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John.3:3 Jesus answered him, "Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew,{The word translated "anew" here and in John 3:7 (anothen) also means "again" and "from above".} he can't see the Kingdom of God."

Here Jesus state something “new” never before uttered by any of God's greatest prophets, search if you will, not one word in all the holy writing about needing to be born new, and/or again until Christ spoke it here! Let no one think being born again is a small matter, not important within God's word. Let us not think its just a happening a feeling an enlightenment, no!

John 7:34 You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

John 7:36 What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

John 7:27 However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."

Christ states something the Jewish faith had never heard before, and they were whom? The son's of God's promise Kingdom through Abraham, why would they not know? Because no one, but the son of God came from above, to give them the Spirit from another world much unlike our world. In other words, one has to be shown the way from someone living in that new world.

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him.

John 3:31 He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

John 8:23 He said to them, "You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.

It would take Spirit to teach them Spirit things from God's world, but there is more, and what is that? Death must come to the flesh, it had been judged dead thousands of years early by God in the Garden of Eden, how? When Adam and Eve were cut off from life, from above death came to them in their flesh, it could not live, or know the Spirit unless someone came from above to give it to them and show us the way. We than must accept our fleshly thoughts as dead of no value in entering into the kingdom of heavens.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

ohn 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Romans 8:6 For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Christ came from a world that is righteous and sinless, this is why he had what no man had in the flesh after sin, “life” yes! Life is in us, the Father life if we are sinless, but all sinned and fall short of the glory of God? None of us could be indwelt with life as Christ was indwelt with the Father life, none of us could associated with life. The Jews could associate with holy writing from the prophets, but none could enter into the Kingdom because they did not have life indwelling them. They could think upon the wonderful things of God, but they could not have life indwelling them being personally taught by God as their Father.

John 14:4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."

John 13:36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you will follow afterwards."

John 15:26 "When the Counselor{Greek Parakletos: Counselor, Helper, Advocate, Intercessor, and Comfortor.} has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

No one explains the Father but the son and who he wants to reveal himself too. To this point in the history of the Jewish faith, none knew the Father as love. Once again, something “new” not spoken by the prophets, or kings of Israel they loved God, but they never spoke of him as a God of love, and if we know God we must know him as a God of love, why?

1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

Because they had a legal view of him by law, and works of law, some had faith there was more to the Father, and acted upon their love for the Father, knowing he was good, just and loving, and that pleased God very much.

James 1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow. 1:18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

But still they did not know the way home leading to the city having real foundation not of this earth, they waited what Christ was to bring God's people and even the world. His life, indwelt with the life of the Father becoming the light of this world, pointing the way home. Yes, home, not the earth, where we are born to live in from our fathers and mothers, but born again, new for a new world, a righteous heavens where sin does not dwell. A place with a new law of the Spirit found in truth and not the lie, of human that preach and teach but cannot live up truth because of sin.

James 3:14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

But how would this come about something so profound that even the greatest teachers of Israel could not understand it, and many since Christ mocked it as just being enlighten by the writings of the bible?

None of God's prophet entered into the Kingdom of the Heavens, the were not lacking in themselves, anymore than we have something in ourselves allowing us into the Kingdom of God the new heavens. They lacked the merit of a sinless life, a perfect life, redeeming them from death of Adam, Christ the greatest of prophets had not arrived in their life time.

1 John 2:8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

Hebrews 9:15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Hebrews 10:20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Once Christ was raised up, ascended into God righteous new heavens and was seated with God he gave us the merit of his life, causing us to be born again sinless by his life. Now we knew the way home, the way of entry, we knew what none of the prophets knew, the indwelling of Christ through Holy Spirit in us. The teacher, the comforter, the incorruptible seed that overcomes death found in this world we are born into flesh alienated from God's mind that we have been given generously through Christ life now by Spirit.

Rev.1:4 John, to the seven assemblies that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from God, who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne; 1:5 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood; 1:6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests{Exodus 19:6; Isaiah 61:6} to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

This is the new and better way the prophets longed for, it is the hope God subjected the creation into futility for, so he might give us the way that we might learn it is by the mouth of God we live, and not bread alone. Yes, we like some; the teachers of Israel might think we can enter in by works of law, good and righteous law, but the truth fails them. We must enter by the life, and the truth, given us freely by God's love, Christ Jesus, so we might learn the higher way of life and truth, by love!

John 1:4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John1:12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:
1:13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 1:14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 1:15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 1:16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 1:17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Matthew 11:11 Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 18:4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Matt.22:34 But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. 22:35 One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him. 22:36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"

22:37 Jesus said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'{Deuteronomy 6:5} 22:38 This is the first and great commandment.
22:39 A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'{Leviticus 19:18} 22:40 The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

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