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What do you mean born again? Part 1
How to understand the miracle of “new birth!”
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Jesus declared . . .
• “ . . .no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again .”
• “ . . .no one can enter the kingdom of God unless; he is born of water and the Spirit.”
• “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit!”
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What does this mean?
• Is this religious symbolism?• Does this mean that a person
simply must change certain ideas, concepts and behaviors?
• Is being born again humanly possible?
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The answers: NO! On all counts!• Being born again is a profound
miracle that God performs!• It is as, Jesus said, the absolute
key principle to both “seeing” and being in the Kingdom of God!
• If you have not been born again, you are not a child of God!
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Are you born again? How do you know?
• A born again child of God has been rescued from the dominion of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God (Col. 1:13-14)
• A born again child of God has access to everything needed for life and godliness (2Peter 1:3-4)
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Does the Bible explain the born again process?
• Jesus summarized the process this way: “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.”
• “The flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.”
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Quiz #1
• Please answer the following questions and submit your answers in a Word document to me by email. Send your answers to:
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What do you mean born of the water?
• About every 35 days, an ovum is automatically positioned in a woman’s Fallopian tube!
1. Is this ovum a life form with a limited life span?
2. What happens to it if it is not invaded by an outside life force?
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3. What is the outside life force that must invade and unite with the ovum for it to live beyond 28 days?
4. When the two unite—the ovum and the sperm—is the result a new creation?
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Being born of the water, con’d5. Does this new entity develop through
three stages, preparatory to being born?
• Note: For a complete summary of human birth, please see the article in the Files section entitled “born of the water.”
6. What happens that “washes” the baby forth into a new existence?
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7. Does the Bible teach that a human is triune—spirit, soul and body? (see 1Thes. 5:23)
8. Does the Bible teach that sin resides in the “soul,” since the wages of sin is death? (see Ezek. 18:4,20; Rom. 6:23; Rom. 7:14-20)
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9. Is there a spirit in humans, aka a human spirit? (1Cor. 2:11)
10. Therefore, is a human being a living entity awaiting invasion by an outside life force?
• Don’t forget! Please email me your answers.