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TruthMill Podcasts|High and Lifted Up - Nicodemus Part 2 Episode
It is not an exaggeration to say that most people realize that there is something very special about Jesus of Nazareth. But that being said, not everyone knows exactly what to do with Jesus.On the playing field of religion and philosophy, where exactly does Jesus fit? Nicodemus felt this confusion, just as many people do today.Nicodemus was a master of the Old Testament and devoted to its teaching. He had studied the revelation God had given to Israel and he considered himself an heir and a guardian to that truth.In these roles of guardian and heir, he sought to protect what he saw to be true - and to attack what he saw to be false.But when Nicodemus encountered Jesus, he encountered a very serious dilemma: the miracles that Jesus did proved that He was sent from God. But Jesus wasn't like the other "men of God" that Nicodemus knew. And to make matters worse, sometimes the God that Jesus proclaimed didn't sound very much like the God Nicodemus thought he knew. Nicodemus sought to resolve his problems by questioning Jesus honestly and directly. But in the end he discovered that it was Jesus that forced him to question himself and his own beliefs.We pray that you will listen along as Nicodemus learns the very thing that we all must learn: that no matter what it is - or who it is - that we hold to be true, we must reject it if it conflicts with what God says is true.
[ 29 Jan 2009 04:38:22 GMT ]
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