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Try to picture Jesus teaching to an ever expanding group of people on a green hillside.   The hillside slopes down gradually to what appears to be a large lake.   He is rustling the feathers of the religious leaders sitting off to one side closer to the front.   Perhaps another pocket of them stand further back to the left.   But Jesus teaches very practical truths to the everyday person and they are scattered on the ground all around Him.   Woodworkers, farmers, fathers and mothers are drinking in the word pictures Jesus uses – it is language they can understand.   And so they listen in silence.   Occasionally a bird’s call breaks the silence, or the shuffling of people trying to get in closer to hear even better.   You can sense some tension in the air because Jesus is teaching differently than the religious establishment.   By now it is probably evening – the sun is setting and hundreds have gathered around to hear the Rabbi.   Now, l...

How much do you know about spiritual biology?   Consider, for a moment, the beginning of spiritual life.   You are not born into this world alive spiritually.   Believe it or not all of us are born dead.   If someone took your pulse for vital signs of spiritual life you would be declared spiritually dead.   The Bible declares in Ephesians 2:1 – “And you were dead in trespasses and sins” (2:1; see also Eph. 4:18, 5:14; John 5:21; 1 John 3:14).   If we are all born dead, then how are we made alive spiritually?   What generates spiritual life in someone who is already physically alive?   Perhaps you have heard the term “born again;” that is what this term signifies.   You may be born physically; however, you must be born spiritually. Being born again refers to God gifting you with spiritual life by faith in Jesus Christ.   All those who have trusted in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins are born again and will live forever.   So, h...