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You Must Be Born Again of The Holy Spirit of God

~ “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.” ^{John 3:3}

~ Betty > “I think you almost answered my question. But I like it more detailed, what is the process of being born again?”

~ Bob George > “Well Betty to be born again. Obviously, it’s a What’s the process of being born physically the first time and we can go through that, but we don’t need to. But everyone has to be born again physically. And then what Jesus said is there’s a second birth, which is a spiritual birth. And that comes about as a result of our walking or coming by faith to the two things that Jesus had to do for us that we could not do for ourselves. We have to understand that we are sinners, all of us have sinned, and all have fallen short of the glory of God. And those sins had to be forgiven. And with Christ forgiven, it means taken away from the sight of God. In other words, Jesus came ready to almost like put a blanket over the world in regard to sin, so that God has dealt with the sin issue toward mankind, once and for all. He came to take away the sins of the world from the eyes of God, he certainly hasn’t taken away the sins of the world from us down here, but he took it away from the eyes of God. And the way he did that was through the sacrifice of His Son, the blood of His own Son, Christ Jesus. That was of such value, that it could literally take away the sins of the entire world. When that occurred, a thing called propitiation took place, God looked at the sacrifice and said, I’m satisfied. Then we have to recognize that there’s a consequence, however, to sin, it’s called spiritual death. And the only solution to spiritual death is spiritual life and the only life available to us is the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. And that’s why Paul was able to say with death, resurrection were to be pitied of all people and are still in our sins. And so the resurrection is what gives life to the dead. You and I were born alive physically, but dead spiritually. And Jesus came and said, I came that you might have life and have it abundantly. And so when we recognize what God says about our condition, that I was a sinner, I am a sinner, and that I’m dead, then I need to look to the provision of God, what did God do with the fact that I’m a sinner? He took away my sins at the Cross never to see them again. What did he do to correct the solution of being dead spiritually? He came to offer you life. And so Betty when you and I come to the point of recognizing our condition, and recognizing His provision, through His Son, Christ Jesus, and we accept that by faith, we are born again of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God comes to give life to our spirit, to restore in us what we had lost in Adam, that being the Spirit of God living in us. And we’re now complete for the first time without Jesus living in us. We’re like a light bulb without electricity. We’re like a car without gasoline, we’re like on oil lamp without oil. We’re there, but we can’t function as God made us to function. But once we accept that, by faith, we’re born again by the Spirit of God, and he begins a brand new relationship with you and with Jesus.”

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Bob George 18:08
We’re gonna go to Glendale, California and listen on KBRITE. Betty you’re on the air.

Caller 2 18:13
Yes. Hi, Bob.

Bob George 18:14
Hi, Betty.

Caller 2 18:15
I think you almost answered my question. But I like it more detailed, what is the process of being born again?

Bob George 18:26
Well Betty to be born again. Obviously, it’s a What’s the process of being born physically the first time and we can go through that, but we don’t need to. But everyone has to be born again physically. And then what Jesus said is there’s a second birth, which is a spiritual birth. And that comes about as a result of our walking or coming by faith to the two things that Jesus had to do for us that we could not do for ourselves. We have to understand that we are sinners, all of us have sinned, and all have fallen short of the glory of God. And those sins had to be forgiven. And with Christ forgiven, it means taken away from the sight of God. In other words, Jesus came ready to almost like put a blanket over the world in regard to sin, so that God has dealt with the sin issue toward mankind, once and for all. He came to take away the sins of the world from the eyes of God, he certainly hasn’t taken away the sins of the world from us down here, but he took it away from the eyes of God. And the way he did that was through the sacrifice of His Son, the blood of His own Son, Christ Jesus. That was of such value, that it could literally take away the sins of the entire world. When that occurred, a thing called propitiation took place, God looked at the sacrifice and said, I’m satisfied. Then we have to recognize that there’s a consequence, however, to sin, it’s called spiritual death. And the only solution to spiritual death is spiritual life and the only life available to us is the resurrected life of Christ Jesus. And that’s why Paul was able to say with death, resurrection were to be pitied of all people and are still in our sins. And so the resurrection is what gives life to the dead. You and I were born alive physically, but dead spiritually. And Jesus came and said, I came that you might have life and have it abundantly. And so when we recognize what God says about our condition, that I was a sinner, I am a sinner, and that I’m dead, then I need to look to the provision of God, what did God do with the fact that I’m a sinner? He took away my sins at the Cross never to see them again. What did he do to correct the solution of being dead spiritually? He came to offer you life. And so Betty when you and I come to the point of recognizing our condition, and recognizing His provision, through His Son, Christ Jesus, and we accept that by faith, we are born again of the Spirit of God, the Spirit of God comes to give life to our spirit, to restore in us what we had lost in Adam, that being the Spirit of God living in us. And we’re now complete for the first time without Jesus living in us. We’re like a light bulb without electricity. We’re like a car without gasoline, we’re like on oil lamp without oil. We’re there, but we can’t function as God made us to function. But once we accept that, by faith, we’re born again by the Spirit of God, and he begins a brand new relationship with you and with Jesus.

Caller 2 21:21
And how can we be certain that was that Jesus was in us?

Bob George 21:26
Well, I’ll tell you, it’s it starts with a point in time in history, Betty, it’s, it’s like a physical birth, that doesn’t happen over a process that happens at a point in time in history. And if you’re not sure of that, Betty, you can absolutely be sure today, because I can tell your heart is open. And if you want to settle that issue today, drive the stakes, so to speak, and so that you’ll never have to question that again. I would love to do that with you. And I would love to pray with you and for you, by faith to merely accept what Jesus has done for you at the Cross thanking him for taking away your sins, and then thanking him that he’s offering you life and accepting that life to be yours. And if you’d like to do that today, and to drive that steak and never worry about it again, I’d love to pray with you right now. Okay. All right. Let’s do that Betty. And Betty, what you’re doing is this. Prayer is not what saves you. Faith is what saves you. Prayer is an expression of that faith. Your willingness to pray right now is a sign that literally by faith, you have entered into this relationship, because your your willingness to do this is a sign that you’ve already exercised faith. What you’re going to do now is to express to God the truth of that faith. And so why don’t I pray and you just repeat after me and and we’ll just drive that steak, okay, okay. Lord, Jesus, I need you.

Caller 2 22:58
Lord, Jesus, I need you.

Bob George 23:00
I thank you that you took away my sins at the cross,

Caller 2 23:03
I thank you that you took away my sins at the cross.

Bob George 23:07
Never to see them again.

Caller 2 23:09
Never do say them again.

Bob George 23:12
Having done this,

Caller 2 23:13
having done this,

Bob George 23:15
you were raised from the dead.

Caller 2 23:17
You were raised from the dead.

Bob George 23:19
So that that life that raised me from the dead.

Caller 2 23:22
So that life that raised me from the dead

Bob George 23:26
Can raise me into the newness of life,

Caller 2 23:29
can raise me in the newness of life.

Bob George 23:32
I now ask you to come into my heart.

Caller 2 23:34
I asked you to come in my heart,

Bob George 23:36
and to be my Lord and my Savior,

Caller 2 23:38
and be my Lord and my Savior,

Bob George 23:41
and my very best friend,

Caller 2 23:42
and my very best friend,

Bob George 23:44
in Jesus name

Caller 2 23:46
in Jesus name.

Bob George 23:49
Betty, the Bible says to as many as received Him. To them, he gave the right to become a child of God. Now you just received him, didn’t you?

Caller 2 23:59
Yes.

Bob George 24:00
So what did you become?

Caller 2 24:02
A child of God.

Bob George 24:03
Absolutely. And I to him, a child of God. So what’s that make us? Absolutely a brother and sister in Christ, we got a new family out there. It says in heaven, all the angels in heaven rejoicing over that fact, if you’re coming to Him by faith, I rejoice in with you. And what I’d like to do Betty is this we have a little study guide that we send out to people who have accepted Christ on the phone or either on the phone or maybe just prayed along with you. And we offer that free of charge to anyone that would like to pick that up and we’d like to send that to you. And you go through that study guide, and it’ll point out all of the scriptures that tie in to what you just did today. And that will solidify in your life exactly what Christ Jesus just did. I would also advise that you go to your Bible and open it up and in the front cover or wherever You want to put it, but this date down, you put down today is the 31st of January. And 2005 is the day that I solidified my relationship with Christ. And therefore, anytime Satan never puts a question in your mind, you can just pointing to that passage in time to get lost and go talk to somebody else, because that’s the day that you solidified your relationship with God.

Caller 2 25:28
Very good.

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JESUS DIED…
1. For all (1st Timothy 2:6; Isaiah 53:6).
2. For every man (Hebrews 2:9).
3. For the world (John 3:16).
4. For the sins of the whole world (1st John 2:2).
5. For the ungodly (Romans 5:6).
6. For false teachers (2nd Peter 2:1).
7. For many (Matthew 20:28).

For Me:

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. ^{Galatians 2:20}

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