Good morning. Back to the
garden: He found them sleeping. So, you could not keep watch with Me for one
hour? They did not realize what was about to happen. He had told them, but it
still had not sunk in. If it had, perhaps their adrenaline would have kicked
in, and they would still be awake. Keep watching and praying, that you may not
enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He did the
same thing a second and a third time. Are you still sleeping and taking your
rest? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into
the hands of sinners. The one who betrays Me is at hand! Judas came with a
great multitude from the chief priests and elders. He had given them a sign –
the one I kiss is He. Judas again calls Him rabbi – not Lord. Friend, do what
you have come for. They lay hands on Jesus. One of them (Peter) draws a sword
and cuts off the ear of the slave of the high priest. We've seen so many movies
about the days of King Arthur, that we assume it's one of those long blades;
but this would've been much shorter. Jesus tells him to put away the sword; for
all those who take up the sword shall perish by the sword. Do you think that I
cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than 12
legions of angels? How then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must
happen this way? Have you come out against Me like a robber? I used to sit in
the temple teaching and you did not seize Me. All the disciples left Him and
fled. Father thank You that Jesus did not call 10,000 angels to help Him; but
rather went to the cross to die for us! Continue to guide and protect us during
any storm.
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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