, as we know, is the children, and she's out there singing.
SPEAKER_02: If mom's still alive, don't you think mom's rejoicing of what your family is doing?
SPEAKER_02: Are you still with me today?
SPEAKER_02: What I'm saying is it's a wonderful thing to walk as a Christian and be a Christian and see God blessing family.
SPEAKER_02: I understand not every child, not every grandchild has a perfect walk with God.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: It's still God's body.
SPEAKER_02: God can still bless.
SPEAKER_02: May I say you're a little quiet in here today?
SPEAKER_02: What why?
SPEAKER_02: It's Mother's Day, and you say, well, yeah, he's talking to mothers.
SPEAKER_02: No, I'm talking to everybody today.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody that's getting a little bit older.
SPEAKER_02: We do well to have a good spirit.
SPEAKER_02: We do well to have a good walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: We we do well to be a good example to our children and our grandchildren.
SPEAKER_02: We're gonna specially emphasize the ladies today and saying thank you to them.
SPEAKER_02: I'm saying if you study Jacobed out, I think Jacobed was a real blessed woman.
SPEAKER_02: 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?
SPEAKER_02: She got to reflect and see what God had been doing, what God had authorized, what God had orchestrated.
SPEAKER_02: Can I ask you to look at another woman real quick?
SPEAKER_02: Look at Hannah.
SPEAKER_02: 1 Samuel chapter 1.
SPEAKER_02: 1 Samuel chapter 1, look at Hannah, if you would, real quick.
SPEAKER_02: Hannah was another very special, if you would, mother.
SPEAKER_02: And if you know anything about Hannah in 1 Samuel chapter 1, you know that she so desired a child.
SPEAKER_02: She so wanted a child.
SPEAKER_02: And in 1 Samuel chapter number 1, in verse number uh 11, if you would, it says that she vowed a vow.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life.
SPEAKER_02: I will give him unto the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: May I make this statement to you?
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you think she was trusting that that boy would be whatever he was going to become?
SPEAKER_02: And may I say she had a faith in God?
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And he will be lent to the Lord and there serve the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: But she didn't forsake being a mother.
SPEAKER_02: If you know the story, uh, she made a promise and God gave her the opportunity, if you would, to bear a child.
SPEAKER_02: And notice what she says in verse number 28.
SPEAKER_02: Stay with me, verse number 28.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: And he worshiped the Lord there.
SPEAKER_02: She dropped that young boy off to serve God.
SPEAKER_02: And she walked away, trusting that God would take care of him.
SPEAKER_02: Please listen, she had no idea who Samuel was going to become.
SPEAKER_02: We just pray that they're used of him in some way, shape, or form.
SPEAKER_02: I want to make this very clear.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not talking about all children need to become pastors or missionaries or evangelists or be up here doing this or, you know.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, they just need to be faithful to the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: They need to give glory to God in some way, shape, or form.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Would you agree with that?
SPEAKER_02: Well, if you would, this is uh Hanan.
SPEAKER_02: She lends Samuel, if you would, to the Lord, but she didn't, she didn't forget about Samuel.
SPEAKER_02: Notice 1 Samuel 2, 1 Samuel 2, and notice 1 number 18.
SPEAKER_02: 1 Samuel 2, verse 18.
SPEAKER_02: Bible says Samuel ministered.
SPEAKER_02: Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child girded with a linen ephod.
SPEAKER_02: Notice what mom did, verse 19.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Hey, brethren, my point is Jacobed had a son who God blessed.
SPEAKER_02: And then, if you would, uh here's uh Hannah, who had a son, that God was with the son.
SPEAKER_02: But I'm saying to you this I think Jacobed had a real good spirit, and I think Hannah had a real good spirit.
SPEAKER_02: God blessed them in certain ways.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Moms, I want to tell you please don't get bitter at the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Please don't get bitter at church.
SPEAKER_02: Please don't get grudging towards Christians.
SPEAKER_02: Why do you say that?
SPEAKER_02: Brethren, We've got enough problems down here without fighting each other.
SPEAKER_02: Please have a good spirit.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Don't tell me they won't pick up on it.
SPEAKER_02: Don't tell me they won't listen.
SPEAKER_02: Don't tell me it doesn't create an atmosphere in the home and in fellowships.
SPEAKER_02: It's okay to say that?
SPEAKER_02: I have now.
SPEAKER_02: I'm deep in now.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says Miriam got a timbrel in her hand and started leading the ladies in and singing.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you think that Jacobed was blessed that day?
SPEAKER_02: How about Hannah?
SPEAKER_02: How about Hannah when her son, if you would, was rising and had favor with God and with man?
SPEAKER_02: And may I say to you, Samuel was being spoken to by God.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying everybody's a pastor, a preacher, evangelist, a teacher, a prophet.
SPEAKER_02: But if your children get spoke to by God, what a blessing.
SPEAKER_02: Male or female, what a blessing.
SPEAKER_02: One more, if you don't mind.
SPEAKER_02: Look at Luke.
SPEAKER_02: Stay with me.
SPEAKER_02: Look at the book of Luke.
SPEAKER_02: In the book of Luke, in your New Testament, watching your time.
SPEAKER_02: We don't want you to cook.
SPEAKER_02: Come on, amen.
SPEAKER_02: Luke, Luke, please.
SPEAKER_02: The book of Luke, chapter number two.
SPEAKER_02: You say, who are we going to talk about now?
SPEAKER_02: Let's just spend a moment on Mary.
SPEAKER_02: Just a moment.
SPEAKER_02: You say, why Mary, the mother Jesus?
SPEAKER_02: I think Mary rejoiced a little bit, don't you?
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, Mary?
SPEAKER_02: The mother Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Luke chapter, now I I said Luke 2, look at Luke 1.
SPEAKER_02: Let's go to Luke 1.
SPEAKER_02: Luke 1, verse number 30.
SPEAKER_02: Sorry, I wrote that down wrong.
SPEAKER_02: Luke 1, verse 30.
SPEAKER_02: The angel says to Mary, fear not Mary.
SPEAKER_02: Luke chapter 1, verse 30.
SPEAKER_02: For thou hast found favor with God.
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
SPEAKER_02: To have a mom that's in favor with God.
SPEAKER_02: I'll say it again.
SPEAKER_02: To have a mother, hey children, grandchildren, to have a mother that's in favor with God.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Not because I'm standing over the top of her.
SPEAKER_02: Saying, Did you read your Bible today?
SPEAKER_02: Oh no, not with my wife.
SPEAKER_02: You don't do that.
SPEAKER_02: I'm glad she does it of her own walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: She's in her Bible in the morning.
SPEAKER_02: By the way, when my wife's in her Bible, just let her alone.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying she's crabby or nasty, but just let her have that time with God.
SPEAKER_02: We have children.
SPEAKER_02: We have grandchildren.
SPEAKER_02: What a blessing to have a mom in favor with God.
SPEAKER_02: Is she perfect?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: I hope, ladies, you're in your book.
SPEAKER_02: I hope you're on your knees in prayer.
SPEAKER_02: Mary was in favor with the Lord, but something happened in Luke chapter 2.
SPEAKER_02: Notice if you would, in Luke chapter 2, look at verse 49.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 49.
SPEAKER_02: Stay right with me, verse 49.
SPEAKER_02: You say, well, this is the mother of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Stay with me.
SPEAKER_02: Luke chapter 2, verse 49.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, he's uh he's uh uh uh just a pre-teenager now.
SPEAKER_02: He's uh 12 years old.
SPEAKER_02: And uh notice what he says to his mom in verse number 49.
SPEAKER_02: How is it that you sought me?
SPEAKER_02: And then Jesus says to mom, wished you not that I must be about my father's business?
SPEAKER_02: Didn't you know?
SPEAKER_02: Don't you know that I've got work to do for my father?
SPEAKER_02: Don't you know that I've got to do what God wants me to do?
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Isn't that amazing that God in the flesh was subject to mom and stepdad?
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Now, what do you mean, stepdad?
SPEAKER_02: The father, his father was the heavenly father.
SPEAKER_02: Come on, is that right?
SPEAKER_02: Joseph was married, but but she had a miraculous conception, but it says Jesus was subject to them.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus was subject, he was submitted to them.
SPEAKER_02: Here was the perfect child.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, perfect?
SPEAKER_02: He never sinned.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Can't you?
SPEAKER_02: What would it be like growing up with a boy that never lies?
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, a boy that never lies?
SPEAKER_02: Do you all have boys?
SPEAKER_02: Did they ever tell a fib to you?
SPEAKER_02: Jesus never lied.
SPEAKER_02: Somebody says, we got the perfect child.
SPEAKER_02: They literally did.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: In fact, you'll see Mary pondering things about her son in her heart.
SPEAKER_02: Pondering.
SPEAKER_02: Or she stays with him all the way through.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: Well, he goes off to serve the Lord, no doubt.
SPEAKER_02: He does all the miracles, but do you remember at the cross?
SPEAKER_02: Do you remember Jesus looked down?
SPEAKER_02: And there was John?
SPEAKER_02: And there was Mother right there, too.
SPEAKER_02: Mother.
SPEAKER_02: And it says, I won't ask you to turn there, it says to John.
SPEAKER_02: He said, uh, woman, speaking to Mary, behold thy son.
SPEAKER_02: And then he says to John, Behold thy mother.
SPEAKER_02: You know what he does before he dies and resurrects and goes on to be and do what he's supposed to do?
SPEAKER_02: He said, John, this is now your mother.
SPEAKER_02: Mother, this is now your son.
SPEAKER_02: John will take care of you.
SPEAKER_02: You know Mary got to see everything Jesus did as far as miracles.
SPEAKER_02: Don't think she wasn't in that company following him.
SPEAKER_02: You still with me or not?
SPEAKER_02: She was at the cross.
SPEAKER_02: She got to see the miracles.
SPEAKER_02: She also got to see his suffering.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you think she heard about his resurrection?
SPEAKER_02: So what do you say?
SPEAKER_02: I'm just highlighting three women who had unusual circumstances.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: Samuel?
SPEAKER_02: Samuel, Hannah dropped him off.
SPEAKER_02: I wonder if Hannah was alive when he anointed Saul, the first king.
SPEAKER_02: I know Samuel was a little bit older when he anointed David and said he was holding gray hair.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: What a blessing.
SPEAKER_02: Come on, what a blessing.
SPEAKER_02: And then Mary, just a common woman.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, she wasn't a rich gal, chosen of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: She gets to give birth and watch everything, ponder things in her heart, 12 years old.
SPEAKER_02: Don't you know I gotta be about my father's business?
SPEAKER_02: Then he went back and become subject to them.
SPEAKER_02: And then we know later on, we know at the age of 30 he started his public ministry.
SPEAKER_02: He was baptized.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, where's mom and at that time?
SPEAKER_02: Mom's doing what mom does.
SPEAKER_02: She's got another family.
SPEAKER_02: Come on, is that right?
SPEAKER_02: You say, did she follow him around?
SPEAKER_02: Well, she was at Nazareth, but don't think she didn't show up to a couple events here and there.
SPEAKER_02: Are you still with me or do I lose you?
SPEAKER_02: Because she's at the cross.
SPEAKER_02: She's there when they're going to crucify him.
SPEAKER_02: By the way, she hung in town long enough.
SPEAKER_02: Don't think she wasn't going down to the grave.
SPEAKER_02: Don't think she wasn't going down to anoint his body.
SPEAKER_02: Do you know the many, there's four Marys.
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's still alright, or did I lose you?
SPEAKER_02: Don't think she wasn't heading down there with the women to anoint the body.
SPEAKER_02: But she got down there and it wasn't there.
SPEAKER_02: He's not here, he's risen.
SPEAKER_02: 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.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna tell you, you ought to be blessed if they're faithful in church.
SPEAKER_02: But we ought to have good attitudes.
SPEAKER_02: We ought to encourage them along.
SPEAKER_02: We ought to be moms and dads, and especially moms this morning that uh, you know, uh, well, this happened at church.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna say anything because I want my children to have a good attitude toward church.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not saying we cover everything up, but what they don't need is begrudging mothers.
SPEAKER_02: They don't need bitter moms.
SPEAKER_02: Bitter at church, bitter at God.
SPEAKER_02: Don't go out here and say, man, I like the services until he talked about that.
SPEAKER_02: Man, I I want to tell you, moms have a huge impact on boys and girls.
SPEAKER_02: I know who has the biggest influence in our family, and it's not me.
SPEAKER_02: You talk to our children, you talk to our grandchildren.
SPEAKER_02: I'll say, well, you know, uh Doug Fisher, he has no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02: They'll say Patty Fisher.
SPEAKER_02: She has the biggest influence.
SPEAKER_02: She'll say, no, no, that's not true.
SPEAKER_02: Our children know the truth.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Our children know who sat on the bed with them for hours and listened to them.
SPEAKER_02: Our children know who took them shopping.
SPEAKER_02: Our children know who took them to dinner all the time and talked with them.
SPEAKER_02: Say, what'd you do?
SPEAKER_02: Paid for it.
SPEAKER_02: Well, didn't you go?
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02: But but my personality is give me the highlights.
SPEAKER_02: What do you mean?
SPEAKER_02: I don't need to know three hours of details.
SPEAKER_02: We can get this done in 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_01: She's the one who, yes, really, yes, oh, really?
SPEAKER_01: Yes, oh, oh, yes, oh, oh, oh.
SPEAKER_02: I'm the one when they hit their head where I said, go see your mother, you know.
SPEAKER_02: That's terrible.
SPEAKER_02: I know, I know.
SPEAKER_02: It's biblical.
SPEAKER_02: No, I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_02: Just kidding.
SPEAKER_02: It's bad when you know the Bible and know the stories, amen.
SPEAKER_02: But mom would be the one to minister to them, care for them, and and she has probably the greatest influence on them.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm happy for that because she has a good spirit and she's in her book, and she has a walk with the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: Her walk with the Lord is more important than her walk with me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say it again.
SPEAKER_02: My wife's a mother, my wife's a grandmother.
SPEAKER_02: Her walk with the Lord is more important than her walk with me.
SPEAKER_02: Now, does she have a walk with me?
SPEAKER_02: Yes, but her walk with the Lord is the most important thing because it gives her favor and her gives her influence.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying, we've studied today, Jacobed, a little bit of Hannah and Mary.
SPEAKER_02: Wasn't it interesting that all of them were taken care of?
SPEAKER_02: God took care of all of them.
SPEAKER_02: God took care of Hannah after she prayed for that child.
SPEAKER_02: God gave her more.
SPEAKER_02: By the way, Mary, after Mary had one child, that wasn't it for her.
SPEAKER_02: She had a regular family.
SPEAKER_02: Come on, is that right?
SPEAKER_02: What about Jacobed?
SPEAKER_02: Boy, to say, yeah, my children.
SPEAKER_02: Uh let's see, the oldest gal, Miriam, uh, the oldest boy, Aaron, the youngest boy, Moses.
SPEAKER_02: Have you heard of them?
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that was my family.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, God used them a little bit.
SPEAKER_02: God's not done using Moses.
SPEAKER_02: He was in the Mount of Transfiguration.
SPEAKER_02: How about that?
SPEAKER_02: I want to tell you, on Mother's Day, let's be blessed of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02: And if we've got mothers that are walking with the Lord, we ought to thank God for that and not take that for granted.
SPEAKER_02: If our mother or our grandmother's walking with the Lord or our great-grandmother's walking with the Lord, we ought to say, God bless them.
SPEAKER_02: Regardless, we should have a sense of care for them.
SPEAKER_02: To everybody in here, if mom's still alive, it wouldn't hurt to say hello to her today.
SPEAKER_02: If it's possible.
SPEAKER_02: You say, but but we're how we're on the outs with each other.
SPEAKER_02: Get on the ins.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but you don't know her.
SPEAKER_02: Get on the ends.
SPEAKER_02: You only have so much time on this earth.
SPEAKER_02: Make it right if you can't.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, she won't listen.
SPEAKER_02: Try to make it right.
SPEAKER_02: Where would we be without our mothers?
SPEAKER_02: Our grandmothers.
SPEAKER_02: Our great-grandmothers.
SPEAKER_02: And to you all, I want to say this to the ladies in here.
SPEAKER_02: I wish I could have done a better job.
SPEAKER_02: You see, my limits is I've never been a mother.
SPEAKER_02: I've never been a grandmother.
SPEAKER_02: Never been a great-grandmother.
SPEAKER_02: You say, come on, that's obvious.
SPEAKER_02: I want to tell you, all I can do is read about it in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: And I understand that a mother and a grandmother and great-grandmother carry heaviness.
SPEAKER_02: That a man doesn't necessarily carry.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: In the book of Proverbs, it talks about the heaviness of a mother.
SPEAKER_02: All I can do is say, there it is, and then watch and observe through the years.
SPEAKER_02: I never brought forth a child with travail.
SPEAKER_02: I don't know what that's like.
SPEAKER_02: Have I been around childbirth?
SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02: What was your job?
SPEAKER_02: Breathe, honey.
SPEAKER_02: Breathe.
SPEAKER_02: That's what they told me.
SPEAKER_02: Tell her to breathe.
SPEAKER_02: Hold her hand.
SPEAKER_02: Tell her to breathe.
SPEAKER_02: We'll take care of the rest.
SPEAKER_02: So what'd you do?
SPEAKER_02: Breathe, honey.
SPEAKER_02: Breathe.
SPEAKER_02: And then I always went for Big Macs.
SPEAKER_02: You know.
SPEAKER_02: For who?
SPEAKER_02: Selfishly for me.
SPEAKER_02: Did you take care of him?
SPEAKER_02: Tried to.
SPEAKER_02: Tried to be there.
SPEAKER_02: But unless you've done it.
SPEAKER_02: Come on.
SPEAKER_02: Unless you've had the travail.
SPEAKER_02: But they've also with the travail have the joy.
SPEAKER_02: Wonderful joy.
SPEAKER_02: That we who are not mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers can't experience.
SPEAKER_02: But we can read about great women in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: And there's more.
SPEAKER_02: I pray today that you have a wonderful Mother's Day.
SPEAKER_02: I pray that those of us who are children that we think upon ours.
SPEAKER_02: Mine's already in heaven.
SPEAKER_02: I'm glad to say that I made things right with her before she exited the earth.
SPEAKER_02: Sometimes you gotta make things right because you do dumb things as teenagers.
SPEAKER_02: And you gotta go back later and apologize.
SPEAKER_02: My mom was, after I apologized, she got out the big frying pan.
SPEAKER_02: You know, the old skillet?
SPEAKER_02: Got the bacon grease out of the refrigerator.
SPEAKER_02: If you don't know what that is, it's called lard.
SPEAKER_02: You say lard, yeah, it's better than Crisco.
SPEAKER_02: What is it?
SPEAKER_02: It's bacon grease you save.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, gross.
SPEAKER_02: Don't say it's gross until you tasted it.
SPEAKER_02: It fried potatoes and onions like couldn't be fried.
SPEAKER_02: I'm just telling you.
SPEAKER_02: My mom would say, Let me let me make that's okay, son, it's okay.
SPEAKER_02: You're forgiving.
SPEAKER_02: Let me make you something to eat.
SPEAKER_02: And her joy was sitting down and eating with me.
SPEAKER_02: And watching me devour whatever she cooked.
SPEAKER_02: And fellowship and just being there.
SPEAKER_02: And I watched her many times as I got older just cry while I was eating.
SPEAKER_02: You mean because you're getting fat?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: Because I was sitting next to her.
SPEAKER_02: And that meant something.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, moms.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, grandmothers.
SPEAKER_02: Thank you, great-grandmothers.
SPEAKER_02: I hope I've said nothing to offend.
SPEAKER_02: I pray that this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening to this message by Pastor Doug Fisher of Lighthouse Baptist Church in Lemon Grove, California.
SPEAKER_00: To learn more about White House Baptist Church, visit our website at www.litehousebaptist.com.
SPEAKER_00: Or call six one nine four six one fifty-five sixty four.