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Age for Gospel - Part 1.
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:31:37 -0800 by nijjhar1

PART 1: - Normally not people of all ages are capable of understanding the Gospel. Although God can over rule this generalisation yet by nature there is a certain stage in one's life when one is more capable of receiving the Gospel than at the other stages of life. This is well demonstrated by Jesus in the process of creating the Footsteps for us to tread upon even though He Himself possessed the very Spirit of God right from His Virgin conception. Thus, when Jesus was a child, He concentrated His efforts in explaining to the Rabbis the basis of their moral laws and the significance of the Oral Torah that was kept in mind when moral laws are written. This He did when He was of 12, the age of boyhood. It was only when He was of the adulthood age of 30 that He offered Himself to the ideal Priest of Moses in the name of John, the Baptist for the baptism of water that stood for and still stands for the washing off of the sins committed under the ignorance or knowledge of the moral laws. Although Jesus Himself was sinless yet this formality was just to create the Footstep for others to follow. John knew this fact, as He loved God and not Mammon. But Jesus asked Him to go ahead for the sake of preparing the Way to Salvation for His Labourers which people call disciples. Significance of age in which Nature plays Jesus through old Nicodemus has demonstrated its role and the young Saul, who later on became St.Paul in His honour. Thus, Nicodemus was a very old Pharisee, an experienced teacher of the moral laws, who was a clean-hearted pious person but like most of his colleagues, he too was a man of letters. Most of them would apply the laws strict to the letters without tempering them with the holy spirit e.g. the curing of crooked hand of a person on Sabbath, a holy day best celebrated by performing holy works, was highly criticised by the men of the letters and rituals. In order to appreciate the significance of spirit, let us distinguish between the letters and the spirit by giving an example. Now, it is written in the moral laws that if a person steals, then he should be handed over to the law keepers. But in some parts of the world, the people would be happy to see a hungry man feed himself from their farms if he takes enough food from a farm just to fill his hungry stomach but not to sell it, which would be stealing. This custom of generosity represents the Holy spirit of God but it cannot be written down into the law books in black and white for the clever men of letters would exploit such acts of generosity. So, in accordance with the man-made laws that are mostly obeyed and quoted by the letters, it is unlawful to steal but exceptions to these moral tempering them with the Holy spirit makes laws. Thus, Holy spirit is nothing else but common sense that only the sensible people who can handle the Treasures of God, do exercise in their daily life e.g. the Samaritan man who looked after the wounded person that had been overlooked by the other two men of letters. Now, both Nicodemus and the young enthusiast in the name of Saul were clean-hearted pious persons who were obeying the moral laws by the letters. Yet they were both blind to spirit but fortunately Saul being still young was capable of receiving His Word without taking a physical re-birth. The reason why Saul and not Nicodemus was capable of receiving His Word without taking a re-birth would become clear through an analogy that we are like plants planted by God Who in the manners of a Farmer expects us to bear fruit. Thus says Jesus in Mark 4.26-29: This is what the Kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. All by itself the soil (faith in God) produces corn - first the stalk, this is related to boyhood then the ear, this is related to adulthood then the full kernel in the ear, this is related to the old age of wisdom or sealed to serve God only. As soon as the grain is ripe, He puts the sickle to it because the harvest has come. Putting sickle means asking people to leave their family homes to become Sadhus for 100% devotion to God. As Jesus found the white ripe harvest in the Samaritan village where he met a woman at the well -- John 4. If you know this Samaritan Woman at the well became a great Saint and she was tortured to death by Emperor Nero.

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