Good morning. I charge you
in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who
testified the good confession before Pontius Pilot, that you keep the
Commandment without stain or reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Now commandment is singular not plural; so he's not talking about the
10 Commandments. It may be where at the beginning he urged timothy to instruct
certain man not to teach strange doctrines etc. Later he says this command I
entrust to you. He was to keep the commandment until the appearing of the Lord
Jesus Christ. And speaking of Jesus: who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the
king of kings and Lord of lords; who alone possesses immortality and dwells in
unapproachable light. Then back to the rich – instruct those who are rich in
this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty
of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. That is
what happens a lot of times when you have a lot of money; you put your hope in
what money can buy not in God. Why should you put your hope in God when you
have the best health insurance, the best doctors, the best retirement plan,
money to buy anything that you want or need? Instruct them to do good, to be
rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share. The rich young ruler
could not do that. If he had - storing up for themselves the treasure of a good
foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life
indeed. Where your treasure is… Do you have the riches, or do the riches have
you? Father thank You that You bless the reader’s family, and keep them
healthy. Thank you that the reader is rich in good works.
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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