{"id":319,"date":"2014-03-27T16:17:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=319"},"modified":"2014-03-27T16:39:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:39:22","slug":"a-ruler-of-the-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"A Ruler of the Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-heading su-heading-style-default su-heading-align-center\" id=\"\" style=\"font-size:35px;margin-bottom:10px\"><div class=\"su-heading-inner\">The Gospel Message<\/div><\/div>\n<span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">C<\/span>hrist&#8217;s words to a ruler of the Jews come ringing down through the ages: <strong>&#8220;Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0(John 3:3).<\/p>\n<p>When Nicodemus in deep perplexity asked thoughtfully, <strong>&#8220;How <i>can <\/i>these things be?&#8221;<\/strong> Christ gave him the gospel message of good news in twenty-five words:<strong> &#8220;For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life&#8221;<\/strong> (John 3:16).<\/p>\n<p>I ask: Have you entered into this? Do you know Christ as your personal Savior? If not, will you accept Him <i>now? <\/i>God&#8217;s Word says in John 5:24: <strong>&#8220;Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adapted from\u00a0<a title=\"He Giveth Life\" href=\"http:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/he-giveth-life\/echoes-of-grace\/lpv23400-23406\" target=\"_blank\">He Giveth Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=319&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/email_famfamfam.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=319&amp;wp_email=1\" title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email This Post<\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hrist&#8217;s words to a ruler of the Jews come ringing down through the ages: &#8220;Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God&#8221;\u00a0(John 3:3). When Nicodemus in deep perplexity asked thoughtfully, &#8220;How can these things be?&#8221; Christ gave him the gospel message of good news &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Ruler of the Jews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustrations","category-jewish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bibletruthpublishers.com\/evangelism\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}