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#4 - What Does "BORN-AGAIN" Mean ?
Do you want to know about your future?
Human beings do not choose to go to Hell.
Without being Born-Again, you DON'T have a future!
Humans are already destined for Hell unless and until they choose to go to Heaven.
JOHN 3:36 - And he who believes in (has faith in, clings to, relies on) the Son of God has (now possesses) eternal life.
But whoever disobeys (is unbelieving toward, refuses to trust in, disregards, is not subject to) the Son of God
will never obtain (never experience) eternal life, and [instead] the wrath of God abides on him forever.
[God's displeasure remains on him; God's indignation hangs over him continually.]
Amplified Bible (AMP)
In the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, Christ Jesus explained to an extremely "Religious" Hebrew man that, while humans are born naturally (born of water), all humans are born spiritually unreceptive (spiritually dead) to God's spirituality. And He explained that one absolutely MUST be "Born-Again", this time spiritually, or one will neither see nor enter the Kingdom of God (a reference to eternal life and eternal access to God).
If while someone were spiritually dead and spiritually unreceptive to God they receive spiritual life by being "Born-Again", that new spiritual life will come by means of the Word of God.
"Being born again, not of corruptible (unholy) genetic bloodlines,
We are "Born-Again" by the Word of God that reveals Christ Jesus. God's Word will bring "religious" and spiritual liberty to believers, it will bring personal joy and it will bring spiritual blessing.
Through hearing the Word of God, by coming to the realization that Christ Jesus is God; the Messiah (Saviour); LORD of everything; creator of heaven and earth; your personal High Priest; your instructor in worship; and (Here is the big one!) was actually
resurrected from the dead, one comes to "BELIEVE" the truth of the Gospel and to begin to have "FAITH" in Christ Jesus.
"FAITH comes by hearing, and hearing comes by the WORD OF GOD" !
Being "Born-Again" activates (catalyzes) one's capacity to become spiritually receptive to God's Holy Spirit, and to be made spiritually receptive to God's plan and purpose for the ages.
While being "Born-Again" is at Christianity's entry-level, it is still of utmost importance. For, when one is NOT "Born-Again", one could know the scriptures well and still not truly understand them from God's perspective. When one is NOT "Born-Again", one will depend on outward ceremonies and rituals to fill the tangible spiritual void felt by those souls whom have no authentic, personal, spiritual contact with God. It is supremely important to realize that NO outward religious ceremony or ritual can bring one to Christ Jesus. The issue is whether, or not, one is "Born-Again".
Being "Born-Again" gives one the opportunity to be taught by the Holy Spirit about the true meaning of however much of the Holy Scriptures one has read and absorbed. When the Holy Spirit Of God teaches one the "Truth" from the Scriptures one will (then) see the sin(s) in their life that need to be confessed and repented-of, never to be committed again. Without being "Born-Again" one will never be changed from an un-saved sinner to a saved sinner, and no one can effectively change themself - NOT to God's satisfaction!
Being "Born-Again" frees or releases one from "Religion", those former powerless rituals, those former worthless ceremonies, those former suspect sacraments - NOT found in the Holy Scriptures - that comprised one's former "Religious" and spiritual beliefs or practices.
The world is full of pious and devout "Religious" practitioners seeking and questing after transcendental contact and experiences with God. While truly "Born-Again" believers in Christ Jesus have much-sought-after spiritual contact with the REAL God which the other seekers and questers so ardently endeavor to encounter!
Experientially, those who truly ARE spiritually "Born-Again" KNOW IT. And they can tangibly FEEL IT just as well as everyone else who have been physically born (and are alive today) know and can tangibly feel their own physical existence.
REMEMBER THIS:
REPENT is the 1st command in the Gospels! It's never really THE END, eternally, except for some "Religious" fakers & frauds among those other lost souls whom will NOT come to repentance ! You, individually, CAN come to Christ Jesus for forgiveness
of your sins !
The farther you get from God, the longer you stay apart or away from God, the harder your heart will become. Until, for YOU, making a commitment to God moves from improbable, to almost impossible, and eventually becomes completely impossible - FOREVER !
but of incorruptible (Holy) spirituality, by the Word of God,
which lives and abides forever."
1 Peter 1:23 - Literal Expanded Version.
Romans 10:17 - Literal Expanded Version.
It puts one on God's short-list of people whose prayers He hears!
Being "Born-Again" begins your new life as a Christian "Believer".
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