Born Of God!
“Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3: 3. “Verily, verily, I
say unto thee, except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he
cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the
flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.” John 3:
5,6,7.
My friend, if you cannot fully
appreciate the word of God, believe its' promises, and perceive with
your heart and mind all the glories, joys, and happiness of the
kingdom of God; if you cannot enjoy the fellowship with God as a
parent – child relationship, and experience the sense of
justification and forgiveness of sins, past, present, and future,
perhaps it is because you have never truly been “born again” into
the family of God.
When Adam and Eve our first
earthly parents disobeyed God in the very beginning of creation, they
sold their birthright to Satan , and since then every human being
that has ever been born has inherited the sin nature, and comes into
the world already estranged from God. So, when we are born, we are
born in the flesh only. Our spiritual life does not begin at the
time of our physical birth. Although God is the creator of all, he
is not the father of all until his child has been conceived and born.
God is spirit, he must be worshiped in spirit, and to become a
child of God, we must be born in the spirit. “The natural man
receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are
foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they are
spiritually discerned.” 1 Corinthians 2:14.
In order to be born into the
family of God, it is totally a work of God's grace. We must be drawn
by God to hear and accept the word of God as absolute truth, and by
faith, believe, as it says that: “All scripture is given by
inspiration of God” and that “Holy men of God spoke as they were
moved by the Holy Ghost.: One must accept by faith that Jesus Christ
is the divine son of God, and that he died for the sins of each
individual person who will receive him, and that his bodily
resurrection was proof that God had accepted his sacrifice in payment
of the sin debt, and for the justification of all who will receive
him.
Intellectual knowledge is not
enough. The heart must confirm by faith, what the mind knows
factually. The world says prove it to me, and I will believe. God
says, believe me, and then I will prove it to you by spiritual
discernment.
“God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
not perish but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into
the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might
be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned but; but he
that believeth not is condemned already because he hath not believed
in the name of the only begotten son of God.” John 3: 16,17, 18.
“As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them who believe on his name, which were born, not of
blood, nor of the will of theflesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God.” John 1: 12, 13, .
Dear reader, I invite you to
believe the Word of God; to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be
saved. If God is drawing you to himself, and has implanted within
your heart a grain of faith as minute as the mustard seed; if you
are willing, by receiving the Word of God into your heart; this grain
of faith will become impregnated with the word of God, and cause you
to become a child of God. Then the Holy Spirit will dwell within you
and cause you to know God, enjoy God, and perceive the kingdom of
God, and have the assurance of eternal everlasting life.
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