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Jesus Christ Into Your Life

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If you’ve ever seen pictures of the lungs of people who smoke, an image should come to mind of a shriveled and unhealthy looking organ. Blackened by tar, the lung’s ability to expand and take in life sustaining oxygen is crippled. If a person with these lungs tried to run a mile, they would quickly become short of breath and struggle to complete their goal.

If you have not accepted Jesus Christ into your life, your spirit is in the same sad shape as a smoker’s diseased lungs. Our spirits were created by God to be in perfect union and fellowship with Him. The spirit does not take in oxygen like the lungs, but it does take in God’s life-giving power. The spirit, that all believers have inside us, is sustained by the perfect love of our Heavenly Father and by the freedom and peace that only a relationship with Jesus Christ can provide.

So what is this new life that God offers?

Born Again

"Unless one is born again of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John 3:5, ESV)

This verse in the Gospel of John describes an exchange between Jesus and a Pharisee named Nicodemus. As a Pharisee, Nicodemus belonged to the most prominent religious group in Israel and was a highly respected teacher. He observed all of the laws of cleanliness and piety, yet Jesus told Nicodemus that being physically clean was not sufficient to enter the kingdom of God. Rather, a person 's nature also needs to be cleansed or sanctified by the presence of the Holy Spirit. The

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