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Sunday Sermon Preview: Mother's Day Mssg

May 10, '08 4:30 AM
for everyone

Landed in MNL late last night. Met with Ferdie, Paulo, Rico and Gilbert this AM to discuss our Mother's day mssg. I don't usually wait til Sat to prep my Sunday mssg, but been too busy lately.

Here's what i'll preach at Victory-Fort at 9 & 11 tomorrow.

Honor your father and mother -- which is the first commandment with a promise -- so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.   EPH 6:2,3

HONOR is the key concept here, and the big idea is:

We honor our parents by obeying God.

Sometimes God's will and our parent's plans seem to be incompatible. What do we do then?

We will examine 3 scenes where Jesus honored his mother and obeyed his Father at the same time:
    - at the cross (John 19)
    - at the wedding (John 2)
    - at the temple (Luke 2)

Hopefully my sermon will help you answer these questions:

How did Jesus honor His mother?
How do we apply Jesus' example to our lives?
How do we honor parents who do not live honorable lives?
How do we honor parents who are dead?
How do we honor a father or mother we have never met?
How do we honor fathers and mothers who persecute us?
How do we honor our parents then their will for us conflicts with God's will?

Here's Paolo's Mother's day trailer, and here's Ferdie's sermon sneak preview.

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jesusfreak1808 wrote on May 10

How do we honor parents who do not live honorable lives?
How do we honor fathers and mothers who persecute us?
How do we honor our parents then their will for us conflicts with God's will?

pastor i can't make it tomorow, but i want to hear the answer to this question, its my situation now and some of my friends, i hope you could download the preaching in the victoryfort.org vcf website both yours and tagalog service so i could understand better. God bless pastor steve.

warriorheart6972 wrote on May 10

so excited for the revelations tomorrow. ALL parents really deserve to be honored!

smurrell wrote on May 10

jesusfreak1808 said

hope you could download the preaching in the victoryfort.org vcf website both yours and tagalog service so i could understand better.

i thnk all sunday sermons are posted on the victory-fort podcast site, unless the mssg is a complete disaster.

also, you might want to check out pastor ferdie, rico, julius... mssg on the same topic each week on the victory-ortigas site.

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lfberry wrote on May 10

I hope you will also address the issue of "corban" (Mark 7:11). The Pharisees declared their goods as "corban" or "dedicated to God" in order to avoid having to share them with their parent. I know that in my own life I have at times wrongly used church meetings and fellowship as excuses to avoid helping out their parents, contributing to the household, etc. My time was "corban" and I dishonored my parents in the same way that the Pharisees did.

smurrell wrote on May 10

lfberry said

I hope you will also address the issue of "corban" (Mark 7:11).

good point, and that's part of my first point - how we are to take care of our parents when they can't take care of themselves - how we are supposed to follow the example Jesus set by including them in our lives adn ministries...

teng1981 wrote on May 11

Wow, this looks like a powerful message!

henercallos wrote on May 11

smurrell said

i thnk all sunday sermons are posted on the victory-fort podcast site,

i cant wait to hear the sunday message on the podcast!

francessy71 wrote on May 11

me too! i did not attend the service today... want to know what's the answer to all the questions up there ... hope you could post it here on your blog. thanks pastor!

smurrell wrote on May 11, edited on May 11

in case you missed it, here's the link to yesterday's sermon intro vid...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LAnbQhB_QIo

jeromedgutierrez wrote on May 11

Great message again. Decided to have breakfast with Therese and kids, lunch with mom in law, dinner with my mom all in mother's day to apply the word=) thanks and safe trip to Africa. Regards to one of my favorite preachers Sam Aiyedogbon.

janelleantonio wrote on May 12

i heard you used the MaternaCord video... haha

jayleecanada wrote on May 12

I'd love to hear this mssg Steve! We just had our 1st Mother's Day service to honour our mothers. I rented a condo party rm in Toronto and I had a friend (Susan) share her testimony of being a new mom and people were really moved. We catered Korean food and had the men serve the women and handed out bouquets of carnations to each mum....it was a lot of fun!

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