Good morning. For God has shut up all in disobedience that
He might show mercy to all. Remember that all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God. Instead of everyone starting off righteous (like Adam) and then
losing their righteousness some time later, everybody starts off a sinner and
then (some of them) some time later obtain righteousness. Oh, the depth of the
riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments
and unfathomable His ways! It is not the way we would have done it, if we had
been God. Thankfully, He knew what was the best way. Who has known the mind of
the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it
might be paid back to Him again? Of course the answer is no one. Thank goodness
it was not up to us to tell Him how He should do it. For from Him and through
Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Can I get a big
amen to that? Father thank You that You knew the best way to do everything.
Help us to look at others not as enemies, but as future fellow believers.
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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