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WHAT DOES "THE WATER" REPRESENT IN 'BORN OF THE WATER" IN JOHN 3:5, AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BORN OF THE WATER.

The water in Jn 3:5 represents the word, Eph 5:25 & 26 tells us Christ sanctify and cleanse the church by the washing of water by the word. Here we see a "washing by the word" so the word washes spiritually, also Ezek. 36:25 tells us "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. Thus again we see a spiritual washing/cleansing by the water of the word. Furthermore we are told in Jn 17:17 "Sanctify them through thy word thy word is truth" confirming that sanctification is by the word, as we were also told in Eph.5:26. Jn 15:3 says "Now ye are clean through the word I have spoken unto you" this confirms that we are cleansed by the word, just as we were told before in Eph. 5:26 and also that the water that cleanses spiritually in Ezek.36:25 is the word. All these evidences show that the water represents the word of God which washes, cleanses and cleans a person spiritually from their filthiness and their idols. Thus to be born of the water is to be born of the word. This is consistent with 1Pet 1:23 which tells us "Be born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God,which liveth and abideth forever and Jam 1:18 which tells us that we are begotten by the word of truth. Identifying that "the word" is that thing that we are born of, so to be born--again which is to be born of the water is to be born of the word.

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