born again
have you ever gotten to a place in your life where you wish you could go back and do things over?
to clean up the mistakes and messes you have made?
are you at the end of yourself?
do you feel a deep shame for the sins you have committed?
do you want your sins be forgiven?
do you want to be set free from the guilt you feel because of those sins?
have you ever wondered why we commit sins in the first place?
it is because we have inherited sin in our dna from adam and eve.
it is in our very nature to then commit sins.
all religions in the world try to find ways to be forgiven from our sins, which we commit over and over again. it never ends..
jesus is the only one who has the power to atone for our sin which is the root cause of the sins that we commit once and for all!
this is very good news!
turn to jesus.
he is the only way.
with him, you have the opportunity to start over.
to start anew.
to leave your past behind.
to have your sin debt wiped clean.
to be forgiven.
to be born again.
to leave the kingdom of darkness
and to enter the kingdom of light,
the kingdom of god.
as a matter of fact, jesus said that “you must be born again” john 3:7
i strongly urge you answer his call
first, we must repent of our sins.
this means we turn our back on them
and turn toward his son jesus christ
no matter how big your sins are, god is greater.
yes even that one that you are the most ASHAMED of
even that one that you would just die if it were found out
even that one that could land you in jail if it ever came to light
his capacity to forgive, is far greater than anything you have done.
no matter how big or how small.
repent and turn toward god so he will forgive your sins.
acts 3:19
next, we declare and believe
if you declare with you mouth (out loud) that jesus is lord
and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead
then you will be saved.
for it is with your heart that you believe and are justified
and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved
romans 10:9-10
just say a simple prayer like this;
holy father,
i have come to realize that I am a sinner
i repent of those sins
i ask you to forgive me of those sins
i profess with my mouth that jesus is lord
and i believe in my heart that you god, have raised raised him from the dead
i submit the rest of my life into your hands
it is in the name of jesus christ i pray,
amen
you have now been saved by the grace of god!
your sins have been completely washed away
they are now completely forgotten by god
for it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith
and this is not from yourselves, it is a gift from god
ephesians 2:8
congratulations!
you are now a believer in our lord and savior jesus christ.
you have been born again!
your sins have been supernaturally been transferred on to Jesus
and his righteousness has been SUPERNATURAL transferred on to you
you have made an exit from the kingdom of darkness
and entered into the kingdom light
into the kingdom of god
jesus said, "truely, truely i say, unless you are born again, you can not see the kingdom of god"
john 3:3
you are now a whole new person
the old has gone, the new has come
you are now destine to spend eternity with god in heaven
your name is now written in the lambs book of life spoken of in the Book of revelation.
you will now walk with jesus, dressed in white, for you are worthy, you are victorious. your name will never be blotted out of the book of life. he will acknowledge your name before god the father and his angels.
Revelation 3:4-5.
you will escape the horrors of hell as well for anyone whose name is not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
revelation 20:15
needless to say, the lamb’s book is a little more important than face book don’t you think??!!
you have been sealed with the promise of the holy spirit.
if anyone is in christ, he is a new creature, the old things have passed away, behold, new things have come.
2 corinthians 5:17
i encourage you to get a good study bible
begin by reading in the book of john
there you will learn all about the life of jesus
start attending a bible teaching church
spend less time on face book and more time in the Lord’s book..the bible!
go and grow in the grace and KNOWLEDGE of our lord and savior jesus christ
to him be the glory
both now and to the day of ETERNITY
amen
2 peter 3:18
the light of the world has enter your life
and the dark clouds will start to DISAPPEAR
you will begin to think differently and act differently.
the things you used to do you will no longer have interest in.
the things you never had interest in now you all of a sudden do.
for instance, you may now have a desire to read the bible, go to church, listen to christian musical artists.
you will turn from being loyal to the things of the world to being loyal to jesus.
your friends and family will most certainly notice.
by your actions and words you will evolve into a witness for jesus christ!!
amazingly, you will find that you will even become a witness against your old self.
you will look back and not believe how you once thought and acted.
it will feel like blinders has come off of your eyes and for the first time in your life you see things as they really are.
you will not believe how blind you were.
this is exactly how i felt and how i still feel!
jesus spoke and said, "i am the light of the world. who ever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
john 8:12
how do we know for sure that we have been “born again?”
well first of all, anyone who believes that jesus is the christ is born of god.
1 john 5:1
when we think this;
we have the assurance that we have eternal life.
we have assurance that when we pray according to god’s will, that he hears us.
we have assurance that we will not continue to sin as we once did.
we have assurance that we are god’s children.
we have assurance of the incarnation of jesus as the son of god.
we walk in obedience to god’s commands
1 john 5:13-21
when we begin to understand the level of forgiveness that the lord has extended to us for our multitude of sins, we now have the example of how to forgive others that have sin against us.
their sins against us pale in comparison to our sins against god.
we can in no way reflect jesus to the world more than when we forgive others as he has forgiven us.
peter one time ask jesus, “lord how many time should i forgive a brother or sister who sins against me? up to seven time?” jesus answered, “i tell you, not seven times, but seventy seven times.” matthew 18:20-22.
what jesus is saying here is that because god our father continues to forgive us, we should continue to forgive those that sin against us.
“be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as through christ, god forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32
we also keep ourselves from idols. 1 john 5:21
we walk in the absolute truth of god and recognize the lies of the many deceivers of the world.
does this all mean that we will become sinless?
of course not..as long as we are in these bodies we will be subject to our old sinful nature at times.
but overall, we will begin to sin less and less and when we do the holy spirit will convict us of those sins and we can go straight to jesus for forgiveness of those sins!
in summery, when we become born again, the holy spirit comes to live inside of us and in fact, we actually have “the mind of christ”!
1 corinthians 2:16
