"Ye must be born again." Thus the Lord of Glory said.
The truth has been expressed as follows:
"You can take a vessel of any metal and reform it, change its shape and design. You can melt and mold it into quite a variety of forms. But you cannot change its essential nature. If of iron, or brass, or silver, it will remain the same metal. Not until you can change the iron into brass, the brass into silver, the silver into gold, can you change by your own effort your sinful nature and be a partaker of the divine nature. The outward life may be re-formed, but the soul remains the same in essential quality in the sight of God.”
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.”
Have you been born again?