Born of God

The main usage of the term "born again" was by the Lord Jesus when He said that being born again was required if we are to see and enter the Kingdom of God . Being born again has to do with the Kingdom, not with being saved from Hell or from Divine wrath.

To be born again is not merely to have a change of mind! To be born again is to have the Divine Seed of God planted in our personality. The Seed comes from God. It is not human. It is Divine. It is supernatural. It is new Divine Life.

Christianity has suffered much because it is not made clear to people that being born again is to have God's Nature conceived in us. The believers attempt to save their original adamic nature. They are under the impression that God is going to save what they are and bring it to Heaven. The truth is, God will never accept our adamic personality. God's salvation kills the adamic nature on the cross and then brings forth a new nature, a new creation, a true brother of Jesus Christ.

That which is born of God is of God in the truest sense of the Word. Properly nourished it will develop into a genuine brother of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to this family relationship with our Father, with God, through the Lord Jesus Christ, that we have been called.

Primary Scriptures

Children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. (John 1:13)

In reply Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." (John 3:3)

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. (Galatians 6:15)

For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. (1 Peter 1:23)

Essential Points of Emphasis

It is the Kingdom that is born in us when Christ is born in us.

Being born again has to do with the Life of God being conceived in us.

Our Christian life consists largely of crucifying the adamic nature and growing in the Divine Nature.

It is only to the extent that Christ has been formed in us that God can dwell in us; for He dwells in Christ in us.

First Christ is formed in us. This is the new creation. Then the Father and the Son come to dwell in the new creation that has been formed in us.

Suggested References

Change; The True Nature of the New Covenant;

You Must Be Born Again!

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