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Being Born Again of the Spirit is Imperative
Jesus defined Eternal Life as “knowing” the Father and the Son. (John 17:3 – Matthew 7:21-23) Thomas asked Jesus “how are we able to know the way?” Jesus answered saying He was the only Way to the Father and to “know” Him was to “know” the Father. Jesus went on to declare the “Comforter, the Spirit of Truth” will be “inside” the “one who has My commandments and keeps them, that is the one who loves Me: and the one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I shall love him and I shall reveal Myself to him,” and ““if someone would continuously love Me, he will keep My Word, and My Father will love him and We will come to him and We will make a dwelling for Ourselves with him.” This is the “Promise of the Father,” to be immersed, baptized in the Holy Spirit. (John 14:5-24 – Luke 24:49 – Acts 1:4-5)
It is through the “Spirit of Truth” that the Lord reveals His wisdom which is “hidden in a mystery.” Jesus praised the Father for hiding these things from the wise and prudent and revealing them to whomever the Son wishes to reveal, which pleased the Father. (Matthew 11:25-27)
Worldly Wisdom & Biblical Wisdom
As the Lord made clear, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My Ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My Ways higher than your ways and My thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Yet “Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, so that He cannot save. Neither is His ear heavy, so He cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so He will not hear. (Isaiah 55:8-9, 59:1-2)
Just as no one knows “the things of a man except the spirit of the man that is in him? Thus then no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God,” and “the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God,” but does not teach “with words of human wisdom but in teachings of the Spirit. …But natural man does not take the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him and he is not able to know, because they are discerned spiritually.” (1 Corinthians 2:6-16)
"You cannot be born a Christian. Jesus says 'you must be born again.'" (Greg Laurie) This is why Jesus declares “we must be Born Again in the Spirit” for it is the Spirit Who “reveals” the “things of God,” which have to be discerned spiritually. (John 1:12-13, 3:5-7, 16:12-15 - Ephesians 1:17 - Jeremiah 31:33-34) Being “Born Again” is receiving the “Promise of the Father” is “the gift of God” upon repentance and publicly “confess with your mouth the Lord Y'shua and you would believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead,” and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 10:9-17 – Isaiah 28:16 – Acts 2:37-39)
The Inspiration of the Almighty
Jesus was emphatic in declaring “it is the spirit that quickens, the flesh profits nothing” and we “cannot bear” all the Lord would have us know apart from the “Teacher,” for we do not take “the things of God” by our “natural man,” but by the teaching of the “Spirit of Truth” to the “spirit in man.” (John 6:63, 16:12-15) Elihu echoed this truth in answering Job and Job’s three friends: “But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty gives them understanding. Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Therefore I say, Listen to me! I will also show my knowledge.” (Job 32:8-10) God corroborates Elihu claim of the “inspiration of the Almighty” when He answered Job: “Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or, who has given understanding to the heart?” (Job 38:36) and also by not admonishing Elihu as He did to Job’s three friends (Job 42:7-9) For it is God Who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13)
"God made mankind to be a spirit being in a natural body with a natural mind and
a free will. At the time of man's creation, Spirit God breathed life into
man."(Genesis 2:7) (Ron McGatlin)
We are “created in His image” as a threefold being, “spirit, soul and body”
allowing for Spirit to spirit edification as Jesus proclaimed. (Genesis 1:26-27 - 1 Thessalonians 5:23 – John 4:24, 6:63, 16:12-15)
“We do not know God with our flesh, with our hands or with our brains. We know God with our spirit."
(John G. Lake -
Spiritual Hunger, The God-Men)
“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord searching all the inward parts of
the heart” (Proverbs 20:27), and is also referred to as the "inner man" or
"hidden man of the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7 – Romans 7:22 - Ephesians 3:15-19 –
Colossians 3:9-10 - 1 Peter 3:4)
Do you not know that you are a sanctuary of God and the
Spirit of God dwells in you? ...Do you not know that your bodies are members of
Messiah? ...For “It will be,” it is said, “the two are one flesh.”
(Genesis 2:24) But the one who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. ...Or do you
not know that your body is a sanctuary (Ephesians 2:21, 22) of the Holy Spirit
in you, which you have from God, and you do not belong to yourselves? For you
were bought with a price: now you must glorify God with your body.
(1 Corinthians 3:16, 6:15-20)
