Sermon notes 5/12/2013:
The treasure of a godly mother:
- 2nd Timothy 1: 1-7.
- In this passage, God reminds Timothy of his heritage.
- You would become a mother, grandmother, grandfather, etc., one day.
- What would your children remember about you most?
- Is it something material that you left? The way you made them feel? The way you dressed?
- You want your children to be wealthy spiritually.
- That's the thing that can't perish or be taken away.
- This is not the world where you were born nor you grew up. Times have changed.
- Schools are teaching students that God is a figment of their imagination.
- It's harder for them to maintain their faith.
- The world is ungodly, unsafe, and unsatisfying with all kinds of temptations.
- Of all things, teach your kid to read the Bible and pray daily, in order to connect them to God.
- When a parent neglects that connection early in the child's life, it creates a crack in their faith.
- A grandfather is important in a broken home.
- But the word of God must be the book of all books and the most important part of your life.
- Trust God for your every need and desire.
- Kids today mostly don't need anything.
- If you're so full of everything and don't need anything, it makes a person vain, makes them think you don't even need God.
- When you work for things, you appreciate it more.
- It's always good to want something, and a child needs to know that there is need, there is want as a provider for everything.
- We were driven towards God because of some form of need, be it material or emotional.
- God provides for us.
- Parents don't want kids to need everything. So kids don't work for anything.
- This is a bad generation spiritually for children because it makes kids seem they don't need God since they have everything.
- Every single person needs God.
- If I don't need anything, it means that God is not the source of anything.
- The truth is we all desperately need God.
- Generous towards others.
- This is a very selfish generation. Where it's me, myself, and I.
- Generosity is a very godly characteristic.
- God is our provider.
- When you give to others, God provides for you.
- He is generous to you.
- Pay it forward.
- Teach your kid generosity.
- When you are generous, you draw people to yourself.
- There is happiness in a generous person's life.
- Teach them by principle or by statement, but also by practicing. Doing what you preach.
- Greed is a major issue.
- Many people are in problems because of their greed.
- Obey God.
- You learn to obey God at home.
- By following and putting in your responsibility.
- When you let your kids get by, you say it's okay to be disobedient.
- When he didn't do what he was supposed to, his mother told him to go get a switch.
- She did that because she knew him and knew that that was what it took.
- If his mother whooped him, what would he do?
- Parents and grandparents are responsible for protecting their children. Not physically but mentally and spiritually.
- Whooping teaches not to disobey your parents.
- His mother taught him that to disobey God has a penalty.
- Pray to God to show you the other side of the glamour.
- Parents can't stand rejection by their children so they risk their kids' future by appeasing them and not teaching them limits, consequences, and responsibility.
- Sometimes you have to live it to learn from it.
- It doesn't matter what they think of you when you correct them, you know what you're doing, and it's for the best.
- Forgive others:
- God is a great forgiver.
- If you're going to be like Him, you must be forgiven.
- Teach forgiveness.
- When you're married, you are going to have to learn to forgive.
- Just as Christ has forgiven you, forgive others.
- Do you like being around someone who has an unforgiving spirit?
- People would turn away from you because you have a sour spirit.
- Power of persistence.
- Keep going, don't give up or quit until you get it done, whatever it may be.
- His mom told him and persisted to hang his clothes. So when he grew up and left home, that's exactly what you do, hang it up.
- When you go to the Lord's house, you want to be your best for God.
- Look your best, ask your best, behave your best.
- When you sag and when you dress that way on purpose, it says something about the way you think.
- It shows dishonor to your parents.
- His mother's persistence showed him that you don't quit because it's hard or because others don't like it. You keep on going.
- Servant's spirit:
- Jesus was a servant.
- He served for his people and disciples.
- He taught his disciples to be servants.
- Where do kids learn this?
- Kids learn it at home.
- You reach them by giving them responsibility.
- You say, "Well, I don't want to hurt their feelings."
- Your feelings need to be hurt sometimes in order for you to learn.
- His mom was not educated but she was a servant.
- You don't live for yourself but for others.
- You can't meet everyone's need but you can meet the needs that God set for you to meet.
- Live an Orderly life:
- I don't live by a calendar but by the will of God, and God has a calendar.
- You don't want away I go by where you haven't accomplished something.
- Life is short.
- Sometimes we live our lives doing as little as we can.
- To live an orderly life and teach your kids, you set bedtimes, a time to get up, setting your clothes the night before, etc.
- It teaches them principles and tells them that there is an order to everything.
- You learn things early in life.
- Life should not be too easy, you should encounter challenges.
- When a person is orderly, they have something they want to accomplish and somewhere they want to get in life.
- Encouragement:
- His mom would always be in the door until he was out of sight.
- What's significant about that?
- He knew that he was in his mother's mind.
- If he did bad in school, his mother didn't nag; she said you do the best you can, it's alright.
- Joshua 1: 9
- His family was Pentecostal, and when he wanted to join a Baptist church, his mom said that's fine as long as you live a godly life.
- It said to him that he was responsible towards God and his mom to live a godly life no matter where he is.
- Paul loved Timothy unconditionally.
- It's not easy to live unconditionally.
- As a child, his mother was abused.
- The last thing you want is anyone to touch your mother.
- But his mom told him to forgive because it set him free.
- He asked John, his mother's partner, for forgiveness because of the attitude he had towards him and John said it's not what you did but it's what I did.
- It took him a while to come around but it liberated him.
- Forgive others no matter how hard it is.
- May we one day look at our parents and recognize what a treasure they are to you.
- If you live apart from God, you set a sense of disconnect from God to those around you.
- Kids think if it wasn't important to my mom and dad, it's not going to be important for me.
- May God bless you each and every day.
The treasure of a godly mother:
- 2nd Timothy 1: 1-7.
- In this passage, God reminds Timothy of his heritage.
- You would become a mother, grandmother, grandfather, etc., one day.
- What would your children remember about you most?
- Is it something material that you left? The way you made them feel? The way you dressed?
- You want your children to be wealthy spiritually.
- That's the thing that can't perish or be taken away.
- This is not the world where you were born nor you grew up. Times have changed.
- Schools are teaching students that God is a figment of their imagination.
- It's harder for them to maintain their faith.
- The world is ungodly, unsafe, and unsatisfying with all kinds of temptations.
- Of all things, teach your kid to read the Bible and pray daily, in order to connect them to God.
- When a parent neglects that connection early in the child's life, it creates a crack in their faith.
- A grandfather is important in a broken home.
- But the word of God must be the book of all books and the most important part of your life.
- Trust God for your every need and desire.
- Kids today mostly don't need anything.
- If you're so full of everything and don't need anything, it makes a person vain, makes them think you don't even need God.
- When you work for things, you appreciate it more.
- It's always good to want something, and a child needs to know that there is need, there is want as a provider for everything.
- We were driven towards God because of some form of need, be it material or emotional.
- God provides for us.
- Parents don't want kids to need everything. So kids don't work for anything.
- This is a bad generation spiritually for children because it makes kids seem they don't need God since they have everything.
- Every single person needs God.
- If I don't need anything, it means that God is not the source of anything.
- The truth is we all desperately need God.
- Generous towards others.
- This is a very selfish generation. Where it's me, myself, and I.
- Generosity is a very godly characteristic.
- God is our provider.
- When you give to others, God provides for you.
- He is generous to you.
- Pay it forward.
- Teach your kid generosity.
- When you are generous, you draw people to yourself.
- There is happiness in a generous person's life.
- Teach them by principle or by statement, but also by practicing. Doing what you preach.
- Greed is a major issue.
- Many people are in problems because of their greed.
- Obey God.
- You learn to obey God at home.
- By following and putting in your responsibility.
- When you let your kids get by, you say it's okay to be disobedient.
- When he didn't do what he was supposed to, his mother told him to go get a switch.
- She did that because she knew him and knew that that was what it took.
- If his mother whooped him, what would he do?
- Parents and grandparents are responsible for protecting their children. Not physically but mentally and spiritually.
- Whooping teaches not to disobey your parents.
- His mother taught him that to disobey God has a penalty.
- Pray to God to show you the other side of the glamour.
- Parents can't stand rejection by their children so they risk their kids' future by appeasing them and not teaching them limits, consequences, and responsibility.
- Sometimes you have to live it to learn from it.
- It doesn't matter what they think of you when you correct them, you know what you're doing, and it's for the best.
- Forgive others:
- God is a great forgiver.
- If you're going to be like Him, you must be forgiven.
- Teach forgiveness.
- When you're married, you are going to have to learn to forgive.
- Just as Christ has forgiven you, forgive others.
- Do you like being around someone who has an unforgiving spirit?
- People would turn away from you because you have a sour spirit.
- Power of persistence.
- Keep going, don't give up or quit until you get it done, whatever it may be.
- His mom told him and persisted to hang his clothes. So when he grew up and left home, that's exactly what you do, hang it up.
- When you go to the Lord's house, you want to be your best for God.
- Look your best, ask your best, behave your best.
- When you sag and when you dress that way on purpose, it says something about the way you think.
- It shows dishonor to your parents.
- His mother's persistence showed him that you don't quit because it's hard or because others don't like it. You keep on going.
- Servant's spirit:
- Jesus was a servant.
- He served for his people and disciples.
- He taught his disciples to be servants.
- Where do kids learn this?
- Kids learn it at home.
- You reach them by giving them responsibility.
- You say, "Well, I don't want to hurt their feelings."
- Your feelings need to be hurt sometimes in order for you to learn.
- His mom was not educated but she was a servant.
- You don't live for yourself but for others.
- You can't meet everyone's need but you can meet the needs that God set for you to meet.
- Live an Orderly life:
- I don't live by a calendar but by the will of God, and God has a calendar.
- You don't want away I go by where you haven't accomplished something.
- Life is short.
- Sometimes we live our lives doing as little as we can.
- To live an orderly life and teach your kids, you set bedtimes, a time to get up, setting your clothes the night before, etc.
- It teaches them principles and tells them that there is an order to everything.
- You learn things early in life.
- Life should not be too easy, you should encounter challenges.
- When a person is orderly, they have something they want to accomplish and somewhere they want to get in life.
- Encouragement:
- His mom would always be in the door until he was out of sight.
- What's significant about that?
- He knew that he was in his mother's mind.
- If he did bad in school, his mother didn't nag; she said you do the best you can, it's alright.
- Joshua 1: 9
- His family was Pentecostal, and when he wanted to join a Baptist church, his mom said that's fine as long as you live a godly life.
- It said to him that he was responsible towards God and his mom to live a godly life no matter where he is.
- Paul loved Timothy unconditionally.
- It's not easy to live unconditionally.
- As a child, his mother was abused.
- The last thing you want is anyone to touch your mother.
- But his mom told him to forgive because it set him free.
- He asked John, his mother's partner, for forgiveness because of the attitude he had towards him and John said it's not what you did but it's what I did.
- It took him a while to come around but it liberated him.
- Forgive others no matter how hard it is.
- May we one day look at our parents and recognize what a treasure they are to you.
- If you live apart from God, you set a sense of disconnect from God to those around you.
- Kids think if it wasn't important to my mom and dad, it's not going to be important for me.
- May God bless you each and every day.
