We Must Be Born Again! By Nanyamka Boyer
Good day to you my beloved brother or sister in our Faithful Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. It is my prayer that this New Year and blog post finds you healthy, strong, faithful to the Lord and fully focused on the Him, our Strong and Mighty Tower. And in the center of His perfect will for you.
For as He tells us in His Word that apart from Him we can do nothing, and by this He means: us not being able to do nothing right that is pleasing in His eyes and worth of eternal value. For this we read in the Gospel of John in John 15:5 "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."
Also in Proverbs we also read that when we are right in our own eyes and go our own separate way from the Lord, it results in death, as it says in Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." And in Proverbs 16:25, the Lord through King Solomon repeats Himself again, so we can daily remember and apply it in our lives: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
So let us remain in the center of His will for us, so we can remain or abide at the right place at the right time. For when we are in His will, He guides us, protects us, fights for us our battles and deliver our souls from trouble.
On this day let us also remember that in order for us to see the Kingdom of our Beloved Loving God, Savior and Lord, we must be born again, as He says in John 3:3 "Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." For without us being born of or by the Spirit of God, we cannot see Him with our hearts or spiritual eyes. For the Holy Spirit, as He comes into our hearts, after we have accepted the Lord Jesus into our hearts and lives and have accepted Him, as our own personal Savior and Lord, comes and lives Jesus' life in us for us and through us and opens our spiritual eyes to see and understand His Holy Word, the Bible, His ways and the revelations of God that are in and from the Spiritual Realm.
Let us also remember what the Lord told Nicodemus and also tells us in John 3:5-8 "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."
For we must be born again by and through the baptism of water, when we are baptized and by the Holy Spirit of God, as the Lord just said. For the flesh or man can only give birth to the flesh, when we are born into this world, physically, because of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. And only the Holy Spirit, who is Holy and is also the Spirit of God Almighty, can give birth to the things that are of His Spirit that are spiritual things, the holy things of God, the Lord means.
For unless we are born again, the things of God are foolishness unto us, and are undiscernible. And this is why the Gospel is foolish to the unbeliever, for their spiritual hearts are hardened and their spiritual eyes are closed. For it takes God to love God and your fellow man or neighbor, understand God, and to give birth to the things of God in our spirits, hearts and in our lives!
And this is also why our beloved brother Paul the Apostle wrote in 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 "But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save (or except) the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth: comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man (or the unbeliever) receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (or are closed to spiritual things). But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ." And this we have through the Holy Spirit.
So let us remember to thank the Lord daily for His Precious and Faithful Holy Spirit, for without Him we are lost and are not saved.
So if you have not been truly born again by the baptism of water, for we must be baptized in water to wash our sins away, and of or by the Spirit of God, for it is He who gives birth to us spiritually, as we repent and confess our sins unto Him and ask Him to become our Savior and Lord, you must do so now, before it is too late for your soul!
For without being born again, as the Lord says and we have just read in His Word, we cannot see and enter into the Kingdom of God. For as we give Him daily our hearts and lives, by the keeping of His commandments, the Holy Spirit then carries us through life into and to the will of God, as we let Him lead us or carry us in the direction He would have us go, as the Lord says in John 3:8 "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell where it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."
So as the Lord says in His Word through John the Baptist in the Gospel of Matthew "Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," in Matthew 3:1-3 "In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." For His Kingdom is reachable to us now, as we call on His name to save us and to help us in our lives and is also coming very soon, when the Lord comes back and sets up His Kingdom for 1,000 years to reign on this earth and thereafter.
So go with God, have a blessed, joyful and peaceful week remembering to always be sure of your salvation in and with God, also that you are truly born again and that you are also daily obeying and keeping His commandments. For when it is all said and done, we will all stand before Him on Judgment Day alone and will have no excuse for having rejected His One and Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Also His Precious, Faithful and Mighty Holy Spirit and Holy Word.
So daily be wise and truly seek Him, while He can be found to give you His forgiveness, compassion and mercy for your soul! Blessed be His holy name, for He (God the Father and the Holy Trinity) truly gave us hope and all we could ever need to make it in this world and to Him in Heaven, through His Faithful, Loving and Compassionate Son, Jesus Christ, our Great I AM!!
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