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30Jul/09Off

Jesus Died to your Advantage.

John16:7 "Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if i do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you." These are the words of Jesus to His disciples when He started to warn them and prepare them for His death. They are also words to us, that we must not mourn His death but rather that we should celebrate in His death the fact that we have received life.

In verse 21 of chapter 16, Jesus describes labour of a woman and the birth of her baby. The woman is in great sorrow and pain as labour comes on. She endures the agony of the labour pains and after awhile, the new baby is born. the woman quickly forgets the pains of birth and rejoices and celebrates the new life that has been born into the world. So must we be, forgetting the labour pains that Jesus endured for us in His death, that we may be born again into the world, a new creation through Him, filled with His Holy Spirit.

I have heard many say that they wish that Jesus was here alive on the earth today. Jesus said it was to our advantage that he goes away. If Jesus were alive on earth today, He would be restricted by an earthly body and would not be able to see to the needs of all the people of the earth. In the death of Jesus, we were given a new life and His Holy Spirit that lives inside of us. It is a part of Jesus that lives inside of you.

Now if you have not yet learnt to listen to and obey the part of Jesus that is within you through His Holy Spirit, Just what then makes you think that you would listen to and obey Jesus in person if He were still alive on earth today. Jesus is alive and living, just not as a physical person, but as a spritual being that lives right inside of you, available to listen to you and guide and protect you 24/7.

Because Jesus now lives inside of you through His Holy Spirit, He says to us in John16: 24 "Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full." Jesus lives inside of you, and so you therefore have the full power and authority of Jesus living right there inside of you. All you need to do is ask the Father for anything in the Name of Jesus, and the Father in Heaven will supply to all of your needs (Maybe not wants) according to His riches and glory. If you are filled with the Holy Sprit, then automatically whatever you ask for will be in line with the word of God and not based on selfish wants.

Jesus said that it is to your advantage that He goes away. If you have been given the advantage, then you have to use it.

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2Jun/09Off

Born Again

Jesus said to us that you must be Born Again.

John 3:7

Do not marvel that I said to 'You must be born again'

verse 12 "If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things."

The above words are extracts of  a conversation that Jesus was having with Nicodemus. This man, Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews and was considered a very educated man of the day, and a teacher of Israel. Jesus explained to Nicodemus, that in order for someone to enter into the kingdom of God, you had to be born again.

Nicodemus, with all of  his earthly wisdom and knowledge, was unable to understand that Jesus was referring to our spirit and not our earthly bodies. Nicodemus was not able to think outside of the area of  his understanding and knowledge which then limited him to a knowledge and understanding of earthly things only.

When we come to Jesus and we call out to Jesus to help us and become our Lord and Saviour, we start to turn away from living as a earthly and wordly being  and begin our journey into becoming a spiritually driven being. See also the regeneration. Our knowledge base starts to change and we start to gain an understanding of the heavenly things that we were unable to understand before. Due to the regeneration of our spirits, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit within of us, we become born again of our spirits.

In Matthew 13 from verse 13 to 15, Jesus explains understanding the heavenly things, has not been given to those who have not yet been called or been born again.

In Isaiah 55:9 it explains that as the heavens are higher above the earth, so are His ways higher than your ways, and His thoughts higher than your thoughts. If you are bound into earthly understanding,  you will never be able to understand anything that is of God, as God is spiritual and not earthly. You can not understand God with your reasoning and you can not understand Him with your head.

You can only ever understand God with your heart, for within your heart is the Holy Spirit which gives you the understanding of  Heavenly things. In order to enter into the Heavenly things, you have to have faith. Faith is believing in things, the evidence of which, has not yet been seen. Educated people, mostly, want to first see and have proof of anything before they can believe, and therefore they never attain the faith that is required to enter into spiritual understanding. Jesus says that we are to come to Him as little children. Little children are so full of faith and will do anything that you tell them to do, without question, knowing that whatever you promise to them, they will receive.

Come to Him as a little child, knowing that if you have total faith, and obey His commandments to you, that once you have obeyed and walked around the city of  Jericho seven times, that the walls will fall down.

If you have never accepted Jesus into your heart before, and have never experienced the love of Jesus, then do so now, that you may start to receive the wisdom into your life that comes from above. Accept Jesus and become born again.

God Bless.

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