Nicodemus – Tracing the Progress of Grace
When he first came to Christ it was by night. Some impressions, no doubt, of the Spirit had been wrought upon his mind, or he would not have sought after Jesus; but his views were so dark and indistinct, that when Jesus opened to him the doctrine of regeneration, he thought it an impossible thing. The next account we have of him is John 7:50, where he ventures in open day-light to stand up for Christ before the whole council, and got himself no small contempt upon the occasion. By the time the Lord Jesus had finished His redemption-work on the cross, we find Nicodemus so advanced in the divine life and his love to Christ, that, in company with Joseph of Arimethea, he went boldly unto Pilate and begged the body of Jesus. (See Luke 23:51-52 and John 19:38-39.) It is very blessed thus to trace the progress of grace, and to prove the truth of that sweet Scripture, “the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto a perfect day” (Proverbs 4:18).
Robert Hawker
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