[SPEAKER_00]: Let's all turn, Robert was 31, 25 to 30.
[SPEAKER_00]: Streath and honor are her clothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: As she will rejoice in the time to come, she opens her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is a teaching of kindness.
[SPEAKER_00]: She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idolness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her children rise up and call her blessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Her husband also, and he praises her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many daughters have come.
[SPEAKER_00]: Excuse me, many daughters have done virtually, but you excel them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tarm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears a Lord shall be praised.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of his word, and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, mother, hello, father.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a song from Alan Sherman in 1963.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the melody of log, I'm gonna say it's wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Log, geoconda, geoconda, I guess it's how you say it.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the amount of care, pauchiola, I'm sure I'm saying all that wrong, and that's okay, I don't wanna get it here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it is a nice classic, so it's funny that song, I listen to it recently, the old classic.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not talking to hello, father, hello,
[SPEAKER_00]: But I was listening to the old song and what she took that for out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's a funny, how there is a lot of songs taken from that one, classic, there's a lot of them like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You go to the old classic music, a lot of songs can come from that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I, right away, I recognized it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a nice old song, Alan Sherman.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have remembered it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, right away, that song's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: They used to have a play based off that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they even had a board game for Matt Bradley, based off that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: That did pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he used to show up Alan Sherman.
[SPEAKER_00]: He used to show up and sing that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now today, I'm going to sing it that song.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my mom's going to help me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she's not going to sing, but she's going to stand up here to compare it like she does, and she doesn't know that yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't tell her.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told a couple of people that I didn't tell her.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to only sing half the song now, and it's six weeks from now will be father's day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm singing half the herd, half the dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I have to sing in memory to daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by doing that, you have to hold dad's picture here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So hold like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope that's on my desk every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, so let me sing as to you the best I can, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: It goes like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Mada.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hello, Fada.
[SPEAKER_00]: You both raised me.
[SPEAKER_00]: As you order, use the Bible to discipline me.
[SPEAKER_00]: You both tried to whip out all this in within me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dearest Mada, Felt your love in, it was proven from the oven.
[SPEAKER_00]: All those hugs in, all the kissing.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you taught the lessons of the Lord, I listened.
[SPEAKER_00]: Darling, mother, you're a good one.
[SPEAKER_00]: All that goodness is in one sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's no slander to my brothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you still did your best with all the others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you both, dear mother father.
[SPEAKER_00]: You both did just like you, order.
[SPEAKER_00]: You raised me to be just like the Bible says you ought to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you both, dear mother father.
[SPEAKER_00]: You both prayed and awful, order you both.
[SPEAKER_00]: Help the Lord to make me be the man I need to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will finish this song in six weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're welcome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that old stupid song.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, hello, mothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: In six weeks, we'll talk more about the fathers, but today we're going to focus most sound moments.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's their day.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should be thankful to mothers for all they do, not just giving birth to us.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the first part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Carrying us is the first part, and the careous take good care of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then they give birth to us, and they took good care of us throughout those days.
[SPEAKER_00]: They comfort us and take great care of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want you to turn now with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the first part of this sermon's called Hello Mother's.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's turn now to John 16 verse 21.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a heavy grape verse when Jesus speaks about the importance of Momus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of wonderful names for mothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the names that I have, a lot of times we have mothers, we have moms, we have momas, momas, we want to like to call moma, moma, madaddiya.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's all sorts of other wonderful words.
[SPEAKER_00]: It always better be nice and loving too.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it isn't, you best watch them out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because your mother is the reason why you're alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're that too, really.
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't give him enough credit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if your dad wasn't a good dad, I apologize about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He still need to give credit for credit for his dues.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you would be alive without him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nor without her, especially.
[SPEAKER_00]: But a lot of times, people give mama credit and no credit for dad, and that's not always good either.
[SPEAKER_00]: And vice versa sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: They both need to credit in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look here.
[SPEAKER_00]: What says John 1621, when a woman is giving birth, she has pain because her hour has come.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means for hours come to bring into the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be painful.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be painful.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can see that in Genesis chapter 3, a very end of that chapter, it says it's going to be pain because of the sin of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so there will be pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it goes on to say, but as soon as she delivers the child, she no longer remembers the anguish for joy that a child is born into the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've seen a lot of stupid women who and I have, but I've seen a lot of stupid women who say, oh, I still remember the pain, oh, don't be dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying you don't recall it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's saying you no longer are concerned about that pain because all the pain that you suffered and you suffered lots.
[SPEAKER_00]: is now overcome by the joy and love of the beautiful baby.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I love to see a mom holding that baby for the first time and they're looking into the eyes that beautiful baby and it was worth every egg, every out, every all, Lord help me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's now Lord help me as a rated beautiful child in your way.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's worth every bit of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk to you today mostly about a woman, a woman who I love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hannah was married, but she was barren.
[SPEAKER_00]: She's married, but she did not have the ability to have a child, and this was very difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when we go to Samuel, so turn the first Samuel after one, and we're gonna read that chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's a lot, it's 27th versus.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we are going to not go into every little detail of their life, we don't have a time for all that, and that's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're gonna go to that first chapter.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's important to look and to know and to understand what happened and for a Samuel.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a glance, just want to sit down here, forgot to put so many bookmarks there, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Samuel, to actor one, verse one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now there was a certain man from a theme, Zufem, in the hill country of Ephraim, excuse me, and his name was Elkanat, interesting name, huh?
[SPEAKER_00]: Elkanat?
[SPEAKER_00]: The son of Jerhoham, the son of Eluhu, the son of Tahoe, the son of Zuf, the son of Ephraim, and he had two wives.
[SPEAKER_00]: The name of one was Hannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's our little hero at the moment, Hannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the name of the second wife was Pinanoff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me stop for a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the time, it was acceptable in that land and had more than one wife.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, no, it was not acceptable to have more than one husband.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, oh, yeah, it's so sexy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay, whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: It read the best of case or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was also that God doesn't say it was okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: people get saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're all right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no Mormons.
[SPEAKER_00]: God didn't say it was okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm telling you that because there are Mormons in Atlanta, Utah, who say, see, God says, okay, they have more like no, no, and every day say, God didn't come down here and put the law into the people's hand.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did in Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He told him what they couldn't do, but if you look at the law, he talks about having, and I'm talking about the law I had, talks about treating your wife.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd say, why is, did he?
[SPEAKER_00]: But people talk about human beings now.
[SPEAKER_00]: They make their own law, and sometimes it's moral, sometimes it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So sometimes it's biblical more sometimes it's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it doesn't mean that God really wanted them to have more than a wife, but they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I mean, David did too.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes he had three, four, five, eight wives.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they are mean to us all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: saw him and had so many wives, folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I ain't be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this guy here, he had two wives and we're going to take a look at two of them here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He showed, ah, he wasn't a bad guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, can I?
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look and see what he did here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says, one was named Hannah, one was named a pinnana.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now pinnana had children.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Hannah had no children.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now this must have been rough on Hannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: she loved children so much had a mother spirit and mother's heart and it does take a special heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't understand women who don't want to have children and those who can't really hurts me for them because they got a wonderful mother's heart a lot of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for whatever reason, it's a nice it doesn't happen, but I've seen
[SPEAKER_00]: that God can use them to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now a lot of times I see these women who have been blessed to have children and then they give them up.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't want them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or she had I've seen some who have been blessed with children and they murder them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And people say, oh, they don't do, oh, yes they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's legal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't make it more real.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not legal in God's eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what I do if I have a love one who doesn't say things love in many ways, don't have to love what they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it doesn't make it biblically right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so it says, it says a verse three, this man went up to the city annually, that was the biblical law, the excuse me, the religious law.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's man went up annually to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of the host of Shiloh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're the two sons of Eli, and their name is Hoffnan and Pheneas, were priests to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were creeps incidentally.
[SPEAKER_00]: When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave portions to Pinanah, his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to Hannah, he gave a double portion because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb
[SPEAKER_00]: That's pretty bad when you're living in a house with a rival in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, says, uh, her rival provoked her greatly, making her miserable because the Lord had closed her womb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thus it was year, this was, it was yearly when she went up to the house of the Lord that she provoked her.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I imagine, by the words of reading here, Pinnonah was always teasing and mocking and making fun of Hannah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine how bad it was?
[SPEAKER_00]: She wanted to be a mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you want it for ladies, especially you hear your mom's.
[SPEAKER_00]: You imagine what it was like before your mom and there's a while back, probably.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you can imagine what it was like before you's a mama and you wanted to be a mama some day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You didn't know what was going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: But can you imagine someone teasing you, tormenting you, saying, I'm a mama and you're not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have their tent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, there's horrible too, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, now, in that horrible feeling, have about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have about someone else has a job and you don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm saying this to the fellas so they can understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, I got a better job than you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or someone is being a jerk to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've all had it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've had people who are being a rival.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's no need for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just for the sake of being a jerk.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know I'm being blunt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm also know that I'm speaking terms that you write and understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we all had rivals that we don't even want.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see constant rivals.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here's she is living with a rival.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she's mocking her when it comes time for this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it says that the her now her right verse six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now her rival provoked her greatly making her miserable because the Lord had closed her womb.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thus it was yearly when she went up to the house of the Lord and she provoked her.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Hannah, wet and did not eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then said Elkanal for husband to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love this, Hannah, why are you weeping?
[SPEAKER_00]: And why do you not eat?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is your heart breed?
[SPEAKER_00]: Am I not better to you than 10 sons?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means her husband was loving and he's trying to everything could make her feel good.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have hallmark cards on the ceiling.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he did the best he could come by our hallmark art.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you do?
[SPEAKER_00]: He was giving a best kid and said, well, I'm not a good guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I haven't given you something, but I'm not better than Ken of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's apparently loving a sweet and husbands.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna tell you, be loving to your wife, be sweet to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: do little thing, big things, anything can to make your wife feel loved, because it's important.
[SPEAKER_00]: She needs to know that she is all in the world for you, because, but she's done my mom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, but she's the mother of your children, and she's not a mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: She is the mother that God wants you to have with you, treat her like she ought to be treated, which I was supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: So,
[SPEAKER_00]: births nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Hannah, a rose after they had eaten in chileau and after they had drunk, not Eli, the priest was sitting on the seat by the door of the tavernacle, the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was bitter and prey to the Lord, you know, severely, you know, it's like we overcome with grief.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she, she made a vow.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means a promise, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people say you're not supposed to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're misread and you're misunderstanding Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: uh, when Jesus said to the people at the time, the old New Testament said, that should not make promises.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's simply not to be like the Pharisees.
[SPEAKER_00]: They get up and make promises simply in front of the people to make yourself look good, but that's okay to make a promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: but you post a live up to it and it makes stupid promises either.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I promise I'm going to lose 200 pounds in a month.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, don't be dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: It means that means just if you're going to make a promise or about me, everybody makes promises.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know when you come up in front of the Lord at a wedding or making promises, you're making vows?
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on, you know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people like, I've never made a promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: You made promises all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you bought a house, you made promises.
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't you?
[SPEAKER_00]: You signed a promise right there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everybody makes promises.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just,
[SPEAKER_00]: when it comes to what to do things right for God, they don't want to make a promise why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they don't really want to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: God knows the heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's, let's be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, so this, what happens?
[SPEAKER_00]: She made the vow and said, Oh Lord of host, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your made servant,
[SPEAKER_00]: And remember me, and not forget your main servant, you will give your main servant a baby boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And listen to this now, and no raisers shall touch his head.
[SPEAKER_00]: and she was praying before the Lord, Eli, that's the head priest, Eli was her mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: He saw it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now Hannah was speaking in her heart, so she wasn't speaking out loud.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, you don't have to speak out, I forgot to hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, let's just say, her lips were moving, but her voice was not heard.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, Eli thought she was drunk.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can imagine he saw so many things there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Eli said to her, how long will you be drunk?
[SPEAKER_00]: Put away your wine for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Hannah answered and said, no, my Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: My one's Lord when the word Lord is not capitalized like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't mean God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just a word for majesty.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good fatter, sir, if you will, says, no, my Lord, I am not, excuse me, I am a woman of sorrow.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have drunk neither wine or strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not consider your hand-made to be a sinful woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: For out of the abundance of my concern and provocation, I have spoken until now.
[SPEAKER_00]: in the God of Israel, grant you your request that you have asked of him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if I was Eli, I'd have been a little more careful about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Simply because what does she ask up Steve?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, granted, he probably could see that she was a good woman and he probably felt a little embarrassed to make him the assumption she could grant, not that completely by him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, so as she said, let your hands, let your hand made, find grace in your sight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the woman went a her way and eight, and her face was not sad as before.
[SPEAKER_00]: They rose up in the morning, early and worshiped before the Lord, and they returned.
[SPEAKER_00]: and came to their house to Rama.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Eleccano, excuse me, and Eleccano, her new Hannah's wife, I mean, they were together physically speaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord remembered her, and it came to pass that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, saying, this was Samuel means, remember this Samuel my boy?
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Samuel, it means, because I have asked him of the Lord, that's what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: and she received.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it goes on to say in verse 21, then the man Elcanoff and all his house went up to to offer to the Lord, the yearless sacrifice and his vows little later, of course, the Hannah did not go.
[SPEAKER_00]: What we'll just say nine months later, or a year later, whether it goes on to say
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you was a human nowadays, you might hear the say, see, she didn't live up to a promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not what I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hannah did not go for, she said to her husband, I will not go up until the child's ween.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I will bring him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he may appear before the Lord and live there forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, before we go on to verse 23, let me explain something.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they ween to child back then,
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have little bottles.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't, you couldn't go to the grocery store.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't have such a thing like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't just go and buy any kind of a,
[SPEAKER_00]: powdered milk or anything like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was usually three or four years old, usually four, they think.
[SPEAKER_00]: So three or four years old, so it was done on three or four years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I want to let you know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So first 23, so Elkin on her hasn't said to her, do what seems good to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait until you have winged him, only made the Lord establish his word.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the woman remained and nursed her son until she ween him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 24, when she had weened him, she took him up with her with three bowls, one ephah of fire and a bottled wine and she brought him to the house of the Lord in Shailot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Though the boy was young,
[SPEAKER_00]: then they slaughtered a bull and they brought the boy to Eli and she said now can you imagine Eli he said Harry probably forgot I'm gonna be three or four years can you imagine he said there oh oh yeah I remember you now kind of and anyway she said oh my Lord as you live my Lord I have the woman
[SPEAKER_00]: That stood by you here praying to the Lord for this boy I prayed.
[SPEAKER_00]: For remember he didn't know she's praying for.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the Lord has given me my petition, which I asked of him, therefore also I have let the Lord have him as long as he lives and he will be dedicated to the Lord and he worships the Lord there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He being Eli, he worships the Lord there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now,
[SPEAKER_00]: They went home.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to just let you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went head, went home, heard her husband, everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to tell you everything happened just yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you go into chapter two, which we'll talk about here in this little bit, when you go into chapter two, you see that she praised God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to go through some of that here a little bit later if we have time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that we will.
[SPEAKER_00]: But she praised God.
[SPEAKER_00]: All chapter two, at least one through ten, is all her praise in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sing a wonderful praises.
[SPEAKER_00]: and it's beautiful to see a mama loving God like she should raise in her boy like she should and now she made a promise to God and here's something that a lot of times people don't say she gave all her love to God and God gave back to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: God gave back.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know a lot of times they just say well she prayed for a son and God gave it to her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well after that she received a whole lot will get to that in a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: So
[SPEAKER_00]: We start off with saying, hello, mothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's take a look at what kind of mothers a mother needs to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It needs to be a loving mother, a loving mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: You are loving mothers here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Partially because most of you brought and gave what your children need.
[SPEAKER_00]: A loving mother gives what the child needs.
[SPEAKER_00]: This includes love, nurturing, correction, discipline, guidance, and sometimes that means being unlike.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mean, being unlike.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that might sound stupid when you first hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, pastor?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it says in Proverbs 22 verse six, and I say this a lot, Proverbs 22 verse six, train up a child in the way he should go, or they should go.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then when he is old, he will not depart from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Raising upright, raising the way of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: When they're old, they'll remember it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if they choose not to follow it, that's up to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they'll recall, you're not always going popular with kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just going to tell you right now, when I was a young teenager, here's sometimes I get mad at my mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, if I start a smart and off, this lip would get a little bit fatter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to catch up with the rest of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point is this, it wasn't because it just happened is because my mama's good at making sure I understood who was in charge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dad Ma, Dad first, my next because God was the first one charge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Dad and Mom, and we had to obey.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the way the Lord told me to do it in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's so old school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you can't get older than the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing, people say that's how it goes and where you know why because they're stupid because they don't follow the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why are kids acting so bad nowadays because you're not following the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you beat on your child.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not telling you do this or do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you to guide them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do whatever discipline that you believe the Lord wants you to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that means taking away their PlayStation five, do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that means taking, and I'm not Sanford ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: If that means taking away their phone, do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see those kids on the phone's 24-7 now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did they do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sorry, pastor.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did they do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I can't watch something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, pick where your phone for a minute or five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do what it's got to be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let the child parent you, parent them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine if Samuel had tried to tell mom, no, don't feel like going to the temple?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, there ain't going to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, it's not how we live.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have to let God do the raising.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine 10 o'clock God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Lord, I know I'm supposed to be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: But no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how it works, how it works.
[SPEAKER_00]: If people wanna know why so many things go wrong in life, well, maybe they should come to know him and follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's all lovein'.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes lovein' is disappointment.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just is.
[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate my mama this one of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was I always right?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, sometimes I was a smart, math little deer.
[SPEAKER_00]: except for the little part, but the all the rest is true.
[SPEAKER_00]: And mom and dad had to tell me now.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, and I'm gonna tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: Men, I want you to listen now.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's true, you dad's.
[SPEAKER_00]: And grandpa was another.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I start smoking off my mom, you know who's behind her?
[SPEAKER_00]: My dad's.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he, oh boy, my dad's eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he gave me this look.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ooh, I start crying at God because I thought it was about to come meet him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I'd be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mom's back up to dad's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mom and dad, back up, yeah, I should've got to back you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's how it's got to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not going to for Samuel again.
[SPEAKER_00]: That now we're in chapter two.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to skip ahead, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is smidge.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to skip ahead to verse 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 18, it says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, why am I skipping so much?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, we're going to skip the prayer at this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to skip the part where it talks about Eli and his two sons, his sons are stupid and evil and wicked and they took things and it may not sound like a big deal to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was stealing from the sacrifice as a need when they were supposed to do and thing and he loved stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't supposed to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that a big deal?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: They weren't worshiping God like they should.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a bad attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, attitude is a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: not putting God first.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got a bad attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not listening to God because you want to hear what you want to hear.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You ever have a teenager, by the way, I'm sorry youngsters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know your teenagers, but when you're a teenager a lot of times you don't mean to a son as you haven't had to mom, mom does say, you need change your attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm not doing anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gosh.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there isn't had to, you see those soldiers get to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how common when young men would before their teenagers, they got small shoulders.
[SPEAKER_00]: By the time they're 20, their shoulders are big and strong, because they can strike them for so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, but that's what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, what happens is, whether you mean to or not, when you're going through that or momental changes, you get an attitude and mom, dad, know how to correct that attitude.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the point is, there's attitude towards God too.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of Christians have they don't even know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God needs to correct that attitude too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Eli Suns had actors because Daddy didn't correct them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'll get to that another time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's now go to 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Samuel, Mr. before the Lord, as a boy, wearing linen e-fod, that's a little chest thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now his mother will make him a little coat and brought it to him every year.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means every year should be in a minute coat as he got older.
[SPEAKER_00]: See that's a good mom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we were really young.
[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have much money.
[SPEAKER_00]: We fairly poor.
[SPEAKER_00]: To be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd add this in truck driving and then he was a pastor.
[SPEAKER_00]: A church start off so super small that if he had had this many people in the church and even though this is a small amount for church really, if we'd had this much, he'd been happy as I'll get out, but we didn't have very many people in church and so he didn't make a whole lot of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times my mom would have to go to T.G.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Y.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if I remember that, T.G.
[SPEAKER_00]: and Y back in the day.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she'd have to go there and places like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she'd have to get some patterns.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she'd grab the patterns and she'd make us, she'd find a polyester, thank you, mom.
[SPEAKER_00]: She'd grab polyester and make us these ugly shorts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember very well, just ugly, lying green.
[SPEAKER_00]: Probably extra sure, so I would have to wear to school.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know why I wasn't popular, but I do know this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It, these bridges covered me and everyone thank you for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I know this that mom and dad did the best they could to take care of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what Samuel's mom did for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to think about the mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Going home and starting a new coat for her son.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every year, by the time she got back, he was bigger, and the old one didn't work anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'd outgrown it, and she had a new one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a lot of love and mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people might look at it, and she gave them a, no, she did not.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, she did not give him a, she gave him over to the ones she promised.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Lord God, a love and mother, hands or baby to God, it's his Lord and raise him through me.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this case, Lord, he's yours.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you know that's what we're supposed to do as parents?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying drop off of the doorstep because I'm not going to be here to help it, but here's the thing, I am saying that we're to raise our child with God being the parent through us.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So now his mother, mother would make him a little coat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the thought of that little coat and brought it to him every year.
[SPEAKER_00]: When she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, and I love this, the Lord give you offspring from this woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, now for the sake of the request which she made to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because he knew, see Eli wasn't that bad of guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a, oh, he was a horrendous daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was stupid when it came to reasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's done boys, but he was a good man and love God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he did put God first like the sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about it another day.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we'll get the daddy day.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's what I like to call it?
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, he didn't put God like the sugar.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Lord, he if you offspring from this woman for the sake of their quest, which he made you through the Lord,
[SPEAKER_00]: Then they would return to their home.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord visited Hannah, listening to this now.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord visited Hannah so that she conceived, listening to this now, and bore three sons and two daughters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So because of the one child, she dedicated to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gave her five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three sons, two daughters.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah.
[SPEAKER_00]: That wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: My three sons, and with that two daughters beautiful in that beautiful, then it says, and the boy Samuel grew before the Lord, this does it just mean he grew up and got bigger, this means he grew in the Lord, he grew spiritually, he grew holy and wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when God needed him, God literally called out Samuel,
[SPEAKER_00]: And Sam, you heard and said, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he went over to Eli.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we're not going to get in all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he went to Eli.
[SPEAKER_00]: He thought it was Eli, called him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Eli said, would it really be?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a little young, could it really be?
[SPEAKER_00]: He said next time say, I'm here, Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he did the point is, the Samuel was used greatly.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was Samuel who was there when the first king was called, not that he wanted it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that really God wanted to have his king yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he was the one that God used to call out David, David, who'd be the great, great, great, great, great, great.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could create great, great, great, great father of Jesus, the Messiah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm telling you, Samuel will use greatly, and I'll start with a mother's heart who couldn't be a mother, but she had a mother's heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta stand up.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had a mother's heart, and she loved the Lord God more than anything, and that's what a mother's heart is.
[SPEAKER_00]: She loved.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she loved God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she wanted to be a mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, I'm going to be on the side saying, you can't be a mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God said, Oh, yes, she can.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she did.
[SPEAKER_00]: And praise the Lord for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she did just have one.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had six babies all together once you have.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had six boys and two beautiful daughters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I praise the Lord for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I say, hello, mothers, you need to be loving mothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you need to be darling mothers, darling mothers.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's a darling mother?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm going to tell you what a darling mother is.
[SPEAKER_00]: A darling mother is when you get older.
[SPEAKER_00]: When you're young, your kids don't always agree with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as time goes on, age and knowledge is with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's with them, the kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as they get older, they start realize how smart mama always was.
[SPEAKER_00]: More importantly, how smart God is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And now he's given in that wisdom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I look back now, it's some of my dad and my mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Said to me, oh, they're getting so much smarter now.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I'm getting smarter because the wisdom of God has settled in me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I look back to the 1990 when I turned 14.
[SPEAKER_00]: That dumb kid, you know, there's a lot of things that that kid didn't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he thought he knew so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he might have known how to collect ninja turtle cards, but he sure didn't know how to be a good godly man and wouldn't known if it hadn't been for his father, his mama who followed God and not everything they wanted, but they wanted to follow God more than what they wanted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that, their children did too.
[SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't just me, even though the song says different that I was saying want to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, Proverbs chapter 14, verse 1, Proverbs 14, 1, let me just tell you, darling mothers, children are to appreciate you, even they don't always agree, when you're older as the cakes, they're not always going to agree with you, but they appreciate you, and they appreciate what you've done and are doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: They do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a proper 141.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every wise woman builds her house.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the foolish holes it down with their hands that I look around now, I see not darling muggers in this world today.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's some, there's many.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see a lot of dopey muggers do.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the young days, a lot of young women who are trying so hard to be the best friends of kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: And because of that, it's sad because they're letting the kids raise them and their change in wisdom for stupidity and they're being very unbeatable.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they let their boys be their daughters and their daughters be their boys and and all sorts of other stupid things and it's sad and that and I see these women as you're getting older and I get it I get it they've been so used to be in these forkaces hugely in name only women and now they're trying to pretend like the teenagers when they're 45.
[SPEAKER_00]: But come on, but you've seen it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you've seen it on Facebook or somewhere else.
[SPEAKER_00]: These gals who are trying to read it hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here's your kid, you know your kid is embarrassed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And your kid is 17 years old and they're the, who's that if the guy says, because that's my mom.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what's true, it's true, you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, as a Christian,
[SPEAKER_00]: This should always come from being, I'll come out the fact that the kids start to realize that you're a darling mother and they should always have loving mothers and they should always say hello mother, all they should come from being godly mothers which you should always be a godly mother first.
[SPEAKER_00]: Big godly mother, not a safe perfect mother because I got bad news, you never gonna be a perfect mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'm not perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, you're not going to be perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're still human.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're human.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God, through you is perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is always perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if they see more of God, unless of you, you know it's going to be perfect because you're perfect.
[SPEAKER_00]: You now, God, but God is.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's look to first Samuel one more time.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if I have time read all of it, but I'll try for Samuel
[SPEAKER_00]: after she dropped off, Sam.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's important, because listen when she says a guy, she said, Hannah prayed, saying, my heart rejoices in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: My horn is exalted in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean, my horn?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's take horns, they put oil in it, and that's how they put it, and poured under the sacrifices.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's what it means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Says, my horn is exalted in the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: My mouth is bowed against my enemies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I rejoice in your salvation, there is not holy as the Lord, for there is none besides you, and there is no rock like you are God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not multiply proud speech, nor let arrogance come out of your mouth.
[SPEAKER_00]: For the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him actions are examined.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bows of the mighty are broken, but those who stumble,
[SPEAKER_00]: are girded with strength.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those that were full have hired out themselves for bread, but those that were hungry ceased to hunger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even the Baron has borne seven and she has many children waste away.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord kills it makes alive.
[SPEAKER_00]: He brings down to the grave and brings up the Lord makes poor and makes rich.
[SPEAKER_00]: He brings low and lifts up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He raises up the poor out of the dust and lifts up the oppressed from the downhill to make them sit with princes and inherit.
[SPEAKER_00]: the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has set the world upon them.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will guard the feet of his saints, but the wicked will be silent in darkness, for by strange shall no man prevail.
[SPEAKER_00]: The adversaries of the Lord will be broken to pieces.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will thunder against him out of heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord will judge the ends of the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: He will
[SPEAKER_00]: to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was what she said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I want you to think about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said something about lady having seven children.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is he in to get blessed with?
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven children.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I thought that was very, very wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she was a seven children after this wonderful praise.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I say this to you, wonderful mothers, loving mothers,
[SPEAKER_00]: God loves you, God used you, God will continue to use you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never stop praising the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never stop being led by God, being used by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I will quote John from third John four.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's only one chapter, but I like to say chapter one.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true, chapter one verse four.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, and he's talking in a spiritual sense, but still, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walking through.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that's true when it comes to Momus.
[SPEAKER_00]: They want to hear their babies no matter what the age is walking in the truth of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I say it again, I have no greater joy than to hear than my children are walking through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, once you think of this, one of the Momus, God has appointed you to raise your children to walk in truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: How proud you think God is of you, very.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very proud of you for doing what you're supposed to have done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pastor, you don't understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: My children, I raised them, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But not all of them did write, well guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you did write, and even if you messed up, don't think about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think about the fact that if you've done your very best, your possible can.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all that matters.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God knows it, and you know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's all God's gonna judge by.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not your fault.
[SPEAKER_00]: If somebody decides to take another road, you do your best, and if they do their best, it's all they can do to.
[SPEAKER_00]: My son, here are the instruction of your father.
[SPEAKER_00]: And listen to this, do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
[SPEAKER_00]: For they will be a garland of grace on your head and change about your neck.
[SPEAKER_00]: Mothers and fathers are such a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Enjoy the mother with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some day they won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in your heart, they're with you always and more importantly, when they're raised and brought to you and guided by the father God,
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that they shared with you is with you always.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's bow and prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dear precious Heavenly Father, I pray that you be with us today.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray you bless the Mama's, bless all the ladies, I pray you bless all the ladies.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray Lord Jesus that you be with the men to and that you will help them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Help us Lord altogether to walk following you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray, Lord, for those who do not know you, for those who are out there in the world,
[SPEAKER_00]: doing their own thing that they will find you today.
[SPEAKER_00]: They will be guided by you today.
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll feel your love today and forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this in your holy name, amen and amen.