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A Divine Necessity
The Lord of glory in speaking with Nicodemus one night, stated emphatically, “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God … Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:3,7).
This truth can be explained in this way: you can take a vessel of any metal, and reform it, by changing its shape and design. You can melt and mould it into quite a variety of forms. But you cannot change its essential nature. If it is of iron, or brass, or silver, it will remain the same metal no matter how much you change its outward appearance, how long you work at it, or how hard you try.
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 reformed, but the soul remains the same in essential quality, in the sight of God. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6).
Are you truly born again?
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