John 3: 1-13

(John 3: 1-13) There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

 

 Nicodemus was then a high-ranking rabbi, and Jesus was a young man in his thirties. By the way, he secretly visits Jesus at night and says, "Rabbi." He knew that Jesus came from God, but he thought he was not the Son of God, but a rabbi. But Jesus told Nicodemus, "If he is not born again, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." To be born again is not to be born of physical parents, but from God. Nicodemus could not understand. Being reborn does not mean that the body dies and reincarnates, but that it is reborn even though the body is alive. It's a word I can't understand. 

 

So, most people today think of being reborn as a state of mind. To be born again is not to be born again, but to be born again. In addition to the physical body, there is a spirit body. The apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 15:44, “It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. 』The body of the spirit was not born of blood. People don't believe it because it is not visible with the physical eye, but there is a spirit body. Because the newly reborn spirit body is governed by the Holy Spirit, as 1 John 3:9 and 5:18 says, Satan is inaccessible because it is at the right hand of God in Christ.

 

 It must be remembered that those who are born again are always in Christ. So, believers should not live for a realistic flesh. Satan uses all kinds of methods to constantly block the mind of the flesh and the mind of the spirit. Among them, the most dangerous is probably the media. Satan constantly induces the blood to be bound by the flesh through the media. Those who are born again and born again are compelled to convey this to others. However, today the fake gospel is prevalent. If you just believe in Jesus, you will be saved, or if you accept Jesus, you will enter into those who receive Christ. That doesn't happen unless he deny himself. Where the lineage is made, the kingdom of God does not come true. So, discord between the family arises first. 

 

In Matthew 10:35-39, ``For I am come to set a man at variance against his father his, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his cross his, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that findeth his life his shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 』

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