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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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Heavenly Guest still busy with thought <strong>and</strong> words.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was no need for Nicodemus to pass through<br />

<strong>the</strong> house, for an outside stair led to <strong>the</strong> upper<br />

room. It was night, when Jewish superstition<br />

would keep men at home; a wild, gusty spring<br />

night, when loiterers would not be in <strong>the</strong> streets ;<br />

<strong>and</strong> no one would see him as at that hour he<br />

ascended <strong>the</strong> outside steps that led up to <strong>the</strong><br />

Aliyah. His err<strong>and</strong> was soon told: one sentence,<br />

that which admitted <strong>the</strong> Divine Teachership <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, implied all <strong>the</strong> questions he could wish to<br />

ask. Nay, his very presence <strong>the</strong>re spoke <strong>the</strong>m. Or,<br />

if o<strong>the</strong>rwise, <strong>the</strong> answer <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> spoke <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

Throughout, <strong>Jesus</strong> never descended to <strong>the</strong><br />

st<strong>and</strong>point <strong>of</strong> Nicodemus, but ra<strong>the</strong>r sought to lift<br />

him to His own. It was all about ^ <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong><br />

Grod,* * so connected with that Teacher come<br />

from God, that Nicodemus would inquire.<br />

And yet, though Christ never descended to <strong>the</strong><br />

st<strong>and</strong>point <strong>of</strong> Nicodemus, we must bear in mind<br />

what his views as a Jew would be, if we would<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> interview. <strong>Jesus</strong> took him straight to

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