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How to be Born-again?
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There is no greater question to ask than that which you have asked. It was asked by a great leader of Jesus long ago:
John 3:1 There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees.
Joh 3:2 One night he went to Jesus and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him."
John 3:3 Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again."
John 3:4 "How can a grown man be born again?" Nicodemus asked. "He certainly cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time!"
Joh 3:5 "I am telling you the truth," replied Jesus, "that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
Joh 3:6 A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.
Joh 3:7 Do not be surprised because I tell you that you must all be born again.
Joh 3:8 The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit."
Joh 3:9 "How can this be?" asked Nicodemus.
Joh 3:10 Jesus answered, "You are a great teacher in Israel, and you don't know this?
Joh 3:11 I am telling you the truth: we speak of what we know and report what we have seen, yet none of you is willing to accept our message.
Joh 3:12 You do not believe me when I tell you about the things of this world; how will you ever believe me, then, when I tell you about the things of heaven?
Joh 3:13 And no one has ever gone up to heaven except the Son of Man, who came down from heaven."
Joh 3:14 As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up,
Joh 3:15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
Joh 3:16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
Joh 3:17 For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.
Joh 3:18 Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.
Joh 3:19 This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.
Joh 3:20 Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.
Joh 3:21 But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.
So what is Jesus saying?
He is saying that you must have a spiritual birth to enter heaven.
How do you do this?
By looking to Jesus like the Israelites did in the wilderness when they gazed upon the serpent upon the pole and were healed of their snake bites.
All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. We all have been bitten by the serpent, so to speak, just as Adam and Eve were in the sense that they listened to his lies and spiritual died. Later they physically died too. For God had warned that, "In the day that ye eat thereof you shall surely die!"
And so we see this symbolic picture before us of a snake upon a pole in the wilderness.
Jesus said that He Himself is like that snake on the pole!
What pole?
Jesus was referring to the cross. Jesus would die upon a cross as if He were accursed like that snake.
Why did He die?
He died in our place. He took the venom of the snake upon Himself when He died on that cross! He died in our place, the spotless lamb of God!
What must we do to be cured of our snake bite? That is,
What must we do to be cured of our sins with its penalty of death?
Jesus has done it all for you already! All that remains for you to do is to look upon Jesus by faith for your cure just as the ancient Israelites looked upon that snake to be cured of their snake bites!
Whoever looked up at that bronze snake upon the pole in the days of Moses were healed. All that did not look because of their unbelief and disobedience perished.
It is the same way today between us and Jesus!
All that look to Him in faith and believe that He died for your on that cross will be saved --- healed of their sin and the curse of sin.
Whoever is healed and saved from their sins by believing this message is also born-again. For salvation by faith in Jesus, (apart from works), is how one becomes born-again. They are forgiven, and the Holy Spirit of God comes and changes them from the inside out. They are born-again, though outwardly they appear the same, yet inwardly a new sense of cleanness and joy takes over. That person has been born-again!
Whoever is born-again loves Jesus, and whoever loves Him follows Him!
This is how to be born-again!
And he that is born-again is passed from death to life. He will live forever.
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Posted 11 October 2005 - 07:59 PM
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Posted 18 October 2005 - 05:35 PM
Hello Shekel.
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
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Posted 28 January 2006 - 09:19 PM
Good job and it sure will help those who do not fully understand the true meaning of salvation and being born again. I look forward to your further postings on this topic.
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Meshuganah, on Oct 18 2005, 05:35 PM, said:
Hello Shekel.
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
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Posted 04 April 2006 - 11:33 AM
Romans5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
The death of Jesus on the cross paid the price for your sins. All you need to do is ask Jesus into your heart and the FATHER GOD to forgive your sins, and believe that JESUS died so that you can have eternal life!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Without accepting Jesus as your LORD and Savior, you will not come into the KINGDOM OF GOD. He is the only way to reach the FATHER.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Salvation
What did Jesus do for you?
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jesus sacrificed his own body for your sins. He took your sins and the sin in your life was covered by his sacrifice.
Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
When we accept Jesus as our LORD and Savior, we are made new. Old things are passed away!
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
He calls out to you while yet living in sin and wants you to come to HIM.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
He offers you forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
We become joint-heirs with Jesus!
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jesus is our advocate to the FATHER.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Belief
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
When we receive Jesus as LORD and Savior we become the sons of GOD.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
He doesn't want us to die,but have eternal life!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Commitment means...
Repent= Turn away from sins and follow GOD'S new direction for your life.
Believe= Trust Jesus as your substitute over all your sins.
Confess= Acknowledge Jesus as the supreme authority over your life.
Call= Ask HIM for forgiveness, eternal life and hope.
A Simple prayer of repentance and commitment to GOD
Dear GOD, I know that Jesus is YOUR SON and that HE died on the cross was was raised from the dead. He died for me. His Blood was shed to cover my sins. Because I have sinned and need forgiveness, I ask JESUS to come into my heart. I am willing to change the direction of MY LIFE by acknoweldging that JEUS is MY LORD and MY SAVIOR, and by turning away from sin. Thank you for giving me forgiveness,eternal life, and hope, in JESUS name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, and want to know more, contact us, or leave a message here. We want to help you in your new life in JESUS!
The death of Jesus on the cross paid the price for your sins. All you need to do is ask Jesus into your heart and the FATHER GOD to forgive your sins, and believe that JESUS died so that you can have eternal life!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Without accepting Jesus as your LORD and Savior, you will not come into the KINGDOM OF GOD. He is the only way to reach the FATHER.
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. 12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Salvation
What did Jesus do for you?
John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Jesus sacrificed his own body for your sins. He took your sins and the sin in your life was covered by his sacrifice.
Romans 5:15 But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;
When we accept Jesus as our LORD and Savior, we are made new. Old things are passed away!
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
He calls out to you while yet living in sin and wants you to come to HIM.
Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
1 Timothy 2:3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
He offers you forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses; 14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
We become joint-heirs with Jesus!
Titus 3:4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Jesus is our advocate to the FATHER.
1 John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Belief
Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
When we receive Jesus as LORD and Savior we become the sons of GOD.
John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
He doesn't want us to die,but have eternal life!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Acts 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Commitment means...
Repent= Turn away from sins and follow GOD'S new direction for your life.
Believe= Trust Jesus as your substitute over all your sins.
Confess= Acknowledge Jesus as the supreme authority over your life.
Call= Ask HIM for forgiveness, eternal life and hope.
A Simple prayer of repentance and commitment to GOD
Dear GOD, I know that Jesus is YOUR SON and that HE died on the cross was was raised from the dead. He died for me. His Blood was shed to cover my sins. Because I have sinned and need forgiveness, I ask JESUS to come into my heart. I am willing to change the direction of MY LIFE by acknoweldging that JEUS is MY LORD and MY SAVIOR, and by turning away from sin. Thank you for giving me forgiveness,eternal life, and hope, in JESUS name, Amen.
If you prayed this prayer, and want to know more, contact us, or leave a message here. We want to help you in your new life in JESUS!
This post has been edited by onetiggerroo: 04 April 2006 - 11:38 AM
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Posted 20 April 2006 - 10:10 AM
Meshuganah, on Oct 18 2005, 05:35 PM, said:
Hello Shekel.
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
Great work that you are doing with this site. The more I read the more I see the Lord using you to eddify all.
I have an addition though to this post....How to be born again......It is so important that all realise that a critical component of salvation is repentance.
All the reading and understanding in the world cannot attain salvation alone. We have to accept Christ, accept the gift and repent of our sines, thanking Him for our salvation and recognising his crucifiction and resurection.
The problem we have is that even satan knows that Jesus died on the cross and was risen on the third day.......And he knows why Jesus did it.
We can be born again if we give up our sins to Jesus, accept forgiveness in His name and allow the Spirit to help us to grow in him.
Just my humble input...... Regards and thanks again.
Meshuganah
I appreciate the tought of this thread ... and agree with your insight, Meshuganah. I see your thought in Romans 6:14-18~
14 For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
16 Don't you know that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obedience, his servants you are whom you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?
17 But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.
18 Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
How praiseworthy ... that our gift of salvation includes power over sin!
Blessings to you.
In Jesus' name~
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... you will be like a well watered garden... like an ever flowing spring. ~ Isaiah 58:11 ~
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... you will be like a well watered garden... like an ever flowing spring. ~ Isaiah 58:11 ~