Good morning. We are back
in Proverbs. It talks about: do not devise harm against your neighbor – sounds
like the pastor's sermon Sunday. Do not contend with a man without cause, if he
has done you no harm. As you know some people are just itching for a fight.
They are looking for an excuse to get into it. But we are to "not envy a
man of violence, and do not choose any of his ways". That's hard to do
sometimes when you see them successful. The Lord is intimate with the upright.
He blesses the dwelling of the righteous. That means your dwelling is blessed!
Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding. Do not forget, nor turn away from the
words of My mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; love her, and
she will watch over you. The beginning of wisdom is: acquire wisdom; and with
all your acquiring, get understanding. Prize her, and she will exalt you; she
will honor you if you embrace her. And as if God is talking to you personally:
my son, give attention to My words; incline your ear to My sayings. Do not let
them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart. Always let
God's word fill your mind. And why should we do it? For they are life to those
who find them, and health to all their whole body. God's words are life and
health. Why would anyone want to depart from them? Father thank You that Your
words are always on the reader’s mind. They guide him/her and give him/her life
and health. He/she does good to all those around him/her, and You bless him/her
in all his/her ways.
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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