5 Woman and no funeral

Thanks, Max. I've got, like a whole lot of

pink envelopes. Come on.

Yeah. All from the congregation to say

Happy Mother's Day to me. So, so really cool.

It's really nice to have you. If I said crocodile, what would

you say? If I just said like crocodile,

what would be the first word? I'll tell you what, my wife's

first word. I said crocodile to my wife and

she said Dundee to me. Not the answer I was looking

for. It's like saying to you guys in

Afrikaans clear and you'll say crocodile or crocodile in the

clear. No, I'm not looking for.

If I just said crocodile, what would you say to me?

Are you Indian like you? Wouldn't.

What would you say? Carry.

Carry the thing. Carry it.

If I say crocodile T, what did you say?

Be of your butter cheese. Hey, God, there's not there's

not political. There's not political.

We're in the chair. Yeah.

Let's let's cross the Rubicon. You know what I'm saying?

Let's get across the Rubicon. And and.

Yeah. Thank you so much.

Indeed. What kind of crocodile would you

think of? Real and Nile crocodile?

Thank you. Real.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Just say Nile crocodile in in Afrikaans.

The nail crocodile. Yeah, guys.

So that's it's it's so nice to have you.

Welcome. I'd like to dedicate today to my

mom. She turns 86 this year.

And I wouldn't be if it wasn't for her.

Not just in the earth, but in the church.

She prayed for me and she taught me about Jesus.

So if you're online, Mum, which you will be this afternoon, I

love you and I want to honor you in front of my family in

Pretoria. I want to tell you, mum, you

taught me about Jesus and you prioritized the church to us.

I don't know why you always went and sat in the front, but maybe

God knew that I was meant to be a pastor, but we always sat in

the front of the church. I, I'd embarrassed me with every

wedding we went to. We went to the front row,

whether it was our cousin, second cousin, third cousin or a

mistake invitation, we sat in the front row.

But ma'am, you, you I've had, I've watched you have your daily

devotions for the time that I've been alive.

I've been alive 58 years, probably for 55 years.

I've watched you have daily devotions every single day.

Faith for daily living, get hold of Jesus.

And I've watched you bring every part of our family's life to

Christ, and I want to honor you for that.

The second person I want to honor is my my niece or my

nephew and niece, Nicholas and Demi.

My niece and nephew have been trying for a baby for many, many

years. And this week, they gave birth

to Lily Mae. Yeah.

So Lily Mae is the newest member of our family.

And he's saying, why are you doing the story?

Because we're building a family. And I have the chance of being

the voice today. So Demi, who's lying in hospital

and Lily May and my nephew Nicholas, so to say, really,

really happy 1st Mother's Day to you and really love you.

And I'm really, really proud of you.

I want to dedicate this day to my very dear friend Erica, who's

sitting up there. And I had the privilege, Erica,

of watching you journey the journey to find your mum.

And I can't remember this 52 or 53 years, but I know it was over

50 years while you were looking for your tummy mummy.

And maybe you're sitting in this auditorium and it's been 25

years or 30 years that you've been looking for your tummy

mummy. But that Lady looked for her

tummy mummy for 52 years and she found her.

And so I honor her today. I want to honor your mum and I

want you to tell your mum that we really love her and that we

really honor her. And that which she gave birth to

was so beautifully and wonderfully knit together in her

womb. And we've had the privilege of

living out your ordained days as your friends and as your fellow

believers in this church. I want to dedicate this day to

NAO. He is the husband of Maggie, who

lost his mum this week. And some of you, this will be

your first Mother's Day without your mother's well on earth.

Nio, Maggie. And thank God for what he did in

your life and how he came into your life and gave you a little

girl. Become a mum of your own.

And I think of that very, very broken girl who walked into this

auditorium 12 or 13 years ago and how you used to sing with

absolute freedom and how people used to resent you.

And then they started to love you.

And the amazing thing to see a young black lady lead a meeting

in Pretoria with a probably 90% Afrikaans church is quite a

miracle of God. And I'll explain to you from the

scriptures how that works. But we honor you Mags, and we

honor Naya and we honor the memory of his mother.

I met a man and you say, why are we taking so long?

Because that's what we do. We're a family.

I met a man in the actually, I met a whole lot of people today.

I met people from Palabora. I didn't even know people lived

there anymore. Not English.

I don't think many English people would survive there, but

they just wrote them say Oz fun Pele Bora.

I said Huyemora 200 against bang Natali hiras hetala hetala Mesa

in Kabira 1 hideous account as I believe Kanye yo Kabira by the

coffee shop Los but Oscar nodi hiredin I said answers lit

martyr from your cat. So the Mensa from palabora and

puff other. That is why a welcome oblain and

in pursuin. Yeah.

Bye donkey. Bye.

Bye bye donkey. Yeah, Thank you.

And now what we're going to do is we're going to get all the

children in this auditorium whose mothers are here today.

I want you to stand. If your mothers are here today,

I want you to stand. OK, put your telephones down.

Your mother's are not allowed to go into AI and we're going to do

the Biblical Mother's Day quiz to get A to get a voucher to get

a voucher to a coffee. I know to a beautiful restaurant

to take your mother out for lunch, Randy.

Oh, you can start. What's yomar?

What's yomar? What's Randy Samar?

What's Randy Samar? What I say what?

Ask Randy Samar. Ek Vietnam is your nominee Tony

and yet may live for the doctor that actor Hirika took a comet

EDMA live hard and that vidya is in Pharos Odelanus a flowers and

ma. But for me it's just my ma and

to act for doc for your hue more to say they could say hue more

and more a Kenya netos MO and aerial.

OK, OK, they're wonderful. So so you're ready.

So we're not going to put the questions up.

We're going to ask this question for the first gift voucher.

What is Moses? Says Mother's name. yo-yo,

yo-yo, yo. As my friend.

As my friend. You can, said Maura.

I said. Say it loudly.

You said Maura. I said no, not Maura.

Mary. You said Mary.

Yes, you said Mary. You're wrong.

Well done. Nice to have you.

Happy Mother's Day. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no. You've been living in my house.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You came and had coffee. Yes.

Yes, yes. Hey, Mary.

Miriam. Absolutely wonderful.

No, you're not. You're wrong as well.

Yes, Sir. Hey, be say yochabit.

I say Yochabit. Keep standing, keep standing,

keep standing. Enjoy a nice meal with your

mother. Yochabit.

It is Yochabit. Did you know that it's in the

Bible? Moses mother's name is Yochabit.

By a donkey. By a donkey.

OK, then we got to ask the second question.

What are the names of the midwives?

Because you wouldn't have a baby if you didn't have a midwife.

And what are the names of the midwives in the book of Exodus?

Mary. Yeah.

Mary. Mary.

Mary. Mary's everywhere.

Mary's everywhere. Anybody.

Anybody. Don't.

Don't know. AI.

Your mother. Stop it, man.

Erica, stop it. I can see you on your phone.

Put your phone down, Erica. Who said Zippra And.

And. And what's the other one's name?

Poor don't sway in the church Bruin.

Shipra and PUA, Did you know that Shipra and Pua, you come

get your voucher and whoever whispered to you,

enjoy it, Enjoy it and you can have a meal with your mum just

because you have a beautiful mum and and because you're a

beautiful lady. OK, so we have to ask this

question. What was?

Because it's Mother's Day and you're like, hey, let's go to

church. It's Mother's Day.

Crocodile. No, not Dundee.

What is Timothy's granny's name? What's the Eunice?

Eunice. Yo, that's absolutely amazing.

That's his mother's name. Very close.

Who? Yeah.

I'll say my mark. Call me.

So you didn't realize it was so much about mothers in the Bible,

huh? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. OK.

Last one. Last one, what did Ruth's

mother-in-law call herself? Who said that?

There we go. Here we go girl.

Enjoy your time with your mum. OK?

Happy Mother's Day, and for those who come tonight, I've got

different questions. If you've become a single mum

this year, this year you've become a single mum either

through death or divorce. Is there anybody here who's

become a single mum this year? Wait, why don't you come here?

Ma'am, Please come. Yeah, come.

Geraldine, you've become a single mum.

God knows. God cares.

God can stop at Mother's Day service to remind you that

you're not alone, young lady. You will look after you.

Take someone and bless them. For 30 years this lady nursed a

very sick husband. For 30 years nursed a very sick

husband has never ever had the opportunity to travel overseas.

And on Tuesday, through the generosity of the people in this

church, she gets on an aeroplane to renew 30 year old friendships

of people she used to work with. Because the local churches are

awesome place where single mothers get to thrive.

God bless you, girl, God bless you.

Did you ever think you would stand proudly in front of the

church knowing that God can do whatever he wants?

And on this Mother's Day, you thought, flip, it's going to be

really lonely, not cool. It's going to be not cool.

Hey, but God's cool. God's cool and he stays cool.

So invite somebody for lunch. Oh, drop the mic.

Thank you. There's a man called David here.

Portuguese man. He's 83 years old.

He lost his wife, Rena. She turned 80 in February.

He lost her a few weeks ago. He's here today with his

daughter and his son-in-law and his grandson.

Where are you, David? Where are you?

Can you pass this back to David? David, you take your grandson

out for a meal today. Spoiler OK, I've got 30 minutes

starting now. Now don't worry, relax.

Let's go to Exodus chapter one, please.

Good morning. Nice to see you.

I'm going to talk to mothers. I'm going to talk to daughter in

It might win you a competition when you leave this church and

join Doxa next year. The Doxa probably wouldn't do

this. Whose names are Shipra and Puah.

When you help the Hebrew women in childbirth and observe them

on the delivery stool. If it is a boy, kill him.

But if it is a girl, let her live.

Let's keep that up there. Don't look at me.

So. So basically, if we get rid of

the men, we can take the wives for concubines or prostitutes or

wives, and we can eventually take them into our Egyptian

world. And actually we'll integrate

them into our society and we'll reproduce more Egyptians.

But the boys get rid of the boys.

And so there's a murder threats over the boys of Egypt.

What's over your life today on Mother's Day?

What is the edict over your life?

What is this saying over your life?

Maybe it's this week that you got some kind of news about some

kind of thing that has completely and fashioned you and

completely driven you and feared you, whatever.

What is the thing over your life?

The midwives I ever feared God and did not do what the king of

Egypt had told them to do. They let the boys live.

So it's a crooked system, but inside of the system are people

that fear God. So this is how the system

worked. The king, the men, the woman,

the barren woman, the king, the men, the women, the barren

woman. Barren woman had absolutely no

standing in society. And yet when the book of Exodus

is written, one of the greatest books in the Bible, the king

doesn't get a name, but the barren woman get given a name.

And maybe you're sitting here and saying nobody knows me,

nobody cares about me, I haven't counted.

In society you are the very people that guard names and

uses. The Bible works completely

differently to the systems of the world.

Then the king of Egypt never gets a name.

He never gets a name. If I gave this message a title,

it would be 5 women and no funeral.

Five women and no funeral. God is busy developing A

rescuer. He's a man who's going to rescue

a whole nation, millions of people.

And you know how he does it? He uses 5 women, starts with

Shipra and Puah. Then the king of Egypt summoned

the wild wives and he asked them, why have you done this?

Why have you let the boys live? The midwives answered Pharaoh.

Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women.

They are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.

Why don't, why don't you 2 stand?

Yeah, you got, you got to stand. Don't, don't look around.

You'll be embarrassed. Just just just look at me.

How the heck did you fit in there?

Why don't you stand? Why don't you stand?

And the Bible says that men are stronger than women.

You Acts wouldn't survive 15 minutes in a labor war, China.

I was pushing so hard. I popped the vein in my eye and

the doctor said, stick your head out the window, young man.

You're going to faint. I was pushing this thing.

This thing was five KGS 11 lbs. Natural birth.

Natural birth. Natural birth.

Hi, when's your baby? Two hour.

We've got an elected Caesar on the 14th of September.

Yeh mud netta Buddhafrotro me Marse Salome H to it by a

donkey. Torchings, Mel.

Happy Mother's Day, my darling. You're not my mother, but you're

a vigorous chick. So God was kind to the midwives

and the people increased. It became even more numerous.

And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of

their own. Oh God, king, men, women,

nothing in society. The Bible calls them shipra and

poor. And because they feared God, he

gave them families of their own. We we need people, just people

of no rank, No title, that will just stand up for God and we

will start to see the power of God break out in our city.

And maybe say nobody knows, nobody cares.

God knows, God cares. Single mother, barren woman, God

knows, God cares. Just keep fearing him.

They'll open radical doors for you.

Then Pharaoh, no name, gave this order to all his people, every

boy that is born. You must throw into that what

happens in the Nile. Amen.

Amen. In the Nile, they're crocodiles

and some of you mothers are going to get let go of your

children today because some of them are 35 and you're still

holding on to them. I'm speaking to you on Mother's

Day. I'm speaking to you on Mother's

Day because Jocker Bed trusted God enough that she placed her

three month old child into a crocodile infested river.

Because she believed God more than she believed society.

And you are not the salvation of your children.

God is a salvation of your children.

And God has got more power to look after your children.

And the Nile is not some kind of spraky bronchos Spraky, Nell

Spraky. It's a retrofit.

My mouth as I says the Orania refir, it's a pumping river and

she knew that he was safer in a pumping crocodile infested river

than in her care because God had better opportunity to take care

of him than she did. Now a man of the House of Levi

married a Levite woman and she became pregnant, gave birth to

her son. But when she saw that he was a

fine child. Have you ever seen a parent that

doesn't think their child is fine?

It's amazing thing. Hey, you check old, old

Buckwater there and you say, hey, isn't he beautiful?

And you think you're he could go into like air traffic control,

like the radar thing, you know, But they say, oh, beautiful.

That's not what it means. It just means if you read

Hebrews, because she makes the list in Hebrews, it says he was

no ordinary child. For my friends Glenn and Simonet

who bought their little boy Peter James, they call him

James, They bought him here today I think for the second or

third time I met, I met Glenn about here and he said will you

do my wedding? I did his wedding.

He pre teaches the Pretoria boys high and then his beautiful wife

Simonet. And then they had this little

boy and they bought him today. He's no ordinary child.

You're no ordinary child. You're no ordinary child.

And when you look at people, friends, when you look at

people, these are the Pizza brothers.

You're no ordinary children. You had a remarkable mother and

remarkable father who taught you the ways of God.

You are no ordinary children. They had the privilege of doing

your son's funeral and your mum and dad's funeral, both of them.

No ordinary children. Look at the person.

Next thing, just say this. You're no ordinary child.

That's it, guys. I'm, I'm being dead serious.

I'm, I'm being dead serious. This this is my first born son.

This is my first born son. That is my friend Mark.

Mark used to come and live in our home.

Mark used to look after my first born son and my daughter that he

used to babysit for us. Now he's sitting.

And then Mark got given this incredible blessing, actually,

the way that he started a Home group and, and he was so shy of

the first girl that walked in. He said, will you marry me?

I, I mean, I mean, he should have said welcome to my Home

group, but she said, yes, I'll marry you.

And it goes 12345 these 6. I look at you, say you're no

ordinary child. Sarah Dickie, you're no ordinary

child. Amber, you're no ordinary child.

Rachel, you're no ordinary child.

Josh, you are no ordinary child. Jude, you are no ordinary child.

Mitchell, you're no ordinary child.

And now God gives us these gifts.

And on Mother's Day, we realize we have to steward these

unbelievable gifts which God has knit together in the mother's

womb. And for all your mothers, just

put your hand here. And I want to say, Lord God

bless these wombs that knit together, these extraordinary

children. So why don't you come and stand

with me here? Come see.

Come, son of Si, will you take photos of your children today

and just look at them? Maybe some of them have wandered

from the truth. Maybe some of them are far from

God. Maybe some of them don't want to

set foot in a church any longer. But will you just take that

photograph and look at them and say no, ordinary child?

I want to look in your eyes, Simon, and say this to you with

your mum between us, you're a fine man.

Look at me. See.

Why don't you say that? So you're a fine.

You're a fine man. How are we doing on Mother's

Day? How are we doing on Mother's

Day? Can you imagine if a mother

looked down at his son like that and said he is a fine child?

Can you imagine the Father in heaven when he looks down at you

and thinks this is beautiful beyond description?

And you, 3 young girls, you came from the same room, fine fine

children. And you young man, with your mum

in the back of the church on an oxygen bottle, having barely

survived COVID. Every time I see her with that

oxygen bottle, still coming to church for that oxygen bottle.

Because without that, she dies. And inside of that womb, God put

together something very fine. And Zander Manita, this

beautiful young man that we see here, this strong young man came

from your womb, is a massive thing.

Happy Mother's Day. When she saw that he was a fine

child, she hid him for three months, say three months.

And Mitchell stayed in our bedroom for one night.

It was the worst night of my life.

I had all sorts of beautiful things in my heart.

Amazing Grace, how sweet. But he's like, shut up.

Second night in the baby's room. Imagine keeping a newborn child

quiet for three months. That's faith.

That's faith. And she had faith to take a

newborn child where the command of the king was, kill him.

If he just peeped, he would have been killed.

But she had faith to hide him for three months.

Can you imagine if we take today's date and on Mother's Day

you take the faith of Jochebed and trust God that in three

months time something could be completely different?

Can you do that today, on Mother's Day, you trust God?

May, June, July, beginning of August, something can look

completely different. I think she's an amazing woman.

But when she could hide him no longer, you see, we can.

We've all got a measure of faith.

When she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket

for him and coated it with tar and pitch.

The only time that this verse appears in the Bible is when

they built the ark and they coated it with tar and pitch.

That word is taba, which means like a covenant, which means a

protection. And while your son who might

have been in and out of rehab 15 times and you don't know how to

do it anymore, you can only do what your faith allows.

And I'm saying today, would you just coat whatever vehicle it

might be in the prayer and the covenant of God and release your

son into the care of Jesus? Then she placed the child in it

and put it among the reeds. What lives in the reeds along

the Bank of the Nile? Because safer is the child in

the hand of God than in our own hands.

Next, first, please. His sister stood at a distance

to see what would happen to him. Why don't you stand this?

Why don't you stand? And when you look, when you look

at a distance of any one of these, who's the 1st to phone?

Who's the 1st to bring a meal? Who's the 1st to pray?

Who's the 1st to put a message on the message group?

Who is it, boys? Who's it?

It's the sister. Because on Mother's Day we heard

you say it. We heard it at your 21st.

Sarah, what did you say about your sister on the 21st?

What did you say? You said at the end of you said,

I want to be religious like you. 2 The other religion is that is

taking care of from a distance, your well-being.

And the church is made-up of brothers and sisters.

And whatever you go through, this should be the safest place

in the whole world because there should be brothers and sisters

that are looking out for you. That's my friend Jochen.

That's his wife, Zetska. They've got three daughters.

I'm your brother. I'm your pastor, but actually

much more, I'm your brother and I'm your friend.

And I've looked out for you for years as you have looked out for

me. I know how many days their dad

was alive because the photograph you sent me of the cap of how

many days your dad was alive, I have that.

It's dear to me. That number, that number is

imprinted inside of my heart. And Erica, the reason that I can

stand here and honor you is because you met with your

sister, your biological sister that you never knew lived in the

same town as you. But God didn't know that.

And he just on Mother's Day, he just somehow weaved the pattern

until one day your sister that you had never met came dressed

in the same dress as you, with the same shoes as you, with the

same bunch of flowers at you because you're part of the same

family. And on Mother's Day, I want to

tell you this, friends, this thing is like a womb.

This is like a womb. And inside of this womb, God

starts to knit together a family where brothers and sisters

actually look at each other, take care of each other, serve

one another, sacrifice for one another.

Five women, Shipra and Puah jochebed Miriam, the sister of

Moses. Let's keep reading.

Then. Pharaoh's daughter went down to

the Nile to bathe and her attendants were walking along

the riverbank. She saw the basket amongst the

reeds and sent her slave girls to get it.

She opened it and she saw the baby.

Keep the baby crying, Sana. It's part of the story.

Where you going? It was like a queue.

Her dad was really cruel. Her dad was like really, really,

really cruel. She opened and she saw the baby.

He was crying and she felt sorry for him.

We have to know that even in evil systems, God can put

compassionate people. Amen, Yes, Amen, said.

Our children can be taken care of.

This is one of the Hebrew babies, she said.

Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go and get one

of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?

Yes, go, she answered, and the girl went and got the baby's

mother chucker bed. Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

Take this baby and nurse him for me and I will pay you.

It's a great scheme, eh? Get somebody else to pay.

OK Listen guys, I've got school fees coming up.

So the woman took the baby and nursed them.

I have a whole lot of stuff to go. 5 women, Shipra and Puah, a

woman called Miriam, a sister Jochebed, a mother and Pharaoh's

daughter took care of one boy, delivered him from the edict

which was over his life, which was be to kill all the boys, and

that boy ended up saving a whole nation.

You were not born by mistake. You are no ordinary child.

And you say to me, I was born out of wedlock.

So was Jesus, so was Jesus. You say I was a mistake.

I have seen some of the greatest preachers that came out of

mistakes. You are no ordinary child, and

God would place all sorts of people around you, sisters,

mothers, midwives, daughters of kings, because you are safer in

the reeds of the Nile than in the hands of a human being.

God bless you.