Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
Christianity begins here: knowing ourselves not merely corrupt in part but wholly dead in sin, requiring our nature to be created anew, a work no human power can accomplish, only the divine and heavenly power by which we were first made. We must become citizens of God's city by birth from above.
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Not enough to be new dressed, you must be new made. The understanding must be illuminated, the will renovated, the affections sanctified, the life reformed, or heaven itself becomes a place of uneasiness. The contagion of sin is universal and deep; therefore the change must be equally thorough.
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Nicodemus took it literally, can a man enter his mother's womb a second time?, which shows him to be as yet a natural man who could not receive or discern spiritual things. His question exposes his blindness to anything but the flesh.
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