Good morning. As I
indicated before Paul again says: in Him all the fullness of deity dwells in
bodily form, and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head of all
rule and authority. Remember that the Gnostics believed Jesus only became deity
when the Holy Spirit came upon Him, and then went back to fully man because the
Holy Spirit left Him on the cross. But that's not true. He was Deity His entire
life and death – and then resurrection. We have been made complete - there is
nothing lacking. It is a done deal. He is head over all rule and authority, so
we don't need to be concerned that there is something greater than He is that
might come against us. In Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision
made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision
of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also
raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the
dead. And if God raised Jesus from the dead, He will also raise us from the
dead. He didn't do all of this for us because we were super spiritual. When you
were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made
you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions. We were
dead and doomed. He made us alive and destined. He did not forgive us just some
of our transgressions, He forgave us all of our transgressions! Father thank
You that the reader is forgiven all of his/her transgressions. He/she will one
day be raised up with Jesus! Continue to meet all of his/her needs.
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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