It is decision time.

Genesis 2:17 “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth on Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life.”

These two verses gives to mankind a simple instruction.  The first was not heeded and led to sin entering into the human race.  The second was the simple instruction that Christ explained to Nicodemus’s two questions that he ask Jesus in John chapter three. The first question was “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb?”.  Jesus answer was “That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is Spirit.”  When Jesus stated this to Nicodemus he asked Jesus this question “How can these things be”?  Jesus reply to Nicodemus “Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know and testify that we have seen; and ye received not our witness.  If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you heavenly things?”  Then Jesus told him of the way he was going to die.  Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so the Son of man will be lifted up.  Jesus not only portrayed the promise seed to Eve, the promise to Abraham, the promise son to David, and the promise Messiah to Israel, but also the fulfillment of this prophecy of Moses. 

Jesus answered Nicodemus questions with this simple answer; that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.  Adam eat the fruit and when he did; it not only led to his death but passed this sentence on to all of his offsprings.  However, there is another decision each individual must make and that is a spiritual decision. That decision was illustrated in Numbers 21:5-9 when the children rebelled against Moses and the LORD sent fiery serpents among them.  To survive the bite all that they had to do was to look upon the cross to life.  Jesus gave this same teaching to Nicodemus.  Just as the Israelites were saved from death by looking to serpent on the cross, we can save our life by looking to Jesus’s death on the cross.  Just as Adam made a decision and death passed upon the human race, you can make the decision to believe on Jesus to have eternal life.