What does it mean to be born again?

[Enoch111]

And it seems you can't answer?

Asked and answered.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

The Cross is where God's righteousness is Given. = John 3:16-17

See "The gospel of the Grace of God" for your Salvation.
Accept no substitutes.

But if you want to play Episkopos's game of OT Jew , before the CROSS as your idea of going to heaven, then you have a reality check up ahead.

10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

So you do not speak correctly.

 

[Behold]

10 Mercy and truth are met together;

God offers Jesus on the Cross to accept you, save you, and keep you.

Self saving = Heresies, need not apply

 

[stunnedbygrace]

Jesus on the Cross to accept you

“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, 35 but in every nation the one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.

And this: if you do what is right won’t you be accepted?

You do not understand the difference between accepted and a place made for, and chosen.

You don’t understand that the righteous will be counted among the nations and the holy will rule over the righteous.

You don’t understand that there is a difference between common and holy or that there is less exactitude with common and only exactitude with holy.

You don’t understand why most of the men were sent back to their homes and only those with a certain characteristic of how they drank water were chosen to fight.

 

[Behold]

“I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, 35 but in every nation the one who fears

God is not looking for your FEAR.

God is looking for your FAITH in His SON, as = "Faith is counted as righteousness, and you are Justified by Faith, without works". "even as our Father Abraham was Justified".

Jesus is the ONLY Way to the Father......John 14:6..... not your fear, your Law, or commandment keeping, or your self righteousness, or Episkopos's hybrid Calvinistic theology.


Here is how you go to Heaven, Stunnedbygrace.


Jesus said..... "you must be born again" and you can't do that for yourself.

 

[Michiah-Imla]

God is not looking for your FEAR.

He’s not looking for something he put in you???

“And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.” (Jeremiah 32:40)

 

[Michiah-Imla]

“A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts…” (Malachi 1:6)

@Behold ???

 

[Behold]

He’s not looking for something he put in you???

If God didn't send Jesus here to be the Savior of the world then just keep worrying about fear, and law, and commandments, and trying to stay saved, and any other self righteousness that you can put on your list., Michiah-Imla.

But, if Jesus is the only Way to God, as He said, John 14:6..... then trust only in Jesus, and be born again, and eternally become a Son/Daughter of God.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

God is not looking for your FEAR.

God is looking for your FAITH in His SON, as = "Faith is counted as righteousness, and you are Justified by Faith, without works". "even as our Father Abraham was Justified".

Jesus is the ONLY Way to the Father......John 14:6..... not your fear, your Law, or commandment keeping, or your self righteousness, or Episkopos's hybrid Calvinistic theology.


Here is how you go to Heaven, Stunnedbygrace.


Jesus said..... "you must be born again" and you can't do that for yourself.

Do you understand ANY of the parables? Men have taught you a misshapen thing that will harm you if you don’t stop condemning what you don’t understand and keep insisting that you are all knowing.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

If your theology throws a bowling ball at the pin of the fear of God, your theology is trying to kill you.

 

[Behold]

Do you understand ANY of the parables?

The Cross of Christ is God's Son... bleeding and dying for all your SIN.
The resurrection proves He did.

If you dont have this Sacrifice for your sin, before you die, then you face God, unforgiven.
That is the unpardonable sin, you just committed.

If you die never having been born again, you die un-pardoned, and then if you tried to tell God what you think Salvation is supposed to be, He will say....."What did you do with my Son".

"what did you do with my Son"........

"what did you do with my SON".

So, that is the situation.
And you can preach Episkopos's theology and believe it, or you can be born again, and have what the Cross provided for you, as "the Gift of Salvation".

 

[Michiah-Imla]

If God didn't send Jesus here to be the Savior of the world then just keep worrying about fear

Yet Jesus himself said:

“But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.” (Luke 12:5)

And Paul said:

“…let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (2 Corinthians 7:1)

and law, and commandments

Jesus also said:

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15)

and trying to stay saved

“…be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.” (2 Peter 1:10)

Be diligent @Behold

Be diligent.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

The Cross of Christ is God's Son... bleeding and dying for all your SIN.
If you dont have this Sacrifice for your sin, before you die, then you face God, unforgiven.
That is the unpardonable sin, you just committed.

If you die never having been born again, you die un-pardoned, and then if you tried to tell God what you think Salvation is supposed to be, He will say....."What did you do with my Son".

"what did you do with my Son"........

So, that is the situation.

You don’t understand the parables.

 

[Behold]

Yet Jesus himself said:

“But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.” (Luke 12:5)

And Paul said:

“…let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” (2 Corinthians 7:1)



Jesus also said:

“If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15)



“…be diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you do these things, you shall never fall.” (2 Peter 1:10)

Be diligent @Behold

Be diligent.

You have to be born again for any of that to matter, that you pasted.

See, you can keep commandments, you can be water baptized 40 times.... and you can give your body to be burned for Jesus,.... but if you are not "born again", you will meet God as your Judge and not as your Father., and Christ will say to you...>"depart from me, i never knew you".

And here is how they KNOW YOU........."you must be born again".....otherwise they do not know you, as you are not become a Son/Daughter of God.

 

[stunnedbygrace]

I think If a man spent his entire life on ONLY study of the parables, he would fare far better than any man with a massive tower of doctrines but no understanding of the parables.

 

[Behold]

You don’t understand the parables.

Put the parables on hold and put the Cross of Christ as your Faith.

The parables didnt die on the Cross for you StunnedbyGrace.

 

[Behold]

I think If a man spent his entire life on ONLY study of the parables, he would fare far better than any man with doctrines but no understanding of the parables.

Study the Proverbs for wisdom.

 

[Laurina]

God is not looking for your FEAR.

Genesis 22:12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

 

[Michiah-Imla]

You have to be born again for any of that to matter, that you pasted.

I am born again fella.

I showed you your error.

Now stop calling me a heretic!

Thanks!

 

[Lizbeth]

I'll repost this, since the truth gets washed out in carnal religious reactions...

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We are talking about OT righteousness. Before Jesus came to bring the higher walk in Him, based on a new kind of faith (the faith OF Christ) there was a common righteousness among the meek and God fearing. This is something the Jews understand very well...but people who come to God based on the NT not so much...or not at all. 2 examples among many will suffice. Actually the first is repeated twice and the second 3 times.


David says...judge me according to my righteousness


Ps. 7:8 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.


Ez. 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD.


I realize that you may have to study on this for some years before you understand what I'm getting at...but the bible is the bible.


I could add many verses on righteousness both from the OT and the NT...but I'm not a scripture monkey. If people ignore plain scripture when a few examples are given, they will ignore any number of verses that point to the truth. This is a hostile environment to the truth.

Yes, but it is righteousness born of faith, mixed with faith. Better rightly divide those scrips you are bringing. A person must be stone deaf and blind as a mole to ignore those scriptures in Heb. 11.

"I, the Lord, do not change" between the OT and the NT, there is no shadow of turning in Him....the Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world....OT saints entered into whatever measure of that was available to them at that time. BY FAITH.