Good morning. Do you not
know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever
wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. It's like
Jesus said about trying to serve God and mammon. You will hold to one despise
the other. And yet you see many Christians trying to appease the people of the
world. And not only that, too many times you cannot tell the difference between
the way they act and the way the people of the world act. He jealously desires
the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us. God is opposed to the proud, but
gives grace to the humble. You heard about the man that his church gave him
this big button that said most humble on it. They took it back because he wore
it. Moses was called the meekest man on earth, but there were times when he did
not seem like it; at least not what we would call meek. He knew where his
authority and power came from – God. As long as he did not think that it came
from himself, he was fine. As a result we are to: submit therefore to God.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. We have to realize where our power
and authority comes from. It comes from God. If you resist the devil in your
own power and strength, he will stomp all over you. You have to first submit
yourself to God, and then resist the devil. He will flee from God's authority in
you. Father thank You that the reader is no friend of the world. He/she submits
himself/herself to You and resists the devil. He flees from 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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