Christ
is the Mystery no. 88
Motherhood
April 12, 2013
Brian Kocourek
Now, being this is mother's day it
might be a good idea to reflect this morning on what the bible teaches
concerning mothers and motherhood. What does the Bible say about Christian mothers?" Being a
mother according to the Bible is a very important role in the family of God
that many of you sisters will come into. A Christian mother is commanded to
love her children as
Paul said in Titus 2:3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becomes holiness, not
false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love
their husbands, to love their children, 5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at
home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of
God be not blasphemed.
Now, Paul is telling the sisters that they had better
watch their behavior before their children and in the presence of their husband
lest they find themselves blaspheming the Word of God because of things they
say and things they do against your husband.
Now, you might say, How can I
blaspheme the Word of God by not obeying my husband. Paul said your conduct
could do it, your words could do it. So you had better
not do it.
But to answer your question perhaps we need to look at
what the word blaspheme means. The Greek blasphemos,
means "to injure, or do harm with words", to
defame, or rail upon. To speak evil to or of."
And some of you women in here and listening to this over the internet are guilty
of blaspheming the Word of God the way you speak about your husbands. There is
no Scripture that allows you to do so, so why do you take it upon yourself to
use words to hurt the man you swore an oath to love and obey.
So if you do not wish to be guilty of Blaspheming the Holy Ghost and the Word of God you sisters
had better learn to show respect and honor to your husbands. Now,
you might say, "I will show him respect when he shows me respect".
There is no place for an attitude like that in the family of God? Show me one
Scripture for an attitude that speaks against your husband.
Ah, you thought this being mothers day we were only
going to tell you nice things, something to stroke you the right way. Well,
that is not what God called me to do. he called me to
try to help you get rapture ready. And I can't get you rapture ready by telling
you what your itching ears wish to hear. I can get you rapture ready by telling
you what you need to hear.
Now, Let me tell you something, that very attitude that
down grades your husband is what the Apostle Paul is speaking of here, and he said if an angel from heaven come and
tell you different then let him be accursed. So let's stick with this Bible
Sisters. Otherwise you will find yourself blaspheming the Word of God by
blaspheming your husbands. The Word of God tells the wife to obey her husband
in all things.
It doesn't say in some things, or only the things you
agree to. It you are to be subject to your husband in everything in the Lord. Therefore
the only thing you do not have to subject yourself to is his leaving the Word
and you following.
So, you sisters don't
have it so easy, but you have a responsibility to obey your husband in
everything. How are you going to sow disobedience to your husband and expect
obedience from your children? Tell me how you can sow disrespect to your
husband and expect respect in return from our children?
The Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 5:24 Therefore as the
church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in
every thing. Notice he did not say in some things, he said
in everything. And the Apostle Peter also said that the women in the Old testament lived their lives in such a way that they are to
be examples for you sisters to pattern yourselves after. But too many of you
have patterned yourselves after what you've seen in the movies. That is the
problem in this Message. Brother Branham said, it used to be a shame for a
Christian to go to the movies, but now the devil brought them right into your
homes. And that has become your example, instead of reading this Word for
enjoyment, you fill your minds with I love Lucy and garbage out of hell like
that.
The Apostle Peter said in 1 Peter 3:1 "Likewise,
ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not
the word, they also may without the word be won by the behavior of their
wives; 2 While they behold your chaste behavior coupled with fear. 3 Whose
adorning let it not be that outward adorning of
plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
4 But let it be the hidden man of
the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the
ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of
great price. 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who
trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in
subjection unto their own husbands:
In other words, there adornment was in their
meek and gentle spirit and in their visible show of obedience to their
husbands. Now, let me tell you sisters a marvelous secret to a happy and
fulfilling marriage.
Women do not dress to please their husbands
they dress to please other women. Men compete on the battle field and football
field but women compete in the fashion field, but 99% of men, I mean real men
could care less if you wear the latest fashion or an old gingham dress. It
wouldn't matter to them. They want a woman who is soft, gentle, quiet, and yet
strong in integrity, strong in support of them in their stand for this word,
and strong in their own relationship with the Lord.
Now, worldly guys like modern fashion,
because they like
to fulfill their lusts while looking at women. But a man of God looks not at
the clothing you wear to cover your body, they look at your character. and you know what? So does God. And he's not coming to take
a rebellious wife, he's coming for an obedient wife.
And if you are not obedient to your husband how do you expect to be obedient to
your Spiritual husband the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, when he said for you are to be in subjection
to your own husbands, that word subjection was translated from the Greek Word Hupotasso, and we know that word means 1) to arrange under or subordinate yourself unto; in other words to subject one's self to, to obey; And
it was used as a Greek military term meaning "to arrange roop divisions in a military fashion under the command of a
leader". In non- military use, it was "a voluntary
attitude of giving in, cooperating, assuming responsibility, and carrying a
burden". "
And we find that very same attitude in
Christ Jesus to His Father.
And when viewing His
life we see this voluntary attitude in the attributes that Jesus, The Son of
God showed towards His Father.
In PHILIPPIANS
2:5 we read, "Let this attitude be
in you which was also in Christ Jesus".
Now,
notice that Peter and Paul both warned the sisters not to show this attitude of
Blasphemy which is "the act of insulting or showing contempt
or lack of reverence for" their husbands. And we all know that in
some countries and cultures blasphemy is punishable by death. So blasphemy is
not a small thing, and the spirit of this age is filled with blasphemy against
God and His Divine Order that he set forth in His Church. And I'm not talking
about the way you arrange the chairs in a church, That has nothing to do with
Divine order, what I'm talking about is the Divine order God has established, First
in God, then in His Son, and then through His Word Prophets, then in a five
fold ministry he placed in the church, and then in the husband and finally in
the wife to her children.
Paul spoke in Titus that the wife was to never
blaspheme her husband for in doing so she Blasphemed
the Word of God and that brings a reproach against on the Lord and Savior whose
name she bears.
Now, in the Book of James 3: 3 we read,
"You put a bit in the
horses mouth to make him obey. And this word for obey is not "hupotasso,"
so it does not mean the same thing.
Therefore, the obedience of a wife to
her husband is not like a dumb animal. There is n scripture for that. The
Scripture speaks of the wife subjecting her will to her husband's will so there
be no fuss in the marriage. She acknowledges there is
one head in the family, not two. It is not just obedience Paul speaks of when
he uses the word subjection, because the word submit speaks of an act of
the your will, not an act of his will.
Though you may even know better than
he does concerning a certain issue, yet you have made a choice to give up your
choice, just like the Bride of Christ gives over her will to her Grooms will, just
as Jesus gave up his own will to the will of the Father, in order to receive
His mindset, and so does a true Bride give over her will to meet his will and
his headship.
Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the
Lord.
Now, you might ask yourself the question,
what does that mean "as unto the Lord."
Well the Apostle Paul tells us in Romans 14:8 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether
we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are
the Lord's.
Or to make it easier to understand, the
Apostle Paul said in Colossians 3:23 And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, (that
means do it from all your heart) as to the Lord, and
not unto men;
So when you are asked to obey your husband,
you are expected to do it as though you are subjecting yourself to the Lord
Himself, and not to the man who asks you.
That's what the Apostle Paul also meant when
he said, Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is
fit in the Lord.
Now, the word "fit" means "that which is right". And
you even use that expression when you talk about trying on clothes or
shoes, you say is that a correct fit? In other words is that dress right for
you? Are those shoes right for you?
And so we are looking at a very difficult
role, because as a Wife you are required to subject yourselves sometimes to a
man you may think is somewhat of a dim wit, but let me assure you sisters that
may think your husband is a dimwit. You married him, so that shows your
judgment is worse than his. So submit to his judgment, and honor your vows to
honor and obey the dimwit you married.
Sorry guys, I don't call you a dimwit, but I
know some sisters have called their husbands by that name, and as I said if
that is what they think of you at least if you are dimly lit, what kind of
light did they have when they said yes. Not dimmly
lit, which is what a dimwit is, but not lit at all.
So consider the fact sisters that you have
been placed under a test, to see if your vow means anything to you, and if you
claim to be a Christian it had better mean something to you, because all liars
will go to the lake of fire.
And Paul also said in 1 Corinthians 7:10 And
unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands you,
"Let not the wife depart from her husband": Now, if
the Lord commands it, then it is "Thus Saith
the Lord". So you better do as God commands.
So basically if you married a lemon make the
best of it. Be his help mate and aid, Then you will
have lemon aid.
Pray for your lovely little dimwit that you
chose to marry, and as you honor this dimwit you are honoring the Lord
Himself.
Now, remember, Paul said, "as unto the Lord" or "as it is fit in the Lord" So your submission is unto the
Lord through your husband. That's your channel.
Now, in scripture we see
several things that are commanded of
Christian mother: Number one she is not to be a sluggard or lazy. She must be
diligent in serving the Lord as she serves her family.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And thou shalt love
the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy might. (that means with all your energy and strength.) 6 And these words, which I command thee this
day, shall be first of all in your own heart: 7 then
you shall teach them diligently unto thy children, and you shall talk of them
when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down,
and when you rise up. 8 And you
shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets
between your eyes. 9 And you shall write them upon the posts of your
house, and on your gates.
Now, that means you are not to be lazy as so many
mothers are who claim to believe in Christ but do not show it in the way they
live. It means if you are a real mother you will live it so before everyone
that they will all call you blessed.
Now, I have known very few women who have lived such a
life that everyone calls her blessed. But I have known certain Christian
sisters like Sister Meda Branham who was known for
being a very Christian lady, and I know another who has passed away and that
was LaVonne's mother. She was so loved by both saint and
sinner alike because although both sinner and saint knew where she stood in her
faith in the Lord Jesus yet she never condemned the sinner and she showed them
the same love and respect she showed to those who loved the Gospel. And that
attracted them to her as a Christian woman and grandmother. There were more
people at her funeral than I saw at several well known Ministers that passed
away who had literally thousands of followers but at her funeral she had more
than those ministers.
Why? Because those ministers only had followers of
them, while she had sinner and saint come to show their respects to her.
Another attribute of a real mother is her involvement
in the life of her children, and the instructions that she gives to them.
From Brother Branham's sermon, Great servant Moses 55-0122 P:6 Now, and Moses, the first forty years he was taught... Who
do you think Moses' teacher was? His mother. He
couldn't have had any better, 'cause she was hired as a tutor to raise her own
child. I tell you, God certainly pulled one over on Satan there, didn't He? He
sure did. And Moses, knowing now, from his mother, that he was raised up... Her
a spiritual woman, little is said about her, but brother, I want to be in
glory when she receives her crown (Yes, sir.) to see what takes place. How she
taught that little fellow right in the midst of the enemy, right there in the
furnace of the heat of it. And told him that he would be the
one that would deliver God's children out of that place.
Now, the role of a mother is a very important one, and we know that
brother Branham taught that the mother is the first teacher to her children.
She has the first influence on what that child is going to be when it is raised
up. And the Bible tells us the way we raise them up is the way they will be. That's Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from it.
Therefore, we can see the importance of the role that mothers have in
the fashioning the minds, intellect and the condition of their children's
hearts. And this works in both directions. A mother can nurture up a child to
become a great man who lives a godly life, or she can create a monster that
affects society in a very devastating way.
Expectation 55-1001 29 The first preacher that a child ever
gets is a mother. There's four, five Gospels:
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and mother. And a mother should be a Spirit
filled woman, who can teach her children, and teach them to pray and to know
about God, and so forth.
From a sermon entitled Mother's Day 59-0510M 19 brother
Branham said, But I might pass this on to the young
people. Do you know Abraham Lincoln never owned a book in his life, until he
was after twenty-one years old but the Bible and the Foxe
"Book Of The Martyrs." See? what you read molds the character that you are. No wonder we
got a bunch of neurotics today. Little old fiction magazines, and vulgar, and
nonsense is placed upon our newsstands. He owned the Bible and the Foxe "Book Of The
Martyrs." Look what it made him. But in the face of all that, one day he
made a statement like this. He said, "If there could be any good thing
found in me, it's because of a godly mother," that reared him to serve the
Lord.
20 You see, a child
listens to its mother; some little touch about that mother,
that a child will listen to. When it's hurt, it'll go to the mother for
consolation before it'll go to the father. Because she was first with it, you
know. And there's some gift that God gives a mother to be that way; I mean a
real mother. Now, I believe that mothers are honorable and godly.
22 I believe it
was in the "Ten Commandments," the late Cecil DeMille, that wrote and put
on the screen one of the masterpieces of the movie world. And before it was put
on the scene, or let out, Cecil DeMille called Oral
Roberts, and Demas Shakarian, and a bunch of the Full
Gospel ministers, and took them into his own studios, and showed the four hours
of the "Ten Commandments," and asked them their opinion of it. God
rest his gallant soul. And when I seen it, was looking at it, and a little
remark always stuck to me. If many of you who did see it, it was when the
daughter of Pharaoh... After Moses had found out that he was a--a Hebrew, and
he had decided to go dwell with his people, and there sat his once beautiful
mother, faded out, with her gray hair and her wrinkled face, setting in old
armchair, a typical mother... And the Pharaoh's daughter came in. And he said,
"Whose son am I anyhow?" And when it was brought to light that Jochebed was his real mother, the daughter of Pharaoh, with
her paint and so forth, and all fixed up, she said, "But look. He may be
your son," but she said, "I give him wealth and splendor. You
could've give him nothing but the slime pits."
But the aged gray-headed mother said, "But I give him life." That makes the difference. "I gave him life." And God gave him Eternal Life. How
true, mother...
Some of the greatest Military leaders of all time were home schooled by
their mothers.
General Stonewall Jackson, General Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur , General George Patton, General Pershing,
Admiral Perry, Alexander the Great, John Paul Jones Father of the American Navy
And brother Branham said in his sermon, Q & A COD 54-0103M 81-134 054 And the backbone of any nation
is womanhood, when it comes to morals. And you break motherhood, you've
broke your nation. We've got to a place today till our women smoking
cigarettes, and things like that, and drinking whiskey, and carrying on, and
it's--it's disgraceful. A young man to try to find a wife that's even a virgin,
that's moral, he'd have to go around some good little old Holy Ghost church
almost to find one; and that's exactly right, where a man just kept her in
and things like that, and got a little decency about her. You might think
that's crazy, but, brother, you look it over and find out, and see if that
isn't the truth. It's a disgrace. All right.
And some of the greatest Inventors of all time including: Alexander
Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Cyrus McCormick, Wright
Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright 
And did you know that your odds of being president of the United States are
much higher if you were schooled at home by your mother than being schooled in any
other school system in the United States. 14 Presidents or 31% of all US
presidents were home schooled which means their mothers played a significant
role in shaping their leadership skills:
George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland,
James Garfield, William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson,
Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Tyler, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
And what about
preachers and other religious figures in history: Men like Moses, John the
Baptist, Jesus Christ, William Cary, Jonathan Edwards, Phillip Melanchthon, Dwight L. Moody, John Newton, John Owen,Charles Wesley, John Wesley were all schooled at home
by their mothers.
Proverbs 31:1 The words of king Lemuel,
the prophecy that his mother taught him. 2 What, my
son? and what, the son of my womb? and
what, the son of my vows?
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroys kings.4 It
is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine;
nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink,
and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the
afflicted. 6 Give strong drink unto him
that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy
hearts. 7 Let
him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth,
judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for
her price is far above rubies. 11 The
heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. Now,
listen, here is the key to hi trusting her. 12 She will do him good and not evil
all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and
flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the
merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar. 15 She
rises also while it is yet night, and gives meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. (In
other words, she's up early, prepares food for the families meals while they
are yet asleep) 16 She considers a field, and buys it: with the
fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds her loins with
strength, and strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her
merchandise is good: her candle
goes not out by night. 19 She layes her hands to the spindle, and her hands
hold the distaff. 20 She
stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her
hands to the needy. 21 She is
not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet. 22 She makes herself
coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the
gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. 24 She makes fine linen, and
sells it; and delivers girdles unto
the merchant. 25 Strength
and honor are her clothing; and she
shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom;
and in her tongue is the law of
kindness. 27 She looks well to the ways of her household, and eats not the bread of idleness.
28 Her
children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. 29 Many
daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest
them all. 30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is
vain: but a woman that
fears the LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works
praise her in the gates.
Another role of a Mother is that she is
the first teacher a child has and the first Bible instructor your child will
have and that is Scriptural. Besides Moses whom we have already spoken of, we
find Paul mention Deuteronomy
4:4 But you that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day. 5 Behold, I
have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me,
that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 6 Keep
therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of
the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great
nation is a wise and understanding people.
7 For
what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto
them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 8 And
what nation is there so great, that hath statutes
and judgments so righteous as all this law, which
I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to
thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart
all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
10 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb,
when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them
hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live
upon the earth, and that they may teach their
children.
And the Apostle Paul told us in Ephesians 6:4
provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. So you are responsible to teach those
little ones sisters.
Training up your child means helping your child to develop all
the skills that will e necessary in life to make them successful, and to help
them discover their strengths and also admit their weaknesses so they can grow
and mature and learn to trust in God.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old, he will not depart from it.
You have the role to teach your child
discipline for without discipline they will never be able to disciple, for discipline
is the root and strength of discipleship training. And what discipline are we
talking about? The fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, making straight paths for their feet,
learning to discern between what is right and what is wrong. that's your
responsibilities sisters, and teaching your child the importance of expressing
love correctly, and having the proper balance never forgetting that love is
corrective.
Hebrews 12:5-11; And
have you forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My
son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art
rebuked of him: 6 For
whom the Lord loveth he chastens, and scourges
every son whom he receives.
7 If ye
endure chastening, God will deal with you as with sons; for what son is he whom
the father chastens not? 8 But if ye be without
chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then you prove to be bastards, and not
sons.
And of course we see this also in Proverbs 13:24;
He that spareth his rod hateth his son:
but he that loveth him chasteneth
him betimes.
Proverbs 19:18 Chasten thy son while there is hope, and
let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Proverbs 22:15 Foolishness is
bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of
correction shall drive it far from him.
Proverbs 23:13-14 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the
rod, he shall not die. 14 Thou shalt
beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul
from hell.
Proverbs 29:15-17 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his
mother to shame. When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall. 17 Correct
thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
The Bible never states that every woman has
to be a mother. However, The Bible does state that those whom the Lord blesses
to be mothers must take the responsibility seriously. For motherhood is a
stewardship of the children God has given you.
Sister Haddie Wright was the
kind of a mother that you women should all aspire to be like.
Brother Branham said in his sermon, Expression 62-0313 022 And her never-failing plea for her
children... I don't believe I ever met her, or left her, without her asking
a request for those children. That showed real motherhood, knowing that
life is merely a preparation place for her children. She wanted to meet
them in a land beyond here, where there would be no more hard times. She
constantly would say to me (she called me "Brother Billy"), she'd
say, "Brother Billy, pray for my children, none of them will be lost."
If that isn't expressing real motherhood... A
mother who's interested in her children, interested in her neighbors, her
husband, her loved ones, it's God in the
woman, expressing eternal things.
Notice he said, she viewed life as only a preparation place for the next
life. For the life to come. And when
you view this life in that way you make your whole life here a preparation for
that one. The goal of a Godly Mother is to prepare her children
for the going home. And that is the main role of a mother, is to
prepare her children.
Therefore, we
see through Scripture that the role of mother is to make a house a home. It
does not matter what that place looks like, be it a tent or a cottage, or a
palace. There are two main roles of a mother that the word of God speaks of and
these are #1) to create an atmosphere or environment where the children can
have rest and a place of refuge away from the stresses that this world places
among them. And #2) to train up that child in the way it should go, that when it grows up it will not depart.
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
We see how this is to be done in Deuteronomy 6:1 Now these are the commandments, the
statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you,
that ye might do [them] in the land whither ye go to possess it: 2 That thou mightest
fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I
command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life;
and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to
do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the
LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one
LORD: 5 And
thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
might. 6 And these words, which I command
thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt
teach them diligently (incisively,
that means to make them clear and unambiguous) unto thy children, and shalt talk
of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way( derek, during your course of
life), and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And
thou shalt bind them for a sign (or token) upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And
thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house,
and on thy gates.
The problem we
have today is that the word needs to be first in your heart before it can enter
the heart of your children. The Amplified version says, "And these words which I am commanding you
this day, shall be first and foremost in your own minds and hearts, then you
shall whet and sharpen them, so as to make them penetrate, and teach and
impress them diligently upon the minds and hearts of your children, and you
shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,
and when you lie down, and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as a sign upon
your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall
write them upon the door posts of your home and on your gates…
Presuming
62-0610M In a fall of a
nation, as soon as motherhood was broke and womanhood,
that nation's backbone was broke. Talk about morals in our country,
I got a piece out of the paper on the Associated Press, that when our boys
went overseas, that four out of every six was divorced by their wife that
stayed home before they were over there six months. And there was more
illegitimate children born in the State of New York during the war in one year,
than there was soldiers killed in the entire four
years of war: presuming that's all right.
059 Women put on little sexy clothes, and walk out on the street. Say,
"Yes, I'm a Christian." They're presuming that's the thing they
should do. Now, please, sister. I'm your brother. If your mother was the right
kind of a woman, she'd tell you the same, or your daddy, or your husband. And
any man will let his wife get out on the street in them shorts and things like
that, it shows how much man's in him. Let his wife set there and smoke a
cigarette before him, and know that that thing... What's his
children going to be? Don't worry about communism whipping us. We've
done whipped ourselves. It's our own rotten morals. And where did it start
from? Because the Gospel was let down at the pulpit, where it began: sissified
preachers, with not enough real baptizing of the Holy Spirit in their soul to
stand and tell the Word of God. Don't spank the child for juvenile delinquency;
spank the parents. It's parent delinquency. They let them get by with it.
You say, the parents are tired of fighting with their kids. That
may be true, but if that parent has any backbone in them, they will fight the good fight of faith and apply the token correctly, and they will hold
fast to that which is good.
Exodus 20:12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy
days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee.
Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death.
Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to
death.
Leviticus 19:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto all the congregation
of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD
your God [am] holy. 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and
keep my sabbaths: I [am] the
LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:9 For every one
that curseth (that means to trifle with, or treat with contempt) shall be surely put to death: he hath
cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be
upon him.
You know one of the greatest sins a
child can do is speak back at their parents, for this is a great sin before God
in not showing respect for their elders, and it is such a serious sin, that in
the old testament if a child was rebellious he was put to death.
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honour thy
father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days
may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. his
father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or
his mother; his blood [shall be] upon him.
Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and
rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the
voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken
unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring
him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And
they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and
rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And
all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away
from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 27:16 Cursed be he that setteth
light the things of his mother and father (that means to treat with contempt or make light of
the things that his father or his mother tell him). And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 1:8 My son, hear the
instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace
unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 15:20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth
his mother.
Proverbs 20:20 Whoso curseth
(treats with contempt) his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in
obscure darkness.
Proverbs 23:22 Hearken unto thy father that begat
thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also]
wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise [child] shall have joy of him. 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad,
and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
Proverbs 28:24 Whoso steals from his father or his
mother, and says, it's no transgression; the same is the companion of a
destroyer.
Proverbs 29:15 The rod and
reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth
his mother to shame.
Proverbs 30:17 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.
Matthew 15:4 For God commanded,
saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth
father or mother, let him die the death.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is
a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited
by me; 6 And
honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the
commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord:
for this is right. 2 Honor thy father
and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) 3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
Ezekiel 16:44 Behold, every one that useth
proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As
is the mother, so is her daughter.
If the mother is a Godly woman and she raises up her child according to the Word of God, that child
will be a Godly child.
Influence 63-0112 14 Now, we find
that Uzziah was called to be king at the age of about
sixteen years old after his father's death. And his father was a great
believer, and his mother also was a very fine woman. And this young king had
been crowned at a young age, and quickly he taken the road that was right,
because of the influence of a godly father and a godly mother. And I
think that's a very fine example for we parent today, is to set an example
before our children. Now, you'll live your best and your worst at home. And
I think that our lives... Though the children might not just exactly act like
they're noticing it, but they are noticing it. Don't you
never think that they are not, because they're watching. Not only the
children are watching, but the neighbors are watching. Not only the neighbors are watching, all that you are associated with
watch you. The people at your church watch you. The people that you do business
with in the markets, they're watching you, after your confession. And we should
always try to reflect Christ in everything that we do.
15 I know a little
motto that I had hanging in my house many years ago. And I kept it until it
just fell apart. It was something like this. "Go no place you would not
be--want to be found if Jesus should come," and, "Be saying
nothing that you would not want to be saying if Jesus should come."
And it went on with many things saying what you... In otherwise, whatever
you do or say, or whatever action that you're performing, do not
do it if you would not want to be caught in that position when Jesus come.
If we could only do that, I'm sure we'd be a great influence upon our
associates. …to my opinion, the greatest president that we
ever had in this nation was Abraham Lincoln. Now, not
because he was a Republican, but because he was, a godly man. And he was
raised, to serve God. And he said, "If there's anything that my life
was influenced by, was a godly mother who taught me to pray and to know Jesus
as my Savior." Oh, your family's what you are. You raise your child in
a certain environment; it's got a ninety-eight per cent better chance to go
right than it has to if you bring it up in the wrong way. "Bring up a
child in the way that it should go, and when it's old it'll not depart from
it." Be brought up right, teach your children to do right, to be honest, to be square and fair even when they're in school.