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Being Born Again

We have to understand that salvation comes only through Jesus Christ. He said in John 10:10 that the thief has come to steal, kill and destroy but that He has come to give us life and life in abundance.

We cannot get saved by good works or by going to church! You have to enter into a living relationship with Jesus Christ. Nicodemus was a learned Pharisee and he still did not “see the Kingdom of God” nor did he understand spiritual things.

There are two requirements for us to be born again. The requirements are:

• Confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord


• Believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead

The promise in Romans 9:13 is that “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved." God is a spirit being. When you are born again, you must learn to communicate with God in the spirit daily and to have a relationship with Him. We have been made in the image of God and your spirit has been made alive to Him.

When we are born again, we become a “new creation” but our soul (mind, will, emotions and intellect) has not been made new. This is why you may continue to struggle to overcome old habits and you, therefore, need to be renewed daily (see day 38).

Reflection questions (write your answers in a journal)

• According to Jesus (John 3), what two things need to happen in order for a person to see the kingdom of God? Being born of _____ and being born of the ______


• Man consists of three parts. What are they?


• What happens when we receive Jesus as our Saviour?

Testimony

I was a lot like Nicodemus, and even chaired our school’s Christian Students’ Society, but still, I did not know God. I was only born again after I met a teacher who had a living relationship with Christ. On the 4th of April 1989, I told him: “The Jesus that I follow and the Jesus that you know and follow are not the same. My Jesus is one I made up, but please introduce me to your Jesus – the real One.”