Sunday, May 14, 2006

The Sacrificial Love of A Real Mother

Date: 5/14/06 - Mother's Day
Text: I Kings 3:16-28
Title: The Sacrificial Love of A Real Mother

• The Book of I Kings 3:16-28


• The history of the Hebrew people are contained in Kings


• Kings is actually one book in the Hebrew Old Testament

• Mothers allow their bodies to go through changes

• Real mothers do not abandon their children

• God put something in mothers that He did not put in fathers

• Mom loves you in spite of

• King Solomon was called upon to make a tough decision


• He had asked for great wisdom to be a great king


• There were two mothers: one was treacherous, one was a good mother


• The women told their stories


• King Solomon had an insight to human nature


• He knew that the real mother would not kill her child


• The real mother asked the king not to kill her son

NOTES: Momma be knowing what is going on with you, even when you don't think they do

• Sometimes, you have to give your child up to let them live


• Love them enough to let them make some mistakes


• Be a praying mother

My Personal Notes:
Honor you mother; she is SOMEBODY!

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to honor my mother.

Scripture: I Kings 3:16-28
16: Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
17: And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18: And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19: And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.
20: And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21: And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.
22: And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.
23: Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.
24: And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.
25: And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26: Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.
27: Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.
28: And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
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Sunday, May 07, 2006

Fulfilling the Law of Christ

Date: 5/7/06
Text: Galatians 6:1-10
Title: Fulfilling the Law of Christ

• The Book of Galatians


• This book has been called the "Magna Charta of Christian Liberty"


• Paul clearly reveals how grace frees the Christian from the law, not that we might sin, but that we might discover a new power for righteous living through faith and the Holy Spirit

• We have a charge to keep


• Love one another


• This is not a touchy feely love

• Do we have what it takes to keep the law?


• We are free from the law of Moses, but we must fulfill the law of Christ


• We have a choice to love or not to love


• Real love hides a multitude of faults

• Fulfilling the law of Christ can only be done in the Spirit

NOTES: A Christian is real!

• We have to fulfill the law to these groups:


• The sinning Christian


• The burdened Christian


• Teachers/Pastors

• The Sinning Christian


• Don't criticize


• The spiritual should restore the fallen brother (They should be skilled at this)


• He should be helped by setting him right


• It should be done in the spirit of meekness


• Faults can cause serious damage, if they are not set right

• The Burdened Christian


• The Law of Christ is of ministry & LOVE


• Christ bore the sins of man for man


• We should show compassion, forgiveness, prayer, encouragement, and sympathy for those who are burdened

NOTES: Believers ought to be HAPPY!

• Pastor/Teachers


• We should sholder the financial burden for them


• Teachers share good with us; we should share good with them


• You get what you sow

My Personal Notes:
I should exhibit the Law of Christ in my everyday life

My Personal Prayer:
Lord, help me to fulfill Your law. Help me to love and minister to those in need.

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-10
1: Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
2: Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
3: For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
4: But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
5: For every man shall bear his own burden.
6: Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
7: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
8: For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
9: And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
10: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

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