Born Again Hoax - The New Ensign

such a Kingdom. He wanted to know how to enter in with all the fullnessby which a person could make himself completely expendable for thecause of God.And so, these are his questions as Nicodemus, a ruler, and a theologicalteacher among Israel in Palestine came to Jesus and said: 'Master, weknow that thou are a teacher come from God, for no man can do thesemiracles that thou doest except God be with him'.There is one rather fine fact here declared, and that is that the type ofmiracle which Jesus performed was a constructive one. The kind ofmiracle, which came forth from Christ, was one that was co-creative, ithealed, it illuminated, it relieved and brought pressure from the mindsand souls of men. Almost all of the miracles which come out of thenegative side of the occult, such as are produced by false teachers andfalse Messiah's, and strange or pagan forces of deity and concept that wefind in Asia and down among the Witch doctors in Africa are almost allof them a pattern of trickery, merely to establish the power of mysticism.They do not have creative force. They are not spiritually healing forces.But in the Ministry of Christ, the miracles, which He did, and the power,which He applied, demonstrated that this was not an attempt to merelysay, see what I have done. But it was an attempt upon their part as theybeheld them to try to evaluate it to see what Jesus did there was a finality;there was a command, there was a positive ness. (Nicodemus said:) Iconvinced by the very miracles that you’ve done that you have comefrom God. You can tell my friends by the kind of trickery pulled offthrough out the world where they come from, whether from the templesof Kali, whether the fakers of India or what type of trickery they areputting over. But he said: I perceive that thou art a man who has comefrom God.' Jesus answered him now he said: ‘Verily, verily I say untothee except a man be 'twice' born he cannot SEE the Kingdom of God.'Now Jesus was telling Nicodemus something about himself. Nicodemusperceived the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus perceived that the Kingdomwas real, that it was tangible, that it was going to be built. He perceivedit reached into the heavens and into the earth. Jesus said: I perceive( Page 8 )