DAILY TRUTH - Mothers’ Day & Why The Exception Is Not The Norm
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The Christian response to receiving a blessing from God is not guilt, but gratitude, which is a far more potent incentive, fuel, and motivation for giving back to others than guilt. God bless you and your family!
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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the
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psalm 127 says that children are a heritage from the lord they're a blessing from the lord
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that they're not just the product of happenstance or random causation that god actually directly
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gives children specific children to specific parents and he gives them as blessings as a
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heritage. So the question then is what is the Christian response to receiving a blessing from
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the Lord? If children are an intentional direct heritage from God, they are a blessing, blessing
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given by God to you. What is the Christian response to receiving blessing from God? The world says
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that the response should be guilt, and that is precisely the answer that Satan himself gives.
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And it should come as no shock to us that the world merely echoes the answer of their father.
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John chapter 8 says that everyone has a spiritual father. Again, patriarchy is inescapable.
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those who do not have God as their father are not fatherless but rather they have Satan as their
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father Jesus says this you are not children of Abraham and you do not have God as your father
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if you did you would do as Abraham does you would delight to see my day but as it stands you are
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children of the devil he was a murderer from the beginning and here you are bearing a striking
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resemblance to him children always look like their daddy and likewise the world looks like
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the devil because the devil is their father he is a liar and the father of lies when he lies he
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speaks his native tongue so too children of the devil the world lies he is also a murderer from
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the beginning and so too the world is murderous and so when we ask the question how should we
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respond to receiving blessing from the Lord, and yes, children are a prime example of that blessing,
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the world would have us respond with guilt. Guilt, because their father, the devil, would have us
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respond with guilt. But the biblical response for the Christian, when it comes to receiving a
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heritage and blessing from the Lord is not guilt, but rather gratitude. And gratitude,
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brothers and sisters, is a far more potent incentive, fuel, motivation for giving back to
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others than guilt. Guilt will not produce generosity. It will produce the minimum bottom
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line. It will produce virtue signaling, the optic and appearance of generosity, but it will not
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ever produce real Holy Spirit wrought heartfelt generosity toward God by being generous to others.
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But gratitude will. Gratitude will. And so on Mother's Day, for those of you who are women
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who have children my point and everything before we began the service today was to to say this
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it does not benefit others it does not benefit the minority who do not have children for you
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to feel guilty over the children that you do have the christian response is to say the lord
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has given me a heritage children are not an accident children are not random this was god
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in his sovereignty deliberately giving to me a blessing and my response shall be gratitude not
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guilt and trust that that proper christian response of gratitude will actually cause you
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to be a far more sympathetic loving compassionate and generous person than guilt ever will that's
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the point can i be frank with you for just a second right here at the end look some of you
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guys, you're financially supporting this ministry. And from the bottom of my heart, I say thank you.
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I cannot thank you enough. However, some of you, you just, you can't afford it. In fact, some of
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you, you shouldn't afford it. Let's be honest. I mean, we're living in Joe Biden's ridiculous
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economy. Our nation and our totalitarian political elites lost their minds over the last three years
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due to COVID. We have written checks that we simply cannot cash. It doesn't matter if people
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change the definition of a recession. We are living in a recession right now regardless.
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Some of you are struggling to afford a carton of eggs at the grocery store. You cannot support
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financially this ministry at this time, nor should you, but you could still help us tremendously.
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