1. Mothers- Love Your Children
Luke 2:39-52

2. Societal Changes “Traditional” family undermined No certain definition
Objectors are called “homophobes” or worse
Role reversal
A Mother is a woman!

3. Cost To Society Paid a high price Abortion Child abandonment
Child abuse
Commercial: “You’ve come a long way baby”

4. What Does It Mean To Love?
Part of the overall problem
Confusion of love with lust
Killing a loved one in pain is love to some
Not what the Bible teaches

5. Widely Used Words For Love
“Agape”- To act in the best interests of another
God so “loved” (John 3:16)
“Love” our enemies (Matthew 5:44)

6. Widely Used Words For Love
Phileo- To have tender affection for another
Peter to Jesus- You know I “love” you (John 21:15-17)
Teach them to “love” their husbands, to “love” their children (Titus 2:4)
Out of affection comes being interested in their needs and wellbeing

7. How To Show This Love Be the proper kind of wife
Be faithful to your husband (Hebrews 13:4)
Be in subjection to your husband (Ephesians 5:22-24, 33)
Crucial to their learning about marriage (1 Peter 3:1-6)
Ignore the feminists in the world and the church

8. How To Show This Love Be honorable
Mary went to Jerusalem and was concerned about Jesus’ absence (Luke 2:39-52)
Protect them from harm when possible

9. How To Show This Love Be their teacher in word and deed
Spiritual and social things must be taught (2 Timothy 1:5; 3:14, 15; Titus 2:3-5)
Teach them about modesty (1 Timothy 2:9, 10; 1 Peter 3:3-5)
Teach them how to adapt when possible to get along with others (1 Corinthians 9:19-27)

10. How To Show This Love Be their encourager
Hannah checked on Samuel (1 Samuel 1:4-28)
Help them with the trials of life, but let them “skin their knees” occasionally.

11. How To Show This Love Discipline them
Much is said in the Bible about discipline (Proverbs 1:8; 13:24; 19:18; 22:15)
Heir wellbeing here and in eternity is at stake (Ephesians 6:1-4)

12. How To Show This Love Be a homemaker
The “worthy woman” (Proverbs 31:10-31)
Outside interests
Priority was the home
Husbands appreciate such a wife and show it

13. Conclusion To fail as a mother has terrible consequences
Be the kind of mother God expects