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and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! Do you know what he’s
saying? He’s saying, “Is there any blessing, that God would deny
His own Son?” We would say, “No! He wouldn’t deny Jesus
anything.” We have the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

He’s going to bless you the same way He blesses His Son. Do
you know that in John 17, it teaches that God the Father never
had one ounce more love for the Son of God, than He has for
you. Jesus prayed,

“May they experience such perfect unity, that the world will
know that you sent me and that you love them as much as
you love me.”

Who is the Blesser. We’re going to look at the blessing, but don’t
get caught up in the blessing, and miss the Blesser. God and
Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the Universe, the
Trinity, the Godhead, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit chose you.
Bought you, sealed you, and adopted you. We ought to be
pouring our hearts out, to the Blesser. “Come Holy Spirit and
apply that to our lives”.

Who are the blessed? I’ll give you the answer, and then illustrate
it. The answer is. All Christians. Every Christian, united to
Christ. Notice chapter 1:1, the word “Saints”, and verse 18, “His
inheritance in the saints”. Just like the word “church” has
suffered from abuse, so the word “saints”, has taken an awful
beating. The word “saint” has been misinterpreted and
misapplied throughout history. In preaching, religion, art, poetry
and in literature.

I tell you what “saint” means to most people. “Dead Super
Christian”. That’s a saint. Somebody, that made it to heaven.
Somebody, that’s glorified, and gone to their final home. “Now
he’s a saint, beyond the reach of sin.” To other people a saint is a
person, not connected to ordinary life. A few select (called),
individuals. We paint them in strange garments with halos. We