WHEN ARE WE BORN OF THE WATER?. Ans: We are born of the water at Justification or Forgiveness. when we repent and believe.

When are you born of the water? We are born of the water when we repent and believe and God justify us or forgive us i.e we are born again when we are justified or forgiven after we fulfill the conditions of repentance and believing. To be born again is to be justified, See Mark 1:15 "... the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye and believe the gospel, compared with Act 13:38,39 verse 38 "Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, through this man is preached the forgiveness of sins" verse 39 'And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses". Verse 39 gives evidence that those that those that fulfill the condition of believing are justified. Verse 38 can be coupled with Acts 8:32 to give evidence that those that fulfill the condition repentance are forgiven Acts 8:32 "Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee." Understanding the kingdom of God that is within (Luke 17:210) is the setting up of Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom.14:17) which is justification/forgiveness Christ preached through out Galilee repent and believe for the Kingdom is at hand (Mk.1:15, Matt.4:17). Christ was actually saying fulfill the conditions of repentance and believing that you would be justified/forgiven in obtaining the Kingdom within which is Righteousness, Peace and Joy in the Holy Spirit. commenting on the two text. Now let us see that to be justified is to be regenerated or born-again, Tit 3:5-7 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy-Ghost (which is being born of the water and of the Spirit) verse 7 is a continuation of verse 5: "That being justified by His grace (grace = mercy), we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life". It is seen that justification by His grace or saving by His mercy is the renewing of the Holy Spirit and the washing of regeneration which is to be born of the water and of the Spirit. Thus showing we are born again when we are justified. Furthermore lets look at 1Cor. 6:9-11 'Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neiher fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor efferminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind.........shall inherit the kingdom of God; verse 11 And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified (separated from sin) but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit (the Spirit is truth) of our God. This text identifies how the saints became righteous using different but similar meaning terms. The saints are righteous because they are washed, they are sanctified they are justified. Again showing we are born again when we are justified. Isa 53:11".......by his knowledge (the word) shall my righteous servant justify (begat or born again) many:,,,,," This is also the position of our reformer brother Martin Luther In the Smalcald Articles in 1537 "What I have hitherto and constantly taught concerning this i know not how to change in the least, namely, that by faith as St Peter says, we acquire a new and clean heart" another quote from our brother Luther "We must not attribute the power of justifying to that form (sc charity) which maketh a man acceptable unto God, but we must attribute it to faith which apprehendeth and possesseth in the heart Christ the saviour himself. A Commentay on St Paul.s Epistle to the Galatians, p 141. So Luther is telling us that justification possess Jesus Christ (I am the way the truth and the life) the truths of Christ in the heart (the word) or Spirit of Christ in the heart. Again Luther wrote "We perceive how a sinner fares when a sinner dies spiritually and then lives again, that is, when he is justified and his sins are remitted... Then comes the living Word of God. The Gospel of Grace... That is where faith sets in, and man is freed both of sin and of death and lives in grace and righteousness with Christ." Luther's Works 19. pg. 97-104. Quoted from Hilton C. Oswald and George S. Robbert, Luther as interpreter of Scripture, pg. 47,49. (1526) thus Justification is regeneration, the same as being engrafted into Christ. There are much more quotes, on this point. I will like to add another question. How often is a man to be born - again or forgiven, I will proceed to answer. Like Christ answered when he was ask how much time shall one forgive his brother, he said "seventy times seven', but in this case it is God who justifieth - Rom 8:33. once you sin you have rejected the word in your heart so you are void of the word or we can say void of God. See 1Jn 3:9 which tells us he that is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him Luke 8:11 tells us the seed is the word of God. Furthermore 1John 3:6 tells us "whosover is abideth in Him sinneth not". Thus when one sins it is because be has given up the word of God or the Spirit of God from his heart and needs to be forgiven or justified by the word of God being engrafted (James 1:21) into his heart by the Holy Spirit that he would be born again of the word and of the Spirit. Thus every time a man sins he is to be born again or forgiven. Please read with open bibles this is Revolutionary but it is the Word of truth.