Good morning. We are back
in Psalm 119. Open my eyes, that I may behold wonderful things from Your law.
Too many Christians close their eyes to God's word. They do not want to know
where they are going wrong. I remember one time when this young man told my
friend and me that he did not want to hear what God said about what he was
doing. That's because he would then be accountable to do the right thing. In
other words "if I don't know it's wrong, then I can't be held accountable
for my sin". Even though princes sit and talk against me, Your servant
meditates on Your statutes. No matter who says what even those high in
authority, we should still meditate on God's word. We should not vary from it
just because everyone around us is against God's word. My soul cleaves to the
dust; revive me according to Your word. No matter how down we get, God's word
will lift us up. Turn away my eyes from looking at vanity (uh oh), and revive
me in Your ways. When we look at ourselves through our own eyes instead of
through God's word, we become vain. Establish Your word to Your servant, as
that which produces reverence for You. His word
does that. When we read what God says and what He has done, we gain
reverence for Him. Behold, I long for Your precepts; revive me through Your
righteousness. Father thank You that the reader meditates day and night upon
Your word. It is his/her guide and his/her delight. He/she walks in Your
righteousness.
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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