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[ Silence ] >> I shall want nothing. [ Inaudible ] He renews life within me and for his name's sake guides me in the right path.

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[inaudible] Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name in the heaven. May we, thy servant, walk worthy of our high calling in Christ.

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May we honor one another and wholly cherish our union. union and the band of love. May our chiefest desire and our highest joy be to fulfill thy will and to accomplish thy purpose in us. Upon all we do invoke thy blessings, unto thee we dedicate our prayers and our hymns and our very thoughts. Let the people praise

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Praise thee, O God. In the name of Jesus Christ, we ask. Amen. Let's all take the back of our bulletin and sing the hymn,

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"The El Noblo Christians By Our Love." [MUSIC - "THE EL NOBLO CHRISTIANS BY OUR LOVE"] [MUSIC PLAYING] We are one in the Spirit.

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We are one in the water. We are one in the Spirit. We are one in the water. ♪ And we pray that all unity may one day be restored ♪

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♪ And they'll know we are Christians by our God ♪ ♪ By our God ♪ ♪ Yes, they'll know we are Christians by our God ♪ ♪ We will fall when we shall have people callin' ♪

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♪ And in that we will fall ♪ ♪ With the alma mater fall ♪ ♪ And in that, and together ♪ ♪ We'll stand the years when God is there ♪

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♪ And we'll know we are Christians ♪ ♪ By our love, by our love ♪ ♪ And we'll know we are Christians ♪ ♪ By our love ♪

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♪ We will work with each other ♪ ♪ We will work side by side ♪ ♪ We will work with each other ♪ ♪ We will work side by side ♪

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♪ And we'll vow our duties with dignity ♪ ♪ And say in this good time ♪ ♪ That you'll know we are Christians ♪ ♪ La la la la la ♪

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♪ That you know we are Christians by our God ♪ ♪ So all praise to the Father ♪ ♪ For the Lord, he is God ♪ ♪ And all praise to Christ Jesus ♪

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♪ Our peace, holy Son ♪ ♪ And all praise to this kid ♪ ♪ Who makes us one ♪ [choir singing]

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The scripture lesson It's taken from the book of Isaiah, the 66th chapter, beginning with the 10th verse. "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her. All ye that love her, rejoice for joy with her.

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all ye that mourn for her, that ye may nurse and be satisfied with the breast of her consolation, that ye may drink deeply and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus says the Lord, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nation like a flowing stream, then shall ye be nursed, ye shall be born upon her sides,

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and be dandled upon her knee. As one whom his mother comforted, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem." This is the period for altar prayer. Those of you who felt you have the need for prayer in your life, you may assemble yourselves

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around God's altar. As you see, our printed program, Dr. Griffin is not with us this morning. He called me on late yesterday afternoon and indicated that their daughter was involved in an automobile accident.

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And so we want to be in prayer for her and the family. He also said that if everything turns out okay, he would be back at 11 o'clock. So I want you to pray for me. It's a heavy duty and responsibility that's been levied upon my shoulder.

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So I need your prayer this morning. And as we talk to God in our own way, silently, let us pray for our pastor, wife, and their daughter. Our Father, the Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we thank you for you O God for this moment of prayer. We thank you for the privilege to gather around your

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altar. We thank you for touching our lives early this morning and allowing us another privilege, another chance, another opportunity to draw ourselves a little bit closer to Thee. We thank you for that, Master. We thank you for food, clothes, rain, we thank you for warmth of a good home. We thank you for loved ones. We thank you for friends. But most of

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all we thank you, oh God, for the high calling in which you have called us to. We need you this morning. We need you in every aspect of our lives. Somebody this morning is lying on a bed of affliction, and in pain and agony, they don't know which way to turn. Somebody is hungry this morning for both spiritual and physical food.

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Somebody's in trouble with the law. Somebody's being separated from loved one. But O gracious God, we call upon you because we know you have the power. You can speak and man will live.

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You can also speak again and man will lay down and die. And we pray, O gracious Master, that you will invoke your presence, your power upon those that are afflicted just now. O gracious Master, somebody's standing around the altar, standing in need of prayer.

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You know what their problems are. You know what their needs are. bereaved this morning, but let them know that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord.

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Bless this church and every church that's open unto your name. Bless everyone that we are duty-bound to pray for. Bless our homes. Make our homes a home of prayer, love, peace, and understanding.

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Oh, gracious Father, bless our pastor just now and his family. Touch their daughter. Heal her sickness just now. those that stand in need of prayer, we pray that you will invoke your power.

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In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, let us all say amen. Brother Hayes, Brother Hayes. [Silence] [Music]

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(silence) [Silence] [ Music ] Lift up your heads, all ye gays, Lift up your heads, all ye gays,

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Lift up your heads, all ye gays, And heed them above, the everlasting Lord, And the King of glory shall come in, The King of glory shall come in. [ Music ] [Chanting]

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[ Music ] ♪ For he is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ The Lord, the Lord, is God and mighty ♪ ♪ The Lord, the Lord, is mighty ♪

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♪ The Lord, the Lord, is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ He is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ He is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ The Lord's full and mighty ♪

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♪ The Lord's mighty battle ♪ ♪ Is the day ♪ ♪ The day of glory ♪ ♪ The Lord's full and mighty ♪

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♪ The Lord's mighty battle ♪ ♪ We shall give our song here ♪ ♪ To the Lord our Savior ♪ ♪ Lift up your heads, holy gates ♪

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♪ Lift up your heads, holy gates ♪ ♪ Lift up your heads, holy gates ♪ ♪ We will lift them up, the everlasting doors ♪ ♪ And the King of glory shall come in ♪

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♪ Who will proclaim the glory ♪ ♪ Who is the king of glory ♪ ♪ Who will proclaim the glory ♪ ♪ Who is the King of Glory ♪

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♪ Who is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ The Lord, the Lord, the Lord, the Lord ♪ ♪ The Lord, the Lord ♪ ♪ Is the King of Glory ♪

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♪ Is the King of Glory ♪ ♪ Amen ♪ ♪ All hail the power of Jesus' name ♪ ♪ That angels from sky above ♪

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♪ Ring forth the royal triumphant ♪ ♪ And crown him Lord of all ♪ ♪ Ring forth the royal triumphant ♪ ♪ And crown him Lord of all ♪

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Amen. Let us all say amen. Bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house. "Prove me now herewith," said the Lord of hosts,

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"if I will not open you the windows of heaven "and pull you out a blessing, "that there shall not be room enough to receive it." Our Father, may thy love abound toward us

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as we now bring to thine altar this our gift. Help us, Master, that we may not dole out our money as of necessity nor grudgingly, knowing that God loves a cheerful giver.

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May we at no time so sparingly We ask thy blessings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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[ Music ] Good morning. This is the announcement period. Along with the announcement that you find in your bulletin, I'd like to iterate some that are not there. The funeral of Brother O.C. Leslie

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will be held on Tuesday, May the 15th, 1984, at the Fuller Sheffield Chapel, 12 o'clock noon. burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery.

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Brother Jesse Mercer is in the Sedan Hospital Medical Center, room number 362. too. Next Sunday, May the 20th, is Women's Day. The theme is "Women Marching for Christ."

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Let us make this the usual grand observance and commitment to Christ by having all members participate. Guests are also invited. The culminating service will conclude immediately following the 3 p.m. service with a March

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for Christ where women of the church and the guests will bear signs and slogans denoting the mission of Christian women of the '80s. The March for Christ will begin at the church and move around the block and back to the church. We invite all Christian women to share and bring in this message. If you

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have not done so, you may still register today for candlelight service, for a committee, and for the Women's March for Christ. Register in the church lobby today. Do we have any business calls? I don't have any. Thank you. [Pause]

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC] [MUSIC PLAYING]

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [CHOIR SINGING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING]

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(church bells ringing) (choir singing) (choir singing) (choir singing)

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[MUSIC] (choir singing) ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Lord, I love Thee ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Lord, I love Thee ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Lord, I love Thee ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Lord, I love Thee ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ I will serve thee ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪ ♪ I will serve thee ♪ ♪ Alleluia ♪

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♪ I will serve thee ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ I will serve Him ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ I will praise Him ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ I will praise Him ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ I will praise Him ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ I will praise Him ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ He is coming ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ He is coming ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ He is coming ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ He is coming ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Thank you Jesus ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Thank you Jesus ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Thank you Jesus ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Thank you Jesus ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪ ♪ Hallelujah ♪

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- Let us all say amen. As I told you a few moments ago, our pastor was in Houston. I just walked in.

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I don't know, maybe you'd like to give us a report of how your daughter's doing after the message. Tell you the truth, I'd like to turn it over to him. (audience laughing)

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From the passage of scripture, I just, I read in your hearing a few moments ago, from Isaiah 11 through the 14th verse, I want to lift up the 13th verse of that passage.

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"As one whom his mother comforted, "so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. So will I comfort you.

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To Pastor Griffin, to Brother Hayes, and to all that are present, I solicit your prayers a few moments ago because Dr. Griffin called me late yesterday afternoon.

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And so I don't mind that, but the thing I want you to understand, if I don't do good, then you blame the Holy Spirit. And he's big enough to take care of us.

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I want to thank the choir for the beautiful songs that they sing here this morning. And I want to thank Brother Hayes for doing the announcement and giving acknowledgement

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to our visitors. The subject for the hour, the motherhood of a good God, the motherhood of a good God. Today is Mother's Day, an anniversary that escalates year after year in commercial significance.

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The consumer is expected to spend well over $100 million on presents for the candy and card companies. Mother's Day, it is their best day apart from Christmas. The same goes for telephone companies who are taking huge ads in newspapers and periodicals

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to urge readers to make sure that nobody comes between you and your mother on this day. Many of us can thank God this morning for our mothers are alive and doing well with the grace of God. I'm aware also that some folks never knew their mother.

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She may have run off or she may have died in giving birth. She may have died while you was a small child, and you grew up with the scant memories of her, the memory of her last breath.

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As she whispered into your ear the word, "Meet me over yonder." And as she kissed you goodbye and slipped away into paradise to be with God, God still loves all of us.

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And still there are others with the sweetest memory that anyone can have is the memory of a good mother. I'm sure that many of you have wonderful memories of the many blessed things connected with your mother.

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I'm sure that many boys and girls became great men and women and was kept back from sin and sorrow because they remembered certain things

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that mother had said or done. So today I would like to talk to you, not simply about my earthly mother or your earthly mother, but about a true mother,

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the motherhood of a good God. In our texts, in these homely words of Isaiah, we have one of the sweetest picture of the character of God, the God we seek to serve and follow.

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In the New Testament, Jesus teaches us to think of God as our father. But here in the Old Testament, God likened himself to a competent mother

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And he assures his people that as one whom his mother comforted, so will I comfort you. At first, God's people had a vague conception of him. To Israel, God was simply a tribal deity.

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And surely this word of Isaiah makes us pause for what fuller, more charming revelation of God's nature can we find than this descriptive one in which God likened himself to a devoted mother.

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Two thoughts emerges in our text for our consideration. The first is this, that the manifold relationship in which human beings stand to each other are all used to reveal the many-sided characters of God.

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And it takes all characters to unfold God's fullness. God is our King, and we are his subjects. And as the king of saints, God give his saints laws to govern his saints for their highest welfare.

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And from his very own, God expects loyal allegiance of his saint. He is our father. And as our father, he provides for our needs. He trains correct and educate us in love and service as members of a great family.

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He is a good God. And in our text, his mother comforted. We have something deeper. A mother is a ministering angel in time of pain and sorrow.

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She has the ability to comfort better than a man. And this mother love is planted in her breath by the mother heart of God. And this is true, for a loving mother is God's tenderest image in humanity. A mother is a mother still.

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The holiest thing alive, mother love, is a pale reflection of the feeling within the hearts of God. For he comforts the weary, wounded spirit of his child.

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For he is a good God. The second thought is that God combines in himself all the virtues of a perfect character. The best, holiest, and sweetest person

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are usually lacking in one of more graces. Male and female, created he them, and the characteristic features are resident in his loving heart.

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God possesses in perfection the most gracious and noble manhood and the pureheartedness of womanhood. God fuses together in his own person the strong, protective loan of man and the tender and sacrificial love of woman.

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This is why men, women, boys, and girls turn to God for salvation. Salvation is a part of God, and we also are a part of God. Neither is there salvation in any other. This day is salvation come to this house.

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is of the Lord, for the Lord is my salvation. And as we think of our Lord, then Him was mingled the blood of a mother and the blood of God. Even sharing His blood, there was comfort even for Jesus.

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God provided comfort for Him. And so as a mother, God said, "So will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem." What power a mother has to live the lives of others? It is the woman who suffers most, and she is able to hide her feelings more effectively

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than a man. She struggles against much heartache, sorrow, and as death shatters the home, she strives to arrest the inedible pull separation from a loved one. How like God, who created motherhood, these virtues are.

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How silently he suffers. He bears the pain of desertion and rejection and strives in many ways to avert the eternal doom of the sinner and win that lost one for himself. And so it is, God speaks of himself as the God of all comfort.

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And so he is. God said a mother may cease to have compassion for the child of her womb, but God, he will never forget his children nor leave them alone. For God is a tower that everyone whosoever will can run to for safety when the storms

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of life appears and storms do come up in our lives, storm come up in everybody's life. So the tragedy here is that as soon as the storm blow by, many depart from the tower of God and forget God until the storms break afresh. the prophet Isaiah is not thinking of a little child turning to mother.

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He is speaking of a grown man fleeing back to God for comfort. He is fleeing back to his mother for comfort and security. He's fleeing for her presence. And as a man whom his mother comforted, so I comfort you.

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Many men, broken and weary by a pitless world, fortune ruined, loved one gone, faith almost given away, has returned from sin in a long hour. Many men has retreated to the mother who gave him being. Many a man has crept back home like a wounded animal

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and has cast himself upon the mother's love that warmed his heart in childhood day. His desire is to return home, to be with mother, away from the external influences.

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He just wants to be home where mother is. Oh, we are familiar with the motto, what is a home without a mother? Mother is the queen of our home.

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And the home really is lost without her. Her presence means comfort, joy, love. It is worse still to have a home without God. And here is God, the source of all our being,

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the ancient home to which everyone belonged, offering himself to us as the divine external mother. He says, "I will not leave you comfortless. "I will come to you.

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"All you have to do is call. "I will come." And softly and tenderly, God draws near and gather his children in his bosom.

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And by his nearness, he consoles us and he comforts us. Fear not, he says, I am with thee even right now. And so we are comforted by God's word. Every child, first teacher is his mother.

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And from her lips, a child receive sacred lessons of God about life and duty. When a child is discouraged, mother's word comfort and inspire that child to go on.

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When a child is in doubt, mother counsel leads to resolve. When a child is amid strong temptation, she encourages to walk in the straight path of righteousness. When a child goes out into the world as a man and meet disgrace, he can remember the

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words of a faithful mother, "Look to Him, look to God. In Him you will be comforted in spite of your disgrace." Well the man has grown up, he's grown up now. To Mother, he is always her child who stayed near to her.

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He's always that little form that clung to her knees. He was the one that ran to her for comfort and whose little aches and pains she soothed away. That grown man broken in the battle of life

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by his own sin can return to his mother. But it is not the grown man she sees, she sees her only child. And thus it is with God. To God we can never be anything but his child.

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Man at his best is but an infant, an infant crying in the night with language but a cry, weak, foolish, inexperienced and errant. And as a man cries God comfort, God comfort. And as a mother by his gracious word,

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God comfort I tell you. You're those comfortable words for you, oh my child and I love you just as you are. He comfort, he exercise a mother's pity

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over our sins and follow. God make every allowance for our circumstances. With his own heart, he pleads for us. God, our mother, does not probe the wound.

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He gives power to heal. He asks no questions, utters no reproach, demand no explanation. He simply says, "Come unto me and rest."

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It's so easy for us to carry our sorrows to him as with the tenderness of a mother. And when a child flee to mother for consolation, well, with what a mother comfort her child in distress with,

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not with many words, which often increase the child's grief. But the motherhood of God is wiser and he catches up the child and smooths the child. With kisses of love, he catches up the child in his arms,

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wraps his arms around the child and protect the child. With a strange, inarticulate comfort, God calms the troubled heart. If you're troubled today, he can calm your heart. He heals, he gladdens, he sympathizes, he loves and cares for his children as no mother

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could. Yet it is strange when we think about it that men will seek comfort almost anywhere else than in the mother God. For God is a good mother.

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He is good. For there is none good save one, said Jesus. The Lord is good to all. He teaches us good ways so we can love one another, so we can have good rapport.

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His motherhood means that God strives to soothe. He relieves everyone that suffers. He cleanses with his blood. If you have not been cleansed with the blood of God, you're missing something.

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missing peace, love, and contentment and happiness in your life. When you see this, when you experience the love of God cleansing within your heart, what a happy state the church will be in. Not only your tongue and your countenance, but your heart shall rejoice.

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Thus the mother comfort, thus you shall be comforted in Jerusalem, in the favors bestowed on the church. The motherhood of God comfort, he comforts us. He comforts all that moan as one whom his mother comforts.

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He is a comfort to those who are tormented. So he is able today to comfort you this morning with his spirit. So if you are out there and you need comfort, it's yours this morning. It's free.

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So come to the motherhood of God. come unto his umbrella and he will protect you as a hen protects her chicks. The doors of the church are open. You may come by experience, by letter, a candidate for baptism.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [ Music ] ♪ He loves his head for every time ♪ ♪ God will take care of you ♪

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♪ He needs him from love to pride ♪ ♪ God will take care of you ♪ [Music] ♪ Take care of you ♪

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♪ Every day ♪ ♪ For all the way ♪ ♪ He will take care of you ♪ ♪ God will take care of you ♪

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♪ To thee our hearts we love to play ♪ ♪ The guilty care of duty ♪ ♪ And we ask thee to bear the same ♪ ♪ The guilty care of duty ♪

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God will take care of you. Every day, all the way, He will take care of you. ♪ For he'll take care of you ♪

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- Let's all say amen. - Amen. - I certainly wanna thank Brother Huff for carrying on on such short notice.

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I got in from Houston When my daughter was doing as well as could be expected and not as serious as we first had thought, she does have some bruises and probably be on crutches for a time, but that's about the extent of it.

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We appreciate your prayerful concern and trust that the Lord will continue to bless us all. May we pray. Our Father God, which art in heaven, we thank you for mother. We thank you for all that she hath done for us.

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And we pray, O gracious Father, that we will live out the true meaning of her faith in us. And we pray, O gracious Father, that we will continue to live out the many prayers that she has taught us and prayed for us.

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O gracious Father, bless the mothers everywhere. And when mother leaves these shores, we pray, oh gracious father, that you will continue to be a mother to us. In the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, dismiss us from this place, but never, never

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from thy presence. In the name of Jesus Christ, let us all say amen. [Music] [BLANK_AUDIO]