Born From Above
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Show Notes:
When a new believer receives a salvation experience, he may also be introduced to the possibility of being born again.
This time of being born will not be anything like a person's first birth. It will be entirely new.
Being born from above is not something a person works at; it is an endowment from your Father in heaven.
This experience is unique for each individual and it opens up a whole new life of provisions from the Lord, especially a deeper relationship with Him.
The changes that happen to someone who is born again could include receiving His divine nature, loving yourself as the new creation He is making you, and flowing in deeper relationships with other believers.
You may now be given a sense of who He created you to be, and your eyes are opened to see His Kingdom.
Quotations:
Being born again is something new and totally different. What is being established is a direct impartation of His nature.
One of the first things that happens is you fall in love with yourself.
Being born again has to be an experience, but it will be different for every individual.
One of the things it does is bring a instantaneous connection with each other in the spirit.
We're being His workmanship; He's creating us into what He wants us to be in order to work the works of God.
It's the Lordship of Jesus Christ. It is about us giving our will to the will of God.
The outcome of that experience of being born again is to see the Kingdom of God.
References:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.
“Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for these who love Him.”
“Behold, I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump...”
“And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”
Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
Takeaway:
Being born from above is an amazing promise. It comes under that Scripture of “eye has not seen and ear has not heard.” Since this is an experience that cannot be worked out by man, but is created by God, we find that the part that a believer contributes is his will. The first step is loving the Lord with all your heart, all your soul, your mind and your strength. We can change, but we must be born again into this life of Spirit.
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