Sermon Outline

Prepared by

Dr. Joseph P. Metoyer, Jr.,

Mothers’ Day

May 13, 2001

Text:  I Kings 1:11-12, 29-31

Subject:  “The Value of a Mom”

Introduction:  True Moms may not be biological, although they can be.  “Big Momma” may not have been your Grandmother, but she was there for you.  Auntie’ may not have been your biological mother but she was there for you.  Miss Chorea was our neighbor but she treated us as if we were her children.  “The Value Of A Mom”!  A real mom is a woman who loves and cares for children, whether biological or not.

I.                   A Mother Wants The Best For Her Child

A.    Bathsheba wanted her son to have his rightful position in life.  While she may have been somewhat deceitful with the King and plotted with Nathan, she was holding the King accountable to fulfill the promise he made.  Mother’s are like that.  When someone promises a mother’s child that they will do something for the child, mother will keep a record.  She keeps it in her heart as well as in her mind. 

1.      At the birth of our Lord the shepherds came and saw Him and they “made widely known the sayings which was told to them concerning this child.  But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:18-19).  She kept the words she heard about her Son revolving around in her heart.

B.     Bathsheba kept the words of the King concerning her son revolving around in her heart.  Mothers are like that.  This is a situation where the father had promised something to the son.  Men, how many times have our children’s mother had to remind us of some promise that we have failed to keep with our children. 

1.      God seems to have put mothers in families to remind fathers of promises that we, fathers, have made to our children. 

2.      Have you ever been in a situation when Mom says, “don’t ask your Dad, I’ll ask him”?  God gives us mothers to be cushions.  I don’t mean to sit on but to rest in.  To provide caring and comfort, consultation and love to us.  Don’t you just love Moms?

II.                A Mother Puts Her Life On The Line For Her Child

A.    Bathsheba took her life into her hands to approach King David (her husband) with this issue concerning her son.  Mothers will go to any length to protect their child’s position.  They will always go directly to the person of authority, and they go boldly.  Bathsheba goes to the King, the highest authority in the land. 

B.     In (Matthew 20:20-21) “the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons” and she asked if her sons could be allowed to sit on the right hand and left hand of our Lord when He established His kingdom. 

1.      Mothers will ask God for things for their children that the children themselves can’t get on their own.  Mothers will pray!

2.      Mother’s want the very best for their children.  A mother is a mother when she is present with her child or not.  Mom is Mom when she can provide and when she cannot.  I am convinced that mothers ponder things about their children that the average individual would never think about.

3.      Mothers also instill life-changing principles in their children.  What’s the one thing Momma always told you to do and you still do it even until this day?  Always make sure you always have on clean underwear when you go out, because you never know when you have to go to the hospital.  Brush your teeth after every meal!  Don’t wear socks with holes in them.  Look both ways before you cross the street.  By the way here is an interesting phenomenon:  Mothers don’t believe just anything their children tell them, but Grand Mothers believe everything.

C.    Solomon observed his older brothers and sisters in relationship to their parents and he became wise.  Some of the principles Solomon seem to have learned from his parents include: 

(Proverbs 1:8) My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother.

                                (10:1) A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

                        (15:20b) A foolish man despises his mother.

(19:26) He who mistreats his father and chases his mother away is a son who causes shame and brings reproach.

(20:20) Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness.  (This grievous sin will result in death)

Application:  Mothers, Bathsheba was not the only mother that taught her son the principles of God.  Paul records an admonishment to us through his second letter to Timothy:  (1:5-7) When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grand mother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.  Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God  which is in you through the laying on of my hands.  For God has not given you the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.  Power is “dynamite”.  Love is “Agape”.  A sound mind is “wise discretion.

You can make it just like Momma made it:  You got the same faith that momma has,  The same Power, Love and Mind.

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