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Mystery of The Spirit
By peace | August 1, 2008
The Mystery of the Spirit Revealed To a Master in Israel
The Conversation with Nicodemus
Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews. He visited Jesus at night and said to him,”Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.”
To Be born again from water and The Spirit
Jesus said to him,”Truly, I say to you, unless a man is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Nicodemus said,”How can a grown man be born? Can he go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
Jesus replied,” I tell you most solemnly, unless a man is born through water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God: what is born of the flesh is flesh; what is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be surprised when I say: You must be born from above. The wind blows wherever it pleases; you hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. That is how it is with all who are born of the Spirit.”
“How can that be possible?” asked Nicodemus. “You, a teacher in Israel, and you do not know these things!” replied Jesus.
Jesus, only Son with a child’s heart
“I tell you most solemnly, we speak only about what we know and witness only to what we have seen and yet you people reject our evidence. If you do not believe me when I speak about things in this world, how are you going to believe me when I speak to you about heavenly things? No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven; and the Son of Man who is in heaven; and the Son of Man must be lifted up as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life.
For God sent his Son into the world not to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son. On these grounds is sentence pronounced: that though the light has come into the world, men have shown they prefer darkness to the light because their deeds were evil. And indeed, everybody who does wrong hates the light and avoids it, for fear his actions should be exposed; but the man who lives by the truth comes out into the light, so that it may be plainly seen that what he does is done in God.”
My Testimonial
This was my room in Boon Lay. Over here, I had heard ‘voices’, I had seen ’shadows’ in my mother’s room, and I had ‘conversed’ with Jesus. I painted the swans during the moonlight, hang on the wall, just above the cross (luminous cross). On the left is a small frame written “Jesus The Friend“, and beside it, my baby photo. On the right side, they were all my collections and gifts. On the bottom of Mary was a Happy Teachers’ Day gift from my niece.
Over the years, I was ‘discouraged’ by love. Born in a family who do not ‘act like Christian’, and with lots of problems in the family, and heard from families about ‘catholics worshiping idols’, I began to have second thoughts about Catholicism. Jehovah witness came to me as well. Aunty Mary, who was once a Catholic, removed her name from the church and baptised again as ‘Jehovah witness’. I did not ‘listen’ to her.
I am very glad that today, I have found my truth, and found my true religion and the one true God again. I was reborn, really reborn, of water and spirit. Thank You Jesus. Thank You God.
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August 1st, 2008 at 5:35 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Peace be with You
4. And a certain Rabbi (Nicodemus) came unto him by night for fear of the Jews, and said unto him. How can a man be born again when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born again ?
5. Jesus answered, Verily I say unto you except a man be born again of flesh and of spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and ye hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth.
6. The light shineth from the East even unto the West; out of the darkness, the Sun ariseth and goeth down into darkness again; so is it with man, from the ages unto the ages.
7. When it cometh from the darkness, it is that he hath lived before, and when it goeth down again into darkness, it is that he may rest for a little, and thereafter again exist.
8. So through many changes must ye be made perfect, as it is written in *!the book of Job, I am a wanderer, changing place after place and house after house, until I come unto the City and Mansion which is eternal.* -Septuaginta Codex Alexandrianus- hmmm
9. And Nicodemus said unto him, How can these things be? And Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a teacher in Israel, and understandeth not these things? Verily we speak that which we do know, and bear witness to that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
10. If I have told you of earthly things and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I tell you of Heavenly things? No man hath ascended into Heaven, but he that descended out of Heaven, even the Son-Daughter of man which is in Heaven.
-Gospel of The Holy Twelve.
AUM Bless You.