OUR FATHER WHO SENT HIS SON INTO THE WORLD TO SAVE THE WORLD

John chapter 1 verses 10 - 13 is the executive summary of the mission of the Lord Jesus Christ.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John tells us in this elemental passage that the creator of the world came to the world but He was not unrecognizable to the world for who He was. 

There was a set of people kept aside from all the people of the world to be His people who should have recieved Him into the world but they did not recieve Him.

When the officialdom of His people rejected Him, the gates were opened so that anyone who recieved Him by believing in Him were given the right to become children of God.

And those who did recieve Him were born as children of God. This birth was not biological nor intentioned by the flesh nor by the mind of man but born of God.

The apostle John wrote on this spiritual re-birth in more detail in John chapter 3 verses 3 - 8 which says;

3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

A teacher of Israel named Nicodemus came to Jesus seeking insight into His teachings and it is here that Jesus articulated the concept of being born again of the Spirit of God and becoming the children of God.

Amen.

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