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Amen. Well, good morning, everyone. Well, I also have a question for you. Which one day out of the whole year do more people go to restaurants than any other day? Mother's Day. And guess who the last speaker is just before everybody's ready to go to a restaurant with mom. I will try to not hold you too long on that. I have a quick message for mothers. Here's what it is. Mothers, redeem the time. Redeem the time. It may seem like time is going in slow motion from the time that that baby develops in the womb and then is born and then you're going through on a day-to-day basis the crying, the whining, the diapers and everything. And it seems like it just goes on and on and on. But I want you to know that those 18 years will be some of the fastest years that went by in your life. And I'm saying 18, because by the time the children are 18, they're done, whether we're finished or not. And they're ready to move on. In their mind, anyway, they may still stay home. Of course, nowadays, they may stay home until they're 30 or 40. But you know what I'm talking about. But though but our period of time to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord goes so fast So moms, I really want to encourage you to redeem the time. Let's look at the scripture that tells us that let's go to the book of Ephesians chapter 5 and And see, we always go to the scripture here at Mission Boulevard Baptist Church. Did you notice that? And there's a reason for that. This is the inerrant authoritative message from God to us. Anything else is human surmisings. But this is the absolute truth upon which we want to build our lives. This is the absolute truth on which that we need to build our lives. And that's the reason that we here at Mission Boulevard Baptist Church always go to the scripture as the basis for what we are teaching. Ephesians chapter 5. Come with me to verse 15. See then that you walk circumspectly and circumspectly means cautiously. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Redeem is to rescue someone. That's the main idea of redemption. And I would love to talk with you about that because that's one of my favorite subjects. But it's the idea of coming to the rescue of someone who's in trouble and needs someone to pay their debt for them or someone to release them from bondage. And the redeemer is the rescuer. But we need to rescue the time that we're living in because the days are evil. The idea is this, that the times that we live in, and of course it's been like this from time immemorial, but today it's so intense. The times that we live in are moving away from the Lord, moving away from God, moving away from God's plan for us, moving away from righteousness, from living the way that will make us blessable at the hand of God. And so if we just follow the times and just follow the influences on us in this world, we're going to find ourselves swept away, as Paul says here in Ephesians chapter 2. that the God of this world is the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience. He's the prince of the power of the air. We must intentionally rescue the time from him. And mothers especially, I want to encourage you, rescue the time. There are so many distractions that would pull moms away from doing what they're supposed to do. Mothers, Christian mothers, mothers that have met the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior have a responsibility to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. But moms, you know, and I know, having been the best friend of a mom for nearly 50 years now, there are so many distractions. There are so many distractions, especially now with our electronic devices, with the television, with the screen times, with our phones, and also with activities. Not all the activities are bad, but we can be so busy running back and forth and trying to keep up with our schedule and this and that, that we're too exhausted and too focused on other things to rescue the time so that we can tell our children about Christ. so that we can demonstrate to them what the Christian life is. It's a life of loving the Lord, a life of prayer, a life of study of his word, a life of serving other people, a life focused on serving the Lord in his church and honoring the Lord in his house. And we have to be intentional about living that way. We have to, and I like that word intention. I like that word intention. I was talking with our son-in-law a couple of days ago, and he said, yeah, I'm going to get around to doing that one day. I'm going to get around to doing that one day. But you know what? He had no intention of doing it today. And there are so many things in our life that we're going to get to sometime, but we have no intention of actually doing it at a specific time and a specific place. So if you want to see an example of that, just come to my house and see all the things that I'm going to get around to someday. But there are some things that I do intend to do each day and I do get those things done. And so moms, I wanna encourage you to be intentional about bringing your children to the Lord Jesus Christ. And again, I know moms are very busy. They're exhausted so much of the time. They have so much on their plate. Whether they're a stay-at-home mom or whether they work or they're involved in the school, moms have so much to do. And God has designed them to be moms. He's given them the emotional and physical ability and equipment to be a good mom. And that's such a special thing. I saw a movie named Jesus of Nazareth. That's a pretty good presentation of the Lord. Sometimes those kind of movies are not, but this one's pretty good. But there's a scene in it at the very beginning of the movie in which Mary has told Joseph that she's going to have a baby and it's of the Lord. Joseph is troubled. He went and talked to his rabbi. And there's the scene there where he's got the rabbi off, you know, in a secluded spot and he tells him and the rabbi just goes, women are the most beautiful and magnificent and wondrous of all God's creation. And I thank him that he made me a man. That's so true. It's so true, but moms in their tired state and busy state must be intentional. Must be intentional with the children. Don't just hand them a screen. Don't just turn on the TV. Don't just find something else for them to do. There's a time for the children to have recreation. There's a time for them to have fun. That's a major part of growing up is to be able to have that unstructured fun time to go and learn things. In fact, that's when I still learn the most things and that is in that unstructured time when I've got a few minutes and just look at this or that or the other. Anyway. But moms, I just want to encourage you, redeem the time. How do we do that? How do we do that? Tell them the Bible stories. Talk with them about the Bible stories. Oh, they've probably heard a hundred times about David and Goliath. Go ahead and talk to them about it. Talk to them about Adam and Eve in the garden and how Satan tricked Eve into eating the fruit and how Adam did it because he knew what he was doing. And just talk with them about those things. Talk with them about the birth of Jesus. One of the things that I learned This year in our Bible club was I had a group of fifth grade boys, 10 of them there. And whenever I asked them who came to see Jesus on the night that he was born, not one of those boys knew the answer. Not one knew that the shepherds had come to visit the Savior. Isn't that remarkable? Don't take it for granted that your children know those things about the Lord. Talk with them about the Bible. Talk with them about the Bible stories. Sing songs to them. Sing the songs to them. Jesus loves me, this I know. Can you get a deeper, more significant truth into the heart of your child? Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. There's nothing more profound than that. Nothing more profound than that. And the hymns of the faith, it's amazing to me. We've got a little grandson that that runs around here, his favorite song, I'm pressing on the upward way, new heights. It's amazing. And it's not that he's the only amazing child that can do that. The amazing thing is that children can pick up on hymns like that and love them and sing them. Take them to church. Take them to church, show them what it's like to go to the house of God, to prepare spiritually and physically, to go to the house of God, and to be glad to worship the Lord in song, to be glad to receive the message from God, and to be glad to talk about what was spoken of and what did they learn in their class and talk about those things. Make it a significant and a good issue. And let the children see you pray. and lead them to pray. And I know dads are supposed to do most of these things also, aren't they? But you know, mom is with the children more than dad is. And mom's got to maintain that influence and that perspective. Mothers, I mentioned that we have 18 years, and those 18 years go so fast. You know, there are examples in the Bible, and there are examples in our lives of mothers who were bereaved of their children. Remember Eve? Remember Eve? She was, Adam called her Eve, which means living. She's the mother of all living, mother of the human race. And yet, what happened to her first two children? She lost them both. She lost them both. Abel was killed by his brother. Can you imagine the heartbreak and loss of that woman? And then to have the remaining son, Cain, exiled and have to go away, never to be seen again. bereaved of her children. How about Job's wife? Oh, Job's wife, she sure gets a bad rap, doesn't she? Job was there grieved and scratching himself with a pot shirt in Job chapter 2, verses 9 and 10. His wife comes to him and says, why don't you just curse God and die? You know why she said that? That's what she was feeling in her heart. She lost her children. She lost the health of her husband. She lost all of the wealth that she had. She lost everything that Job lost. She was bereaved of all of her children. I'm sure she was looking forward to that time that there will be little grandchildren running around and enjoying all that, but it was snatched from her. All she could do was rejoice in the time that she had had. And that's how it is with so many of us. Matthew chapter 2, of course, verses 16 through 18, tell us the account of how Herod sent soldiers to kill all the children in Bethlehem, two years old and under. And it tells us that a voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and lamentation, because her children were not. Her children were no more. So mothers are bereaved of their children. And mothers, that's the reason that we must redeem the time that we have now. We don't have a guarantee as to how long that they'll live or how long they'll be with us. Let's redeem the time now. And then. We have examples in the scriptures of mothers who released their children. You know, motherhood and parenthood really is all about releasing the children. Have you ever thought about that? What is childbirth but letting go? The most traumatic, painful letting go that can happen. But right there, at the beginning of their physical life as they come out of the womb, it's all about letting them go, moms. It's all about releasing them, right? And then there's the time of weaning them, where they're going to start feeding themselves now. They're going to start becoming more independent. And that's a matter of letting go. And what about walking? Oh, moms carry their children, you know, on their hip. That's part of God's design, you know. That's why women are different from men there, so they can have a hip, you know, for those children to ride on. I know it's funny, but it's true. But anyway. But, you know, there comes a time that that child's ready to walk. And, you know, you stand there with them and you've got your, you know, they're holding on to your fingers. And then what happens? There's a letting go that happens. And soon you won't be carrying them on your hip anymore. Can you imagine? I'm looking at some of the moms here that have children 20 years old. That's not going to happen again. We had to let them go. We had to let them go. And then there comes a time that we let them go outside and go out in the yard to play. You've got to let them go. And they might play out of your sight. So many moms are what we call today the helicopter mom, you know. And there's a need to be concerned in our time more than other times. I remember I grew up in Fullerton, California. Brother Pat grew up in Southern California. I don't think any mother in Fullerton, California today that's thinking at all is going to let her child run around all through the streets of Fullerton, California. We were playing with Hispanics and everybody. playing war. It was a fabulous time. That was back in the days of combat. Did anybody ever see combat on TV? So we were acting out, shooting the Germans, you know, anyway. Children can't do that with such freedom today in many places, in many places, but there's still a place of letting go, letting go and let that child go out and play maybe out of your, out of your sight. And then of course you hear them scream and have to run and check on them, but there's a letting go. And then, and then as they get older, they want to drive. You got to let go of the steering wheel and move over. One of the scariest times of life. And then and then something even more scary. They get their license and you see them drive off. Right. It's a matter of letting go, letting go. And what about marriage? How many marriages have been negatively influenced because the mom or dad of the bride or groom wouldn't let the child go? Let them establish their own home. Let them establish their own life. Let them raise up their children with their wisdom between them and the Lord and all of that. Even marriage is a part of the letting go. Much of motherhood is learning how to let go. But we don't want to just let them go. We want to let them go having trained them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord so that they're ready for that next step. Jochebed, the mother of Moses, let him go in the ark made of bulrushes there, right? She let him go and then he was brought back to her. But whenever she let him go the second time to go live in the house of Pharaoh, he was so trained in the Lord, that in the book of Hebrews chapter 11, verses 23 through 26, the scripture tells us that Moses esteemed the reproach of Christ, greater riches than the pleasures of Egypt. Where did Moses learn that? He learned it in that time that he was with his mother, Jochebed. He was prepared for his adult life to make the decisions that would honor Christ. Hannah, of course, she prayed. And I'd like to just read this one scripture. We're about to close out here, but I'd like to read what Hannah said. And may this be the perspective of our mothers as well. First Samuel chapter one. Hannah was praying that the Lord would give her a child, and the Lord did. In 1 Samuel 1, verse 24, it says, and when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, so Hannah's got the baby Samuel, and she's bringing him now to the house of the Lord to give him over to the Lord in the house of the Lord to serve the Lord all the days of his life. She took him up with three bullocks, and one ephah flower, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the Lord in Shiloh. And the child was young. And they slew a bullock and brought him to Eli. And she said, O my Lord, as thy soul liveth, my Lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here praying unto the Lord. For this child I prayed. And the Lord has given me my petition, which I asked of him. Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the Lord. And she and he worshiped the Lord there. This was a woman that knew how to let go, let him go into the hands of the Lord. Of course, another example is Eunice. Paul was persuaded that the faith that Timothy had came from his mother Eunice and his grandmother Lois. Those were women that had redeemed the time and look what Timothy became the right hand man of the Apostle Paul. So I just want to encourage us. Moms, redeem the time. Dads, redeem the time with our children. Nurture them to grow and then let them go. And be like Hannah. For this child, I prayed. For this child I prayed. And as Samuel told the children of Israel, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you. Moms, although we may let the children go to their own life and their own walk with the Lord, a true mom never ceases to pray for her children no matter what age they are. Amen. We're glad you joined us for our services here at Mission Boulevard Baptist Church. We look forward to having you join us again online, but you are always welcome to personally attend any of our services at the Mission Boulevard Baptist Church here in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Mothers, Redeem the Time
ស៊េរី Mothers Day
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