This is a blog post about Getting Saved, Born Again

How to Be Born Again 

A man named Nicodemus came to Jesus by night. Perhaps he was afraid of criticism or he had a desire for a private conversation, or maybe he wanted to know more before committing himself to Jesus Christ. In any event, he came and asked Jesus some questions.

Jesus looked at him and said, “Nicodemus, you need to be born again” (Cf. John 3:5). In fact, He said, “Verily, verily”—and any time Jesus used that expression, He meant that what was to follow was very important. He said, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee … ye must be born again” (John 3:5,7, KJV).

Have you been born again? Call it conversion, call it commitment, call it repentance, call it being saved, but has it happened to you? Does Christ live in your heart? Do you know it? Many people have thought a long time about religion and Christianity and yet have never made a commitment. Are you committed to Jesus Christ?

Nicodemus must have been stunned when Jesus said, “You must be born again.” It wouldn’t seem shocking if Christ had said that to Zacchaeus the tax collector or to the thief on the cross or to the woman caught in adultery. But Nicodemus was one of the great religious leaders of his time. Still, he was searching for reality.

continue reading

Furnished by Rick Livermore Webmaster220 San Juan Capistrano California –  https://rick-livermore-on-blogger.blogspot.com/

Christy Nockels and Watermark on a custom Spotify Playlist

The iframe widget does not have all the songs on the playlist: Go Here to listen to all 191 songs.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=so+great+featuring+israel+houghton+christy+nockels+and+michael+w+smith

Furnished by Rick Livermore Webmaster220 San Juan Capistrano California –  https://rick-livermore-on-blogger.blogspot.com/

Free audiobook Ten Indictments Against the Modern Church (audio) by Paul Washer

• Author: Paul Washer

The modern church is in need revival. But as author Paul Washer contends, “we cannot simply do what is right in our own eyes and then expect the Holy Spirit to come down and bless our labors.” Truth be told, the devil has little need to oppose the church’s prayer for revival unless God’s people are seeking to live lives and order congregations according to God’s Word. This book examines ten areas where churches have neglected clear biblical direction and need to prayerfully seek reformation.

Save on this month's free audiobook and add-ons!

https://app.logos.com/books/LLS%3A9781646891290 

           https://ref.ly/logosres/LLS%3a9781646891290

Furnished by Rick Livermore Webmaster220 San Juan Capistrano California –  https://rick-livermore-on-blogger.blogspot.com/

Citizens of Heaven

30. Citizens of Heaven The Greek word translated “conversation” in Phil. 1:27 is found in an early manuscript in the sentence, “I live the life of a member of a citizen body,” that is, the writer was fulfilling the duties expected of a citizen of a commonwealth. Indeed, our English word “politics,” is a transliteration of this Greek word. Paul exhorts them, “Only be constantly performing your duties as citizens, worthy of the gospel of Christ.” In Philippians 3:20 we have the noun, “Our citizenship is in heaven.” Philippi was a Greek city far from Rome, but in the Roman Empire, and a colony of Rome in the sense that its citizens possessed Roman citizenship. The inhabitants of Philippi recognized the emperor of Rome as their sovereign and were obligated to conduct themselves as Roman citizens, just as if they were residents of Rome itself. Paul was teaching the Philippian saints that just as they constituted a colony of Rome so far as their earthly connections were concerned, so they were also a colony of heaven so far as their heavenly relationships were concerned. They were far from their home country, far from their Sovereign, the Lord Jesus, just a little colony of citizens of heaven in the midst of a godless and perverse generation, among which they were to shine as luminaries, that is the word in the Greek. They were a heavenly people with a heavenly origin, a heavenly citizenship, a heavenly destiny, to live heavenly lives in a foreign land, telling others of a heavenly Father who offered them salvation through faith in His Son. What was true of the Philippian saints then is true of all the saints. We are a heavenly people with the obligation and privilege of 1iving a heavenly life on earth. Some day our Sovereign (Phil. 3:20, 21) will come back for us and take us to our native land, changing this body of our humiliation, fashioning it like to the body of His glory. The word “vile” is obsolete English for our word “humiliation.” The physical body has been humiliated by the curse of sin. It will be freed from that curse at the coming of the Lord for His Bride. In the meanwhile, we are to live on earth the same holy life that we would were we walking the streets of heaven.

Kenneth S. Wuest, Wuest’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament: For the English Reader, vol. 17 (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), 65–66.

Furnished by Rick Livermore Webmaster220 San Juan Capistrano California –  https://rick-livermore-on-blogger.blogspot.com/