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November 5, 2021 8:00 am
God has an encouraging word for you and me today is a Bible-based teaching of Dr. Don Wilton in this message on her grandmother's example, today we bring you part two of this wonderful message of Dr. Don Wilton coming from Luke about grandmother's example that we all can learn from. As we open God's word together. Another were available for you were connecting one on one right now. The phone number 866899 word that's 866-899-WORD 9673. Many are calling about the video risen and the video surgeon Dr. Wilson: wonderful hope you're interested, check out the details on our website@twonline.org and yes, there are still copies available of the Saturdays with Billy book the latest book from Dr. Wilton about being the pastor to Dr. Billy Graham all the details are@twonline.org with Dr. Don Wilton.
She was expectantly anticipating something spiritual to happen just like moms grandmothers so frames Anna's lifestyle may seem somewhat eccentric right. Almost like she was almost a workaholic. I mean, some people look inside boy she didn't have much of a life well I don't think Anna would have thought that some of the biblical text helps us in a way to some kind of understanding of who gives a couple of other thoughts. Okay I'm to suggest to you that she was possibly very slight in stature in Boone why because she Bible say she fostered perpetually well if you don't study the fostering habits of these people back then, guys. This wasn't just like skipping out on cookies on Wednesday off by the bank took that seriously. So in all likelihood she was very slight in in Boone. She was probably very foot because she walked a lot and by the way the temple compound was huge and she had to get there from her home in Jerusalem. Every time, and so there was a lot of walking for a person of the sage right so you can surmise that as she certainly was perceptive. Why was she perceptive because she saw everything going on.
She sold the activity she saw Simeon, she saw Mary and Joseph.
She saw she was perceptive man. She was soaking it in.
She was definitely hearing. She heard what was going on she heard the pasta praying over the trial. She probably a baby Jesus, crying. She walked the parents were saying. She is everything going on. She was remarkably determined she must've been determined because you might've a long time. Something about moms they teach you that it's worth the white I've always found with wives and with mothers and grandmothers. It's like they never quite seem to be in the same hurry that I'm in, I'm always in a much you not and I need to get it now and patience is a virtue. She was highly respected. She prophesied she was speaking God to the people. She was very respected. She was very respected. You cannot just cite you all in many ways, you are really respecting me right now is you letting me speak you listening to me or can you imagine this grandmother coming into this type of hierarchical system dominated by all these men male oriented world and she was a prophet – she was highly guys this is, she was a highly respected and highly valued person. She was valued she was respected because they let her they listen by letter talk about God and they listen to her but she was also highly valued because they mean. This was right there in the temple, crying in a bucket valued guys, you can respect somebody but not value them and I was sure this was one precious grandmother also want to say to you that she must've been deeply spiritual. This lady followed hauled off to go.
I mean she didn't have you ever heard someone I've heard people say all the time.
You know my mother. She praying for me nonstop. I've heard people say boy.
My grandmother never stopped loving me in praying for me.
I've heard people say what my mother put up with was nobody's business but I'm telling you my mother praying for me relentlessly. I mean I remember as a teen.
As a young teenager. I remember me.
I mean, behaving badly.
I I remember walking false. My mother's bedroom and I could look through Outlook through the door of her bedroom and my mother would be on her knees calling out my name to God me just calling out my name's so Anna and I had suffered for many years. She was elderly found herself alone to fight for survival, but I think you and I can conclude something about this grandmother. She had her priorities in place that just like mom, you know, in my home with Karen always you know I would. You know we always want to get out there and we were always edited always seemed like she was the one who had her priorities and complex and I was like, I mean I grew up in an old boys family. I know this is silly stuff you name you have to talk about it that I grew up in all boys family saw mean when it comes to mealtimes guys. I mean You really have to sit down and will sit around a table and C town. I mean eat the food for crying in a bucket. It's they even out of the pot. If you need to and then I married Karen and it's no where going to all secure is a family and it's all going to be nicely put out and roll going to wait and then we going to say grace together.
It's like come on man chickens getting cold and I know you, you might look at me and say will that's just so silly know it's not because my kids have grown up and they now this. It's the little things that matter is 100 times. I'll even come to church and walk out the door and the mother in my house for look at me and she say you not going to with that. Are you what's wrong with it will look at you should. What about it. It's blue should know.
It's got a crease where on the but you can't go and have a crease. I mean you know something these something I don't know how to talk about those other things that really matter. Okay, so how did this grandmother live her life images rectal of some things you might want to write them down. First of all she disciplined herself right. Obviously she was a woman of discipline, number two, she went to the right place trying it was no argument about her about being in church. She number three worshiped the right God, this grandmother didn't say no, I mean, you know, just you know if there's an owl sitting in a tree, let's go worshiped all or you know you know long as you can catch the right kind of vibe you know just you know as long as you believe in something not this grandmother worshiped the right God made no bones about it. She looked for the right person. She was looking for Jesus to deliver the Redeemer. She knew this was in her heart. She waited with the right expectation. It was an expectation.
It just was then presented so system, this grandmother. She had the right heart. How many times I find so many of my friends. So many people I know in our church so many ladies so many grandmothers precious people just got such a precious heart. I've said many times you see that man I'm 10 you. It doesn't matter where I am, what I'm going through how I'm feeling. I just have to go and Siebel up to one of these precious people these grandmothers these mothers that got such a right heart and it just like is contagious. You know, when you say men she just she just so precious. What does that mean she said the right things.
She prophesied she she talked about God, the God of our fathers.
She gave the right. Thanks.
You will notice there in that final verse I read she gave thanks to God and finally not conclusively. She shed the right news pilots bring that holding one tub.
What does this grandmother teach us on a day like this from God's word what what can we take from this what can you take from us. All right if if if you were to get out of a piece of paper and the pain right now and write down and not always the question, what did you learn from your grandmother or did you learn from your mother a bright blue stripe why my mom told me that's a question I'm asking you from Anna today. What do what is God saying to us today so I wrote down seven things ready number one discipline she must've been one seriously disciplined lady.
This means you what she was saying you need to be willing in order to accomplish what it is that senior heart. Please forgive the movie back in just a moment with the conclusion of today's message below. How we strive to have that courage to accomplish what God puts in her the courage that can be fueled by a closer relationship with Jesus Christ. Have a wonderful tool that is absolutely free. That we have found over the last decade or more has been a grand to for just doing that empowering us to be stronger in our faith and closer to Jesus Christ. We call it the daily Encouraging Word devotional. You can sign up for it to get an email or email her frantically as we say on our website@twonline.org that's tewonline.org you can sign up today and proceed with the next 24 to 48 hours or if you'd rather have a physical copy like my bride likes to have overheard – in a carpool line or inner Bible. It's absolutely free if you call 8668 and sat above the daily Encouraging Word devotional.
It's absolutely free 866899673 or you find a way to sign up for email emphatically or in person as well. Having that delivered to our website@twonline.org now back today's great teaching with Dr. Don so at school, going to school you lose your joy whose, but as long as you keep messing around you not going to get it done. I guarantee you go to heaven. Discipline something you getting ready to go off to college, you got everything going on. I mean all over the place. You better be disciplined. I'm trying that'll get away from you in a heartbeat. You become one of those other people that always trying to beg, borrow and steal from everybody else to do those assignments and get the thing done and read the book and also the questions and you want to develop dark rings on the Oscars got no discipline you. You constantly perpetually stay up late at night you go all over the place you're playing around all the time you think life is just one big name you are no discipline. You pay a price for you pay a price for that's what Anna teaches me.
She must.
She was one discipline person discipline is not you know your neighbor it, it's the essential things that you have to do in order to accomplish what you know you need to do so if you want to play on the football team or you want to be a cheerleader in high school you want to be a cheerleader you want to be a cheerleader you want to be a cheerleader in high school you love cheerleading and you're in middle school.
All and and you just you would love to be able to be on the site you would love to be a cheerleader, you better be disciplined just like a rock up and say is I promise you that coach is going to look at you and say she looks good. She sounds good, but man she just doesn't put it all together is no discipline. You can't be counted on our disparate number two focus is not on focus, focus.
She was so focused main focus. She wasn't black.
You know, one minute they looking over they didn't listen. She knew what she was off the and it took her 84 years. Which leads me to the third thing that she teaches us, and that's determination, that's a great wonderful trait does not determination determination man means I am so determined to accomplish this to to be able to do this.
I am determined I am going to do this so he does 1/4 one.
Perseverance. You can be determined. But if you don't accompany that with perseverance. You not going to get it done. Determination is the attitude and the Damond of your heart. Perseverance is the vehicle that carries you to keep on doing it. You can have an attitude that you're going to accomplish this, but if you don't persevere next week you not doing the number five worship me just summarize number one is discipline what Anna teaches us this grandmother. This is example discipline and focus determination, perseverance, worship, she prioritize worshiping the Lord. That's an incredible thing. Man cannot smile because about 10 weeks ago father that I no who's in this church. I turned to him and I love them like I've known them for quite a long time ago a young family and segment is good to see you and I see them.
Amen.
I just appreciate the why you always hear you're always in place. He said don't thank me. Thank her. I said you mean you mean it's all about your wife about the mighty said let me tell you something there some things that are negotiable and they are other things that are not negotiable and being in God's house and worshiping the Lord with my wife nonnegotiable, but I'm tiny there are some beds that get dragged kicking and screaming to church every Sunday because you not any hunt turkeys. You are a big turkey. And you don't want to come I didn't say that been some Greg Springsteen said that to me all right number six shows the number six gratitude. Gratitude cannot read that verse to you again verse 36 coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God on our moms and grandmothers is not beautiful the way they teach us to be thankful. Don't just be thankful folks say it say it number one to God. Tell the Lord how grateful you are to him over and over and over again telling thank you God thank you Jesus, thank you for my family.
Thank you for my mother.
Thank you for my father, thank you for the food that I eat gratitude. That's what she did right out of the hatch man off the 84 years. First thing she did is I just thank my God for this Jesus is the Redeemer of the Savior of the world and in the seventh thing that she teaches us is evangelism what is evangelism.
Evangelism is about the good news is about sharing what we know to be true about Jesus. Did you notice something about her all these years. She looked for Jesus. And when Jesus came the first thing she did was, gave thanks to God and the second thing she did was she shared it with everybody. She went out and told everybody who is looking for the Redeemer.
Even in the understanding there were people looking for a rescuer like an Emperor someone looking just for the Messiah. She just save these people that are looking for the Redeemer. She just began to shake all those who are looking for hope. You know something my friends all around us. Their people looking for hope that only Jesus brings you know what I I've made Jesus and and he's my Savior and I thank God and I just want to share that with you today that he really does love you so would you bow your heads with me for a minute every head just just let's talk to Jesus. Just from in a chair today see that that this is about Jesus.
That's a beautiful picture man this this grandmother. She had such a personal relationship with the Lord, didn't she. What a beautiful person. She must've been even in her own world, which is so different from mine.
But what an incredible person and all she could do was thank God and then shade Jesus.
Do you know Jesus. Have you trusted him.
Are you ready to give your heart to Jesus today would you do that today. Give your life to Christ today.
Right now that is the question what is your answer is you been listening to Dr. Don is preaching and teaching today.
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