Supposing you come to a fork in the road, and you don’t know where to go. You don’t know which way to go, and you find that there’s a dead man lying there on one side and there’s a living man standing there on the other side. Which one are you going to ask the way? I think you’re going to ask the living person, aren’t you? Now, there are plenty of dead people...
Nicodemus says he doesn’t understand. ‘How can these things be?’ He asks And Jesus said, ‘Well, you should understand what I’m talking about because you’re a teacher of Israel, you’re not one of the am erets (the common people). You should know these things, you should know the scriptures, you should know what God has to say.’ In fact, there are plenty of scriptures in the...
Jesus is going to come again so that we can be where He is. He’ll receive us into His very presence. It’s an interesting point. Here, in our English Bibles, the word ‘come‘ is in the future tense. It says ‘will come‘ doesn’t it? But the Greek is in what we know as ‘the present indicative tense’, ‘I am come now‘. Why do I mention...
ye shall be a peculiar treasure
unto me above all people:
for all the earth is mine
Exodus 19.3