Why Do We Need Mother's Day
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
To begin today we are going to start by reading two passages.
Deuteronomy 5:16 (ESV)
16 “ Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 “that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land.”
Today, Mother’s Day, is a day that has been set aside as a special day to honor mother’s for all they do and have done for their children.
As we just read the bible is clear, we are to honor father and mother.
To honor father and mother means to both obey them while we are young and provide for them when they become old.
Thought today is set aside to honor mother’s we most certainly should be doing this everyday as God’s has said to do.
But for today I want us to ask the question “Why Do We Need Mother’s Day?”
We need Mother’s Day to…
Celebrate Life
Celebrate Life
Life Began With A Miracle.
Life Began With A Miracle.
Mankind began with the miracle of creation by our God.
7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Mankind was created in the image of our Creator.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Life is a “gift from God” and should not be taken for granted.
Everyday live is a day that was not promised but has been blessed to us for our advantage.
Maybe that advantage is to grow closer to God through seeing his beauty in his creation.
Maybe that advantage is to suffer to learn better obedience.
Maybe that advantage is to help others learn of the saving grace of our Lord and Savior.
Whatever the advantage is, each day is a gift from God for which we are to take advantage.
And though society and the “powers that be” are trying to deny this next fact mothers were the one’s chosen to perpetuate life not fathers.
Mother’s Were Chosen.
Mother’s Were Chosen.
From the very beginning of time we see this from our Creator.
20 The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Men most certainly have their role in procreation, but the mother bears a special role in the carrying during the development of the child in her body.
15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
This obviously isn’t saying that women must carry a child to be saved as Paul urged men and women in 1 Corinthians 7:1-9, 26-33 to remain unmarried, if spiritually possible, under those certain circumstances.
All that is being said is that a wife’s salvation is in the adherence to God’s expectation of the home.
Can there be a better blessing than to know that God has given women the special role of motherhood to impart the blessing of life upon children.
Now again let’s take a moment to realize that motherhood is based in creation and therefore, whether a mother is biological or adopted the blessing of creation within her is there.
Yes, it is a blessing for mothers to know God has given them this special role in life but it is even more important and a greater blessing to understand…
Mother’s Have Another Responsibility.
Mother’s Have Another Responsibility.
That greater responsibility is to recognize and impart that there is life beyond this life.
This is where being a mother can and sometimes does make things difficult.
Children are born foolish and need the rod of discipline to remove that foolishness.
15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.
It is certain the father’s responsibility to lead the way in training and disciplining the children without a doubt.
4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
But mother’s bear that responsibility too.
A mother that does not disciple for righteousness sake, ends up with a child that will bring her shame.
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
A mother’s greatest responsibility to make certain their child, the one whom they are raising, has all the knowledge and training they need to make wise decisions.
Summary
Summary
God honored women with motherhood and blessed them with the unique tenderheartedness needed to balance out the father’s discipline and teachings.
This is how God would have it and anything less or more leaves a home in chaos.
Why do we need mother’s day?
To honor the mother’s who have taken the mantle to accomplish the daunting task God has laid at their feet to celebrate life both physically but more importantly spiritually.
We also need mother’s day to…
Remember Death
Remember Death
We All Have An Appointment.
We All Have An Appointment.
As much as we value life, you and I know that we cannot escape death.
Hebrews 9:27 (ESV)
27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment
God told Adam in Genesis 3:19…
Genesis 3:19 (ESV)
19 By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
While the Lord waits for his appointed time to return and take his faithful home with him, mothers do not escape their appointed time of death.
There are many here today, including myself, whose mother’s have passed from this life to the next.
For those, Mother’s Day may remind us of sad, but sober times, however, the happy times that we experienced with them and their life is complete.
These moments God blesses us with are not meant to “discourage us.”
Rather these moments are meant to remind us that our own end is inevitable.
10 The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.
12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Sorrow isn’t a curse it is a blessing because it reminds us how precious life is and how long eternity is.
2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad. 4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.
Summary
Summary
Why Do We Need Mother’s Day?
Because it reminds us of death which does not make the faithful lose heart only grow stronger.
Why Do We Need Mother’s Day?
Because it…
Reinforces Holiness
Reinforces Holiness
The Bible Is Filled With Godly Mothers.
The Bible Is Filled With Godly Mothers.
From the OT to the NT we find good and faithful mothers.
Sarah was a good and faithful mother (Genesis 17:15-17).
Hannah was a good and faithful mother (1 Samuel 1-2).
Elizabeth, John the Baptists mother, was a good and faithful mother (Luke 1:6).
Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a good and faithful mother (Luke 2:40).
These mother’s are provided for us in the scriptures as good examples for us today.
The reality is our society needs to understand what God considers…
A Good Mother.
A Good Mother.
For too long our society has been striving to change the definition of a good mother.
TV, feminist, government and many other things has sought to destroy what a good mother looks like going so far as to say a “man can be a mother.”
A good mother is described in the bible over and over.
No better than in Proverbs 31:10-31.
She takes care of her husband and children.
She is charitable.
She is a worker of the home.
She even, if all her heavenly responsibilities are taken care of, supplements the home’s income if she so chooses.
This godly wife and mother is supposed to be taught by those who have done it already to those starting out.
4 and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
Summary
Summary
A good and godly mother practices holiness and honors God in her life by instilling those very attributes in her children.
A mother that does not do this, is not considered “by God” as good because she does not reinforce holiness in her children’s lives.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Why do we need mother’s day?
Because it is a good time…
To celebrate life.
To remember death.
To reinforce holiness.
Mother’s Day helps us do each of these.
Let us live each day honoring our mothers.
Let us live each day celebrating our mothers who are good and faithful.
Invitation
1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven. 33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.