Main Scripture: John 3:1-21 (ESV)
Religion cannot produce spiritual life. Only the Spirit of God can.
Principle #1: If you want to see Heaven, you must be born again.
Principle #2: Natural thinking cannot comprehend spiritual realities apart from God's revelation.
Genesis 3:16-17 (ESV)
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
Principle #3: We are born into spiritual death and cannot fix ourselves.
Principle #4: Christianity is not self-improvement; it is spiritual transformation.
John 3:16-17 (ESV)
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
