The Divine Nurturing: Embracing the Role of Mothers

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"Can a woman forget her nursing baby? She may forget her grown-up children sometimes for a moment, but nursing baby never. She's always alert to the cry of a nursing suckling child. Can a woman forget her nursing have no compassion on the son of a which came out with such pain from her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you." [00:05:34]

"So when God wants to tell us how much he cares for us, he doesn't talk the experience of a father, he says it's a mother. He cannot think of a father. A father may forget that little baby, but to assure us that he will never, never forget us, he uses the example of a mother." [00:06:10]

"How often I wanted to gather your children together like what? Like a mother hen. Even Jesus uses a female picture of a mother. Jesus is a mother, like a mother hand it's good for us to see this, gathering her chicks, protecting the chicks from the foxes." [00:08:26]

"Do you see Jesus like that covering you, brooding over you? Don't forget this picture. We already saw the father like a mother caring for the sucking child. Here's Jesus like a mother hen. We must use these pictures in our mind whenever the devil tries to give us a wrong picture of Jesus or our heavenly father." [00:08:54]

"The very first mention of the Holy Spirit in the Bible is in verse 2. Verse 1 is when God created the heaven and earth absolutely perfect, without a single wrong thing. That's how it was created. God creates everything perfect, but something happened between verse one and two, and that's the fall of the angel who became the devil and all the angels who became demons." [00:10:00]

"Now why do I say it happened here? Because it says in the next verse the earth was or in some translations became formless, waste, empty. Now God never creates anything waste, empty, and imperfect. You read in James one that he creates everything perfect. Everything about God is perfect." [00:11:01]

"Immediately, as soon as the earth became like this, the next thing you read is the spirit of God. It says the real word there if you look up at the original word I was looking it up was brooding. The word there is brooding. The word written there is moving, is brooding." [00:11:49]

"And when Jesus, the first time he told his disciples that he was going to send the Holy Spirit, you know what he called him? In Genesis, sorry John, chapter 14. He was going away, this is the last supper, and he told them these amazing words." [00:12:34]

"I will ask the father, next verse, I told you read a verse, always study the Bible in its context. I will ask the father, he'll give you a helper. A helper for what, Lord? A helper to keep the commandments which you are finding so difficult to keep." [00:13:32]

"Do you see the connection between verse 15 and 16? I will give you a helper. Why is it you don't keep the commandments? I'll tell you why. Why should you get angry and lust with your eyes and find it difficult to love your enemies? I'll tell you why. You don't seek for the helper." [00:13:51]

"And Jesus uses that to refer to the Holy Spirit. Husbands, value your wives. She has the same name as the Holy Spirit. She's hidden behind you mostly in the home. You're the one who's prominent, always up in front, who's in the pulpit, not the woman, the man. But behind the man there's a helper." [00:14:57]

"God made a helper for me, not only the Holy Spirit but my wife, who's also the mother of my children. And I've learned to appreciate her, value her more and more as the years gone by, and the more I have become Christ-like, the more I've appreciated my wife and the one who's the mother of my children." [00:15:01]

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