What does it mean to be born again?

[Behold]

What does it mean for you to be saved, is the same thing as born again.

It means :

1.) God is always at peace with you, based not on you......but only based on the Blood of Jesus.

2.) God has taken you...redeemed you as His own, and will keep you always, based not on you, but only on the Blood of Jesus.

How to stay saved.
How do you stay saved? ????

By being born again.
Thats it.
Being born again is to BE Saved, and to be saved is to BE Born again.
God does this for you.
You only received it as "the Gift of Salvation".

See, Salvation is God saving you.
Not you trying not to lose your salvation, and not you trying to keep it.

A lot of believers have this deceived idea that salvation is something you can lose, and in fact, its actually something you receive that is created by God.
Its a GIFT.
"the GIFT, of Salvation".
And this gift is unique, as it goes inside you and lives there, as "Christ IN YOU".
But that's not all.
This Gift gives BIRTH to your SPIRIT (born again) to your dead spirit, and places your spirit INTO GOD's Holy Spirit.
You are born AGAIN, into God's Spirit, by God's Holy Spirit.
You literally become : "ONE with God", by becoming a living and eternal part, of God's Holy Spirit.

What does it mean to be "saved".
It means that God Himself, has taken your sin, and the eternal judgement due you.... and by God's shed blood SACRIFICE, you were made sinless and given God's very Righteousness.
You have been MADE Righteous.

How long will you be righteous, after you are "made rightous" by God?
You will remain righteous for as long as God lives, as you now lve IN GOD.... "in Christ"

So how does your thinking or your believing or your lifestyle affect your salvation?
Not at all.
See, your Salvation is entirely God caused= .. through the blood of Jesus, and then your new BIRTH= is the final result of God's Salvation, as eternal security.

Salvation is all of God and none of you.
Discipleship is all of you, with God's help.

 

[Grailhunter]

The Early Church Fathers on Being Born Again
In John 3:3, Jesus tells Nicodimus no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again. To some this means that once a person makes a personal commitment to Christ he is born again. As the Apostle Paul would say: “If anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!” (2 Corinthians 5:17). And, of course, there is a mountain of evidence that proves the power of God can change lives. However, when Jesus and the Early Church Fathers spoke about being born again they were talking about something different. When Nicodimus questioned Jesus following the above proclamation, Jesus got more specific. He said: “I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.” In other words, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being baptized. It is important to point out that Jesus is not speaking of merely being baptized. Baptism infuses us with grace. Grace enables us to recognize our need for Christ. It also enables us to be who God wants us to be. And that brings us to salvation.
Justin Martyr Then they are brought by us where there is water and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated. For, in the name of God, the Father... and of our Savior Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit [Matt. 28:19], they then receive the washing with water. For Christ also said, "Unless you are born again, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (First Apology 61 [A.D. 151]).
Irenaeus And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan' [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes, even as the Lord has declared: 'Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven' [John 3:5] (Fragments of the Lost Writings 34 [inter A.D. 175-185]). Theophilus Moreover, those things which were created from the waters were blessed by God, so that this might also be a sign that men would at a future time receive repentance and remission of sins through water and the bath of regeneration-all who proceed to the truth and are born again and receive a blessing from God (To Autolycus 2:16 [A.D. 181]).
Clement of Rome But you will perhaps say, 'What does the baptism of water contribute toward the worship of God?' In the first place, because that which has pleased God is fulfilled. In the second place, because when you are regenerated and born again of water and of God, the frailty of your former birth, which you have through men, is cut off, and so . . . you shall be able to attain salvation; but otherwise it is impossible. For thus has the true prophet [Jesus] testified to us with an oath: "Verily, I say to you, that unless a man is born again of water . . . he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Recognitions of Clement 6:9 [A.D. 221]).
Cyprian [l]t behooves those to be baptized . . . so that they are prepared, in the lawful and true and only baptism of the holy Church, by divine regeneration, for the kingdom of God . . . because it is written "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Epistles 72 [73]: 21 [A.D. 252]).
Cyril of Jerusalem Since man is of a twofold nature, composed of body and soul, the purification also is twofold: the corporeal for the corporeal and the incorporeal for the incorporeal. The water cleanses the body, and the Spirit seals the soul. . . . When you go down into the water, then, regard not simply the water, but look for salvation through the power of the

 

[Grailhunter]

Spirit. For without both you cannot attain to perfection. It is not who says this, but the Lord Jesus Christ, who has the power in this matter. And he says, 'Unless a man be born again,' and he adds the words 'of water and of the Spirit,' 'he cannot enter the kingdom of God.' He that is baptized with water, but is not found worthy of the Spirit, does not receive the grace in perfection. Nor, if a man be virtuous in his deeds, but does not receive the seal by means of the water, shall he enter the kingdom of heaven. A bold saying, but not mine; for it is Jesus who has declared it (Catechetical Lectures 3:4 [A.D. 350]).
Hilary of Poitiers Or, again, since he who plants and he who waters are one, are they not one because, being themselves born again in one baptism they form a ministry of one regenerating baptism? (On the Trinity 8:9 [A.D. 356-360]).
Basil This then is what it is to be born again of water and of the Spirit, the being made dead being affected in the water, while our life is wrought in us through the Spirit. In three immersions, then, and with three invocations, the great mystery of baptism is performed, to the end that the type of death may be fully figured, and that by the tradition of the divine knowledge the baptized may have their souls enlightened (On the Holy Spirit 15:35 [A.D. 375]).
Gregory of Nyssa purposing to change us from corruption to incorruption by the birth from above, the birth by water and the Spirit, Himself led the way in this birth, drawing down upon the water, by His own baptism, the Holy Spirit; so that in all things He became the first-born of those who are spiritually born again, and gave the name of brethren to those who partook in a birth like to His own by water and the Spirit. But since it was also meet that He should implant in our nature the power of rising again from the dead, He becomes the in that He first by His own act loosed the pains of death(9), so that His new birth from the dead was made a way for us also, since the pains of death, wherein we were held, were loosed by the resurrection of the Lord. Thus, just as by having shared in the washing of regeneration (Against Eunomius 2:8 [A.D. 382]).
Ambrose of Milan The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism.... "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God" (On Abraham 2:11:79-84 [A.D. 387]).
Augustine It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, "Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents" or "by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him," but, "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit." The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam (Letters 98:2 [A.D. 408]).
Jerome He endeavors to show that "they who with full assurance of faith have been born again in baptism, cannot be overthrown by the devil" (Against Jovianus 1:3 [A.D. 393]). Copyright © 2018 StayCatholic.com

 

[Robert Gwin]

What does it mean for you to be saved, is the same thing as born again.

It means :

1.) God is always at peace with you, based not on you......but only based on the Blood of Jesus.

2.) God has taken you...redeemed you as His own, and will keep you always, based not on you, but only on the Blood of Jesus.

How to stay saved.
How do you stay saved? ????

By being born again.
Thats it.
Being born again is to BE Saved, and to be saved is to BE Born again.
God does this for you.
You only received it as "the Gift of Salvation".


It literally means to be anointed through holy spirit. All those who are born again have a very special privilege indeed. They have been purchased by the blood of Christ, for a reason, to serve as Kings and Priests with him in the Kingdom of God. They are redeemed from the earth to reside in heaven. Rev 5:9,10; 14:1-3
See, Salvation is God saving you.
Not you trying not to lose your salvation, and not you trying to keep it.

A lot of believers have this deceived idea that salvation is something you can lose, and in fact, its actually something you receive that is created by God.
Its a GIFT.
"the GIFT, of Salvation".
And this gift is unique, as it goes inside you and lives there, as "Christ IN YOU".
But that's not all.
This Gift gives BIRTH to your SPIRIT (born again) to your dead spirit, and places your spirit INTO GOD's Holy Spirit.
You are born AGAIN, into God's Spirit, by God's Holy Spirit.
You literally become : "ONE with God", by becoming a living and eternal part, of God's Holy Spirit.

What does it mean to be "saved".
It means that God Himself, has taken your sin, and the eternal judgement due you.... and by God's shed blood SACRIFICE, you were made sinless and given God's very Righteousness.
You have been MADE Righteous.

How long will you be righteous, after you are "made rightous" by God?
You will remain righteous for as long as God lives, as you now lve IN GOD.... "in Christ"

So how does your thinking or your believing or your lifestyle affect your salvation?
Not at all.
See, your Salvation is entirely God caused= .. through the blood of Jesus, and then your new BIRTH= is the final result of God's Salvation, as eternal security.

Salvation is all of God and none of you.
Discipleship is all of you, with God's help.

 

[Behold]

Jesus is our Salvation.
We dont earn Him, we receive Him as "the Gift of Salvation".
Tomorrow, is the celebration of this Eternal Gift.

 

[Robert Gwin]

Jesus is our Salvation.
We dont earn Him, we receive Him as "the Gift of Salvation".
Tomorrow, is the celebration of this Eternal Gift.

Generally Christians celebrate Jesus following his admonition to keep doing this in remembrance of me Luke 22:19. Jesus became our Passover 1 Cor 5:7, so we still gather to recognize what he gave in our behalf as the real Passover lamb on Passover, Nisan 14 every year.

 

[Behold]

Generally Christians celebrate Jesus following his admonition to keep doing this in remembrance of me Luke 22:19. Jesus became our Passover 1 Cor 5:7, so we still gather to recognize what he gave in our behalf as the real Passover lamb on Passover, Nisan 14 every year.

Sure.
Its good to take Communion.
"Do this in remembrance of Me", Jesus said.