Born-Again

Some people see a changed life in a person and the first thing they might say is that person grew older and became wiser or that they just got tired of their old lifestyle.  When you are born-again you receive the Holy Spirit who dwells inside of you and your body becomes the Temple of the Holy Spirit.  Read 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.”

Read 2 Corinthians 5:17, “Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold, the new has come.”

We haven’t been reeducated or reformed and we haven’t decided to make ourselves better because there is one thing a person can never change and that is the heart, which the Bible says is deceitfully wicked and who can know it.  You may be able to change your appearance or wear nicer clothes and even break some bad habits, but inside you will be the same person, only the Lord can change that.  This shows you the work of the Holy Spirit in someone’s life, we are new in Christ Jesus.  If anyone is in Christ their whole perspective changes and they see things differently and their thinking becomes different and as they get into God’s Word their actions change and they start growing in their faith.  They have been set free of sin which they were in bondage to.  The Word of God says in Romans 3:23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Now read Romans 3:10, “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one..”

But praise God for the ministry of reconciliation, read 2 Corinthians 5 18-21, “All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”

Because of Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross, we have been reconciled to God and became His friends instead of His enemies. This is what takes place in a born-again believer’s life when they have been reconciled or justified with God through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son.  Jesus shed His precious blood for our sins and not only ours but the sins of the whole world, praise to our God and our Lord Jesus Christ.  There are people that teach that there are many ways to get to God, or heaven, but Jesus claimed there was but one way and that was through, or by Him.  Read John 14:6, “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.’”

It is not by works or any other thing that you can think of, read this in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God— not because of works, lest any man should boast.”

When the Holy Spirit convicts you of your sins and you repent, having godly sorrow, and you turn away from your sins and ask the Lord to forgive you and to come into your life and be your Lord and Savior, then you will understand what it is like to be a believer.  My prayer is that you will, may the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!