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| What does this birth certificate tell you? |
All your birth certificate does is to inform you what has already happened. It has nothing to do whatsoever with your conception and birth. Your conception and birth PRECEDED the issuance of the birth certificate that announces that facts what has already happened.
Though the birth certificate DID NOT have anything to do with your conception and birth, and though it is just a piece of paper, it is nevertheless a very useful piece of document because it records what has happened that brought about your being... the identity of your father, and mother, etc...
EVEN SO, the gospel is the good news that announces the great work of salvation that God has accomplished in and through His Son Jesus Christ and applied it to His individual elect personally through His Spirit.
Therefore, it is mighty useful and helpful and needful for a child of God to know the content of the gospel, even so for a man to have a copy of his birth certificate.