22/01/2026
CONTINUATION OF MY COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF PROVERB CHAPTER 16 VERSE 7.
We stop at a question of "ARE YOU BORN AGAIN"
ANSWER THIS QUESTION :
ARE YOU BORN AGAIN?
In John 3 verse 1-7, A professor in MOSAIC LAW, one of the rulers of the Jews ,also a member of the sect of Pharisees but has no intimacy with God, has not his name written in the book of life, has nothing called the new birth, in fact has no knowledge about new birth but given a title in the temple, named NICODEMUS came to our master Jesus one night, the professor did not come in the day time, peradventure, he considered his esteemed position among the Jews.
Let me start with this : there were two sects of religion in Israel when Jesus came , the first one was Sadducees while the second one was Pharisees, SADDUCEES was the first to be established, some members in SADDUCEES discovered there were loopholes in obeying the law of Moses, they pulled out from there and formed their own group and called it Pharisees, the Pharisees adopted for themselves some moral and ceremonial laws , for example :. If a sinner or gentile or non- Israelite meets a Pharisees member on the way with handshaking ,before the Pharisees member would eat or drink, he must wash his hands considering the sinner unclean , also fulfilling the law of TOUCH NOT THE UNCLEAN THING - Leviticus 22:6, 1 cor 6:17
The Pharisees considered themselves to be more perfect and holier than SADDUCEES as long as the law of Moses is concerned.
PROFESSOR NICODEMUS must have a special seat in the TEMPLE, he was highly recognized in the public and in house of God, a man with great reputation. I believe all this acquired , meritorious and prestigious positions could cause him to appear to Jesus in the night so that people would not see him and say why should professor seek Jesus who didn't have any theological and secular educational certificates, also why should professor embarrass himself in the sight of someone born in his very eyes. Can I tell you this : MINISTRY or the work of God does not have respect for CERTIFICATES. NO MAN RAISES UP THE DEAD, OPEN THE EYES OF THE BLIND, OPEN THE EARS OF THE DEAF, CONVERT THE SINNERS TO THE RIGHTEOUS BY Professorship, MASTERSHIP ,DEANSHIP AND THEOLOGY BUT by the POWER OF HOLY GHOST. Satan and sin bow only to the POWER OF HOLY GHOST. THEREFORE, MEN OF GOD ,LET US GO AND SEEK HIS POWER THROUGH PRAYER AND STUDY OF HIS WORD.
JESUS did not have all this ABOVE MENTIONED QUALIFICATIONS yet He did God's work successfully, Praise God.
Professor Nicodemus came to jesus, he did not see his spiritual deteriorated conditions, neither his spiritual nakedness nor spiritual blindness and poverty- Revelation 3: 17 , But he started praising Jesus, singing Jesus, lifting Jesus, rolling on ground for Jesus , playing musical instruments to jesus by saying " NO MAN CAN DO THIS MIRACLES YOU ARE DOING
EXCEPT GOD BE WITH HIM " IT MEANS LORD I THANK YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE A MIRACLE WORKER" john 3:2
A lot of people in church today are just like this professor who lack salvation from sin or new birth but can play on musical instruments in the church, can sing with tintinnabulation in the choir with devilish hair styles, with rags they call wicked jeans, Lord have mercy on your church.
We stop here, tomorrow we continue by His grace.
God blesses the readers.
