Good morning. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a
little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? This probably refers back to the
procedure right before Passover. Many times in the Scriptures, leaven
represented sin. So before Passover began, they made sure that there was no
leaven whatsoever in the house. They would sweep it just to make sure. If there
was even a tiny speck of leaven in the dough, the dough would have to be thrown
out. Similarly, there’s no such thing as a “little sin” in your life. Clean out
the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact
unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. This verse is one
of the reasons why I believe that the last supper was not the Passover meal. If
it were the Passover meal, then Jesus our Passover sacrifice died 24 hours
after the Passover lambs were sacrificed. Father help us to clean out all the
old leaven of sin in our lives. Help us to start each day a pure and fresh lump
of dough.
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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