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

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so it ever is with us also, when, like Nicodemus,<br />

we first arrive at <strong>the</strong> conviction that <strong>Jesus</strong> is <strong>the</strong><br />

Teacher come from God. What He teaches is so<br />

entirely different from what Nicodemus, or any <strong>of</strong><br />

us could, from any o<strong>the</strong>r st<strong>and</strong>point than that <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong>, have learned or known concerning <strong>the</strong><br />

Kingdom <strong>and</strong> entrance into it. <strong>The</strong> admission,<br />

however reached, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Divine Mission <strong>of</strong> this<br />

Teacher, implies, unspoken, <strong>the</strong> gr<strong>and</strong> question<br />

about <strong>the</strong> Kingdom. It is <strong>the</strong> opening <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> door<br />

through which <strong>the</strong> Gr<strong>and</strong> Presence will enter in. To<br />

such a man, as to us in like unspoken questioning,<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> ever has but one thing to say: ^ Except a man<br />

be bom from above, he cannot see <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong><br />

God.' <strong>The</strong> Kingdom is o<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> entrance to it<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r, than you know or think. That which is <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

flesh is flesh. Man may rise to high possibilities—<br />

mental, even moral: self-development, selfimprovement,<br />

self-restraint, submission to a gr<strong>and</strong><br />

idea or a higher law, refined moral egotism,<br />

aes<strong>the</strong>tic even moral altruism. But to see <strong>the</strong><br />

Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Ood: to underst<strong>and</strong> what means <strong>the</strong><br />

absolute Bule <strong>of</strong> God, <strong>the</strong> one high calling <strong>of</strong> our

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