A Mother's Day At The Cross

I know when she passed away in November and we would pray for God to take her because she was in so much pain. You know we're going to we're going to continue in our series Christ death and resurrection and we're going to talk about my mother today. And we're going to talk about.

Now we learn, we're going to learn three things about Mary today. We're only going to read three verses. And Mary never speaks. Has she spoken to? But we're going to learn about a mother's love today. But we're also going to learn about a child or a son's responsibility to his mother. And to his parents in jail. And we going to do that just then reverses. So happy Mother's Day. but what we going to do today, is, we're going to look at John Jay,

Verses 25 to 27. Now, we know and kind of understand about the war. Leave already. Morning. But that is kind of neglected in Jesus's life. When you look at some of the Christian books, written about home and family written about Jesus,

now, the Bible doesn't say a whole lot about his home life, but it does say, and I think many of us, Just assumed that because he was God In the Flesh. that his home life had to be different than ours, because he was mean and he had

But we just, we is hard to put together what his home life would be like kind of since he was God. And but when we study the word of God, we realize that his whole life was probably not much different than our own. So remember now and there's quite a few bystanders there at the cross. Now majority of them are his pretty if you remember that, they were gathered there in the chief priests and crying out. Well if you're the price come down from the cross, your self, Info on the Roman soldiers. Were there remember what they were doing? They were gambling over his garments at the same time, but there was also a few Believers their kind of watching in shock. as the Son of God was being crucified, John chapter 25 through 27, And this is what the Bible says. Now, they're stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother. And his mother sister. Well, his mother was married and his mother sister is probably talkin about salon. Because she was the mother of James and John. So we have Mary and Salone there, and then it says Mary, the wife of clopas and Mary Magdalene. So when you look at this John says here we have three Marys and Salon. Standing there at lacrosse. Number 26, when Jesus, therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved. And he speaking of John here standing by, he said to his mother woman. Behold your son Then he said to the disciple speaking of John to John, but hold your mother and from that hour that disciple took her to his own home. so, what I want to talk about today,

It's simply this, a mother's. Across. My mother's day, but I'm up at the cross. And of course, we're talkin about Mary here, apparently. Mary, the three Marys and John. In a few more with only one brave enough to stand by Jesus and his crucifixion. Now, the Lord predicted, Remember this? Look at it. We don't put this on the board, Mark 14.

and Jesus said to them,

For it is written. I will strike the shepherd and the Sheep will be scattered. And that's exactly what happened. Jesus would put on the cross and other than one, we just naked. Where's the disciples an older than John not? Their sheep will be scattered. And that's exactly what happened that she were stabbing. Well, they were afraid to be caught with Jesus and suffer the consequences, but one of them was John the one who Jesus loved. And he stood with price mother at the cross. Watching is Lord died on the cross. Had to understand. Jesus said to her and if she looked back over his life in the first one, is this. the first thing is the prophecy that Mary believe you say, whether there's no props and well there's prophecy 30 years earlier when the baby Jesus have been brought to the temple Simeon had taken that little boy in his hand and he said these words, which we see in Luke Chapter 2. 34 and 35, I lost watch what city and say. It didn't see me and bless them and said to marry his mother behold the child now Simeon holding baby Jesus. But hold this child is destined for the phone.

Yes, a sore, where will pierce through your own soul also that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed. Mary had to be standing there watching her, son, died on the cross. Had to remember back in that prophecy, but not little baby. When Jesus was a little baby, send me and said, and a sword will pierce through your soul as well. Not only did a sword pierced, the side of Jesus. Not only was he nailed to that cross on his hands and his feet but you know a sword pierced through that mother that day but watch her son die, the way that he did know it's natural when someone close to us is dying. Time to reminisce the time that you had really getting ready to get on the things that you said don't, you know, Mary looking at Jesus with his broken body and bleeding had to think back to the time when maybe when the angel told her Mary you going to be with child and this child is going to be the Lord, God don't you know that she had to remember that or maybe the time when she will. She said that great song married life difficult Pierce. Her words of rejoicing. If you will at being counted worthy, to carry the Son of God, or how about, when they had to carry him to the temple with Simeon and how about when the little baby was born. She didn't. He have anywhere to put in, she had to put them in a feeding trough for Animals. He had, there was no room in the end. Of course, when he was hanging on that cross, she had to think of those times and how about when Harry and his bloody hands wanted to kill all the babies. And they had to flee and go to Egypt, you know, that she had to think of that or how about when they left Jesus in the temple and they started on the way home and he wasn't with them. and there, they found them in the

On the wall, there just asked a little boy, you know, Mary remembered his baptism. How about all the Miracles? He performed. She had to remember all of those and all the children that he healed. And remember, Jesus had a special relationship with children. They just gathered around him. And he always took time with children, Mary had to remember that. And I was studying this this week, I thought to myself, Mary had to be thinking about in the first time we met Mary was in John.

Remember. Well, now we see her again and she

Waiting to a funeral, The Hours come in the store is piercing through her soul. Just like see me and said 30 years. You see, this is the prophecy. That Mary believe. I think that we can learn from this. is that even though this great sorrow Many times. Great sorrow comes to people. You are loved by God. I bet you've experienced great sorrow in your life at one time or another, but we can't think of it as God's disfavor. Remember when Lazarus died and all and And healing and Jesus was late coming. At least, that's what they thought and he died and he's been placed in the Tomb. You see love and sickness or not incompatible in God's economy, God's favor, in God sorrow sometimes flows,

We have to understand that, but Jesus knows exactly what we're going through, and he will be there with us. Sorrow Mary remembered about Jesus, I'm sure, but she also knew that her son was also the Lord God himself. She knew that. And she had dreams of this. I'm sure and this baby back with him, the boy in there. Nazareth. Home the workmen in his dad Carpenter shot. The one who has become compared with anyone else. He was in agony on the cross. You know, she is brown.

Right there where the crown of thorn those hands and feet the hand that I used to hold the thief that I used to tickle or now pierced with nails. This is a mother standing here. The Nations could reject him. The disciples could leaving his friends could forsaken. But his mother never did. She was standing right there for him at his death. That's a mother's. Love it guys on TV, that has just committed. A horrible crime, her whole life. Your own death Road, they get rolled into the chamber.

It doesn't matter how how bad our children turn out or how evil they do. If your child's mother, you going to be there for you, going to support whether or not you're going to be there, Mary was there with G that is the Mother's Love back and that's the prophecy that will pierce through your soul. Also, and that's exactly what happened. Well, not only the prophecy believe. But here, I want you to see the provision, Mary received in Reseda and verses 25 and 26. His mother and the disciple whom he loved John. He said to his mother woman, behold your son. Now memory, I used to read this and look at your son. Now hanging here on the cross. But that's not what I'm talking about. He's picking up John. He's saying, Mary. The man beside you, John. Behold your son.

he's your son now and then he looks at John and says John my whole married, your mother You see what Jesus was doing beer is he was taking care of his mother. By giving her the John and he say in John I want you to treat my mother as if she And mother, I want you to treat John as if he's your son, this is what Jesus still in the Bible says. And from that hour. The cycle took her to John Luke, Mary home, but here's Jesus on the cross. And what is he doing? Always thinking about it. He was thinking of you and me, and he was thinking of his own mother and he said woman, you see the one who hangs on the cross is still providing for others. Remember what he said to the dying and believing the father, forgive them for, they know, not what they do, he was offering others forgiveness. While he was on the cross, he was offering people forgiveness. He was offering other salvation and he was offering his own mother provision for someone to take care of her in her latter years. Well, he was just for filling an Old Testament commandment and let's look at it. And Exodus 20 verse 12. This is one of the father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord, your God is giving you a responsibility of children, honor their father and mother. It look how Proverbs 23:20 to session. Listen to your father who got you and do not despise your mother when she is over. Don't despise your mother. When she is all we are under a god-given obligation to honor our parents. Obligation does not cease. Even though we move out of the house and move away from home, we are still the honor and take care of our. You say, at this moment, Jesus was dying for Sinners. But I want you to notice it. What he said, that his mother, he didn't say Mom. He didn't say mama. He didn't say mother, he said woman not a lot of people read that inspected. That's not a very nice thing. Like that it was very kind of Jesus.

Because Mary can no longer think of him as her son. The more she conceives of him as her son. The more she's going to suck. Mary must begin to look at Jesus as her more.

He said he took away the family park, the saw him being her son. Yeah, she will suffer but this suffering should be a different nature. Now she will begin to concentrate on the Redemptive meaning of Christ's death on the cross. And you don't want to say

But Mary needed Jesus, as Savior, as much as we need Jesus for safe. Wonderful woman, her seeing him help nailed him to the cross that we don't want to think of it that way. But Jesus is saying, woman start looking at me now for who the reason I can. I'm the savior of the world and he didn't say it was a very kind thing for him to do because any mother would suffer for her son being treated like that. But it had to be replaced with something higher and more Noble in that is out. Look at your song. I'm dying for your sins on the cross. I am your savior.

Why he said woman getting back? Well, have you ever wondered Why Jesus didn't give his mother. To his brothers or sister. I'm getting out the way you would normally do it. If I'm dying and I'm taking care of my mother or my brother is one of the sisters you going to have to keep dad or something. He had many brothers and sisters, the Bible talks about him. But also remember what he said that a Man's enemies will be those with his own house. the Bible say, Jesus came to his own, his own received, it not

That Jesus is Brothers, his family did not believe in. They never turned him in faith. His own hen, rejecting him as Savior, and they were not even there when he died.

Just John Avery Mary. That's all that was there. That was supporting Jesus at that time. Well let's go to so this is what Mary understood, understood the receipt. Jesus turned her over to John and said take care of my mother and he said, mother look at me as the Savior that I am not as a son on the cross.

Mary conceived. I want about the same to you, it's for mothers, but it's also from fathers and brothers and sisters and cousin is for everyone and I think we need to understand this. Our lord always emphasize the Human family. Was right here something. I think that sticks in Mary's Park is that the Lord is emphasizing the spiritual family of God as well. You see, these are body in relationships that we have here on Earth. The most important relationship is not a relationship of The Flash relationship of the spirit. Now we have many wonderful relationship mother. Father. Spouses children cousins, aunts and uncles. Grandparents. And there's no more intimate relationship that you will ever have. Then we, then with other people who are children of God, did you know that? Matt. Every time when we lose someone, maybe you've lost a mother or father or brother or sister a child. When we think of ever what's the first thing that we say? I can't wait. We want to go to heaven and see our loved ones again and that and that's good, and that's true. And we all to God has given us families. A family relationship here on Earth, and those people should mean more to us than anyone else. if someone if someone in there, if will is going to make nice at Mike, I need your help over my house is Jacob, and they were in trouble.

When I first got to take care of my children.

That's the people that God has given us. and Mary had to you see what the Lord was doing here on the cross when he died. Bring it into existence, a new family. Based on the automa. That's why he said woman and not married. Start looking at me as your savior, he brings into what is called the Brotherhood of the. It's what he does there. So the new Society It's not segregated according to race, or nationality is not predicated on your social standing on your economic power. How much money you have? What church? You attend? What Road North? Is not predicated on that is predicated on. Have you trusted price for your salvation by faith and you accepted his grace and you have confessed your sin and ask him to be Lord of your life. If that's if that is true, then you going to have a relationship when you get to heaven, that is far more intimate than any relationship that you ever had.

Far more than any on Earth. You say yes because it consists of those whose faith has met at the cross and God's forgiveness, and love, and grace, and mercy has flowed to us from the frost. That's why we need when we come to church here and we do church together, we are unified in Christ because Play unbelievers, We may be different color, me, may have different job, we may have different positions in our vocation or whatever, but that's what he has not going to be when I get there, and I'm glad to see him.

Friends. Let me tell you this, you will love and help The Believer from Southeast Asia that you never met on Earth. You will love them the same as you did. That's files or that child that you live in a perfect love you see here on Earth will be bound to our Earthly family and we should be We didn't have them. We're going to be bound spiritual by our love for Christ and his grace and mercy and forgiveness. We think of Heaven as the family that we had down here. But having these really big entire Universal Church, The Universal Church, Now, let me tell you how I know this. You remember when the Pharisees it was a woman who married a man. He died, then. She married his brother and he died. She married another brother and he died in the Pharisees looking Jesus. When this woman goes to heaven, Who's her husband in heaven? Been married 3455. Who's our husband in heaven. He said you don't understand what you're talking about. He said there's no marriage in heaven.

When I get to heaven. I'm not going to no more.

You may not live with her down here, all these years, we were married. But I'm not married to her in heaven.

I love her more in heaven. That I love her down here, but she's not going to be my wife in heaven, but I will love her more than I've ever loved. Is that we're both safe, we're in Christ. The Earthly relationships are no more in heaven. We're all bound by our love for Christ and let me show you how I know this. Look at glaciers chapter 3, verse 24 and 28, And you know that you can't keep all of God's Commandments, I need to say. It took the law was a tutor to bring us the price that we might be justified by faith.

But after faith has come, I can we trust in Christ? We're not a longer under a tooth. In other words, we're no longer under the law. We don't have to try to keep the law.

You ladies, tell me how you like this. For you are all sons of God. You like it. How do you like to be called sons of God? You say why I don't like that for you are all sons of God and let me ask you this. How do you like being called? Never been up right? When I go to Christ, I'm the bride of Christ. Net worth.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ. Have put on Christ. That means we're saved. We're in Christ. I want. Look at verse 28. There is neither Jew, nor Greek, there are free. There is neither male nor female for you. Are all one.

All I want, I don't, we make such a big deal, over gender, and our culture today, there's no smell female. You are all one in Christ. That's what counts in Christ, and that's what counts.

This is our fellowship. If we are truly price fault and Mary understood this, the principle that he's no longer look at him as my son, he's my singing it. When I get to heaven, we're going to have fellowship with him and we are all in the Brotherhood. Oblivion we are all sons of God. We are all the bride of Christ. We see here, what Jesus said and now we can understand it. He gave his mother to be taken care of, by someone he loved. And remember what Jesus said by this. All men will know that you are my disciples. If you have love for one another this is what Mary learned that this was a Mother's Day at the cross the prophecy she believed The provision, she received. The principal, she can see to that. Mary did not say a single word. That she understood.

Thank you for all the mothers that is here and that are here and then the mother's love that we have all experienced that will stand with us, through thick and thin help. What is children to provide for her parents? Help us to honor our mothers today in our fathers Help us never to despise them in their old age. Lord help us understand that the church is not made of black and white and different ethnicities different cultures. I understand that those who are truly say that we are all one in Christ, and that's the relationship with matter when we get to heaven.

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