How not to be born again

P
eople often wonder how to be born again. They want to know because they have been told that in order to get to heaven they have to be born again. We'd like to make a bold statement saying that you don't need to know how to be born again. Being born again is not something you can do on your own or learn it from someone else.

Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." (John 3:3) When pressed further, Jesus said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus was curious about how to be born again but the answer he got from Jesus was quite different from what he expected. He must have been very frustrated, isn't it? Not only poor Nicodemus, this writer was also frustrated upon trying to understand about it from reading the Gospel.

The thing is, when it comes to the term born again we are bewildered because we try to understand it from our human point of view.

Let me then ask you this, "Did you know how to be born from your mother's womb? Aha! You did not even know how you were brought into this world, correct? Assuming that you were able to do something back then, the most you could do was to push yourself hard out of your mother's womb to get some fresh air, wasn't it? All that was in your tiny brain was, "Oh, I can't breathe! Mom, I can't breathe!" So let us simply state that you didn't know how to be born, let alone how to be born again.

Jesus gave an answer to Nicodemus the way he did was because it was an unanswerable question. How can you teach a baby who has not been born how to come out of his mother's womb? When you get older though, you sort of know how physical birth takes place.

Jesus said to his disciples at the well, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." (John 4:32) The disciples were baffled. It turns out Jesus' food was not a tangible food. It had to do with explaining the Samaritan woman that He's the Messiah that they had been waiting for. So, Jesus' food was spiritual in nature. That's the reason why 'How to be born again' cannot be explained in worldly terms. You have to try to look at it from spiritual point of view since it actually is a spiritual birth.

Even though it may sound a little uncomfortable, let us explore the process of the birth of a baby. In order to have a baby to be born, the mother has to get pregnant first after having relationship with the dad who has physical "seed." The same way, in order to have a spiritual baby formed inside of you, you need to know and fall in love with the one who has the "seed" of spiritual "life." Do you recall what Jesus said? "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) Jesus is the (spiritual) life giver as opposed to (physical) seed giver.

Now, how can you fall in love with someone? You have to get to know with the person first. In order to get to know him, you need to hear about him first. More often then not, you need a "matchmaker" who would introduce you to that one-in-a-million person. After hearing a lot from the matchmaker about your future lover regarding his personality, appearance and background, you are ready to venture out to get to know that person. Moses was the matchmaker between the Israelites and God. Paul was the matchmaker between Jesus and the New Testament churches.

As you get closer to the person more and more, your heart begins to beat faster and faster, and get excited whenever you see that person. For that reason, in order to get to know Jesus, the love of your future life, you should read the bible as much as you can so that you'd learn about him, try to listen to others who talk about him a lot, or you can read our online books:

When you hear about him enough and you like him a lot, then you can invite him into your world. Jesus is actually waiting for your invitation. "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me." (Revelation 3:20) You can ask him audibly or quietly to come into your life, saying, "Jesus, come into my life." 

If you get to that far, you would likely feel butterflies in your stomach, or have a racing heartbeat whenever you hear his name or reading the Bible that mentions about him.  When you can no longer hide your feeling toward him, you are not embarrassed to tell the world that the man is the love of your life. By then, your spiritual baby has already come out and you have a spiritual birth.

So that's how you become born again. Since you are made of body, mind and spirit, that spiritual baby we're reffering to is your spirit, in other words, your spirit-self. 

If you're already born again, you can be a "matchmaker" by using the forementioned online books, introducing your loved ones or others to Jesus so that they would also want to invite Jesus into their life. These easy to understand online-guides can be used as witnessing tools or daily devotional readings. Ideally, reading just one or two lessons a day should be enough so as not to overwhelm your audience.

 

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