Jesus and His Disciples - Conversation and Prayer. 008 - The God Who Knows -2 - John 3 Truth is Difficult.
We are praying for revival to begin in Albania.
In this example of Jesus' conversations and how we can apply them to prayer, we return to Jesus and Nicodemus. He comes in the night with a nagging question, that he doesn't even ask: How can I be right with God?
We saw last time, Jesus knows truly what is on his heart, and blows His mind by saying:
"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3
After adding an illustration of the wind, Nicodemus cries out, "How can these things be?"
We see, however, from Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27, and Ezekiel 37, that the concept of needing to be born again should not have been foreign to "the teacher in Israel," but it was.
Even Jeremiah wrote: "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more." Jeremiah 31:33-34
God does not shrink back from telling us the difficult truths of the gospel, even if we wrestle with them.
Our So what?
"In humility, difficult truths lead us to, Lord, God, Thou knowest, and I trust in Thee." Ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones.
"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more." Robert Murray M'Cheynee
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