John 3:5
"Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."
This passage in Scripture reveals the Gospel in very few Words. The essentials of salvation are all in this one line. All men born into flesh are sinners and therefore cannot enter the Kingdom of God except they are born again of Christ; the Water of Everlasting Life and born again of the Spirit of God. He is the Promise that had to come to the earth; the union of flesh and the Eternal Spirit of God; Christ the God-Man.
Christ's seed, chosen before the foundation of the world, were brought to life with the Water released by His obedient death, "But when they came to Jesus, and saw that He was dead already...one of the soldiers with a spear pierced His side, and forthwith came there out blood and water." (John 19:33-34); "I am poured out like water..." (Psalm 22:14)
The Kingdom of God is Everlasting Life in Christ. His seed are born Spiritually dead in sin in our flesh. He had to give His own righteous flesh as the Sacrifice, in our place, to pay for our sin and then quicken, raise us to Spiritual Life, in Himself, by His Spirit, "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a Spiritual body...The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a Quickening Spirit." (1 Corinthians 15: 44-45)
All glory and honour to our LORD Jesus Christ, our Water of Life, our Spirit of Life, our Kingdom of God!
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