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Show A CARE PACKAGE FROM MOM "But Samuel was ministering before the boy wearing Lord---a a linen ephod. Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. (1 Samuel 2: 18-19 NIV) N . : "But Samuel ministered being a before the Lord, cnitd, girded with a linen Moreover his mother made him ephod. a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year. when she to offer came up wither husband yearly sacrifice. (1 KJV) the 2: 18-19 Regularly when evening, my wife is N I come home in the waiting 1 Samuel up and says to me, "You have been gone all listening." wife or She wants me day, I'm to talk. A good mother will do at least two things with her husband. She will talk with him and worship with him. iV1en have to learn how to talk when they come family home but also how to lead their in worship. In this text, Hannah and Elkanah made it a regular practice of talking and worshipping together. Although others made fun and laugh at them, they came together in the God for the name of God and asked blessing that they wanted. When Hannah wanted a son, she called GIJJ arJJ_ with her husband Elkanah and onstood , the priest Eli. They called 2 on God for a man-child. When God gave them Samuel, they gave Samuel back to God and he lived in the house of the Lord. The text says that while the house of the Lord, him and took a care they left him they never package in forgot to him yearly. Hannah said, "For this child I prayed and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him. Therefore, also I have lent him to the as he liveth he shall be lent to and he worshipped Samuel 1: 27-28) coat for Samuel. a as the Lord there. Then, Hannah each needed long the Lord, Lord, coat. He year made wore N (1 .:: !;ft4 a little linen cloth but His mother knew her growing boy would outgrow the 3 coat or wear it out and every year. this first so she made a new one That-kind of where we are We have Sunday of 2018. worn year's garment and we need something new to wear. We ought to out last have outgrown what wearing and need Not our coat to a new We have outgrown behaviors, have been we our put old ways, on. our old old walk. only did Hannah make a coat for Samuel but she took it to him. He lived at the House of the Lord and did not have the time to go and busy ministering God for came a care a loving on a come. He was daily basis. Thank caring mother who and with her husband and package. Many of 4 brought him us are in the habit of giving only when others ask. What would happen if we saw a need and gave to help without having to be asked? What would the world be like if hungry and fed them, if we saw the naked and clothed them, if we we saw saw the the homeless and housed we saw the needy and took them? There is somebody neighborhood that need of help. God saw our begotten God's standing we were needs and sent His Son to save us. we are what loved and cared for He we are us. 5 of in your care-package to each Today, care you know The Bible says before them, if in born only came as one of us. because God THE KINDNESS OF A FATHER " Or what his son man is there of you, whom if ask bread, will he give him a if he ask a fishJ will he give him a serpent? If ye then. being evll, stone? Or know how to give good gifts chiidren, how much unto your more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things 7: 9-11) to them that ask him. This text recorded comes sermon affectionately, from the (Matthew longest of Jesus, call the mount. It is a message how N things would be God for those who sermon on talking about kingdom of subjects or in the are children of the King. Jesus 1 the was teaching His disciples what to expect of those who became believers and intended to spend eternity in the presence of God. He wanted them to know different and unique they would be who lived in this world but world. He reninds judging others, short comings at others, or swine, us just how were not of this to be careful about to be alert to our own as to not opposed to just looking give holy things to dogs to know the three ways of accessing God---ask, seek, and knock. Here is verses kindness of a 9-11 we learn about the Father. First, Jesus said, "What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?" Bread is usually soft 2 and It can be chewed and You can break it pliable. digested. or tear it. It provides nourishment for the body and nutrients for but Jesus strength. to the responded of the devil that We need bread man temptations cannot live by bread alone. We need the bread of life which is the Word of God. A stone on the other hand is firm and solid, hard to break with or a bite into. About all you do stone if you swallow it is pass it and sometimes that will pain. can A kind Father cause gives his you great son not stones but bread. Second, Jesus said, "Or if he ask for a fish will he give him good a serpent? for food. In fact, medical 3 A fish is people discouraging us from eating pork or beef while encouraging us to eat more fish. When I was in Israel, we enjoyed are the St. Peter's fish from the Sea of Galilee and ate day. A some serpent is poison that is kind of fish every not fit to eat. The in his mouth might have spread throughout his body and be deadly. It is a reptile or snake. It is often venomous and will kill. So, the text wants to know who would hear the request for fish and give their serpent? A son a good kind father will give that which Third, these is serpentine but were asking for that which a examples of a is fish. son good but the possibilities of getting that which 4 not is evil. A good father fives "good gifts" to his children. He wants the best for his children. Even what they can earthly fathers will do to be helpful for their children. The real model or "Father which is in fatherhood is our heaven." gives He He forgives not into water. of our gives our us and daily will our loving. bread. sins. He leads us us living eternal bread. He every need. If fathers do well and more us our temptation. He gives He supplies us mentor for are heavenly earthy kind, how much Father be kind "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not 5 perish but have everlasting life." (John 3: 16) 6 |
