Born Again

Is a phrase used by Christians who have been born from above. “Born-again ” Christians are change by the power of the Holy Spirit and as old things pass away all thing become new; making that believe a new creation in Christ Jesus. Being born again has become commonplace in the church of man. This term “born again” first appears in the Bible in John chapter three. It reads:

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again” (John 3:1-7).

Most people have religion, a very few have been Biblically Born-again . The truth is in the above passage. Unless you are Born-again , you absolutely cannot get into Heaven (John 3:5). To be “Born-again ” means to have Christ Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Jesus said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty (Revelation 1:8).”

Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. When a man is born into the earth, he is born spiritually dead due to Adam's sin passing to all man. To be Born-again  is a miracle of God, by which Christ Jesus comes into your body to live, literally in the form of the Holy Spirit of God. “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9).” To understanding the Born-again  conception, you must understand the two births.

·       The PHYSICAL BIRTH - when you were born into this world from your mother and father.

·       The SPIRITUAL BIRTH, which means to be born of the “Spirit” (God's Holy Spirit).

Man was created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27). There is one God He exists in the three Persons. God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Deuteronomy 6:4). The Bible refers to this triune nature of God as the Godhead (Acts 17:29; Romans 1:20, Colossians 2:9). The Godhead is “the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ” (Colossians 2:2). The Godhead wasn't meant for man to completely understand, the Godhead was meant for man to simply believe as sound Biblical Doctrine.

God made mankind in His image as a triune being, in the form of a body, soul and spirit. Our earthly body is called the tabernacle of the soul and spirit (II Corinthians 5:1-4). The body is a temporary dwelling place for man's soul and spirit. Our soul is composed emotions (to feel), the mind (to think), and the will (to decide), all of these are invisible.

Hebrews 4:12 makes a distinction between man's soul and spirit, “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Man's spirit returns to God upon death. “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it” (Ecclesiastes 12:7). Humans have an inherent need for spirituality it is the spirit that discern spiritual matters. Man's spirit is dead in sin when we are born in the earth. This means that we are born void of God, having  an inherited sin nature from Adam.

Christ Jesus was the only exception, He was born sinless as God in the flesh (I Timothy 3:16). When we are born into the world, our spirit is dead in trespasses and sin. The Scripture to confirm this reads: “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:1,2).

The lost and unsaved individual cannot understand God, nor His Words, because His Words are spiritually discerned (I Corinthians 2:14). We need to be “spiritually” born from above to come near to God. Sin is what keeps us far away from Him and when we are spiritually Born-again  we are able to have a relationship with our Creator through His Son.

So when the Bible speaks of being Born-again it actually means, to be    born a second time. WE were all born physically into this world, but to enter into God's Heaven  we must be Born-again. When we were born into the world, we were born without the Spirit of God in our soul; this means we were born spiritually dead. We are all God's creations but we became separated from Him because of sin.

God created each of us with a freewill. Our free will consist of life choices. Each of us make our own decisions in life. These life choices as well as our words will either acquit or condemn us. Yes these choices that we make in life will to decide where we will spend eternity. God never forces anyone to accept Christ Jesus as their Savior, Christ must be invited into one life.

God our Creator is offering everyone a Gift. He'll not force man to take it. If anyone wants to have their sins forgiven and go to Heaven only need to reach out and take the Gift. Jesus paid it all, Salvation is the free gift paid for by the precious Blood of Christ Jesus (Romans 5:15; 6:23; I Peter 1:18,19; Revelation 1:5). Those individuals want eternal life must accept God's gift before it is forever forfeited when we die in sin.

Here is how we received the sin nature, and became sinner. God commanded Adam and Eve not to eat off of the tree that bore the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:17). God told them they would die “the day that thou eatest thereof.” Adam and Eve did not experience physically death immediately when they disobeyed God and ate from the forbidden tree.

When Adam ate of the fruit, they died SPIRITUALLY. It is the spiritual death that separated Adam, Eve and every one that passed through them to earth to become sinners. When Adam sinned, sin and death entered the human race. According to the Bible from Adam until the present time, mankind has been born spiritually dead. The spiritually dead condition humanity has was inherited down from Adam's sin.

This is why humanity MUST be Born-again if they desire a relationship with God. Being Born-again is only possible through the Holy Spirit of God, which makes us alive again by faith in Christ as Savior. We are saved by repenting of our unbelief and believing the Gospel of Grace; specifically that Jesus DIED, was BURIED and RAISED from the dead three days later.

To be “spiritually” born means that God's Holy Spirit “quickens” us (or makes us alive). When a sinner believes on Christ as the Lord and Savior trusting Him alone to forgive all sins—then God the Father and God the Son come into that individual's heart in the form of God the Holy Spirit (John 14:23). The “Holy Spirit” is “God within us.” The old man is the flesh that cannot be tamed without Him.

There is nothing good about the flesh. When we get saved (Born-again), the old man pass away and all things become new. This is possible because the new man (which is Christ Jesus) comes to indwell (live) within our body (I Corinthians 3:16). God lives in my the believer's body in the form of the Holy Spirit. I have God's Spirit living in my body, as does  every believer.

The Holy Spirit of God is everything to me. He guides me, He comforts and teaches me. He rebukes me, chastises me, convicts me, encourages me, and empowers me to overcome sin. He loves me, strengthens me, and so much more. No one will ever understand the Bible without knowing the Author, and God is the Author. When we are born for the second time, God's Holy Spirit comes into our body and He never leave (I Corinthians 3:16; Hebrews 13:5).

Once He come in and dwell in us, we begin to understand His Word for the first time (II Corinthians 5:17). We must be Born-again spiritually to become a part of God's family (Romans 8:9). Scripture says a believer is “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (I Peter 1:23). If you want to save your soul; receive Christ and become a Born-again Christian, or suffer the consequences of Hellfire for all eternity (John 3:18,36; Revelation 20:15; 21:8).

It's not our job to figure everything out about the Bible to be saved, we simply need to trust Christ, the only begotten Son of God. The new birth comes about only through faith in the Son of God. We must believe God came down to this earth over 2,000 years ago and took upon Himself the flesh of a man. That man was the Lord Christ Jesus (John 1:1,14; I Timothy 3:16; Colossians 2:9—King James Bible).

Christ Jesus was born of a virgin (Isaiah 7:14). He never sinned, not even once (I Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15). Christ laid His life down for the sins of the world, He was buried and rose again to life after three days (I Corinthians 15:1-4). Christ shed His precious Blood to purchase and redeem us (Colossians 1:14; I Peter 1:18,19). It was Christ who applied His Blood to the Mercy seat in Heaven to take away our sin (Hebrews 9:12, 24-26). He put man together with our Creator, by His Blood.

If you can believe that Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God Who died for our sin, was buried and rose again, and you've made that your hope for Heaven by believing on His name, then you are a Born-again  child of God. Christ died in our place. He is the Savior Who paid for our sins. When we come to the realization that we are all born guilty sinners in need of a Savior. Then you simply need to believe on the Gospel of God's Grace to have all your sins forgiven. You must believe that Christ died and was resurrected, shedding His precious Blood to wash away your sins.

God the Father desire that we come for Salvation by way of the Cross upon which His Son Jesus Christ died.  When we are Born-again all it takes is repentance and confession to Christ, not man to keep us clean. Anyone who teaches Salvation or bettering humanity without including the Cross of Christ; run. They are teaching another Gospel that will lead to destruction. No one can be saved apart from the Cross.

Having faith in Jesus in not God's plan of Salvation. Many people believe on Jesus, but they have left out all that He accomplished on the Cross. To be Born-again by the Spirit of God you must include in your faith, the death, burial and resurrection of Christ Jesus (I Corinthians 15:1-4). Repentance, confession, and faith are inseparable. Repentance is simply having a change of mind; that involves turning to Christ to be forgiven of one's sins and 

allow Him to make changes to your life.

There is a reason why we must repent, it is because unbelief is a sin God won't forgive. This is why we must repent of our unbelief, and from dead works of self-righteousness (Hebrews 6:1). Repentance unto Salvation means a change of mind (Mark 1:15). The object of repentance is to believe the Gospel, not to clean up one's life; if you can do this, what do you need Christ for. He is the author and finisher of our faith.

Don't fall for lies in the church of man. A popular false teaching in MOST churches of man today says a person must try to stop sinning to be saved. That is self-righteousness and it will not get you a place in Heaven. Salvation happens when a person acknowledges their guilt of sin, and comes to God on the basis of being a Hell-deserving sinner. We must believe Christ, the Son of God, for forgiveness (Acts 10:43).

Christ Jesus came to save sinners! A sinner's prayer is ok, but you don't have to go there, Salvation is of the heart (Romans 10:10). If you'd like to pray, simply admit that you are a guilty sinner for breaking God's Laws. Tell Christ that you believe He died, was buried and rose again; then ask Christ Jesus to forgive your sins and tell Him that you're receiving His sacrifice as payment for your sins. You must realize these two main truths:

·       You are a guilty sinner under the condemnation of God's Law!

·       Jesus is the Savior who died, was buried and resurrected three days later. Jesus shed His blood to take away your sins!

No church, or any amount of good works can save you. God does the saving, all of it! Man's only part is to believe. Being Born-again  is a supernatural act of God in response to a man's faith in the Truth of the Gospel of the Grace of God. God's simple plan of Salvation is you are a sinner and unless you believe on Jesus Who died in your place, you will spend eternity in Hell.

If you believe Christ as your crucified, buried, and risen Savior, you receive forgiveness for all of your sins past, present, and future, and His Gift of Eternal Life and Salvation is yours by faith. Yes, it's that simple. We are running out of time, we don't have much time left. Christ return is nearer than anyone think. We are accepted by the father on the grounds of Christ  RIGHTEOUSNESS.  The righteousness of Christ is charged to our account at 

the time of our Salvation.

The Word of God indicts all guilty sinners. Only through faith in Christ can we be justified, JUST-AS-IF-I'D never sinned. Those who DIE IN THEIR SINS without Christ will stand trial at The Great White Throne of Judgment (John 8:24; Revelation 20:11-15). They will die the Second Death and be cast into the Lake of Fire forever. Those who DIE IN THE LORD already have Eternal Life((Revelation 14:13). If you're washed in the Blood of Christ, you are saved, and you're already a citizen of Heaven.