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JUST WHAT DOYOU MEAN:
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Just what is a
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born-again" Christian? Don't be too sure yo_u know! Many –
perhaps millions -sincere/y believe they have been Hborn again" - yet
do not understand what Jesus meant when He used those words.
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did the Ph arisee.
N
icodemus. understand
when Jesus said to him:
"Ex–
cept a man be boro again, he cannot
see the kingdom ofGod"?
WHY do people not understand
those words today?
How MANY know. today. that
Jesus' Gospel was a sensational,
never-before proclaimed NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENT?
Jesus Was a Newscaster
Those in Judea knew - or should
have known - Malachi 's prophecy
concerníng this.
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was the Gospel of
God - and the word "gospel"
means GOOO NEWS!
Jesus was a NEWSCASTER. His
news was something absolutely NEW
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by Herbert W. Armstrong
- never before proclaimcd to man–
kind.
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was the most wonderful
NEWS ever reported. Actually almost
too wonderful for humans to be–
lieve.
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was news of the utterly tran–
scendent potential of man.
A humor columnist wrote a bit
on the news prínted in daily news–
papers. It is actuaUy NOT news. he
insisted, since it is a reporting of
events that already have happened,
Th erefore it is no longer NEW. but
OLD when printed. He insisted it
really ought to be called OLDS
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The tremendous Message that
Jesus brought was NEWS! ll was not
a repon of past events.
1t
was AD–
VANCE news! - news of an almost
unbeJievabJe UTOPIAN WORLD TO·
MORROW!
And it
ÍS
SURE!
And it was news that we may be
BORN AGAIN! Yet almost nobody
understands it!
How MANY, even today. know
that Jesus' Gospel was actually so
BREATHTAKING -
SO
seemingly
in–
credib/e.
so startling. it should have
left its hearers in a daze of awe!
lt
didn't. WHY?
WHY has ít never been recognized
by the world as the stupendous
NEWS that it actually was?
Simply because the Jeaders in
Judea rejected it - hated it - hated
Jesus for announcing the wonderful
great news - turned most of the
people against
it.
And it has been so
MISrepresented, so distorted and
maligned, that the whole world has
The
PLAIN TRUTH February 1977