{"id":5588,"date":"2013-01-29T20:28:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/?p=5588"},"modified":"2013-01-29T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T01:28:18","slug":"in-the-words-of-jesus-part-571","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newagedevelopments.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/in-the-words-of-jesus-part-571\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE WORDS OF JESUS\u2013Part 571"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is the Fulfilling of the Law<\/h2>\n

ON LOVE; PART CLX<\/h2>\n

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GoodWill\u00a0IS Love in Action<\/h2>\n

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“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. \u00a0And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: \u00a0That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life<\/em>” (John 3:1-15).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While it may be\u00a0repetitious, we post again the sayings of the Master both to Nicodemus and to His disciples and the world regarding a man’s attainment of the Kingdom of God. In these words to Nicodemus we find the Master speaking to a man who from his own perspective believes that he KNOWS the Mind and the Ways of God, of this religious ruler of the Jews the Master asks the rhetorical question\u00a0“Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?<\/em>“. Nicodemus should stand for us as an example of such a man in every age, a man who believes that he KNOWS the Right Way because this is what his doctrines have taught him; he believes that he KNOWS the nature of the Kingdom and that he is on the Right Path to it or that he is already accounted worthy<\/em> of it. To such a man the Master says “\u00a0Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God<\/em>” and then repeats His Truth in different words \u00a0saying “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God<\/em>“. Nicodemus has no clue to the meaning of the reality that the Master speaks and this same\u00a0cluelessness\u00a0is carried down through the ages to today where many millions may believe that they are\u00a0on the Right Path to the Kingdom\u00a0or that they are already\u00a0<\/span>accounted worthy<\/em>\u00a0of it but who at the same time are NOT doing<\/strong> what is required. Now we do not mean to infer any sense of stupidity in using this word clueless but rather we seek to express a reality that is apparent in the world today where plain Truths are not seen because they are covered by doctrinal assertions that may be contrary to or diluting of Master’s intent and this phenomenon is supported by the vanity<\/em>, the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong> in which the world exists. <\/span><\/p>\n

This of course we take from the words of the Apostle Paul who tells us of our fate in the world saying “For the creature was made subject to vanity<\/em>” which is the reality of what we call illusion<\/strong> and glamour<\/strong>; he goes on to tell us that this is not the fault of the True man, the Soul, who is so subjected saying that this happened and continues to happen”<\/span>not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope<\/em>“. We have called this the Plan of God which idea we derive from the apostles continuing saying which, in this part, tells us that this is not by the hand of man that we are in this world and in this condition. We get the understanding that this is not a bad thing from the continuation that tells us when we overlap the words that “by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,\u00a0<\/em><\/span>Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God<\/em>” (Romans 8:20-21). Seeing in this wording the reality of <\/span>hope<\/em> as it should be understood in this context meaning<\/span> expectation<\/strong>,<\/span> <\/em>for the reality of OUR God’s motivation would not be hope<\/em>. Similarly we should see that <\/span>because<\/em> could as well be rendered <\/span>that<\/em> <\/strong>which it is the majority of the time. In Paul’s words we should see the continuing saga that we as aspirants are living daily. In seeing the reality of the apostles words we can also see the reality of the vanity<\/em>, the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong>, in which the world is enmeshed; we see also the plight of men such as Nicodemus who in the illusion<\/strong> and the\u00a0<\/span>glamour<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>believe that they are Right and that the Master is wrong or else, like Nicodemus as the individual, those who, when faced with\u00a0<\/span>justifiable\u00a0evidence of a different Right, just do not KNOW. Then, in Jesus day, it is the pronouncements of the Master and His disciples that is\u00a0<\/span>challenged\u00a0and through history, as the basis of doctrine becomes centered around the Master’s teachings, it is the pronouncement of anything contrary to that doctrine that causes the same type of\u00a0<\/span>challenges\u00a0by those who believe that they have the authority of the Master and of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Enmeshed in this illusion<\/strong> and glamour,<\/strong> or in this vanity<\/em> as Paul frames it for us, we do not see the stark realities of the Master’s teachings and we do not understand the requirements of salvation any more than did Nicodemus; it is only in our recognition of the vanity<\/em>, our discernment of the illusion<\/strong> and the glamour<\/strong>, that we can begin to see the Master’s Truths, some of which are portrayed for is in plain words and others that are couched in the parabolic speaking of the Master and His apostles. So we leave and we read again the Master’s words below, words that depict for us the reality of being accounted worthy<\/em> and of attaining to the Kingdom of God; a Kingdom that we read about in these words and of which He tells us that “behold, the kingdom of God is within you<\/em>“.<\/p>\n