PRAY WITHOUT CEASING - WORK FAITHFULLY - MAKE STRAIGHT THE PATHS

PRAY WITHOUT CEASING -  

WORK FAITHFULLY -  

MAKE STRAIGHT
THE PATHS 

  

When my children were growing up they knew

their Mother and Father were busy and occupied in

giving their efforts in helping a local 

Church to be what it should be -

A LIGHTHOUSE.

A LIGHTHOUSE GIVES LIGHT

SO THAT POSSIBLE ROCKS

IN THE WATER CAN BE 

AVOIDED

IT ALSO HELPS TO

LIGHT UP THE DARKNESS

SO THAT A SHIP CAN

FIND ITS WAY.

WHATEVER A CHURCH IS NAMED

IS NOT THE POINT.

IT IS WHETHER IT STICKS 

FAITHFULLY

LIKE GLUE

TO THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD

TO THE PRECEPTS THAT IT HOLDS FORTH

AND TO THE 

BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES

IT GIVES US.

ALL WE EVER NEED 

IS THE WORD OF GOD 

FOR TODAY

THAT IS ALL WE HAVE

IN THE DARK NIGHT OF

SIN THAT 

FOLDS ITSELF

OVER EVERY ASPECT

OF LIFE 

FROM BIRTH

TO

DEATH.

LIFE.

LIFE ETERNAL.

LIFE EVER LASTING.

FOR EVER AND FOR EVER.

WHAT DOES IT 

REALLY MEAN 

TO 

LAST 

FOR EVER ?

For God So loved the World
that He gave his only 
begotten Son that 
whosoever 
believeth in him
should not perish,
but have 
everlasting 
life.
JOHN 3.16

Matthew 5.16

Let your light so shine 

before men

that they may see

your good works

and 

glorify your

Father which is in

heaven.

I was just a child 

in 1935.   Here I am 

just barely two years old

and I thought 

I was helping my 

Grandmother

in the garden ! 

Oh ! my !  

I know now how

much she loved me 

and wanted me to 

learn how

to do 

and be

all I could be 

for God.

Do you know 

we are all

LITTLE CHILDREN? 

So often 

we are unable 

to do for our self

until some ONE 

takes a hand to 

teaching 

a new truth

and a new way

to me.

UNTIL I LEARN TO 

RECEIVE FROM 

ANOTHER

I CANNOT 

LEARN 

...

A PERSON
HAS TO BE WILLING
TO 
BE TAUGHT
TO BE LED 
TO BE SHOWN WHAT 
TO DO.

AND GOD'S WORD 
DOES THAT 
ECACTLY THAT.

Psalm 119.105  
THY WORD IS A LAMP
UNTO MY FEET,
AND A LIGHT
UNTO MY PATH.

I challenge you that
the Great Commission 
in Matthew 28.18 - 20 
is the CORE TRUTH
of the LIGHT we are to 
display 
in our lives.
WITH THE LOCAL 
BODY OF BELIEVERS
A LIGHT CAN SHINE
EFFECTIVELY
IT SHOWS HOW
WE CAN LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
IT SHOWS A 
BIG CONTRAST WITH 
WHAT THE WORLD HAS TO 
OFFER.
Jesus said,  
"Upon this rock will I build my 
church, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail
against it.
Matthew 16.18.
Peter had just responded to
the question that 
Jesus gave,  
"Whom do you say
that I am?"
And Simon Peter answered
and said unto him,
Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the Living God."
Matthew 16. 16.
In John chapter 13
v 33, 34
Jesus told the 
disciples
"A new commandment I give
unto you,
that ye love one another; 
as I have loved you, 
that ye love one another.

v. 34 

By this shall all men
know that ye are my 
disciples, if ye have 
love one for another.

ROMANS 10.9, 10
THAT IF THOU SHALT CONFESS 
WITH THY MOUTH
THE LORD JESUS,
AND SHALT BELIEVE
IN THINE HEART 
THAT GOD HATH RAISED HIM
FROM THE DEAD,
THOU SHALT 
BE SAVED.
FOR WITH THE HEART 
MAN BELIEVETH UNTO
RIGHTEOUSNESS,
AND WITH THE 
MOUTH 
CONFESSION IS 
MADE
UNTO SALVATION.
ACTS 1. 7,8
It is not for you to know 
the times or the seasons,
which the Father 
hath put in His own power,
but ye shall receive power, after
that the Holy Ghost is come 
upon you, and ye
shall be witnesses
unto me, both
in Judea, 
and in Samaria,
and unto the 
uttermost part of the earth.

TO BE ABLE TO PRAY

WE MUST FIRST BE SAVED.

WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?

said the people who were 

listening to what the 

disciples were telling 

them that JESUS WAS RISEN

FROM THE DEAD

AND GONE BACK TO 

HEAVEN

AND WILL 

COME AGAIN....

WHAT MUST WE DO 

TO BE SAVE?

Peter answered,

REPENT 

AND BE BAPTIZED 

EVERY ONE OF YOU

IN THE NAME OF 

JESUS CHRIST

FOR HIS 

REMISSION 

(FOGIVENESS) 

OF SINS, 

AND YE SHALL RECEIVE

THE GIFT OF

THE HOLY GHOST.

FOR THE PROMISE IS

UNTO YOU, 

AND UNTO YOUR CHILDREN,

AND TO ALL THAT ARE AFAR OFF,

EVEN AS MANY AS

THE LORD  OUR GOD

SHALL CALL.

Acts 2.38 - 40

REMEMBER 

BAPTISM IS NOT WHAT

SAVES US.

WE ONLY  SHOULD BE BAPTIZED

AFTER WE REPENT AND BELIEVE

ON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST,

AND THIS IS TO OBEY 

HIS COMMAND 

AND

TO IDENTIFY

OUR LIFE WITH 

THE 

DEATH

BURIAL

AND

RESURRECTION OF 

JESUS CHRIST

AS 

A

SUBSTITUTE 

AND 

ATONEMENT

FOR MY SIN

IN MY PLACE

AND 

AS HE ROSE FROM THE GRAVE

I AM DEAD INDEED TO SIN

AND ALIVE UNTO GOD

THROUGH THE

BLOOD OF THE 

FINISHED WORK

ON THE CROSS OF CALVARY.

THE CHURCH IS 

THE PEOPLE 

WHO "ARE CALLED OUT" 

TO BE HIS PEOPLE

HIS CHURCH

In every way, we

are NOW members 

of God's family.

Galatians 3.26

For ye are all the 

children of God 

by faith

in Christ Jesus. 

Ephesians 2.8,9

For by grace 

are ye saved through faith;

and that not 

of yourselves;

it is the gift of God;

not of works,

lest any man should boast.

Philippians 1.6

Being confident of this

very thing, 

that he that hath begun 

a good work in you

will perform it 

until the day of Christ.

Galatians 3.13 

Christ hath redeemed us 

from the curse of the law, being made

a curse for us; for

it is written,

cursed is every one

that hangeth from a tree.

Galatians 3.14 

That the blessing of Abraham

might come on the Gentiles

through Jesus Christ; 

that we might receive

the promise of the 

Spirit through faith.

Galatians 3.28 

There is neither Jew nor Greek;

there is neither bond nor free; 

there is neither male nor female, 

for ye are all 

one in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 2.1, 2

Wherefore, laying aside all 

malice, and all guild, and hypocrisies,

and evies, and all 

evil speaking,

as newborn babes, 

desire ye the sincere milk

of the WORD  that ye 

may grow thereby.

ROMANS   10.17 
so then faith cometh by hearing,
and hearing by the word of God. 

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LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS - LET IT SHINE by bibleladyjune99cash

TREES OF MYSTERY - REDWOODS CA 

PLAN A TRIP TO THE REDWOODS

IN THE REDWOODS OF CALIFORNIA
MY HUSBAND AND I MADE
FOUR TRIPS TO SEE
THESE
TREES.

LIGHT SHINES INTO OUR SOULS
AND WHEN WE
VISIT THE REDWOODS
WE ARE REMINDED OF THE GLORY
OF GOD
IN HIS CREATION.

IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND VOID; AND DARKNESS WAS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP.   AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS.  AND GOD SAID, LET THERE BE LIGHT.  AND THERE WAS LIGHT.
GENESIS 1.1 - 3

THIS IS WHAT THE HIGHWAY

WAS LIKE ON OUR WAY HOME

THE LAST TIME WE WENT.

WITHOUT SUNSHINE

TREES 

WOULD 

NOT BE ABLE TO GROW

LIKE THIS.

JUST THINK !  

GOD THOUGHT ABOUT YOU AND ME 

BEFORE WE EVER KNEW HIM !

AND HE PREPARED A WORLD WITH

SUNSHINE, AND SHADE,

WATER, SKY, AND MUCH TO GROW

BIRDS TO FLY 

AND ANIMALS TO CRAWL AND CREEP.

HOW AMAZING

My husband worked for the U S Forest Service many years.  He learned how to plant trees, take care of them, and nurture them, and then trained others to do the same.

I marvel that in God's WISDOM  he gave us L I G H T.

JESUS SAID "I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
HE THAT FOLLOWETH ME SHALL NOT WALK
IN DARKNESS, BUT SHALL HAVE THE LIGHT OF LIFE.
John 4.12

AGAIN, HE SAID
SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES; FOR IN THEM YE THINK YE HAVE
ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY ARE THEY WHICH TESTIFY OF ME.
AND YE WILL NOT COME TO ME, THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE.
John 5.38,39

IN THIS PAINTING THAT MY DAUGHTER DID, THE SUN
IS SHINING FROM THE SKY ONTO A LAKE AND ONTO THE TREES.

REMEMBER THAT GOD HAS
GIVEN US HIS WORD TO LIGHT
THE DARKNESS IN OUR SOULS
WITH HIS LIGHT,
HIS LOVE,
AND HIS DEAR SPIRIT
TO LEAD AND GUIDE US
WHEN
THERE
IS ONLY
DARKNESS
ALL ABOUT US.

AS THE DAFFODILS FINISH BLOOMING
AND APRIL TURNS TO MAY
I GIVE YOU MY ASSURANCE
THAT JUST AS PLANTING THESE BULBS
IN THE FALL
RESULTS IN SPRING BLOSSOMS,
SO TOO
THE SEED OF GOD'S WORD
WILL ALWAYS COME BRINGING
LIGHT AND JOY INTO YOUR HEART
WHEN YOU READ IT
AND LET HIS WORD
SPEAK TO YOU
AS THE DEAR SPIRIT
BREATHES LIFE INTO YOUR
WEARY TIRED SOUL.

LET JESUS COME INTO YOUR HEART,
LET JESUS COME INTO YOUR HEART,
LET HIM IN TODAY
TRUST HIM - AND SAY -
COME INTO MY HEART,
LORD JESUS.

PSALM 119.105
THY WORD IS A LAMP TO MY FEET,
AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH.

2 COR. 4.6
FOR GOD WHO COMMANDED THE LIGHT TO SHINE
OUT OF DARKNESS, HATH SHINED IN OUR HEARTS
TO GIVE THE LIGHT OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF
THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE
OF JESUS CHRIST.

LORD, GIVE ME LIGHT
SHOW ME THE WAY
TO WALK
EACH DAY
MY LIFE I GIVE
EACH DAY TO LIVE
FOR THEE ALONE
THY LIGHT
MY PATH TO TAKE
ONE STEP
EACH STEP
ONE DAY
EACH DAY
AS GOD GIVES
LIGHT
I WILL WALK
CERTAIN
SURE
UPON
THE PATH
I
AM TO GO.

JESUS SAID
LUKE 9.23
IF ANY MAN WILL COME AFTER ME,
LET HIM DENY HIMSELF,
AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS DAILY,
AND FOLLOW ME.

JUST AS WE WALK IN THE REDWOODS
WE WALK HERE ON THIS EARTH
OUR PATH MAY LEAD US
FAR AND WIDE,
BUT WITH JESUS
I AM WALKING IN THE LIGHT.

I JOHN 1.7
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.


I JOHN 2.1,2
BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE
THE FATHER HAS BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD
BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD; THEREFORE THE WORLD
KNOWETH US NOT, BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT.
BELOVED, NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD,
AND IT DOTH NOT APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE;
BUT WE KNOW THAT,
WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR,
WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM,
FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS.

THE LAMB OF GOD by Wm Henry Cash, Jr 1927 - 2012

THE LAMB OF GOD  by Wm Henry Cash, Jr   1927 - 2012

John 1.29

BEHOLD, THE LAMB OF GOD

WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN

OF THE WORLD.

Text:   JOHN 1.19 - 37

                                               REV. 5. 1 - 14

   INTRODUCTION:    IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THE LAMB WAS THE SYMBOL OF SACRIFICE FOR SINS.    THE PICTURE GIVEN IN THE SACRIFICE OF A LAMB IS THAT JESUS IS THE ONE WHO OFFERED THE FINAL AND ONLY SACRIFICE THAT MANKIND WOULD EVER NEED TO HAVE SINS FORGIVEN, AND TO HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.  JOHN THE BAPTIST RECOGNIZED JESUS FOR HE SAID "BEHOLD ! THE LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD."    IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, JESUS IS PRESENTED TO US AS THAT LAMB SLAIN FROM BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.            MY PROPOSITION IS THAT JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD GAVE HIS LIFE FOR US.

SCRIPTURE TEXT
JOHN
1.19    And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him,  Who art thou?
1.20   And he confessed and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ.
1.21   And they asked him,  What then?  Art thou Elias?   And he saith, I am not.   Art thou that Prophet?  And he answered, No.
1.22  Then said they unto him,  Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us.  What sayest thou of thyself?
1.23  He said,  I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the Prophet Esaias.
1.24   And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
1.25  And they asked him, and said unto him,  Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that Prophet?
1.26  John answered them saying,  I baptize you with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
1.27  He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, who shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose.
1.28  These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
1.29  The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and he saith, Behold, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
1.30  This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
1.31  And I knew him not: but  that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
1.32  And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode on him.
1.33  And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me,  Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
1.34  And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
1.35  Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
1.36  And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
1.37  And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

Here John proclaims that Jesus is the Son of God, the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.  As the Passover Lamb which was in type a picture of what Jesus would do by going to the Cross, he had to be spotless, pure, and without sin to be the sacrifice.    He is the Lamb prophesied in Isaiah chapter 53. 1 - 12    in particular verses 5 - 7.

Isaiah 53  verses 1 - 6 
"Who hath believed our report ?   and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?   For He shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted;  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way, and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, he openeth not his mouth."  

I.  The Lamb of God in HIS UNIQUE CHARACTER. 

John 1.15 - 17   John bare witness of him, and cried, saying,  "This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.  And of his fulness have we received, and grace for grace.   For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ."

Preferred before John, John knew that this was MESSIAH.  He declares that Jesus is full of grace and truth.   The Law addressed mankind as members of the Old Creation - while Grace addresses mankind as members of the New Creation. 

Philippians 5.19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2.1 - 3   And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of power of the air,  the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.  Among whom also we all had our conversation (manner of life) in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. "

Romans 5.1-5  Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is spread abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Ephesians 2: verses 4 - 7  But God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved) and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

That John should describe Jesus as being full of GRACE AND TRUTH points us to the fact that here indeed was God living among us, and yet He had come to be the SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB for us that we might have everlasting life. 

Romans 5.12   Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned. Romans 5.15  If through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.   

II. The Lamb of God in HIS UNIQUE MISSION.

John 1.18   No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.  

In the past,  God was unrevealed, and unseen, except for certain Angelic "appearances" of God   Malachi 3.1 tells us  "Behold, I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in:  behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.   Isaiah 40.3  The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.  Philippians 3.9 tells us  "and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith."   Ephesians 2.8 -9  For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.  Romans 3.23 - 26  For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  Being justified freely by the grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God: to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. 

In the Passover, the memory of how the people of God were instructed to put the BLOOD upon the posts of the door, and the Lintel -  for only in doing so would the death angel pass over...

In making their exodus from Egypt,  they were a REDEEMED PEOPLE.... They had been delivered and now were on their way back to their land.   

John the forerunner pictures Jesus as the LAMB OF GOD WHICH TAKETH AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD.

Abraham,   Jacob,  Moses,  all knew of God as the One who spoke with them, and who appeared to them in Angelic form.   People were expecting Messiah - the Deliverer - the Redeemer to come.

Abraham received the promise of a SEED - a son -  through whom the Blessing would come on the world.   Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses.    And now here was John declaring, that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was here as the LAMB which taketh away the sins of the world.   and that through HIM the FATHER HAS BEEN DECLARED.   

John 14. 6 - 11  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him and have seen him.  Philip saith unto him, Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him,  Have I been with you so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?   he that hath seen me hath seen the Father, and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?   Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in me?  the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workd.  Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father in me: or else believe me for the work's sake."   

  

John was willing to submit to God's will that he was to PREPARE THE WAY for the ONE WHO WOULD COME ....

Now we have a choice. 

We can receive Him and believe on Him as the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.

 Song    SAVED BY THE BLOOD

    SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!

     NOW RANSOMED FROM SIN

      AND A NEW LIFE BEGUN ...

     SING PRAISE TO THE FATHER !

          AND PRAISE TO THE SON!

      SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF T

HE CRUCIFIED ONE.

 

   SAVED....SAVED.... MY SINS ARE ALL PARDONED

    MY GUILT IS ALL GONE 

     SAVED....SAVED...I'M SAVED BY THE BLOOD 

          OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE.

   SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!

    THE ANGELS REJOICING BECAUSE IT IS DONE !

    A CHILD OF THE FATHER, JOINT-HEIRS WITH HIS SON!

     SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE !

    SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!

    THE FATHER HE SPAKE AND HIS WILL IT WAS DONE,

     GREAT PRICE OF MY PARDON, HIS OWN 

             PRECIOUS SON,

     SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!

 

     SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!

       ALL HAIL TO THE FATHER, ALL HAIL TO THE SON!

       ALL HAIL TO THE SPIRIT, TO THE THREE IN ONE, 

        SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE CRUCIFIED ONE!  

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YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN 

JESUS AND SPIRITUAL BIRTH 

                                                                        By  June Estelle Cash

                                                 BIBLEBUFFJOURNAL-BIBLELADY99CASH

                     JESUS WAS BUSY.   IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY. 

           Jesus had been busy, proclaiming who He was, 

  and telling everyone that He was from the Father.

  He even entered into the Temple,  and sent out 

 all the buyers and sellers with their animals.

  "Take these things hence, make not my Father's

 house an house of merchandise."
 [John chapter 2.16].   It was Passover time.  

 And Nicodemus came at night.

          

 The day had been filled with questions.  What sign will you give us? the leaders asked him ?hen they said,  "Forty and six years this temple was in building, and you will rear it up in three days?"   They had no clue as to what he was saying. 

  John chapter 2.21 to 23 tells us :  " But he spake of the temple of his body.  When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them, and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said."
         So in the evening, when no one would know that he came,  Nicodemus came to inquire of Jesus.    A man of the Pharisees, he was a "ruler of the Jews".    A person of known leadership, yet he came that night.    "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." 
              Are you a master of Israel and knowes t not these things?

        Nicodemus was one of those who were LOOKING for the KINGDOM OF GOD.   And here now, Jesus, Y'SHUA, was telling him that he must be born into that kingdom.   He is listening.   He had seen Jesus cast out the merchants from the temple along with the animals.   Then he had sat and taught in the Temple.  He must have questions running through his mind.   He is distraught, because he knows the other Pharisees do not like Y'SHUA at all.   They are very determined to find his weakness, and to criticize.    Not Nicodemus.   He came, seeking.
              Nicodemus would understand what he was saying about Moses and the serpent being raised in the wilderness.    The account is told in Numbers 21 that the people were again complaining and murmuring that "there was no bread, and no water"  even though they were receiving MANNA from heaven as needed, and even though God told Moses to strike the rock for water.    So God sent serpents among the people and they were being bitten by these.   Many died.   God told Moses to make a serpent of BRASS - which speaks of JUDGMENT - up on a pole.   So he did.
           It never records what Nicodemus did.    I would like to think he did find Christ.   Scripture does not speak on this.    I do however, wish to say, that I know I have come into the family of those who are BORN AGAIN.   I found that reading God's Word watered my soul with living water and refreshing life because the Good News of God's love has opened my life to God, and I believed that Jesus is just who He says He is, and that He has become my Savior.    I am thankful that Jesus came to give us LIFE ETERNAL, LIFE EVERLASTING, and that He has given me His Spirit to live inside me that I may find Hope and Strength and Joy in my life.   His Spirit living in me is the way God has sealed me for Himself, that someday I will be with Him forever.

        Jesus  replies "Verily, Verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again,he cannot see the Kingdom of God." 

 [John 3.3]. Responding,  Nicodemus asks "How can a man be born when he is old?  can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?"   Jesus replies, "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."

  [John 3.5]  He goes on to say "that which is born of the 

flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.    Marvel not that I say unto you, Ye must be born again. 

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 everyone that is born of the Spirit.  [John 3.4 - 8].  

 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, "How can these things be?"  

         My heart fills with love for the Lord Jesus Christ as I continue on in the record of what He said to Nicodemus.    He knew Who He was, What He had come to do, and What was Needed for us to know Him.   He made it very plain.

         Jesus responds to Nicodemus with these words:   

 Verily, Verily I say unto thee, we speak that we do know,

and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our

 witness.    If I have told  you earthly things, 

and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I 

 tell you of heavenly things? [John ch. 3.10,11, 12].

           

 Then Jesus continues,  And no man hath

ascended up to heaven, but he that came

down from heaven, even the Son of man which is 

 in heaven.   And as Moses

 lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,

 even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that

 whosoever believeth in him should not perish but

 have eternal life.  FOR GOD SO LOVED THE 

  WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM 

 SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.

 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be 

saved.   He that believeth on him is not condemned; 

but he that believeth not is condemned already,

 because he hath not believed in the name of the only 

 begotten Son of God."   [John 3.13 - 18]

             So Jesus spoke, telling Nicodemus out plain 

what he wanted to know.   Nicodemus is just like us.

We hear a lot about the Bible,  about religion, about what some people believe either for or against Jesus.  Now

here Nicodemus knew a lot was at stake.  His people had been looking for Messiah, and the expectancy was great.   A great longing for a return of THE KING to set 

up his kingdom.  Everyone knew WHO JESUS WAS.    THEY KNEW his lineage.   It was recorded in the Temple.   They knew of him as the Rightful Heir of the line of David.   They knew that this might be MESSIAH.  But they did not like what he was telling them.   They were looking for S I G N S  but He was telling them, He was

 the Messiah and that He was from Heaven, and would go back to Heaven.  And that Life came from believing in Him.  

              Jesus went on to say 'And this is the condemnation that Light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest their deed should be reproved.     But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be manifest, that they are wrought in God."     [John 3.19 21].

They were told to LOOK AT THE SERPENT - AND THEY WOULD BE HEALED.

           

            Nicodemus knew that the sin was represented 

by the serpent on the cross. Now here is Y'shua telling

 him that only by being born into the family can he see 

the Kingdom of God, and furthermore, that He, 

Y'shua would be lifted up just as the serpent was. 

   The Cross was why Jesus, Y'shua, came.  

  He came to be our once and for PASSOVER LAMB to bear our sins on the Cross of Golgotha. He came knowing what he had come to do was the only way

 for us to be born of the Spirit.

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Lighthouse by the sea

                      Come along with me 

       Walking by faith, I will keep on climbing.

            

ABIDE IN ME John chapter 15 That others may see and know  That Life is in Me. “If you abide in me, and my words Abide in you, Ye shall ask what ye will And it shall be done Unto you.”   John 15.7 Jesus knows I needed my life in Him If I am to have a living vital life And to win others  for Christ. I am only His branch. He sometimes prunes my life, and It seems so painful. Lord,  prune me that I might not just be as Fruit More fruit But Much fruit. And that my joy will remain.   With Him I will have J O Y  “Apart from me, you can do nothing.”  John 15.5 Jesus wants my joy to be full.           Therefore I must abide in Him, in His love, walking close to           Him and not concerned with the fears of personal loss, possessions, friends and family.   My abilities, my expectations are all gifts from Him to begin with, so I ought to remember that                 Forgetting                          That which is                           Behind me,                 Go forward                           Pressing onward                           To the prize of the High Calling of God                                     In Christ Jesus.                               Philippians 3.1 – 16

Philippians 3.10   I  may  K N O W    H I M  and the power of His Resurrection and the fellowship of His Suffering               Being made conformable to His death…                          Living,   Loving,  Looking                  To Him for His Strength, His Supply, His Provision.  Philippians 4.19   My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ. Galatians 2.20  I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave His life for me.  Galatians 3.11 The just shall live by faith. Romans 1.17  The just shall live by faith.   Luke9:23  If anyone will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  2 Cor. 3:18    We all, with open face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lor, are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.  Paul’s prayer was for Believers – those who are born again – born of the Spirit – to have  F A I T H  that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.    Ephesians 3.17                           It is said that the Albatross can live long periods of time                           just over the water, with no land in sight.    Amazing.                           Yet we can not L I V E  without abiding in the Vine, for                           Christ said He is the Vine and we are the branches.