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Tonight: How Can a Man Be Born When He is Old?
Preparation is a direct result of attitude.
We need to discover His person through His interactions with others.
Sanhedrin
Knowledge
Is
Power!
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
The religious person has no concept of the doctrine of total depravity; they just believe depravity relates to those in the gutter.
God gets the job done!
The true miracle takes place in the heart of those who respond to the message.
Total Depravity of Mankind:
man is born physically alive at the same time he is born spiritually dead without ever committing his first personal sin
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.
It’s your POSITION that matters most, not your CONDITION!
The human spirit is imputed at salvation.
The human spirit is the immaterial part of man designed by God to convert, to store, and to utilize spiritual phenomena.
GAP – Stage 1
The pastor-teacher prepares to teach his congregation by studying to show himself approved and by using the I.C.E method for accuracy.
But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
God’s willing to work with very little to get the job done!
“Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters
“Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.
Then he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree; and he threw it into the waters, and the waters became sweet. There He made for them a statute and regulation, and there He tested them.
‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land And streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring And My blessing on your descendants;
“Water” in the Bible
Salvation
Word of God
Holy Spirit
How Can a Man Be Born When He is Old?