1. WELCOME TO PINE GROVE CHURCH OF CHRIST Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/09/10

2. MOTHERS IN THE BIBLE Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/09/10

3. Mother in the Bible  Examples to Avoid

4. Examples to Avoid  The Wicked Harlot  I Kings 3:16-28 – “Let him be neither mine nor yours, but divide him”  Psalms 127:3-4 – “Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward”

5. Examples to Avoid  Jerusalem & Samaria  Ezekiel 16:44-47 – “Like mother, like daughter!”  Acts 7:51-53 – “as your fathers did, so do you”

6. Examples to Avoid  Herodias  Mark 6:14-29 – “said to her mother, ‘What shall I ask?’ and she said, ‘The head of John the Baptist!”

7. Mother in the Bible  Examples to Avoid  Examples to Follow

8. Examples to Follow  Jochebed – Moses’ Mother  Exodus 1:22 – 2:11 – “when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months”  Hebrews 11:23-29 – “choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin”

9. Examples to Follow  Eunice – Timothy’s Mother  Acts 16:1 – “Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed”  II Timothy 1:3-5 – “genuine faith that is in you… first in your grandmother… and your mother”  II Timothy 3:14-15 – “from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures”  Proverbs 22:6 – “Train up a child in the way he should go”

10. Examples to Follow  Mary – Jesus’ Mother  Luke 1:26-38 – “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word”  Luke 2:39-42 – “when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord”  John 19:25-27 – “Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother”

11. Conclusion  Proverbs 31:28-30 – “a women who fears the Lord, she shall be praised”  Deuteronomy 6:7-9 – “You shall teach them diligently to your children”  II Timothy 3:15 – “from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures”

12. WELCOME TO PINE GROVE CHURCH OF CHRIST Pine Grove Church of Christ – 05/09/10