“TRULY, TRULY, I SAY UNTO YOU!”

 John 3:1-6                                        (ESV)

“1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from GOD, for no one can do these signs that you do unless GOD is with him."

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.”

Much has been made being BORN AGAIN, and rightly so, as JESUS said in the Gospel of John that one HAS to be BORN AGAIN to see the Kingdom of GOD.  The King James Version of the Bible uses VERILY for TRULY.  When one looks up the word VERILY in the dictionary it says “in TRUTH : CERTAINLY”.  The CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSES is explaining to a learned man, a ruler of THE JEWS, that we ALL MUST BE BORN AGAIN to see the Kingdom of GOD!  But Nicodemus’ EYES were not yet opened to SEE the TRUTH, even though HE was standing in the midst of him! John 3:10 is a telling, yet widely overlooked verse, of Scripture, as it says “JESUS answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?”

The UNTRUTHS that come from mankind today are so camouflaged in half-truths that they are sometimes hard to identify.  It can take a lot LESS EFFORT to accept a lie than to dig into FACTS and find THE TRUTH!  JESUS said in John 8:32 “and YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, and THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE."  Being able to recognize THE TRUTH amidst the lies of “the enemy” is not something that a person can do within themselves.  It is a GIFT from GOD, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8-10)!  

It can be puzzling why GOD hasn’t revealed HIMSELF to more people than HE has of late, but even a leader of THE JEWS wasn’t able to SEE TRUTH over two thousand years ago.  Unless our EYES are Supernaturally opened (Acts 9:18) by the HOLY SPIRIT, we cannot SEE and REPENT (turn from) our sinful lives.  The only thing that makes me a member of GOD’s CHOSEN is the GRACE OF GOD, not because of anything that I have done, or will do!

Unless GOD Supernaturally changes things , “this world” is doomed to HIS eternal judgement, HIS WRATH!  The are many places I’m Scripture informing us about THE LAST DAYS, but “the church” is largely “uninformed” and fearful of what is currently transpiring. “On that day many will say to me, 'LORD, LORD, did we not prophesy in YOUR name, and cast out demons in YOUR name, and do many mighty works in YOUR name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from ME, you workers of lawlessness.'”  We need to be SUPERNATURALLY CHANGED by the CREATOR, because JESUS is saying “TRULY, TRULY, I SAY TO YOU”, unless one is BORN AGAIN he cannot see the kingdom of GOD."