Today's Reading: John 3: 1-13
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Bible Study
This passage tells us the most important thing in our life - Are you a born again Christian?
Do you think you are?
N.T. wright says, "The new birth Jesus is talking about is the same thing that has been spoken of in 1.33. 'Water and spirit' here must mean the double baptism: baptism in water, which brings people tinto the kingdom - movement begun by John the Baptist and continued by Jesus' disciples (3.22; 4:1-2), and baptism in the spirit, the new life, bubbling up from within, that Jesus offers, which is the main thing that this whole book is about... The two are closely joined. Nobody in the early church supposed that spirit-baptism mattered so much that you could do without water-baptism. From time to time the problem arose of people assuming that as long as you had water-baptism you didn't need to worry about the new spiritual life. (see, for instance, 1 Corinthians 10: 1-13). But the point in this passage is that this double-sided new birth, which brings you into the visible community of Jesus' followers (water-baptism) and gives you the new life of the spirit welling up like a spring of water inside you (spirit-baptism), was now required for membership in God's kingdom. Indeed(as Jesus says in verse 3), without it you can't even see God's kingdom. You can't glimpse it, let alone get into it."
So, how your new spiritual life to show that you are really born again?
Have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture we have just read. Offer this time up to God as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe"
Spiritual Journal
What I heard from Jesus today is: Born again?
I have seen too many Christians talking about lots of Christian ideas and doing lots of ministries in their churches but shows very bad examples of their spiritual lives. If you say that you are already born again, then you need to have a new spiritual life so naturally shown through your daily life witness. Holiness and Christlikeness should be a sign to proof that you are really born again.
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be sure that we are already born again and that we can live each day reflecting your glory in us because we have been born again. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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