BE BORN AGAIN!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY DECEMBER 22, 2019.

SUBJECT : BE BORN AGAIN!

Memory verse: "Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." (John 1 vs 1 3.) 

READ: John 3 vs 3 - 8: 

3:3: Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 

3:4; Nicodemus said to 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?"

3:5: Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 

3:6: That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. 3:7: Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' 

3:8: The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."

INTIMATION:

Being ‘born again’ consists of the two great objectives in redemption; restoration of God’s relationship, and fellowship, with man. God is working to the end that man may legally become His child, a partaker of His very nature, so that he will be a genuine heir and joint-heir with Jesus. The lost relationship and fellowship through Adam’s high treason, are restored as righteousness is restored through Christ’s substitutionary work for man: "....For He restores to man His righteousness” (Job 33 vs 26).

There can be no fellowship unless man can stand in the presence of God the Father without the consciousness of guilt, of sin, or of inferiority. There can be no fellowship of the type that the Father craves unless man is utterly free from sin consciousness and free from the fear of Satan's dominion. So the whole redemptive process have been to the end that He might have children, and that these children should live in the closest fellowship of love and freedom with Himself. The sin problem must be settled on legal grounds so that God will have a perfect right to impart to man His own nature, thereby making this man an absolute New Creation. The sin in man’s nature must be driven out by the nature of God coming in.

Man's spirit must be in perfect harmony with the Father. Man is made up of spirit, soul and body. The part of man that had to be recreated was the spirit of man. The mind is renewed and his body brought into subjection to the Word, and that constitutes the first phase of a perfect redemption—being ‘born again.’ Man must become an actual child of God, as truly as was Jesus Christ in His earthly walk. This can only come by a re-birth of the spirit of man, a real new creation of which Jesus speaks in the passage we read today. Jesus revealed that the kingdom will come to the whole world (John 3 vs 16), and no man could be part of it unless he is personally born again. The kingdom concept is personal, not national or ethnic, and its entrance requirements are repentance and spiritual  re-birth. 

The ‘born again’ child is begotten of the Will of the Father; "Of His own Will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures." (James 1 vs 18.) Two facts are shown here: We are born of His Will, and also of His Word. It is all of God—His Will and His Word. God’s Word Is His Will, and His Will is expressed in His Word.

You can now see why in Ephesians 2 vs 10 we are referred to as God's workmanship; 

"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." The new creation is all of God, wrought through the Word, and of the Holy Spirit. As soon as man is recreated—born again—the Father, through the Holy Spirit, begins the beautiful process of renewing his mind. The Scriptures in Romans Romans 12 vs 2 says, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect Will of God.”

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the unparalleled love You showered on me, the privilege of sonship, and my legal stand in the family of God. Everything within me will forever praise You, for You are my Loving Father, my Faithful Companion, and my Sacrificial Savior, in Jesus’ I have given thanks, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!