Luke 11:27-28

Love is an action word…for God so loved the world that He gave us Jesus!! God wants our obedience, as Holy Spirit reveals it to us, over sacrifice.

Believers will be judged by the law of liberty, which is the law of love. Believers who do not practice partiality, but who practice love and mercy, will triumph at the judgment seat. Those who have not shown mercy will not receive mercy. NKJ Bible.

Luke 11:27-28

27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”

28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

An echo of what Mary, the mother of Jesus, has already articulated about her own role. 

True blessedness, according to Jesus, is found in obedience to God’s revelation. Faithllife Bible.

The woman offered praise for Jesus’ mother. Though Jesus always honored Mary, He commented carefully on the woman’s blessing to keep the focus on the word of God. It is easy to allow traditional practices to take the place of the authority of the Scriptures. Jesus offers His blessing to those who respond concretely to God’s will as expressed in the Bible. 

NKJ Bible.

While the scribes and Pharisees despised and blasphemed the discourses of our Lord Jesus, this good woman admired them, and the wisdom and power with which he spake. Christ led the woman to a higher consideration. Though it is a great privilege to hear the word of God, yet those only are truly blessed, that is, blessed of the Lord, that hear it, keep it in memory, and keep to it as their way and rule. Matthew Henry Commentary.

Leviticus 22:31  “Therefore you shall keep My commandments, and perform them: I am the LORD.

Luke 1:48  For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant; for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

Luke 8:21  But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

John 13:17  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

James 1:25  But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

Romans 8:2  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

2 Corinthians 3:17  Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

James 2:12  So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.