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The Tale of Two Mothers
Exodus 2
Good morning, Baptist Fellowship.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms here and who are watching online.
I want to start this morning by playing a short but inspirational video for you.
Play Video (mothers of the bible)
Obviously today, I want to take a break from James, we will be back in James next week… but I want to talk about moms.
As was mentioned in the video we just watched, there are all kinds of moms!
Birth moms, Faith moms, Mentorship moms, Adoptive moms, Spiritual moms, moms of all kinds!
There are moms, like my grandmother, who had more than a dozen birth children.
There are moms like Amy Carmichael who never married, never birthed a child, and yet was mother to thousands and thousands of children in her missionary orphanages.
There are moms like this lady in Africa… A missionary to Africa tells her story… Though she was blind and could neither read nor write, she wanted to share her newfound faith with others.
She went to the missionary and asked for a copy of the Bible in French.
When she got it, she asked the missionary to underline John 3:16 in red and mark the page it was on so she could find it.
The missionary wanted to see what she would do, so one day he followed her.
In the afternoon, just before school let out, she made her way to the front door.
As the boys came out when school was dismissed, she would stop one and ask if he knew how to read French.
When he said “Yes” she would ask him to read the verse that was marked in red.
Then she would ask, “Do you know what this means?”
and tell him about Christ.
The missionary said that twenty-four of the schoolboys that lady led to the Lord became pastors.
God made women in His image, just like He made men in His image.
He made women to reflect his compassion, nurturing nature.
He made women to reflect His ability to love unconditionally and to see past the mess!
Mothers are special people.
· Real mothers would like to be able to eat a whole candy bar (all by themselves) and drink a Coke without any "floaters" in it.
· Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably going to end up in the sandbox.
· Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens, and happy kids.
· Real Mothers know that dried play dough doesn’t come out of shag carpets.
· Real Mothers sometimes ask, "Why me?" and get their answer when a little voice says, "Because I love you best."
· Real Mothers know that a child’s growth is not measured by height or years or grade.
It is marked by the progression of Mama to Mom to Mother...
APPLY: Real mothers are an integral part of our lives.
We wouldn’t be who we are without our mothers.
Some of the greatest people in history will tell you how important their mothers were to their lives.
George Washington, for example, declared: “All I am I owe to my mother”.
This was also true of one of the greatest men in Old Testament history, a man named Moses.
Moses became the kind of man he was because of the type of mother he had.
In fact, who he was, was very much determined by the type of MOTHERS he had, because God gave Moses two mothers.
And they were both good mothers because they both had some of the same instincts for their roles.
For example: They both loved babies
Now, that may seem like a given… but not every woman loves kids.
ILLUS: I once read the story of a woman who went shopping for swimsuits with her mother.
In the department store, though, she was having a hard time finding one that fit.
After trying on at least 10, all to no avail, she grew increasingly frustrated.
Trying to calm her, her mother said "Look at it this way: what would you rather have – the husband and three children who adore you, or a swimsuit that fits?"
Before she could answer, a faceless voice from the next dressing room stall replied
"I want a swimsuit that fits!"
Not every woman wants kids.
But these Jochebed and the Pharoah’s daughter did.
And that WAS no small thing in their day because Moses’ 2 mothers lived in a culture of death.
A decree had gone out from the throne of Pharaoh that every male child born to a Hebrew was to thrown into the Nile and drowned.
And Moses’ birth mother – Jochebed – was a Hebrew woman.
Thus, she had a choice to make.
The society in which she lived made it virtually impossible to keep her child and she could have decided to simply allow her child to be thrown away.
I mean - her son was not wanted.
She could have chosen death (the easy choice)… but she chose life instead.
Jochebed Chose Life
And this was not an easy decision for Jochebed to make.
It required her to hide her child for 3 whole months always fearing that Egyptian soldiers would discover the baby… and not only would they kill her child but punish her entire family for disobeying the law.
Choosing life was not an easy decision.
Sometimes, Choosing Life is Not Easy
But then consider Pharaoh’s daughter.
She knew who this baby was.
Exodus 2:6
tells us “When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying.
She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.””
She knew he was a Hebrew.
Her father had decreed these children should die.
Her society had decided that these babies shouldn’t live.
Common wisdom had determined that these children were a threat to their nation.
It would have been so easy to let the child die.
But she chose life instead.
Both mothers lived in a culture of death.
Both mothers lived in a society that has decreed certain children shouldn’t live.
And so do we.
ILLUS: It should be obvious to anyone who is paying attention.
We, like the Israelites in Egypt, live in a culture that is obsessed with killing innocent children.
We need to pray for our elected leaders that they will not bow to this culture.
We need to pray for our elections that those who value life will be placed in power.
We need to pray for our judiciary, that justices will make decisions to preserve life, not take life.
Please consider coming to our movie night this coming Saturday to learn more about this topic.
All proceeds will go towards CareNet and will directly help young mothers with unplanned pregnancies.
(AP – David Royse – May 1, 2008)
Now I want you to understand something:
God punished Egypt because of their culture of death.
Egypt’s culture of death required that every male child born to the Hebrews was to die.
When God punished Egypt He brought 10 plagues down upon them.
Do you remember what the last one was?
God decreed: “and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill…”--
Exodus 11:5
Egypt decreed death for babies.
And so God decreed death for their families as well.
But Moses lived because Jochebed and Pharaoh’s daughter never accepted that culture of death.
We do not have to accept the culture of death.
They chose life.
I know there are many in our nation that have had abortions.
Our culture has made it so acceptable that it’s often chosen before a woman or girl has had time to consider its implications.
But the aftermath of that decision is often devastating.
You may know of someone who has had an abortion… or you yourself may have had one.
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