Genesis 3:20
Best Moms EVER!
I want to speak this morning to one of the largest population sectors
in the world, mothers.
According to statistics on mothers:
There are 2 billion mothers in the world (85.4 million in the U.S.).
There are 4.3 babies are born each second.
A sizable minority of children in rich countries live with just one
parent—a parent who is likely to be female, and also likely to be
working.
Out of a survey of university freshmen in Australia, 40% listed their
moms as the most important and influential person they’d ever known,
compared with 25% for fathers, 17% for romantic partners, 12% for
friends, and 6% for siblings.
https://www.soundvision.com/article/statistics-about-mothers-around
-the-world
I. Eve - The Mother of life
Gen 3:20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve;
because she was the mother of all living.
A. The word means to breath, to give breathe, to give life
1. Motherhood has become shameful to many women.
2. For others, it is just a small part of their life.
3. It should be neither. If granted, it should be the
greatest honor of a wife’s life.
a. I find it amazing that so many women want to
demonstrate that they are as good as any man.
b. Why would a woman want to lower herself to be as good
as a man when God has blessed her with abilities that
no man has.
c. Ladies, God made you superior to a man.
(1) You can give life. What man can do that?
(2) But not just life. God has equipped you with the
ability to give God-like life, godly life.
(3) You can give life and spiritual life!
(4) You can make a life that knows and worships and
imitates God.
d. No man can do that. None. Not one. Never has.
Never will.
B. Ladies, the key is that you can give GODLY, God-like, life.
1. God has blessed women with intuition, discernment, and
spiritual desire.
a. Have you ever noticed how many times the women are the
ones taking care of the spiritual business of the
church? (It is not supposed to be that way but it
often is.)
b. Last Sunday, we went to Romar Baptist Church in Orange
Beach. The pastor said that they have 55 members but
over 10,000 visitors each year. Their choir had 5
women in it. Not 5 women among the men. It had just
5 women.
(a) I’m not judging or throwing any stones here, but
why?
(b) Women see the need, know the importance, and have
the desire for the spiritual.
(c) In our church, I checked the VBS sign-up sheet.
We have several that have signed up and I am
grateful, but for every 1 man that has signed,
5 women signed up.
(d) You can see this through the Bible.
(1) Do you remember who sent word to Pilate and
told him not to have anything to do with
Jesus? It was his wife.
(2) Do you remember who was at the tomb the
morning of the resurrection? It was a band
of women.
(3) Do you remember who sat outside the empty
tomb, weeping? It would be the same one
who was the first to see the risen Lord.
It was Mary, a woman.
(e) What does this mean? It means that women more
than men have intuition, discernment, and
spiritual desire.
(f) Men may be preaching when the spiritual fruit is
harvested but most of the time, it is a woman
who planted salvation’s seed.
2. Mothers, I know your life can be very hard and
discouraging, and I know why.
a. It’s because of us, men.
b. If you didn’t have to be married to have children you
might be able to win your children to Christ.
c. Husband, we ought not do that to our wives. We should
not make it harder for them to get us and our
children to the Lord. In fact, we should be part of
the solution not the problem.
3. Ladies, don’t give up and don’t get sidetracked.
a. God has placed you into your family to give LIFE, both
physical and spiritual.
b. In dealing with your family, be gracious, be loving,
be obedient to your husbands, but keep moving them
toward Jesus Christ.
(a) Be gracious - Don’t be argumentative, don’t be
disrespectful, don’t be bitter. Be kind,
loving, gracious. God has not called you to
preach you family to Jesus (That’s my calling).
He has called you to love your family to
Christ. Don’t quit. Don’t get sidetracked.
(b) Be obedient - As much as you can, be obedient to
your husband—even if he is lost. Don’t take
that as an insult. Take that has a command
from God. It is. And since it is, if you want
Christ to come do a work in your home, you
must be obedient.
(c) Be consistent - Of course that doesn’t mean you
aren’t going to have good days and bad days.
Sure you will, but do your best to be
consistent and to display Jesus to your family.
II. Hagar - The Mother of Endurance \\#Ge 16:1-9, 21:9-21\\
A. Hagar was a good woman with a hard life.
1. From our first introduction of Hagar, she was a slave, a
servant woman. We do not know how or why, but she was
destined for a servant’s life from the beginning.
2. Then she made a concubine. I don’t believe it was ever
Abram or Sarai’s intent to make an object out of Hagar,
but they did. She became a child mill.
3. Then Sarai becomes jealous of Hagar, who was probably at
one time very close to her, and treats her brutally.
4. Then Abraham and even God seems to cast her out.
5. Although Hagar is the mother of one of Abraham’s children,
there is never an indication that Abraham loved her. Not
once. Not at all. She was unloved and uncared for.
B. But Hagar loved her son.
1. Here is a woman who had every reason to hate life and all
that it had done to her, but she did not.
2. For all practical purposes, Hagar’s child was a product of
rape. While at the time Hagar may have hoped what was
being done to her would improve her lot in life, it did
not. If anything, it hurt her for the child conceived
was loved of the Abraham but she never was. She could
have felt even more lonely, isolated, used, and abused.
3. But she loved her child and did what she could to care for
him.
C. Life sometimes gives us all of us some tough days (though I
doubt that any of us have had a life as tough as Hagar’s).
1. Let me give you what I believe was Hagar’s motto.
2. Endure the bad. Love the good. Live for your children.
III. Jochebed - The Mother with A Plan
A. Jochebed was Moses’ mother \\#Ex 6:20\\.
Ex 6:20 And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s
sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses:
and the years of the life of Amram were an
hundred and thirty and seven years.
B. She was a mother in a difficult time.
1. \\#Ex 1:22\\ Pharaoh had commanded that all the male
babies born were to be cast into the Nile River.
2. She and her husband, Amram, refused to obey.
3. The Bible doesn’t give us all the details for this, but it
appears that Jochebed had a plan of her own,
a. She kept the baby as long as she could hide him.
b. That must have meant she kept her pregnancy a secret
too.
c. When the baby could be hid no longer, she placed him
in a basket, set him adrift down the river Nile, and
had Miriam, her older daughter to watch to see what
would happen.
(1) I do not know that Jochebed had any notion what
was going to happen, but I am guessing that she
did.
2) If all Jochebed expected to happen was for the
basket to sink or some alligator to shallow it
whole, why would she have sent Miriam to watch?
(3) What mother would want one child to watch the
other be killed?
(4) I don’t know if Jochebed knew what would happen,
but I believe she knew somehow God was going to
do something,
(5) I believe she had prayed and that she was doing
her part in obeying God and, after doing so, she
was trusting God to do His part in return.
C. Believe it or not, this is the only plan that any mother can
have for her child and it is the only one needed.
1. What was it again?
a. Jochebed prayed.
b. She did what God revealed for her to do.
c. She trusted God to something good in return.
2. No matter where you are in life, this is God’s plan for
you!
Do you begin to seek God today by being saved? The only way that plan
will work is if you are saved.
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