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BORN OF GOD
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John 1:12-13 “But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
The Gospel of John goes to great lengths to spell it out loud and clear again and again how a person can GET SAVED and hence BE SAVED FOREVER. There, the verb “believe” occurs 101 times. Believing is the very key to obtaining the only salvation ever offered to mankind and that only through Jesus Christ-God the Son. JESUS, great God and Saviour, has already paid for it in full on Calvary’s Cross and offers it to all but gives it only to “whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Some important facts one needs to know about God’s genuine salvation are as follows: #1) “should not perish” You are SAVED FROM something-eternal Hell. #2) “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” You are SAVED BY something – the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. #3) “In my Father’s house are many mansions … I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” Finally, you are SAVED TO something – God’s perfect Heaven.
#4) As the opening verses state, you receive salvation by receiving Jesus Christ and that by simply by believing on His Name! “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” To believe means to “accept as true and trust fully”.
Hence, true salvation is by simple faith=believing in Jesus Christ alone, plus nothing. #5) “Which were born … of God. ” The instant we place our faith (believing, fully trusting) in the Lord Jesus as our personal Saviour, God’s power “births” us into His Family and Kingdom! A) We are NOT BORN OF of blood; that is, we can not inherit it through or because of our family. B) We are NOT BORN of the will of the flesh; that is, not by any personal works or self-effort, or good deeds, etc. C) We are NOT BORN of the will of man; that is, any collective effort through any type of religious organization, church, denomination that requires rituals or rules, sacraments, pilgrimages, and so forth.
It IS being BORN of God, spiritually, according to God’s prepared plan and through God’s power. Jesus said 3 times in John 3, “Ye must be born again” and Christ explained it “.. that which is born of the flesh is flesh (the one time physical birth) and which is born of the Spirit is spirit” (the once for all spiritual birth).
So, BELIEVE ON JESUS CHRIST AND BE SAVED FOREVER !!!