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Jesus said to Nicodemus in John 3:7, “Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’” And in verse 3, he told Nicodemus — and us — that our eternal lives depend on being born again: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” So we are not dealing with something marginal or optional or cosmetic in the Christian life. The new birth is not like the makeup that morticians use to try to make corpses look more like they are alive. The new birth is the creation of spiritual life, not the imitation of life. We began to answer the question What happens in the new birth? last time with two statements: (1) What happens in the new birth is not getting new religion but getting new life, and (2) What happens in the new birth is not merely affirming the supernatural in Jesus, but experiencing the supernatural in yourself.