14 May 2006

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• 14 May 2006
• Forest Hills Bible Chapel

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The Value of a Mother

• Listen, my son, to your fathers instruction
• and do not forsake your mothers teaching.
• They will be a garland to grace your head
• and a chain to adorn your neck.
• - Proverbs 18

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The Value of a Mother

• A wise son brings joy to his father, but a
  foolish man despises his mother. Proverbs 1520
• Listen to your father, who gave you life,
• and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  Proverbs 2322

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The Value of a Mother

• I went about mourning as though for my friend or
  brother. I bowed my head in grief as though
  weeping for my mother.
• - Psalm 3514

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The Value of a Mother

• The sayings of King Lemuelan oracle? his mother
  taught him O my son, O son of my womb, O son of
  my vows,? do not spend your strength on women,
  your vigor on those who ruin kings.
• - Proverbs 311-3

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God as a Mother

• Though my father and mother forsake me,
• the Lord will receive me.
• - Psalm 2710

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God as a Mother

• For the Lords portion is his people, Jacob his
  allotted inheritance. In a desert land he found
  him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded
  him and cared for him he guarded him as the
  apple of his eye, like an eagle that stirs up its
  nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its
  wings to catch them and carries them on its
  pinions. The Lord alone led him no foreign god
  was with him. - Deuteronomy 329-12

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God as a Mother

• ? O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the
  prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I
  have longed to gather your children together, as
  a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you
  were not willing.
• - Matthew 2337

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But what about

• those whose Moms are no longer with us?
• those whose memories of their mothers are not
  good?
• those who have not been blessed with children?

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Moms and the Body of Christ

• He settles the barren woman in her home
• as a happy mother of children.
• - Psalm 1339

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Moms and the Body of Christ

• Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort
  him as if he were your father. Treat younger men
  as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger
  women as sisters, with absolute purity.
• - 1 Timothy 51