Bind Us Together Lord
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
Mother’s Day can and is a special day because no one is without a mother.
The bible, throughout it, reminds us the importance of honoring our mothers.
The first commandment with a promise demonstrates this.
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.”
Not only are mothers to be honored they are to be deeply revered.
3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Because of this, the bible warns us against despising, cursing against, and scorning mothers.
22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
20 If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
17 The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.
By the way none of these passages mentions the difference between “godly mothers and ungodly mothers.”
All mothers, deserve their children’s respect.
However, a godly mother is one that will not create discord but will rather “bind the family together in love.”
And it is that aspect of godly motherhood that I want us to consider this morning.
How do godly mothers “bind us together in love?”
Mothers bind their family together in love with a…
Binding Sacrifice
Binding Sacrifice
A Willingness To Go To The Lord
A Willingness To Go To The Lord
Spiritual family bonds are created when mother’s show a continual willingness to go to the Lord for everything in their lives.
Even before Hanna became a mother to Samuel she was demonstrating this willingness.
10 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. 11 And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.” 12 As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.
13 Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman. 14 And Eli said to her, “How long will you go on being drunk? Put your wine away from you.” 15 But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the Lord.
16 Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.” 17 Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.” 18 And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.
Mother’s help bind their children’s love for God when their children see their mother’s willingness to go to her God for help.
17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. 18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.
22 Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.
Mother’s help bind their children’s love for God when their children see their mother’s willingness to go to God when things are great.
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Mother’s bind their family together in love when they demonstrate a willingness to always go to their God for everything in their lives.
Mother’s also bind their family together in love when they demonstrate…
A Willingness To Give To The Lord
A Willingness To Give To The Lord
Again Hanna is the ultimate illustration of this.
Hanna made a promise to give her child up to God, if he would bless her with child, and she did.
26 And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the Lord. 27 For this child I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition that I made to him. 28 Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord.” And he worshiped the Lord there.
What amazing courage it took to take a “just weaned child” (her only child) and lend him to the Lord as long as he lives.
Now I would imagine that many a mother in a similar situation would not find it good in their heart to give their only child up to be raised by someone else, even if they were godly.
Yet, after Hanna gave Samuel to the Lord she prayed a most beautiful prayer.
1 And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation. 2 “There is none holy like the Lord: for there is none besides you; there is no rock like our God. 3 Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. 4 The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength.
5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn. 6 The Lord kills and brings to life; he brings down to Sheol and raises up. 7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. 8 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.
9 “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail. 10 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
Hanna was able to “bind her family together in love” by giving her child to the Lord.
Oh, how I wish more mothers understood this most powerful truth.
Far too many mother’s raise their children to be “their children” instead a “God’s child” but oh the blessings that flow down and the family bounds of love that pour forth with a mother understands turning her child over to God.
Summary
Summary
Mothers bind their family together in love when they demonstrate a binding sacrifice.
A willingness to sacrifice their pride and go continually to the Lord for everything in their lives and a willingness to sacrifice their selfishness and lend their child to God.
Mothers also bind their family together in love when they demonstrate in the home a…
Binding Devotion
Binding Devotion
To Her Husband
To Her Husband
The bond of love is forged through her devotion to her husband.
When sons and daughters see their mother devoted to their father, they can’t help but learn the price of binding love.
This is all the more valuable when we take into account that this is the foundation of a child’s learning of the spiritual bond they will have with God.
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
A wife’s devotion to her husband, in the Lord, is vital to building the binding strings of love within not just their physical family, but the spiritual strings of love.
Not only does a mother bind together in love her family through her devotion to her husband but also…
To Her Children
To Her Children
The bond of love is forged through her devotion to her children.
When sons and daughters see their mother’s devotion to them, they can’t help but learn the cost of binding love.
A mother is willing to sacrifice for her children.
Solomon knew this when he came across a situation of two women both came claiming a child belong to them.
25 And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.” 26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.”
27 Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.”
A mother’s devotion to her children is unmatched.
A child learns what true devotion to God looks like when a mother is righteously devoted to her children.
This brings me to our last subpoint here, a mother’s binding her family together in love is only fully accomplished when she is devoted…
To Her God
To Her God
Now again, throughout this, we have assumed this to be the case, but as we all know that isn’t always the case with every mother.
A mother can only truly forge the bond of love in her family when she is fully devoted to God first and foremost.
This means, every decision she makes as a mother to her children is filtered through her devotion to God.
27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Every event her children are involved in, she filters it through a uncompromised devotion to God.
Every question her child asks, is answered through the filter of complete devotion to God.
Every thing she teaches her children as “good and right” is based on the rightly handled word of God.
15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Summary
Summary
When a mother is devoted to God first, her husband second, and her children third she understands that being devoted means she has no vote.
Every decision she makes is not based on choice, but devotion to God first, her husband second, and her children third.
And when that happens…
Conclusion
Conclusion
It will leave a binding legacy.
5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
Bind Us Together Lord
Bind us together Lord, Bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
Bind us together Lord, Bind us together, bind us together with love.
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
33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
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.
12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.
