HAPPY MOTHER’S DAYMAY 12, 2014

What the family represents in the

Bible

GEN 30:1 AND WHEN RACHEL SAW THAT SHE BARE JACOB NO CHILDREN, RACHEL ENVIED HER SISTER;

AND SAID UNTO JACOB, GIVE ME CHILDREN, OR

ELSE I DIE.

THE PHYSICAL FAMILY IS A PICTURE OF GOD’S PLAN FOR THE CHURCH

EPH 5:23 FOR THE HUSBAND IS

THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, EVEN AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH: AND HE IS THE SAVIOUR

OF THE BODY.

EPH 5:24 THEREFORE AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT

UNTO CHRIST, SO LET THE WIVES BE TO THEIR

OWN HUSBANDS IN EVERY THING.

EPH 5:25 HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST

ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE

HIMSELF FOR IT;

EPH 5:26 THAT HE MIGHT

SANCTIFY AND CLEANSE IT WITH THE WASHING

OF WATER BY THE WORD,

EPH 5:27 THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT IT

TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT, OR WRINKLE, OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT IT SHOULD

BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.

EPH 5:31 FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER

AND MOTHER, AND SHALL BE JOINED UNTO

HIS WIFE, AND THEY TWO SHALL BE ONE FLESH.

EPH 5:32 THIS IS A GREAT

MYSTERY: BUT I SPEAK CONCERNING CHRIST AND THE CHURCH.

EPH 5:33 NEVERTHELESS LET EVERY

ONE OF YOU IN PARTICULAR SO LOVE HIS WIFE EVEN AS

HIMSELF; AND THE WIFE SEE THAT SHE REVERENCE HER

HUSBAND.

SO … HOW DO WE APPLY THIS TO MOTHER’S DAY

WHAT IF WE ALL SAID, AS RACHEL … “GIVE ME

CHILDREN (SONS OF GOD) ELSE I DIE!”

WHAT IMPACT WOULD THAT MAKE ON

ETERNITY?

JOHN 1:12 BUT AS MANY AS RECEIVED HIM, TO

THEM GAVE HE POWER TO BECOME THE SONS

OF GOD, EVEN TO THEM THAT BELIEVE

ON HIS NAME:

JOHN 1:13 WHICH WERE BORN, NOT OF BLOOD, NOR OF THE WILL OF THE FLESH, NOR OF THE

WILL OF MAN, BUT OF GOD.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD…

1JN 5:12 HE THAT HATH THE

SON HATH LIFE; AND HE THAT HATH NOT THE SON OF GOD HATH NOT LIFE.

THE RELATIVE QUESTION IS THIS: WILL YOU BE A PART OF BIRTHING SPIRITUAL LIFE, OR NOT?

SO .. IN APPLICATION TO GEN 30:1 “GIVE ME

CHILDREN ELSE I DIE ..”

HOW COMMITTED ARE YOU TO GOD’S PLAN AS

PICTURED THROUGH THE MARRIAGE

RELATIONSHIP?

APPLICATION TO OUR CHURCH:

FOUR-PRONGED MINISTRY INITIATIVE

FOCUS FOR THE NEXT YEAR..

1. YOUTH WAREHOUSE MINISTRY

2. JEHOVAH’S JAVA COFFEE SHOPPE

3. RECREATION FIELD(SOCCER & T-BALL)

WILL WE, AS A CHURCH, CHOOSE TO BECOME

SPIRITUAL MOTHER’S AND FATHER’S TO INDIVIDUALS

OF STANLY COUNTY?

THE PHYSICAL ASPECT OF “MOTHERHOOD” IS REPRESENTATIVE OF ETERNAL SPIRITUAL BIRTHING PROCESS

OUR GOAL:

1. HELP MOTHERS BE AMAZING MOTHERS .. AND ..

2. HELP ALL OF US BE AMAZING “BRIDES” OF

CHRIST