Good morning. Jesus
continues: everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me. Not
that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen
the Father. It says in another place that no one can see God and live. So is Jesus
talking about before His incarnation that He saw God? There are several places
in the Old Testament where it appears that God, not an angel, was interacting
with humans. Was that actually Jesus before He became a man? Truly I say to
you, he who believes has eternal life. Again it is not he who does something
that has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in
the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of
heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came
down out of heaven; if anyone eats this bread, he will live forever; and the
bread also which I will give for the life of the world is My flesh. This really
puzzles the people – how can this man give us His flesh to eat? They are still
thinking in the natural. We’ll see Jesus’ response next time. Father thank You
that Jesus is the true bread, and we have partaken of Him. Help us to live our
lives so that others will see and hunger after that bread of life.
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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