Friday, February 16, 2024

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John 3:3-4

King James Version

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.

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?


Tired of the old you?

Feeling old?

Needing new energy?

Wanting real change?

Looking to take a new path?

We can only become new, through CHRIST.

JESUS taught us how to be new.

By becoming born again:

John 3:5-8

King James Version

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.


We have to let go of the old.

We need to be re-educated.

Not in the ways of the world.

But in the ways of JESUS:

Matthew 9:17

King James Version

17 Neither do men put new wine 

into old bottles: else the bottles break, 

and the wine runneth out, 

and the bottles perish: 

but they put new wine into new bottles, 

and both are preserved.


1 Corinthians 5:6-8

King James Version

6 Your glorying is not good. 

Know ye not that a little leaven 

leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, 

that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. 

For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, 

neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; 

but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


2 Corinthians 5:17

King James Version

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, 

he is a new creature: 

old things are passed away; 

behold, 

all things are become new.


Colossians 3:9-10

King James Version

9 Lie not one to another, 

seeing that ye have put off the old man 

with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, 

which is renewed in knowledge 

after the image of him that created him:


When GOD makes you born again, you can't be your old self again.

Ezekiel 36:26-27

King James Version

26 A new heart also will I give you, 

and a new spirit will I put within you: 

and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, 

and I will give you an heart of flesh.

27 And I will put my spirit within you, 

and cause you to walk in my statutes, 

and ye shall keep my judgments, 

and do them.


The HOLY SPIRIT teaches us about JESUS.

Who taught us how to love GOD, and others.

Who taught us how to worship the LORD.

Who called us to repent, and believe the gospel.

JESUS brought forth the New Testament.

Also called a "new covenant".

Scripture explains it beautifully here:

Hebrews 8:6

King James Version

6 But now hath he obtained 

a more excellent ministry, 

by how much also he is the 

mediator of a better covenant, 

which was established 

upon better promises.


Hebrews 8:7

King James Version

7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, 

then should no place have been sought 

for the second.


Hebrews 8:8

King James Version

8 For finding fault with them, he saith, 

Behold, 

the days come, saith the Lord, 

when I will make a new covenant 

with the house of Israel 

and with the house of Judah:


Hebrews 8:9

King James Version

9 Not according to the covenant 

that I made with their fathers 

in the day when I took them by the hand 

to lead them out of the land of Egypt; 

because they continued not in my covenant, 

and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.


Hebrews 8:10

King James Version

10 For this is the covenant that I will make 

with the house of Israel after those days, 

saith the Lord; 

I will put my laws into their mind, 

and write them in their hearts: 

and I will be to them a God, 

and they shall be to me a people:


Hebrews 8:11

King James Version

11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, 

and every man his brother, saying, 

Know the Lord: 

for all shall know me, 

from the least to the greatest.


Hebrews 8:12

King James Version

12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, 

and their sins and their iniquities 

will I remember no more.


Hebrews 8:13

King James Version

13 In that he saith, 

A new covenant, 

he hath made the first old. 

Now that which decayeth and waxeth old 

is ready to vanish away.


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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

BEFORE moving ahead

 

Exodus 14:21-22

King James Version

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; 

and the Lord caused the sea to go back 

by a strong east wind all that night, 

and made the sea dry land, 

and the waters were divided.

22 And the children of Israel 

went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: 

and the waters were a wall unto them 

on their right hand, and on their left.


Before moving ahead, we need to look back.

We need to look back into the past.

As far as the Old Testament, wherein GOD delivered the Jews.

If we don't, we would have no idea GOD's love, power, and mercy.

Listen to how Nehemiah and the Jews acknowledged GOD.

Nehemiah 9:1-2

King James Version

9 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month 

the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, 

and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves 

from all strangers, 

and stood and confessed their sins, 

and the iniquities of their fathers.


Nehemiah 9:3

King James Version

3 And they stood up in their place, 

and read in the book of the law of the Lord their God 

one fourth part of the day; 

and another fourth part they confessed, 

and worshipped the Lord their God.


Nehemiah 9:4-5

King James Version

4 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, 

Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, 

Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, 

and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God.

5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, 

Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, 

Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, 

Stand up and bless the Lord your God 

for ever and ever: 

and blessed be thy glorious name, 

which is exalted above all blessing and praise.


After the LORD helped them rebuild their walls and gates.

Miraculously putting Jerusalem back again.

As part of re-educating self, let's review what GOD did for Israel:

Nehemiah 9:6

King James Version

6 Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; 

thou hast made heaven, 

the heaven of heavens, with all their host, 

the earth, and all things that are therein, 

the seas, and all that is therein, 

and thou preservest them all; 

and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.


Nehemiah 9:7-8

King James Version

7 Thou art the Lord the God, 

who didst choose Abram, 

and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, 

and gavest him the name of Abraham;

8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, 

and madest a covenant with him 

to give the land of the Canaanites, 

the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, 

and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, 

to give it, I say, to his seed, 

and hast performed thy words; 

for thou art righteous:


Nehemiah 9:9-10

King James Version

9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, 

and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, 

and on all his servants, 

and on all the people of his land: 

for thou knewest that they dealt proudly 

against them. So didst thou get thee a name, 

as it is this day.


Nehemiah 9:11-12

King James Version

11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, 

so that they went through the midst of the sea 

on the dry land; and their persecutors 

thou threwest into the deeps, 

as a stone into the mighty waters.

12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day 

by a cloudy pillar; 

and in the night by a pillar of fire, 

to give them light in the way 

wherein they should go.


Nehemiah 9:13-14

King James Version

13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, 

and spakest with them from heaven, 

and gavest them right judgments, 

and true laws, 

good statutes and commandments:

14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, 

and commandedst them precepts, 

statutes, and laws, 

by the hand of Moses thy servant:


Nehemiah 9:15

King James Version

15 And gavest them bread from heaven 

for their hunger, 

and broughtest forth water for them 

out of the rock for their thirst, 

and promisedst them that they should go in 

to possess the land 

which thou hadst sworn to give them.


Nehemiah 9:16-17

King James Version

16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, 

and hardened their necks, 

and hearkened not to thy commandments,

17 And refused to obey, 

neither were mindful of thy wonders 

that thou didst among them; 

but hardened their necks, 

and in their rebellion appointed a captain 

to return to their bondage: 

but thou art a God ready to pardon, 

gracious and merciful, 

slow to anger, 

and of great kindness, 

and forsookest them not.


Nehemiah 9:18-19

King James Version

18 Yea, when they had made them 

a molten calf, and said, 

This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, 

and had wrought great provocations;

19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies 

forsookest them not in the wilderness: 

the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, 

to lead them in the way; 

neither the pillar of fire by night, 

to shew them light, 

and the way wherein they should go.


Nehemiah 9:20

King James Version

20 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, 

and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, 

and gavest them water for their thirst.


Nehemiah 9:21

King James Version

21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them 

in the wilderness, 

so that they lacked nothing; 

their clothes waxed not old, 

and their feet swelled not.


Nehemiah 9:22

King James Version

22 Moreover thou gavest them 

kingdoms and nations, 

and didst divide them into corners: 

so they possessed the land of Sihon, 

and the land of the king of Heshbon, 

and the land of Og king of Bashan.


Nehemiah 9:23-25

King James Version

23 Their children also multipliedst thou 

as the stars of heaven, 

and broughtest them into the land, 

concerning which thou hadst promised 

to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

24 So the children went in and possessed the land, 

and thou subduedst before them 

the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, 

and gavest them into their hands, 

with their kings, and the people of the land, 

that they might do with them as they would.

25 And they took strong cities, 

and a fat land, 

and possessed houses full of all goods, 

wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, 

and fruit trees in abundance: 

so they did eat, and were filled, 

and became fat, and delighted themselves 

in thy great goodness.


Nehemiah 9:26-27

King James Version

26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, 

and rebelled against thee, 

and cast thy law behind their backs, 

and slew thy prophets which testified against them 

to turn them to thee, 

and they wrought great provocations.

27 Therefore thou deliveredst them

into the hand of their enemies, 

who vexed them: 

and in the time of their trouble, 

when they cried unto thee, 

thou heardest them from heaven; 

and according to thy manifold mercies 

thou gavest them saviours, 

who saved them out of the hand 

of their enemies.


Nehemiah 9:28-29

King James Version

28 But after they had rest, 

they did evil again before thee: 

therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies,

so that they had the dominion over them: 

yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, 

thou heardest them from heaven; 

and many times didst thou deliver them 

according to thy mercies;

29 And testifiedst against them, 

that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: 

yet they dealt proudly, 

and hearkened not unto thy commandments, 

but sinned against thy judgments, 

(which if a man do, he shall live in them;) 

and withdrew the shoulder, 

and hardened their neck, 

and would not hear.


Nehemiah 9:30-31

King James Version

30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, 

and testifiedst against them 

by thy spirit in thy prophets: 

yet would they not give ear: 

therefore gavest thou them into the hand 

of the people of the lands.

31 Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake 

thou didst not utterly consume them, 

nor forsake them; 

for thou art a gracious and merciful God.


Nehemiah 9:32

King James Version

32 Now therefore, our God, 

the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, 

who keepest covenant and mercy, 

let not all the trouble seem little before thee, 

that hath come upon us, 

on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, 

and on our prophets, and on our fathers, 

and on all thy people, 

since the time of the kings of Assyria 

unto this day.


Nehemiah 9:33-35

King James Version

33 Howbeit thou art just 

in all that is brought upon us; 

for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

34 Neither have our kings, our princes, 

our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, 

nor hearkened unto thy commandments 

and thy testimonies, 

wherewith thou didst testify against them.

35 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, 

and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, 

and in the large and fat land 

which thou gavest before them, 

neither turned they from their wicked works.


Nehemiah 9:36-38

King James Version

36 Behold, we are servants this day, 

and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers 

to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, 

behold, we are servants in it:

37 And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings 

whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: 

also they have dominion over our bodies, 

and over our cattle, at their pleasure, 

and we are in great distress.

38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, 

and write it; 

and our princes, Levites, and priests, 

seal unto it.


Let this be a foundation for a sure born again education.

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John 3:3-4 King James Version 3 Jesus answered and said unto him,  Verily, verily, I say unto thee,  Except a man be born again,  he cannot ...