WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE ‘BORN-AGAIN’?

We have learned from the previous article what redemption means. Being Born Again is recieving the the life of Jesus in one who is redeemed by the blood (life) of Jesus Christ. Even though redemption and being Born again happens in a person at the same time these are two different realities. If the person is redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ as a ransom,but  person is born again by recieving  the blood (life) of Jesus into the person. 

Being born again is not about some good decisions that we make or some good changes we make in our character, but as the name suggests it is the process of getting a new birth and a new life. When we were formed in our mother’s womb, the first thing we received was life. We received our natural life from our parents, and that is how we became their children in flesh. That is a birth by flesh. However, God is Spirit. To become children of God, just as we were once born in flesh, we need to be born again in spirit. That is what God told Nicodemus in John 3:6 “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit”.

As we read before when Adam turned from God to Satan, he lost the life of God and since then everyone born from Adam,  just like Adam, are born without the life of God says the word of God (Romans 5:12). Therefore when a man repents and turns to God, the exact opposite of what happened when Adam turned from God to satan, happens. That is if when Adam believed the lie of satan he fell from life to death, then when a man repents and turns to God he enters into life from death.

When a man realizes and acknowledges that he is a sinner, repents and believes that Jesus died as a penalty for his sins, and accepts Jesus as the Lord of his life, he receives the life of Jesus, which is eternal and from God. Thus he is born again in Spirit, born of God. This is called being born-again.

He who does not have Jesus in him does not have the life of God, and anyone without the life of God is dead.

1 John 5:11-12 “And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life”.

Dear readers, you might belong to different denominations, different religions, you may be good or bad before men, but Jesus Christ said: “he who is born of flesh is flesh”. Today If you repent, turn to God and accept Jesus as Lord, you can enter into the life from your present dead state. You can be born from God and become His sons and daughters.

John 1:12-13 “But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, Children born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of God”.

 Jinu Ninan