Good morning. Do not be children in your thinking (remember last
chapter: “when I was a child …”); yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking
be mature. So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to
unbelievers (seems to imply that speaking in tongues was a natural outcome of
being a believer); but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those
who believe. Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in
tongues, and ungifted men (not exactly
sure what is meant here, whether it means those who are saved but have not
received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, or those do not operate in the gifts
of the Spirit - specifically interpretation of tongues) or unbelievers enter,
will they not say that you are mad? That would be a reasonable assumption and
may be why Pentecostals get a bad reputation. Father make this a special
weekend for the reader. Open his/her eyes to the future as to what he/she
should do for his/her family.
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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