Good morning. We are back
to the handout sheets. I am an alien and stranger to this world in which I
temporarily live. We are just visiting. “this world is not my home, I'm just a
passing through." The language of this world is not our natural one now.
We should be speaking the words of our home – heaven. Sadly, too many
Christians do just the opposite. You can't tell them from the natives. I am an
enemy of the devil. He knows it and acts like it. He treats us like enemies. He
takes no prisoners, though he does help us imprison ourselves, if we let him. I
am a child of God and I will resemble Christ when He returns. Children look
like their parents, and so we should look like God. When people see us, they
should see God in us. Children even look somewhat like each other. And so we
should look like our big brother - Jesus Christ. A lot of times children also
look up to their big brother and try to act like him. We should do the same. He
is our example to look up to and to act like. I am born of God, and the evil
one – the devil – cannot touch me. God is our Father. The devil can only do to
us what we allow him to do. The fear of what may happen is one of his biggest
weapons. We need to take our minds off what could be, and turn them towards
what should be – the will of God. Father thank You that the reader is Your
child, and this world is not his/her home. He/she is born of You, and the devil
cannot touch him/her.
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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