Good morning. In Isaiah: Things which eye has not seen and
ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God
has prepared for those who love Him. That sounds encouraging. Man can think of
many wonderful things; but they are all temporal. For to us God revealed them
through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
That would mean that you cannot know anything about them unless you have the
Holy Spirit dwelling within you. Who among men knows the thoughts of a man
except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no
one knows except the Spirit of God. That would mean that there would be no way
that we could know about these things unless the Spirit of God revealed them to
us. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is
from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God. The spirit
of the world seeks for things of the world; but the Spirit of God seeks for
heavenly things. Father help us to look to Your Spirit to discover the things
that You have for us, not to the spirit of the world to discover the things
that are of no heavenly value to us.
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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