Good morning. By this the
love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into
the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
That of course is true love (I just watched The Princess Bride). God did that
for us before we even existed. If God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. He demonstrated to us how we should love our brethren. Some supposedly
Christians wouldn't give the time of day, much less their only child for the
brethren. How do we know that God is in us? No one has beheld God at any time;
if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. How
do we know that God exists; after all no one has ever seen Him? We know He
exists because of His love in us. If He did not exist, it would be impossible
for us to have this kind of love dwelling in us. How do we know that we abide
in Him: by this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given
us of His Spirit. Do you have the Holy Spirit – then you abide in Him and He in
you. Father thank You that the reader has You abiding in him/her. He/she always
shows love to the brethren.
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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