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Being Born Again, is to willingly change your character after deciding to turn over a leaf and become a better person. Society today is based on unnatural living, commercialism, work, industry, and education without love and misguided parenting creates more apathy in the young rather than empathy of which they should have. Being Born Again is casting aside the Apathetic Materialistic lifestyles we have been brought up to accept, and becoming new, a new Soul of understanding, compassion and Empathy for all living creatures, creation, the planet and being the positive change in the world that we wish that others were.
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a person be born again, he or she cannot see the kingdom of God.
Being Born Again and what this actually means. To be born again means to be born again without sin. You can pray to Jesus and ask for salvation. You can then be baptised into the Christian faith. But there is another step you need to take that will ensure that you are truly Born Again and that is to rid yourself of all sins that are currently a part of your life.
This is not easy to do. I have spent many a night and day in personal torment trying to bring myself to the level of goodness that I believe that Jesus wants us to be at when he talked about being born again. This is a personal thing that you must want to do if you want to truly be considered in your own heart, Born Again – a Born Again Christian. Jesus walked this earth as a humble wise man who gave many examples of how we humans should behave. He didn’t do this for fun, He did it because He cares for you and with a love so true and Holy that many humans just cannot seem to understand what Jesus was trying to teach us while He was with us.
This is our new kick-start to life, our chance to start again and in order to do this we need to go back in time, no matter how old we currently are, and start life again without all the baggage that we collected over our adult years. This is your big opportunity, your big chance to start life again with a clean slate given to you by God. To cast aside ones mistakes and start again is not a simple thing. And shouldn’t be something that you should ignore, especially if you are a Christian today.
Many Christians today are accepting the standards of today willingly because they choose to. Many Christian churches are doing the same thing and then allowing their congregations to accept these modern day standards that are not accepted in the Bible. Can we really expect God to turn a blind eye to what’s really going on here? If we do then we are only fooling ourselves and if we give ourselves a serious wake-up call then we can still make the changes that God knows that we can and we can truly become good, humble Christians.
Jesus loved everyone and tried to help all those that came to Him for help regardless of their past crimes, except those who were leading people astray for their own benefit. You to can be like Jesus and live a good life. Jesus was strong in character and firm on what is right and what is wrong. We need to be the same, if we are strong in character and firm on what is really right and wrong then we will surely be accepted by Jesus in the final days.
My first advice to anyone willing to go through the real rebirth of themselves by actually changing their lifestyle and being born again as a new human being with a new start is to read the Bible with an open mind. Read and be honest with yourself.
Next I advise you to read the Ten Commandments, while you are reading through the Bible. I have listed them here for you to read through and consider what they mean.
The Ten Commandments:
“I am the LORD your God.”
Ex. 20:2
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“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
Ex. 20:3
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“Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD your God in vain”
Ex. 20:7
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“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy”
Ex. 20:8
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“Honor thy Father and thy Mother”
Ex. 20:12
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“Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Ex. 20:13
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“Thou shalt not commit adultery”
Ex. 20:14
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“Thou shalt not steal”
Ex. 20:15
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“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor”
Ex. 20:16
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“Thou shalt not covet…”
Ex. 20:17
If you don’t understand any of the above words such as covet then use a dictionary, and also try to find the religious meaning of the word as that meaning may be different as it sometimes is.
In fact it is a wise idea to have a dictionary when you read the Bible so that you can understand what you are reading. This is the advice I was given by my Pastor and I have found it very helpful while reading the Bible. The Bible is not really a hard book to understand but most people can struggle with its word structure, language and layout the first few times that they read it. As you read you will find that your mind will adapt to the style that the Bible was written in and you will find it easy to read with time and a persistent will to learn Gods Holy Book.
As you can see the Ten Commandments are a list of wise statements that you should use to help guide you to be a true Born Again Christian. This list was given to us by God to help us, not to make our lives harder. We don’t need to struggle to obey the Ten Commandments because they are simply designed to show us what is a good way to behave and live. Study the Ten Commandments. Put them up on walls around your home. Stop and read them every now and then. Believe that they were given to you as a gift of love from God to show you the right way to live as does the entire Bible.
Some Christians today seem to believe that once it has been stated that they are now a Born Again Christian then that’s it. All they have to do now is behave reasonably good and all is well. But I dare to state that these people may be forgetting the work that comes with the words Born Again Christian. The aim should be for the Born Again Christian to consider themselves reborn in life and new to the world. The Heavenly Slate has been wiped clean for this person, there sins of the past are graciously forgotten. The worse thing for the new Born Again Christian to do is to carry on as they did before they became a Born Again Christian. This is a time for serious change.
Obviously a new Born Again Christian will be wiser and has already learnt many things such as walking and talking so they have a huge head start on a new born baby, but if the Born Again Christian is not thinking clearly they can just stumble on as they did before they became a Born Again Christian. What good is this? None whatsoever because the Born Again Christian needs to learn to grow and learn a new life just as a baby needs to learn to grow and learn as it starts its new life.
If we are honest with ourselves we can look at our lives and see what’s wrong in it. Sins can be big things such as adultery or small things such as a simple selfish act like hoarding chocolate for yourself so that you don’t have to share with your children. I consider a sin anything that I may do that is obviously wrong. In most events (instances) during our lives we can easily decipher the difference between good and bad.
Many people today like to state that the middle ground between good and bad is acceptable, if this is true then their are not many cases where it is true. I prefer to believe that their is only good or bad. When we growl our children for being bad we don’t discuss with them the middle ground between good and bad, we tell them that they have done something wrong or have been bad. But often people (adults) will prefer to look at the middle ground between good and bad because it suits us to do so. This is obviously not what God intended for us to do. God wanted us to know the true difference between good and bad, not what we may decide, due to our wants, what good and bad is.
So to be a true Born Again Christian we need to be truly good with no excuses or we are really wasting our time pretending to be a good Christian. We are also never going to be saved when the final coming is finally here. This would be a good time for you to consider why you wanted to be a Christian and what this means to you.
To be a Born Again Christian is to have Holiness breathed into your heart and soul and to keep this Holyness you have to continue the fight to be a good Christians.
So what is a good Christian you may ask?
Jesus was trying to teach us to love one another, to be kind, not to be jealous. In other words to be a good person. He preached the gospel of love. And it doesn’t take a genius to realise that Jesus wanted us to be as He showed us to be. So to be a Born Again Christian we need to try as hard as we can to be good people, preferably sin free or at least genuinely trying to be sin free until we finally succeed.
The standards that have been set by society are not the standards that God and Jesus taught us. So we need to separate ourselves from the modern standards of today and incorporate the standards set in the Bible by God and Jesus. As I stated above this is not an easy task to take on but you can succeed if you put your heart and soul into the effort as I did. You must refuse to give up and be dedicated to succeeding. Every human has the ability to take on this task otherwise we never would have been given this task. God knows that we can do this, we can be fully born again and then start life all over again.
All the best from
James M Sandbrook.
Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:13:20 pm.
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