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Who Is Truly Blessed? A Closer Look At Luke 11:27-28
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Feb 20, 2025
Jesus had just healed someone with an unclean spirit and was accused of cooperating with the devil. He proceeded to give the crowd around Him a lecture in discernment. As He was giving His discourse a woman made the following statement in Luke 11:27”As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed And Jesus replied with this statement Luke 11:28 But HE said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”’ We’ll be looking at this statement thoroughly today, see video Scripture References: Luke 1:30-38 John 7:1-7 Matthew 12:46-50 1 Corinthians 2:14 Romans 8:6-7 Joshua 24:14-19
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hey good morning this is T t.com and
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today we are going to look at Luke 11
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verse
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27-28 and the title of the study is who
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is truly blessed now a lot of time when
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people use the word blessed it's almost
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like is always because something has
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happened in their life that is good
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which is fine to say that you know
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because again you see it on social media
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all the time I'm blessed because I just
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got this promotion on my job I'm blessed
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because I've just earned this thing I'm
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blessed because something has happened
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I'm blessed because you can fill in the
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blank and a lot of time when we use the
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word blessed is always because something
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positive has happened and in our own
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mind we think the blessedness has to do
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with the good event that has taken place
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okay what we truly need to understand as
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Believers in Christ what does it mean to
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be truly blessed so to do that I'm going
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to look at um Luke chapter 11 verse 27-
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28 and let me give you my intro now if
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you if you read this passage Jesus had
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just healed someone with an unclean
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spirit and he was accused of cooperating
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with the devil so he proceeded to give
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the crowd uh a lecture on discernment
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and as he was giv his discourse a woman
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made on the following statement in Luke
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11:
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27 scripture says as he said these
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things meaning Jesus a woman in the
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crowd raised her voice and said to him
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blessed is the womb that bore you and
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the breasts at which you
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nursed so she's referring to Mary and
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Jesus replied with the statement in Luke
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11:28 but Jesus said blessed rather are
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those who hear the word of God and keep
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it so Jesus answer to the lady is
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blessed rather are those who hear the
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word of God and keep it and we need to
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really understand understand what he
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meant so we're going to look at this
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like thoroughly today so what did Jesus
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mean when he said that okay so according
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to the woman the most blessed person in
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the history of the world was Mary the
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Earthly mother of Jesus and children
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usually make their parents very proud
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and it's common for people to usually
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command and say positive things about a
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parent for their well behaved kids or
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for good things their children are doing
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you see that all the time people are
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proud of their children and then and
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other people make comments about the
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parents because of something that the
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the child is doing for the child's sake
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the parent get praised and his call all
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these good names and everything so this
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woman she took uh she took that to an
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exponential level when she used the word
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blessed so we need to really comprehend
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the meaning of being blessed because
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blessedness if you truly understand it
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is being in a state of being united with
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the Lord basically knowing the Lord so
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blessedness in God's mind is knowing god
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and being one with God or having a
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relationship or an intimate relationship
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with the Lord but according to this
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woman she said blessed are the is the
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womb that bore you because so in her
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mind uh the most blessed person was Mary
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Jesus's mother so
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in Luke 11:28 again Jesus says blessed
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rather are those who hear the word of
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God and keep it so in Jesus mind the
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blessed person is the person that hear
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the word of God and keep it so why is
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that important he was correcting that
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woman's theology he said the Blessed
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individual again is the person that
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hears the word of God and obeys the word
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of God and we need to unpack that so
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who's blessed
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okay now Mary was truly blessed but her
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blessedness did not rest on her being
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the carrier of Jesus but rather her
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obedience to the word of God by faith
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I'll say that again her blessedness did
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not rest on her being the carrier of
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Jesus but rather her obedience to the
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word of God by faith and I want us to go
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to Luke 1 verse 30-38 to understand so
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this is when the the angel uh visits
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Mary I'm going to pick up from verse 30
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and the angel said to Hero not be afraid
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Mary for you have found favor with God
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and behold you will conceive in your
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womb and bear a son you shall call his
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name Jesus he will be great and will be
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called the son of the most high and the
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Lord God will give to him the Throne of
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his father David and he will reign over
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the house of Jacob
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forever and of his kingdom they will be
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the end and Mary said to the angel how
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will this be since I'm a virgin and the
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angel answered her the holy spirit will
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come upon you and the power of the most
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high will overshadow you therefore the
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child to be born will be called holy the
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Son of God and behold your relative
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Elizabeth in her old age has also
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conceived the son and this is the sixth
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month with her with her who has who was
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called
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for nothing will be impossible with God
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and Mary said behold I'm the servant of
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the Lord let it be to me according to
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your word and the angel departed from
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her so you see she said Let It Be
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according to your word she obeyed the
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word of God and she believed the word of
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God by faith because she found favor
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with God the Lord came and enabled her
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to receive his word word with Grace and
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she believed it by faith because God
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caused that to happen God gave her the
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instrument of Faith to believe the word
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of God and therefore she is called
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blessed because she obeyed the word of
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God by
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faith see Mary again I'll repeat that
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again she was blessed because she heard
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the word of God and believed the word of
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God she wasn't blessed because she was
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the Earthly mother of Jesus even though
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that was still a perk that was still
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like a benefit but she was blessed
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because God chose her and enabled her to
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believe the word of God and Obey it okay
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so basically it's very important for us
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to understand that it's not the person
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who has physical DNA ties with Jesus
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that is blessed but rather the rather
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the person that has spiritual DNA ties
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with Jesus and I know those like terms
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are a little bit conf chosing what I
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will explain in a minute and to explain
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it I want to go to John 7 :se 1-7 and
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also Matthew
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12:46 to 50 now let's look at this here
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in and Jesus at the Feast of booze now
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after this Jesus went about in Galilee
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he will not go about in Judea because
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the Jews were seeking to kill him now
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the Jewish feast of boo was at hand so
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his brothers meaning his half brothers
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or his Earthly Brothers True Brothers
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said to him this is probably James and
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Jude they said to him leave here and go
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to Judea that your disciples Also may
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see The Works you're doing for no one no
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one works in secret if he seeks to be
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known openly if you do these things show
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yourself to the world for not even his
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brothers believed in him did you hear
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what the scripture said for not even his
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brothers believed in him not yet they
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will eventually believe but right now
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they didn't so we see that they had
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physical DNA or Blood Ties with Jesus
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but they did not believe in Jesus
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because they were not yet
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regenerated you see that and Jesus said
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to them my time has not yet come but
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your time is always here the world
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cannot hate you but it hates me because
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I testify about it that he works his
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works are evil you see not even his
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brothers believed in him they were they
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also came out of Mary's womb but they
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didn't believe in him now let's go to
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Matthew 12:
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46-50 now while Jesus was still speaking
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to the people behold his mother and his
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brothers stood aside asking to speak to
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him but he replied to the man who told
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him who told him that they were they
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were seeking for him he said who is my
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mother and who are my brothers and
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stretching out his hand toward his
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disciples he said you see he stretched
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out his hand toward his disciples and
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and he said here are my mother and my
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brothers for whoever does the will of my
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Father in Heaven is my brother and
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sister and mother so according to Jesus
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the person that does the will of God the
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person that obeys the word of God those
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are his brothers and sisters and mother
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he makes distinction just because Mary
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was his mother just because James and
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Jude were his brothers didn't
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necessarily mean that they were his true
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brothers because the true Brothers of
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Christ are those who do the will of God
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you understand that so it's not the
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physical ties or the DN the physical DNA
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ties that that make you a brother of
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Christ but really is your obedience to
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the word of
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God so what do we learn from these two
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scriptures that I just read John 7: 1-7
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and then Matthew 12: 46-50
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so we learn that the Blessed people are
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those who do the will of God I just
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talked about it in other words those who
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hear the word of God and keep it the
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reason why this is important is because
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the flesh or the natural man hates the
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things of God that is something that a
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lot of people don't get by Nature we
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despise hearing and obeying the word of
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God because we are inherently evil and
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rebel against the authority of the word
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of God
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I'll repeat that again by nature we
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despise hearing and obeying the word of
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God because by Nature we are evil and we
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rebel against the authority of the word
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of God and we can go to scripture for
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that in First Corinthians 12:14 the
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scripture says the person without the
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spirit of God does not accept the things
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that come from the spirit of God but
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consider considers them foolishness and
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cannot understand them because they are
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discerned only through the spirit let's
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go to Romans 8: 6-7 for the mind that is
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set on the flesh is hostile to God for
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it does not submit to God's law indeed
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it can
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not those who are in the flesh cannot
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please God because they hate the things
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of God and they don't want to obey the
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word of
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God that is the predicament of anyone
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that does not have the spirit of God in
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them so because the thing is
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this by Nature we hate obeying the word
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of God we we resist it because of our
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original
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sin from the fall of Adam and Eve so by
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Nature we just resist and hit the word
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of God the sooner you understand it the
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better you'll
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be you see I'm going to give you an
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example from the Old Testament we're
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going to read Joshua
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24:14
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to9 so this is like Joshua talking to
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the people of Israel okay now he says
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here now therefore fear the lord and
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serve him in sincerity and in
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faithfulness put away the gods that your
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father served beyond the river and in
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Egypt and serve the Lord and if it is
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evil in your eyes to serve the Lord
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choose this day whom you will serve
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whether the gods of your fathers whether
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the God your father served in the region
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beyond the river or the gods of the
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Amorite in whose land you dwell but as
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for me and my house we will serve the
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Lord then the people answered far it
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from us that we should forsake the Lord
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to serve other gods for it is the Lord
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Our God who brought us and our fathers
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from the land of Egypt out of the house
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of slavery and we did those great signs
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in our sight and preserved Us in all the
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way that we went and among all the
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peoples through whom we passed and the
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Lord drove out before us all the peoples
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the amorites who lived in the land
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therefore we also will serve the Lord
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for he is our God and listen to what
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Joshua said but Joshua said to the
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people you are not able to serve the
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Lord for he is a holy God he is a
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jealous God and he will not forgive your
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transgressions and your
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sins see Joshua himself said as for me
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and my house we will serve the Lord and
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the people say almost the same thing and
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he tell them you are not able to serve
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the Lord so what made Joshua different
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from the people is what we need to
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understand you see there's something
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that he got but they didn't get it they
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were incapable of hearing and obeying
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the word of God In Their Own Strength
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this is why Joshua said what he said in
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in in verse 19 see Joshua could serve
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the Lord because the spirit of God was
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upon Joshua the people did not have I
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don't know if they I don't scripture
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doesn't say but Joshua makes that
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distinction he says to them you are not
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able to serve the Lord because you they
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they were counting on their own strength
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and ability to do the word of God and to
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do the will of God we just read in
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Scripture that the natural man cannot
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obey the word of God because he cannot
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just by Nature so Joshua is telling the
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people you are not able to serve the
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Lord for because you guys don't get it
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it's not by Your Own Strength because
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the flesh hates the word of God I mean
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just try for one day like when I get up
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from sun up to sun
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down
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even knowing that now I'm being saved
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there's still that resistance you know
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like the flesh always wants to do what
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the flesh wants and and Paul talks about
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it in Romans
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7 you see it's like but imagine not even
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having the spirit of God you absolutely
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are dead
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without the spirit of God and this is
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what Joshua is trying to tell the people
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let's keep
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going scripture says faith comes by
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hearing in Romans
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10:17 faith comes by hearing and hearing
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by the word of God basically without the
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word of God working in you and I to Will
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and act according to the will of God is
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impossible to please God I'll say that
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again without the word of God working in
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you and I to Will and to act according
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to the will of God is impossible to
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please God and scripture says without
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faith is impossible to please God and
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Jesus also said in John 16 uh
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6:44 no one can come to me unless the
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father who sent me draws him and I'll
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raise him up on the last
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day and in John 665 he reiterates his
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Point again he says this is why I told
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you that no one can come to me unless it
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is granted him by the father in other
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words no one can come to Jesus and no
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one can do the word of God unless God
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himself first changes the disposition of
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your heart gives you the spirit of God
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to love him and to love God you
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understand
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it if you go back to Luke 11:28 Jesus
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said blessed rather are those who hear
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the word of God and keep it so basically
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this is what Jesus is saying the blessed
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person is the person on whom the spirit
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of God
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rests because it's the person who has
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been enabled by the spirit of God to
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love the word of God because the spirit
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of God love the things of God and
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without the spirit of God we are not
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able to obey and love the word of God
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Scripture says in 1 John 4:19 we love
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him because he first loved us and in
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John 14:23 we read if anyone loves me
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will keep my word you hear that if
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anyone loves me he will keep my word and
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my father will love him and we will come
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to him and make our home with him why is
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that important what can we learn
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scripture says we love him because he
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first loved
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us and then again scripture says if
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anyone loves me he will keep my word and
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my father will love him and will come to
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him and make our home with him okay why
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because if anyone loves Jesus is because
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Jesus has loved loved that person first
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you can't love
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Jesus apart from Jesus first extending
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his hand and drawing you first that's
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the premise that's the necessary
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condition to be able to love God and the
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things of God first God has to love you
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and the one who loves Jesus now will
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keep the word of God because God has
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loved him first so everything begins
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with God everything it has to be the
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work of the the Holy
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Spirit okay so the blessed person in
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essence is the person that has been
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sovereignly chosen by God in order to
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love the word of God this is why Jesus
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said in Luke 11:28 but he said blessed
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rather are those who hear the word of
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God and keep it
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basically you are blessed because God
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has chosen you and because he chose you
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now you are able to listen to the word
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of God love the word of God and obey the
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word of God because apart from that you
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can't do it see the only person that
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understands that he is who he is by the
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grace of God is that person that is
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humble because you realize that if it
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wasn't for God you wouldn't even love
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the word of God so there is no room for
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pride pride is absolutely out of the
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window because the only reason why I can
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even talk about the things of God the
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only reason why I can even pray is
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because God has enabled me to do so so
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basically my life depends solely on God
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without his breath in me there is
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nothing I can absolutely
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do you can't love God apart from the
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spirit of God working in you to Will and
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act according to the will of God so this
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is why Jesus said to that lady blessed
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are those rather who hear the word of
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God and keep it because to be able to do
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that the pre the prerequisite or the
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necessary condition is being first loved
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by God and then you are able to love God
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back because apart from God you can't
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love
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God have a wonderful day and I'll see
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you next time