Good morning. Jesus sends
two of His disciples into the village and tells them they will find a donkey
with her colt. They bring them and put their garments on them. The multitudes
put their garments and branches from trees in the roadway. They enter Jerusalem
with the multitude proclaiming His majesty. Jesus enters the temple and puts
out those who are buying and selling and overturns the tables of the
money-changers. God said His house shall be called a house of prayer, but they
were making it a robber’s den. He healed many people. Of course the chief
priests were delighted – not! The people were saying Hosanna to the Son of
David. They were saying that He was the Messiah. That did not sit well with the
chief priests. He left and went to Bethany – that's where Lazarus lived. Coming
back to the city in the morning, He sees a fig tree and goes to see if there
are any figs on it. There are only leaves, so He curses it. It is not the
season for figs, but on the Mount of Olives sometimes the fig trees had figs earlier
than in the city. It should not have leaves without any figs on it. It withers
at once. The disciples marvel. If you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall
not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this
mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, it shall happen. And all things
you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. As you have heard many times –
believing is seeing. Father thank You that the reader has faith and does not
doubt. He/she can say to her mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea – and
it shall happen! He/she believes, therefore he/she will see it.
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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