Good morning. I hope all
is well with you. This morning I think we will just let the Scripture speak for
itself. It's probably not your favorite version though. If I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong
or a clanging symbol. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions
to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love,
it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love
does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek
its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails;
but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are
tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial
will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a
child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face-to-face; now I know in part,
but then I shall know fully as I also have been fully known. But now abide
faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Father thank
You for the reader. Help him/her to experience Your love in all of its aspects,
and to show that love to others.
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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