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Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:3
D.L. MOODY
The only way to get into the kingdom of God is to be “born” into it. The law of this country requires that the president should be born in the country. When foreigners come to our shores, they have no right to complain against such a law, which forbids them from ever becoming president. Now, has not God a right to make a law that all those who become heirs of eternal life must be “born” into His kingdom?
An unregenerated man would rather be in hell than in heaven. Take a man whose heart is full of corruption and wickedness, and place him in heaven among the pure, the holy, and the redeemed, and he would not want to stay there. Certainly, if we are to be happy in heaven, we must begin to make a heaven here on Earth. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. If men were taken to heaven just as they are by nature, without having their hearts regenerated, there would be another rebellion in heaven. Heaven is filled with a company of those who have been twice born.
ERWIN LUTZER
We are being readied on Earth to be citizens of heaven. The older we get, the more we anticipate heaven and wonder what it will be like. So yes, among God’s people, we should begin to see a bit of heaven on Earth.
As for those who are in hell, they have taken their stand against God and will maintain it with anger, curses, and with “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matthew 13:42). In that state, they would not be happy in heaven among those who are praising and blessing God.
The bottom line: Our new nature will find its full expression in heaven. Loving God now, we will love Him better forever; reject Him now, and we will reject Him forever.
PRAYER
Father, thank you for giving me a new nature. Thank you for bringing me into your family and calling me to love what you love.REFLECTION QUESTIONS
Why would the unregenerate not want to be with God in heaven?
Why is spiritual rebirth necessary to enter the kingdom of God?