John 3:12 (KJV) How Can He Believe?

John 3:12 (KJV)
If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 

It is possible to divide John 3:1-21 at the line of verse twelve. Everything Jesus taught previous to this verse would then be classified “earthly things” and everything after would be “heavenly”. Notice then what are:

Earthly things 

The subject of teaching is the new birth. It is the one earthly thing that provides entrance to the heavenly. The style of teaching is through earthly parables:

• Wind
• Trees (the sound of the wind through it?)
• Physical birth 

A parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning.

If a man will not accept Christ’s message of salvation it is impossible for him to understand anything else He teaches.

Heavenly things

The subject changes to the elements of the Gospel:

• God with us
• The death burial and resurrection 
• The heart of God for sinners
• The ultimate condemnation of rejecters 

A man must be born again. If he rejects that basic doctrine he will never understand the doctrines underlying it.

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John 3:12 (KJV) How Can He Believe?

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