Two Worlds

Day 4:  John chapter 3 is a very important chapter because it is the first time in this particular book that we see salvation truly presented and what it means.  I know that it had been discussed before, but in this chapter it is when we see for the fist time Jesus talking about being “Born Again”.  Now I know that God created everything and therefore everything is His, but I want to break things down a little bit just so we can understand this chapter a little better.  There are two worlds God’s world, and the human world.  There was a barrier placed between these two worlds when Adam and Eve entered into a lifestyle of sin.  This barrier between the two worlds will stand unless it is broken, and Nicodemus (lets call him Nick) was trying to figure out how to see God’s world.  Jesus said that no one can see the kingdom unless he is born again.  Perplexed by this Nick asks a logical question, I would like to think it went something like this “… Ummm, ok so what you’re sayin is that me a (lets just say he was 42) year old man has to crawl back into my mother, who isn’t alive anymore, so she can give birth to me a SECOND time.  Jesus, man I don’t think you are thinking straight, did you hit your head or something because what you just said is physically impossible!”  When Jesus heard Nick come back with a legitimate question He told it to him straight, He told him that it was not of water that he must be born again of but of spirit.  He then continues to explain that no one can enter heaven except for the one who came from heaven.  This is where we see the barrier being broke, it was not how to break the barrier but who broke the barrier.  When Jesus came down to earth He broke that barrier and the only thing that we have to do is BELIEVE.  To this day the one thing that is stopping us from entering the kingdom of God is our self.  The only way that the most well known Bible verse (John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten son, that who so ever believeth in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.”) can be valid is by one word and it is believe.  Will you believe in Him?