Good morning. If Christ is in you, though the body is dead
because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. Death came
because Adam sinned. Just because we are Christians, does not mean that our
body will not die. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead
dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. This life is
guaranteed to us. Of course the life that He gives our mortal bodies will be different
when we are raised from the dead. Notice from yesterday and today the different
ways that Paul speaks about the Spirit. Sometimes he uses the phrase Spirit of
God, and sometimes he talks about the Spirit of Christ, almost alternating
them. Is he doing that just for variety; saying that they are two different
Spirits; or is he emphasizing that They are the same? Good question. So then we
are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh - for if
you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you
are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. Father thank You
that we are living according to the Spirit and are putting to death the deeds
of the flesh. Help this to be a great day for the reader.
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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