“For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
Scripture talks of two kinds of men: the natural man that dies and the spiritual Man which is everlasting life. The apostle Paul wrote, “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive” (1 Corinthians 15:22).
The natural man came from the dust of the ground, which is Adam (see Genesis 2:7). But the spiritual Man is the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ, the everlasting Man, and the only begotten Son of God (see John 1:14).
Jesus said to Nicodemus, a Jewish ruler, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). Nicodemus did not understand what Jesus was saying.
Therefore Jesus elaborated, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (John 3:6). When anyone is born, the first birth, through natural parents they are born just flesh and blood.
But when anyone is born again, the second birth, through the Spirit they are spirit. What Spirit is meant here? The Word of God is that Spirit, which is the Holy Scripture. Jesus says the Scripture is Spirit, and is living (see John 6:63).
Jesus is saying that the Word of God gives birth as well, and that only those who are born again by the Spirit of the Scripture are the children of God. They are born again through the Word of God, which is Jesus Christ.
It is the work of God. No one else can make it happen. One day you don’t understand the Bible. Next day God opens the eyes of your mind to understand the Scripture. You then know the truth of this Book.
What happened? The second birth happened. You are born again by the Bible Man. Peter wrote, “Having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,” (1 Peter 1:23).
The Scripture is that Word of God, which is Jesus Christ, the second Man that lives and abides forever: “But the word of the Lord endures forever. Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you” (1 Peter 1:25).
Everybody in the world must be born again by the second Man before they can see the kingdom of heaven. Except the God of the Bible reproduce the Spirit of His Word in our hearts we cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Paul wrote, “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption” (1 Corinthians 15:50). No one can enter the kingdom of God except they are born again by the Word.
The Bible is that Word of God. He is the second Man, which is the Man Christ Jesus that came from heaven. “The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven” (1 Corinthians 15:47).
PRAYER
Dear heavenly Father, fill me with your precious Word, the Saviour and great Shepherd of our souls, in Jesus name. Amen.
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It’s nice to speak about the holy bible especially in explaining about the words found in it
Mike, God bless you.
The word of God which is Jesus Christ is the only way for us to be save. My dear heavenly father put your word into my heart so that things of the world will not destroy me i pray in Jesus name Amen
Amen!