Good morning. The first man is from the earth, earthy (I guess
you could call him a dirt bag); the second man is from heaven. As is the
earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are
those who are heavenly. Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly. We may need something like Ancestry DNA to
find out from whom we are descended physically, but we only need the Bible to
find out from whom we are descended spiritually. Now I say this, that flesh and
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the
imperishable. Notice that it says flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
God. In Luke, when Jesus appeared to the 11, He said, “See My hands and My feet,
that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and
bones as you see that I have.“ That can’t be the only difference. After all,
Jesus would appear and disappear at will. Father we know that for only a
relatively short time more we will have this “earthy” body, and then we will
receive our heavenly one. Give the reader the wisdom he/she needs for today and
the future.
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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