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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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humanity, by which a man becomes a child <strong>of</strong> God<br />

—to perceive this, not as an improvement upon our<br />

present state, but as <strong>the</strong> submission <strong>of</strong> heaii;, mind,<br />

<strong>and</strong> life to Him as our Divine King, an existence<br />

which is, <strong>and</strong> which means, proclaiming unto <strong>the</strong><br />

world <strong>the</strong> Kingship <strong>of</strong> God : this can only be<br />

learned from Christ, <strong>and</strong> needs even for its<br />

perception a kinship <strong>of</strong> spirilr-for that which is<br />

bom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Spirit is spirit. To see it, needs <strong>the</strong> birth<br />

bom<br />

VOU I. C G<br />

BOOK above; to enter it, <strong>the</strong> doable baptismal<br />

birth <strong>of</strong> what John's Baptism in had meant, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

what Christ's Baptism was. '~ • Accordingly, all<br />

this sounded quite strange <strong>and</strong> unintelligible to<br />

Nicodemus. He could underst<strong>and</strong> how a man might<br />

became o<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> so ultimately be o<strong>the</strong>r; but how<br />

a man should first be o<strong>the</strong>r in order to became<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r—more than that, needed to be * bom firom<br />

above,' in order to ' see <strong>the</strong> Kingdom <strong>of</strong> God'—

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