May 7, 2025 • 42 mins
Legacy Bible Podcast - Episode 60: A Mother's Love (Part 1)
Welcome back to the Legacy Bible Podcast with your host, Marcus Onate
In this episode, we delve into the archives of Fellowship Bible Church in Joliet, Illinois, moving into the 1990s. With Mother's Day just around the corner (next week!), Marcus brings us a timely message titled "A Mother's Love," presented on May 6, 1990.
In this episode (Part 1), we hear Pastor Rains discuss:
- The profound subject of a mother's love, which will be explored in two parts, leading up to Mother's Day next week.
- How the Lord prepares our hearts to understand the design and significance of motherhood.
- A powerful teaching from scripture: Proverbs 17:12 - "Let a bear robbed of her welps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly."
- An exploration of the unique and fierce protectiveness inherent in a mother's love, drawing a parallel to a mother bear defending her cubs.
- The contrast between this instinctual love and the predictable foolishness of a fool.
Join us next week for Part 2 of "A Mother's Love" as we continue to reflect on the importance and depth of a mother's love.
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Hello, podcast listeners.
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And welcome or welcome back.
This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you will hear a legacy, lessons from the
Bible from the tape archives of the Fellowship Bible Church in Joliet, Illinois.
I'm your host, Marcus Onate.
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And today I'm going to be bringing you another one from our massive tape archive.
We finished the ones from 1989.
So now we're going to be getting into the 90s.
So this is what I thought this Mother Day was coming up.
I would bring out something from Mother's Day.
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So this title of this one is called, A Mother's Love.
And it is from .
May 6, 1990.
So yeah, May 6, 1990.
So that was a few years ago.
But still, mothers are still around.
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I think you'll like this one.
OK, so let's get right to it then.
A Mother's Love.
I want to talk both this morning and next week on the subject of a Mother's Love.
And so I titled this one part one.
Next week will be part two.
Now next week is Mother's Day.
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So you can tell the Lord is getting my heart ready.
And I hope that yours too with me as we look into some things that the Lord would teach
kind of drawing upon the design that He's given to us in motherhood.
There's a teaching in the scripture.
Don't meet a mother bear who has just been robbed of her cubs.
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Amen.
Amen.
Proverbs 17, 12.
Let a bear robbed of her welps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.
The only way a fool knows how to act is like a fool.
Everything he does is foolish.
That's what his folly is, how he behaves.
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A man means here in the scripture somebody that's mature, not just mature in body,
not just having a mind that has come through experience to arrive at adulthood either,
but really somebody in a full sense of maturity that is not a fool, doesn't,
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as the book of Proverbs even defines for us, somebody that doesn't operate void of wisdom.
Somebody, a man is somebody who is tuned to God.
Somebody that judges by God's guidance, by God's truth and is sensitive to the spirit
of God.
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That's one of maturity, not only of body and mind, but of spirit.
If a bear is going to meet somebody, let her meet a man, not a fool.
Everything in this scripture says that you're going to go through life without having to
come up against in pretty tough situations.
When you meet those situations, don't meet them as a fool.
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It may them meet them as one mature in the Lord.
Mother's, Mother-animals, responses are what we would call instinct, and they're designed
by God.
It's amazing how God has put in each one those instincts for their patterns of behavior.
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Every little ant knows what it's supposed to do.
Every bee knows what it's supposed to be doing.
Every robin knows what it's supposed to be doing.
Isn't it amazing?
They do learn some things, but so much of their behavior is guided by instinct.
Sometimes there are creatures that couldn't have the benefit of being taught.
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They may get laid as an egg in the soil or in a tree or somewhere.
I'm thinking of the 17-year locus.
They're going to come out this year, I understand.
They've been down in the ground for 17 years, waiting to crawl up on a tree and lay some
eggs.
They're going to do that this year.
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Most of those little things that hatch out won't have the benefit of learning anything
about when to come out of the ground again, 17 years hence.
Their parents are going to be long gone.
How are they all going to know?
The right moment, the right year, the right season, the right week, the right day to start
coming up out of the soil.
By the way, science doesn't understand that yet either, but they do know this.
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It happens.
There are instincts given by God to oversee animal behavior, a lot of it.
We can say God has put it there.
By his design, these things go on.
With a mother animal by instinct, she gives herself her time, her energy, her life to
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care for her young.
That is a God-placed instinct when an animal is a mother.
The goal, you can say when you step back from how an animal is behaving, you can see all
of this design, all of this activity going on in that animal, in her care for the young,
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the goal would be the welfare of the young, the welfare of the young, meeting all their
needs.
The mother animal is dedicated to meet all the needs of her young.
Eventually, of course, if she meets them long enough, she will bring them to adulthood.
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Stepping back from me, God has put these instincts in the animals to operate so that they can
bring their young to adulthood.
When they have adulthood, they will separate from the parents and go on their own into
the world.
It is interesting that sometimes we like to watch birds, and sometimes some certain species
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of birds stay with their young quite a long time.
I think of the cardinal, for instance.
We love to watch cardinals, but every time the cardinals hatch out, by the end of the
season, it is hard to tell who mother is and who father is and who the babies are.
They are just as big as one another, except for this.
The babies are as big as they are, big as the mother, big as the father.
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Stand there and cheap, expecting for the mother and father to fly over and give them something
to eat.
The father and mother still feed those babies as big as they are.
They look like adults.
They are adults as far as their bodily structure is concerned, but they are still at bond in
that particular species that God holds a little longer than some other species.
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When our eyes can't see that there is still a need in that species for that kind of care
and that oversight, in God's design, he fell for that species, that was the way it should
be.
They are not ready in God's mind, in God's design.
They weren't ready to go out into the world yet as adults.
You see some of these little birds trying to feed their babies?
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The babies look like all mouths sometimes in the nest.
Those you have to give credit to those little birds.
Well, you don't really.
I mean, they are doing what God designed them to do, but give credit to God for it.
Those little things work themselves half to death trying to feed those mouths.
We think of Psalm 127.3, children heritage of the Lord, a gift from the Lord, true amen.
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And down a couple of verses that says, happy is the man whose quiver is full of them.
And that suggests six children, standard number in the quiver, and maybe one in the
bowl, seven.
You know, happy you'd be, we had six or seven kids.
Well, some of those birds, one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs, five eggs.
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Why we had a chicken once that laid over 20 eggs in the nest out in the flower bed.
And one day she came walking out with this brood of chickens who didn't know where she
was for two, three weeks.
She walked out with her brood of chickens.
And there she was, mother hen, you know, you think, wow, what a job that mother has with
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21 little active creatures to watch over.
And as they grow, they get more and more active.
And the mother hen, you'll notice gets skinnier and skier because she keeps trying to take
care of them, watch out for them and work out those instincts that the Lord has given
her to watch out for the welfare of the little ones.
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What happens though, when a mother animal is suddenly stripped of her young ones robbed,
as the scripture says?
Well, this verse, even from Proverbs, and by the way, there's a similar verse like this
from Samuel's writings and speaking of David in 2 Samuel when he's talking to him, but
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when the Absalom is being addressed, and David is being likened to a mother bear robbed
of her welps.
So this application is made in the scripture.
And the idea there is that when there's that sudden, when there's that sudden robbing
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of the young away from the mother, you can expect some very definite behavior.
What happens?
Well, all the mother's energy gets focused, gets focused and directed against anything
that she perceives to be a possible cause for her losing her little ones.
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Everything that that mother could possibly perceive as an enemy, as one to have taken
away her little ones.
Everything in her gets directed against that.
Why?
Well, because God has put in her this drive to protect her little ones.
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Now when they've been taken away, anything could present itself as a danger, or in her
mind, be the thing that did that.
And she would see it as the danger to her little ones, though the little ones might not even
be there.
And she might attack.
The gentlest little bird suddenly turns into a dive bomber.
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I mean, really, you climb the wrong tree at the wrong time as a kid and you find out.
And little robins can really let you have it.
And that nice, fluffy, generally calm, teddy bear of an animal, big lumbering along, suddenly
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turns into a terror.
And one who meets it has to face that energy, that massive animal, directed at what she
might perceive to be an enemy.
Every animal robbed is ready to give their energy, their very life to attack the enemy.
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They don't hold back.
They want to free their cubs, in this case of the bear, from danger.
They want to restore those cubs back to them.
In other words, get back to the place where they were so that they could go on meeting
the needs of those babies.
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That's what they want.
That's what they're directed at.
They want to fulfill the meeting of the needs of the baby and anything that interrupts that,
well, just destroy even unto death to make it not be a threat to the little ones.
By the way, the greater the power of the mother, compared to the power of the enemy, the greater
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the danger to the enemy.
They ever sit on an anthill and get perceived by the ants to be a danger.
Sooner or later, you're going to find out that they do not welcome your presence.
I mean, it's just going to happen.
I promise you, you sit there long enough.
If they truly decide that you're a danger to their anthill, you're going to find out about
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it.
You're going to find out about it all over your body.
And you're going to find out about it in multiplied ways.
Hundreds of little ants are going to come and make their claim to that anthill and attack
you as an enemy.
You can get up and you can brush ants off.
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Some ants are more hurtful.
Some ants down south, they call a fire ant now, can make you sick, send you to the hospital.
They're fierce little things.
Mothers and fathers are careful about sending their children to play out in their yards
if they have those kind of anthills in their yards.
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You can suffer.
You can get hurt.
But they're just doing what their instincts tell them.
They're just trying to protect their own.
How far will they go to death?
And whatever the degree of their energy is against your energy, you can kind of compare
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the two.
You're big.
One little ant isn't that great a danger, you say?
You can in fact, in fact, kind of eliminate the problem very easily.
But what do you do if it's you and a bear?
It's changes, doesn't it?
I'm not talking about you with a gun.
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I'm talking about just you.
You with your well filed down nails, with your teeth that are not really meant to do
much against a bear anyway.
With your feet that if you kick with them without shoes, you're going to hurt yourself.
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You're not much measured up against the mother bear, robbed of her welps.
How would you stand calm?
Would you want to meet such a bear?
By the way, not only the degree or the amount of power in that mother is important, but
I guess you could say there's also a matter of how irritated she is, the degree of irritation.
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And the more irritated the mother is, the more severe the attack is going to be.
Bear does have great power and it's therefore capable of great destruction.
And you might say that most of the time, as far as its irritability level, it's not usually
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too irritable.
They look like it out in the wild.
You don't want to get around them too much, but basically they go around their way.
You stay out of their way, they'll stay out of yours.
But that irritability level suddenly rises tremendously when their little ones are taken
away.
They become almost an entirely different kind of animal, at least certainly a different kind
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of circumstance that you're going to have to deal with.
Let me talk about a tiny creature as an example of bee.
Bee can sting you.
Probably almost everybody here has had a sting from a bee sometime in their life.
It's not a good experience.
You've never had it.
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Talk to somebody who has.
It hurts.
Comes down to it.
It stings.
Like fire.
Sharp pain.
There are two kinds of bees that the world is thinking about these days, especially in
this country, in South America.
There is what is called a European bee that has traditionally been over here.
We've been breeding them and using them for honeybees for a long time and now a new threat
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from Africa came to Brazil in the 50s.
It's kind of worked its way northward.
150 to 300 miles a year works its way northward and now this year it's coming across the border
of Texas and Mexico.
They know it's coming.
This bee is different.
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The bees don't perceive movement and sharp smells and attack within a close range.
They don't perceive those things as bad or as from an enemy.
I'll give you an example or a comparison.
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European bee might attack within about a 30 yard limit.
If you're within 30 yards of maybe an attack on their hive or something they've perceived
as bad, they get irritated and they'll go after you.
The Africanized bee attacks generally in a range of 10 times that 300 yards and they've
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even been known to attack a half mile away.
They can be walking a long half mile away from a real danger to their hive and they see
you and they come at you.
You're perceived as an enemy.
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By the way, the European bees irritability lasts for a few minutes.
I shouldn't say a couple.
It can be as long as 10 or 12 minutes but usually no longer.
The Africanized bee typically takes a half an hour to an hour to get over its irritability.
It just keeps looking for enemies for half an hour to an hour.
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Ready to sting them.
The European bee zeroes in usually on one thing that's perceived as a threat.
The Africanized bee will attack anything that moves animal, human and go after it within
that whole large area that it's active in and it'll keep looking for them and going
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after them for half an hour to an hour.
By the way, as far as calling up support, it is true with the European bee the closer
you get to their hive, the more of them will come after you.
But generally, if you're not real close to the hive, you probably get one or two or
three that will come after you but not with the Africanized bee.
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When they perceive a threat, they will come after you by the hundreds and by the thousands.
In fact, this is though the whole hive empties out and comes after the enemy and stings and
stings and stings.
And so some have even died from it.
They're trying to play down that death danger.
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And so they're trying not to call these bees, killer bees and the press anymore, just Africanized
bees.
What they do, inflict severe poisoning in the system and for some, that means even death.
Is it possible that like this mother bear, these two
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consents of great danger, whatever is in their makeup and their instincts, they're
just being triggered by those instincts to protect their young.
Again, the scriptures say, don't meet a mother bear just after she's been robbed of her
cups.
And don't act the fool in these matters.
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Don't act like a fool.
You need spiritual wisdom when you meet such a one.
What about a human mother?
Is she destined only to act out of instinct?
Is she act out of guidelines put down in her chromosomes?
No, the human mother, she's not only going to respond by instinct in any sense, but far
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more is involved when we talk about a mother.
First Kings, chapter three tells a story of two mothers.
They were harlots.
They lived in the same house and each had a baby.
By the way, their babies were born three days apart.
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First Kings three, 16.
One suffocated her baby by laying on it during the night.
Incidentally, when she realized that it was dead at midnight in the middle of the night,
she took her dead baby over to the bed where the other woman was laying and laid that baby,
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the dead one there with the other woman and took the other woman's living child back to
her own bed.
In the morning, the other mother realized that that was not her baby that was laying
there with her dead.
Now here's the question.
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What does the Scripture say that that human mother did?
Was she just a bear?
Did she become unreasonable and just attack the other woman?
No, something different happens.
First of all, she talks with her.
She reasons with her.
She says, this isn't my baby.
That one that you have is my baby.
The other woman says, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
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One that I have is my baby.
The dead one is yours and they really, you could say, have an argument about this.
But they talk.
They reason.
The woman tries to put the truth out, tries to explain things as they are.
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But that wasn't enough.
Argument didn't work.
So the two ladies brought their case.
I'm sure that the one was the one that motivated this happening, the one that was robbed of
her baby.
They brought the case before a judge.
So happens that the judge is the king of Israel, Solomon.
In other words, in human affairs, there's this tendency first to speak and to bring the
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truth out.
I wish all would follow this pattern.
And when there isn't a submission to truth, then there's a seeking for judgment, for justice.
These two women appeared before Solomon told her story and they still had this disagreement
before Solomon.
So Solomon put out a test of wisdom.
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He was going to test by wisdom to see whose babies, whose baby was whose.
What did he do?
What Solomon did was threaten the life of the living child.
He said, bring a sword here.
He was going to divide the baby in half and give half to one mother and half to the other
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mother.
That was to threaten the life of the child.
That's key in the Scripture.
You want to understand a mother?
You want to understand a mother's love?
You want to understand a mother's desire for the life of her child?
Well, what did the...what happened there?
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What did the mothers do?
Well, even this unregenerate mother, because the Scripture is very clear, she's a harlot,
even this imperfect, unregenerate heart and that mother wanted life for her child.
And she gave life for that child.
She gave the life of that child a higher priority than winning her point.
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Higher priority than self.
She said, let her have it then.
Let her have the child.
Love tests whether you have a greater concern for the other or for yourself.
The wisdom of God in testing to see whether real love is there wants to find out who
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is your love set on.
That love gives.
Love sacrificed.
Is your heart sacrificing and giving?
Does it submit to the needs and the good of another or does your love center on you?
Well, if it's from the Lord, it's a sacrificing, surrendering love that gives to the needs
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of the other even unto death.
And so when Solomon recognized which was which, even though that one laid claim, she surrendered
that claim when he recognized that the desire for the love of that child was in her heart,
he recognized that she was a true mother.
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I learned from the wisdom of the Word of God about a mother's love.
A mother's love, a godly mother's love.
God directed mother's love wants her child to live.
Think of this girl Patty losing her baby this last week.
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The awfulness of that grief for that mother because everything in her as a mother would
want that child to live and to come to maturity.
But even for us, we know more than this, don't we?
That we don't want our children simply to come to adulthood.
We want them to come to spiritual maturity.
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What an awful thing for a little one to be taken so soon.
Yes, the scriptures have some other examples and I'm going to use another one from 1 Kings
17.
There's a story of Elijah.
He was cared for by the widow of Zara-path.
She sacrificially at the point of death gave up her little cakes that she was going to
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make and gave them to the prophet because she and her son, her only son, this dear widow
woman, she and her only son were going to die from starvation anyway.
She gave that food to the prophet and the Lord in kindness then caused her meal barrel
and her crews of oil to never fail until the full three and a half years of the drought
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was completed that was in the land of Israel that day.
After that however, during that time, during that drought time still, her son fell sick.
In fact, his breath was taken from him and we take that to mean he died.
And she was robbed in a sense of her heart's desire anyway.
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She was robbed of her son and the son was her only son.
She was broken hearted.
She came to the prophet Elijah and she said something very significant to me, him in verse
18.
What have I to do with thee?
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She said, Oh thou, man of God, art thou coming to me to call my sins of remembrance
and to slay my son?
At verse, it's deep, but it tells you about a mother's heart.
We're all sinners by the way.
And without the salvation of the Lord Jesus, there's no hope for any of us.
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Do you know what you are?
Do you know your frame?
Do you know that without the Lord's grace you're nothing?
What does it take to remind you of your sinfulness?
Well, what it takes is a vision of the righteousness of God.
And if you have a righteous man in your presence, a prophet of God, maybe by his very presence,
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maybe by his godly words, his godly behavior.
She was aware that she was a sinner, a sinner in the sense that she was not perfect in all
of her ways.
We trust that perhaps she had by faith, committed her life into the Lord's hands, but even so,
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she would still know she's not perfect in her everyday behavior.
And maybe she sensed that there was something that the Lord was pointing out in her life
that she still needed to deal with.
I don't know about you in your daily devotional time.
I suppose it's just like me or your experiences, just like mine.
When I meet with the Lord, I always expect that he's going to find something to tell
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me about that he wants me to let him change and make more like him.
That's just been my experience, all my Christian life.
I've never really gone to the Lord thinking, boy, I'm going to go to the Lord right now.
And there's just nothing more.
The Lord can do in me.
It's all done.
I just know that that's not the truth.
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I know that.
He's always, gently, kindly trying to bring me to a better likeness in Christ.
And that woman had that sense of this prophet's presence and God's presence through him that
brought her sin to mine.
And you know, when you're conscious of sin, there's something else that goes along with
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it.
A consciousness of sin brings with it a sense that you deserve judgment.
That's true.
Sometimes God can so work in our lives because of our sin through chastening.
He can make us aware that we need to deal with our sin.
She thought, now, could it be?
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Could it be?
That not having dealt with some sin in my life, that God is by bringing this man into
my life and having something to do with him.
He's helping me to see my sin.
And he's actually chastening me through the taking of my son.
Boy, wouldn't that be hard to bear?
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Sometimes we say to people, well, you shouldn't feel guilty for this or that.
Look, people, sometimes we need to reckon our guilt for the discipline of God.
Can it be awful, though, for a mother to feel that she's perhaps the cause for her
own child's death?
Hard to deal with.
In soil, Elijah went before God and prayed, laid himself on that boy, and prayed for life
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to come back to him.
And the key is life.
He prays, oh, Lord, my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
And God answered, the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came
into him again and he revived.
And then this prophet had this wonderful opportunity to restore the child to the mother.
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He brought the child to the mother.
Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber, into the house, and delivered
him unto his mother.
And Elijah said, see thy son liveth the response of the woman.
Now by this I know that thou art a man of God and to the word of the Lord is in thy
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mouth is true.
Isn't it good to know that you can stand in the presence of God and even if he has to
discipline you?
You shouldn't flee from his presence?
That all that he's put in your heart for love and all that he would have you do in this
life, even in your role, if you're a mother, could never justify you turning against God.
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If there's ever any hand of discipline, the Lord would ever have to bring against you.
He's still God.
He's still a righteous one.
He's still the God of love.
Well, you can't tell you of all the scriptures that I had in mind this morning, but the principle
was there in that verse that I quoted from Psalm 107, that children are a gift from the
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Lord and the fruit of the womb is reward.
These little ones come from God.
There are to care for while he gives us breath strength.
I think of that one last case during the Lord Jesus' time on the earth.
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He came to the city of Nain and there was a funeral procession going out of the town
the very time when he came there with his disciples and they were carrying up on their
shoulders, they were carrying a pallet with a corpse on it.
This dead man was the only son of a lady from the city of Nain and she was a widow.
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She had no other children.
She had no husband.
Her whole purpose of life at that time seemed to be caught up in that child's life and
now he was dead.
And she had friends from the town going along and they were mourning with her.
They were there and it was really a sad procession.
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They were weeping.
And the Lord's word to them was this, weep not.
And he touched the young man and he came to life and he again restored him to his mother.
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His love will never be fulfilled until it sees every good thing for life poured out
on its child.
And listen, when a mother understands this that the best thing for her child is to know
the Lord Jesus is Savior, her love is a strongly motivated that toward that, more strongly
motivated toward that than even preserving the child's life.
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A mother that loves the Lord can honestly say, I would rather that my child come to
know Jesus as Savior and have eternal life than that I just have the assurance that it
just lived long on the earth.
I'm more concerned, God of love, that my child come to know Christ and live eternally with
him.
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Last week I saw a picture touch my heart because I was thinking along these lines.
And it was a picture of an old man dressed in a white robe up in heaven, standing on
a cloud.
And the Lord Jesus was in the background, kind of enlarged by a superimposed picture
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you could see his outstretched hands.
And the old man was looking toward you in the picture and Lord Jesus was behind him.
And so that you say, well, why?
Well, because there was another figure in the picture, it was a child of this old man's
way I interpret the picture.
And the old man had wrapped his arms around the child.
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And apparently the Lord and the old man were welcoming his child into heaven.
Mother's love and a Savior's love is never perfect simply through protection and feeding
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and protection from the enemy.
It's never really complete until the eternal work is done, until that child is truly brought
to the Lord Jesus and nurtured and encouraged in a mature love for the Lord.
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Our greatest joy should be this, that our children have nothing to fear from death.
We have placed them in the hands of the Lord.
And even at death, we with the Lord will welcome them into everlasting righteousness.
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That should be our heart's desire and the perfect love of a mother, not an animal, an
animal can never know this, but a Christian mother can have it as her soul desire, her
chief desire that she would even be there.
If they go before her, they'll be there.
But if she goes before them, she would be there to welcome into the courts of praise
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these that she brought from her own body and nurtured with her own strength.
No greater joy, no greater fulfillment of mother's love.
Let's pray.
Lord, as you say in the book of Revelation that he that is a thirst should come and drink
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of the water of life freely.
And by that have assurance of eternity with you because of your great love.
Lord, we send out the message today.
All these pictures of that love that you give us as this wonderful picture you give in a
mother's love all fade when they're compared to the perfect love that you have for mankind
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and how you reach out in that love calling each one to yourself because you've done all
you can do in that perfect work at Calvary of making it possible for those that will
trust in you to have eternal life.
You've done the work.
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It's complete.
I thank you that even now by your word and by your spirit and by your servants faithful
to your word and the movement of your spirit that your word of invitation continues to
go out motivated by your great love to call men and women, boys and girls to a perfect
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life in you and perfect safety and perfect fellowship and perfect joy.
Lord uses for that witness.
Use us all to reach out to this world in your love.
Give us someone this week to share the gospel with and perhaps to pray with that they might
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trust you as Savior in your precious name.
Thank you Pastor Rains for another message from the 1990s on a mother's love.
Okay, so if you liked that one come back.
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Hello, podcast listeners.
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And welcome or welcome back.
This is the Legacy Bible Podcast, a place where you will hear a legacy, lessons from the
Bible from the tape archives of the Fellowship Bible Church in Joliet, Illinois.
I'm your host, Marcus Onate.
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And today I'm going to be bringing you another one from our massive tape archive.
We finished the ones from 1989.
So now we're going to be getting into the 90s.
So this is what I thought this Mother Day was coming up.
I would bring out something from Mother's Day.
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So this title of this one is called, A Mother's Love.
And it is from .
May 6, 1990.
So yeah, May 6, 1990.
So that was a few years ago.
But still, mothers are still around.
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I think you'll like this one.
OK, so let's get right to it then.
A Mother's Love.
I want to talk both this morning and next week on the subject of a Mother's Love.
And so I titled this one part one.
Next week will be part two.
Now next week is Mother's Day.
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So you can tell the Lord is getting my heart ready.
And I hope that yours too with me as we look into some things that the Lord would teach
kind of drawing upon the design that He's given to us in motherhood.
There's a teaching in the scripture.
Don't meet a mother bear who has just been robbed of her cubs.
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Amen.
Amen.
Proverbs 17, 12.
Let a bear robbed of her welps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.
The only way a fool knows how to act is like a fool.
Everything he does is foolish.
That's what his folly is, how he behaves.
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A man means here in the scripture somebody that's mature, not just mature in body,
not just having a mind that has come through experience to arrive at adulthood either,
but really somebody in a full sense of maturity that is not a fool, doesn't,
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as the book of Proverbs even defines for us, somebody that doesn't operate void of wisdom.
Somebody, a man is somebody who is tuned to God.
Somebody that judges by God's guidance, by God's truth and is sensitive to the spirit
of God.
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That's one of maturity, not only of body and mind, but of spirit.
If a bear is going to meet somebody, let her meet a man, not a fool.
Everything in this scripture says that you're going to go through life without having to
come up against in pretty tough situations.
When you meet those situations, don't meet them as a fool.
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It may them meet them as one mature in the Lord.
Mother's, Mother-animals, responses are what we would call instinct, and they're designed
by God.
It's amazing how God has put in each one those instincts for their patterns of behavior.
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Every little ant knows what it's supposed to do.
Every bee knows what it's supposed to be doing.
Every robin knows what it's supposed to be doing.
Isn't it amazing?
They do learn some things, but so much of their behavior is guided by instinct.
Sometimes there are creatures that couldn't have the benefit of being taught.
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They may get laid as an egg in the soil or in a tree or somewhere.
I'm thinking of the 17-year locus.
They're going to come out this year, I understand.
They've been down in the ground for 17 years, waiting to crawl up on a tree and lay some
eggs.
They're going to do that this year.
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Most of those little things that hatch out won't have the benefit of learning anything
about when to come out of the ground again, 17 years hence.
Their parents are going to be long gone.
How are they all going to know?
The right moment, the right year, the right season, the right week, the right day to start
coming up out of the soil.
By the way, science doesn't understand that yet either, but they do know this.
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It happens.
There are instincts given by God to oversee animal behavior, a lot of it.
We can say God has put it there.
By his design, these things go on.
With a mother animal by instinct, she gives herself her time, her energy, her life to
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care for her young.
That is a God-placed instinct when an animal is a mother.
The goal, you can say when you step back from how an animal is behaving, you can see all
of this design, all of this activity going on in that animal, in her care for the young,
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the goal would be the welfare of the young, the welfare of the young, meeting all their
needs.
The mother animal is dedicated to meet all the needs of her young.
Eventually, of course, if she meets them long enough, she will bring them to adulthood.
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Stepping back from me, God has put these instincts in the animals to operate so that they can
bring their young to adulthood.
When they have adulthood, they will separate from the parents and go on their own into
the world.
It is interesting that sometimes we like to watch birds, and sometimes some certain species
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of birds stay with their young quite a long time.
I think of the cardinal, for instance.
We love to watch cardinals, but every time the cardinals hatch out, by the end of the
season, it is hard to tell who mother is and who father is and who the babies are.
They are just as big as one another, except for this.
The babies are as big as they are, big as the mother, big as the father.
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Stand there and cheap, expecting for the mother and father to fly over and give them something
to eat.
The father and mother still feed those babies as big as they are.
They look like adults.
They are adults as far as their bodily structure is concerned, but they are still at bond in
that particular species that God holds a little longer than some other species.
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When our eyes can't see that there is still a need in that species for that kind of care
and that oversight, in God's design, he fell for that species, that was the way it should
be.
They are not ready in God's mind, in God's design.
They weren't ready to go out into the world yet as adults.
You see some of these little birds trying to feed their babies?
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The babies look like all mouths sometimes in the nest.
Those you have to give credit to those little birds.
Well, you don't really.
I mean, they are doing what God designed them to do, but give credit to God for it.
Those little things work themselves half to death trying to feed those mouths.
We think of Psalm 127.3, children heritage of the Lord, a gift from the Lord, true amen.
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And down a couple of verses that says, happy is the man whose quiver is full of them.
And that suggests six children, standard number in the quiver, and maybe one in the
bowl, seven.
You know, happy you'd be, we had six or seven kids.
Well, some of those birds, one egg, two eggs, three eggs, four eggs, five eggs.
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Why we had a chicken once that laid over 20 eggs in the nest out in the flower bed.
And one day she came walking out with this brood of chickens who didn't know where she
was for two, three weeks.
She walked out with her brood of chickens.
And there she was, mother hen, you know, you think, wow, what a job that mother has with
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21 little active creatures to watch over.
And as they grow, they get more and more active.
And the mother hen, you'll notice gets skinnier and skier because she keeps trying to take
care of them, watch out for them and work out those instincts that the Lord has given
her to watch out for the welfare of the little ones.
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What happens though, when a mother animal is suddenly stripped of her young ones robbed,
as the scripture says?
Well, this verse, even from Proverbs, and by the way, there's a similar verse like this
from Samuel's writings and speaking of David in 2 Samuel when he's talking to him, but
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when the Absalom is being addressed, and David is being likened to a mother bear robbed
of her welps.
So this application is made in the scripture.
And the idea there is that when there's that sudden, when there's that sudden robbing
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of the young away from the mother, you can expect some very definite behavior.
What happens?
Well, all the mother's energy gets focused, gets focused and directed against anything
that she perceives to be a possible cause for her losing her little ones.
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Everything that that mother could possibly perceive as an enemy, as one to have taken
away her little ones.
Everything in her gets directed against that.
Why?
Well, because God has put in her this drive to protect her little ones.
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Now when they've been taken away, anything could present itself as a danger, or in her
mind, be the thing that did that.
And she would see it as the danger to her little ones, though the little ones might not even
be there.
And she might attack.
The gentlest little bird suddenly turns into a dive bomber.
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I mean, really, you climb the wrong tree at the wrong time as a kid and you find out.
And little robins can really let you have it.
And that nice, fluffy, generally calm, teddy bear of an animal, big lumbering along, suddenly
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turns into a terror.
And one who meets it has to face that energy, that massive animal, directed at what she
might perceive to be an enemy.
Every animal robbed is ready to give their energy, their very life to attack the enemy.
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They don't hold back.
They want to free their cubs, in this case of the bear, from danger.
They want to restore those cubs back to them.
In other words, get back to the place where they were so that they could go on meeting
the needs of those babies.
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That's what they want.
That's what they're directed at.
They want to fulfill the meeting of the needs of the baby and anything that interrupts that,
well, just destroy even unto death to make it not be a threat to the little ones.
By the way, the greater the power of the mother, compared to the power of the enemy, the greater
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the danger to the enemy.
They ever sit on an anthill and get perceived by the ants to be a danger.
Sooner or later, you're going to find out that they do not welcome your presence.
I mean, it's just going to happen.
I promise you, you sit there long enough.
If they truly decide that you're a danger to their anthill, you're going to find out about
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it.
You're going to find out about it all over your body.
And you're going to find out about it in multiplied ways.
Hundreds of little ants are going to come and make their claim to that anthill and attack
you as an enemy.
You can get up and you can brush ants off.
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Some ants are more hurtful.
Some ants down south, they call a fire ant now, can make you sick, send you to the hospital.
They're fierce little things.
Mothers and fathers are careful about sending their children to play out in their yards
if they have those kind of anthills in their yards.
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You can suffer.
You can get hurt.
But they're just doing what their instincts tell them.
They're just trying to protect their own.
How far will they go to death?
And whatever the degree of their energy is against your energy, you can kind of compare
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the two.
You're big.
One little ant isn't that great a danger, you say?
You can in fact, in fact, kind of eliminate the problem very easily.
But what do you do if it's you and a bear?
It's changes, doesn't it?
I'm not talking about you with a gun.
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I'm talking about just you.
You with your well filed down nails, with your teeth that are not really meant to do
much against a bear anyway.
With your feet that if you kick with them without shoes, you're going to hurt yourself.
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You're not much measured up against the mother bear, robbed of her welps.
How would you stand calm?
Would you want to meet such a bear?
By the way, not only the degree or the amount of power in that mother is important, but
I guess you could say there's also a matter of how irritated she is, the degree of irritation.
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And the more irritated the mother is, the more severe the attack is going to be.
Bear does have great power and it's therefore capable of great destruction.
And you might say that most of the time, as far as its irritability level, it's not usually
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too irritable.
They look like it out in the wild.
You don't want to get around them too much, but basically they go around their way.
You stay out of their way, they'll stay out of yours.
But that irritability level suddenly rises tremendously when their little ones are taken
away.
They become almost an entirely different kind of animal, at least certainly a different kind
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of circumstance that you're going to have to deal with.
Let me talk about a tiny creature as an example of bee.
Bee can sting you.
Probably almost everybody here has had a sting from a bee sometime in their life.
It's not a good experience.
You've never had it.
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Talk to somebody who has.
It hurts.
Comes down to it.
It stings.
Like fire.
Sharp pain.
There are two kinds of bees that the world is thinking about these days, especially in
this country, in South America.
There is what is called a European bee that has traditionally been over here.
We've been breeding them and using them for honeybees for a long time and now a new threat
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from Africa came to Brazil in the 50s.
It's kind of worked its way northward.
150 to 300 miles a year works its way northward and now this year it's coming across the border
of Texas and Mexico.
They know it's coming.
This bee is different.
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The bees don't perceive movement and sharp smells and attack within a close range.
They don't perceive those things as bad or as from an enemy.
I'll give you an example or a comparison.
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European bee might attack within about a 30 yard limit.
If you're within 30 yards of maybe an attack on their hive or something they've perceived
as bad, they get irritated and they'll go after you.
The Africanized bee attacks generally in a range of 10 times that 300 yards and they've
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even been known to attack a half mile away.
They can be walking a long half mile away from a real danger to their hive and they see
you and they come at you.
You're perceived as an enemy.
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By the way, the European bees irritability lasts for a few minutes.
I shouldn't say a couple.
It can be as long as 10 or 12 minutes but usually no longer.
The Africanized bee typically takes a half an hour to an hour to get over its irritability.
It just keeps looking for enemies for half an hour to an hour.
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Ready to sting them.
The European bee zeroes in usually on one thing that's perceived as a threat.
The Africanized bee will attack anything that moves animal, human and go after it within
that whole large area that it's active in and it'll keep looking for them and going
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after them for half an hour to an hour.
By the way, as far as calling up support, it is true with the European bee the closer
you get to their hive, the more of them will come after you.
But generally, if you're not real close to the hive, you probably get one or two or
three that will come after you but not with the Africanized bee.
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When they perceive a threat, they will come after you by the hundreds and by the thousands.
In fact, this is though the whole hive empties out and comes after the enemy and stings and
stings and stings.
And so some have even died from it.
They're trying to play down that death danger.
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And so they're trying not to call these bees, killer bees and the press anymore, just Africanized
bees.
What they do, inflict severe poisoning in the system and for some, that means even death.
Is it possible that like this mother bear, these two
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consents of great danger, whatever is in their makeup and their instincts, they're
just being triggered by those instincts to protect their young.
Again, the scriptures say, don't meet a mother bear just after she's been robbed of her
cups.
And don't act the fool in these matters.
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Don't act like a fool.
You need spiritual wisdom when you meet such a one.
What about a human mother?
Is she destined only to act out of instinct?
Is she act out of guidelines put down in her chromosomes?
No, the human mother, she's not only going to respond by instinct in any sense, but far
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more is involved when we talk about a mother.
First Kings, chapter three tells a story of two mothers.
They were harlots.
They lived in the same house and each had a baby.
By the way, their babies were born three days apart.
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First Kings three, 16.
One suffocated her baby by laying on it during the night.
Incidentally, when she realized that it was dead at midnight in the middle of the night,
she took her dead baby over to the bed where the other woman was laying and laid that baby,
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the dead one there with the other woman and took the other woman's living child back to
her own bed.
In the morning, the other mother realized that that was not her baby that was laying
there with her dead.
Now here's the question.
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What does the Scripture say that that human mother did?
Was she just a bear?
Did she become unreasonable and just attack the other woman?
No, something different happens.
First of all, she talks with her.
She reasons with her.
She says, this isn't my baby.
That one that you have is my baby.
The other woman says, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
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One that I have is my baby.
The dead one is yours and they really, you could say, have an argument about this.
But they talk.
They reason.
The woman tries to put the truth out, tries to explain things as they are.
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But that wasn't enough.
Argument didn't work.
So the two ladies brought their case.
I'm sure that the one was the one that motivated this happening, the one that was robbed of
her baby.
They brought the case before a judge.
So happens that the judge is the king of Israel, Solomon.
In other words, in human affairs, there's this tendency first to speak and to bring the
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truth out.
I wish all would follow this pattern.
And when there isn't a submission to truth, then there's a seeking for judgment, for justice.
These two women appeared before Solomon told her story and they still had this disagreement
before Solomon.
So Solomon put out a test of wisdom.
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He was going to test by wisdom to see whose babies, whose baby was whose.
What did he do?
What Solomon did was threaten the life of the living child.
He said, bring a sword here.
He was going to divide the baby in half and give half to one mother and half to the other
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mother.
That was to threaten the life of the child.
That's key in the Scripture.
You want to understand a mother?
You want to understand a mother's love?
You want to understand a mother's desire for the life of her child?
Well, what did the...what happened there?
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What did the mothers do?
Well, even this unregenerate mother, because the Scripture is very clear, she's a harlot,
even this imperfect, unregenerate heart and that mother wanted life for her child.
And she gave life for that child.
She gave the life of that child a higher priority than winning her point.
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Higher priority than self.
She said, let her have it then.
Let her have the child.
Love tests whether you have a greater concern for the other or for yourself.
The wisdom of God in testing to see whether real love is there wants to find out who
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is your love set on.
That love gives.
Love sacrificed.
Is your heart sacrificing and giving?
Does it submit to the needs and the good of another or does your love center on you?
Well, if it's from the Lord, it's a sacrificing, surrendering love that gives to the needs
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of the other even unto death.
And so when Solomon recognized which was which, even though that one laid claim, she surrendered
that claim when he recognized that the desire for the love of that child was in her heart,
he recognized that she was a true mother.
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I learned from the wisdom of the Word of God about a mother's love.
A mother's love, a godly mother's love.
God directed mother's love wants her child to live.
Think of this girl Patty losing her baby this last week.
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The awfulness of that grief for that mother because everything in her as a mother would
want that child to live and to come to maturity.
But even for us, we know more than this, don't we?
That we don't want our children simply to come to adulthood.
We want them to come to spiritual maturity.
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What an awful thing for a little one to be taken so soon.
Yes, the scriptures have some other examples and I'm going to use another one from 1 Kings
17.
There's a story of Elijah.
He was cared for by the widow of Zara-path.
She sacrificially at the point of death gave up her little cakes that she was going to
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make and gave them to the prophet because she and her son, her only son, this dear widow
woman, she and her only son were going to die from starvation anyway.
She gave that food to the prophet and the Lord in kindness then caused her meal barrel
and her crews of oil to never fail until the full three and a half years of the drought
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was completed that was in the land of Israel that day.
After that however, during that time, during that drought time still, her son fell sick.
In fact, his breath was taken from him and we take that to mean he died.
And she was robbed in a sense of her heart's desire anyway.
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She was robbed of her son and the son was her only son.
She was broken hearted.
She came to the prophet Elijah and she said something very significant to me, him in verse
18.
What have I to do with thee?
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She said, Oh thou, man of God, art thou coming to me to call my sins of remembrance
and to slay my son?
At verse, it's deep, but it tells you about a mother's heart.
We're all sinners by the way.
And without the salvation of the Lord Jesus, there's no hope for any of us.
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Do you know what you are?
Do you know your frame?
Do you know that without the Lord's grace you're nothing?
What does it take to remind you of your sinfulness?
Well, what it takes is a vision of the righteousness of God.
And if you have a righteous man in your presence, a prophet of God, maybe by his very presence,
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maybe by his godly words, his godly behavior.
She was aware that she was a sinner, a sinner in the sense that she was not perfect in all
of her ways.
We trust that perhaps she had by faith, committed her life into the Lord's hands, but even so,
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she would still know she's not perfect in her everyday behavior.
And maybe she sensed that there was something that the Lord was pointing out in her life
that she still needed to deal with.
I don't know about you in your daily devotional time.
I suppose it's just like me or your experiences, just like mine.
When I meet with the Lord, I always expect that he's going to find something to tell
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me about that he wants me to let him change and make more like him.
That's just been my experience, all my Christian life.
I've never really gone to the Lord thinking, boy, I'm going to go to the Lord right now.
And there's just nothing more.
The Lord can do in me.
It's all done.
I just know that that's not the truth.
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I know that.
He's always, gently, kindly trying to bring me to a better likeness in Christ.
And that woman had that sense of this prophet's presence and God's presence through him that
brought her sin to mine.
And you know, when you're conscious of sin, there's something else that goes along with
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it.
A consciousness of sin brings with it a sense that you deserve judgment.
That's true.
Sometimes God can so work in our lives because of our sin through chastening.
He can make us aware that we need to deal with our sin.
She thought, now, could it be?
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Could it be?
That not having dealt with some sin in my life, that God is by bringing this man into
my life and having something to do with him.
He's helping me to see my sin.
And he's actually chastening me through the taking of my son.
Boy, wouldn't that be hard to bear?
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Sometimes we say to people, well, you shouldn't feel guilty for this or that.
Look, people, sometimes we need to reckon our guilt for the discipline of God.
Can it be awful, though, for a mother to feel that she's perhaps the cause for her
own child's death?
Hard to deal with.
In soil, Elijah went before God and prayed, laid himself on that boy, and prayed for life
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to come back to him.
And the key is life.
He prays, oh, Lord, my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
And God answered, the Lord heard the voice of Elijah and the soul of the child came
into him again and he revived.
And then this prophet had this wonderful opportunity to restore the child to the mother.
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He brought the child to the mother.
Elijah took the child and brought him down out of the chamber, into the house, and delivered
him unto his mother.
And Elijah said, see thy son liveth the response of the woman.
Now by this I know that thou art a man of God and to the word of the Lord is in thy
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mouth is true.
Isn't it good to know that you can stand in the presence of God and even if he has to
discipline you?
You shouldn't flee from his presence?
That all that he's put in your heart for love and all that he would have you do in this
life, even in your role, if you're a mother, could never justify you turning against God.
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If there's ever any hand of discipline, the Lord would ever have to bring against you.
He's still God.
He's still a righteous one.
He's still the God of love.
Well, you can't tell you of all the scriptures that I had in mind this morning, but the principle
was there in that verse that I quoted from Psalm 107, that children are a gift from the
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Lord and the fruit of the womb is reward.
These little ones come from God.
There are to care for while he gives us breath strength.
I think of that one last case during the Lord Jesus' time on the earth.
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He came to the city of Nain and there was a funeral procession going out of the town
the very time when he came there with his disciples and they were carrying up on their
shoulders, they were carrying a pallet with a corpse on it.
This dead man was the only son of a lady from the city of Nain and she was a widow.
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She had no other children.
She had no husband.
Her whole purpose of life at that time seemed to be caught up in that child's life and
now he was dead.
And she had friends from the town going along and they were mourning with her.
They were there and it was really a sad procession.
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They were weeping.
And the Lord's word to them was this, weep not.
And he touched the young man and he came to life and he again restored him to his mother.
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His love will never be fulfilled until it sees every good thing for life poured out
on its child.
And listen, when a mother understands this that the best thing for her child is to know
the Lord Jesus is Savior, her love is a strongly motivated that toward that, more strongly
motivated toward that than even preserving the child's life.
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A mother that loves the Lord can honestly say, I would rather that my child come to
know Jesus as Savior and have eternal life than that I just have the assurance that it
just lived long on the earth.
I'm more concerned, God of love, that my child come to know Christ and live eternally with
him.
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Last week I saw a picture touch my heart because I was thinking along these lines.
And it was a picture of an old man dressed in a white robe up in heaven, standing on
a cloud.
And the Lord Jesus was in the background, kind of enlarged by a superimposed picture
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you could see his outstretched hands.
And the old man was looking toward you in the picture and Lord Jesus was behind him.
And so that you say, well, why?
Well, because there was another figure in the picture, it was a child of this old man's
way I interpret the picture.
And the old man had wrapped his arms around the child.
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And apparently the Lord and the old man were welcoming his child into heaven.
Mother's love and a Savior's love is never perfect simply through protection and feeding
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and protection from the enemy.
It's never really complete until the eternal work is done, until that child is truly brought
to the Lord Jesus and nurtured and encouraged in a mature love for the Lord.
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Our greatest joy should be this, that our children have nothing to fear from death.
We have placed them in the hands of the Lord.
And even at death, we with the Lord will welcome them into everlasting righteousness.
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That should be our heart's desire and the perfect love of a mother, not an animal, an
animal can never know this, but a Christian mother can have it as her soul desire, her
chief desire that she would even be there.
If they go before her, they'll be there.
But if she goes before them, she would be there to welcome into the courts of praise
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these that she brought from her own body and nurtured with her own strength.
No greater joy, no greater fulfillment of mother's love.
Let's pray.
Lord, as you say in the book of Revelation that he that is a thirst should come and drink
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of the water of life freely.
And by that have assurance of eternity with you because of your great love.
Lord, we send out the message today.
All these pictures of that love that you give us as this wonderful picture you give in a
mother's love all fade when they're compared to the perfect love that you have for mankind
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and how you reach out in that love calling each one to yourself because you've done all
you can do in that perfect work at Calvary of making it possible for those that will
trust in you to have eternal life.
You've done the work.
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It's complete.
I thank you that even now by your word and by your spirit and by your servants faithful
to your word and the movement of your spirit that your word of invitation continues to
go out motivated by your great love to call men and women, boys and girls to a perfect
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life in you and perfect safety and perfect fellowship and perfect joy.
Lord uses for that witness.
Use us all to reach out to this world in your love.
Give us someone this week to share the gospel with and perhaps to pray with that they might
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trust you as Savior in your precious name.
Thank you Pastor Rains for another message from the 1990s on a mother's love.
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All right.
Bye.
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