Why is it
hard for some of us to believe in the glory of God?
We are
Living in the carnality of life on this earth, because we are only human, we
want to see the evidence to be convinced. What did the Lord say in the word of
God.
Luke
11:29,30 And when the people were
gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek
a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.
30. For
as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this
generation.
The bible
tells us that we must first be born again in order for us to enter in the
Kingdom of Heaven.
John 3:3 Jesus
answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be
born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
How do we
get born again? Let see the story of Nicodemus
Verse 1 Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews
John 3:1-15 There was a man of the
Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Verse 2 Let us understand
that Jesus was a man of God, but Jesus seen that he was not clean of his sins
in his life.
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned,
and come short of the glory of God;
We may think that we are saved just
knowing God, but we lack a renewed heart and mind, have not asked Jesus to wash
us in his precious blood of Jesus Christ we are yet a sinner.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead
in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together
with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
I John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his
Son cleanseth us from all sin.
2.The same came to Jesus by
night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God:
for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Verse 4 Nicodemus question
Jesus about being born again Nicodemus was looking at the words of Jesus
through the eyes of the flesh.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when
he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Verse 5 Jesus speaks on the
requirements to be born again.
Christian baptism in water is the
public symbolic outward representation of the Born Again Baptism, identifying
the newly born again believer with Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. It
is done in obedience to Christ, by believers, to a born again believer
signifying their prior spiritual new creation in Christ.
And, the Spirit which is the spirit
of God that convicts you of you sins. It doesn't feel good when you feel
goodness inside of you, and still have
bad in you also. This is where the bible said that the flesh is fighting
against spirit, and the spirit against the spirit of God.
Galatians 5:17 For the flesh
lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are
contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born
of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel
not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 8 The wind bloweth
where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence
it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these
things be? 10
Jesus answered and said unto him, Art
thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye
receive not our witness.
Verse 12 Jesus told Nicodemus
if you don't believe the words that I
speak of earthy things, How will you
except those things that are heavenly things.
12 If I have told
you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of
heavenly things?
If we live by worldly religious
tradition we will have a hard time excepting the heavenly things that we cannot
see yet. We do not live by logical theory, or by eating healthy foods alone. We
live by the word of God.
Matthew 4:4 But he answered and
said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to
this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may
prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Pastor Rolando Ramos
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