1 Kings 22:51-53
Pastor Rick
Jackson
I. THE
CURSE OF A MOTHER’S EVIL COUNSEL
1. Jezebel’s
Way was the Way of Injury [1 K. 18, 21]
-1 Kings
18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah
took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with
bread and water.)
-1 Kings
18:13 Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the
LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord's prophets by fifty in a cave, and
fed them with bread and water?
2. Jezebel’s
Way was the Way of Idolatry [2 Kings 9:22, Isaiah 8:19-20]
--And it
came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he
answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her
witchcrafts are so many?
- And when
they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto
wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God?
for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not
according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
3. Jezebel’s
Way was the Way of Immorality [1 K. 21] lying, stealing, murder
-1 Kings
21:7 And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of
Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee
the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
-1 Kings
21:11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the
inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was
written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
-1 Kings
21:14 Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.
II. THE
BLESSING OF A MOTHER’S GODLY COUNSEL
1. It Leads
to Righteousness [Jochebed- Ex. 2:1-9, Heb. 11:23-24]
-By faith
Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw
he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By
faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of
Pharaoh's daughter;
2. It Leads
to Jesus [2 Timothy 1:5]
When I call
to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy
grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
3. It Leads
to Helping Others [Judges 4:4-6, 5:1, 7]
- And
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount
Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. And she sent
and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him,
Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount
Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of
the children of Zebulun?
- Then sang
Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day, saying,
- The
inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah
arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
III. CHOOSE
WISELY
1. Be a
Praising Christian [Ps. 113:9]
He maketh
the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise
ye the LORD.
2. Be
Virtuous [Pr. 31:1, 10, 27-31]
-1 The words
of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
-10 Who can
find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
-27 She
looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of
idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he
praiseth her. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she
shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works
praise her in the gates.
3. Be Wise
[Pr. 1:8, 10:1, 23:22]
-My son,
hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- The
proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the
heaviness of his mother.
-Hearken
unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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