Show necessity of the new birth by REV GRANT STROH correspondence department 2 mood lood ebie institute chicago verily verily I 1 say unto onto thee be except a nian man be hot boi n gin hec lie cannot annot see ice the king kingdom doin of goil god john 33 in these words jesus declared tile mot mo t vital necessity in the world yet overlooked oel looked unini unlaced ed men do not like to I 1 edge tills this fact of their need their sinful B 1 naul state of 0 heart yet tile the possibility of becoming a gaill pul ought to it bring cheer arid gladness to nil all abhi but why the necessity for b eing being boin ililear I 1 because flesh and blod biond cannot inherit the ot of heaven 1 I cor col 1550 tile llie mind of 0 the flesh Is enmity lignin against st god for it is id not subject to the law of god neither indeed can be and they that are in the flesh not in the spirit cannot please god rom koin 87 8 because tile the datura natural man mail receive th not the lie S of the spirit of god for they lire are foolishness unto him and lie can not know them because they at are spiritually judged W it V 1 I 1 cor 1 the natural man lias has no taste table for hea heavenly enly things hate jou iou heard the legend bf the swan the small inn tame came froni from tile the skies and limited the heron to soar lie he pictured thelle alie auty of the clouds the glories of tile stair charming landscapes lowing floming sli eama the heron asked are there tiny any snails there not for all these pure glories Cs woud he be leave the mud and snails Is he had no taste tor for them the data natural r ill man asks are there any pie picture tu re shows up there any football games ga m es up tp there athe 2 the natural man mail cadot canot enter the kingdom of heaven ye must be born again this sole condition Is the binge upon which the door into the kingdom opens find and bluses cluses what would a person do iu in heaven with an nature he could not possibly enjoy it in the brightness of light proceeding front from the throne the deadened conscience would leap to life unchanged there could be no fellos fellowship bip with holy spiritual beings and indeed no love for their society in eiery cery way one would feel out of place there as at a m wedding edding feast NA alth ith out a garment if you do not enjoy the praising of god here how could you there it if aou ou have nothing in common with the faints here and do not enjoy spiritual things neither mill all you in that upper world but it Is quite useless to speak of these thee things lings ti for unless sou nou be born bora again you cannot see the kingdom of god even here and now ye must mus t there are arc no exceptions 11 II because mere inere morality la Is not su sufficient f fici ent we can understand why a mur derer would be excluded but amby a respected man like nicodemus nico dennis denius was a moral man but morality has to du do only with conduct it applies only to the outer life it lias has to 10 10 only our to our fel fellows while religion concerns pil pilm arlly warily our relation to got god though it also embraces our relations inns to our fellows fellos III tile the now new birth is a universal necessity 1 scientists now well know that only life can produce life nathl nothing ng becomes alive unless life Is imparted to it furthermore no subject can rise into the kingdom above it save by means ot of a new life imparted to it by that higher life I 1 e except by being born from abai e the dead soil cannot of itself grow into a beautiful stately pine little tree but the life of the tree may lay hold of the soil and assimilate it into itself thereby giving it a higher life the vegetable kingdom cannot enter tile the animal kingdom except through animal life imparted to it 2 the same game holds true it if ve me ascend from the human life into the divine life life from above must be imparted to our natural life before we can enter or eien een see the spiritual kingdom the kingdom at god la Is not nat entered by natural men but by spiritual renee hence tile the necessity of a spiritual birth A great great change Is necessary necessary tor for every man before he be Is if ready to enter the kingdom of god some power must inalie bake us over into something different from what me e are by nature As the natural birth was necessary to produce the life of the body with all its faculties so 0 tile the spiritual birth la Is necessary to the life ot of tile soul christ Is the only man who mho has come flown doan out of heaven and who has eala again ascended into heaven beaven it if anny other Is to enter it must be through him and as moses alloi es lifted up the ser falln in the M R evet even aa r robit antt MF SZ pon n am of MT lie lifted cyp up tut arif anos sever in him hill should not perish lint but haie li ne eternal life by il v faith in ill chilst we me are united to christ and thus ills own life Is imparted to us we may not fully under stand the mystery iet ct we know what it Is the fact lias hins been fully demonstrated st rated As we derived our old the human nature flow adam liy by natural ablith so it Is by the lie new birth that w wo 0 a new nature from tile the seco second adam achim the man christ jesus |