It is wonderful to be a born-again believer in Jesus Christ because we receive the Holy Spirit and God's divine nature in us. We are new creations in Christ. The old sin nature of our spirit is replaced with a new created spirit in the same image, likeness, and nature of God. We find a joy and peace that surpasses all knowledge and understanding.
The love of God fills our hearts, and for the first time in our lives, we experience what it is to be loved by Almighty God, whom we now call our Father. This is not a religion. This is a RELATIONSHIP! The new birth of our spirit sets us free from sin and spiritual death. So how does this happen, and what did Jesus say about it?
Jesus met with a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. He commented that he knew Jesus had to have come from God to do the signs Jesus was doing. The conversation went directly to man's need for repentance and being born again. Nicodemus did not understand this, but Jesus lovingly walked him through it, and now we will too.
John 3:3. Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Jesus makes it very clear that we must be born again, or a person will not see the kingdom of God. He also tells us that our spirit is born again, not our flesh.
John 3:6. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
He further explains this in John 3:15-16. “That whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (16) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” His message was about the Love of God for humanity.
Jesus made it very clear to Nicodemus that He did not come into the world to condemn it but to save it and that the world through Him might be saved from sin.
John 3:17-18. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (18) He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The Apostle John wrote in I John 5:12, He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son, does not have life. What life is he speaking about? It is eternal life, the everlasting life of God Himself.
When a person’s spirit is born again, they receive the gift of eternal life. They have the very life of God in them now. Our spirit being is recreated in the image and likeness of God, and we literally take on the very life of God and His nature in our Spirit being. Our old spirit dies, and we become a totally new creation.
II Corinthians 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.
God’s Love For Humanity Is The Whole Message
Maybe you believe in God, but you have never been born again. Perhaps you don’t know much about God at all. Maybe you are born again, but you want to better understand the Scriptures related to the new birth. It’s like a love story!
Has anyone ever told you that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life? I have an important question for you. If you were to die this very second, do you know for sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you would go to heaven?
God loves the whole human race. He loves everyone the same. God, our Heavenly Father, and Jesus show us how much they love us. God sent Jesus, and Jesus laid down His life for our sins so we could be born again. They did this because they love us and want us to know them, be born again, and spend eternity with them in their Glory.
We can never be good enough or do enough good works to be saved, as we see in Romans that we have all sinned and fall short of His glory.
Romans 3:23: For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
When we work, we receive wages because the employer said he would pay us on payday for the work we would do for him. Sin is the same way. It has a payday. It is death. Not just a natural death but a spiritual death that will keep us from eternal life in heaven with a loving God. It is final and irreversible.
But God loves us and shows us how much in Romans 5:8: For God demonstrates His own love toward us in that, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
We can’t earn it, and we don’t deserve it, but because of His great love, He died in our place, and God raised Him from the dead. Jesus paid a debt He did not owe, and we had a debt we could not pay.
He is calling us to the place of salvation through repentance of sin, as He declared in Matthew 9:13: “I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”
And it is God’s goodness that leads us to a place of repentance, as it is written in Romans 2:4: The goodness of God leads us to repentance.
On the Day of Pentecost, the people asked Peter what they must do to be saved. His answer still applies today.
Acts 2:37–39: Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (38) Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. (39) For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”
They were convicted of their sin by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God Peter shared. They realized their sinful and lost state and wanted to know what to do. So what must a person do to be saved? You must be born again. It is simple.
We repent for the forgiveness of sin, believing what the Bible says, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again on the third day according to the Scriptures (I Corinthians 15:3–4).
And in Romans 10:9 and 13: If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
If you have any reservations about your eternal destiny, or if you want to be born again and receive the gift of eternal life and receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, pray this prayer out loud right now:
Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins and ask that you cleanse me of my sin so I may be born again. Set me free Lord Jesus. I thank You that You died for me. I believe You have risen from the dead and I will follow You from this day forward.
Please fill me with your Holy Spirit. Give me a passion for the lost, a hunger for the things of your kingdom, and a holy boldness to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with others.
I confess that Jesus Christ is now my Lord and Savior. I’m saved, I’m born again, I’m forgiven, and I know I am on my way to heaven because Jesus is in my heart. Amen!
If you prayed this prayer, congratulations, you are now a born-again believer in Jesus Christ. Always remember to run to God, not from God, because He loves you and has a great plan for your life. Follow Jesus!
If you prayed this prayer, go to the contact page and let us know. We will help you take the next steps in your walk with Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.
Congratulations on your decision to give your life to Jesus Christ. Now, there is one crucial step for you, and that is water baptism. In Matthew 28: 19, Jesus said, “Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
After Peter finished preaching on the Day of Pentecost, the people asked him what they needed to do to be saved. Peter’s response still applies today. This leaves no doubt that every new born-again believer should be baptized in water as soon as possible. Acts 2:38, Then Peter said to them, “Repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Finally, in Romans 6:4-6, Therefore, we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so, we also should walk in the newness of life. (5) For it we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, (6) knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
Obviously, a person who has repented of their sin and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior should be baptized in water as soon as possible to identify with their own death to sin and publicly acknowledge they are now walking in the newness of life in Christ Jesus.
Contact our ministry if you have accepted Jesus and need to be baptized and we will help you.