THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE TIME OF JESUS DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS TO BE BORN OF GOD OR BORN AGAIN BUT JESUS EXPLAINED TO ONE IN PARTICULAR CALLED NICODEMUS , THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID " TRULY TRULY I SAY TO YOU UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF SPIRIT IS SPIRIT" ......... SO YOU SEE YOU CAN NOT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE UNLESS YOU BECOME SPIRITUAL RATHER THAN FLESH SO EVEN WHEN YOUR BODY IS GETTING OLDER YOUR INNER SPIRIT IS BEING RENEWED.
THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY TEACH THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO ROADS AND DESTINYS, ONE TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH JESUS OR ONE TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT BECAUSE ONLY THROUGH COMING TO JESUS AND BELIEVING IN HIM CAN WE BE WASHED CLEAN AND ENTER INTO HEAVEN SO AS JESUS SAID "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN"..AND HE TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS "I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME"
ISAIAH 64:8 THE WORD SAYS "I AM THE POTTER AND YOU ARE THE CLAY" ALSO IN JEREMIAH AND ROMANS GOD REFERS TO HIMSELF AS THE POTTER (THE CREATOR) AN US AS THE CLAY. IN ROMANS 9:18-21 IT SAYS A VERY SOBERING STATEMENT AS FOLLOWS "SO THEN HE HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE DESIRES AND HE HARDENS WHOM HE DESIRES, YOU WILL SAY TO ME THEN ,WHY DOES HE STILL FINDS FAULT? FOR WHO RESISTS HIS WILL? ON THE CONTRARY,WHO ARE YOU .O MAN WHO ANSWERS BACK TO GOD? THE THING MOLDED WILL NOT SAY TO THE MOLDER, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LIKE THIS. WILL IT? OR DOES NOT THE POTTER HAVE A RIGHT OVER THE CLAY,TO MAKE FROM THE SAME LUMP ONE VESSEL FOR HONORABLE USE AND ONE FOR COMMON USE?
NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS, GOD IS JUST, BUT POWERFUL AND LOVES ALL OF HIS CREATION BUT HATES SIN BUT AS JOHN 3:16 SAYS "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD (YOU AND ME) THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (JESUS AS A SACRIFICE) THAT WHOEVER (ANYBODY) BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE" SO IF YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE AND TRULY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS REAL AND ONLY HE CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SINS YOU CAN HAVE THAT REASSURANCE ,PEACE AND FREEDOM KNOWING THAT YOU WILL BE A CHILD OF GOD AND HAVE THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THAT????
THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE TIME OF JESUS DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS TO BE BORN OF GOD OR BORN AGAIN BUT JESUS EXPLAINED TO ONE IN PARTICULAR CALLED NICODEMUS , THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID " TRULY TRULY I SAY TO YOU UNLESS ONE IS BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF SPIRIT IS SPIRIT" ......... SO YOU SEE YOU CAN NOT INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE UNLESS YOU BECOME SPIRITUAL RATHER THAN FLESH SO EVEN WHEN YOUR BODY IS GETTING OLDER YOUR INNER SPIRIT IS BEING RENEWED.
THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY TEACH THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO ROADS AND DESTINYS, ONE TO ETERNAL LIFE WITH JESUS OR ONE TO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT BECAUSE ONLY THROUGH COMING TO JESUS AND BELIEVING IN HIM CAN WE BE WASHED CLEAN AND ENTER INTO HEAVEN SO AS JESUS SAID "YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN"..AND HE TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS "I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE, NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME"
ISAIAH 64:8 THE WORD SAYS "I AM THE POTTER AND YOU ARE THE CLAY" ALSO IN JEREMIAH AND ROMANS GOD REFERS TO HIMSELF AS THE POTTER (THE CREATOR) AN US AS THE CLAY. IN ROMANS 9:18-21 IT SAYS A VERY SOBERING STATEMENT AS FOLLOWS "SO THEN HE HAS MERCY ON WHOM HE DESIRES AND HE HARDENS WHOM HE DESIRES, YOU WILL SAY TO ME THEN ,WHY DOES HE STILL FINDS FAULT? FOR WHO RESISTS HIS WILL? ON THE CONTRARY,WHO ARE YOU .O MAN WHO ANSWERS BACK TO GOD? THE THING MOLDED WILL NOT SAY TO THE MOLDER, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME LIKE THIS. WILL IT? OR DOES NOT THE POTTER HAVE A RIGHT OVER THE CLAY,TO MAKE FROM THE SAME LUMP ONE VESSEL FOR HONORABLE USE AND ONE FOR COMMON USE?
NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS, GOD IS JUST, BUT POWERFUL AND LOVES ALL OF HIS CREATION BUT HATES SIN BUT AS JOHN 3:16 SAYS "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD (YOU AND ME) THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON (JESUS AS A SACRIFICE) THAT WHOEVER (ANYBODY) BELIEVES IN HIM SHALL NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE" SO IF YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE AND TRULY BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS REAL AND ONLY HE CAN SAVE YOU FROM YOUR SINS YOU CAN HAVE THAT REASSURANCE ,PEACE AND FREEDOM KNOWING THAT YOU WILL BE A CHILD OF GOD AND HAVE THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE WHAT COULD BE BETTER THAN THAT????