A lot of things do not make sense, but we'll understand it all by and by. Jesus is gonna clarify everything. 2 Timothy chapter number one, 2 Timothy chapter number one, please. 2 Timothy chapter number one. You there yet? Let me ask a question in regards to what I said in the message this morning. How many of you were saved before or at 12 years of age or less? You were saved at 12 or less. Raise your hands. Great. Great. More than likely you were in church. Regular. or Bible school, something of that nature where you were taught. Notice 2 Timothy 1, verse 1, Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son. Not his physical son, but his spiritual son. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father in Christ Jesus our Lord, I thank God whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of Thee in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see Thee, being mindful of Thy tears that I may be filled with joy. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also. Wherefore I put thee in remembrance, that thou stir up the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands. And then a verse of scripture that you know you don't have to turn there. Hebrews 11, verse 6 says, But without faith it's impossible to please Him. For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. Father, again, we seek Your presence, we seek Your power, and Holy Spirit, we need Your help to have the unction of God upon the reading of His Word tonight. I pray that you bless the preaching. I pray, Lord, that you give liberty to think and to speak in grace of the body now. Forgiveness of my sin, we give you all the praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Be seated. I love what Paul says here to Timothy in verse 5. When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother, Lois, and thy mother, Eunice." You're truly blessed if you've had godly women in your family, truly blessed if you've had godly women around you your entire life. I am one of those people. My grandmother could preach a message as good as any preacher could preach. My grandmother taught the ladies Bible class for years and years and sang in the choir and Kathy and I remember her singing in the choir. Her voice stood out above others and we laugh and smile about it on occasion. But my grandmother was a godly woman. About this tall and about that wide. that she could make a garden and she could preach a sermon and she could quote the Bible and she knew her scriptures. I've told you before that by the time I was a sophomore in high school, we started through biology, you know, and all that good stuff. And hey, speaking of biology and physics and science and such, I heard a good one the other day. It says, you know, the whole world is made up of matter. It has matter. electrons, protons, neutrons, and now it's filled with morons. Thank you, Daphne. And I see them all the time. They almost run over me every day, you know, the morons. But nevertheless, that's a side thing. But I remember her, I was in biology and she had to straighten me out and help me. I was confused. Here the science book, you know, it's in a book. It must be true. I pray that you teach your children that everything that's in a book is not necessarily true. But it's in a book, it must be true. It's in biology class, you know. Somehow the dinosaurs and the one-celled plasma that evolved and they're wanting me to believe that I came from monkeys and they say they have evidence and proof and all this stuff. And Grandma, what do I do when the Bible says God created the first man? Boy, she sat me down and took me to scriptures and she settled it for me that day, completely. God is not an evolutionist, God is a creationist. And he created us in his likeness and image, what a great thing. So if you had a godly grandmother, a godly mother in your life, you've been much blessed and so fortunate, you ought to give God thanks and give him credit, because I'm sure that's where part of your faith comes from. But the greatest need of modern day mothers today, the greatest need of modern day mothers today. Putting this together, I read several years ago in Kansas, a tornado came through that particular area and a mother only had time to grab her children and run to the basement. And the story says that she covered her children with a blanket and then covered the blanket with her own body to protect her children. The tornado did hit their home, and she was pinned under debris in the basement. The children came out safe, but they found them hours later, and her legs were pinned for so long and mashed, and the circulation was cut off for such a length of time that they had to amputate both her legs in the process. But later on she said, I willingly give my legs that my children might be unharmed. Now that's a mother's love. That's a true mama, you know, that does whatever's necessary to protect her babies. But one of the sweetest memories that we can have is a good mom. If you didn't have that, I'm sorry. And it's not the end of the world. We have today unlimited knowledge at our disposal. We have unlimited how-to-do books at our disposal. availability. I did not have a great example of a father and what a father should do and so on. All my upbringing was hard work and labor and, you know, why do you want to go to a kid's party when you can work here? You know, work, work, work. And I wasn't going to have children when I got married. I told my wife I didn't want kids. And she convinced me that the problems of the world and the situation of the world could be overcome by God's grace and by His presence in helping us raise children. I believe that. I was a Bible believer, saved. I began to put that together, believe that. We started our family and had children, and certainly God's hand was upon us. I didn't know how to be a good father, but I wanted to be, and I read and I prayed and I learned. and I got material in red and Gary Smalley was a big portion of that in the process. I think one of the books that tied it all together to me was Gary Smalley's book on the blessing and if you never read it or you don't have it you need to get it because it talks about The Old Testament blessing, when the father would bless the children, has an interpretation today. And how we treat our children, what we expect out of them, molds and shapes their lives in a great, great degree. So I would encourage you to get the blessing. I finally understood what I had missed. I understood it for what it was. It was not intentional. Oftentimes in the generation prior to mine, people didn't know how to be a husband or wife other than mimicking what they saw at home or at church or wherever they were in the lives of others. They didn't know how to treat a wife. They didn't know how to treat a child, and so on, unless it just, God blessed them, they were gentle, kind, and came through with that unconditional love. But a lot of times, people thought that that unconditional love and, you know, all those things were not manly. And that generation was a manly generation right after World War II. You know, all they knew was to work, that work could accomplish anything and everything. And that's a good thing to have a good work ethic, but it doesn't cure everything. So if you came from a family where you had a godly mother and a godly father, you were most fortunate and blessed. My dad was a Christian, but he didn't know how to raise kids. I tell Kathy that They were married at such a young age that. I was a guinea pig. I taught them how to raise children. And so oftentimes the firstborn catch the brunt of everything and then the one that comes along afterward, you know, get reaped something different. But I was the one who taught them how to raise children. And it was interesting to say the least. You need to remember your mama. What's your memories of her? Oh, I know we have different backgrounds and I know some dysfunctional homes, but look, I remember my mother in church. I remember my mother in Bible school in church and teaching. She didn't have all the answers. When God was dealing with me to be saved, I said, Mom, is Jesus and God the same? And she never answered me. She hasn't answered me to this day. She's in heaven, and now she knows the answer, but she never answered. She never tried to answer. She didn't know. I think it scared her that a seven-year-old could come up with a question like that. But we know the answer to that. Jesus is God, isn't he? He's God in the flesh. So we remember her in church. I remember mama tucking me in at night in the bed, the last thing, making sure everything was okay. I remember the smells coming from the kitchen. Oh, fried pork chops, cornbread in the oven, beans on the stove. My goodness. I remember lots of things like that. I remember the cuts, the bruises, the fevers, and she was always there. with the medicine, with the cool rag mama. No word in human history conjures up as much memory as the word mama. Maybe you call her mother. Maybe you call her mom. Maybe you call her ma. I don't know what you call her. But that word is a great word. I wonder how children remember the mothers of today. You know, you see them in H-E-B, Walmart. I haven't been to Walmart in so long now. I don't know if, do they still have shopping carts there? I'm not sure. I need to get back to Walmart. But how will children think about their mothers today? We see them I don't want to go there. We see them in all manners of ways, but thank God for the good memories. Thank God that some are still living for Christ. But I want you to think about the number one thing about a godly mother, the greatest need of modern day mothers Boy, you see them, the way they dress is just ungodly. I just, I can't imagine. I'm old school. Somebody said to me one time, said, you're just old school. I said, thank you for recognizing that. I don't want to be new school. I want to be old school. Old is good. Ask for the old paths wherein is the good way and walk therein. Wow, yeah, I need that. I want that. I don't want the new school. I don't like the new dress code. I don't like the way women dress now. And some, you know, the worst thing about it is, is they don't, I say, Kathy, why did that woman dress that way? And we have this thing, don't look, don't look. I promise you, don't look, you'll be zapped. It'll be in your memory from now on. Don't look. Why do large women wear the yoga pants and the large women wear the mid-cut stuff and go to H-E-B where I shop and I have to see it? I don't understand. It's horrifying. And I say, why do they do that? She says, because they don't care. They just don't care. And I cannot imagine my saintly mother doing a thing in the world like that. Goodness, I just can't imagine. The first need of modern day mothers, if I don't get on with it, I won't finish. The first need of modern day mothers is saving faith. Everybody needs to be saved. Here we just sang that song just a moment ago about recognizing the need of salvation for everyone around us. Be kind to some, be gentle to others, but give them the gospel of Jesus Christ. Oh, they need to be saved. I think that saving faith will change a lot of things but I'm afraid that our culture and our society today has so come down from where it has been in the past that even being saved you see Christians who do those kinds of things that the world does and they don't think a thing in the world about it. There should be shame and there should be conscience and there should be scrutiny that, you know, Jesus sees me this way and I don't want to do this. But saving faith alone doesn't change all of that. A lot of it has to do with the upbringing and a lot of it has to do with culture and where we are at the present time. But modern day mothers, number one, need to be saved. They need saving faith. In John chapter three, I can quote it. But John 3, verse 16, God said this. He had it written down, that God so loved the world. That word world means cosmos. It means people that are in the world, not the rocks, the dirt, the trees, the fish. He's talking about people. And God loves those people that you see in the grocery stores and Walmart and on the mall and filling up their tanks with gas, and they just are so immodest, and they're so slouchy, and they're so backward looking. And the Bible says God loves them. He loves us all. I'm not any better than they are. God loves us. He so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, listen, that whosoever believed in Him, whosoever has faith, saving faith, will never, ever regret it. but never perish, but have everlasting life. Saving faith, the only place to find real happiness in life, number one, is to be saved. Saving faith. Modern day mothers, a lot of things would change if our mothers were all saved. I read a story that illustrates that saving faith when a Civil War chaplain and trying to comfort some of the men that were dying, lay there on the battlefield. And he came to one man in particular, and the man recognized him as the chaplain. He said, I want you to pray. And the chaplain began to pray for the man. He interrupted him. He said, no, not for me. He said, I want you to pray and thank God that I had a godly mother. She told me about Jesus, and I've been saved. Wow, on the battlefield dying, he wanted the chaplain to thank God for his faithful mother. That's a great thing. That's a great honor that we think about. So saving faith, the first need of modern day mothers is saving faith. The second need they have is faith in the Bible. Instead of scrutinizing it, rejecting it, making fun of it, belittling it, they need to read it. There was a skeptic years ago who didn't believe the Bible, and he was determined to prove it wrong and to show every error that was within it. He began to read the book of Revelation from the last chapter backwards to the first chapter. Before he got to the first chapter of Revelation, he fell on his knees and confessed his sin to the Lord and got saved. It frightened him. to see those things. The Holy Spirit was involved, of course. No one can be saved without the presence of the Holy Spirit and conviction comes from the Holy Spirit of God. And as he began to read the book of Revelation to prove there is no God and prove that if there was a God that he did not write this book. He was convinced and convicted of God and fell on his knees and got saved. Faith in the Bible. 2 Timothy chapter 3, just a chapter over from where you are. In 2 Timothy chapter 3, look at verse number 12. Paul writes and he says, Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution, but evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and has been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them." Well, you know what? Continue thou in the things you learn. When the going gets really tough, And things look really bad. That's not a time to abandon your faith. That's a time to double down on your faith. That's a time to read more scripture. That's a time to read the promises of God in the Word and recognize now that for thousands of years men have been reading the Word of God. Much in the past was Old Testament and now we have the complete Bible, the Word of God that we can we can comfort our souls and guide our lives by. But notice, continue thou in the things which thou hast learned, be faithful in the word, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them, and that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures. Thank God for the Bible school workers in the past and the bus workers in the past and the Sunday school teachers who week after week after week and faithful and teaching and training and reciting scripture to the children. Thank God for the King's Kids program. where the kids instill in their heart the scriptures that'll be there forevermore, that at the right time, right place, God will pull to the remembrance of that person those verses of scripture that are so needful and reliable. That from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise. Wisdom. Wisdom. God says, if you lack wisdom, ask of me. I'll give it to you liberally. Wisdom that comes from God. Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. Now look, that doesn't mean so that you can be saved. That refers to the fact that you're getting others saved. That you will be wise, wise unto salvation. The ability to tell others what happened to you so that they can get saved as well. Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture, not translations, but Scripture. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, what to believe, for reproof What not to believe, pointing out sin. For correction, how to change. Instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. Yeah, our mamas of today need to learn to have faith in the Bible and walk by it, stay by it. Early settlers. when pioneers were traveling across this country. I can't imagine our society today as weak as it is and as offended as it gets so easily being pioneers of 150, 200 years ago. I cannot imagine our society today doing that. But those old settlers were loyal and faithful, taking their Bible with them and reading it by kerosene lamp or by candlelight at night. The early settlers would truck far and wide to get to a church on Sunday. Many of them traveling horseback, walking, or in a buggy would travel 20, 25 miles or more of some church that had sprung up in the wilderness just to get there. In the dark ages, people were killed for reading a portion of the Word of God. People were killed because they had a piece of paper with hand printed verses of scripture on it that they had gotten out of a Bible somewhere. Often times the Bibles, the only Bibles that were available were pulpit Bibles and they were often times chained to the pulpit. If people had, in the early days, access to that Bible, they would come in and hand copy verses of Scripture out of it. And then that Scripture was so precious to them, they would take home and read. But even then, there were those who recognized that the Word of God had powers of liberty, setting men's souls free. and giving ability for men to have wisdom beyond their ability, the Word of God. And the powers that be in those days were killing people simply because they had a portion of a Bible, a piece of Scripture, or hand-printed verses. They were hunted down and put to death. And what verses of Scripture and Bibles they could find were burned. Not always been. like you and I have it. The 119th Psalm, verse 97, the psalmist writes and he says, Oh, how love, how love I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are ever with me. In other words, your word, your law is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light. under my path. Yes it is. Faith in the Bible. Modern day mothers need a third thing. They need to understand how to use prayer properly as we talked about this morning. They need to realize that one of the greatest things they can have is faith in their prayer, Matthew chapter 7, I love it. We've talked about it now in the last two or three sermons that I've preached. I remember referring back to Matthew 7, but one more time we're there. What's one of the greatest needs that modern day mothers have is that faith and prayer, faith and prayer, faith that God hears and God answers. But there are conditions to be met. Again, a submission to God, a trusting Him, realizing that He gives us what we ask for. Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth, and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened, and so on. Faith and prayer. It's not about faith in your faith. It's faith and prayer. Faith in the fact that God hears. God knows my life and yours. God sees that you are submitting. God sees that you are confessing your sin. God sees that your fellowship is with him. And he so wills and desires to answer those prayers and help. Who do you think taught Timothy how to pray? Chapter one, his grandmother and his mother, wow, they taught him to pray, to ask, to seek for God's wisdom and God's guidance in his life. Faith and prayer. Everyone that asketh receiveth. Yeah, I believe that. In World War I, there was asking for volunteers to get the enemy's flag down off the flagpole. run our flag up it. They had overrun an enemy concentration camp and was liberating some of the prisoners and they were wanting to show those who were coming from behind that we had control of the area, run our flag up the pole. In World War I, But three of the men who volunteered to take the enemy's flag down and run ours up were shot and killed before they could get the process finished. Still, the commanding officer asked for volunteers. We need to get that flag down and get ours up. Who will do it? One individual, the last one that volunteered said, I'll do it. Yay, the cheers went up and they were all so elated. He was a brave soul but he said there's only one condition. What is that condition? That you wait until a certain time this afternoon, say four o'clock. You wait until four o'clock this afternoon and I'll gladly try my best to get the enemy's flag down and run our old glory up the flagpole. They said why? What will 4 o'clock, what will matter, what will make the difference? He said, because my mama always prays for me at 4 o'clock every day. 4 o'clock every day she prays for me. If you'll wait until 4 o'clock, I'll take the flag down. And he did. What? Glory, faith and prayer, knowing that people are praying for you. Hey, pray for me, I'm having surgery. Hey, pray for me, I'm in a difficult moment of life. Pray for me. I don't take that lightly and I pray for people and I know you do as well. At some point in my life when I've gone through certain instances that's been quite difficult In later years, I hear someone say, you know, that time when you were, I say, yes. They said, you know, I was praying for you. Oh, I thought it was out of the greatness of my own life that God gave me peace and helped me. No, come to find out, there were numbers of people who were praying for me and praying for you. Hey, the greatest thing mamas could get hold of is faith and prayer. Realize it works, not just know in your head and your heart that it works, but put it into action and put it into practice to work it, to work it again and again. I, uh, read the story of two praying mothers. I copied it down. Billy Sunday was that professional baseball player who surrendered to preach to the gospel ministry, you remember? And Billy Sunday tells of a minister who was making calls from house to house. He came to a certain home and asked for the mother, but the child that opened the door said, you can't see mama right now. Well, what's the matter with her? Why can't I see her? He said, because mama prays from nine until 10 and no one can interrupt her. He said, okay. He waited for 45 minutes until she came out, and he said it was worth the wait. You could tell she'd been with God. He said her countenance was all aglow, not a bright light, but you know how joyful she appeared, her face of contentment and satisfaction. And he said, that's what made that home such a great home was that you had a praying mama. Every day from nine until 10, she prayed for her children. It said that Susanna Wesley, who had 17 children, how busy will that keep you? 17 children spent one hour every day in prayer, not only for her family, but for her husbands as well. spent for 17 children, she prayed an hour every day. She had two sons that brought revival to England because they were preachers. And she had daughters that were missionaries in foreign countries. What a great history of praying mothers. There's a fourth thing that mothers today need. They need faith in God's promises concerning their children. We touched on it this morning. Faith in God's promises concerning their children. Proverbs chapter 22 verse 6 is that verse that I told you about this morning. Train up a child. It means to teach by method of question and answer. The best way, I've oftentimes taught my Bible class by asking questions, not just giving you information, but asking questions and making you think. That's the best way to train our children. Give them instruction, but then ask them questions. Train a child, train up a child. The up is about the ongoing process, it never ends, it continues on. Train up a child in the way, in God's way, in God's all over plan and purpose, the way. A child's actions may stumble from time to time, but he still has focus. on the way that has been ingrained within him, the way to honor God with life, a work ethic, and other ideas. Train up a child in the way he should go. When he's old, he'll not depart from it. I love it. Faith in God's promises, setting examples of discipline, discipling them in a right way. We should give, mamas should give their children a faith in God, a love for the Bible, a work ethic. It's okay to make, I heard recently about a child that kept calling his mama who was off with one of the other children at an athletic event. They would split up, mom and dad would go with this one and that one and do different things. And one of the younger children called the mother and she wouldn't answer and he kept calling, kept calling. Finally she answered and she said, what is it? What do you want? Isn't your dad there? Yes, he's here. And the child said, would you tell dad to quit making me mow the yard? And she said, what? Tell dad to quit making me mow the yard. I thought, man, if that had been my child, I can tell you what would have happened when I found that out. I would have doubled down on it. Not only would he have mowed the yard, he'd had a shovel digging a ditch all the way across the yard just so we could have a ditch. He'd be doing all kinds of things. You need to train these children today to have a work ethic, a work ethic. It's one of the most important and valued things outside of their faith in God and their love for the Word of God is to have a work ethic, to know how to work and to love to work, to enjoy doing what they're doing, faith in God's promises of the children. In Proverbs chapter 30 and verse number 17, Proverbs 30 and verse 17, the eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother The ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it. I'm amazed at people today who let a three-year-old run their life. I'm amazed at people who can't control a five-year-old. You know? And especially for an 11-year-old, they say, well, we've just done everything we know to do, and we just do not know how to get in his head. I don't know about getting in his head, but I can tell you how to get in the seat of his breeches real good and get his attention. You got to get a dog's attention before you can train him anything. You got to have a horse's attention before you can train it anything. and a good solid stick will take care of that. You say, oh, that's cruel, that's archaic, that's bronze age. Do you remember that God said, spare the rods, pull the child? Boy, listen, I'm not talking about abusing a child. I'm not talking about making a child bleed. I'm not talking about any of that. I'm just talking about getting his attention by warming his britches real good, and then he's ready to listen to you. If you wait till he's 15, 16, 17 years old, you've waited too long. Now you got to use some other kind of harsh measurement. Faith in God's promises concerning the children in every area and instant. I read a story again a few years back about a seven year old here in Texas. Now get this. I'm not talking about this kind of control. A seven-year-old who was locked and chained in the bathroom for four years and his only companion was a dog. He does not know the love of a mother's arms. He doesn't know the unconditional love of a father or a mother. What horrible instances, and yet we hear about it all the time. Things are happening just like that everywhere. Children abused by an uncaring, unloving, ungodly mother and father. It's horrendous. There's a fifth thing that modern day mothers need. They need faith in Romans 8.28. Romans 8.28. You know what it says. So do I. We know that all things work together for good. He didn't say everything that happens is going to be good. He said they work for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. When it looks bad and it gets worse, then we know that God must have a purpose in it. I heard one of the dads this morning telling his son about a certain case and issue that the son had to go through and endure in the school system. And I heard the dad say, you see, there must be a purpose. God must have a plan and a purpose for all that. You endured it, you had to go through it. Now you're, you know, someone else won't have to go through what you went through, but think about it. God had a purpose in it. You know, that's logical, that's right. Romans 8, 28, there must be a plan and a purpose. Things are bad, things have gone wrong, things have gotten seriously wrong. Don't you know God knows all about it for mamas who keep Romans 8, 28 in their heart and say there's a better day coming? I don't understand it right now like the song says we shall understand it by and by. I don't understand everything either but I keep my eyes focused on the Lord and I realize that he knows all about it. So it's his job to work it for my benefit and for my good. He promised he would. There's a last thing modern day mothers need. They need faith in the future life. Faith in the future life. John chapter 14 gives us that. Jesus out of his own mouth, God in the flesh. John chapter one, the creator of all things, Jesus in the flesh. He created all things before his incarnation, before he inhabited flesh. He created all things. Listen to what he says, John 14, 1. Let not your heart be troubled. Let. Sometimes we get in trouble because we allow our minds to stray and wander. Sometimes we allow our hearts to go somewhere else. Let not your heart be troubled. No need to be stressed. No need to worry yourself sick. Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me. Then he gives us the promise. In my father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, naturally, I'm going to come back and get you and take you where I am. I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. Wow. So modern-day mothers need to have the gift of faith in the future life, realizing that we're just strangers here. We're only on this earth temporarily, but we're going to be with the Lord forever and forever and forever. That's a reality. That day's coming. Jesus promised. Heaven is real. Many of our mothers are already there. Oftentimes, Kathy and I talk about her mom and dad and my mother and dad. I said, what do you think they're talking about? I said, they're happy where they are. One of these days, it's our turn. We're next in line. All of our parents and grandparents are gone. Now we're next in line to be the next ones. Should we go in natural turn to ascend into heaven at death? We're next in line. to lead the way for our children and our grandchildren as our parents and our grandparents led the way for us. Think about it. You're not gonna live forever. Faith in the future life. How many mothers today could look into a casket at the body of one of their children and say in faith, it is well with his soul? It is well. David said about his child that died, he cannot come back to me, but one day I shall go to be with him. What an amazing thing, you know? You say, well, all those Old Testament people, they didn't know any, oh, they knew a lot more than you give them credit for. David said, I shall be with him one day, but he will not come back to me. Faith in the future life. I've been at that casket. on several occasions, and I've looked into the faces of those bodies, those precious children that one way or another passed away, and I did the funerals of those young people. You say, life is not fair, that life will cut off so short so soon. Yes, but you know the great thing about it? is that those mothers and fathers could look into the face of that body in the casket and say, it is well with his soul. He's not here, he's present with the Lord. What a wonderful peace. What a wonderful thought and comfort that would be. Ah, mothers, oh, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. the hand that prays, the mother that prays, the mother who believes, the mother who instills the word of God, the mother who gives that discipline and disciples her children, the mother who trains her children to one day leave home and be able to make it without her, the mother who instills the Lord his life, his death, his promises within her children, the greatest of moms, the greatest of moms. She may never be rich, but that doesn't matter. She's rich beyond measure in the lives of her children again and again and again. The stand be dismissed tonight.