Born by the Spirit, Born of the Word
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22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Introduction
What does it mean to be born again?
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A study conducted by The Roper Organization for High Adventure Ministries in 1990 found that the moral behavior of born again Christians actually worsened after their conversions. Examined were incidences of illegal drug use, driving while intoxicated and marital infidelity.
What a shame that those who claim to be made new by the power of the Gospel remain dead in trespasses and sins.
1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Bro. Branham sees a contradiction between those who claimed to be born again and yet would not live by the Word.
65 Now, the very essence of the Message that was sent, that, “He is risen from the dead,” we His beneficiaries, we who share the resurrection with Him, draw benefits from this, by proving to the world that He is alive. We cannot do it by word only. We cannot do it by some tradition of man. We only reflect exactly what we’re pointing to.
66 I’m afraid today that too many of us are not getting people to Christ. We’re getting them to a church, to a theory. But we must get them to Christ. He is the only One, and the only One that has Life. “He that has the Son has Life.”
67 And if the life of a man that’s dead be projected in you, you will live the same life he lived.
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We must be born by the Spirit, and Born of the Word.
When you are born of the Word, you will not accept spiritual food from another parent.
And when people hear the Word of God…When a baby is conceived in the womb of a mother, when that one cell goes in there, another cell builds on top of that. It’s not one cell of a human, the next of a dog, and the next of a cat, and the next of something else; it’s absolutely, straightly, human being. And when a man is born of the Spirit of God, he don’t inject anything into his life, It’s unadulterated Word of God vindicated for that hour. He takes the full Word of God, he don’t put no creeds, nothing else into It. It’s purely unadulterated, God’s Word made manifest among us. 65-1206 - "Modern Events Are Made Clear By Prophecy"
64 So therefore, no matter what a church would say, what anyone else would say, if you’re born of the Spirit of God, you become part of the Bible. God told Ezekiel, he, the prophet. He said, “Take the scroll and eat it,” then the prophet and the scroll became part of each other. And that’s the believer when he receives the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit wrote the Bible, and the Spirit of God is the Word of God. “My Words are Spirit. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” Hebrews 13:8, “He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” And when you are a part of that Word, oh, then let something come up contrary to that Word, there is a little buzzer sets off right quick. 65-0919 - "Thirst"
56 Just like a—a baby. You take a little baby, and let him be born and let him once lean upon his mother’s bosom, nurse from her, the warm milk, lean his little head upon her bosom, though he is just a few hours old. In a day or two from then, take him away from his mother and give him over on the breast of a strange mother, he’ll kick them little feet up in the air and yell. It’s not his mother. See, he has already had a something about him, because he is a part of this mother, yet nature has provided him a way to know his own mama.
57 And if nature has provided a way for a baby to know its mother, from where it’s born from, how much more has he, a son of God that’s born by the Spirit of God, he knows his Mama. He knows, because he was born of the Word, and he understands the Word. Put him in a strange place, he certainly is out of—out of place, he’ll get out of there as quick as he can. Because he has, he doesn’t lean…
Somebody say, “Now wait, dear, this is your mama now.”
58 It’s not his mama, because he has a way of knowing that he is part of this mother. That’s his mother, no one else can ever take her place. He knows his own mother. Notice, how is, how it is really so. God has made everything after its kind.
59 The cattle after their kind. Many time in bringing a round-up down, we’d bring the whole herds of cattle and the little calves, I used to wonder how they would ever know their own mama. Now, they, they coming down out of the mountains, the cattle all mixed together. A cow that is with the calf, maybe a little hungry calf might nurse a little from the other mother, if he’s real hungry; but when we stop them, out on the prairie, that mama starts through that crowd of cows and calves till she finds her own, and the calf is running for its mother. It knows that certain little whine and her bawl. And she is bawling for that calf, and other mothers are bawling till you can’t even hear yourself think, but that little calf will find that certain call of its mother, because it’s part of the mother.
60 And a borned-again Christian from Heaven, he is a part of this Word. Right. Another mama he will not follow. He is a part of the Word. He stays with the Word. “If the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who can prepare hisself for battle?” said Paul. He knows the sound of the Word. Notice how—how this is, the predestinated hand of God following them through. He knows that he was ordained, he was in the Gospel Truth. He knowed that he was born by the Spirit of God. He knows that the Spirit of God cannot deny the Word of God, so therefore a stranger he will not follow. 65-0120 - "Lean Not Unto Thy Own Understanding"
The Spirit leads you to the Word Birth. You cannot be born of the Word without the Spirit.
We are not born by sensation, we are born by the Spirit, born of the Word.
Those who are born by sensation live by sensation, but we are born by the Word, so we live by the Word.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
There’s a process that God uses in our lives to birth us from the old ma to the new man.
It was first explained to Nicodemus by Christ Himself.
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
For the modern church this would be enough, but it wasn’t enough for Jesus.
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.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
5 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.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 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.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?