Blessings Become a Curse

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Feb 20, 2026

A sermon explores how God-given blessings like the law and religious privilege can become traps when pursued the wrong way. It examines spiritual blindness, judicial hardening, and biblical passages that illustrate decline. Themes include pride, faith versus works, and warnings about affluence and tradition leading to loss of true blessing.

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Seeking The Right Way Matters

Israel earnestly sought righteousness but did not obtain it because they sought the wrong way, not by faith.
Paul emphasizes the elect obtained it by God's choosing, not by human works or merit.

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Judicial Blindness Explained

Paul cites Isaiah and Deuteronomy to show God gave Israel a 'spirit of slumber' that numbed their faculties.
This judicial blindness left them unable to perceive the gospel despite previous revelations.

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Blessings Can Become A Snare

David prayed that the very blessings on Israel would become a snare and recompense because they misused them.
The 'table' symbolizes both material prosperity and God's word turning into a punishment when abused.

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Locating the Passage and Structure

00:43 • 3min

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Approach with Reverence

03:21 • 5min

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Paul’s Statement Summarized

08:10 • 4min

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Election Obtains, Nation Blinded

11:56 • 3min

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Scriptural Quotations of Blindness

14:59 • 4min

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Table as Snare: Benefits Become Curse

19:10 • 6min

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Spiritual Blindness and Decline

25:28 • 48sec

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Blessings Turning into Curses Today

26:15 • 5min

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Jesus’ Prophetic Fulfillment

31:44 • 5min

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Historical Pattern of Rejection

37:03 • 2min

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Four Doctrinal Lessons Listed

39:28 • 38sec

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Seeking Righteousness the Wrong Way

40:06 • 3min

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How can something that the Lord created as a blessing become a curse? In this sermon on Romans 11:7–10 titled “Blessings Become a Curse,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones answers this question by preaching from the words of Paul when he refers to the law and the people of Israel. Paul acknowledges that the Jews were earnest and genuine in their search for salvation but they went about it in the wrong way. The passage says that those who were elect did in fact obtain it but that the Lord hardened the others. Israel was blinded and God gave them the spirit of slumber regarding the true message of the gospel. Dr. Lloyd-Jones explains the passage by saying that the very blessing of the word of God, the law, was once a blessing but became a curse to the Jews. They had the wrong thinking about so many things and despite their best efforts, they still did not truly know Christ and did not receive salvation. The only way to receive this blessing is by faith. Dr. Lloyd-Jones also explains in great detail several other Old Testament passages which show the ignorance of the Jewish people and how they did not understand the gospel.

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