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“Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
In this 3rd chapter of John the word “must” is used three times. We saw one of those times yesterday — “Even so must the Son of man be lifted up.” We might call that “the Savior’s must.” In our verse today, we have what we might call “the sinners’ must.” Many people in this world want to get salvation through their own efforts, and at first Nicodemus wanted to have it this way too. He had to realize that God has only one way to be saved, and that is by having a new life in Christ. He had to be born again.
Some people try to tell us that it does not matter how we come to God, but we read in Acts 4:12 that “neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” There is no other way to be born again.
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