• John 3:3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
• John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
• John 3:11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

The interesting part of these three passages is His plea to the listener to believe His testimony. He wants us to know what it takes to obtain eternal life. He is literally telling us “This is how it works.”

John 3:12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

What earthly things is Jesus bearing witness to that are so hard to believe?

All we have is His Word. We were not there, we did not see the miracles that were performed. These were earthly things, things done in real time, to real people, in a manner that was not natural. The supernatural is something that is hard to believe if we do not see it with our own eyes. Even if we do see it, we want to understand how it happened.

• John 5:19 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.
• John 5:30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
• John 8:28 So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

Jesus invokes the Son of Man clause. He declares to anyone that will listen that He is the One that the prophet Daniel prophesied about. If we are to believe His testimony then we are obliged to believe that the bible is valid and that prophecies are to be believed.

Daniel 7:14 And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.

Now we have one more piece of the puzzle which is a real life problem that aligns itself with human behavior, attitudes and actions. Rulers, both kings and priests, are not willing to give up their authority and influence. 

A prime example of parsing good speech from bad is the notorious notion of “hate speech,” which involves designating certain kinds of remarks, gestures, expressions, and writings as intentionally hateful and thus worthy of regulation and even criminalization. Source; The Heritage Foundation

Recently I linked the iniquities of mankind to hating God. I went as far as to insinuate that acts of sin were a way of telling God that we hate Him, hate speech. My way of interpreting this is founded in reversing the words of Jesus. 

John 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”

If you do not love Jesus, disobey Him.

I want to make this point as clear as possible, this is not about how God feels about His creation, it is about how we treat God.

Let us take a brief step back to a recent quote from Genesis 3:16 Amplified Bible

To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth; In pain you will give birth to children; Yet your desire and longing will be for your husband, And he will rule [with authority] over you and be responsible for you.”

God’s will is that we, the church, become betrothed to His Son, Jesus Christ, who shall have authority over us and be responsible for us.

This is the key to understanding how God can put aside our iniquities because He has relinquished His need for justice to His Son who by authority and responsibility has said to the Father “Her sins fall on me.”

Since Jesus lived and died as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, His free will sacrifice gives Him the right to declare His Bride is cleansed of all uncleanness by His death and resurrection. When He ascended to the Right Hand of the Throne of God He has the right to declare that His Bride is covered by the shedding of His blood.

It is not a matter of justice any longer, it is a matter of love.

Are you betrothed to the Son and do you love Him?