| Born Again / Born Anew |
Created Date: 28-Sep-2017 |
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Last updated: 20-Jan-2024 |
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The term and "Born Again" comes from many scriptures that reflect the change that we experience in our inner-person that will be completed when we receive our glorified bodies as part of the rewards in Heaven that occurs at the Judgment Seat of Christ event.
When we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior, then Jesus Christ spoke that He will send the Comforter that is the Holy Spirit to indwell us. Unlike the Old Testament period, that the Holy Spirit could come and go from indwelling a person, as King David asked to not let happen, the New Testament period had the unconditional indwelling that could not be lost. Anyone of us can, because of Free-Will to choose to sin, can squelch the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
God also made provision for Salvation under the Age of Accountability for all human beings that have different conditions based on age and circumstance that did not enable them to make choices for Salvation.
| John 3:3-8 | 3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter a second time into his mother s womb, and be born? 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born anew. 8 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. |
| John 3:16-21 Perish is separation from God |
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God. |
| 1 Peter 1:3-5 | 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. |
| 1 Peter 1:22-25 "begotten" - new and without end |
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently: 23 having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth. 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: 25 But the word of the Lord abideth for ever. And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:17 Man is "a person" both man and woman. |
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. |
| Romans 6:4 | We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. |
| Romans 6:23 | For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. |
| Ephesians 2:4-9 | 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved), 6 and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus: 7 that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus: 8 for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not of works, that no man should glory. |
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