Good morning. Here's one
of those uh-oh scriptures. If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet
does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is
worthless. If you think you have arrived, you usually do not keep it to yourself.
You look down on others, and when you do, something bad comes out of your mouth
towards them. You definitely want to share their faults with everyone else. You
need to put action behind your words. It says that he deceives his own heart,
not the other way around. His heart knows he is not right with God. The more he
puts down others, the more his heart believes the untruth. How can you know
that you are walking the walk and not just talking the talk? This is pure and
undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and
widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world. If the
church took care of the widows and orphans, there would be no need for the
government to do so. In the sight of the world, widows and orphans are on the
bottom of the totem pole. In the church's sight, they should be at the top
instead of the bottom. If you are faithful in what is considered little things,
you will be faithful in great things. You will be walking in pure and undefiled
religion in the sight of God. Father thank You that the reader bridles his/her
tongue, and does not deceive his/her heart. He/she practices pure and undefiled
religion in the sight of his/her God and Father.
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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