Good morning. Yesterday we
saw that Paul was convinced that God was able to guard what he entrusted to
Him. Today we see that Paul tells Timothy to guard through the Holy Spirit who
dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you. So God guards what
we entrusted to Him, and we are to guard what He entrusted to us. He has
entrusted a great treasure to us. The things which you have heard from me in
the presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men, who will be able
to teach others also. Paul did not just whisper things to Timothy, he told them
in front of everyone. Paul entrusted things to Timothy, and he was supposed to
entrust those things to other faithful people who would teach others. The same
is true for us. We hear things from the pastor or other great teachers; we are
then to share these with other faithful people; they in turn will be able to
share the same things with others, and so on. Next what some think was a song
of that day. For if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him; if we
endure, we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us. If
we are faithless, He remains faithful; for He cannot deny Himself. How true is
all of that! Father thank You that the reader is faithful to You. He/she guards
faithfully the treasure You entrusted to him/her.
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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