But the Lord's word endures forever." This is the word of good news which was preached to you.
First, we have said that every life is prefaced by rib birth. It is so naturally--we are born; it is so spiritually--we are born again. Except a man be born he cannot enter into the kingdom of nature; except a man be born again he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven. Birth is the lowly gateway by which we enter into life, and the lofty portal by which we are admitted into the kingdom of heaven. 