MANKIND IN GENERAL CREATE AN IMAGE IN THEIR MINNDS OF WHO THEY DESIRE TO PRESENT TO SOCIETY! I’M NO DIFFERENT! LATELY THE LORD HAS BEEN REVEALING THE IMAGE HE SEES OF ME DAILY AND IT OPENED MY EYES!

SPIRITUAL FOUNDATION!

Colossians 1:21
[21]And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

OBSERVATION!

We are called to daily assess our walk and personal relationship with Yeshua! What I’m being shown to be assessing is what we are presenting to the lost of the world!

Our demonstration is as important as our words! John 3:21 KJV
But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

COMMENTARY OFFERED BY MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714).

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, John 3:6. Here is our malady, with the causes of it, which are such that it is plain there is no remedy but we must be born again.

1. We are here told what we are: We are flesh, not only corporeal but corrupt, Genesis 6:3. The soul is still a spiritual substance, but so wedded to the flesh, so captivated by the will of the flesh, so in love with the delights of the flesh, so employed in making provision for the flesh, that it is mostly called flesh it is carnal. And what communion can there be between God, who is a spirit, and a soul in this condition?

2. How we came to be so by being born of the flesh. It is a corruption that is bred in the bone with us, and therefore we cannot have a new nature, but we must be born again.

The corrupt nature, which is flesh, takes rise from our first birth and therefore the new nature, which is spirit, must take rise from a second birth.

Nicodemus spoke of entering again into his mother’s womb, and being born but, if he could do so, to what purpose? If he were born of his mother a hundred times, that would not mend the matter, for still that which is born of the flesh is flesh a clean thing cannot be brought out of an unclean.

He must seek another original, must be born of the Spirit, or he cannot become spiritual.

OBSERVATION!

The case is, in short, this: though man is made to consist of body and soul, yet his spiritual part had then so much the dominion over his corporeal part that he was denominated a living soul (Genesis 2:7), but by indulging the appetite of the flesh, in eating forbidden fruit, he prostituted the just dominion of the soul to the tyranny of sensual lust, and became no longer a living soul, but flesh: Dust thou art.

The living soul became dead and inactive thus in the day he sinned he surely died, and so he became earthly.

In this degenerate state, he begat a son in his likeness he transmitted the human nature, which had been entirely deposited in his hands, thus corrupted and depraved and in the same plight it is still propagated.

Corruption and sin are woven into our nature we are shapen in iniquity, which makes it necessary that the nature be changed.

It is not enough to put on a new coat or a new face, but we must put on the new man, we must be new creatures.

COMMENTARY  OFFERED BY MATTHEW HENRY (1662-1714).

We must be born from above, so the word is used by the evangelist, John 3:31,19:11, and I take this to be especially intended here, not excluding the other for to be born from above supposes being born again.

But this new birth has its rise from heaven (John 1:13) and its tendency to heaven: it is to be born to a divine and heavenly life, a life of communion with God and the upper world, and, to do this, it is to partake of a divine nature and bear the image of the heavenly

The indispensable necessity of this: “Except a man (Any one that partakes of the human nature, and consequently of its corruptions) be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, the kingdom of the Messiah begun in grace and perfected in glory” Except we be born from above, we cannot see this.

That is, First, we cannot understand the nature of it. Such is the nature of things pertaining to the kingdom of God (in which Nicodemus desired to be instructed) that the soul must be re-modelled and moulded, the natural man must become a spiritual man, before he is capable of receiving and understanding them, 1 Corinthians 2:14.

Robert a humble obedient servant to Yeshua and his Father in heaven Yahewa. And all of God’s children say Amen and Amen in the name of Jehovah Jireh our provider of all things righteous and Holy.