Our country is filled with good people who attend Christian churches but who have never been born again. They read the Bible. They sing religious songs. They give money in the offering. But they have never been born again.
Born again is the miracle that happens when Christ comes into your heart. When Jesus comes in, everything changes. If nothing in your life has changed and you are basically the same person, except that now you go to church, maybe you have never been born again.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." 2Cor. 5:17 KJV
Being born again involve a time just like being born involves a specific time and place. Not the first time you visited a church, But the day and hour when Jesus saved you from sin. For me it was December the 8th, 1973. At the Door in Prescott, AZ.
All things become new. A new way of thinking, a new way of talking, a new way of living, and a new song to sing.
"He has put a new song in my mouth-praise to our God; ..." Psalm 40:3
Being born again ought to be visible and obvious to all around you. If you are no different than the world around you, something is missing.
Being born again is not about becoming a better person, it is about being changed by a miracle of God. A new creature in Christ.
I wonder how many people in our church have never been born again?
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