Good morning. Abraham
is our father. If you are Abraham’s children, do the deeds of Abraham. But as
it is you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I
heard from God; this Abraham did not do. You are doing the deeds of your
father. Remember that they had just said that Abraham was their father. Now
they say: we were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God. At least
when they are young, children tend to act like one of their parents. If God
were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from
God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me. Why do you
not understand what I’m saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. And now
Jesus says something that would get anybody mad. You are of your father the
devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from
the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in
him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar
and the father of lies. That’s pretty harsh, since Jesus said that the devil
was their father. If their father is a liar, it’s a good possibility that they
are too. Because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me. If someone is a
liar, they don’t want to even hear the truth, much less believe in it. Which
one of you convicts Me of sin? If I speak truth, why do you not believe Me? He
who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them,
because you are not of God. Next time we will see that they get very defensive.
Father thank You that the reader hears and believes in the truth. He/she shares
that truth with others around 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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