Nicodemus – You’re Not Too Quick!

While outside praying in the Spirit on the first day back from my fourth of July getaway to Miami, the Spirit helped me to come to a full understanding of the following discourse that Jesus had with Nicodemus, after revealing that my next writing project would be about Nicodemus not understanding what it meant to be born again.

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:1-6, KJV).

If a soul has not been born again of the Spirit of God, how can that person reasonably expect to see or understand the Kingdom of God? We are born of flesh into this natural world, but born of water (spiritual energy from the Holy Ghost) and of the Spirit in the Kingdom of God, when Jesus baptize our souls into the Holy Ghost and the Spirit of fire in the Kingdom of God.

We become spiritual creatures after we have been born again of the Comforter in the Spirit of truth:

“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” (John 14:16-17, KJV).

This Spirit was already dwelling with the apostles of the Lamb, given to them by the Father to follow the Lamb, and was in them after they were born again of the Spirit, and I’m sure it was this very same Spirit that brought back to John’s remembrance all the things that Jesus said when Jesus and God were One, so that John would not only understand that the God of his fathers had suddenly come to His holy Temple, but understand that spiritual forces are not hindered by a body or any type of a physical structure, and that the living God had come to that living House made of flesh in Jesus.

This is how Jesus was able to transcend the walls and enter the room of where the disciples were gathered, when He became like the angels in His resurrected state:

“Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the Lord.” (John 20:19-20, KJV).

Angels can also make themselves appear as if they are human creatures, I suspect with the power of visions they can put in our minds, and how Jesus in His resurrected state made them think that they were seeing His actual body that had been crucified. Who ever wrote the book of Hebrews, I believe understood this concept, and why he issued this warning:

“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” (Hebrews 13:2, KJV).

What was the real reason Jesus was annoyed that Nicodemus did not understand what it meant to be born again? Jesus was disappointed that Nicodemus did not understand that the God of his fathers had suddenly come to His holy Temple made of flesh and blood, and had anointed Jesus as the Messiah by the Spirit of the Lord. That prophecy was being fulfilled right before his eyes. So when it came to Nicodemus understanding any of this, one would have had to say…“Nicodemus – You’re Not Too Quick!”