Sculpturing the Souls of Our Children — Emanuel Esh

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We have a baptism planned as part of the service, so we'll have the main message first. I'm not sure how Aaron is going to order it all, but that's how much I know about it. I would like to share this morning on child training, or maybe on parent training.

Sculpturing the Souls of Our Children

The old Greek philosopher, who maybe had some things pretty straight, that even our juvenile detention centers could learn something from. When he saw a small boy or a child, when he saw a small boy in mischief, or in doing something wrong, he would go to the father, punish the father.

Maybe he had some things right, that we miss. You might ask why, another message on child training, is this not the godly home church, which is very strong on child training. Is not this the church where Brother Denny has his godly family, you might say.

But, it's good to lift up the vision of godly homes at all times. And, we certainly should not leave this one only to Brother Denny. But, I want to preach on child training too, Brother. Amen. So, that's what's on my heart this morning.

I'd like to title the message, Sculpturing the Souls of Our Children. And, I have a little object here that I brought this morning. And, the picture is that of a sculptor, one who takes maybe a marble or granite rock, sets it there before him.

And, he begins to take a hammer and a chisel, and begins to chisel away on that rock. Because, he wants to make something out of it. I've not done much sculpturing on rock, but I want that to be a lesson.

Maybe another way of looking at it that can help us to keep the vision that we have, or maybe lift up the vision, if we don't have one. Sculpturing the souls of our children. Three masons were cutting up rock.

And, a man passing by asked the one, asked them, he said, what are you doing? The first one answered and said, I'm cutting these stones into the sizes wanted. And, he asked the second one, answered and said, I'm earning eight dollars an hour.

And, the third one answered and said, I'm helping to build a great cathedral. Their vision was different, you see. This message is going to be quite a bit to the sisters, the mothers this morning. Those three women were doing their weekly washing.

Another lady passed by and she said, what are you doing? The first one said, I'm doing the weekly washing. The second one said, I'm doing a bit of household drudgery. The third one said, I'm mothering three young children who someday will fill important and useful spheres in life.

And, wash day is a part of the grand task in caring for these souls who shall live forever. Only the third one had caught the vision of the great work that she was doing. I saw the verse in Haggai, chapter 2, verse 19.

It begins this way, it says, Is the seed still in the barn? Everyone that plans to get something done needs to have a vision of some kind. And, a proper incentive is a completed task. The farmer, if he's going to have a crop at the end, he must put the seed in the ground.

And, I would say that if I would come to your farm in the middle of the summer, and I see the seed bags are still sitting on that old bench or out in your garage somewhere, still laying there on a pile, and there's no seeds in your soil, in your ground, I would say, you've lost the vision.

Somehow you've not taken part in planting those seeds in the soil because you didn't have a vision of the end result of what it's going to be. The student who wants to excel in business, he must go to school, must learn.

Likewise, the mechanic. Mechanics nowadays, they need to go to school continually to learn how to keep our cars on the road. Likewise, the artist. He must have in his imagination, when he begins, the finished work.

Proverbs 28, 18 says, Where there is no vision, the people perish. And, there is no sphere in which this is more true than in that of parenting. The parent who has impressed upon his own soul the vision of the finished creation of that little one entrusted in his care will not begrudge the seemingly many wasted hours of loving toil.

One mother who had a vision, whose numerous children turned out to be evangelists and missionaries and reformers and so forth, when she put them to bed in the evening, she would whisper in their ears, The world is waiting for you.

Oh, yes, someday God has work for me to do. Constant chiseling could not fail but to fulfill that heavenly vision. No heart but that of a parent can know the strange conflict of emotions, the joy and the awe, as a new mother takes into her arms for the first time that little bundle of joy in life.

As she gazes into the eyes of her babe, she must, if she is at all serious minded, feel a sense of great responsibility in that she has been entrusted with the greatest of tasks. Along with the father, she is to shape that immortal soul into a thing of beauty or of baseness, into a force for good or for evil and towards a destiny of either heaven or hell.

Every act of her life from that moment on is a chiseling influence upon that piece of living marble. She is the sculptress of a living soul. Every act, deed and word has an impression, will make an impression on that little child.

Chisel in hand sat the sculptor mother with her marble block before her and her face lit up with a smile of joy as a heavenly dream passed over her. She carved that dream into that shapeless stone with many a sharp incision.

With heaven's own light the sculpture shone, she succeeded in carving that vision. Sculptors of children are we with their souls uncarved before us, chiseling each day at God's command with that heavenly dream before us.

If we carve it now on yielding stone with many a sharp incision, its heavenly beauty shall be their own realized at last the reward in heaven. I wonder, first of all there must be a vision. Any sculptor who takes a block of marble or granite stone and sets it there before him, he must have a vision of the finished product before he begins.

I've watched the man who takes a chainsaw and he cuts those big tree stumps into eagles or bears or deer or whatever you want in your front yard. He takes a chainsaw and just cuts around and chisels it out and when he's done, it's beautiful.

That man has to have a vision of what he wants at the end before he begins. Do I have a vision like that? The impressions that you put up upon the soul of your child are going to last for eternity. You could chisel something into a granite stone, that will pass away.

Chiseling wood is nice and easy but that will just burn up. You can chisel into a granite stone but when the world passes away, that also will pass away. But when you put something into the heart of a child, that will remain.

If I were to give you a diamond and tell you to inscribe on the face of that diamond something that will speak for you at the last day, what would you put on? Will not our children speak at the last day of who I have been?

And of who I am? The heart is immortal. There is no other work, no orator or singer, no other artist to be compared with the work of the mother who is carving the image of God in the soul of her little child.

Parents as the Sculptors of Their Children's Souls

How many mothers here would take, or let me ask you this question. How many sculptors do you think would take a marble or granite block and would begin chiseling away on that thing and making it into that which he wants it to be?

How many of those sculptors do you think would allow someone else to take the hammer and the chisel and work at that marble block? Do you think they could bring about what he wants? What about day care centers for toddlers, 2 year olds, 3 year olds?

Mothers take that little child who is so full of impressions, so impressionable, and put that child in the hands of someone else for days, 8 hours a day, sometimes much longer. Someone is going to put impressions on that little one.

What a grief in my heart to hear of how some mothers take their little ones, strap them into the baby seat, and put them in front of the television for hours and hours and hours of the day. They're so young, they're so impressionable.

The first things they see and hear, those are impressions that are lifetime. Why set them in front of an ungodly television? Why let them see all those funnies and ungodly characters? Why, why, why? Every child is a gift straight from God.

James tells us, every good and every perfect gift is from above. And cometh down from the Father of light, with whom there is no valuelessness, neither shadow of turning. God graciously gives us children.

Esau asked Jacob, and he said, whose are these with thee? And Jacob said, these are the ones that God has given me. Psalms we read that children are inherited from the Lord. A newborn baby is a fresh act of God.

A fresh miracle of God. He is a revelation of God's created handiwork. Oh, the value of a little baby. He's God's last messenger to the earth. It's the last one he sent to be a messenger on the earth, right?

Until the next baby is born. Every birth is a miraculous event. So many children are born unwanted, more bothered in worth by the worldly standards. Yet in the eyes of God, whosoever accepts this little one, accepts God, and whosoever rejects it, rejects God.

Let's turn to Matthew 18 for a few scriptures. Matthew 18, verse 1. The same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child to him, set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

We do believe in Jesus' teaching, do we not? But have you ever seen someone being taken out, a millstone tied around his neck and drowned in the depth of the sea? Have you ever seen that? Have you ever heard of it?

Jesus' teaching that it's very, very serious to offend one of these little ones. But also if we receive one such little one, we receive him. Verse 10. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones.

For I say unto you that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. God sending a gift to a young mother. What a grief it must be to see that gift be neglected, misused, uncared for, unloved and so forth.

The Noble Calling and Preparation of Motherhood

Let's look at the mother a little bit. There is no more noble career than that of motherhood. There is none that has more far-reaching drastic results. There is none that has so much weight in the scales as motherhood.

There are no possibilities greater. And no sphere where failure brings more serious penalties. With what diligence then should the mother prepare herself for such a task? If the mechanic must study, if the doctor must study whom we give our bodies to be operated on, if the teacher needs a degree, how much more should the mother, who is fashioning the souls of men and women, learn at the highest of all schools and from the master sculptor himself, God our Father.

To attempt this task unprepared and untrained is tragic. And its results affect generations to come. On the other hand, no higher height to which humanity can attain is that occupied by a converted, heaven-inspired, praying mother.

Such a vast difference. We know the problem that says an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Another problem like that says an ounce of a godly mother is worth more than a pound of preacher.

In other words, a mother has ten times more weight to her instruction, to her guidance, than the preacher does. It's natural for a mother to prepare for the baby. Praise God gives them nine months to get ready for the baby.

That's wonderful. It's wonderful. And I remember very well, our first one, of course, was probably the most memorable one, but we bought some clothing, we bought some diapers, we bought some blankets, we bought all these things to prepare for the arrival of our first born child.

Oh, we were so excited. How much more should she prepare herself in her home for the coming of a soul? A soul that is going to live forever. Oh, young ladies, young sisters, prepare. Even if you're not married, prepare.

You may someday have the opportunity to make impressions on an eternal soul. The Creator puts into your hands a newborn baby. Mothers. Babies are born without any clothing. They're unclothed. They have no clothing.

They're born naked. Don't you prepare clothing for them? Don't you have something ready to put on that body as soon as it's born? Usually they have a little blanket there and they have a little cap to put on their head or something.

And as soon as it's born, they want to put something on it. Is not the soul, does not the soul come unclothed? Naked. Waiting for someone to stamp eternal impressions on it. That's that little baby. Should you not prepare mothers to clothe that spirit, the eternal spirit of that baby with godly, holy influences all the day?

Don't leave that immortal soul to pick up on its own along life's pathway impressions. It surely will pick up something. Our children will put on our ways and our habits in spite of us. Our very character will stream into that little baby from day one.

Entering in through the eyes and the ears. Our words and our actions. That little one is so impressionable. What they see us do, they will do. What they hear from us, it lodges in their memory. And like seeds dropped in the ground from the parent stock, they will surely come to fruit.

Biblical Mothers Who Raised Children for God's Purposes

Fathers, mothers, don't try to fool yourself. They will come to fruit. Let's look at a few mothers in the Bible this morning. When God wished for a mighty deliverer for his people, he would begin with a mother.

Numerous occasions in the Bible, he would come to a woman and put an impression upon her heart of the value and the greatness of the child that she was going to have. Turn with me to Judges 13. Samson.

We know the story of Samson, but let's look at his mother and his father. God would sometimes gave early indication of the coming greatness of the child. So much so to impress the sculptures of the importance of her task, even before the child was conceived.

Hence, with a sense of mission, the mother prepared herself and then her child for the great task which lay ahead of her. Chapter 13 of Judges. The story of Manoah and his wife. Verse 2. There was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah and his wife was Baran and Baranot.

There's many times, let me say numerous times in the Bible where God came to a woman or God used... When God wanted a great man, what did he begin with? He began with a woman who was Baran. Why is that?

One of the thoughts of my heart is that you compare a mother with ten children which they come very rapidly and she's maybe overwhelmed with the many to a mother who's Baran or to a woman who's Baran.

Think of the longing. Maybe some of you know that. The longing in her heart for a son. Year after year after year. Baran. Oh the longing. If only God would give me a son. I would raise him for the Lord.

I would bring that son up for the Lord. That's the longing heart and maybe that's why God uses Baran women. Abraham's wife Sarah was Baran. Can you imagine their joy and delight? They held that little baby for the first time.

The awesome impressions that they were going to make on that little one. They had looked forward to it. They had waited. It's what they thought about. It was what they dreamed about for years. Here it is.

Wouldn't they take care of that little one? Wouldn't they be careful how they would impress that little child? His wife was Baran. Baran not. Verse 2. The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, Behold now, thou art Baran and Baras not.

But thou shalt conceive and bear a son. Good news. Now therefore beware. I pray thee. Here's some instruction for the mother. Drink not wine nor strong drink. Eat not any unclean thing. For lo thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

And no razors shall come on his head. For the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb. He shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. My son is going to begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of our enemies.

God's giving me a son. And my son is going to be a partaker of the deliverance of Israel. Now, don't you think that made an impression on her? I think it did. Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me in his countenance like the countenance of an angel of God.

Very terrible, but I asked him not at once. He was and then told me his name. But he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son. Now drink no wine nor strong drink. Neither eat any unclean thing.

For the child shall be called a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. Manoah, he entreated the Lord. He wanted instruction. If this is going to be such an important child, I must hear from God myself how to raise this son.

Oh, that we have that kind of a heart. When we realize that our wives are pregnant, that my wife is pregnant again. Oh God, give me instructions. Teach me that I might know how to raise this son for the Lord.

Manoah entreated the Lord and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born. And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field.

But Manoah her husband was not with her. And the woman made haste and ran and showed her husband and said to him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day. Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, Art thou the man that spake unto the woman?

He said, I am. And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman, let her beware.

She may not eat of anything that cometh out of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing. All that I command her, let her observe. And they made an offering there and the angel disappeared in the fire.

And Manoah fell on his face and his wife. And Manoah said, Verse 22, We shall surely die because we have seen God. But his wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering in our hands.

Neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would he at this time have told us such things as these. And the woman bare a son, called his name Samson, and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.

And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshdoel. She raised him for the Lord. 1 Samuel Chapter 1. Let's look at another one. Another instance of a barren woman.

Elkanah had two wives. The one was named Hannah. The other one was Penina. Penina. Penina had children, but Hannah did not. And he loved Hannah more than Penina. Verse 4,. And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he came to Penina, his wife, and to her sons and her daughters, portions he gave them.

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had shut up her womb. And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her, therefore she wept and did not eat. It seemed like every year, specifically at this time, that Penina provoked Hannah and made it very clear to her that she's barren, and this was such a grief and reminder to Hannah.

You can see the heart of this woman, her longing for a son, and what that did in her heart as far as preparation. And how she became, and how she prepared herself to be the sculptress of the soul of a child.

Look at her longing. Hannah, why weepest thou? Verse 8,. And why eatest thou not? And why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? Hannah rose up after they had eaten at Shiloh, and after they had drunk.

Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post in the temple of the Lord, and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed on the Lord, and wept sore. And she bowed to thou, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life.

There shall no razor come upon his head. Look at her commitment. God, if you give me a man child, I'm going to dedicate that child back to you, and give it back to you. As much as she longed for a son, she said, I'll give him back to you.

Isn't that where every one of us needs to come to? And she did. Eli saw her praying, and thought she's drunk. Later on, while Eli told her, that petition is granted to thee. Verse 18, she said, let thy handmaid find grace in thy sight.

So the woman went out. When her countenance was no more sad, she heard from the priest, and she believed his word, that his word would come to pass, she's going to have a son. It came to pass, when the time was come, about after Hannah had conceived, that she'd bear a son, called his name Samuel, saying, because I've asked him of the Lord.

And Okina and all his house went up to offer unto the Lord the yearly sacrifice and his vow. But Hannah went not up, for she said to her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord and say to her, do what seemeth good to thee.

Tired that I have weaned him, only the Lord established his word. So the woman abode and gave her son succum till she weaned him. And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her with three bullocks, one ephah flower, a bottle of wine and brought him into the house of the Lord in Shiloh.

And the child was young. They slew a bullock, brought the child to Eli. She said, The Lord has given me my petition, which I ask of him. Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he liveth, he shall be lent to the Lord and he worship the Lord there.

And she left that child there at the temple. I wonder what kind of a vision that mother had. Can't we see some of it? Her vision was that she would have a son that would be a minister to the Lord all his days.

Elizabeth and Mary: Mothers Given a Divine Vision

Mary, the mother of Jesus. Let's turn to Luke. Two more examples in Luke. Chapter 1. We have Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. Let's look at that a little bit. Here we have Zacharias executing his office as a priest.

There before the Lord, the multitude was out praying. Verse 11. There appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing at the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled and fear fell upon him.

But the angel said to him, Fear not, Zacharias, for thy prayer is heard and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son that shall call his name John. Now look at what he did. You see, God is looking for a man.

God is looking for a man who will begin to deliver his people. He starts with a woman who was barren. Again. And now look at what he says to Zacharias. He lays it on the father this time. The vision of what this man is supposed to be.

And I'm sure that Elizabeth picked that up. Elizabeth shall bear thee a son that shall call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink.

He shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. He shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias to turn the heart to the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

That's quite a load. Now if God spoke that to your heart so vividly mothers and fathers what would you do with your son your child. How would you sculpture that soul. How would you put impressions on it.

Verse 26. The sixth month that angel Gabriel came was sent from God unto the city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David the virgin's name was Mary.

The angel came in under her and said Hail thou art highly favored the Lord is with thee blessed art thou among women. When she saw him she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.

The angel said unto her Fear not Mary for thou hast found favor with God and behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth a son shalt call his name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the son of the highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David.

He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end. Mary said How shall this be seeing I know not a man. The vision when God speaks those kind of words they stay they stick and that leaves such an impression on our hearts.

Mary how carefully she must have cared for herself how carefully she prepared herself physically mentally and spiritually for the birth of this son who is to take the throne of his father David. He's going to rule forever how can I care for that little one?

The mother with such a task before her surely spent time preparing herself spiritually and emotionally for this enormous task taking this son sculpturing daily chiseling into the life of that son. First of all preparation.

Godly Mothers Are Changed While They Shape Their Children

The benefits of mother fold or two fold in this sense if she's a true mother not only does she shape the soul and the character of her child but the process does much to change her. Amen. The process does much to change the mother.

A striking analogy of this principle is to be found in the experience of the great sculptor Michelangelo taking a marble stone spending years at it when Michelangelo had finished his famous colossal statue of David which was named the giant.

His finished work was named the giant. And I pondered that I thought now I wonder what impression he left on that stone. It must take years and years to take that stone and chisel it out chisel every detail into that stone.

The picture I get is that of David on his way to kill Goliath. Imagine the face of that young boy rooty and strong and quick and confident as God there looking with anticipation to slay the giant. I don't know what picture he put on that stone but it was there.

His many friends who had not seen him during the years when he was working upon it in Florence declared with great surprise that he was changed. His face was changed and as they looked at the statue and then at the skillful sculpture it was seen that he had carved his conception of David not only into the beautiful white stone but all unconsciously had carved it too into the lines of his own beautiful and noble face.

As godly mothers catch a vision of what they want the babe to be the call is first of all to them to become a partaker of the same and the grace of God enables them through faith to be continually changed more and more into the image of Christ.

And as godly mothers are conformed into the image of Christ their their children will be conformed and as they conform their children into the image of Christ they themselves will also be conformed into his image.

There is a poem by a mother had I no feet to guide along life's tall some way my own more frequently might slide more often go astray but when I meet my baby's eyes at God's own bar I stand when I look into my baby's eyes it's like standing at the judgment bar of God and angels draw me toward the skies while baby holds my hand.

Fathers Must Model and Train What They Teach

The father and ye fathers provoke not your children but bring them up in the nurture. Provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Yes the fathers have much to do with the children like father like son and like family whether it's good or bad it will follow.

Solomon it says he loved the Lord and he walked in the statutes of David his father. Many kings they followed after their father. Let me tell you a few. It says of Jeroboam the son of Nebat he walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him.

Likewise Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign in Israel and he did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin. Amri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord and did worse than all that were before him.

Ahab the son of Amri did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him. He saw and he did. Fathers. A farmer's son he needs a little toy to play with a horse. Maybe a sailor's son needs a boat.

Roofer's sons they like to climb. Even their daughters do. A little girl almost a year old Donald Janelle she loves to climb. She'll climb up a ladder if we let her. I wonder why train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.

It doesn't say educate. The meaning for the word educate is to instruct to impart knowledge or to give instruction but the word train is making sure they do it and that's the difference. We don't just want to educate.

We want to train. We must train. It is concerning this actually chiseling that the greatest difficulties abound. Parents if you want to train your children you must practice what you teach. You must show him how to do it and show him how to practice it and you must at all cost see that he does it.

We can say it we can teach it we can tell him we can even show them how to do it but unless we make sure that they do it we are not really training. Amen training a child is the highest and holiest and most fascinating of all occupations.

The way to train a child is to train yourself first of all how many undisciplined parents have disciplined children. How many undisciplined parents have disciplined children. Does it happen Does it