 have inadvertently, well not inadvertently, I deleted some of the other videos dealing with more in-depth on this issue of being born again because I didn't like the lighting, I didn't like the the video, it just didn't look what didn't look like what I wanted to look like. And so what I want to do was to go ahead and cover again because I may have said something where someone might have said you know what I'm not sure what he's talking about I hadn't heard that because I did as I'm looking at my at the channel analytics about 55, 56, 57% of the people that actually watch the channel aren't subscribed to so maybe they haven't seen it before and so we want to go in go by the way we need to go over all of these major doctrines often anyway so it's always good to go over them again and by the way what's happening is you all don't know it but I'm old school so because of that all of a sudden I've got this cough today but if there's 82 games in the season you play all a two games even if you're nicked up even if you're hurt doesn't matter we limp through it and so I've got my hot coffee and I've got my what do you call these things these halls these throat whatever you call these things so I'm gonna push through I'm gonna push through why because I love you guys and I love the Lord so that being the case let's go ahead and jump into it there is or can be a misconception about what it means to be born again so what we're going to do is we're going to go to the Bible and look at what it says let me say this if you say being born again means to be saved I will say being born again leads up to salvation but it does not mean being saved although and this where it kind of gets maybe confusing I'll straighten this out in a second but there's no one who is saved that is not born again now how quickly is the process we don't know but there is some sort of chronology to it and so where do we go to find out about this issue born again now this it's all throughout scripture or what will come to find out is being called born again is throughout scripture so what we're gonna do is look at the first place that is there and I don't know why it's in another particular chapter that I need to be in okay here we go so in John 3 chapter 3 verse 1 here we have by the way I think that this particular chapter is one of the most theologically rich chapters in the Bible why because it's going to cover a few different things and sometimes it's not even necessarily the point of it but Jesus brings this up anyway so I'm sorry 405 boy but I'll see if I can fix that he says boy I'm confused Corey but there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews this man came to Jesus by night and said to him Rabbi we know that you have come from God as a teacher for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with them now he's also speaking he it's not the point of it but when we talk about what blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is Nicodemus is saying that we know for a fact that you have come from God because no one can do what you're doing unless you are from God so when in another passage when Jesus is speaking about blasphemy of the Holy Spirit they automatically know or he knows that they know that he is from God they're not denying the miracles and so here Nicodemus said we know we know for a fact you come from God but their issue was just denying him because he's making more disciples there people are following after him and so forth and so that's not the context but this is what he's saying he brings more light on it verse 3 it seems like Jesus makes a switch it seems like Jesus makes a switch because that's not really what Nicodemus is talking about however Jesus knows what Nicodemus needs to hear and so what does he say truly truly I say to you he says Nicodemus unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God now he's just given a chronology he's given a chronology someone asked a question Jesus says was the Samaritan woman born again no and let me say this this is going to remember guys I have a a literal hermeneutic and so I'll take the scriptures with how they come and use my hermeneutic imply and hopefully that things will be consistent I won't try to allegorize or spiritualize there's no and so in this case there's no way to know that she was born again is it possible sure the scriptures I just don't say so remember I stated this before we saw this when Jesus is making this point in Luke chapter 8 that people can believe people can believe the issue is they cannot believe without the help or the aid of God they can't they can't do so consistently they stop believing they go back to their own little ways and so forth and so what's required of them well they have to kind of get right again and that's been God's issue all along God has always had this problem with the fact that you guys have faith but your faith is not faithful meaning you believe today you don't believe next week or you don't believe next month next month Jesus makes a statement in Luke 8 he says that that there are these in describing the the parable of the seed and the sowers and so forth he says the issue is that there are some that believe for the moment and then stop believing they're because of the the world because of temptation different things then they for some reason aren't believing continually and Satan wants to make sure that they aren't continually believing remember this we've stayed that we said this before that a Christian an actual believer is someone who has entered into a state of continual believing with this issue or with the statement that I said before think about the ING this participle that in order to be a believer you have to be believing one and here's that word again guys what's the word ha pistuan the believing ones the one that is believing are you with me so we'll get into that even more so it doesn't seem that that was the case with the woman at the well at that point in time but we know that a lot of those believers after a while they ended up receiving the Holy Spirit after now this is after the crossing so we don't have any way to know that they actually were continuous continuous believers but we also have any reason to not think they would be continuous believers so it'd be hard to say if they were or were not if she was and she was not or the village or the town that she went to them and the men came back it'd be hard to say but I would probably assume that they probably ended up being that way but anyway let's go back to this Jesus makes a statement says truly truly I say to you unless so now he's giving a chronology and may yeah I may which is unless a certain one one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God and there is that word that word born again the word for born again let's put it on screen you guys can see is this word Gannette and then here's the other word a nothing Gannette means to be born it comes from if you look below below my my picture it has the Greek understanding of the word from the word Genomai which means to be fathered or to be born or to begot to bear so someone is being born so that part we get and then the other word is a nothing this word this Greek word a nothing has two meanings context can be clear but sometimes context isn't always clear such as right here there are two ways you can take this Gannette and nothing it can mean to be born from above or to be born again a second time Nicodemus believes that it is a second time born one more time a second time Nicodemus is confused we know that he's wrong because Nicodemus says that and Jesus corrects me says how can a man be born when he is old he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born can he Jesus answer truly truly I say to you unless one is born of water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God so Nicodemus is confused Jesus corrects it again so the other alternative if it's not born a second time it's born from above born from God born from the spirit we're gonna see this term we're gonna see this terminology used three different ways or said three different ways you're gonna see him saying born of born from above or born again that's one born again it's also going to equate with being born of water and the spirit it's also going to be equated to being born of the spirit all three of those things mean the same thing so let's go back to it he says that which is born of I'm sorry verse five Jesus says truly I say to you that unless one is born of water and spirit so now he's saying water and spirit so less one is born of water and spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God now the kingdom of God and kingdom of heaven in case someone's asking the same thing king of heaven king of God is the same thing but Jesus says unless one is born of water and spirit then that person cannot enter some people have taken this to mean or thought it would mean that this has to do with baptism why because they see this word water this is not speaking of a physical water now we're gonna show that in a second but this is not speaking of physical water this is what's called an ep exegetical chi big words might be a little fancy but even in English we have what's called ep exegetical which is to say the same thing two different ways right he's mad he's angry and mad mad and angry I'm saying the same thing two different ways ep exegetical chi is when we have these two words separated by chi and it's just to give further clarification and so all he's saying is that being born of water and spirit and we're gonna get clarification as to what he means by being born of water and spirit in a second okay so going back to it he says that unless a person is born of water and spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God and so he must be first born again to enter into the kingdom of God or he must first be born of water and spirit to enter into the kingdom of God so the first thing that has to happen is he must be born again are you with me he's gonna do something after he's born again we'll come to that in just a little bit but then verse six that which is born of flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit of spirit so again born of the spirit do not be amazed that I said to you that you must be born again can that fate I know then again the wind blows where it wishes and listen to this part right here the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but you do not know where it comes from or and where it's going so is everyone who is born of the spirit so born of the spirit born again born of the water and spirit the same thing are you with me now we're gonna find out something about Nicodemus and Jesus is gonna I wouldn't say get upset with him but he's a little displeased with Nicodemus because Nicodemus should know better look what he says verse nine Nicodemus said to him how can these things be what is Jesus's response Jesus says are you the teacher of Israel and do not understand these things or why would he say that well because Nicodemus you are the teacher of Israel and you don't know this why would he assume that Nicodemus should have known this well because it's literally in the books prior to you Nicodemus if you're teaching Israel why haven't you been studying the Bible and by Bible I mean the the Old Testament the law and the prophets this has been spoken of before now typically this is where we'll go to Ezekiel 36 so let's go to Ezekiel 36 now remember the two elements that Jesus brings up in in being born again he says being born of water and spirit so let's go and find out where this is up where this is at this is in Ezekiel 36 verse 25 and look what he says then I will sprinkle clean water so there's the water on you and you will be clean and I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from your idols moreover I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh and so he's using these two elements water and spirit why because God throughout the Bible will use what's called anthropomorphic terminology big fancy word all that means is he'll speak to us like men he's God and how he would speak he has to lower it down he has to in other words dumb it down for us why is that the case because they're like little kids let's be honest if you speak to your child and let's say your child is 15 10 5 the younger they are the further away they are from your intellect the lower you have to bring down the language so that they can understand okay I'm not going to explain why we pay taxes to my three-year-old my three-year-old not my three-year-old my three-year-old grandson he can't begin to understand well why his his new word now is why but why why because it's time to go to bed but why because we need our rest but why but why and so you've got to try to explain to him in the way that he can understand the same thing for someone a little bit older well guess who has the same problem God has that same problem so he'll use terminology that we can understand to help us to understand which is why he'll say the same thing many different ways for example when he talks about uh the shadow of God or seeing God face to face that mean that God has a face and we're looking right at him eye to eye man to man no it's just that he is before him that's all well let me ask this question which is good Ronald says born of water can also refer to physical birth thus being born a second time after new birth here's why it doesn't because if a person is born a uh an actual physical birth and that would mean everybody but notice what he's doing he's speaking about born of water remember in the very next chapter in John chapter four he's bringing up this imagery of water this living water to who to the Samaritan woman she doesn't quite get it either she doesn't get it either well again if they would have just paid attention to the books they had before now get the Samaritans only really read portions of the Old Testament not all of it but this teacher of Israel Nicodemus should have known better and look what he says he uses the same imagery water and spirit at the same time so this little hauls is stuck in my mouth now look what he says though look why he says and this is important guys now we're going to move backwards because he brings up a statement in this let's pull up on screen again he says then i will sprinkle clean water on you there's the water and you will be clean and i will cleanse you from all your filthiness and i will and from all your idols moreover i will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you well he's not saying i'm going to do the water first and then put the spirit first no he's speaking of the same thing remember this kind of how god speaks oftentimes saying the same thing different ways why so we can kind of get it now we're going to see also why we have to be born again why our hearts have to be born from above why his spirit why our hearts need to be washed uh why we need to have his spirit in us he's going to tell us verse 27 i will put my spirit within you and here it is and i will cause you to walk in my statues and you will be careful to observe my ordinances this is this is the part that some people might not want to accept but this is true look what he says i will cause you let me move this up so you guys can see this i will cause you to walk this word right here is the word asa so i will cause you i will make or to do i will make you and this word to walk is halak and so i'm going to make you walk or to go in my statues in my teachings what's been god's big issue with mankind he tells me to do something they say okay amen we'll do it and then not good question is our is our spirit regenerated or our heart when the bible talks about uh our heart he doesn't literally mean our actual organ as a matter of fact in the Hebrew and the Greek as a matter of fact let's see let's let's put on the screen and let's go to this word heart the word for heart is the word let it means if you can look below it says it refers to the heart it also refers to the mind it means the inner being of the person so you're really speaking of the person's spirit this person's soul now or soul and spirit depending on if you want to be be a trichotomist or dichotomist either way this is god regenerating that he's not actually giving you a brand new beating heart okay or brand new thinking brain now does it affect those things sure not necessarily beating heart but does it affect how we think how we move sure and so whether it be the Hebrew or the Greek when we talk about this term heart he's not speaking of this he's speaking kind of of us inwardly are you with me so that's a good question by the way but he says i will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk because that has been the problem all along god has been saying do this do that they say yes yes yes and then as soon as he's gone all right y'all let's get back to what we're doing now hey now god is gone let's get back to having fun that's been their history that's been our history remember god makes a statement he makes a statement in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 16 look what he says he says so circumcise your heart and stiffen your neck no longer for the lord your god is the god of gods and the lord of lords the great the mighty and the awesome god who does not show partiality nor take a bribe so he says he's telling them y'all circumcise your heart he's telling them to do so god is telling the children of israel to do so to circumcise their heart what's the problem they won't circumcise their heart god states that now this is before the children of Israel are getting ready to go into the promised land and he's going to say something that's just kind of a head scratcher kind of odd wait a minute god what wait a minute hold on run that back again what you just said now he's told them in chapter 10 to circumcise their heart by the way if you go back to exodus when when they're making this agreement about keeping the law the the old covenant the mosaic covenant they say that we will do everything that you say well then after that god tells them that they will not and then even further as they're getting ready to go into the promised land he says he now he says them don't be disobedient and so forth knowing they're going to be disobedient look what he says in Deuteronomy 30 matter of fact let's go back to the to the top of 30 let's go to verse Deuteronomy 30 let's go to let's go to verse one let's start in verse one so it shall be when when all of these things have come upon you the blessings and the curse which i have said before you and call you and call them to your mind in all nations where the lord your god has banished you so they're going to be banished wait a second banished from where from the land that you're going into we hadn't gotten to the land we haven't even gotten there and yet you're talking about being banished so they're going to be banished but he said i'm going to bring you back and verse two and return you to the lord your god and obey him with all your heart so i'm going to bring you back so that you will obey me with all your heart when is he going to bring them when are they going to obey god with all their heart well according to the passage after he brings them back then they're going to obey him with all their heart how's that going to be though god well verse three then the lord your god will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and will gather you again from all the peoples where the lord your god has scattered you if your outcasts are at the ends of the earth from there the lord god will gather you and from there he will bring you back the lord your god will bring you into the land with your father's possessed and you shall possess it and he will prosper and multiply you more than your father's here it is look at verse six more over the lord your god will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the lord your god with all your heart and with all your souls so that you may live so what does god say first he says for you to circumcise your heart they won't circumcise their heart they will be disobedient they will be punished we'll see these cycles that we see in in judges they'll be put into captivity they'll be exiled from the land they'll be brought back and then after that rather than god saying again for you guys for you to circumcise your heart god says in verse six he says that i but the lord god god will be the one that's going to circumcise your heart so god will circumcise your heart and not only your hearts but those that come after you as well are you with me so the issue is their heart because they have this wayward heart what is god going to do god is going to give him a brand new heart why to walk after them so they're going to spend all this time hearing god basically like a parent fussing will you please do right will you please follow they will not god's issue is that they have a bad heart now throughout this time what is god doing with them he tells them to do right they say yes we'll do right they go they go by the wayside what are they doing in the meantime since they since their heart is not right how do they how do we still find people that will still be in right standing god does something in that dispensation that he doesn't do now in that dispensation he gives them something in between the time of the day of atonement also by the way the day of atonement he gives them something he gives them these different ordinances these different offerings that they can take part in whether you're a christian or not whether you're a believer or not what god or what's inside of us is guilt when we mess up when we sin we do wrong we're like we're like dogs we put our head down our take our tail between our leg and we and we understand we've messed up we feel guilty now what we do with the guilt or something else what would they do with when they mess up and they know they messed up they had all of these different offerings to give as a matter of fact i hadn't what oh wait a minute what did i just do i just got rid of i can't believe that i don't know what i just did with it i have my uh-oh i was going to pull up something and i don't know what i just did with it i did i did i delete this thing okay give me one second because i just removed something off of here and i should not have done so where is it uh it's not there it's not there it's not that is it that nope it's not that some kind of way i i remove something and i should not have done that and if i can figure out how to get it back oh lord i'm not gonna worry about it i was going to show you guys i can't pull up because i don't have it on my screen to pull up um the different offerings i'll show you guys that at another time so you all forgive me for that but he gives them these different offerings so that in the meantime when they messed up in between the day of atonement the day of atonement was when all all atonement was made for all of israel all atonement was made for all of israel now all of israel didn't benefit from it because israel had to afflict their souls um fast and so forth not work all these all these different things and then after that believe that god accepted the sacrifice in between that what happens when you sin what happens a month after the day of atonement and you're messing up and you know you've been messing up well guess what you can do you can give an offering now you don't have the holy spirit in you these people do not have the holy spirit so what do they get they get these offerings to as as a way you know what god i messed up i'm sorry they have that then we don't have that now why don't we have those same offerings now because we've got something better we have the holy spirit now he says what he's going to do he is going to circumcise their heart let's go to Jeremiah Jeremiah remember here we have this prophecy in Jeremiah of what god is going to do with his people is going to give him a brand new heart and look what he says in chapter 2 verse 39 he says and i will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me so what is guy going to do his goal just like he says in Deuteronomy and other passages he wants to give man a brand new heart change his heart or change his way of thinking why because mankind you are wayward you'll you'll think something is good and and for one minute you'll follow after just like every january the first of every year there are all these new years resolutions and then come january the second or february the first the the resolution is gone i i resolved to lose weight i did good i did good for the for the first and the second and third but the fifth came around i was tired and so i and then i said you know what i'll pick it back up next week well you know what i i did i've already messed up this month let's start again on next month that's how we do the same holds true with our walk with god the same holds true and we don't have god like we see in the old testament thundering down from heaven coming down and walking with us we really don't see that we and so but what do we have that's different now we have the holy spirit but this is what jesus speaking of when he's speaking to nicodemus so let's go back to Jeremiah 32 this is 39 he says and i will give them one heart that heart and one way that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of their children after them i will make an everlasting covenant with them that i will not turn away from them to do them good and i will put the fear of me in their hearts in their hearts and look what he says so that they will not turn away from me so again god's issue is people turning away from god god's issue is our heart so what is he going to do fix our heart that's why when we see ezekiel 36 it should make even more sense i will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances now he doesn't just say it in 36 as a matter of fact he says it again he says earlier in ezekiel chapter 11 verse 19 he says and i will give them one heart same thing this issue of the heart and put a new spirit within them and i will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh that they may walk in my statutes or my teachings my commands and keep my ordinances and do them then they will be my people and i shall be their god then they will be my people and i shall be their god now we've also see this because yes he's speaking about israel without question but is he only speaking about israel no remember in doing so they will be his people and he will be their god but what about us gentiles what about us god because again we're selfish and in this case rightly so we want to be safe he says in in hosea i will cause a people who are not my people to be my people i will and my who are not my beloved i'll call them beloved i will be their god they will be my people i will be their god so the same thing is going to happen he didn't give a whole lot into what's going to happen with them but he's made this statement and the jews aren't really thinking too much about it i get that but when we get to john or when we get to jesus more more specifically we see what jesus's plan is and so let's go back to john three because there's going to be a question that's going to pop up and we'll get to that question just a little bit but chapter three verse nine nicotine says how can these things be jesus says how are you a teacher of israel you don't know these things now he says are you a teacher of israel and do not know these things or understand these things truly truly i say to you we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen and you do not accept our testimony you don't in other words it's kind of him he's kind of dumping on nicodemus because nicodemus should have known this because it's written if i told you earthly things and you do not believe how would you believe if i if i tell you heavenly things sometimes it seems like when they say certain things that it's just that just throwing things at you like maybe jesus a lot of what you said doesn't seem to track with what i'm thinking can you stay on one topic jesus and he is he is jesus is laying this out as succinctly as he can don't blame the messenger if you if if we're too thick skull or too slow to get it so uh bj says does axe two four mean christians i'll i'll come back to that in a second bj i'll come back to that in a second if i've told you earthly things and you don't believe how will you believe if i tell you heavenly things look what he says and this makes you wonder why is this even pat why is this even here ron says why uh oh why doesn't paul teach uh the gentiles that they must be born again hmm maybe he does maybe he does ron we've got some we've got some more scriptures to go to we've got some more to go to maybe he does he says this statement that seems kind of odd kind of odd because it doesn't seem like he's still talking about being born again and so forth he says no one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven the son of god question why is jesus putting that there why is jesus saying no one has ascended into heaven except he who has ascended because weren't we just talking about being born again you can't get to heaven unless you're born again you can't be saved unless you're first born again born again and then something else we'll talk about what the something else is going to happen in a little bit but you can't get to heaven before that you have to be first born again and then he throws this statement in that no one has ascended except those except he who has descended why is that well here's why he's saying that and oh by the way he's still speaking remember who is he speaking to he's still speaking to this Pharisee this jew nicodemus do you know what has never happened to any other jew prior that is no other jew or person period has ever ascended just what jesus says nobody has ever ascended in the heaven i won't spend too much time on that that does include inoc and that also includes Elijah they never we never see them being raised from the dead after his death prayer resurrection and ascension prior to that we've seen Elijah come up we've seen the moses we've seen Samuel but after the resurrection and ascension we don't see it again why because then he's going to take them on on high what we'll leave that alone for another for another period but why does he bring this up why is this even an issue because what he has to do is he's going to bring everybody together he's bringing up what what the jews know about is the day of atonement they know about the day of atonement they know about having their sins atoned for so this is what jesus is going to go into look what he says verse 14 as moses lifted up the serpent serpent in the wilderness even so the son of man must be lifted up the very same son of man who is the only one that has ascended and descended that son of man and so he says as moses lift up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the son of man be lifted up that doesn't make any sense does it well what happened with moses in the wilderness well they grumbled and complained about god and about moses and so god caused these serpents to bite them and many of these serpents that bit them or people that got bitten many of them died got sick some died and so what does he have moses do to fashion this serpent on a stick hold it up any of those who are trusting and believing in this serpent that they see got healed in that same way so too must the son of man be lifted up then look what he says and we're going to a very important passage he says so that whoever believes will in him have eternal life now i want you to notice a phrase that whoever look what he says in order that all the ones all of those that are believing in him will have life forever going back into the old testament or to the old covenant if you believed at the day of atonement you were atoned for but you know what you don't see in the old testament this phrase this statement that you can have life forever that you can have eternal life that was not an old testament statement what they did have they had a right standing before the lord but it had to be carried out year after year after year after year what jesus getting ready to introduce him to is that you no longer have to worry about this this yearly issue year after year after year now what you have is the way that you do this is one time faith is done one time and that's that so how how the Pharisees understood and by the way at this point in time at this time they are still adhering to the day of atonement at this point in time now very shortly you won't have that you won't have this really shortly you're gonna have this just for the moment are you with me as a matter of fact let's let's let's go back to it for god very important passage take this back out honey take it back out for god so love the world look what he says that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life what we see here guys is the the very saying phrase theology that we saw in verse 15 in verse 15 we see this henna pos high pistol on in verse 15 see right here henna pos high pistol on in order that all the believing ones in him have eternal life we go down to verse 16 we see the exact same thing henna pos high pistol on in order that all the ones believing him and so that's what he says even though it may say to you that for god i mean sorry that for god so love the world what he is saying now is that he's saying this word right here for god is the greek word hutos this greek word hutos means so that or in this way so in this way god shows his love for the world god shows his love for the world by doing something he is going to give his only son hostet time we on time my name the only the only one his son the only one of his kind he gave in order that and this is why does so this is why jesus is making this connection in order that those that are believing will never perish and so what jesus is doing it says just like in the old if you believe you won't perish but the issue is if you believe the day and stop believing next year and you don't make it to the day of atonement you can be atoned for today and in several months or what have you not be atoned for now though if you believe you shall never perish but instead you'll have life into eternity so look what he says he says so for god so loved the world that he gave his only son that in order in order that so the reason why god gave his son in order that those that are believing in him will never ever ever ever ever perish so believing in him will never ever perish what does that have to do with being born again you will not believe in him unless first you have been born of him are you with me the agent that's going to keep you to be a believing one going back to god's issue with our heart is the fact that now we've got the spirit in us that will keep us believing what did god say the point and purpose of the spirit being in them in deuteronomy in Jeremiah in Ezekiel and circumcising their heart and giving them a new heart putting his spirit in their heart so that they will keep believing and keep following him when Jesus or any other body for that matter talks about a believer they talk about a believer as someone who is constantly believing as someone who is constantly following someone who's constantly hearing does that mean from time to time you may you know what uh i'm over no you might you'll you you will fall it from time to time you absolutely will you absolutely will without question how do i know because john says that if anyone says he's not sin he's a liar but we've been given this advocate so so you have been made to be born again and the reason why i say that the reason why i say that i'll see you in a second seeking selves i'll answer it in just a second the reason why i say that is if we go to first peter there's an interesting statement that peter makes he says in first peter three first peter one verse three says blessed be the god and father of our lord Jesus christ look what he says guys very important he says who according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again he has caused us to be born again this word right here is an eras active participle it was done in the past this was done in the past he has caused us and and one of the worst part of there is this word get a mind which is where we see the word being born again there to be born he has caused us to be born again who caused us to be born again god did not you you didn't god did are you with me so the very way that we have been born again was not you was not you making that profession of faith your profession of faith is on you your ability to make the profession of faith consistently is on him again you were born again because of god because of the spirit going back to let's go back to john three and i know it might be controversial some folks might be bothered by this because of the implication but again we didn't write it we're just repeating it look what he says verse eight the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it but do not know where it comes from and where it is going so it is of all of you guys's and us this is and all of us this is a sheep this is all of us sheep so it is with all of us who have been born again now he also makes this statement because look go back to the zq 36 i'm so let's put that back on the screen 36 i'm still in 11 i want you to notice something if you haven't noticed it he says then i then i i i i i then i will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean and i will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols this is i not i corey or i you but i god god is saying this and from all your idols more over i i will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within by the way put a new spirit it's the same as i as i will put a new spirit within you and i will remove the heart of stone so that rotten bad heart that wayward heart i will remove that heart of stone from you and i will give you a new heart of flesh and i will put my spirit within you and i will cause you to walk in my statues and you will be careful to observe my ordinance so i god is doing it not you now someone might say wait a second corey this is israel what about the rest of us who are not israel that's a good question let's go to this let's matter of fact let's go to john chapter back to john chapter one and let's go to verse verse 12 but as many as received him that's received christ to them he gave the right to become children of god even to those who believe in his name all of those so look what it says to those who believe tois pisu pisu usin so this is a present active part of so all of those who are believing in his name so whoever it is that's believing in his name who were born not of blood nor the will of flesh nor of the will of man but of god so now he's also brought in not just jews but he says as many as received him so all the ones that received him how did we receive him so if i look through the list if i see um ashley if i see meli male if i see grace and mercy if i see lisa monkey moves jeff all of you cameron that believe you believe because according to this passage he's saying john one you were born of the spirit you were born of god matter of fact to even make it more clear that it's not just the jews it's the gentiles first john chapter five whoever believes what's that phrase that we said that that tells us that he's speaking of all believers this is what identifies a believer the past hapisto one all the believing ones look at first john five he said the ones that are believing the believing ones that jesus is christ is what is born of god giga nate giga nate time so born of god if you believe jew or gentile male female black white short tall handsome not so handsome pretty not so pretty wherever you are you if you believe you have been born now i want you to look below my picture look at what it says for this word giga nate time it is a singular perfect middle now this is you this is the middle voice now the middle voice can be kind of tricky because usually it can be like i'm washing my hands so it's me doing it to myself for the benefit of myself and also the ones who are loving those that have been born but now this airs active parts of so now it was done to you so don't don't flip up and think that you did it it was god who did so the father loves a child that's born of him by this we know that we love the children of god when we love god and observe his commandments so by the way an identifying marker is that we are we are keeping his commands we're keeping his teachings not the 10 commandments guys the word commandments does not always mean matter of fact in most cases that didn't refer to 10 commandments for this is the love of god that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burdened something look what he says whatever is born of god whatever is born of god so whoever the one is born of god overcomes the world and this is the that that that has overcome the world our faith our faith and where does it come from because we were born again again we were caused to be born again now this is john saying so we saw peter saying that we were caused to be born and then we have paul here saying in Titus 3 5 he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness but according to his mercy by the washing and regeneration and the renewing by the holy spirit whom he poured out upon us richly through jesus christ our savior so that being justified by his grace will be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life now let's go back to this word up here this word regeneration let me pull up so you guys can see this word regeneration you've heard this word before you've probably seen people say equate being born again to being regenerated here's the reason why it's made up of two words it's work made up of the word palin look below my look below my image you see the word palin and then the second word again which we've kept seeing this word genomyle to be born the word palin means to be born again so this born again this palin this palin genesia which is to be born again it's the same thing that's being referred to by jesus so paul is also jumping in on the fray and using the same terminology so we have been washed who did the washing again who did the washing what he says by the holy spirit is that not what being washing what does that convey what does that bring up in your mind water by what the holy spirit being washed by the holy spirit brings up ezekiel 36 25 again more over i will pour i will clean a sprinkle clean water on you and i will cleanse you and then more over i will put my spirit within you and so we have the same thing happening and so paul jumps in on the fray peter jumps in on the fray john jumps in on the fray and prior to then we have ezekiel and Jeremiah and moses as well bringing this up and so guys to be born again is a work not of yourself it is a work of the holy spirit now i want to i want to go another passage this passage is an ax because the question is this if a person is born again the born again part is the spirit giving you a brand new heart you on your own can say i believe you got i believe you got i trust you got is it possible for a person if i told them if i say i'll just i'll just use a person let me just use cameron for a second i say cameron let's pretend like cameron is not safe i say cameron all you have to do to get saved as a matter of fact cameron is an atheist i say cameron jesus christ died for our sins the reason why he died for our sin is because we needed a debt to be paid that we could not pay and it need to be a perfect debt he pays this debt and because he pays his perfect debt that the father requires god accepts it and all we have to do is just believe that he paid this debt and we are now part of the body if we trust that is there anything stopping cameron from understanding what i just said no cameron understands exactly what i just said and cameron might even say you know what i believe that but now cameron doesn't really believe that cameron he believes he understands he accepts everything but he really hadn't placed faith in it you all know what i mean there are people that believe what you believe that go to the same church that you go to but aren't really christian there are people that say they are and are not which is why which is one of the reasons why james in chapter 5 verses 19 and 20 says if any among you straight away from this truth from this belief haven't actually become believers he says go to that person and bring that christian back no bring that sinner back knowing that you save his soul from death he calls that person that that left that belief that understanding you save his soul from death let's go to a passage that uh who brought this up seeking souls brothers passes up he says what about first first timothy first of the four one uh with a continued belief but stopping good question so let's go to first timothy four one let's type it in hold on one second first timothy four one he says but the but the spirit explicitly says in the latter times some will fall away from the faith paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons now these are people that are not falling that are not falling away from believing they're falling away not from a the verb believing because what are we described as what are true christians described as we're described we're known by that verb believing that present active parts of the present active tense we are known by believing ones that we keep believing we are the but we are the ones that are believing not the ones that believe duh uh or anything else we are the ones that keep believing what keeps us believing the holy spirit but this is not saying people who are uh walking away from believing people are he's saying that these are people who are walking away from the belief from the faith not from having faith but from the faith are you with me so anybody can understand these mental facts that we have ascribed to that i understand what you're saying but you know what yeah whatever i'm over here today that can happen anyone can do that anyone can say i believe this for a moment i don't but i was never really part of it again every sunday we've got people like that all the time can you be born when you are born again can you become unborn not according to the scripture not according to scriptures as a matter of fact we are going to be kept now matter of fact look at what he says in jeremiah again let's go back to jeremiah that's a good question by the way he says i will make after he puts his spirit in us which we call being born again now at that time is for looking it hadn't happened yet it's going to happen he says i will make an everlasting coming with him and look what he says that i will not turn away from them so he won't turn away from us but then look what he says from us and i will put the fear of me in their heart so that they will not turn away from me just like he also says in ezekiel cause them to walk in my teachings we are not going to turn away we are not going to stop believing we are not going to stop following our heart has been made new by him so if he if he bear if we're born from above how do we make ourselves not be born from above how do we go and undo what god has done that would be pretty difficult to do there it is literally impossible for us to undo what god has done are you with me let me do this one thing oh hold on i can't do it right now i was going to try to do two things at one time and i can't do it i can't do it uh he says what do you say what about the word faith being the greek word the saving faith uh would you say does that change things no no no let's go back to it uh where is it at this word this is not believing this is this is taste pistails which is the faith this is the the noun so this isn't this is just talking about the set of beliefs remember paul makes a statement matter of fact let's stay in timothy but let's go to second timothy chapter four let's move down and look what paul paul speaks about keeping this faith the belief paul says for i am already being poured out as a drink offering me i'm about to die he says verse seven i have fought the good fought fight i have finished the course he says i have kept this word is the greek word from tereo which is to guard to keep to keep what not believing this is not to continue this he's not saying that i've continually believed no i have kept what the faith the set of beliefs i have kept that the bible says in roman's tin he says that uh faith comes by hearing and hearing and it's not the verb hearing it's the he it's the greek word i coace which is a noun faith comes by the report the belief the set of facts that's where faith comes by which is which now makes sense when paul says that uh i'm not ascending the gospel because it's that gospel that report is that that the power of god emanates from it's what he's done that's the basis of our strength that's where power comes from what he did on the cross something powerful about the gospel is what it is that we need to recognize now doesn't work for everybody know jesus says as the wind blows we don't know where it comes from or where it goes to so it is of everyone that's born of god that's him doing it that's not us so what happens then once that happens then what do we do then we can do like everybody else has done i believe but this the difference is with us that believe this is permanent there's a statement that says because someone's gonna ask core is it possible to be born again and not place your faith in christ we don't see that to be the case but there is one passage that can help us a little bit in ax 1348 when the gentiles heard this they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of god of the word of the lord and look what it says as many as has been appointed to eternal life they believe those that were appointed to eternal life they believe the first thing that happens first was them being appointed them being appointed appointed by who not by themselves they were appointed by god or in other words by the spirit now the question is going to be the question is going to be so are we saying that it is god it is the holy spirit that does this it's an act of him yes except bothersome people i'm sure it does why i don't know i don't know maybe it's because people want to be able to take credit or say that you know what i did this i believe why don't you well because it wasn't you it wasn't you it was it was god remember when we look back god says he he challenges us to do the same thing he challenges us to fix our hearts and we don't we don't which is why he says i will circumcise your heart i will do these things to you core you have said in other videos that people can come but they won't if god causes us to come and he does how can you not believe in limited atonement limited atonement is simply this all that is is just a payment here is if i come let's say i come and place my faith in christ or i come to place my faith in god but there has not been a payment made these are two separate things the payment made that's the atonement that's the propitiation that's the let's just use this this big old bundle of dollars that's what he's paid he's made the payment now i have to come and place my faith in that the payment is set aside who comes and who doesn't come is immaterial to the fact that he did what he did because i don't believe that he made atonement for my sin doesn't mean that he didn't make atonement for my sin it just doesn't benefit me are you with me just like under the old covenant atonement was made for all of israel all of israel was not atoned for it literally and that that's literally how it works for israel the same thing is happening now the same thing is happening now now here's my question here's my question uh ronnie says still there must be free will and that in and of itself is not meritorious can you tell us why it must be free will what do you mean it must be free will why first of all why does it have to be free will because i would say i would say that our free will every time that if it's up to our will will leave every time that it's up to us we'll walk away every time that it's on us we'll leave we'll do something else we may even have good intentions to come back but we don't see the scriptures ever telling us that it's up to our free will he tells us to come he tells us to choose him but guess what we don't do we don't choose matter fact we don't keep choosing you can choose the day you can choose the day but you won't keep choosing how do i know let's go to luke eight since i since i brought it up luke eight i've covered this before now speaking of this parable of the sore in the season so forth he says now this is the parable of the seed uh the seed is the word of god we got that part we got that part those beside the road are those who have heard so those who have heard then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts so they believe they heard and the devil comes and takes the word from their heart so that they will not believe and be safe what is this word right here in order that look at the greek side guys in order that they will not be in order that not pistu santes which which means in order that they won't be believing ones which is literally the whole point he wants us to be believing ones let's keep let's continue those on the i'm sorry that they will not that they will not believe and be safe those on the rocky soil so here we got folks that are believing that it's not continually believing luke says in verse 13 those on the rocky soil are those who when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no firm roots so they they they hear and they receive the word with joy they're happy but there's no root they luke says they believe for a while and in time of temptation they fall away so these people that believe aren't actual believers so here we see it's possible to believe but they're not kept they're not they're not continually believing i understand you say whosoever will so find me the passage brother ronald where it says whosoever will find me the passage so we can look at that as well you might be right but again so far we see that those who are believing this is an act of god we see that so it can't be that it's an act of god but it's also of our will as a matter of fact let's go back to it let's go back to john one he literally jesus literally dispels that notion he says but as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of god even to those who believe in his name who were born look at that look what it says they were born not of blood so they weren't born of blood so they not say because of their genealogy nor of the will of flesh or not even of their own will so if it was for free will then jesus is incorrect jesus says they were not born again because of their own free will nor of the will of man so however you want to take that they were not born of our own desire but of god's will so yes you've got some will some volition the ability to choose you just won't keep doing it continuously amen amen i like i like how you put that that's absolutely true and we haven't covered that because we'll be here even longer but first first Ephesians one tells us that when we believe we receive this down payment this arabon you all know what arabon is even though you don't know the greek word but this arabon is a down payment you all bought a car put a down payment down you may have bought a house put it even if you were in an apartment you put a down payment down that is your earnest money deposit to guarantee that this is on hold and what does he do there's a seal put over us and we have the holy spirit as our down payment until we get to heaven until we reach our ultimate destination that part won't ever go away so to be born again is not to be saved but to be born again will bring you to save salvation which means when you believe and you're going you are going to believe no if and no question about it no doubt about it once you believe you are going to i mean once you your heart has changed you are going to believe we're at mark eight uh uh mr brother cooper show i need this to so i don't have to spend time looking for it but guys this was something according to jesus according to god according to paul according to john according to peter this was done to us all the more so we should be thankful of him mark eight he said eight 34 let's see what it says jesus says and he summoned the crowd with his disciples and he said to them if anyone if a certain one anyone so if anyone wishes to come after me he must as i deny himself and take up his cross and follow me for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it but whoever loses life for my sake and the gospels will save it so now i see where you're you're getting this whosoever will let him come and that's true whoever wants to come to jesus come whoever wants to follow after me come whoever wants to seek after me come what is jesus what does paul say wait a second i gotta fix this right uh let's go to what let's go to what paul has to say on the matter uh oh oh i'm sorry let me let me answer this question acts to form sorry bj acts 24 does acts 24 mean christians are baptized with the holy spirit when we ask for it no no we are baptized with the holy spirit john says that i baptize you with water but jesus is going to baptize you into it with the holy spirit so once a person makes his professional face then they are in drench they are doused with they are baptized into or with the holy spirit are you with me that's uh jesus doing that and again that's not even us doing it um let me go to this passage i want i want to bring this up romans you all know the famous romans road romans three as it is said there is none righteous not even one there is none who understands there is none who seeks for god so no one seeks after god but now i want you look at the at the verb just use here he says there is none righteous not one so none of us are righteous then he says there is none who understands this word uh suni on or suni on this is understanding present active parts of so so what he's saying is there's something to understand but you're not you're not constantly getting it you're not constantly understanding but then here's here it is there is none that seek there's none that and the word that's used here is the present active participle so there's none that is constantly seeking there is none that keeps seeking and so yeah he makes a statement whoever wills come come come come come come come come on he says all day long i've stretched out my hands to an adulteress and unrighteous generation come come in the parable that he speaks about the wedding fees he says many are called but few are chosen call everybody i'm calling everybody come on come on come on nobody shows up so what does he do i'll go get you why is that the case because you will not be able to say if you unfortunately find yourself in hell you will not be able to say i couldn't come no you could you just didn't want to you don't want to keep so that's you and so now what does god do i tell you what because i want to show my love i'll do the picking i'll do the choosing again that bothers some people that bot that's unfair okay fine it's unfair i'm not here to argue whether it's fair or not uh none of us are getting what's fair even if you believe that you do the choosing yourself you're still not getting what's fair god has god is not fair he's not now he's just being just being righteous is two different things from being fair being fair you guys are born in america or some of you may have been born in canada some of you may have been born in i don't know where you were born but let's be let's let's just be let's just be honest if we could choose where to be born maybe not so much nowadays is getting rough out there but we love the fact that we were born here in america where it has not been too cumbersome for us to live our faith live our lives and so forth um versus you could have been born in afghanistan i don't know america afghanistan i'm gonna choose with i'm gonna i'm gonna side with america america or yemen america or sorry guatemala america america you pick it i'm choosing america who did that you didn't do that well your mom and dad know they didn't do that either god determines when you'll be born when you die and where you'll be born he says that in course no all your your life is not an example of free will your mistakes are but your salvation nope the air you breathe that ain't free you didn't do that the water you drink the fact that the moon is still where it is and the sun is where it is that's god not you give glory to god for your salvation give glory to god for all that he's done not for your you know what i just saw what god did not appreciate that i i saw it and it meant a lot to me and so i was able to appreciate what he's done no that's not true that's why i said i will do these things not you i will super guy ty thank you for the super sticker i appreciate that so guys i know and this might stir up more controversy but it's fine it may stir up more controversy more discussion which is fine causes us to go to open our books and read it may even make us to open our books and notice hey wait a second let's look at the greek let's look at the hero let's look at the the time that is in let's look at when he's saying what he's saying who he's saying what he's saying to so begging begging people to come we see that him speaking to the jews oftentimes often prior to the cross does that mean something sure sure we see that often okay how did how did christ free us from the curse of the law the curse is that a person must die for their sin that's the law also on top of that um what you do is also going to be visited upon your sons and your daughters that's done away with now you were responsible for your own sin and even more than that he's paid the price so that you don't have to do it so he has freed us from the curse of the law as a matter of fact the debt that the law required this curse uh comes with the debt that must be paid he takes that debt that you owe gets a nail gets a hammer and nails it to the cross according to paul so that's what he's done so guys i want to thank you so much um i have got to go take care of some other things i stay busy i say and monday's are supposed to be my my easy days supposed to be my easy days but you know what i feel good doing this i i really do someone says court why do you why do you keep doing this you mean to talk about the bible all the time i get to talk about the bible not i see for me it's not i i gotta talk about the bible no i get to talk about the bible i get to go and look this stuff up and say hey that's interesting i man that's cool i didn't get the chance i didn't see that before i get to do that thank you aron i appreciate that as well sweetheart i get to do met you let me drink my car you know what i was getting ready to leave i was getting ready to push the button and leave let me just tell you guys something let me let me share something with you guys i'm having fun i am having so i didn't slam that down on the table because now it'll reverberate this microphone but i'm having so much fun i really am i have not had a bad day in probably four years let's hold on wait a second probably i don't know maybe january of 2000 the last mic i'm thinking of it was probably january of 2019 that was probably it and it was a bad day and then a little bit before that when my family my mother passed away hadn't had a bad day other than those two days since why one i'm free but i'm also free in christ thank you sapphire lane i appreciate that as well stuff that happens stuff that goes on so that people say people do what's happening to me doesn't bother me guys i'm getting older stuff don't work like it used to or i should it still works not as fast i don't i can't jump as as far as fast and as quick as i used to um when i want to get it to move i miss listen i have to i have to plot my course when i'm getting all right this i'm gonna do this i'm gonna get up first of all i'm gonna stand up straight hold up for a second make sure everything got up when i tried to get up then start moving get to the door make sure i remember what i was leaving for and then keep going that's how you that's that's that's how you do and i'm cool with that i'm cool with that previously previously i might have just got up jump jump over the table in my 20s i'm feeling it but i'm good god is good and all i have to do i sit and do this i may go to church and say something i'll see somebody on the street and spread the word what have you talk to someone on the phone a little bit of counseling here this that and get a chance to spend time with my wife and my kids my grandkids i am wonderful and so i enjoy i really do enjoy doing this you couldn't there's nothing i won't i will do for the rest of my life other than spending time in the word of god quarry so if god chooses us before we are born then some people are washing are wasting their time coming to him because they may not be chosen well here's the thing you're never wasting your time coming to him but what we know this is what god knows you're coming to him those those who do not have the holy spirit have not been generated those that come to him they're gonna they're gonna stop coming at some point in time they're gonna stop believing they're gonna stop they're gonna stop following they were never really here to begin with he already knows that okay so really those folks that come to him aren't wasting their time because there are none that are coming to him that there may be some that may give some mental assent yeah i believe jesus yeah but they may love their life more than anything else so this is why i have i have a buddy of mine from prison actually two buddy two two my two my favorite buddies on the planet are from prison i got matter of fact probably four or five of my most favorite people outside of my family are from prison but two of them happen to be adopted and i'll never forget was i was preaching this and one of them was in the bag man yeah he was at his head down and shaking his head the other one was in the front just crying crying like a baby because he was actually adopted and he's been going back and forth in and out of in and out of prison in jail and so forth just not not the best child but his parents still love him his parents love him implicitly and he's not naturally from them they adopted this guy nothing special about him not that he's so pretty or handsome i can promise you the guy's not handsome at all nothing special about the guy i'm messing with him but they chose him why did he win the best baby of the year contest in the nursery no they just chose him desired to show their love on him desired to show their love on him even when he messes up he's not deserving but he loves him even more talk about his mom and daddy he goes to crying because he realized how unworthy he is guys that should be the exact same way we should be realizing that we don't deserve it but he has showered his love on us to people who do not deserve it shouldn't get it so therefore guys when you think about your salvation when you think about the fact that you are on your way to heaven when that crosses your mind if if you don't get tingly on the inside if you don't feel like matter of fact i don't even care somebody said well cori because i want to ask what happens if i go to church and they're speaking tongue well dog on it maybe they're speaking tongue because that thing about the goodness of the lord i don't care if they're speaking tongue they just love the lord and they just want to do something say something that i'll take that i'll take that i will take the fact that they have come in contact with the god of this universe and don't know why he loved them so much it should make you want to shout it should make you want to cry is dancing a sin no it's not what about crying in church no it's not what about shouting no it's not they did in the by when you think about the goodness of the lord and all that he's done to you how can you not cry out the bible says let the redeemed of the lord say so how about this as i push this little red button how about you all say so amen