ARE YOU BORN AGAIN OR ADOPTED?
Could Nicodemus have been born again if he had understood and wished to?
Nicodemus was a ruler of Israel and Jesus was sent to Israel, so he was talking
to Israel, not to the Church. Jesus was on earth and he was offering the kingdom
to Israel if they would receive him as their king.

John 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of
the house of Israel.

Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born again in order to see the kingdom.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Jesus told Nicodemus that he must be born of water and of the Spirit.
John 3:5 Jesus answered and said unto him, verily, verily, I say unto thee,
except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the
spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Marvel not that I say unto thee, Ye must be born again.
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof,
but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is every one that
is born of the Spirit.
John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, how can these things be?
John 3:10 Jesus answered and said unto him, art thou a master of Israel, and
knowest not these things?
Jesus told Nicodemus in John 3:10 that he should know all the things about being
born again since he was a ruler of Israel.
Nicodemus only had the Old Testament. He should have been able to find out how
Israel would live on earth during the kingdom. Israel will live on this earth in
a natural body and will be born again and go into the kingdom with Him. We, in
the body of Christ, will receive a glorified body and live in heaven. Compare
the scripture in Ezekiel 36 & 37 with John 3.

Ezekiel 36:25 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean:
from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put
within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my
statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Ezekiel 36:28 And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye
shall be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house
of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are
cut off for our parts.
Ezekiel 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of
your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 37:13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your
graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
Ezekiel 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall
place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it,
and performed it, saith the LORD.

How can we go to the Book of John for the doctrine of salvation?
In the Book of John, Jesus had not died for our sins. He was on earth and trying
to get the Nation of Israel to accept him as their king. He was preaching the
gospel of the kingdom. This is not what we must believe in order to be saved. We
must believe that Christ died for our sins and rose again the third day. 1
Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1
Corinthians 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:

How can we say to the Church today, ye must be born again? Why can we not tell
the truth? When we hear God's word and the Holy Spirit convicts us that we are
lost and on the way to hell, then we can believe what Christ did on the cross
for us.

Then the Holy Spirit comes into our body and we are circumcised with
circumcision made without hands. Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised
with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of
the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

We are baptized by one Spirit into one body. 1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one
Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

We are sealed by the Spirit until the day of redemption: Ephesians 4:30 And
grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption.

We become a new creature in Christ. Old things are passed away and all things
become new: 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

whereby we cry, Abba, Father.We become the temple of God because the Holy Spirit
dwells in us. 1 Corinthians 3: 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

We are adopted into the family of God not born again. Romans 8:15 For ye have
not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the
Spirit of adoption,