Daily Meditations on the Bible / We stand with Israel
When you believed …
Summary: The topic of belief is a very deep well. Paul’s use of the word in Ephesians is directly related to the gospel of salvation. This is the “message of truth” Paul is talking about.
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Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.
It was night. We presume it was dark. The year was somewhere around 33 or 34 AD. What passed for streetlights were torches or fire-pots, and now and then stray lamp light escaping from a window.
A man of advancing age wearing the robes of a professional educator makes his way down one alley after another. Finally, he reaches his goal, a door of rough wood in a seedy part of town. He knocks and after it opens exchanges a few words. He enters. His name is Nicodemus. The person he has come to see is a man named Jesus.
Continue reading “1 Peter 1: 3-4 (a) — Born Again”