Guardians of Life
So if you have your Bibles, we're going to go to the Book of Exodus. Chapter number 1 and verse number 15. Exodus chapter 1 verse number 15. And the scripture says, and the king of Egypt, speak to the Hebrew midwives.
Of which the name of the one was shifra in the name of the other Pia and he said, when you do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, see them and see them upon the stools. If it be a son than you shall kill him but if it be a daughter then she shall live but the midwives feared God and did not ask the king of Egypt commanded them but save the men-children alive and the king of Egypt, call for The Midwives and said unto them, why have you done this thing and have shaved the men-children alive in the midwives setting to Pharaoh because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women for their Lively. And are delivered, are the midwives come in unto them there for God, dealt well with the midwives and the people multiply and waxed, very Mighty and it came to pass because the midwives feared God that he made them houses. Wow. He made them houses and I'm going to stop right there. And if you'll permit me for the next few moments, I would like to preach to you from this subject Guardians Of Life. Guardians Of Life. Let's pray. Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus. And I'm asking you Lord to anoint me that I may speak as an oracle of God that I may communicate your word and such a way. Oh God on this day of Mother's Day where we are here to honor the women. Oh god of that are guardians of life. I pray Lord Jesus that you would help me Lord to do this in a fashion that it encourages in challenges. Oh God these matriarchs. These women of God that you have placed on this Earth or Jesus. Let your will be accomplished in the time. That is allotted me. And let your purpose come to pass in Jesus name. Hey man, you may be seated in the presence of the Lord. We are in the Book of Exodus. From the end of Genesis to the beginning of the book of Exodus, there has been three and a half centuries of God being silent.
Three and a half Centuries with God. Did not say anything. Three and a half centuries where there was no movement of prophets, there was no dreams. There was no Communications and the rabbi said that, there were three things that kept Israel going during the three and a half centuries of Silence. There was circumcision sacrifices and Savage. Wow.
And when we pick up in the first chapter of the book of Exodus Bible says that we are greeted with the with the reality that there was a new Pharaoh that came on to see. Now there have been many pharaohs that have preceded. This but this fellow was new because he did not respect. Joseph did not remember Joseph nor did he remember the fam in the seven years of famine? Where where? Where there were seven, good years and seven battle years, he didn't remember that. And so he looked at survey, the land and saw all of these Israelites, these Hebrew people that were there and he looks and he says, behold there, more and they are mightier than we are So we better put them in their place before they ever recognize who they are. Because if we ever go to war with another country, we don't want for them to side with the Enemy. And so let's make them slaves and let's make them to serve our agenda and so this is no doubt. What happened in the Bible says that verse 11, therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with burdens and they built for Pharaoh Treasure City. Despite them and Ramsey, Kaiser City, Caesar magazine cities, just literally with his translated. And it's it would very much translate to what our what our modern-day cities would look like the huge infrastructures in the intricacies of of, of the, of the layout of the land. This is what the taskmasters were positioned over the Hebrew people to do. So all of the Ingenuity That was supposed to be used to, to, for God. And for the building of the purposes of God's word. Now, use in the building of the things that came The Egyptians and the Bible says verse 12 but the more that The Afflicted them, the more they multiplied in Gruene. They were green because of the children of Israel and the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor. They made their lives better with hard with hard, bondage, and mortar, and brick in, and all manner of service in the field and all their service wearing, they made them serve was with rigor, it was hard, and the king of Egypt speak to the Hebrew midwives of which the name of one was shifra in the name of the other Chihuahua and a couple years ago. As I was studying through this, you know, every now and then I really like to get into
The details that sometimes we overlooked and I realized I had never looked up the names of these two women that are listed here. And when I did some research, I figured out what their names were in it. Absolutely astounded me, because shifra her name, literally means procreate. Auntie what her name means. Charlbury
I realized for the first time that these are the guardians of life that God didn't just put these two women here by accident, and their name is not by coincidence, or happenstance to be put with in the text. But God, put them there for significance.
God knows exactly what he's doing.
Why is it so important? Because what Pharaoh was trying to do was trying to hit was trying to essentially wipe out life because if you wipe out the men, men are the ones that Gypsy. And so if you have no more men, how can you procreate? And how can you bear children? And the reality strikes us is because in the day and age that you and I are currently living in, what are the things that are being attacked on a daily monthly yearly basis is procreation and install Berry, According to the World Health Organization every year in the world, there is an estimated 4250, million abortions.
This corresponds to approximately 125000 abortions per day. In this day long, they'll be a hundred and twenty five thousand babies that are boarded. And so I'm just one voice on Mother's Day of a thousand millions of preachers and women of God, never going to get up behind this secret desk and try to encourage our women. And so here I am in Roseburg on a Mother's Day to let you know that you are the guardians of the life, you are the Guardians appropriation and childbearing. And if you are not the ones that stand on the front lines and God that we are, You matter in the plan of God, you are significance to the body of Christ. You knew that you not asked you matter, to your children.
Until you're grown children. Mother's more than ever your children. Need you, especially in the church. I didn't have the privilege of growing up with a mother where I heard audibly while in the late-night season. Autumn abilities of a mother crying out in prayer to God for me. I never heard that.
Could you women of God in the church and you grandmothers? You are influencers.
You have more influence and power than what you realize. Why? Because you are Guardians Of Life.
men are leaders of the home, but women in reality, you are the influences of the whole Richard Lister has just for a moment, I just feel just a sunburn. This is just moved in just responds with just for a moment.
You are Guardians Of Life. Jesus, I worship you. I worship you Lord Jesus.
What is federal came knocking? When Paul came to the midwives, he came with the decree and the decree was secured whole of the Moon children. But here it's different in Puyallup, The Gardens of life that have a second Commander that existed over pharaoh. And she said, no, and an even when Pharaoh came with his decree, they said, no, we're not going to kill the men killed. Who do you know, where are the modern-day she presented? Jewelers, that will not let your children be aborted. Until I know you don't have to have an induced abortion, but you can, you can do other things or not do certain things. That can be a huge detriment to your children, having a future, and a mother that doesn't party for her children that can be considered in the Floor of an abortion.
Mother grandmother. How much are you praying? For your sons and daughters.
Are we cognizant of the things that the children grandchildren are involved in the, the media in the apps on the phone that they're involved in it and the tiktoks and Snapchat and Facebook and all of this stuff, do you realize the psychological impact that all of these things have on my generation? We have young people better having social disorders because they're not getting a bunch of likes on Facebook.
I got. Came to the cheaper midwives and said when when, when you see the Hebrew mothers on the stools, they're about ready to give birth. Make sure you kill. It was something that was in. That was something that was different about the Hebrew Hebrew mothers versus the Egyptian mother's their birth didn't last a long time. So they didn't have the opportunity to get in there, you know, during the process that have to fight with it. Matter of fact, God put something in the in the flow of things. So that before the midwives ever got in, they were already delivered.
Put on top of that, the midwives feared.
Midwives feared God. They didn't do as. They didn't do what they were commanded to do from Faro. Absolutely incredible.
And the king of Egypt, he called for The Midwives and send it to them. Why have you done this thing? And have not saved them and in them fearing God, the Bible says God made them houses. The end result, was that, God established their homes. Because they took care of their responsibilities because they fear God and obey the command of God. Make them sure houses. I meant when we turn to the next chapter in Chapter 2, we are introduced to Jacobin. Her name is not mentioned but she's a mighty woman of God. Her name doesn't necessarily have to be mentioned because what she does. Come true, she is
Bible says that there was a man of the of the tribe of Levi. That took a woman of the tribe of Levi and they gave birth to a son, by the name of Moses in the Bible says that when the woman conceived, she bear son. And when she saw him, that he was a goodly child, she hit him three months, she looked at her child and saw something in the boy.
That just would not let her kill him.
When you look at your children, what do you see when you look at your grandchildren? What do you see? Do you see anything in them worth saving? You're still Guardians Of Life. Still, you still Guardians Of Life. I saw that he was a goodly child.
Cuz she saw something in him. Bible says that she hit him for three months. She had that boy until she couldn't hide them anymore.
She had them until you know she couldn't just storm, you know, in a little basket or she couldn't just hide him behind the door. He got older, he got bigger. But she didn't leave him the chance. She didn't leave him. She didn't leave it to chance.
She did all of this. Because she loved him. Because she was a guardian. Guardian of Life.
Bible says, when she could no longer hide him, she took for him in Ark of bulrushes and David with slime, and with pitch and put the child there in. And she laid him in the flag by the river's Brink. Wow. Sit in his sister, still too far off to it. What would be done if him and shoe release that child. But she did all of that in face. Chicken dispatch. Scripture says, train up a child in the way that he should go. When he is old, he will not. Depart from it.
She held onto Moses as long as she could and as long as she had that little boy in her care, she trained him up. But that's that's the but such is life is that there's a point where where your kids get older and then you have to you know, that they get old enough to leave the nest and they've got to go and you can't hold on to it forever and they may not be able to stay in your home forever but what you instill within them, while you have them can remain even though they leave your home train up a child. The word train in the Hebrew. That literally means the building went when you would plant a new tree, what they would do is it in order to shape it the way that they want is that they would literally been the tree
I'm I'm actually not mature enough. They would remove the support from the trees and in the position that it was, but it would grow that way.
So the reality is this is that even if it's charleen and it looks or it appears as though it's not living, according to the pattern that you said something inside of them, that you play store intentionally did that will always work in them.
This is why I say the phone sex, even though your children may have walked out of church and that they're not here, there is still home because of what you instilled in them.
How much is Just lift your hair salon just for a moment. And if you have children that are not here or grandchildren that are not in the phased, I want you to connect to the polls in time that you have with them. And I want you to read you reconnect to the destiny and believe that God is able to drive them back home because you are Guardians Of Life. Yes, yes. Yes.
Yes grandmother you matter. Yes. Mother you matter? Yes. Your prayers. Can still make a difference even though they can steal.
Always hope. Cuz of what you put in them. What you put in them?
That from a child that has made them to know the holy scriptures. Make all the difference. Moses wander, we know the story, Moses, wander for 40 years out of a desert. There came a point where all of what his mother did.
Finally broke through. And Moses became the deliver that he was destined to be. Because of what her mother did. Mother, you are vital. You matter. You make a difference.
Stop being a Garden of Life just because it gets difficult.
Don't go missing from your post. Just because things look arrived, you are Guardian Life.
You are the shift for us in the Puyallup. You are the Jacobins. that your ear, your children and your grandchildren need I know it's not a one shoe fits all and no one's perfect and and not every woman grew up in the church and doesn't have this this background to go from, but just because you didn't grow up in the church. It just because you didn't start earlier, doesn't mean that you can't start. Now it doesn't mean that you can't even still it in the mail. Now,
Just for a moment. Think about it. Think about it, Naomi. Naomi was in. She was in Bethlehem, she was married to elimelech
They were inside of the bounds of God's protection. So, to speak, according to the Jewish mindset of thinking, that the power of God was confined to a location. And the Bible says that a famine touch the land, and they left, they left Bethlehem. And they travel to Moab, and they would spend ten years in Moab Toyland, trying to build a new life and while there was there her husband elimelech guys, I don't know what it's like to lose us a spouse, but I can only imagine the grieving process in the years that it took for her to have to deal with that sit on top of that, tattoo shows my lawn in Chile, are they both died and they were also married Her name is Naomi her name, means pleasantness or cheerfulness. How do you have pleasantness? And cheerfulness when the things that you loved and valued or removed from you,
There are women that have had miscarriages and there's women that have given birth to children and lost their children at an early age.
She left. She left cheerful left pleasant but now that she's in a strange country, she's in Moab, there's no family there to console her. All she has is that the women that her two sons married
She's trying her best as now a widowed mother.
She's a widower and she's lost her two sons. She's got these two grown women on her shoulders and she looks at him and says, look I don't have anything for you. She said what are you going to do? Wait here until I have another son and then try to marry them. She said, why don't you just go back to go back to your family and let your family. Take care of you and the Bible says that Naomi had heard that the Lord had visited Bethlehem again and giving them bread. Do not heard through the grapevine that God has shown back up to to, to Bethlehem. And she said, I'm going home. She spent 10 years in a Strange Land lost everything and she says, it's time for me to go back.
In the Bible says, or /, listen to The Plea of Naomi and or per return and went back to her family. But Ruth, this, this young girl by the name of Ruth She saw something in, they owe me the time that she had been close to her, something that was so different.
She said, no, I can't go back to Moab cuz there's something in you that I resonate with him before and I believe that was three times three separate occasions where Naomi tried her best to get Ruth to get off of her to go back. I'm in love. She's trying to grieve. She just lost her husband, and two sons. Just so happy. She doesn't want to have to be responsible for this other person.
But ruthless a turn says where you go. I'll go where you Lodge, that's why I lied. Your God will be my God, your people shall be my people.
Edwin L me hard, then she said, all right, it's settled you're going with me and they make a journey back from Moab to Bethlehem Eye when she and when Naomi steps foot in bed, the whole Countryside lit up,
But here's the reality is that Naomi, Naomi could not accept. The salutations from everyone because she left full and now she's come back empty and she's interpreted all of this as it's as if God has deserted her, or God has judged her as she looked at all the people and says, don't call me Naomi. Call me. Mara because I'm bitter. I'm bitter. I'm better.
Here's the here's the inside women of God, guardians of life is that is not the will of God for you to be bitter. Over things that didn't happen the way things that happened. Contrary to the way that you planned a one of them to happen. Not the will of God for you to be bitter. Watch, I watch the lady post. Just a couple of days ago on the fact that she didn't want no one to include her in a post, in regards to celebrating Mother's Day because she was still broken over the fact that she was not able to give birth to children.
I ask myself the question, I don't know, but I asked myself the question. How long are you going to remain a victim of this? How long are you going to stay in that state of bitterness over? What did not happen? And as long as you stay in that place of bitterness, How can you have joy? How do you have? Peace?
Naomi was bitter but she was rude bridge to a new future.
You're paying your bitterness, your sorrow, could be a bridge for someone that connects someone that has a loss to God, that is able to restore and the create a new beginning. We know the story. Naomi stays at home and Ruth decides that. Hey since I'm young and I'm energetic and I'm not and I'm not in this process of grieving that I'm going to go and make sure that I take care of the both of us and she goes and she gleams in the fields and the Bible said she just happen by happenstance. You know, she's gleaning in the field of this rich man. Boy is well known in the in the in the area Boaz is his wife that he's worked. Everyone knows who he is. His his, his his Prestige, all of that is intact. And one day as Ruth gleaning out in the field, Boaz happened to look through the window and see his. Who is that young women? That is out there, gleaning. Oh, she's a young lady from Moana.
The Reapers don't give much hope and what they say to him, but he see something in her that is valuable watches, her clean. And he tells the Reapers next time, you're out there, reaping the Harvest leave handfuls of purpose. There. Don't leave the leftovers, but take the best from the stocks and leave them just laying there on purpose.
Who was courting her the whole time? She just didn't know it.
But this is what I'm trying to say to you, is that, if you're bitter, you'll never recognize that God is calling you for your future because you're always lived in the devastation of what happened in the past.
It's so crazy. Oftentimes we're so we're so wrapped in our turmoil that we don't see the handful. That God is left in our life on purpose, to let us know that he is still interested and us having a tomorrow.
Oh my Lord. So your child is not in church and not serving God your grandchildren. But there are still been hints of Grace handfuls that God has left on purpose to remind you that. I am still in control and I'm still in charge of ordering their steps. My God
I want you to lift your hands just for a moment. What you let? The Holy Ghost. Yes, Minister to your spirit minister to your mind minister. To your most, we are getting out of this bitter place because you are Guardians Of Life. My God. That's it. That's the Holy Ghost. Just talk to you. I just felt God. Just walk in this place. Come on, let's get Guardians of life. Come on, let's get Guardians of life. Guardians of life, that's what you are.
That's what you are. Women of God, you are Guardians Of Life. Come on, that's it, just worship. Come on. At worship.
Just worship just worship worship. Ruth Ruth needed this. Bruce needed, this
Handfuls of purpose.
Handfuls of purpose when she gathered all that. She had all of the good stuff that was left up. She she went back to home. She went back to Naomi and told her look at all of the stuff that I got. What did Naomi say to her? Who's still have you been in?
Gummy bears. Don't get this kind of good stuff that you got. They don't get, you know that the good stuff you know. They get the leftover stuff. She says I don't know. It is he knows the guy down the way and she goes. Did it happen to be in this field? Yeah I know him. His name is poem.
He's a wealthy man.
His name is Jesus and he don't want to man.
People to restore in to redeem Naomi have the knowledge, and the one that was born. This became the bridge that connected loose from her life to her Destiny. Do you realize I had her bitterness not being the Catalyst? I can make it rude. If you would have never married, she would have never married him. Never given birth to old man who happens to be the father of Jessie. Happens to be the father of David.
Think about it, Ruth is from Moab. Call side of the lineage of the Israelites. Don't don't care about what tribe or stock you came from God. Doesn't care about whether you grew up in church or not in church, whether you're rich and poor, black and white heaters is whether or not you've got this. That's it, that's it.
Just don't ask where they have the Harley, is a prostitute whose house is built on the side of the wall. You know what history says is that Rahab the Harlot? Married one of the spies that came over.
Yeah. Who happened to be of the tribe whose name was Salma, who's in the lineage of Jesus Christ?
I'm done a little bit of digging into this to know that women. Your important is so vital you are Guardians Of Life. He's a wealthy man. He's a wealthy man. This is what I want you to do. You should come a point where he's going to, he's going to the rest the week. Then he's going to win though. It out what you mean. She's going to take. He's going to take the the week that was crushed and then he's going to throw it into the air and the air is going to come in and he's going to catch the soft stuff and it's going to it's going to pull it off of the stuff that's most important because we the heavy stuff is what remains that's what you really want. You don't want the stuff that surrounds the week. She said he's going to be there all night. He's going to be exhausted. From threshing the week. What you're going to do is while he's laying there.
Going to take a garment. Going to take the Garment that he's under and you're going to you know unroll it just a little bit here in the lane next to his feet and the breeze is going to come by and he's going to fill it and when he wakes up he's going to ask who you are.
She's teaching her how to respond in class, how to do it. Classy. This is what Naomi is teaching Ruth how to approach this wealthy man, with class.
This is what the church women do. It's with you. You are Guardians Of Life of teaching people how to approach down with class.
She got is already quoted. You on the way here? Can you eat? We can come here by accident. We didn't just pop in here.
He's calling us this whole time. so now that you're in the field, we need the Guardians Of Life to show us. How do we act with class now that we've got his attention? Mother's grandmother's, you matter? You matter. Boaz woke up. Young lady. Who are you? She said I'm roof. Moab Connected to Naomi, I Know Who You Are. What are you here for? She reveals her intent. She wants to be married to him. Okay. He said, yeah, I want to do this but there's one other person that has the choice before me. He's handling this with class. You got to see the power in this. Because the devil had rights to us first because of our flesh. So so so he goes to negotiate to figure it out. And he goes to a mini says hey look Ruth, you know, she's she's interested in me. But you're the one that has first dibs. And, and he says, okay, if I'm remembering this correctly goes, yeah, I would marry her. But but then he says he says, but you don't just get her, you get everything that comes with her. Then he said, he thinks about and he goes, you know, I don't know if I want to take this deal because then she gets she gets half of my stuff. Sabo, as needed to hear. Cuz he wasn't interested in losing the stuff, he was interested in what he was getting ready to receive which was Ruth snapster up. She married, there's some details that I'm omitting just for Times Sake but there's so much more to the story and she ends up marrying him and gives birth and has a son in Hotel rejoices in celebrates. And Naomi nurses. The child. She takes care of the child. Everyone calls a child this season. Helmets job. This is Naomi. Can you convert that? This is Hell me.
You weren't able to produce in the natural but yet this is lost. But
First time, I preachers, I should look. You lost something in the natural. I said but you can have spiritual children. So do you want to settle and and live the left of the rest of your life, a victim of what you lost are you willing for God to do something new with you? Guardians Of Life. Not just natural life. There's a spiritual life.
I have a natural mother. But I also have a spiritual mother. That has been there for me that helps me that I can call or talk to her text. Guardians Of Life.
God doesn't want you to be a victim of bitterness of what didn't happen. God wants to God. Wants you to live in anticipation of. What about that? And he's left hand. On purpose. Just to let you know that he is still interested in your future. Let's all Stand Together. I want to read something. I want to read proverbs 31. What are we doing? In the Amplified version? Proverbs 31:10 in the Amplified version says a capable and intelligent and virtuous woman. Who is he, who is he, who can find her? For she is more precious than jewels in her value is far above. Rubies or pearls the word virtuous, in the Hebrew, it means strong. It means strength and Valor. And in always excellent.
That's what God thinks of a virtuous woman. She has strength and Valor and in all ways. She is excellent. The heart of her husband trusts in her confidently and relies on and believes in her securely so that he has no lack of on his game or need of dishonest spoil. She Comforts encourages and does him only good as long as there is life within her. She seeks out wool and flax and works with willing hands to develop. She's like the merchant ships loaded with foodstuffs, she brings her household food from a far country. She Rises, while it is yet night and spiritual food for her household and assigns her made their Tire.
She considers a new field before she buys or accept it expanding prudently and cording neglect and not cording. The glint of her present duties, by assuming other duties with her savings of time and strength, she plants fruitful vines in her Vineyard. She Bears herself with string spiritual mental, and physical fitness for her god-given task, and makes her arms, strong and firm. She tastes and sees that her gain from work with and for God is good, her let goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night of trouble privation or sorrow, warning away fear doubt and distrust. She lays her hands to the spindle and their hands, hold. The distaff, she opens her hand to the poor. Yes, she reaches out. Her field hand to the needy weather in body mind, or Spirit she fears, not the snow for her family for all her household are doubly clothes and Scarlett.
She makes for herself coverlets. Cushions and Robes of tapestry. Her clothing is of linen, pure and find in a purple such as that of which the clothing of the priests and the Halo clothes were made. Woman is a priest of her home look. The man may be the high priest but she's the priest good Lord. She makes fine linen, garments and Lead others to buy them. She delivers to the merchants girdles or stash stash, has that free one up for service. I got another words what she does, get rid of stress, and others, strength, and dignity are her clothing in her position is strong and secure she rejoices over the future, the latter day or time to come knowing that she and her family are in Readiness for it. She opens her mouth and skillful and godly wisdom and on her tongue is the law of kindness giving counsel and instruction she looks well to how things go in her household and the bread of idleness Gossip discontent in self-pity. She will not eat Her children arise up and call her blessed happy fortunate and to be envied. And her husband both up and Praises her saying, many daughters have done virtuously nobly and well with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness. But you excelled them. All charm and grace are deceptive and beauty is vain because it is not lasting. But a woman who is Reverend Lee and worship Ali, fears the Lord, she
But our generation values Beauty. Over modesty not realizing that all in a few years. All the external stuff goes but that remains forever. Give her the fruit of her hands and let her own works. Praise her in the gates of the city. Women, you have a whole chapter 2 voted to you. I've yet to find the chapter solely devoted to men. I have not found a Proverbs 32 for men. But there's a proverbs 31 for a woman. because if you get this woman in Proverbs, 31, Her price is far. Far above rubies and I'm looking at guardians of life. I'm looking at women of virtue and you matter to the kingdom of God, Amen. I don't really know how to close this out, except for to pray. And to ask that God would give you the strength in The Virtue in the energy that you need to be the Guardians Of Life. That this church and your family needs for you to be father. I feel so one qualify for this. But I am so thankful. To have had the privilege to stand before this women of God to encourage them. That their position in their homes, their position in their families, and their positions. In this church matters, These women are Guardians Of Life of procreation and childbearing. Oh God. And my prayer. Father, is that you will give them the energy. You will give him the Vitality. You will give him the strain. Put fresh virtue back into these women of God. Until these women. That have expended so much. And given so much through the years.
Let no woman in this house go unappreciated or unnoticed. Oh God, but I pray that you will leave more handfuls on purpose.
Bless the Lord Jesus. May their prayers be the strength of God to this generation. Enter those that have walked away. Whom will eventually come back home? But there are still Guardians at the gate there, still Guardians Of Life. In Jesus name.