Born Again
Jesus said to us that you must be Born Again.
John 3:7
Do not marvel that I said to 'You must be born again'
verse 12 "If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things."
The above words are extracts of a conversation that Jesus was having with Nicodemus. This man, Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews and was considered a very educated man of the day, and a teacher of Israel. Jesus explained to Nicodemus, that in order for someone to enter into the kingdom of God, you had to be born again.
Nicodemus, with all of his earthly wisdom and knowledge, was unable to understand that Jesus was referring to our spirit and not our earthly bodies. Nicodemus was not able to think outside of the area of his understanding and knowledge which then limited him to a knowledge and understanding of earthly things only.
When we come to Jesus and we call out to Jesus to help us and become our Lord and Saviour, we start to turn away from living as a earthly and wordly being and begin our journey into becoming a spiritually driven being. See also the regeneration. Our knowledge base starts to change and we start to gain an understanding of the heavenly things that we were unable to understand before. Due to the regeneration of our spirits, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit within of us, we become born again of our spirits.
In Matthew 13 from verse 13 to 15, Jesus explains understanding the heavenly things, has not been given to those who have not yet been called or been born again.
In Isaiah 55:9 it explains that as the heavens are higher above the earth, so are His ways higher than your ways, and His thoughts higher than your thoughts. If you are bound into earthly understanding, you will never be able to understand anything that is of God, as God is spiritual and not earthly. You can not understand God with your reasoning and you can not understand Him with your head.
You can only ever understand God with your heart, for within your heart is the Holy Spirit which gives you the understanding of Heavenly things. In order to enter into the Heavenly things, you have to have faith. Faith is believing in things, the evidence of which, has not yet been seen. Educated people, mostly, want to first see and have proof of anything before they can believe, and therefore they never attain the faith that is required to enter into spiritual understanding. Jesus says that we are to come to Him as little children. Little children are so full of faith and will do anything that you tell them to do, without question, knowing that whatever you promise to them, they will receive.
Come to Him as a little child, knowing that if you have total faith, and obey His commandments to you, that once you have obeyed and walked around the city of Jericho seven times, that the walls will fall down.
If you have never accepted Jesus into your heart before, and have never experienced the love of Jesus, then do so now, that you may start to receive the wisdom into your life that comes from above. Accept Jesus and become born again.
God Bless.

June 15th, 2009 - 14:14
For so many years I grew up going to church believing what everyone told me about accepting Jesus into your heart and then you’re going to go to heaven… I remember praying that prayer “the sinner’s prayer” – and meaning it and then messing up and feeling like I needed to pray that prayer again and again and again…something didn’t feel right, I prayed for so long asking God to show me the truth it wasn’t until I actually started reading my bible properly and until I left the church that I was attending and had a few bible studies with friends when God showed me, through His word, exactly what I needed to do to be saved, saying the sinner’s prayer is not enough. In Acts 2:38 we are told to “repent AND be baptised” We need to hear the word of God Luke 8:21, We need to believe in God John 5:24, we need to repent of our sins Acts 3:19, we need to confess Romans 10:9 and we need to be baptised Acts 22:16, in baptism we need to die with our old self and be risen again with Christ into the life that He now wants us to live for Him Romans 6. The greek word for baptism means full emersion this is not just sprinkling water on your head. We need to commit to God and become the Christians that He wants us to be. The bible does not just say that we are to believe in God and then we are going to go to heaven, James 2:19 says “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.” We need to show our faith by what we do (James 2:18) “the sinner’s prayer” is not what we need to do to be saved. If we believe in God we will want to obey Him by repenting, by being baptised by following the rest of His word, by trying our best to live the life that Christ lived. We cannot just look at one verse of the bible that mentions salvation and think that that is all we need to do to be saved.
June 15th, 2009 - 15:56
Hi Sheri,
Thank you for the great comment. Being born again is not a matter of just saying one little prayer, but the little prayer is the start of a great journey, that only ends when you eventually land up in heaven. Without the starting point of that one little prayer, you never begin the journey. Baptism through water and baptism of the Holy Spirit are necessary steps in the journey that we make. The bible contains many instructions for us, however in order to start the journey into eternity in heaven, there has to be a starting point. Some will start this journey only once and will race through, whilst others may have to start the journey over and over again, because they never gave themselves fully the first time.
God Bless