WE MUST BE BORN AGAIN

TO LIVE WE SIMPLY MUST BE BORN AGAIN…..  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him."

 In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, NO ONE CAN SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNLESS HE IS BORN AGAIN."

 "HOW CAN A MAN BE BORN AGAIN WHEN HE IS OLD?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!"

 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘you must be born again.' John 3:1-7

GOD IS LIGHT, GOD IS LIFE; IN HIM THERE IS NO DARKNESS, IN HIM WE ARE ALIVE AND NOT DEAD at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the DARKNESS, OR AS DEAD MEN, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all in. 1John 1:5-7

The thief comes only to steal AND KILL (TO HAVE US DEAD BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY) and destroy JESUS CAME that we may have LIFE, and have it in abundance. John 10:10 (WE CAN’T CLAIM LIFE UNLESS WE HAVE RECEIVED JESUS CHRIST AS OUR PERSONAL SAVIOUR, THEN WE NO LONGER ARE WALKING DEAD MEN AND WOMEN!!!!

JESUS IS THE WAY, the truth and THE LIFE. No one comes to the Father except through Jesus. John 14:6

As for BORN AGAIN BELIEVERS, we can say that we were once dead in our transgressions and sins, in which we used to live when we followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also once lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of HIS GREAT LOVE FOR US, GOD, who is rich in mercy, MADE US ALIVE WITH CHRIST even when we were dead in transgressions—IT IS BY GRACE WE ARE SAVE. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace we have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:1-10