FAMILY Part 3
Transcript of FLOT Line Episode 1003 aired on November 10, 2024
Good morning and welcome to The FLOT Line. I’m your host Rick Hughes and for the next few
minutes, please stay with me. The FLOT Line is all about learning God’s tremendous problem-
solving devices and using them as a resource in your life so that you can stop the outside sources
of adversity before they ever become the inside source of stress. Let me remind you, we’re going
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where we’re not having any results. Again it’s like me being a fisherman. I’m looking for people
that are hungry. I’m looking for people that want to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal
Savior and I’m looking for Christians that want to learn and grow and apply God’s Word to their
lives. If this is you, you’re listening to the right show. I want to remind you this morning about
the current topic we’re talking about. Several weeks ago I started a series called FAMILY. I
personally believe the breakdown of the family is one of the main culprits of the destruction of
any client nation such as the United States of America. Don’t forget that God has ordained four
divine institutions for a client nation to operate on. These four divine institutions allow the
human race to be preserved and perpetuated. They apply to believers and unbelievers regardless
of race, gender or any other factor. These four divine institutions include volition. This means the
freedom to choose. God did not make you into a robot. He gave you freedom to choose. The
greatest decision you can ever make is to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Marriage is a divine
institution. Family is a divine institution. This is the framework for perpetuating and
safeguarding future generations within this client nation. The other is nationalism. God has
ordained nationalism for the human race. Why? To protect it from self-destruction. The attack on
nationalism saw its origin in Genesis Chapter 11 with the Tower of Babel, because if the entire
human race were under one rule prior to the millennial reign of Christ, it would self-destruct.
Internationalism is outlawed as being evil in the Word of God as per Genesis chapter 11. If you
remember, I started this series using the noun family as an acrostic F.A.M.I.L.Y. We focused on
F for the father. We focused on the A for authority. Today we are going to focus on M for the
mother. We are going to look at mothers and their ministry to the family. We’ll start off by
reading Deuteronomy 5:16. You mothers paid special attention to this.
“Honor your father and
your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, that your days may be prolonged and
that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord your God gives you.”
According to a
passage such as this, this is one of the secrets to having a long life. The Bible talks about 70
years but 70+ years are available to you if you honor your parents. The verb honor means to give
them respect or to give them great esteem. This is one of the ways that this is being done. One of
the ways you do this is by being obedient to their demands, within reason. Your parents can’t tell
you to go rob a liquor store and bring them money, this isn’t right. But if your parents give you
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an order, “Clean up your room, brush your teeth, comb your hair,” you have to obey. This is how
you learn to submit to authority. This passage says we are to be obedient to their demands within
reason. In the Greek New Testament, this passage is quoted in Ephesians 6:1-2 and it repeatedly
uses the verb
timao
which is the word honor. It is used in the imperative mood which is the mood
of command. If you don’t honor, if you don’t respect, if you don’t obey your parents, you are
committing a sin. Mothers carry the same authority as fathers when it comes to the authority over
their children. Listen to Proverbs 1:8,
“Hear, my son, your father’s instruction and do not forsake
your mother’s teaching.”
In this passage we have Solomon comparing a fool to one who
disobeys his mother and his father. Proverbs 1:7, the verse immediately before this, says,
“Fools
despise wisdom and instruction,”
and the next verse says,
“Hear, my son, your father’s
instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.”
Don’t be a fool and disobey your parents
or fail to honor your parents. One of the quickest ways to shorten your life as a young person is
to forsake the law of your mother. I’ll read that verse again,
“Do not forsake your mother’s
teaching.”
One of the lies of Satan that is perpetuated in the cosmic system is that in your
formative years you are smarter than your parents. This is a lie. I believe mothers are the glue
that hold the family together and this glue is the unconditional love that the mother showers upon
her family. A spiritually mature mother has advantages as well as responsibilities to both her
children and to her husband. The advantages are that Bible doctrine resident in her soul’s
mentality keeps her from worrying about her children or even interfering in their lives. She must
have a faith-rest drill attitude, problem-solving device #3. She must have a relaxed mental
attitude which is a result of using the FLOT line in her soul. If she has the faith-rest drill and an
RMA, she will have mental stability and not worry about her children. What’s the reason? She
knows motherhood is not the key to happiness. Did you know this? Being a mother is not the key
to happiness. Notice in the passage that I’m about to read to you where a mother makes an issue
of the Lord’s mother. I am assuming this is a mother saying this. She interrupted our Lord as He
was teaching the disciples and she blurted out loud these words, over everyone else. I guess she
stood up and over the crowd said, “Jesus, listen to me.” Luke 11:27-28 is the passage,
“While
Jesus was saying these things, one of the women
[this is the mother]
in the crowd raised her
voice and said to Him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore You and the breasts at which You
nursed.’
[This is quite an insult. Blessed is the Greek word
makarios
which is happiness. She is
saying, “I bet your mother is really happy.”]
He said, ‘On the contrary, blessed
[happy]
are those
who hear the Word of God and observe it.’”
The mother who hears the Word of God, and I
would hope in a local church under a well-qualified pastor, and keeps what she hears is
guaranteed to have happiness in her life. Here’s a word of warning for any female who thinks
being a mother equals happiness. Proverbs 17:25,
“A foolish son is a grief to his father and
bitterness to her who bore him.”
Nothing is more heartbreaking to a mother than a child who is a
fool and on his or her way to an early grave. Who’s the child that is a fool? Proverbs 1:7-8,
“Fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
They forsake the instruction of their father and the
teaching of their mother. There’s nothing more heartbreaking to a mother than to have a fool for a
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daughter or a son. This means they reject the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. They reject the Word
of God and the principles taught there and they are on their way to an early grave. In Proverbs 31
you can read the words of King Lemuel saying that these things were taught to him by his
mother. Turn to Proverbs 31 sometime and read it. You’ll see what he says. Proverbs 31:2,
“What, O my son? And what, O son of my womb? And what, O son of my vows?”
She’s teaching
her son King Lemuel. In these verses she taught her son, the king, about the dangers of sexual
immorality and in verse 3, the dangers of too much alcohol. In verse 4, that as king he was to
judge just and fair regardless of social standings and in verse 9, he was to deal with a wife with
integrity and honor and a mother is to be admired as more valuable than rubies due to the
wisdom she imparts. Listen to Proverbs 31:26,
“She
[the mother]
opens her mouth in wisdom,
and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.”
In Proverbs 31:28,
“Her children rise up and
bless her; her husband also, and he praises her.”
In Proverbs 31:30 we find her true motivation
and the true character of this mother,
“Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who
fears the Lord, she shall be praised.”
Her secret is her virtuous character. It is motivated by her
personal love for the Lord Jesus Christ. Can I give you some characteristics of a virtuous
mother? Here’s one – unconditional love for her children in spite of the ill-advised decisions they
might make. This is only possible by using problem-solving device #8 which is impersonal love.
Without using impersonal love you can really get bent out of shape with your children. Without
this divine asset a mother will wind up being frustrated and she will be bitter toward her
wayward child because disappointment in a child’s decision can lead to guilt in the mother and
discouragement. Mothers will think, “I didn’t do a very good job. Look what my son or daughter
is doing.” They get discouraged and it may not be true. Mothers are to give them the Word of
God. They have volition. They have to decide. They have to choose for themselves. Remember,
each child has their own volition and in spite of what we teach them, in spite of what a mother
teaches them, they can still be captured by the cosmic system and lured into a life of immorality
or even into criminality. I often hear from mothers whose children are incarcerated and their dear
hearts are broken. Let me say, if you have a child incarcerated we can help by directing them to
Philippi Freedom Ministry where they can get into a consistent study of God’s Word using
resources provided by myself and other well-qualified teachers and pastors. Look it up on the
internet or contact me if you have a child who is incarcerated and you want to get them some
material. The characteristics of a virtuous mother include unconditional love. A virtuous mother
has a soul full of wisdom, insight, discernment and understanding. These divine advantages give
her the spiritual perspective to guide her children through the maze of Satanic deception as well
as avoiding the lures of the world which promise happiness, but only deliver frustration. Parents
have to guide their children through the maze of Satanic deception. The cosmic system is always
spinning around, the zeitgeist. The lure of the world is out there especially with social media. If
parents don’t put some fundamental truth in the lives of their children, they don’t stand a chance.
A mother that has unconditional love is a mother that is virtuous with a soul full of wisdom and
insight, discernment and understanding. Characteristics of a virtuous mother also include self-
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sacrifice and self-denial. These are personality traits of the mature, spiritual mother. Finally
humility is another trait of a spiritually mature mother. She doesn’t get upset. She doesn’t get
angry. She doesn’t lose her temper. She doesn’t yell. She doesn’t shout. She loves. She forgives.
She uses impersonal love. She uses the faith-rest drill, standing on the promises of God and she
has a relaxed mental attitude. I believe that unless the ladies of America and the mothers and the
daughters and the wives pay attention to the Word of God, we will not have a country much
longer. Do you hear me? I believe mothers and daughters are the backbone of this country and I
believe it’s your faith and your encouragement and your stability that stabilizes your husband, the
man, keeps the marriage stable and the home right. The greatest asset woman can have comes
from the Word of God. No matter what a woman possesses be it exterior beauty, materialistic
things, even status in society, all of these things are utterly and totally meaningless unless this
woman has inner beauty. Where do I get this from? Listen to Proverbs 31:30 again,
“Charm is
deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.”
This is the
inner beauty. You don’t have to be a beautiful person on the outside to be a beautiful person on
the inside. Did you hear this? You don’t have to be Miss America to be beautiful on the inside.
Someone once said, “God’s beauty is beyond looks.” Your image and your style may be
appealing to the opposite sex but God looks on your heart, not on your outward appearance. You
can spend all the money you want on makeup. You can spend all the money you want going to
physical exercise, on yoga or whatever, but it’s not going to make you beautiful on the inside. It
may keep you in shape physically but listen to 1 Samuel 16:7,
“God sees not as man sees, for
man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
When God looks at you,
He’s not impressed with your image and your style. He’s not impressed with how young you look
at the age of 50. He is not impressed with the makeup you’re wearing. He’s not impressed with
the latest clothes you’re wearing. He is impressed with what you’re thinking. I have two
daughters in the fashion world. One is a fashion stylist. The other is a costumer in California.
They deal with women all the time that want to have the latest fashion and are willing to pay
whatever it costs to get it. The real truth is the beauty of a woman is what’s on the inside, not
what’s on the outside. The prophet Isaiah warned the women of Judah about this. He warned
them what would happen to them because of the national disintegration of Jerusalem and Judah
because of their sin. Listen to the words of Isaiah as he warns the women of Judah what’s going
to happen if they continue down the path they are on. Isaiah 3:8,
“For Jerusalem has stumbled
and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the Lord, to rebel
against His glorious presence.”
Here’s a solemn warning. Jerusalem is done for. What if I put
America here? “For America has stumbled and fallen because their tongues and their doings are
against the Lord,” rebelled against His glorious presence. I could rightly say this couldn’t I? He
also had a word for the arrogant mothers of the arrogant females that forgot His laws. Listen to
Isaiah 3:16,
“Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with heads held high and
seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet.”
This is all
kinds of make up, all kinds of trinkets and jewelry, thinking this is what makes them beautiful.
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Listen to the results of national discipline if it comes and when it comes, listen to what it does to
the females of Judah and think about this. If America goes down, if we lose our client nation
status, if we go to war with China, Russia, North Korea, Iran or whoever we may face, if we
lose, if we get into some sort of national conflict, what will happen to the mothers? What will
happen to the females of this nation? Listen very carefully to Isaiah 3:17-24. Understand there’s
only one way out of this and it’s for you as a mother or a daughter to get with it spiritually and
fulfill the plan of God for your life. Here is national discipline on a nation.
“Therefore the Lord
will afflict the scalp of the daughters of Zion with scabs, and the Lord will make their foreheads
bare. In that day
[the day of national discipline, when it comes]
the Lord will take away the
beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, dangling earrings, bracelets, veils,
headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets, finger rings, nose rings, festal robes,
outer tunics, cloaks, money purses, hand mirrors, undergarments, turbans and veils.”
[Are you
listening? This is what you are going to lose if we get into this national discipline. This is what’s
going to happen to every female in this nation if we go under national discipline. There is only
one way out of this. If you are a mature believer, God will deliver you and take you to the other
side, I promise you. He will make sure you survive it. When national discipline comes upon the
female as it could in this country in the future if we continue down the path we’re going. The
jingling anklets, the scarves, the crescents, the pendants, the bracelets, the veils, this sounds like
ladies of America, the headdresses, the leg ornaments, the headbands, the perfume boxes, the
charms, the rings, the nose jewels, the festive apparel, the mantles, the outer garments, the
purses, and the mirrors, and the fine linens, and the turbans and the robes are all gone and so
shall it be warned Isaiah.]
“Now it will come about that instead of sweet perfume there will be
putrefacation; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-set hair, a plucked-out scalp; instead of
fine clothes, a donning of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.”
What a horrible way to
die. What a horrible thing to think about. Why would I even bring this up? Because we are on the
verge of losing this country. We are on the verge of going backwards if we’re not already going
backwards. We sanction and we agree with certain things that are horrible sins in God’s eyes.
Could these sort of things happen to us? Absolutely, America could face these same things. The
next generation will determine the future of this client nation. As a godly mother, if indeed you
are, you can prepare your children and your grandchildren by evangelizing them and teaching
them God’s Word so they will be able to recognize the lies of the cosmic system. Here’s a
question for you. Do you pray with your children? Do you teach your children how to pray at
night before they go to sleep? I know some people remember the prayer their mothers taught
them, “Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep.” Do you remember that?
Do you pray with your children? Do you teach your children Scripture? Do you have one verse a
week you try to remind them of, one simple verse?
“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be
saved”
(Acts 16:31). This is the greatest verse you can give your children. Do you teach them
this verse? If not, if you ignore God’s Word and ignore any opportunity to deal with them
spiritually, don’t cry when you lose them to the lure of satanic influences and lies because you
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will lose them. You are losing them. Right now we are in terrible trouble. We are in a terrible
situation. This nation is going down if we continue on this path. We ordain and allow certain sins
that are horrible, deceitful, nasty, vile sins and we say it’s okay. We put people in political power
that are full of this sort of stuff. We are in serious trouble and you know it. Without me getting
into the fine details of what it is, without me pointing out the people who are allowing this, you
can see it for yourself. You read the news. You read the paper. You watch TV. You know what’s
going on. We are in trouble and if we continue down the road we are on, we will not be here 10
years from now. I told you a long time ago, there’s a train wreck coming and you can hear the
whistle blowing. I hear the whistle blowing and I see the light down the railroad track. There is
only one thing that can save us. There’s only one thing that can turn us around and that’s the
grace of our Lord God Jesus Christ. As a mother, will you contribute your part? As a mother, will
you be this virtuous mother that God is looking for? If you have young children, will you begin
to evangelize your children? Will you tell them about the Lord Jesus Christ? Will you teach them
the principles of God’s Word so they won’t be captured by the Satanic lure of the world? Will you
do this? Will you pray with your children? Will you take them to church? Will you see to it that
they get divine spiritual norms and standards in their life? This is what it’s about. Without the
right norms and standards, they are going to make consistently bad decisions. If they are lured
into believing that certain sins are okay and these sins aren’t even in the Bible, and you can do
whatever you want to do and God’s not paying any attention, if they are lured into believing this
junk, they will be lured into losing this nation. Mothers, I call upon you. You are the backbone
too the family. You are the glue that holds the family together. You must be a spiritually mature
mother and you must have the life of your children in your mind, spiritually speaking, not just
physically speaking. If all you want is to just watch your children grow up, marry a rich person,
have a fine home and give you grandchildren, if you think this is the key to happiness, you’re
sadly mistaken. You must impart to your children spiritual wisdom. You must make sure your
children understand the gospel and they understand God’s divine viewpoint. I would suggest to
you that you get with it soon, sooner rather than later or you are going to lose them. I have
children and I have grandchildren and this is my prayer. My wife and I pray about this all the
time, that they don’t grow up as a heathen nation under domination and control of a foreign
enemy because this is coming if we don’t change our ways. I promise you, God is not going to
tolerate our disrespect much longer. God says,
“From everyone who has been given much, much
will be required”
(Luke 12:48). He has blessed us with so many things so this is a challenge I
give you today. This is a warning I give you today. Mothers wake up. Take a look around at your
children. Realize what’s going on. They are being recruited every day into the cosmic system. I
hope you’re listening. I hope you’re paying attention. I hope you’ll pray for your children, pray
for the nation and please pray for me as I press on with The FLOT Line ministry and bring it to
you every Sunday morning, same time, same place. Until next week, this is your host Rick
Hughes saying thank you for listening to The FLOT Line