What does it mean to be Born Again

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What does it mean to be Born Again?
It is a biblical term used by Jesus
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Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly,
I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot
see the kingdom of God. John 33 If Jesus used
it that certainly validates its use but still
what does it mean?
Puzzled?
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It is a term that points to a spiritual situation
and condition

• Human beings are not just flesh and blood we
  have been given souls (a heart), and primarily we
  are spirit beings.
• So God created man in His own image in the image
  of God He created him male and female He created
  them. Genesis 127

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Therefore our human experience includes a
consciousness towards God!

• We are aware of a
• Supreme Being
• We have the privileged
• opportunity of Knowing
• God
• We have a conscience
• towards the Nature of
• GodHoly Perfect
• We long to worship
• Someone Greater
• We have an emptiness
• inside because we have
• been born separated from
• our God

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Being Born Again is spiritual not physical

• We were born into the world once physically but
  because of sin we do not know God spiritually.
• When Jesus says we must be Born Again it is
  referring to our need to receive the Holy Spirit
  into our being!

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It is all about our relationship!

• God is love and He is Personal in His desire for
  communion with each person
• God will not invade our hearts and take over like
  a dictator
• God is waiting for OUR permission to save us! He
  is waiting for our invitation to enter our being

For God so loved the world...
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Personal Relationships like marriage divorce
help explain it

• With a marriage we have the most personal
  relationship humanity knows there is love,
  friendship, communion, security, intimacy, etc
• With divorce we have the separation of that
  relationship divorce is the death of love and
  communion between two people who once were one.
  

LOVE

• Reconciliation is the answer to the
• divisions, arguments, and injurious
• fighting that take place in a marriage
• which can lead to divorce.

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Stop Think about this

• When two people in love begin to fight their joy,
  intimacy, and fellowship are put on hold. If the
  argument is deep enough a wall begins to separate
  them emotionally.
• This wall prevents fellowship although the
  relationship of marriage may still be intact.
• Reconciliation brings down the wall and restores
  the fellowship repairing the breach. When this
  happens the relationship experiences a type of
  being born again.

Bitterness Resentment
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the ministry of
reconciliation!

• God has removed the offense of our sin and
  rebellion through the cross of Christ. (2
  Corinthians 518)
• He offers peace between us and God through the
  blood of Christ.
• When we repent and surrender to Gods sovereign
  will our heart is reconciled to Gods heartbeing
  born again! This is true for each of us
  personally in responding to God.

Turn Around...
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We are reunited with Gods Spirit individually!

• But he who unites himself with the Lord is one
  with him in
• spirit. (1Corinthians 617)
• The greatest blessing of the Gospel of Jesus
  Christ is
• KNOWING we are right with God and saved from
  our sins.
• The Spirit Himself bears witness with our
  spirit that we are
• children of God, (Romans 816)

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There are FOUR Spiritual laws that relay this
need to be reconciled with God

• Law Number One God loves each of us and has a
  wonderful plan for our life now and eternally.
• "For God so loved the world that He gave His only
  begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should
  not perish but have everlasting life. (John
  316)
• The thief does not come except to steal, and to
  kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus) have come that
  they may have life, and that they may have it
  more abundantly. (John 1010)

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Holy God

• Law Number Two Man is sinful and separated from
  God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience
  Gods love and plan for his life.
• All have sinned and fall short of the glory of
  God. (Romans 323)
• The wages of sin is death. spiritual death
  separation from God (Romans 623)

Our efforts all fall short!
Sinful Man
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• Law Number Three Jesus Christ is Gods only
  provision for mans sin. Through Him you can know
  and experience Gods love and plan for your life.
• But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
  that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us. (Romans 58)
• Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and
  the life. No one comes to the Father except
  through Me. (John 146)

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Law Number Four We must individually receive
Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord then we can know
and experience Gods love and plan for our lives.
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the
right to become children of God, to those who
believe in His name who were born, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of
man, but of God. (John 112,13)
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A Prayer Must be Said

• We must ask to be saved it will not happen by
  itself or through someone elses effort.
• Salvation is not a relationship through someone
  elseit is a personal connection.
• A prayer of the heart
• Dear God, I believe in Jesus Christ. I know I
  am a sinner separated from you come into my
  life, forgive me and save me through Jesus Christ
  the Lord. Amen.

Holy God
Re-united in Spirit
Sinful Man
Born Again!
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Whats Next?

• Accept by faith that your obedience to His plan
  of salvation has resulted in you becoming a child
  of God AND tell someone!
• Begin to find others who believe the Bible is
  Gods Word and have also been born again.
• Pray and read prayer is talking with God in our
  heart, mind, or with our lips read a good
  translation of the Bible usually a more
  contemporary version is easier to understand.
• Attend a good Church going to Church is like
  making it to practices like when weve
  participated in team sports. It is Gods will
  that we gather together for various reasons
  including worship, prayer, sharing, and hearing
  Gods word preached