Good morning. Let no man deceive himself. Did you realize
that you can deceive yourself? We do that all the time in the natural. We want
something so badly that we come up with all kinds of reasons or excuses to
justify obtaining it. “If we buy this or that, we can use it for God’s glory”.
In the end though we are just deceiving ourselves. If any man among you thinks
he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. Say
what? Remember that in the beginning of Corinthians we were talking about the
difference between the wisdom of this world and God‘s wisdom. It is foolishness
to believe in the power of the cross, but that is where true wisdom lies. For
the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, “He is
the one who catches the wise in their craftiness.”; and again, “the Lord knows
the reasonings of the wise, that they are useless.“ In the book of James, he
says that the wisdom of this world cannot compare to the wisdom from above.
When you think you are wise, you become puffed up, arrogant. Father help us to
trust in Your wisdom, not our own.
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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