How to be Born Again
Colin Melbourne
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What is it? Why you need it? How to be born again
God says; You must be born again. Salvation is found in no-one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people by which we must be saved. Holy Bible, Jn 3:7 Acts 4:12 NIV
What Does It Mean, To Be Born Again?
To be born again means to receive salvation, and be saved through receiving The LORD Jesus Christ as Saviour. • See Note
Salvation is God's will for you, made real on earth. All His abundant blessings are freely available in salvation. It includes everything Jesus Christ died to provide. A new life, peace with God, righteousness, mercy, perfect health, unfailing love, faith, deliverance, power, and joy.
Expressed simply, it is God's life in us, Christ in you.
The New Testament Greek words for salvation are the verb sozo, and the noun soteria, all-inclusive terms meaning; saved, healed, delivered, pardoned, rescued, protected, preserved, made whole, cured, set free, and restored.
It's not religion, and is much more than having your sins forgiven.
When we receive Jesus as Lord, all that He is becomes ours. He brings His righteousness, His redemption, His health, His wisdom, His holiness, and His Life.
It is for everyone, it's free, and you can have it now.
Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Ro. 10:13
Everyone means you. Have you called on His Name? There's no need to wait because:
Now is the time of God's favour, now is the day of salvation. 2 Co. 6:2
Total deliverance from Satan's power is part of everybody's salvation.
Jesus said on the Cross: It is finished! Jn. 19:30
He has provided for our complete salvation. Only believe!
Salvation is total remission of sins.
Everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name. Acts 10:43.
Brought back to God as though you had never sinned.
In him we (believers) have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins. Eph. 1:7
Since we (believers) have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Ro. 5:1
Justified; Just-As-If-I'd never done it.
• Note: Implicit in receiving the Lord Jesus Christ, is the acceptance that He is who He claimed to be, and who the Holy Bible declares Him to be, Almighty God in the Flesh. Jn. 12:41+45; Is. 6:5; Jn. 1:1+14; Rev. 1:8, Rev 22:13+16; Is. 48:12; Lk. 6:5; Jn.Ch 8.
The cults endeavour to make Him less than this, ie. 'a god' or just the 'son of God', and so deny Him and perish. Unless you believe that Christ is LORD (YHWH), you will die in your sins. See Jn. Ch.8 Back to text
There's more Good News.
Salvation includes physical healing
In the English New Testament, the words translated as; salvation, save, saved, heal, healed, whole, frequently stem from the same Greek word, sozo. Why? Because sozo means healed as much as it means saved.
Both spiritual and physical healing are included in every person's salvation.
Never can physical healing be Scripturally separated from salvation under the New Covenant. The term saved always includes the benefits of physical health.
The idea that physical healing by God's power is a blessing separate from salvation is traditional, and unfounded in God's Word.
To separate healing from salvation is as unscriptural as to separate the Healer from the Saviour. Jesus is both.
The clear Scriptural facts are that bodily healing is always included as an integral part of salvation.
Salvation, likewise includes total liberty from mental sickness, demonic oppression, and bondage to sinful habits.
It is important to understand that salvation has nothing to do with religion, sacraments, rites, ceremonies or rituals of any kind.
We are saved, brought into one-ness with God, only one way; by faith in the Blood of God's Son shed for us.
Why You Need To Be Born Again
The first couple walked with God in friendship and love, but chose to break trust with Him by doubting His Word.
They sinned and brought sin and death on all people.
God cannot fellowship with sinners, so we are all born separated from our Creator. Thanks Adam and Eve.
Just as sin entered the world through one man (Adam), and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Ro. 5:12; 3:23
Nobody is born innocent before God.
There's no-one righteous, not even one. Ro. 3:10
All of us are born sinful, wicked to the core.
There is no-one who does good, not even one. Ro. 3:12b
The heart is deceitful above all things, and beyond cure. Jer. 17:9
God doesn't cure your sinful heart, He does a heart transplant and gives you a brand new righteous one.
I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you. I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. Eze. 36:26-27
We all need a heart transplant. We all need to be born again. That's why you must be born again.
We are all condemned to death, and eternal punishment in Hell for our sins.
The soul who sins shall die. Eze. 18:4
Whoever does not believe (in Christ) stands condemned already. Jn. 3:18
That is why we need a Saviour.
You may possess jewels, riches, and property, but without salvation you are utterly destitute.
If you are a penniless beggar. Today you can have eternal riches in Heaven.
You may be famous, and honoured with titles, but without salvation you are unknown where it counts.
If you are rejected as an outcast. Today you can be accepted in the beloved.
You may be adored, loved, and proclaimed a 'saint' in this world, but without salvation you'll be rejected by God.
If you are unloved, abandoned, and cut off by your family. Today you can know unfailing love and be adopted as God's child for eternity.
Your lineage may be ancient and distinguished, but without salvation your name will be absent from God's Book of Life.
If you are a nobody, going nowhere. Today you can be assured of God's guidance, and a place in Heaven.
You may be faithful to your religion, unimpeachable in 'holiness', but without salvation you'll die a sinner's death, doomed to Hell.
If you are a scoundrel, wicked through and through. Today you can become a true saint of God.
You may spend your days in good works, and unceasing prayer, but without salvation your labour is in vain, of no eternal value.
If you have never uttered a single prayer or helped anyone. Today your voice can ring in God's ear, and you'll delight to be His Hands helping the needy.
You may be unclean, a stench in your nostrils. But today you can be washed in the Blood that cleanses every stain.
If you are crushed, hopeless and helpless. Today you can be lifted by God's own Son and seated with Him.
If you are riddled with disease in Death's grip. Today you can be perfectly healed by faith in Jesus Christ.
How to Be Born Again and Saved
Sinners ask, What must I do to be saved?
God has made it really simple:
God has made it really simple; First Understand: That the Lord Jesus Christ is Almighty God in the Flesh, as the Holy Bible declares.
If you have sinned; Christ paid for your sins.
If you're guilty; Christ was punished bearing your guilt.
If you're sick or infirm; Jesus bore your sicknesses, and carried your infirmities.
If you're lost; Christ came to seek and to save the lost.
If you're hurting; Christ suffered your pains.
If you're lonely; Jesus died to be your Friend.
Your debt to God is paid. Your sin atoned for, your sickness conquered, your enemy defeated.
- Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Receive Him into your heart.
- Turn away from sin.
- Follow Him.
Are you willing to do that?
Are you willing to repent and believe that Good News?
If you are... God will save you now.
No religion can save you, no church, no rites, ceremonies, sacraments or rituals.
No good deeds, penance, charms, talismans or prayers can save you.
Jesus said, You must be born again! Jn. 3:7
That happens the instant you genuinely believe in Him, receive Him, and confess Him as Lord.
If you have understood the Gospel and are willing to repent and believe, you are ready to pray...
Turn to Him because now is the day of salvation!
