Born Again
Salvation: Saved

Colin Melbourne

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What?   Why?   How?

God says to enter Heaven and be saved from Hell;

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 born again mean?

To be born again means to receive God's Spirit, Life, and Presence into your heart by receiving The Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour from sin, death, and Judgement.

Salvation is to be made right with God in spirit, soul and body, both physically and spiritually.

By being saved, a person is entitled to enjoy all of God's blessings purchased for them by Christ's Blood. The repentant sinner is born again, receives a new spirit (heart), they become a new creation in Christ, they have peace, righteousness, mercy, health, never ending love, and much more.

It is summed up by the Scripture 'Christ in you'.

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Why you need to be saved

Adam and Eve lived with God in harmony and love, but were tempted to sin by ignoring and disobeying His Word.

Their sin brought death to all of us. You inherited your sinful nature from them.

God can't have harmony with sinners, that is why we're each born apart from our Maker.

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

Everyone is born condemned by their sinful nature to live without God.

There's no-one righteous, not even one. Ro. 3:10

We are all born sinful, children of the devil, not children of God.

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 want to treat our sinful hearts, He wants to transplant a new godly heart into us. He gives us His heart, His Spirit: That is why He called it being born again.

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

You need a heart-transplant. You need to be born-again. That's why you really do need salvation. Not religion: salvation.

Without salvation you are condemned to die and suffer eternal punishment in Hell for your 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 you must receive The Saviour.

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