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Mothers Day
Genealogy of Mary
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Ohso it's
Mother's Day and you know, with it being mother's day
to day, kind of a strange thought, but I couldn't
help but think about the street game sometimes called yomama.
(00:20):
I know, I know what you're thinking, probably not appropriate,
but bear with me on this if you're not familiar
with this game. This is a game of technically humiliation
where two or more opponents go head to head and
they hurl vicious verbal barbs at one another until one
(00:42):
of the player either runs out of disparaging things to
say or one of the so called joke bombs, basically
as a dud, and then that's the end of the game.
You know, the one with the last vicious statement wins.
But I didn't want to just tell you the rules
(01:04):
of this game, yo mama. The thing that's interesting is
that the hurtful one liners that are tossed back and
forth are not about one's opponent, or at least most
of the time, but about the opponent's mother. So isn't
(01:25):
it interesting that in a game designed to hurt and
humiliate someone, the worst thing, the absolute worst thing that
you can say about him or her was something ugly
about his or her mother. This further points out the
(01:48):
well known fact, let's say mothers are undeniably special. Some
two thousand years ago when I was born, there were
many things that can make an already rather tough existence
(02:08):
even tougher on a person as you go through life.
For instance, life could be tougher on you if you
were young, or if you were a woman, or if
you were poor. My mother Mary was all three of
these things, young, female, and poor. But what the world
(02:32):
at the time might have seen as possible weaknesses, God
the Father saw as wonderful strengths. You see. To God,
someone young like Mary meant that person had not yet
been jaded or made cynical, and God could use that
(02:56):
abundance of trust for something very very big. To God,
someone poor like Mary meant that person is not distracted
by the accumulation of worldly goods. As you know, these
things can often be a distraction get in the way
(03:19):
of God's great purpose. And finally, to God, being female
meant that Mary had the unique gift to carry human
life in her womb, and the strong nurturing and the
protective nature one must have to raise this tiny little
life equipping them to battle the slings and arrows that
(03:42):
come with growing up human on this earth. These three
strengths and more made Mary chosen by God for a
most special calling, the calling of motherhood and the even
(04:02):
greater calling of being my mother, mother of Me, the
King of Kings, Jesus the Messiah. This glorious honor came
with a lifetime of trials, at beginning with the appearance
of adultery, and this was during the time of her
(04:24):
engagement to my foster father Joseph, and moving on to
her watching me, her beloved son, publicly tortured and killed.
My mother Mary continues to serve as the ultimate example
of a loving mother, unwavering in her devotion to God
(04:49):
and unwavering in her devotion to motherhood. It says in
Luke one thirty that the angel sent by God told
Mary that she was favored by God. One might think
being favored by God means being free from trials, you know,
(05:10):
basically living on easy street. So it's not the case
with my mother Mary, nor is it the case with
any mother. Being called to motherhood doesn't mean God will
keep you from the hardships of life. It means God
trusts that you can handle the bumps in the road,
(05:32):
both big and small, with wisdom and dignity. That always
seems to be the focus, does it not. When you
feel called to something, you feel that basically, you're gonna
have a linebacker. God the linebacker out in front of you,
(05:52):
taking care of things, seeing what's sneaking up behind you,
to your side, to your front, taking care of all issues.
And God is with you. And don't get me wrong,
God sustains. But often the world looks at things that
go on in life and these trials and tribulations and says, ah,
(06:15):
those are bad. You want to be on that easy street.
You want things to go your way all the time.
God doesn't, because it's not how you learn, it's not
how your child will learn. So God knows the importance
of having those bumps in the road to help define
(06:39):
who you are, to help define your child. And motherhood
comes with a whole new set of them. And it's NonStop.
There is no pole chain that will stop the train
of motherhood. From the minute you find out to the
(07:04):
minute your children leave the home. It's NonStop. And guess what,
even when they leave, it's NonStop. But that's the calling
of motherhood. That's why it's special. You see, there are
(07:24):
many wonderful callings in this life, and they require hours
of your time. They stretch your physical abilities, leaving you
exhausted at the end of the day. However, the rewards
and the exhaustion of motherhood are twenty four hours, seven
days a week. It's just more than anything else, because
(07:46):
the importance is so great. You're training up humans to
be productive, to prosper down the path that God has
created for them. That's a pretty major task, don't you think.
And it's not just about putting together a curriculum, you know,
(08:09):
throwing the little rug rats down in a corner for
a couple minutes and trying to teach them something that's
not enough. A true mother doesn't just teach lessons to
her children. She lives them, lives them in a way
that inspires not only her children, but other children and
other parents. That's a mother if you think about it.
(08:37):
The acts of my mother, the very things she did,
are still valued and taught to day, reminding mothers all
over the world to be strong in the face of
adversary adversity, not to take the easy way out, and
to grow and be flexible with the changing needs of
(08:59):
our children. These are great examples. These are the things
that will be passed along. These are the attributes of
a woman truly called to motherhood. Mother's Day, we were
(09:19):
talking about a little bit and dealing with Yo Mama.
A game that's played on the streets where mostly guys
go back and forth and do what they call talking smack,
and they're going back saying things about each other, but
really it's not about them, It's about their mothers. And
this kind of points out the preciousness the importance of mothers.
(09:40):
That the worst thing you could say about somebody would
be about their mom, If you were to disparage their mom,
that would be the worst thing. And my mother, she
went through her own trials. So was a woman who
did not have a lot of money, who was very young,
and at the time those pressures could win, and now
(10:02):
faced with a unique, to say the least calling, but
also a general calling, a wonderful calling of motherhood. And
you have to see it as that calling, you have
to see it as something that you feel led to do.
Was saying that my mother Mary continues to serve as
(10:24):
the ultimate example, this loving mother, This very unwavering and
devoted woman of God, and unwavering in her devotion to motherhood,
it says in Luke one point thirty. As the Angel
sent by God talks to my mother, he says that
she's favored. But that doesn't mean that there aren't going
(10:46):
to be trials or bumps in the road, or ugliness
in her life that goes along with being a mother.
There's a lot of trials physically, emotionally, mentally that go
along with it. A real mother teaches twenty four to seven.
(11:07):
The acts of my mother Mary, still valued taught to day,
are reminders to be strong, to not take the easy
way out, to grow, and be flexible with the changing
needs of your children that won't ever change. Scripture in
Romans twelve one calls on Christians to be a living sacrifice,
(11:31):
and few lives are as great an example of that
than that of a good mother. Does this mean that
all women called to motherhood rise to thee this calling. No,
Sadly that's not the case. There are those that neglect
their children and the calling of motherhood itself, sending their
children searching for guidance on their own. And unfortunately, there
(11:55):
are bad parents in life, some just are and you
yourself may have had a mother who did not live
up to her calling a motherhood. You need to know
that God is the ultimate parent, and that he will
never leave you or forsake you. Psalms twenty seven ten
says for my father and mother have forsaken me, but
(12:15):
the Lord will take me up, and you have to
trust in that truth. And even though as I I
mentioned earlier, some kids will play silly games talking smack
about one another's mothers, and you may hear it in
(12:41):
this game Yo Mamma, where they lob sharp and colorful
jokes at each other regarding their mothers. But deep down,
kids know that the word mother is synonymous with sacrifice.
So regardless of what they're saying, let's believe in their
minds that they are thinking about all the things their
mothers have done for them. But quite frankly, that would
(13:02):
be one short game of Yo Mama, because it would
essentially go like this, Yo Mama, so strong. She fought
through thirty hours of labor just to bring you into
this world. Breastfed you, cooked for you, cleaned for you,
hugged you, kissed you, taught you, nurtured you, worked, for you,
cried for you, laughed with you, and got Verico's veins
(13:24):
because of you, to which the opponent would simply say,
you're right, my mama was pretty strong. Mona. Welcome to
the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hi, How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, I've been I've been staying up every Sunday for
the last few weeks to hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, Mother's Day and I really messed up my motherhood.
How so I just wanted to get this better than
my mother, and I didn't. I made it first.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
How do you feel that you made it, Mona? How
do you feel that you made it worse? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I had this plan to be like available and not
like get involved with guys and and drugs and and
I was totally not available for her. And now she's
(14:36):
twenty one and we are going to she's going to
take me out today and I just cannot. I couldn't
even sleep because I feel so so so guilty.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
How does she feel about it?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Angry?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
She's angry, she feels that you were not a good mother.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, she's well some in some ways, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The try part that is hard for her, and the drugs.
This way you were using drugs.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, I was actually so good for the whole, for
her whole childhood. And then I relaxed when she was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Why do you think you relapsed?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh? Because I, like I just was sick of a
I had to make a point. I just couldn't take
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What is it that you feel you can't take.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I've was in a very long term, very bad relationship
and one day I just had it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Why didn't you leave the relationship?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But I did too? Okay thinking? And then I mean,
right now, I'm in a place where I know if I,
like yesterday I had this sentence came to me that
God loves me anyway, no matter what I do.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That that's true. I don't know if it's true or not,
but absolutely it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I find it hard to imagine, but but it made
me somehow. I called a friend and told her what
I was doing, and I obviously I am doing something about it.
(16:36):
Now I'm calling you. I just mother, step rings it
all to the fore front.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Do you do you love your daughter? Of course, and
she's done things that hurt or make you sad sometimes right,
and you've done bad things to her, and she.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Loves you, yeah, but I don't think she do you
never forgive me?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay? But I want you to see something that if
you two humans can go through ugliness or sadness or
frustration and still love each other and work towards trying
to make that work, how much more does God love you?
And you keep saying that you know, how can God
forgive you? Or how can God love you during these times?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Because I'm destroying myself like like you really really violently.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
When you say violent ways you mean because of the drugs.
And what kind of drugs are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't even know if I want to the one
that Hitler.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Invented, the one that I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That Titla invented. I see the worst trug, the most
evil truck.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That is, And how long have you been using it?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
For a few months? And why I I After I
left my husband and my daughter didn't want to live
with me, I had no confidence and a lot of anger,
and I don't believe in therapy, and I just had
(18:19):
nothing to believe in, and so I don't know, I
just did it and I don't even like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But well, the drugs are something that you're going to
need to get an outside source into a program that
can help you work on that daily to get rid
of that from your life. And it's a process, but
(18:49):
you brought it into your life. Trust me, you can
kick it out too. I talk to people all the
time that have.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well I did it like twenty five years ago. I
was keen and sober for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you know it can be done.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yes, it's really hard. But so was given birth.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No it wasn't hard.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
No, that wasn't hard. No, no by what standard?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Because I was out. I mean I didn't feel it.
I'd like to luxury birth. Okay, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Talking about the entirety of the process, not just the
moment of passing the child into this world, but yeah,
whole thing. Okay. Good. So you see that there are
things that are worth it, and there's things that some
women would say that it was, Oh it was a burden,
and the ankles are swollen and this and that, and
for you, you saw a beauty in it and a
(19:47):
sense of peace. There are things in your life that
bring you that piece. You know it. I can hear
it in your voice. The moment you said it, you
went you connected with that piece, and there's more of
those as well, and you have to be on a
path to find those and to rid yourself of these things.
But don't don't look for more excuses to go into
that dark place. Don't look for more excuses to feel
(20:10):
ugly or dirty or dark and want to pull away
from beautiful moments like the possibility of connecting with your daughter.
And and just the honesty. I love the fact that
you're very honest about all of this, and that only
means something if you act on that honesty. If you
just are honest and then do nothing means nothing. Well
(20:31):
that you've heard the saying when all is said and done,
much is said and little is done. So the key,
the key is to actually do something. There are programs
that you can get into. I think it's it's going
to be a mandate for you to find a program
that is that will give you the help that you need.
(20:52):
We'll get you in there. And once you get rid
of that particular demon, get rid of that that that
burden of the drug ugs, then you can start working
on the relationships and understanding them and understanding what those
triggers were and why you bring that into your life.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But would know that I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You have to make it known. Here's the deal that
there's something about light. Throughout Scripture. It's always used that
even Christians are to be the light of the to
the world, and it says if you put a light
underneath something, it doesn't mean anything, it has no value.
(21:35):
You have to put it on a hill where everyone
can see it. And the enemy lives in darkness, and
the worst thing you can do is hide. And people
often misunderstand the concept of confession in Scripture. They think
that it's just to confess to someone that has higher
authority that's going to wipe something from you that and
(21:57):
that's not what it is. Confessing is to to own
it and get it out of your system so that
you're accountable, held accountable by brothers and sisters and God
that love you and will continue to put you back
on the right path when they see you straining. But
you have to be accountable to that and you have
to confess it. It has to be out there for
(22:18):
you to own it. And if you keep it in
the darkness, then you know the only one you're sharing
it with is the devil. It's just the two of
you and he loves that because it's just the two
of you and it's your little secret, and in that
case he has the ability to continue to get you
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to do it without the same kind of shame or accountability.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I never thought about it like that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What's the first thing you hear in the creepy concept
of a predator a pedophile. The first thing that comes
to your mind is that concept of someone you whispering
in the ear of a child. It's our secret. Yeah,
And that's the way the devil works. The devil, like
those predators, like those pedophiles, just want to keep everything
(23:12):
a secret, doesn't want anyone to know. And if you
get caught up and wrapped up in that, then you
are playing a very major part in what the enemy's
plan is for you, and that is to destroy you,
destroy your faith, destroy your relationships, destroy anything that brings
you joy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, it has destroyed in the last few months.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Then it's time to break that cycle. It's time to
break that and to find somebody that can help you
and uh to talk to your medical doctor and see
if there's a plan or something and a program that
they can put you on detox if necessary. That's outside
of the scope of the show.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But I know I'm going to make surely you trug
alcohol counselor. Oh boy, I know I'm not working at it,
obviously I.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Would say, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
No, I mean, I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I think that it's time for you to utilize those
things that you've learned through that process.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I forgot everything. I mean, you know you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Know which which way is north. You need to point
yourself in the direction of healing and mona. You need
to make that happen. You need to start that process now.
But I will tell you every time you don't do it,
you are yielding to the enemy, whispering in your year.
Sh It's our little secret. This will just be between
(24:41):
you and me, Amelia. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, yes, this is just kind of a Bible question,
and I thought today might be an apropos day to
ask you about Mary. And they give the genealogy for
Joseph in the Bible, but I've never seen the genealogy
for Mary or where her people came from.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Well, the belief is you have a genealogy in Matthew
one one, and then you have a genealogy in Luke
twenty three through thirty eight. The common belief among theologians,
and there is some discrepancies and there are some that disagree,
but the common belief is that Matthew is the genealogy
(25:33):
through Joseph, and Luke is the genealogy of that of Mary.
So there are more complications in there. Some people would
be confused or frustrated by similarities and names and some
of that. You have to think of the names that
(25:55):
look unique to you are not unique then. So if
you saw two genealogies with the name Bob, you know
who doesn't have an uncle Bob, right, So you look
through there and they both have a Bob in there,
and uncle Bob, you wouldn't think twice about it. But
you get a more complex name from two thousand years
(26:16):
ago plus and you look at it and you go, oh, well,
those that looks like a unique name. It shows up
in both genealogies, they must be the same genealogy. It's
not the case. There are other things there. Some say
that it's important to make sure that both on my
foster father's side Joseph and my mother's side, that they're
needed to show a line as descendants of David and
(26:40):
the like. So there would be those that argue in
both of those you see that to show that in
any form, in any direction, that you could find me
in the line of David and that being important, they
wanted to show it in both the father and the
mother in this case. So Matthew one to one believed
(27:02):
to be traced through Joseph Luke three point twenty three
through thirty eight is believed to be traced through my mother.
So that's the that's the short of it. Essentially, there's
much more. I encourage you to do some digging in there,
because it is a pretty fascinating topic and it's interesting
(27:23):
to look at those genealogies. Now with that new bit
of information, go back, look at it and see how
it plays out a little differently in your mind now
that you have that information. Kf I AM six forty
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You're listening to KFI A six on demand. Ohso it's
Mother's Day and you know, with it being mother's day
to day, kind of a strange thought, but I couldn't
help but think about the street game sometimes called yomama.
(00:20):
I know, I know what you're thinking, probably not appropriate,
but bear with me on this if you're not familiar
with this game. This is a game of technically humiliation
where two or more opponents go head to head and
they hurl vicious verbal barbs at one another until one
(00:42):
of the player either runs out of disparaging things to
say or one of the so called joke bombs, basically
as a dud, and then that's the end of the game.
You know, the one with the last vicious statement wins.
But I didn't want to just tell you the rules
(01:04):
of this game, yo mama. The thing that's interesting is
that the hurtful one liners that are tossed back and
forth are not about one's opponent, or at least most
of the time, but about the opponent's mother. So isn't
(01:25):
it interesting that in a game designed to hurt and
humiliate someone, the worst thing, the absolute worst thing that
you can say about him or her was something ugly
about his or her mother. This further points out the
(01:48):
well known fact, let's say mothers are undeniably special. Some
two thousand years ago when I was born, there were
many things that can make an already rather tough existence
(02:08):
even tougher on a person as you go through life.
For instance, life could be tougher on you if you
were young, or if you were a woman, or if
you were poor. My mother Mary was all three of
these things, young, female, and poor. But what the world
(02:32):
at the time might have seen as possible weaknesses, God
the Father saw as wonderful strengths. You see. To God,
someone young like Mary meant that person had not yet
been jaded or made cynical, and God could use that
(02:56):
abundance of trust for something very very big. To God,
someone poor like Mary meant that person is not distracted
by the accumulation of worldly goods. As you know, these
things can often be a distraction get in the way
(03:19):
of God's great purpose. And finally, to God, being female
meant that Mary had the unique gift to carry human
life in her womb, and the strong nurturing and the
protective nature one must have to raise this tiny little
life equipping them to battle the slings and arrows that
(03:42):
come with growing up human on this earth. These three
strengths and more made Mary chosen by God for a
most special calling, the calling of motherhood and the even
(04:02):
greater calling of being my mother, mother of Me, the
King of Kings, Jesus the Messiah. This glorious honor came
with a lifetime of trials, at beginning with the appearance
of adultery, and this was during the time of her
(04:24):
engagement to my foster father Joseph, and moving on to
her watching me, her beloved son, publicly tortured and killed.
My mother Mary continues to serve as the ultimate example
of a loving mother, unwavering in her devotion to God
(04:49):
and unwavering in her devotion to motherhood. It says in
Luke one thirty that the angel sent by God told
Mary that she was favored by God. One might think
being favored by God means being free from trials, you know,
(05:10):
basically living on easy street. So it's not the case
with my mother Mary, nor is it the case with
any mother. Being called to motherhood doesn't mean God will
keep you from the hardships of life. It means God
trusts that you can handle the bumps in the road,
(05:32):
both big and small, with wisdom and dignity. That always
seems to be the focus, does it not. When you
feel called to something, you feel that basically, you're gonna
have a linebacker. God the linebacker out in front of you,
(05:52):
taking care of things, seeing what's sneaking up behind you,
to your side, to your front, taking care of all issues.
And God is with you. And don't get me wrong,
God sustains. But often the world looks at things that
go on in life and these trials and tribulations and says, ah,
(06:15):
those are bad. You want to be on that easy street.
You want things to go your way all the time.
God doesn't, because it's not how you learn, it's not
how your child will learn. So God knows the importance
of having those bumps in the road to help define
(06:39):
who you are, to help define your child. And motherhood
comes with a whole new set of them. And it's NonStop.
There is no pole chain that will stop the train
of motherhood. From the minute you find out to the
(07:04):
minute your children leave the home. It's NonStop. And guess what,
even when they leave, it's NonStop. But that's the calling
of motherhood. That's why it's special. You see, there are
(07:24):
many wonderful callings in this life, and they require hours
of your time. They stretch your physical abilities, leaving you
exhausted at the end of the day. However, the rewards
and the exhaustion of motherhood are twenty four hours, seven
days a week. It's just more than anything else, because
(07:46):
the importance is so great. You're training up humans to
be productive, to prosper down the path that God has
created for them. That's a pretty major task, don't you think.
And it's not just about putting together a curriculum, you know,
(08:09):
throwing the little rug rats down in a corner for
a couple minutes and trying to teach them something that's
not enough. A true mother doesn't just teach lessons to
her children. She lives them, lives them in a way
that inspires not only her children, but other children and
other parents. That's a mother if you think about it.
(08:37):
The acts of my mother, the very things she did,
are still valued and taught to day, reminding mothers all
over the world to be strong in the face of
adversary adversity, not to take the easy way out, and
to grow and be flexible with the changing needs of
(08:59):
our children. These are great examples. These are the things
that will be passed along. These are the attributes of
a woman truly called to motherhood. Mother's Day, we were
(09:19):
talking about a little bit and dealing with Yo Mama.
A game that's played on the streets where mostly guys
go back and forth and do what they call talking smack,
and they're going back saying things about each other, but
really it's not about them, It's about their mothers. And
this kind of points out the preciousness the importance of mothers.
(09:40):
That the worst thing you could say about somebody would
be about their mom, If you were to disparage their mom,
that would be the worst thing. And my mother, she
went through her own trials. So was a woman who
did not have a lot of money, who was very young,
and at the time those pressures could win, and now
(10:02):
faced with a unique, to say the least calling, but
also a general calling, a wonderful calling of motherhood. And
you have to see it as that calling, you have
to see it as something that you feel led to do.
Was saying that my mother Mary continues to serve as
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the ultimate example, this loving mother, This very unwavering and
devoted woman of God, and unwavering in her devotion to motherhood,
it says in Luke one point thirty. As the Angel
sent by God talks to my mother, he says that
she's favored. But that doesn't mean that there aren't going
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to be trials or bumps in the road, or ugliness
in her life that goes along with being a mother.
There's a lot of trials physically, emotionally, mentally that go
along with it. A real mother teaches twenty four to seven.
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The acts of my mother Mary, still valued taught to day,
are reminders to be strong, to not take the easy
way out, to grow, and be flexible with the changing
needs of your children that won't ever change. Scripture in
Romans twelve one calls on Christians to be a living sacrifice,
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and few lives are as great an example of that
than that of a good mother. Does this mean that
all women called to motherhood rise to thee this calling. No,
Sadly that's not the case. There are those that neglect
their children and the calling of motherhood itself, sending their
children searching for guidance on their own. And unfortunately, there
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are bad parents in life, some just are and you
yourself may have had a mother who did not live
up to her calling a motherhood. You need to know
that God is the ultimate parent, and that he will
never leave you or forsake you. Psalms twenty seven ten
says for my father and mother have forsaken me, but
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the Lord will take me up, and you have to
trust in that truth. And even though as I I
mentioned earlier, some kids will play silly games talking smack
about one another's mothers, and you may hear it in
(12:41):
this game Yo Mamma, where they lob sharp and colorful
jokes at each other regarding their mothers. But deep down,
kids know that the word mother is synonymous with sacrifice.
So regardless of what they're saying, let's believe in their
minds that they are thinking about all the things their
mothers have done for them. But quite frankly, that would
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be one short game of Yo Mama, because it would
essentially go like this, Yo Mama, so strong. She fought
through thirty hours of labor just to bring you into
this world. Breastfed you, cooked for you, cleaned for you,
hugged you, kissed you, taught you, nurtured you, worked, for you,
cried for you, laughed with you, and got Verico's veins
(13:24):
because of you, to which the opponent would simply say,
you're right, my mama was pretty strong. Mona. Welcome to
the Jesus Christ Show. Hi, Hi, How can I help you?
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Well, I've been I've been staying up every Sunday for
the last few weeks to hear you.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, Mother's Day and I really messed up my motherhood.
How so I just wanted to get this better than
my mother, and I didn't. I made it first.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
How do you feel that you made it, Mona? How
do you feel that you made it worse? Well?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I had this plan to be like available and not
like get involved with guys and and drugs and and
I was totally not available for her. And now she's
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twenty one and we are going to she's going to
take me out today and I just cannot. I couldn't
even sleep because I feel so so so guilty.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
How does she feel about it?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Angry?
Speaker 1 (14:51):
She's angry, she feels that you were not a good mother.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah, she's well some in some ways, yes, but.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
The try part that is hard for her, and the drugs.
This way you were using drugs.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, I was actually so good for the whole, for
her whole childhood. And then I relaxed when she was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Why do you think you relapsed?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Oh? Because I, like I just was sick of a
I had to make a point. I just couldn't take
it anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What is it that you feel you can't take.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
I've was in a very long term, very bad relationship
and one day I just had it.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Why didn't you leave the relationship?
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But I did too? Okay thinking? And then I mean,
right now, I'm in a place where I know if I,
like yesterday I had this sentence came to me that
God loves me anyway, no matter what I do.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That that's true. I don't know if it's true or not,
but absolutely it's true.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I find it hard to imagine, but but it made
me somehow. I called a friend and told her what
I was doing, and I obviously I am doing something about it.
(16:36):
Now I'm calling you. I just mother, step rings it
all to the fore front.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Do you do you love your daughter? Of course, and
she's done things that hurt or make you sad sometimes right,
and you've done bad things to her, and she.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Loves you, yeah, but I don't think she do you
never forgive me?
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Okay? But I want you to see something that if
you two humans can go through ugliness or sadness or
frustration and still love each other and work towards trying
to make that work, how much more does God love you?
And you keep saying that you know, how can God
forgive you? Or how can God love you during these times?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Because I'm destroying myself like like you really really violently.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
When you say violent ways you mean because of the drugs.
And what kind of drugs are you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:38):
I don't even know if I want to the one
that Hitler.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Invented, the one that I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
That Titla invented. I see the worst trug, the most
evil truck.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
That is, And how long have you been using it?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
For a few months? And why I I After I
left my husband and my daughter didn't want to live
with me, I had no confidence and a lot of anger,
and I don't believe in therapy, and I just had
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nothing to believe in, and so I don't know, I
just did it and I don't even like it.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
But well, the drugs are something that you're going to
need to get an outside source into a program that
can help you work on that daily to get rid
of that from your life. And it's a process, but
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you brought it into your life. Trust me, you can
kick it out too. I talk to people all the
time that have.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Well I did it like twenty five years ago. I
was keen and sober for twenty five years.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So you know it can be done.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
But it's really hard.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yes, it's really hard. But so was given birth.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
No it wasn't hard.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
No, that wasn't hard. No, no by what standard?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Because I was out. I mean I didn't feel it.
I'd like to luxury birth. Okay, Like I'm.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Talking about the entirety of the process, not just the
moment of passing the child into this world, but yeah,
whole thing. Okay. Good. So you see that there are
things that are worth it, and there's things that some
women would say that it was, Oh it was a burden,
and the ankles are swollen and this and that, and
for you, you saw a beauty in it and a
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sense of peace. There are things in your life that
bring you that piece. You know it. I can hear
it in your voice. The moment you said it, you
went you connected with that piece, and there's more of
those as well, and you have to be on a
path to find those and to rid yourself of these things.
But don't don't look for more excuses to go into
that dark place. Don't look for more excuses to feel
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ugly or dirty or dark and want to pull away
from beautiful moments like the possibility of connecting with your daughter.
And and just the honesty. I love the fact that
you're very honest about all of this, and that only
means something if you act on that honesty. If you
just are honest and then do nothing means nothing. Well
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that you've heard the saying when all is said and done,
much is said and little is done. So the key,
the key is to actually do something. There are programs
that you can get into. I think it's it's going
to be a mandate for you to find a program
that is that will give you the help that you need.
(20:52):
We'll get you in there. And once you get rid
of that particular demon, get rid of that that that
burden of the drug ugs, then you can start working
on the relationships and understanding them and understanding what those
triggers were and why you bring that into your life.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
But would know that I'm doing it.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
You have to make it known. Here's the deal that
there's something about light. Throughout Scripture. It's always used that
even Christians are to be the light of the to
the world, and it says if you put a light
underneath something, it doesn't mean anything, it has no value.
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You have to put it on a hill where everyone
can see it. And the enemy lives in darkness, and
the worst thing you can do is hide. And people
often misunderstand the concept of confession in Scripture. They think
that it's just to confess to someone that has higher
authority that's going to wipe something from you that and
(21:57):
that's not what it is. Confessing is to to own
it and get it out of your system so that
you're accountable, held accountable by brothers and sisters and God
that love you and will continue to put you back
on the right path when they see you straining. But
you have to be accountable to that and you have
to confess it. It has to be out there for
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you to own it. And if you keep it in
the darkness, then you know the only one you're sharing
it with is the devil. It's just the two of
you and he loves that because it's just the two
of you and it's your little secret, and in that
case he has the ability to continue to get you
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to do it without the same kind of shame or accountability.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I never thought about it like that.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
What's the first thing you hear in the creepy concept
of a predator a pedophile. The first thing that comes
to your mind is that concept of someone you whispering
in the ear of a child. It's our secret. Yeah,
And that's the way the devil works. The devil, like
those predators, like those pedophiles, just want to keep everything
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a secret, doesn't want anyone to know. And if you
get caught up and wrapped up in that, then you
are playing a very major part in what the enemy's
plan is for you, and that is to destroy you,
destroy your faith, destroy your relationships, destroy anything that brings
you joy.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Yeah, it has destroyed in the last few months.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Then it's time to break that cycle. It's time to
break that and to find somebody that can help you
and uh to talk to your medical doctor and see
if there's a plan or something and a program that
they can put you on detox if necessary. That's outside
of the scope of the show.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
But I know I'm going to make surely you trug
alcohol counselor. Oh boy, I know I'm not working at it,
obviously I.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Would say, I would say so.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
No, I mean, I'm not crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
I think that it's time for you to utilize those
things that you've learned through that process.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I forgot everything. I mean, you know you.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Know which which way is north. You need to point
yourself in the direction of healing and mona. You need
to make that happen. You need to start that process now.
But I will tell you every time you don't do it,
you are yielding to the enemy, whispering in your year.
Sh It's our little secret. This will just be between
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you and me, Amelia. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, yes, this is just kind of a Bible question,
and I thought today might be an apropos day to
ask you about Mary. And they give the genealogy for
Joseph in the Bible, but I've never seen the genealogy
for Mary or where her people came from.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Well, the belief is you have a genealogy in Matthew
one one, and then you have a genealogy in Luke
twenty three through thirty eight. The common belief among theologians,
and there is some discrepancies and there are some that disagree,
but the common belief is that Matthew is the genealogy
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through Joseph, and Luke is the genealogy of that of Mary.
So there are more complications in there. Some people would
be confused or frustrated by similarities and names and some
of that. You have to think of the names that
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look unique to you are not unique then. So if
you saw two genealogies with the name Bob, you know
who doesn't have an uncle Bob, right, So you look
through there and they both have a Bob in there,
and uncle Bob, you wouldn't think twice about it. But
you get a more complex name from two thousand years
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ago plus and you look at it and you go, oh, well,
those that looks like a unique name. It shows up
in both genealogies, they must be the same genealogy. It's
not the case. There are other things there. Some say
that it's important to make sure that both on my
foster father's side Joseph and my mother's side, that they're
needed to show a line as descendants of David and
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the like. So there would be those that argue in
both of those you see that to show that in
any form, in any direction, that you could find me
in the line of David and that being important, they
wanted to show it in both the father and the
mother in this case. So Matthew one to one believed
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to be traced through Joseph Luke three point twenty three
through thirty eight is believed to be traced through my mother.
So that's the that's the short of it. Essentially, there's
much more. I encourage you to do some digging in there,
because it is a pretty fascinating topic and it's interesting
(27:23):
to look at those genealogies. Now with that new bit
of information, go back, look at it and see how
it plays out a little differently in your mind now
that you have that information. Kf I AM six forty
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