This is a truthful General synopsis of the life in Christ and of course most true Christians evangelize the word of God. You are not of your own you were purchased with a price and there's no other name under Heaven given unto men in which he might find Salvation but that of the biblical Lord Jesus Christ. Emmanuel God With Us.
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9:44 am July 3, 2022
To be born again
"Life in the Spirit means that you have a new life in Jesus Christ. You died and rose with Christ, and the Spirit of God lives in you. There are two kinds of people in the world: People who are living in the flesh and people who are living in the Spirit. All of us are either one or the other."
What is the life in Jesus?
"The five major milestones in the New Testament narrative of the life of Jesus are his Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. In the gospels, the ministry of Jesus starts with his Baptism by John the Baptist, when he is about thirty years old."
July 3 2022 9:21 a.m.
"Born again is a phrase used by many Protestants to describe the phenomenon of gaining faith in Jesus Christ. It is an experience when everything they have been taught as Christians becomes real, and they develop a direct and personal relationship with God."
( not only used by Protestants but by Bible believing Christians)
The above is somebody's understanding and it is very close to the truth. You become a new creature in Christ. You now have a relationship and you start to learn things and see things in a way that God sees them and in your relationship you know God and it is the vine that teaches the branches. You read his word and you pray and you put off the old man because God gives you a new nature. It is called the regeneration of the heart. Although they say there are false converts God knows who truly in their hearts have accepted the truth and even repented of their sins. And you might have family members who think they're living this life but they're really living a worldly life full of sin and take for granted trampling the blood of Christ. They don't live the real life in Christ but for 2,000 years and even before that in the Old Testament people were living this life. In the Old Testament they had a relationship with the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. And I've heard once Mr. Atheism who wrote books say if this is the way it was implied in debate why couldn't God have chosen a better way. Because he is above our thinking and our ways and there was a great fall in a battle in heaven. He is working his will. Jesus said it like this Heaven and Earth will pass away but his words will never pass away. So even before the foundations of the world were laid God already knew what had to be done. Jesus said his kingdom is not of this world yet he was born in this world to be the lamb that takes away the sins of the world. He didn't come for vanity being for sin he came to wipe out the works of the devil. It is written greater is he that is in you that is in the world. Those that truly love God and have been regenerated (born again) there's no power that can snatch them out of the hands of the Lord.
You know Jesus prayed for the disciples or his apostles not that they be taken out of the world but they be spared from the evil one yet it is known that many of them suffered persecution. Christ told us this would happen. Now there is debate when a person is born again. This is something Christ told Nicodemus the Jewish Pharisee from the Sanhedrin. He said what is born of spirit is spirit and what is born of flesh is flesh. There are things that we cannot see with our naked eye that are eternal and he said to store up treasures for heaven.
"'And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.' Thomas said to him, 'Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?' Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
If you have a relationship with Jesus Christ being the unblemish Lamb of God who was the Jewish rabbi and is risen in glory and sits at the right hand of the father then you will also know the father.
John 14:23
“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
King James Version (KJV)
There are many facets with being born again. There are newbies on milk and people who are advanced more matured who are said to be on meat. Most likely all had been redeemed and their hearts are right with God. Here's what Christ said.
John 14:23
“Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”
And furthermore as he says in the Book of Matthew that the last shall be first and the first last. Many are called few are chosen.
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 20:16
“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”
King James Version (KJV )
God is love and many people claim to know God but they don't know God. Many people claim to serve Jesus Christ yet as they don't have a relationship with him nor do they know him. And yet such people think of themselves as good. Matter of fact they might be filled with religiosity and think they're going to heaven in that state but they're not. There are so many reprobate minds that the god of this world has blinded. I didn't specifically want to get into all the crooks and nannies of such but just needed to briefly explain that. Because there is a huge difference with that worldly way and deceptive way then the real straight narrow gateway.
Some people might have been saved when they were younger and so their life wasn't a complete waste. For instance for myself I lived a worldly life when I was younger with worldly friends that were not true Christians. Even their parents some of them really not "mainly" the mothers but the dads smoke cigarettes and had verbal evil tongues. Yet they claim to be Christians. God tells us in scripture he will appoint such people their portions with the unbelievers. But nonetheless I look back now and I see all of those years as a waste of time. And we also have our part when we lived such a life of sin. And sometimes the company we keep we think are our friends are leading us away from the true Christ and the new life in Christ. We're not to worship the women. And a man should not just take any woman. He should have a prayer life and get to know God and wait till God tells him or shows him which woman is for him. It should be the same for the woman.
The new life in Christ you're going to carry your cross. You might not be perfect and in fact some Christians might not even have a job. You will understand the trials and tribulations. You will contend for the faith once delivered onto the Saints. God will direct your path and your heart will be in right standing with God. (prayer is very important). (and we must not forget who the master is nor strip him of his authority.)
John 10:10 he came to give you an abundance of life. The evil one comes to steal to murder to do all sorts of evil. There is a true life in Christ also evident from the teaching of his parables. He said "if a man keep my word I and the father will come and make our abode with him."
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