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What Is Meant By To Be Born Again?


When Nicodimus came to Jesus at night they had a conservation base on been born again or been born from above. He told him this, “Verily verily I say unto thee, except a man be born of the water and the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” John 3:5. This birth spoke of by Christ is not a physical birth; it is the Spiritual birth which is of the Holy Spirit. In other words he is a new creature in Christ, old things are pass away behold all is become new. 2 Cor. 5:17.
To be in Christ is to be in the truth. For He said, “I am the way the truth and the life.” John 14:6.
To be a new creature is to put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Eph. 4:24.
This righteousness spoke of is the divine nature of God, the Spiritual Law, that is God Himself.
True holiness is sinfreeness or pure religion. 2 Cor. 7:1 and James 1:27.
The old thing that is passed away is the old man that is corrupted according to the deceitful lust, which is the canal mind. This canal mind cannot subject to the Law of God neither indeed can it. This is the mind that the human family adapted after the fall. It is a mind of death that is enmity against God. Rom. 6:6; 8:6; 5:19. It is the stony heart or the filty garments. Ezek. 36:26; Zach. 3:3. 
Therefore we can see that when a man is born again or converted or been made a new creature, he is become a partaker of divine nature, which is revealed in the Spiritual Law, the righteousness of God. In other words he has the Spiritual Mind. He is made righteous; therefore, he puts away lying and deceitful lust

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