Good morning. For we are not like many, peddling the word of God,
but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.
The word peddling invokes the imagery of a movie about the old west where you
have a man in a wagon traveling from town to town selling various items to
people. These so-called preachers would travel from town to town “selling“ the
word of God to people in the churches. Do we need, as some, letters of
commendation to you or from you? Apparently these peddlers of the word as they
went from town to town would get someone from the church in the town to write a
letter of recommendation that they could take with them to the next town. By
the time that person discovered the truth about the “preachers”, it was too
late, they had already bilked the people in the next town out of their money.
Paul said “I don’t need no stinking letter“, I’ve got you as my letter of
recommendation to others. Father go with the reader and help him/her to have a
great day. Help him/her to know when to say yes and when to say no to situations.
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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