Good morning. Today we are
going to look at verse 10 of chapter 6 of the book of Hebrews. For God is not
unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His
name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the Saints. It's so easy
to feel like God does not appreciate what we do for Him and for other
believers. It's easy to think "what's the use?": no one sees and no
one cares. This is especially true for those whose language of love is serving
others. Serving others is one of the five languages of love in the book by Gary
Chapman. How we show our love is how we feel love from others. If your child or
other person's language is not giving gifts, then they won't appreciate as much
when you give them lots of gifts. It may be your language, but it's not theirs.
Oops! I forgot about Martha. Serving others may have been her language of love.
So she was expressing her love for Jesus by serving Him. She was angry because
Mary was not showing her love by serving Jesus. However, because she was so
angry, it may be that serving others was not her language of love. It can be
really hard to serve others when it's not your language. Mine is words of
affirmation. That's why I so freely give them to everyone. That's the way I
feel and express love. In the first month that we knew each other, you probably
said thank you and other kind words more than Connie did in 15 years of
marriage. I got a lot of the other kind of words which made it doubly worse for
me. What is really great is that God's language is all five. Whichever one is
yours, He feels your love. He also gives back to you the same kind of love that
you need. Back to Hebrews: God is not going to forget whatever you have done
for Him and the love that you shown toward others. He loves you and appreciates
everything that you've done for Him, even though it might not look like it.
Don't grow weary of doing good things for others. Remember, you are an
excellent person beloved by God!
Unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God
Good morning. While Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. Jesus was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men. Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. It doesn’t say, but I assume it is still during this time of the Passover. This man came to Jesus by night. Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do the signs that You do unless God is with him. It just said that the people believed in His name because of the signs He was doing; yet it does not say what those signs were. Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. That is why unbelievers cannot tell what is of the kingdom of God and what is not – they’re not born again. Nicodemus doesn’t have a clue. How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he? Unless one is born of water and the Spirit ...
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