ARE YOU
BORN AGAIN?
“Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
I met a great church-going lady who had taught Sunday School and even
attended Bible college. But she was not
born again.
A very moral man spoke about the day he was born again. He had served his church many ways, but it
was not until, in his 60’s, he heard God’s Word and was saved.
WHAT IS IT?
To be born again means you receive a heavenly birth. It means “born
from above.” Good works like those
done by this man and woman cannot do it - not baptism, not communion, not
feeding the poor, etc.
“Marvel not that I said unto
thee, ye must be born again.” Jesus
said these words to a religious man. He
needed this birth. Jesus told him, “Except a man be born again he cannot enter
the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). A heavenly entrance needs a heavenly
birth.
HOW DOES
IT HAPPEN?
People who are born again “were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but
of God” (John 1:13).
God
must do it for you!
We are “born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God . . .” (1 Peter 1:23). Corruptible simply means decayed or
false. Man’s ideas about getting into
heaven are corrupt. Only in God’s Word
do we find God’s method on how to be born again. Here is what it says.
“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of
God is etern
