The Bible maintains that “the wages of sin is death.” It then goes on to say, “all have sinned.” The prophet Jeremiah said of man, “the heart of man is “desperately sick,” or “deceitfully wicked.” God cannot allow the desperately sick or the deceitfully wicked entrance into heaven; or heaven would be defiled. Therefore, the only way a man can become righteous and be made holy is to be born-again. To be born-again is to have Christ, the Great Physician do a supernatural work on our desperately sick heart. Once Christ performs spiritual surgery on us, we then begin to grow into the image and likeness of Christ. We also receive a new nature, Peter defines as a “divine nature,” which grows, develops, and matures into what God intends us to do. To be born-again is a divine work, a supernatural work, that takes place in the central core of man’s being — his heart. At that moment we receive the “righteousness of Christ,” and become “new creatures in Christ.” The door of heaven opens to me due to the “righteousness of Christ,” not by my own works of righteousness, which God defines as “filthy rags.” Jesus said, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. In order to communicate and know God, one must be born of the Spirit of God. Those who have not been born-again, are spiritually dead “in trespasses and sin.” Dead men cannot hear, cannot speak, cannot contact God. The good news is, just as Jesus raised the physical dead, He likewise raises the spritual dead. Have you been born again?
I like it!