We have all had our beginning. It started with our birth. We are because we were born. And at birth, we enter this life with certain inherited traits and requirements. We inherit certain traits through our DNA. But as a newborn baby, we have certain requirements before those inherited traits can fully develop. Someone has to take care of us or our ‘potential’, good or bad, will not be realized because we will die. So being cared for, we will grow, be taught and learn.

The crux of the matter that I wish to share for all of us to consider together is based on the premise stated above. The premise that all things seen are temporary and things unseen are eternal. All of us are born naturally and inherently born into those things that are natural. No matter how we are taught, what we are taught or who teaches us, we cannot perceive or understand those things that are eternal, because we are by nature children of disobedience. Because we have been born in sin, which separates us from Him, and we have been and are being shaped or disciplined by iniquity. That springs from the seed that we all inherit. It is of this world and this world passes. That is why He tells us “you must be born again”, not of flesh and blood or by any desire or act of man or woman, but by the Grace of Jesus our Savior. In this new supernatural birth He puts within us the new Seed that is from above, from the Lord of Heaven.

We are taught to ‘train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it’. Again, for the naturally born, no matter how we are taught, what we are taught, or who teaches us, the result can only be what is found in this world, because that is who we are. But for those born of God, by the new Seed implanted within us, we now have access to the Father, to those things that are eternal, those True Riches that are more precious than thousands of gold and silver. Just as a naturally born baby requires help, so does his newborn require care. The natural born, by virtue of our nature, know the things of this world. Ultimately, we don’t need a teacher because that’s who we are. He comes to us naturally. Those born from above do require teaching because it does not come naturally, but supernaturally from above through the instruction and disciplines of discipleship. We will discuss some of those disciplines of discipleship at a later time.