Can God speak on Mother’s Day? (1347 views, 24 replies)

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Proverbs 31 teaches us that God blesses the world through special women:

Through the gift of that special woman He blesses husbands (Proverbs 31:10-12,23,28). The passage was clearly written as a way to show how this woman truly blesses a king. Yet, in verse 28, the illustration is that she uses her wisdom to shape her husband’s gifts for the gates, not the court. So, this is for every man. Truly, whether carpenter or king, all men are dependent upon the nurture and wisdom of their wives for making them whole persons.

Through the gift of that special woman He blesses households (and we could even say, entire economies or markets) (Prov. 31:15)

It is amazing that King Lemuel’s mother, if she, indeed, wrote this part of the Proverb, also knew that the woman brought blessing to the markets. Today, on Mothers Day, it is a good time to say thank you to the Lord for how He has made our wives, our mothers, our daughters to be so industrious that entire markets are dependent upon them. If you think I am overstating it, just take a look at any ad on television and see which gender they are marketing to. While there are social engineering attempts underway, there can be no denying that our society reflects the same truth that Proverbs 31 teaches: the woman of the house controls the market concerning her house.
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Through the gift of that special woman He blesses the poor and the needy (Prov. 31:20)

This is such a blessing. Without women in the Church where would our mercy ministries be? God has used women in the Church to feed the hungry, cloth the naked, and lead great causes throughout our own national history, such as the temperance movement that, in its beginning, was a movement to stop alcoholism from destroying families, or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, to stop the unnecessary carnage on our highways, or ministries like the Salvation Army, or any number of other charities in our land. Thank God for our women and our Mothers who saw a need and reached our their hand in God’s name to save a soul.

Through the gift of that special woman He blesses the Church (Prov. 31:26)

It says that she teaches. Oh, how I have witnessed this first-hand! From my own experience of Sunday School teachers in my life to watching my own wife teach in our churches, to seeing the special women who taught our son in his life, growing up. I know that right here in this church the backbone of ministry consists of those women who faithfully teach, teach the children, teach other women, teach in the community, teach in schools. We thank God for our women today who have served our churches and our communities through teaching.

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The covenant of God’s grace was as important then as it is now. Mothers play a critical part of the continuation of the faith by inculcating the children in faith in God so that the children grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ. Of course, this is what Mothers’ Day is all about. Children are blessed. I always recall that wonderful illustration of the woman in the grocery with the buggy filled with groceries, a toddler, and a newborn, and a five-year old running behind. Frazzled, as she was checking out, managing her little ones, flipping through her coupons, this one-time corporate executive woman-on-the-way-up looked to see a former co-worker. The woman, polished and coiffured, asked, as if she couldn’t see the obvious, what she was doing these days. The young mother and former co-exec, smiled, and replied, “I am overseeing the training and development of the next generation of leaders of our nation. How about you?”

Through the gift of that special woman He blesses other women (Prov. 31:29-30)

This is a woman among women. And the statement bears pressing a point that a godly woman is a teacher of other women, a model to others. As St. Paul teaches in the Pastoral Epistles, older women should teach the younger women. One way this is accomplished is how they conduct their lives as a wife, a mother, a woman in their home and in the community.
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Through the gift of that special woman He blesses Mankind (Prov. 31; 1 Tim. 2:13-15)

It is at this place that we must turn to our New Testament reading for today: 1 Timothy 2:13-15. That text is a controversial text, but is given by St. Paul to support an argument that he was making to Timothy about the role relationship of men and women within the Church. His argument, which must be dealt with another time, was grounded in the fact that women had been deceived in the crisis that led to the fall of mankind. Yet, Paul here states that women, who had been deceived, would be saved through childbearing. Now, is St. Paul here meaning to say that woman will experience spiritual salvation by becoming “with child” and by giving birth to that child? What about those who cannot have children? Or those girls who never marry? Or those who die before they reach child-bearing age? Surely he is not guaranteeing that Christian women will all defy the fall in this life and successfully bear children without a any medical problems. The rain falls on the just and the unjust.
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Dr. George W. Knight III in his commentary on the Pastoral Epistles joined with many others, including myself, to argue that Paul is merely saying what he says in other places: namely, that womankind, who experienced the fall and a certain kind of hardship after the fall, also, received a promise in Genesis 3:15 that she would bring forth the Messiah without the help of a man, and, indeed, that is her primary role and her place.[2] It was woman, then, Mary, who was the ideal woman, the Proverbs 31 woman, if you will, who was the “God-bearer” and who said, “from now on, all generations will call me blessed.”

Whatever you think of how Mary is revered in the world today in certain parts of Christianity—and it has been extreme in some cases and slight in others—you cannot deny that her prophecy came true. The truth is, it was woman who brought forward the Savior, woman who anointed the Savior’s feet with her tears, women who stayed faithfully at the foot of the cross, women who went to anoint his dead body, and it was a woman who first proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, “He is risen.” Lydia, a merchant who sold purple dye, like the merchant-class woman in Proverbs 31, was the first convert in Europe and all the world looks back to that first European who confessed Christ (Acts 16:14-15).

Today we as Christians separate from the world’s picture of womankind.

In some cultures, woman is hidden by the burka. In other cultures, she is hidden by shame. In others, she is veiled in false and unrealistic expectations. But, we who read her story in the Bible refuse to see women as anything other than the gift of God, the last and highest order of creation, who became the one who bore the Savior in the world and bore the news of the Savior to the world. She is mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend. She is a child of God. That is her identify.

Each of us remember that special one today. I remember The Angel who became my Mother. She was sent to me by Jesus at a time in my life that I needed her to be delivered from a home of child abuse. My Mother who reared me, she had boys four children, She had Jesus in her life, and she proclaimed Him to me. She was the only mother I have ever known. I could not have had a better mother. As I speak her teaching speaks through me.

Today, as you think of your mother, your wife, or another woman in your life who nurtured you, raised you, helped you, taught you, cared for you, or shared the gospel with you, remember that this woman was a gift of God to show you His love. And the greatest way we can honor our mothers today, or any day, is to honor God, by following that One that woman brought forth: Jesus of Nazareth, as Lord and Savior of our lives.

And ladies, young women, and my daughters in faith: Rememer that your identity is not in an unrealistic standard made by anything or anyone in this world. Your identy is as a precious daughter of the Father who sent His only begotten Son to fulfill the perfection that you couldn’t fulfill and to suffer and die and rise again from the dead for your sin. He has removed your shame and and replaced it with honor. This is the gospel in this passage and the gospel for this day.

In memory of My Mother who went to be with Jesus March 15th 2017
Happy Mother's Day Mom!





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" the last and highest order of creation"?

"Can God speak on Mother's Day?"
Answer: not to me.

And it's Mother's Day, not Father's Day.
Maybe God should listen more instead of speaking/preaching...

To all moms, Have a lovely Mother's Day!

HoleeeShyt satans water boy finally blocked me. W00T!!
HALLELUJAH FOR THAT... and the resulting peace on Mothers Day.

If you read Genesis 1, YHWH remarks that everything was good that had been created...

...until Genesis 2.

18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. 20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
The Creation of Woman
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
... 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 2:18-25

Man is meant to be complete by romantic intimacy with Woman.

The Hebrew word for alone also means "seperate or a part". Man is never complete without a loving female spouse as his companion.
biblehub.com/hebrew/905.htm

The Hebrew word ezer mean that this special person helps the Man to feel complete.
biblehub.com/hebrew/5828.htm

She literally is part of him that is removed and then only by romantic intimacy is the Man made complete. She is ishshah both Woman and Wife.
biblehub.com/hebrew/802.htm

This act is both sacred, is romantic, is metaphorical, and mystical. And so love is perpetuated by hope and children.
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So women are there to make "their husbands" awesome and to take care of the market.

When people say the Bible is a relic that's best suited to museums and doesn't fit out lives anymore, I don't know why...

uuuuhiiii i remember Anhedonia nightmare! he was batshidd crazy !he wasnt online for 9 months so possibly he met the holy trinity he loved so much!
RIP

Anyone quoting St Paul in the same sentence as women's rights really needs therapy.