Welcome to
"Thinking about Home."
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I am glad that you
decided to be back with us
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today. I'm Kathy
Matthews and we've been
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talking about
mothers who have been
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relinquishing their
selfish rights by choice to
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realize their full
privileges, but what do
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we do when it appears
that we have no choice?
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Our guest today
again is Arlita Winston and
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I want to thank
you Arlita, Thank you,
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for joining us one more time.
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There will be a
couple of more time,
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won't there? Yes,
I look forward to it.
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Yes, we've got more
to share with the folks.
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You were telling us
Arlita that your mother and
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you and your family
were in the jungles of
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Sumatra and surely
there were times when
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your mother felt
helpless out there.
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Yes, I think. Can you
tell us some of those stories?
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I think she felt
helpless even before they left
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but it was one of
those things that they knew
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that God called them
and they had such great
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joy in going that
they saw each aspect as
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one more new step to
trust God and I think
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of a verse that
really typifies mothers and
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dads going out and
that is in Luke 9:24,
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"For whosoever wants to
save his life will lose it,
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but whoever loses his
life for me will save it."
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And it's a great
principle that mother and dad
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had throughout their
life but I can think of
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numerous occasions
when they did feel utterly,
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utterly helpless
there in the jungles.
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And one in
particular was when my older
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sister who was about
3 ½ or 4 at that time
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who was died of dengue
fever. Dad didn't know it.
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He had been out in the
jungles for about 6 weeks
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trekking, looking for
more tribes to tell the
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good news to and
mother had been holding down
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the florida at home
and when he got home,
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he was so looking
forward after that long trek
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in the jungles to be
home with his children
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and mother. And mother
met him at the door with
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just anxiety
written all over her face
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and she said,
David, Andrea is having
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convulsions and is
in just such high fever.
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I think dengue fever
has come and many were
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dying of dengue
fever. Dad rushed in and
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pulled away the
mosquito netting around
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Andrea's bed. And the
two stood there utterly
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helpless as Andrea
was going through a
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convulsion at that
moment and the fever was
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so high. Dad slipped
into another room and
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fell on his knees and
he just began to cry out
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to God. God, have somebody,
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somebody at
home pray for us now,
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please spare our
daughter, we've come out here
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to bring the good news
don't take our daughter
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now and he was just
crying out this way to God
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when God stilled his
heart and said to him, David,
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I have other children,
but I don't hear you crying
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out for them, all over
this world I have other
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children who are precious to me.
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Do you forget
that I too am a father?
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I wish you would be
praying for your children,
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for my children as
much as you pray for yours.
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Why you prayed for
your children long before
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they were even born.
You ask me to give them
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an excellent spirit
and things like that.
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But would you
pray for my children.
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Dad was convicted
and repented on the spot.
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He got up off his
knees and went to mother,
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just whispered quietly
to her the words that God
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has spoken to him and
he put the mosquito netting
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all the way around
the bed and left Andrea.
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They went and fell on
their knees before God.
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The sun was just setting
in the jungles at the time,
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he knelt before God
and he began praying
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around the world for
God's children name by name,
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country by country
and in the early hours
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of the morning
when the sun was rising,
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they suddenly
looked at each other,
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realizing they had
prayed the night through
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and was Andrea still
alive. They didn't know.
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Did they jump up
the around and see.
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And they jumped up,
ran in, pulled away the
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mosquito netting.
The fever had broken and
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Andrea was sleeping peacefully.
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In the next three
hours the fever completely
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left her. Amen. And
she woke up and she said,
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I want my shoes
on. Precious words.
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That it was a beautiful
illustration to me of those
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times when everything
is taken out of our hands.
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We can't do anything
else. Where do we go?
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What do we do? Is it
safe to trust our children
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into his hands even
to the point of death of
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saying God, alright,
you've put this burden
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on my heart I am
going to pray for your
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children. Amen. That
is good that he took up
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that burden. It
was probably the saving
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of his daughter. Do
you think? It wouldn't
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surprise me, God
does things like that.
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You know your mother
was giving up motherhood
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maybe when she
pulled that netting back
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or when they
pulled the netting back.
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They would have to
be thinking a great deal
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of what they were
doing. That's right.
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When they pulled it
back, facing the possibility
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that she wouldn't be a
mother for her anymore.
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That's right. I can
think of oh, the best example
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in the Bible, of Mary,
the mother of Jesus releasing
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her son. What had to go
into that process of her
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doing that? I think
of that first time we are
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only given about 8 or
9 pictures of her in the
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New Testament but
they are very significant
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because they show
the same relinquishing,
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starting from the very
first where you see her
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as a very
submissive maiden, young,
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younger than I
think we realize they were
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married much younger
at that time and here
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she is met by the
angel of the Lord who gives
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through this news, not
to be afraid but that God
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himself wants to be born
in the flesh through her,
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what a staggering,
staggering message for
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a young woman who is
about to be married and
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what she had to
give up, what she had to
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surrender, was
her reputation? Yes.
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She, I imagine wondered
what Joseph would think?
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Would he believe
her? Would he believe her?
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And in that marvelous
statement where she says,
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in Luke 1:38, in
answer to the angel
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"Behold the
handmaid of the Lord;
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be it unto me
according to thy word."
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This absolute surrender
that I believe God must
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have been looking
for in looking for that
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right maiden that
absolute surrender.
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And she must have
displayed it else,
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she wouldn't be the
mother of Jesus and however,
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whatever you think of
Mary the important place
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that she has in God's
plan. You still have to say
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she only did what
she was asked to do,
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which is no
different from what you and
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I can respond to. That's right.
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That when we're
asked to do something from
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the Lord, to give up
something in order to
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receive something
greater, for us to say,
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be it unto me,
here I am, I am yours,
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I am your handmaid of the Lord.
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So that's the very
first picture that we see
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of Mary at that
very beginning where she
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relinquishes so much
and then accepts what
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God has for her,
and then we see her,
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the next time we see
her is with Elizabeth who
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immediately
recognizes. She is the mother of
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the Lord. How is,
this the mother of my Lord
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should come to me,
and Mary in her tremendous
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humility just bursts
out with her rejoicing
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and singing about
what the Lord has done
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for her and I've
often thought she must have
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been well
acquainted with Hannah's song
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of rejoicing. They
had to be and for them
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to well understand
the scriptures so that she
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knew about well
something of what it was
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the Lord was
asking her to do. Well,
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the Holy Spirit
obviously moved on her to burst
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out that way.
That's right. Maybe,
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maybe she didn't
understand the fullness
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of what she was
doing and talking about.
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I don't think she
understood the fullness,
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in fact, I think it
only gradually came to her
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and probably most
women in that time who
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were longing to
bear the messiah,
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had they known the
kind of sort that would
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pierce their own
heart. Maybe they wouldn't
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involve belonging text
that. I can understand.
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That savior to bare but
the next time we see her
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is after she leaves Elizabeth,
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she goes with Joseph,
of course mean time the
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angel has reassured
Joseph and they're going
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to Bethlehem and you
find the shepherds they
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are worshiping
the babe in the manger
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and you don't read
too much about Mary except
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that she kept all these
things that pondered them
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in her heart. Right.
So you get another picture
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of a woman who
realizes there are something
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far too sacred to
talk about, far too sacred,
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and I think we as
women can learn something
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from that and
ponder things that the Lord
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has spoken into our
hearts were so prone
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to just share with everybody.
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These priceless gems
that the Lord speaks to us
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and I think we do
well to ponder them because
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of the impact that
they're going to have
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on our life. Here
this little babe and the
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Shepherds coming
to worship and adore
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this babe, then very
soon after that 8 days later,
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it was the custom,
they needed to go to
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present him at the
temple and here is where
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you really begin to
see the sword that is going
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to pierce, that is
going to pierce her heart.
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And there is a scripture
that says that very thing,
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isn't there? Yes, as
Simeon prophesied about
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the rising and the
falling of many because of the
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coming messiah, he
says "and a sword will
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pierce your own
soul too." Luke 2:35,
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that sword was to
pierce in other ways because
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very soon after that
Herod of course was so
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terrified that a new
King had been born that he
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commanded that
all the babies under 2
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would be slain, so can
you imagine Mary's heart
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as she is hearing the
heart cry of other mothers
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who are having their
baby slain for the sake
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of her son and when
you think that those really
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are some of the
first martyrs who died at
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that time in order that
our Lord's live would be.
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I never looked at
that, would be saved,
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martyrs and that Mary
might have been thinking
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that they are dying
because of my son who
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I never thought of
that. So from hereon with
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Mary's life we're
gonna see the sword piercing
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her heart and in
many ways we as mothers
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can learn from the
way the sword pierces her
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heart because now
that the next time you see
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her is when Jesus is
12. Alright. And you really
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there are about 30
years there of total
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silence except for this
one experience where they
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go up to the temple,
he is 12-years-old but you
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see Mary as a
very typical mother,
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rebuking her child
in love for causing them
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worried and why weren't
you with us and he said,
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did you not know I
needed to be about my father's
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business and so you
see the sword beginning to
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cut the apron
strings. And it occurs to me
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that she did not as
a typical mother, as a,
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well, I think she
would probably not be as
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typical mothers of
today but as a mother she
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did not hide him
from that experience,
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she didn't draw back, she
didn't keep him from being
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the son of God. No.
She didn't try to do that
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it seemed. That's
right. But after that occasion
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Jesus go back and
submit himself in obedience to
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his parents and life
when on pretty much as
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usual but it was the
beginning where Mary had
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to realize there is
a cutting away here.
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He is no longer just
our son. He has to be about
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his heavenly father's
business and of course
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that corresponds with
the age when Jewish boys
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were bar Mitzvahed,
when that became the time
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when they were totally
responsible now to God.
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As man. And their
parents were to release them
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to be
accountable too God. Alright.
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And we're rather slow
in doing that I think we as
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mothers want to hang
on to our children much
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longer. Well, it
wasn't like they worked under
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their father and mother's
care I mean Christ stayed
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in the care or in the
home of their parents, of
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his parents up till the
age of 30. That's right.
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So they may have
release him into the father's
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care or taught him
new and different things
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as a young man
but he wasn't God out
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of the home. He
didn't become independent.
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No, no I don't think so
at all but there is a way
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that a mother can
release her child even while
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their in the home
and under the roof.
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I think they are needs
to be that gradual releasing
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them to God so that
when they do leave they
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really have left
and a mother's heart
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can be at rest.
Now, in Mary's case,
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he did stay there
until he was about 30 and the
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first we see him leaving
is at the wedding of Cana.
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Right. And here
another sword pierces.
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So this is another area
you have in Mary's life.
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This is another area
and it must have been very
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painful discovery
because the distance between
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them is growing and
she gave birth to him but
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she didn't own him,
and she had to ask him
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things at that time.
She had asked him and
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then when he answered
her, she just turned to
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the servants and
she said now you do what
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he tells you to do an
she was willing to take
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second place but
distance is definitely growing
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at this point. And then
we find her in Capernaum,
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and by now I think
her sadness has to be felt
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very deeply because she
realizes that the people
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in Nazareth are not
really believing her son and
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her own children,
her own sons who were
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wondering what was
so special about Jesus.
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It says they didn't
believe him. Brothers.
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Brothers and so here
you have Mary that sword
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again piercing her
heart because she herself
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knew this was the very
son of God who would save
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them from their sins.
So you find other areas
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where she must have felt
it deeply but in Capernaum,
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that's when she and
the rest of the family
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came knocking at the
door begging him to come
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and get some rest
that he was beside himself.
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He was just worn
out and he needed to,
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he needed to come back
home and get some rest.
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He was just beside
himself and he turns and
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he points to his
vdisciples and he says,
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when they say your
mother and your brothers
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are out there calling
for you and he turns to his
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disciples and in
Matthews 12:49, he said,
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"Pointing to his
disciples, He said,
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Here are my
mother and my brothers.
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For whoever does the
will of my Father is my
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mother and my brother."
I've put myself in to her
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place wondering,
what did he feel like when
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he said that and
turned to those who hadn't
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birthed him, who hadn't
brought him up and said,
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here are my brothers,
these are my mothers and
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so the ties have been
severed more and more.
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She is beginning to
realize, wait a minute,
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this man will soon
become my savior. I am part
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of these disciples
and he was no longer
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the son of Mary and
son of Joseph. He became,
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the savior and he
became known as Jesus
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of Nazareth, right, no
longer the son of Mary.
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So you can see the
sword just cutting, alright,
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more and more
and more away. I see,
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a continual pattern
from young maiden to
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where she is now in
the story of surrender,
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over and over and
over again, completely
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relinquishing each
time what she knows.
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And incredibly
difficult each time,
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it's not as though you
learn once, no, in fact,
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I think, it got harder
because then we see her
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John puts it very
beautifully. Near the cross
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of Jesus stood his
mother. He just says it very
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simply near the cross,
there at Calvary and here
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came the final swords
blow, completely severing
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it and she must have
been thinking of those words
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when years ago she
had said to the angel
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and said to God,
"Be it unto me according
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to thy word." "Be it
unto me according to thy
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word" so that when
her son died there,
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she essentially was
releasing her motherhood,
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she was giving him up
totally, but releasing
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him in order to
accept Him as her savior.
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Amen, amen. So that
then the natural thing
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that happens of course
we know the resurrection
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took place and then
shortly after that he appears
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in the upper room
and then Pentecost.
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And the last time we
see Mary is where she
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is fellow shipping with
other Christians and the
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Holy Spirit that at
one time hovered over her,
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so that she
conceived the very son of God.
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Now that same Holy
Spirit is indwelling her
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and the other
believers so that what she has
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relinquished his
given way to something far
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greater. God
Himself dwelling in her.
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It's not just Emmanuel
come to us but God in us
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and so you see this
beautiful, beautiful
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pattern where if you go
back she relinquished her
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reputation, yes, and
she accepted God's plan
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to bear his son, then
she goes rejoicing, yes,
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so those three things;
relinquishing, accepting
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and rejoicing or then
you see the next three.
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As she accepts, as she
relinquishes that bit of
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motherhood at the
wedding accepts a new
00:22:17.68\00:22:20.93
relationship and
says alright, you do what
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he tells us to do, I am
no longer in-charge here
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and she beings
praising her son in public with
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the other disciples. She
does. So she relinquishes,
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accepts and praises
then again she relinquishes
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her human tie at
that time when he says who
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is my mother; is
mother and brother.
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And that's
sword hits again. Yes.
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But she relinquishes
it and accepts standing at
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the cross, she
accepts him as her savior and
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then is found
rejoicing at Pentecost.
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So you see that
beautiful pattern, it is,
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throughout her
entire, the life that we know
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about Mary, right.
There is this story of
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Corrie Ten Boom that
you would like to share
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with us, sure that too because.
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That's does fit in,
that fits in wonderfully here
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because when we're
talking about Mary,
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relinquishing her
motherhood for something
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far greater or being
willing to say I give up
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even my motherhood,
the highest calling that
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I could have, I give
that even up to you to do
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with what you want. I
think back of the time
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during the four
year period when Joe and
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I were very far
away from the Lord,
00:23:49.78\00:23:51.73
and it was a four
year period they just near
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killed my mother and
father with the anguish
00:23:54.43\00:23:58.11
that we put them
through in the alienation and
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during those four
years mother and dad were
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just crying out to God
for us to be delivered.
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One day mother
could stand hardly,
00:24:09.57\00:24:11.45
just couldn't strand
any longer and she went
00:24:12.64\00:24:14.36
to her dear
friend Corrie ten Boom,
00:24:14.37\00:24:16.25
poured out the story
to her and Corrie looked
00:24:17.57\00:24:20.78
at her and she said,
Helen, I see you with your
00:24:20.79\00:24:23.46
arms stretched out
like this, trying to reach
00:24:23.47\00:24:27.65
around the entire world
in your prayers for God's
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children to
encompass the needs in your own
00:24:33.02\00:24:36.56
children and your arms
are too short they can't
00:24:36.57\00:24:40.17
reach all the way
around. She said, I want to see
00:24:40.18\00:24:44.57
you with your hands up this way.
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And she said, that
way you release them and
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mother said, Corrie,
are you saying then like
00:24:50.37\00:24:54.04
Abraham did with
Isaac, of offering up Isaac,
00:24:54.55\00:24:58.81
not understanding but
relinquishing what he had
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been promised and
Corrie nodded her head,
00:25:03.92\00:25:07.20
said that's exactly it.
It's that offering up her
00:25:07.21\00:25:11.15
motherhood to God we
aren't able to cope but
00:25:11.16\00:25:17.16
when we offer it to
God, God Himself steps
00:25:17.75\00:25:21.06
in and does what we
cannot do, I love his name,
00:25:21.07\00:25:24.55
I am when Moses was
to go, yes, to Pharaoh.
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He is the great "I
am." He was terrified.
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Tell him that the "I
am" have sent to you.
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And I used to think
as a child, what kind
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of statement is that,
it's not even a complete
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sentence "I am" I am
what? I am and I puzzled
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over that for so long,
and then it came to me;
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I am everything, that
is who I am, everything.
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Everything you are
not I am. And I think when
00:25:56.22\00:26:00.71
we as mothers who
feel that the weight of the
00:26:01.38\00:26:05.10
rearing of our
children, rests on our shoulders
00:26:05.11\00:26:07.95
and on our husbands,
and there are some many
00:26:07.96\00:26:10.80
single mothers who
the weight is so very,
00:26:10.81\00:26:13.68
very heavy, so
many were can they turn.
00:26:13.69\00:26:19.05
So many widows. So
many widows and God
00:26:20.36\00:26:23.54
is not unmindful, God
is not unmindful of those
00:26:23.55\00:26:27.37
of you who are alone
carrying this weight and
00:26:27.38\00:26:33.06
the weight is too heavy for you,
00:26:33.07\00:26:35.49
but God is able to
make all grace toward you,
00:26:36.29\00:26:41.30
and to give you when
you are not able to do
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.57
in yourself, when
you offer that situation
00:26:44.58\00:26:48.29
in that child
without husband up to him,
00:26:48.30\00:26:52.16
you set him free to
do something that is
00:26:53.78\00:26:56.80
magnificent. Amen. Oh!
This is incredible insight
00:26:56.81\00:27:01.49
into the story of the
Mary, the mother of Jesus
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and we want to
encourage, don't we?
00:27:06.10\00:27:10.38
Our viewers to
ponder these things in their
00:27:10.91\00:27:14.96
heart. And to have
hope. Yes. To have hope,
00:27:15.51\00:27:18.21
to know that God
never expected us to be able
00:27:19.14\00:27:22.49
to cope, that was
the problem way back in
00:27:22.50\00:27:25.24
Garden of Eden. I
think Adam and Eve thought
00:27:26.29\00:27:29.33
they should be able to
cope. They wanted to be
00:27:29.34\00:27:31.75
as wise as God to
know good and evil.
00:27:31.76\00:27:34.18
Satan promised them
even not, they didn't get it.
00:27:35.38\00:27:38.62
They didn't get it.
But God has those precious
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things for us,
doesn't it? That's right.
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And you will be
back again. Thank you.
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Yes, and we're going to
be talking next time about
00:27:45.77\00:27:48.73
"Women, as women in society"
00:27:49.33\00:27:51.16
and you won't want to
miss it I don't think.
00:27:52.15\00:27:53.96
You will have to join
us and we'll be praying
00:27:54.93\00:27:57.43
for you on
"Thinking about Home."
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