Are You More Blessed Than Mary?

January 1, 2014 by Aquino Bayani

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Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

Protestants especially the Born Agains boasts they are more blessed than the Blessed Virgin May.  Can you fathom the insolence of those cultists?

To justify their harshly and haughtily arrogant charges against the Mother of God, they quote Luke 11:27-28:

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.  (Lk 11:27-28, KJV)

The Born Again Protestants misinterpreted the above passage and misconstrued that Jesus was negating the blessedness of the Divine Motherhood of His mother of Him in favor of the blessedness of those who hear the word of God, and keep it.

According to their self-serving boastings, they heard the word of God, and keep it, thus, they are flaunting they are more blessed than the Blessed Virgin Mary.  If you analyze their self-claimed aggrandizement of themselves, they are insinuating that the Blessed Virgin Mary did not hear the word of God and keep it.  What pretentious nonsense these Born Again Protestants are leveling against the Mother of God!  May the Lord God rebuke them.

Are those apostates Born Again Protestants correct?  No, never.  All apostates from the Catholic Church – the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of truth – were all misled because they do not know the scriptures or the power of God that is why the Protestants aka the antichrists, left the Catholic Church in the first place.  Their defection is perfectly in accord with the writings of John:

Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.  They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.  But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.  (1 Jn 2:18-20, KJV)

Why did Jesus said, “Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it?”

 First, never forget that Jesus is the God who was manifest in the flesh:

• Jesus Christ is the Word who was God made flesh:

In the beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.  He was present originally with God.  All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being. (Jn 1:1-3, AMP)

And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human, incarnate) and tabernacled (fixed His tent of flesh, lived awhile) among us; and we [actually] saw His glory (His honor, His majesty), such glory as an only begotten son receives from his father, full of grace (favor, loving-kindness) and truth. (Jn 1:14, AMP)

No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known]. (Jn 1:18, AMP)

• Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh:

And great and important and weighty, we confess, is the hidden truth (the mystic secret) of godliness. He [God] was made visible in human flesh, justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, [and] taken up in glory.  (1 Tm 3:16, AMP)

Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ (Footnote: Greek He who; other manuscripts read God) was revealed in a human body and vindicated by the Spirit.  He was seen by angels and announced to the nations.  He was believed in throughout the world and taken to heaven in glory.  (1 Tm 3:16, NLT)

And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.  (1 Tm 3:16, KJV)

• Jesus Christ and the Father is one true God:

I and my Father are one.  (Jn 10:30, KJV)

And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.  (Jn 17:3, KJV)

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.  (1 Jn 5:20, KJV)

• The Father called Jesus Christ, ‘O God and thou, Lord,’ and acknowledged that Jesus created the heavens and the earth:

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.  And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:  (Heb 1:8-10, KJV)

• Peter, Thomas, John, called Jesus God:

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle (special messenger) of Jesus Christ, to those who have received (obtained an equal privilege of) like precious faith with ourselves in and through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: (2 PT 1:1, AMP)

And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.  Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.  (Jn 20:28-29, KJV)

Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall gaze upon Him and beat their breasts and mourn and lament over Him. Even so [must it be]. Amen (so be it).  I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).  (Rev 1:7-8, AMP)

• Jude revealed that the God of Moses is Jesus:

And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.  Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  (Ex 20:1-3, KJV)

I will therefore admonish you, though ye once knew all things, that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, did afterwards destroy them that believed not:  (Jd 1:5, DRV)

Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.  (Jd 1:5, English Standard Version)

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.  (Jd 1:5, NET Bible)

• Jesus revealed He is the God of Moses:

But Moses replied, “When I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your ancestors sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ So what can I tell them?”  God said, “I am who I am. You must tell them: ‘The one who is called I AM has sent me to you.’  Tell the Israelites that I, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, have sent you to them. This is my name forever; this is what all future generations are to call me.  (Ex 3:13-15, Today’s English version)

Jesus answered, “You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.  That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that ‘I Am Who I Am’.”  (Jn 8:23-24, TEV)

Second, always inculcate in your minds that the thought of Jesus, the God who was manifest in the flesh, is higher than the thoughts of any and all human beings:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.  (Is 55:8-9, KJV)

So, why did Jesus, the God who was manifest in the flesh and whose thought was higher than our thoughts said, “Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it?”

Jesus said that, because as God, who came from heaven (cf Jn 6:38, 6:51, 8:42, 16:27-28, 17:8), He knew that in Heaven they do not use the same measure as is used on the earth.

Meaning, His Mother Mary will be blessed not so much because of her immaculate soul, and of her divine motherhood of Him as for listening to the word of God and practicing it through obedience.

It was the prodigy of God ‘that Mary’s soul was immaculate,’ and thus, deserving to be the Mother of God in the flesh.  And God is to be praised for that.  But her fiat, ‘be it unto me according to thy word (Lk 1:38, KJV)’is a prodigy of Mary.  Her merit therefore is great.  So great that the Savior of the world came only because of her ability to listen to God, speaking through Gabriel’s lips, and because of her will to practice the word of God, without weighing the difficulties and the immediate and future sorrows connected with her assent.

Thus, we can see that Mary is the Blessed Mother of the Savior of the world not only because she bore and breastfed Him, but because she listened to the word of God and practiced it through obedience.

Conclusion:

And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. (Revelations 12:3-4, KJV)

Therefore, the “they” Jesus have in His eternal thought was, first and foremost His mother Mary, and the rest of her offspring, that is, those who have taken her into their own and have recourse to her:

And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.  But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.  (Lk 11:27-28, KJV)

And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.  (Rev 12:17, KJV)

When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.  After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.  (Jn 19:26-27, DRV)

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