Sermon Tone Analysis

Both Father and Mother mentioned as the Lord purposes to honor both.

Notice that after God describes the purpose that you and I were designed for, worshipping and respecting Him, He then turns to honor parents.

Parents are designed to pass on godly values.

At a time when other cultures minimized women, the Lord put them on an equal Pedestal.

Honor given to both positions of Father and Mother.

Kavad: Great weight, worthiness.

worth their weight in gold.

There used to be a commercial typically in a restaurant with conversations all around.

Then one person would speak to a friend.

All other conversations stopped and people bent their ears towards that one person.

“When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen.”

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God expects mom’s to honor Him and as they speak, he expects them to point their kids to Him

Claud King shared that he has found men when a healthy home life as a child have an easier time with connecting with God as Father.

He has found the converse to be true, where brokenness in the family is found, men in particular have a harder time connecting with God as Father.

Many times though these men find guidance from their mother to seek out that relationship.

There is something about womanhood in particular that sees beyond task to connection.

Parents and especially mother’s give the personal touch children need to have a healthy perspective.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood.

Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families.

Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Charles Stanley

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The first command with a promise!

Somethings can only be understood in time and experience.

Children will never fully understand all the blessings and power god passes on through godly parents.

God basically says to children, why honor mom and dad, “Because I said so.

You will not comprehend all mom does for you until you are older and a parent yourself.”

Proverbs 31

Mothers seek to Provide more than they experienced.

When mothers thrive, we all thrive.

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– May 04, 2017

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Shaima, a mother of seven, lives in Afghanistan, home to one of the most violent conflicts in the world.

She is among that 70 percent of the world’s poor who, as a girl, was denied the opportunity to go to school.

Her life has been framed by more than three decades of war and, as a woman, systematic and at times brutal oppression.

Two years ago, Shaima was illiterate and her children were unable to attend school.

Today, she owns her own tailoring business, employing 50 women in her community, and her children are back in the classroom where they belong.

This is what is possible when we invest in mothers and their ability to become drivers of change in their communities.

We first met Shaima after a door to door campaign led by a local partner agency to identify women like Shaima – the most impoverished, vulnerable and highest risk women and children.

For a year, along with 150 other women, Shaima and her school-aged children were enrolled in a combination program that provided literacy and skills training, counseling, and early childhood education so she didn’t have to worry about their care during the day.

The men in her family were involved too, ensuring that women’s participation was socially accepted.

After a year of comprehensive training, Shaima received a loan for her new tailoring business.

The first person she hired was her husband, and she taught him how to use a sewing machine.

She enrolled her children in school and is now fully literate.

With the money she made in the first year, Shaima bought more machines and hired more women and trained them herself.

Today, Shaima has fifty employees and is an influential woman in her community.

For every success story like Shaima’s, there are millions of mothers in conflict zones around the world without an education or the opportunity to create a better life for themselves or their families.

That’s why this Mother’s Day, we’re asking YOU to be part of our community of supporters and help us empower mothers like Shaima.

Because when mothers thrive, we all thrive.

Mother’s due honor because The Lord gives them great responsibility.

Children come to the world with incredible potential.

All of God’s image wrapped up in them.

Honor your father and mother means more than simply to obey your parents.

This commandment was addressed primarily to adults, and the word for honor means “to give weight or dignity to,” in the sense of “Respect” (20:12 TEV).

It is significant that both father and mother are listed here, for the Israelite culture was male oriented.

Since this gives equal importance to the mother, one should not translate “parents.”

That means “so that,” or “in order that.”

This introduces a promise rather than a reason, as in the preceding commandment.

(See Eph 6:2–3.)

That your days may be long is literally “so that your [singular] days will lengthen.”

This means “so that you may live a long time” (20:12 TEV) or “may live a long life” (NAB).

This expression is used repeatedly in Deuteronomy in the sense of enjoying

“Honour thy father,” the commandment says, but only if he does not separate you from your true Father.

Recognize the tie of blood but only so long as your parent recognizes his Creator.

Should he fail to do so, David will sing to you: “hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father’s house.

So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty, for he is thy Lord.”6

Great is the prize offered for the forgetting of a parent, “the king shall desire thy beauty.”

You have heard, you have considered, you have inclined your ear, you have forgotten your people and your father’s house; therefore the king shall desire your beauty and shall say to you:—“thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.”

What can be fairer than a soul which is called the daughter of God,8 and which seeks for herself no outward adorning.

She believes in Christ, and, dowered with this hope of greatness10 makes her way to her spouse; for Christ is at once her bridegroom and her Lord.

This commandment is thus like the one that precedes it in linking the requirement to an action of God: As God rested on the creation Sabbath, so individual Israelites must do so each week in their own families; as God promises to take care of his dependents, Israel, for a long time in the promised land, so individual Israelites must take care of their dependent parents for a long time, as necessary, in their own families.

The prior commandment looks back on the creation Sabbath, whereas the present commandment looks forward to the nation’s tenure in the land of promise.

There is not promise here of individually long life spans.

Rather the promise refers to God’s protection of his covenant people if and as long as they keep his covenant.

We so often individualize these commandments.

Certainly this commandment has direct application for the home.

However, God first connects the sum of a nation’s health and longevity with the working together of the family unit.

Caring for Children who then care for their parents.

then a nation that is full of caring people who care for each other.

Mother’s Day is a day you get to show your mom (or the mother of your children) how grateful you are that she is in your life.

Don’t waste the opportunity.

By the way, there are many more than ten reasons, but that was all I could fit in this blog.

If it weren’t for your mom, you wouldn’t be breathing right now.

If nothing else, you should thank her for that.

Mother’s teach us to Connect with Care:

Father’s tend to put more energy into doing tasks and fixing things.

Mother’s give us the connection to the human element.

Have you ever noticed that most of the “why” do good things or bad things happen tend to come back to the “us”.

Rather than just a

Mothers are the emotional backbones of the family.

They provide the holding place for everyone’s feelings and do their best to keep us from being hurt.Who would kiss your boo-boos to make it all better if she weren’t around?

Mothers have the magic touch (and kiss) to help us heal our wounds, physical and emotional.

Truly, our mothers worked hard and made sacrifices, so our lives would be better.

There are not a lot of people willing to do that, so let her know you appreciate it.Mothers are forgiving—so forgive her in return.

Perhaps nothing will be as valuable a gift to both of you as forgiveness.

Open your heart and drop your resentments.

Now that’s love.When you want to climb the tallest mountain, your mother will make your lunch for you.