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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Welcome to St Michael's Church in New Haven. My name is Marcus Mack
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A super-religious man and Jesus Christ had a conversation. This man was Nicodemus, a Pharisee, equivalent to a very high-ranking, morally upright church leader today
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If there was anyone who was worthy to enter heaven, it would be this man
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Nicodemus failed to grasp Jesus's true identity and greeted him as a fellow peer
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Jesus got straight to the heart of Nicodemus's greatest need Jesus didn't say to him
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Congratulations brother, you are on the right path Now all you need is to try a little harder to be better and have a bit more religion
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Jesus didn't say that What he did say was utterly shocking No one can see or enter the kingdom of God unless they are born again
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which meant that Nicodemus' good moral living and religiosity counted for nothing
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and contributed nothing to his salvation. He needed the very life of God living in him to make a difference
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Jesus didn't come to make good people a little better or to make bad people good
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He came to give spiritually dead people life. the very life of God
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God does this through the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit
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who spiritually regenerates people with God's life. When this miracle happens, a person becomes a new creation
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moving from merely existing and going through the motions of life to experiencing life with divine vibrancy
