In his sermon on Mother's Day, Scott Brown talks about the importance of covenant keeping love in the family. He emphasizes the role of mothers in preserving love and the heroic act of committing to a nuclear family. Brown also praises single women who devote themselves to learning how to be keepers at home. He highlights the fight against cultural norms that deride the nuclear family and the importance of carrying out the commandments of God in the family and in the church.

Okay, let's gather on in. If you could come and have a seat. I'd like to speak to a few issues that I think are in some ways implied by what we've been studying. Certainly carried on by the teaching that Robert Bosley is bringing to us in the afternoon as well in the book of Fine Lehman. You have these themes in the Bible that all dovetail into one word.

And it's the word love. And I began to speak a little bit about this remarkable season in the life of the Felmits and how we saw John's daughter-in-law and of Sammy Felment, John's mother, and John himself really rallying. It was a picture of a family that is in order in really significant ways. None of our families are perfectly in order, but a family can be significantly in order, and I think we see that. We see that in many of the families in our church.

I'm extremely grateful for that. But what we saw with the film, it's I think is a little picture of what covenant keeping love looks like and I want to talk about this on a couple different levels. Of course it is Mother's Day and mothers hold the world together. Without motherhood, civilization doesn't exist. Sila.

That's so true. Without women, civilization doesn't exist. Amen. And double amen. The men are saying amen because they know how uncivilized they were before they got married and how much civilizing they still need.

I'd like to talk about this on three different planes particularly. I'd like to speak about it in terms of the family. God has ordered the family to be a place of the preservation of love. That's why you have these commands of God to families. I spoke of it earlier as covenant keeping love.

I spoke of it as honor in the home, how children preserve love through honor. That's one particular way that it takes place in this larger nuclear family. God has assigned the nuclear family a very unique role to keep love alive in the world. And he does it by issuing commands and giving his Holy Spirit so that family life is governed by all the laws of love that the spirit of God affects in the heart and then it bubbles forth out into everyday life. I've said this many times, God has designed a family to be a little kingdom of love.

And families that aren't like that don't really reflect the kingdom of God. All families are in process. So first category is the family at large. Second category is one maybe particularly relevant for this national celebration of motherhood that's taking place today. Today is Mother's Day.

And I'm always grateful for the mothers. I'm grateful for my own mother. I'm grateful for my wife who has been a mother to her children. She's been a very sweet mother to her children. I told her this morning that her children love her more than they do me because she was a far better mother than I am a father.

That's actually true. And motherhood is such a defining and powerful function in the world. Preserving motherhood the way the Bible describes it is one of the most important things that any woman can ever do. So I want to just give thanks for the daughters of Zion who are mothers, the mothers of Israel here in this church because I see that happening all over town in your families and it's such a joy. You have no idea what a joy it is for me to see mothers who are really caring for their children who are raising and teaching and taking the hit.

It's a big hit, oh my, it's a massive hit. And I've got daughters who are taking that hit right now, and I just can't tell you how thankful I am that they're taking it. Instead of going and doing the easy thing, putting on their pantsuits and doing their nails and going off to some corporate job, which typically are much easier than living in a home. By the way, every husband knows that. Every father knows that.

Go to work, you know, it's a lot easier. That's pretty obvious. I'd also like to address this in the manner of single women particularly. All this applies to single men as well. God has uniquely structured the family so that the years of singleness in a family are a power pack, they're a power punch.

Well, we saw that, we see that in so many different ways. We've seen that when people particularly have fallen ill and you have a whole family to take care of the family. And that's what happened with the felmits. And I know that's happened in many of your homes as well. Where you have daughters, the daughters of Zion rise up and they're powerful women.

They're mighty women. A daughter who's single in her home is one of the most powerful forces in the culture. She preserves all these good things in her. But I want to not just simply give thanks for mothers on Mother's Day. We have a lot of women here, young women, who are not mothers.

I praise God for you. God has given you a tremendous power, a tremendous legacy in how you're conducting yourself. And I just want you to know, If you're a single daughter of Zion here today, I'm a really happy pastor, because I see the glory of God being worked out in your lives. I'm so thankful. I'm so thankful that you've broken free from the ridiculousness of the feminist agenda.

It's so harmful, it's so destructive, it's so massively unimportant in terms of what's really truly beautiful and good in the world. I had an interesting moment, I was reading an article this last week. It was called, The One Act of Heroism We Never Acknowledge Is the Nuclear Family. That was the title of the article. The One Act of Heroism We Never Acknowledge Is the Nuclear family.

And the author is speaking about how sick and tired she is of hearing of hearing this word heroism being used over and over again. You know, the heroism of those who you know, who are teachers. The heroism of this or that. And the author is just saying, I'm really actually tired of hearing the word heroism being thrown around when actually the greatest act of heroism is the heroism that's expressed in a family. In a family where a husband and wife keep their covenant to one another and where the children keep their covenant of honor with their parents.

It's such a critical matter. I'll quote, the commitment to the nuclear family is one of the most heroic acts in our culture, and yet it remains invisible to the media, to celebrities making thirsty social media posts, thanking the quote, he backed the traditional family seems to be the, seems only to ever be insulted and derided in pop culture in these days. Well that's a culture that you live in right now. She says if we're going to use the word hero to describe anyone, let's actually use it for the truly heroic people who actually do the hardest things who actually have decided by force of their covenant of love to stay married for their whole life long. Who decided to actually, out of a covenant with God, commit themselves to the great institutions of God, the church and the family particularly.

For all the young girls who devote themselves to learning how to be keepers at home like the Bible tells them to do. To all the wives who are raising their children. All the ones who are almost sometimes mind numbingly busy and tired because they're actually doing something that is fantastically heroic. But to love one person every day of your life is the most heroic thing you can do and it actually is a fulfillment of the entire law of God. It fulfills the law of God and it really cannot be underestimated.

The author makes makes the point that every bears out that the most significant influencing factor in the success of any human being, keeping them out of jail, keeping them off of drugs, keeping them working, keeping them actually doing positive things is a solid nuclear family. Nuclear family. A term that's actually, you know, being set aside and derided. And the truth is, you know, this kind of life has to be pursued. It is a fight because in the culture that we live in, even evangelical culture, you know, seems to fight against it and deride it.

In evangelicalism, I mean, if you're a daughter at home, you're sort of the idiot of the world. You don't know anything. And I'm not confident the Bible makes that proposition, but it's a fight in our culture and I know that many of you, all of you, really have taken that fight to heart. This author says, but let me tell you something, It's no small thing to commit to a marriage and see it through. It's no small thing to bring children into this world and then make the hard decisions every day to make sure they don't grow up to be serial killers or Instagram influencers.

So I just bring that to us to remind us of just how powerful and how good God's commands are in every area. And what a defining thing it is to find yourself not forsaken by God. And because you're not forsaken and you know it, you refuse to forsake your wife, you refuse to forsake your husband, you refuse to forsake your children, your children refuse to forsake their father and mother, and you refuse to forsake the commandments of God. These are the most important acts of heroism that are done today. And they're all done in the silence and anonymity of a home.

It's really important that we bring back the glory of the quiet life, minding your own business, working with your own hands, carrying out the commandments of God in your family and in your church. So I praise God for you moms. I praise God for the single girls in this church who don't have babies yet, they're not moms, but many of them are bouncing a lot of children on their knees every day. It's the good work that you do, and I praise God for it. Thanks.