Must I Be Born Again?: Born Again with R.C. Sproul
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2020
- Is it possible to be a Christian without being born again? Beginning this series entitled Born Again, Dr. Sproul explains exactly what being born again means, and why it is impossible to enter the Kingdom unless you are born again.
This message is from R.C. Sproul's 6-part teaching series Born Again. Learn more: www.ligonier.org/learn/series...
This message is from R.C. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Born Again. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/born_again/
Which people around the world are true Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
@@mitchellc4
*Have you been born again according to Jesus' teachings?*
*You don't know Jesus' teachings if you haven't been born again, that's for sure.*
*May Jesus gives you and makes you understand His salvation.*
*My best wishes for you from Indonesia.*
*May God bless you and give you His salvation.* 🙏❤️✝️🌹🍒🌟✍️
Even though he's not here anymore, I still look at him as my mentor in regards to my relationship with God. Him and MacArthur inspired me to become closer to God. Bless them both.
@@mitchellc4 John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Repent and turn to Jesus!
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from this false doctrine that he teaches.
Same here. God Bless
I can totally relate to your comment . Both them have made me closer to our Lord almighty
Same here.
The late Dr Sproul looked like a police detective, but was a great bible teacher.
You are missed Sir.
Jesus, thank you for making me born again . Thank you for coming into my life and living in me. Keep showing me your Holy Spirit. Amen.
made me cry, can't even conceive it still that so unworthy soul as mine was reborn - i pray i never get used to this reality, love this man
Thanks for sharing. Praise God (Christ)
God called me to repent and resuscitated me 3 years ago. I didn't knew Sproul until then. I'm so thankful because even if I never met him in person , I have the blessing to learn from the wisdom that God gave him thru this videos. Such a blessing!!!!
I'm So Blessed To Be Born Again ✝️
Thank You Lord For Saving Me..
I Love You Jesus✝️ ❣️
Perfect Teaching, what a Teacher was mr Sproul, Great Brother of Christ, Shalom.
Dr. RC Sproul, my all-time favorite professor of God's Word! I longed to see you in Sanford FL - can hardly wait for the day I finally meet you, Sir! Blessings to you & all who love you! Thank you Ligonier!
Thank you for sharing Dr R.C. Sproul and his teachings of God's (Christ) Word.
I am so glad to be Born Again. Reverend Sproul is a beautiful Christian.
Which people around the world are true Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
Well, he was a beautiful Christian. He went to be with the Lord in 2017.
@@FallouFitness_NattyEdition hard to believe it's been that long
@@mitchellc4 You’re a heretic. Jesus was FULLY GOD and FULLY MAN. When Mary gave the virgin birth to Him, He was fullness of God in a helpless baby. Jesus was God manifested in the flesh.
@@angelbarajas9180 The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
Lord Jesus thank you for saving me ❤
Please pray with me that my love ones, relatives and friends may experience this necessary event in their lives before they depart from earthly existence.
Thanks Ligonier and all.
@@mitchellc4 John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from this false doctrine that he teaches.
Father in heaven. I ask that you save Lailani Perez and her loved ones, relatives and friends from their sins and from your wrath, in the name of Christ Jesus. Amen!
A great pastor indeed. RC and John McCarthur are possibly two of the best pastors there have ever been.
Amen Sproul. We must be born agian. May we seek the Lord earnestly with our full heart. God bless you all.
If you hurt someone how does being born again make them whole. You hurt them not God. I’m damaged not God.
"Born Again" is absolutely the first and only requirement neccessary for an adoption into God's elect family.
However, every recepiant is passive
in this most essential transaction.
I like it, born again is the regeneration necessity, thank you, and I pray, God bless Ligonier Ministry for sharing this good video of RC. Sproul. Praise the Lord, Jesus Christ, Amen. 🙏❤️🎼
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from this false doctrine that he teaches.
@@mitchellc4
*Have you been born again according to Jesus' teachings?*
*You don't know Jesus' teachings if you haven't been born again, that's for sure.*
*May Jesus gives you and makes you understand His salvation.*
*My best wishes for you from Indonesia.*
*May God bless you and give you His salvation.* 🙏❤️✝️🌹🍒🌟✍️
@@timothyseals3791
*Yes, I agree, thanks, brother. GBU* 🙏❤️🎼✝️
@@johndethan2008 Mitchell C will not respond. He does not teach the bible.
@@timothyseals3791
Yes, I think so. Matthew 18:7 (NET) Woe to the world because of stumbling blocks! It is necessary that stumbling blocks come, but woe to the person through whom they come.
*May God bless n give His salvation to Mitchell.*
“Cutting through the fluff” is a great way to put it! At first John 3:3 struck me as a non sequitur, but what Jesus likes to do is answer the question his company should be asking. “Strive to enter in at the strait gate” (Luke 13:24) is another especially abrupt example.
WE NEED THIS MESSAGE TODAY!!!
God bless Ligonier Ministries ❤️
Which people around the world are true Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
@@vusimngomezulu2500 The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
@@timothyseals3791 Which religion are true Christians according to the Bible????
@@vusimngomezulu2500 Christianity is the one and only full truth.
@@timothyseals3791 Is that from you own opinion Roman's 3:4,10:2-3,or is that from the Bible Psalms 119:105,2thimoty 3:16-17?????
TIMELESS! God's Word is timeless!
Love this!!
This is so important from Jesus and it is not preached that often! I can't understand this, unless these pastors aren't born again and therefore cannot preach on it....................
I miss him deeply.
@@mitchellc4 John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
Thank you for sharing
Jesus ❤Thank you ♥️🌹
What a great message of Truth for the Generation of the past and the Present,This is the true life of a Christian very sad today that this is not what is Preaching in churches and this is what Paul was talking about if anyone come with another Gospel let it be a curse, That’s why we have so much problem with the faith of Christianity.
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from this false doctrine that he teaches.
praise the Lord
Powerful
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
Follow the way 2.0 I was on a different thread talking to Jim Kraft and he said he would listen and we started talking about original sin. He will not tell me how a person inherits sin from another person, yet he says he believes it.
And now after saying he would listen, he is refusing to listen anymore. You were right about him.
must watch. Steve Ray | Are You Born Again?
I love this message of our Lord Jesus.
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 5:14-16,2thimoty 2:19,1JONH 3:10,Mathew 7:21?
@@mitchellc4 John 14:8-9 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
Praise God because of this giftedman.
I think I said this two years ago so I will keep it short. Yes.
Amen❤
The Columbo of the heavens! 🥰
When people asked me when I was born again, what church i went to, I'd say, i belong to the body of christ, and I go to such and such church.
Read.thoroughly JOHN 3 : 1 - 16 and understand how NICODEMUS experience being BORN AGAIN . His confession of JESUS miraculous work prompted the LORD to approved his conversion experience and gave him detailed events that took place in his SOUL . Just like all of us who pass through BORN AGAIN experience will undergo everything the LORD explained to NICODEMUS in this chapter . So , read it thoroughly and CHECK for yourself your OWN BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE if you have it already .
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:5-6
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
[6] That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 4:
[11] The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
[12] Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
[13] Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
[14] But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Titus 3:5
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Ephesians 5:26
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
John 7:
[37] In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
[38] He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
John 6:63
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 5:
[24] Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
[25] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
John 6:68
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
1 Peter 1:
[23] Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
[24] For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
[25] But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Luke 8:11
Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
Ecclesiastes 12:11
The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
John 10:14
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
John 10:27
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
John 10:5
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Acts 19:
[19] Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men : and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
[20] So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.
James 1:18
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
Born-again flypaper? I love his on-the-fly comments!
To all those reading this, read how the teaching of Jim Kraft changes frequently and how he will not answer 1 simple question that was asked over and over again.
That question was - HOW is sin transferred from person to person?
Not
Everyone knows that Man has a sinful nature from the fall.
Heard part 1 went to part 2 being informed that to continue i had to pay, im sure these teachings should be free i dont know how to proceed and im from England not America, please answer
I believe salvation can be an event or a process
Yes of course
The God of Abraham and Issac and Jacob, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the only God. Sovereign and eternal. There is no other God. No other name in which we can have eternal life. All praise and glory are yours now and forever, Amen.
@@Mikael5732 AMEN 🙏
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
@@vusimngomezulu2500 good verses 👏
@J yeah Vusi forgot those ones
21:42 RC hit them with the “What’s wrong with you people” years before it became a meme 😂
YES! YOU MUST BE BORNAGAIN! A VERY INTENSE PROCESS FROM GOD! PERSONALLY! HANDS-ON BY GOD!JOHN 3...READ THE WHOLE BOOK OF JOHN. TIME IS SHORT! REPENT! SURRENDER! OPEN UP TO RECEIVE HIS HOLY PRESENCE! DO WHAT EVER HE SAYS. HE LOVES YOU LIKE NO...ONE CAN! SO MUCH HE DIED FOR YOU!
Pleased to see that my post has lead you to re-think your understanding on the subject...
God bless you; and yours.
Welcome to the teachings of the Church our Lord called: "My Church:...
Anointed participants in the corporate body of Christ !
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
@@vusimngomezulu2500
Wheat and weeds in all groups. JWs are no exception.
Google Australian Royal Commission on pedophiles in JWs !
@@mitchellc4
Which end time eschatology is that, that you mentioned ?
1. Pre Mil
2. Post Mil
3. Dispensenionalism
4. A_Mil
5. Preterism
6. Partial preterism
@@mitchellc4
The pre-incarnate Word is part of God (as your words are part of you) aka his Devine eternal Life. A Word has *no* spiritual body, it emanates from God as an agency in creation and returns to be in God.
(Not permanately separated)
1. John 1-3, Isaiah 55:12, Psalm 33;6
The Word incarnate is divine Sonship ! Divine eternal Life in a fleshly body ! And separated from God as a Son.
John 5:26, 1 John 1:1-3
Shalom 🙏
Psalm 2:7
Note-
Proverbs 15:4 “Gentle words bring life and health; a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.” Proverbs 16:24 “Kind words are like honey-sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.” Proverbs 18:4 “A person's words can be life-giving water; words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook.”
For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart
Hebrews 4:12
The Word in Sonship..
13He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.
Worshiped at the throne with Yahweh
Revelation 5
I Heard every creature in heaven, on earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them say, Blessing and honor and glory and power be to the one seated on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!
The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.
@@mitchellc4
So is salvation based on eschatology or what the apostle Paul preached ?
3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lordfn Jesus Christ,
4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.
5 To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
6 I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from him who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, a curse be on him!
9 As we have said before, I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, a curse be on him!
There has been so many false prophets since then setting dates all DOA !
1844, 1914, 1919, 1975 .....and on an on ..and on ...DOA
Are the born again free to sin again by mistake? - "Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because his seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God". 1 John 3:9
HANDS IN BY GOD IN CHRIST! VERY INTENSE! PROCESS! IN CHRIST HEAD TO TOE I SPEAK! YOU MUST RECEIVE HIM INTO YOUR ENTIRE BEING! THEN GOD GOES INTO EVERY CELL OF YOUR BODY!
i appreciate but why need to sell the part two, i want to know more about Christ but i dont have money to purchase the part 2.
The redeeming saving grace of our great God & Savior Jesus Christ & regeneration of the Holy Spirit opens our eyes & ears & most importantly gives us a new heart, we turn from darkness to the marvelous light of Jesus Christ, we are conveyed into the Kingdom of the Son of Gods love
@@mitchellc4 Im assuming your comment is against my "horrible comment" which is scripture ~Titus 2:13 looking for our blessed hope & glorious appearing of our great God & Savior Jesus Christ. ~ Romans 9:5 Of whom are the fathers, & from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God, Amen. Thats scripture & w/ out a text from the entire gospel of John which in itself declares the majesty of Jesus Christ, the word was God, the Mount of Transfiguration etc. The ultimate act of love is to lay down ones life for His friends, God is love, hence the Son of God came in the flesh, in human nature & died, plain in scripture, so the saying God cant die, doesnt make sense & whoever says it knows what their saying, I would hope. No one has ever gone into heaven except the Son of Man whom came from heaven, again scripture
@@mitchellc4 you cant see its Jesus human nature praying to the Father but Hes as stated One w/ the Father & every knee will bow & every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Everything will praise, give honor & glorify Him who sits on the throne & the Lamb. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, & the love of God & the communion of the Holy Spirit be w/ you all, Amen. Emmanuel God w/ us, thats pretty clear. You & others dont say anything about the scriptures I put out unless try to say their interpreted wrong which Im cateful of & sure of before I write but the scriptures you & others put are explained by the relationship of the Father & the Son of God & Him coming in the flesh, God manifested in the flesh, they are One,the Godhead. Thomas - my Lord & my God, Phillip have I not been w/ you so long & you say show us the Father. The glory I had w/ You before the world was. In Him all things consist, He upholds it all by the word of His power. Through Whom also He made the worlds. Im assuming you know all these but I can give references if not
@@mitchellc4 Jesus emptied Himself hence the Father does the works through Him
Just for the record, what I wrote in original comment was all scripture, so I dont even understand the reply or reason for it, even conveyed into the Kingdom of the Son of His love is Collosians 1 NKJV
@@mitchellc4 you cant clearly see it??? How bout can you see Jesus eternally existing??
Other parts of the bible states we are saved by grace,through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God and not by works lest anyman should boast. And if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved, also John 3:16 and other parts of John where its just believing you are saved
As myself a new creature in Christ Jesus eg: born again, do I need to understand Calvinism and believe it?
As far as the statement BORN AGAIN,,the evangelicals have adopted the phase Born Again as a radical change in life,,but in the Bible in means something totally different. What Born Again means in the Bible is transformation into the spiritual body that Jesus promises us after a believer passes away.Not a fleshly physical body because we must be born into this new body to go to Paradise in the upper part of the Hadian Realm,,then ultimately Heaven when Jesus returns for judgement,,,This is why the verse after Born Again is the Bible it says Do Not Marvel over the statement Born Again because as mortal humans we cannot fully understand this kind of transformation
RC looks so young
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
You mentioned jimmy carter early on in your lecture he said he was a born again Christian I think in name only
Very plain, how often do we hear this message, which we must understand and be obedient too.
Which people around the world are true Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 5:14-16,2thimoty 2:19,1JONH 3:10,Mathew 7:21?
It really isn't about sin or iniquity or works of any kind. It's about Faith in Christ. 1 John 3:9 "Born of God CAN NOT sin..." 1 John 5:1 tells us exactly who is born of God, and CAN NOT sin. Until we can work this in to our doctrine, our doctrine is incomplete or flat out wrong.
I don’t usually talk religion but I have a problem with the born again theory of salvation. The idea that you are forgiven for damage or harm done.
If you hurt someone how does being born again make them whole. You hurt them not God. I’m damaged not God.
For example if my car is damaged and you tell the judge you are sorry and will change your ways and he forgives you. What about my damaged car? Who pays?
There is absolutely nothing else to be said about what one has to do in order to be saved... My Church doesn*t mean 40 thousand denominations.......no Eucharist; no life within.
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Catholics and Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
When a Catholic says that he has been “born again,” he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being “born again.”
For an Evangelical, becoming “born again” often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be “born again.”
“If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and believe he died for your sins, you’ll be born again!” says the preacher. So the gentleman makes “a decision for Christ” and at the altar call goes forward to be led in “the sinner’s prayer” by the minister. Then the minister tells all who prayed the sinner’s prayer that they have been saved-”born again.” But is the minister right? Not according to the Bible.
The Names of the New Birth
Regeneration (being “born again”) is the transformation from death to life that occurs in our souls when we first come to God and are justified. He washes us clean of our sins and gives us a new nature, breaking the power of sin over us so that we will no longer be its slaves, but its enemies, who must fight it as part of the Christian life (cf. Rom. 6:1-22; Eph. 6:11-17). To understand the biblical teaching of being born again, we must understand the terms it uses to refer to this event.
The term “born again” may not appear in the Bible. The Greek phrase often translated “born again” (gennatha anothen) occurs twice in the Bible-John 3:3 and 3:7-and there is a question of how it should be translated. The Greek word anothen sometimes can be translated “again,” but in the New Testament, it most often means “from above.” In the King James Version, the only two times it is translated “again” are in John 3:3 and 3:7; every other time it is given a different rendering.
Another term is “regeneration.” When referring to something that occurs in the life of an individual believer, it only appears in Titus 3:5. In other passages, the new birth phenomenon is also described as receiving new life (Rom. 6:4), receiving the circumcision of the heart (Rom. 2:29; Col. 2:11-12), and becoming a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15).
Regeneration in John 3
These different ways of talking about being “born again” describe effects of baptism, which Christ speaks of in John 3:5 as being “born of water and the Spirit.” In Greek, this phrase is, literally, “born of water and Spirit,” indicating one birth of water-and-Spirit, rather than “born of water and of the Spirit,” as though it meant two different births-one birth of water and one birth of the Spirit.
In the water-and-Spirit rebirth that takes place at baptism, the repentant sinner is transformed from a state of sin to the state of grace. Peter mentioned this transformation from sin to grace when he exhorted people to “be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).
The context of Jesus’ statements in John 3 makes it clear that he was referring to water baptism. Shortly before Jesus teaches Nicodemus about the necessity and regenerating effect of baptism, he himself was baptized by John the Baptist, and the circumstances are striking: Jesus goes down into the water, and as he is baptized, the heavens open, the Holy Spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove, and the voice of God the Father speaks from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son” (cf. Matt. 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:30-34). This scene gives us a graphic depiction of what happens at baptism: We are baptized with water, symbolizing our dying with Christ (Rom. 6:3) and our rising with Christ to the newness of life (Rom. 6:4-5); we receive the gift of sanctifying grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27); and we are adopted as God’s sons (Rom. 8:15-17).
After our Lord’s teaching that it is necessary for salvation to be born from above by water and the Spirit (John 3:1-21), “Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea; there he remained with them and baptized” (John 3:22).
Then we have the witness of the early Church that John 3:5 refers to baptismal regeneration. This was universally recognized by the early Christians. The Church Fathers were unanimous in teaching this:
In A.D. 151, Justin Martyr wrote, “As many as are persuaded and believe that what we [Christians] teach and say is true . . . are brought by us where there is water and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated.” (First Apology 61).
Around 190, Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons, wrote, “And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan’ [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes” (Fragment 34).
In the year 252, Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, said that when those becoming Christians “receive also the baptism of the Church . . . then finally can they be fully sanctified and be the sons of God . . . since it is written, ‘Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God’ [John 3:5]” (Letters 71[72]:1).
Augustine wrote, “no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ or death for Christ” (On the Soul and Its Origin 1:10 [A.D. 419]).
Augustine also taught, “The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam” (Letters 98:2 [A.D. 408]).
Regeneration in the New Testament
The truth that regeneration comes through baptism is confirmed elsewhere in the Bible. Paul reminds us in Titus 3:5 that God “saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.”
Paul also said, “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:3-4).
This teaching-that baptism unites us with Christ’s death and resurrection so that we might die to sin and receive new life-is a key part of Paul’s theology. In Colossians 2:11-13, he tells us, “In [Christ] you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision [of] Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God” (NIV).
May God bless you; and yours...
The gospel is first Corinthians 15:1-4 When we believe that gospel we are born of God. Ephesians 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation in whom also AFTER YE BELIEVED, ye were sealed by that Holy Spirit of promise.
Romans 3:26-28 For He is the just and the justifier of them that BELIEVE in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? By the law of works? Nay, but by the law of FAITH. Therefore we conclude a man is justified by FAITH apart from the deeds of the Law.
Galatians 2:21 I do not void the grace of God, for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. The GIFT of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, physical death, but the GIFT of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. A gift is paid in full by the giver. Once you accept the gift, what do you have? Eternal life. John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that ALL that seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day. Romans 1:16 John 1;12 First John 5:13 John 3:18. The simplicity of the gospel. Acts 16:31 Gods word and He can not lie.
If reenacting Adam's again in spirit if not secured of one's calling like that elected to God's already on the lines born unto Sarah's as Ruth yet surety by salvations still at the stake's ends as shown by Him alone, discipleship takes over from a blood relationship much as mystery's surrounding such selected or else saved on the spot?!
Impersonating Holy Spirit's another ways maybe next too impossible...
So Nicodemus must have already been born again already otherwise he would not have even recognised the signs were of God. His only problem was the impact or effect his confession now had for him.
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
No, Nichodemus was not already born again when he came to Jesus in the middle of the night.
ligonier.org/blog/you-must-be-born-again/
Excellent point.
Nicodemus was not born again; How can he be born again and not know what Christ said about being born again??
No one can come to father except through Christ and no one can come to Christ except that God brings them. And here he is talking to Christ.
Catholics and😅 Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
When a Catholic says that he has been “born again,” he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being “born again.”
For an Evangelical, becoming “born again” often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be “born again.”
“If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and believe he died for your sins, you’ll be born again!” says the preacher. So the gentleman makes “a decision for Christ” and at the altar call goes forward to be led in “the sinner’s prayer” by the minister. Then the minister tells all who prayed the sinner’s prayer that they have been saved-”born again.” But is the minister right? Not according to the Bible.
The Names of the New Birth
Regeneration (being “born again”) is the transformation from death to life that occurs in our souls when we first come to God and are justified. He washes us clean of our sins and gives us a new nature, breaking the power of sin over us so that we will no longer be its slaves, but its enemies, who must fight it as part of the Christian life (cf. Rom. 6:1-22; Eph. 6:11-17). To understand the biblical teaching of being born again, we must understand the terms it uses to refer to this event.
The term “born again” may not appear in the Bible. The Greek phrase often translated “born again” (gennatha anothen) occurs twice in the Bible-John 3:3 and 3:7-and there is a question of how it should be translated. The Greek word anothen sometimes can be translated “again,” but in the New Testament, it most often means “from above.” In the King James Version, the only two times it is translated “again” are in John 3:3 and 3:7; every other time it is given a different rendering.
Another term is “regeneration.” When referring to something that occurs in the life of an individual believer, it only appears in Titus 3:5. In other passages, the new birth phenomenon is also described as receiving new life (Rom. 6:4), receiving the circumcision of the heart (Rom. 2:29; Col. 2:11-12), and becoming a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15).
Regeneration in John 3
These different ways of talking about being “born again” describe effects of baptism, which Christ speaks of in John 3:5 as being “born of water and the Spirit.” In Greek, this phrase is, literally, “born of water and Spirit,” indicating one birth of water-and-Spirit, rather than “born of water and of the Spirit,” as though it meant two different births-one birth of water and one birth of the Spirit.
In the water-and-Spirit rebirth that takes place at baptism, the repentant sinner is transformed from a state of sin to the state of grace. Peter mentioned this transformation from sin to grace when he exhorted people to “be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).
The context of Jesus’ statements in John 3 makes it clear that he was referring to water baptism. Shortly before Jesus teaches Nicodemus about the necessity and regenerating effect of baptism, he himself was baptized by John the Baptist, and the circumstances are striking: Jesus goes down into the water, and as he is baptized, the heavens open, the Holy Spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove, and the voice of God the Father speaks from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son” (cf. Matt. 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:30-34). This scene gives us a graphic depiction of what happens at baptism: We are baptized with water, symbolizing our dying with Christ (Rom. 6:3) and our rising with Christ to the newness of life (Rom. 6:4-5); we receive the gift of sanctifying grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27); and we are adopted as God’s sons (Rom. 8:15-17).
After our Lord’s teaching that it is necessary for salvation to be born from above by water and the Spirit (John 3:1-21), “Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea; there he remained with them and baptized” (John 3:22).
Then we have the witness of the early Church that John 3:5 refers to baptismal regeneration. This was universally recognized by the early Christians. The Church Fathers were unanimous in teaching this:
In A.D. 151, Justin Martyr wrote, “As many as are persuaded and believe that what we [Christians] teach and say is true . . . are brought by us where there is water and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated.” (First Apology 61).
Around 190, Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons, wrote, “And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan’ [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes” (Fragment 34).
In the year 252, Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, said that when those becoming Christians “receive also the baptism of the Church . . . then finally can they be fully sanctified and be the sons of God . . . since it is written, ‘Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God’ [John 3:5]” (Letters 71[72]:1).
Augustine wrote, “no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ or death for Christ” (On the Soul and Its Origin 1:10 [A.D. 419]).
Augustine also taught, “The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam” (Letters 98:2 [A.D. 408]).
Regeneration in the New Testament
The truth that regeneration comes through baptism is confirmed elsewhere in the Bible. Paul reminds us in Titus 3:5 that God “saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.”
Paul also said, “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:3-4).
This teaching-that baptism unites us with Christ’s death and resurrection so that we might die to sin and receive new life-is a key part of Paul’s theology. In Colossians 2:11-13, he tells us, “In [Christ] you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision [of] Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God” (NIV).
May God bless you; and yours...
Your thesis is well thought out and explained,... but unfortunately is clearly tainted by your beliefs in the "authority",... of a "church",... or in your case,... "the,.... Church".
And while it is common for Protestant churches to invite those that have been presented the Gospel to come to the altar and acknowledge Jesus's death for their sins and invite Jesus into their hearts,... there are millions upon millions who have accepted Jesus,... been born again LONG before being baptized.
How do you account for that?
That said,... no doubt there have been many that WERE born again during or surrounding their baptisms or altar calls,... BUT many a false convert has been created when they have been convinced that a "ritual",... with "THE Churches AUTHORITY",... somehow seals their fate and causes them to be a child of God.
Additionally,... there are millions upon millions that went to the altar call,... AND were baptized,... only to declare 10, 20, 30 YEARS later,.... that they were born-again while sitting in a shopping center parking lot,... riding down the road,... standing in there kitchen,... etc, etc, etc,....
How do you account for that???
My point is relatively simple. The act of being baptized,... nor saying the "sinners prayer"... does NOT cause one to be "born again",... nor does being baptized or other rituals assure one of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit,.... regardless of the "authority" of those performing them.
Like the thief on Jesus's right,... a repentant heart and believing in Him are the only essential requirements.
God bless
@@pvmoore1154 Well...I don't see in the bible where 'Alter call' in mention in order to be saved.
That term was invented by those outside the Church.
To be a Christian is a lifelong project.
But the Eucharist gives life within; in order to understand Christ's teahing.
God bless you; and yours.
@@catholicintoeternity5679
a) Who said an altar call was necessary for one to be saved?
Right.
b) You stated,... "invented by those outside THE CHURCH". Please define THE CHURCH to which you refer. Or more specifically,... do you define "THE CHURCH" as all followers of Jesus Christ,... or just those loyal to "the Roman Catholic Church, etc???
c) You said being a "Christian is a life-long project".
Okay,...
How long must the "life" of the Christian, be? Minutes, days, months, years???
Right.
d) You stated,... "I don't see in the Bible,....",.... implying that you consider the Bible in what you believe.
Please explain where the Bible states "one cannot understand Christ's teaching" without the Eucharist?
e) And if convenient,... please give chapter and verse where the Bible teaches that a Christian should pray to Mary?
God bless
@@catholicintoeternity5679 Still waiting,..... 🤷
Catholics and😅 Protestants agree that to be saved, you have to be born again. Jesus said so: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3).
When a Catholic says that he has been “born again,” he refers to the transformation that God’s grace accomplished in him during baptism. Evangelical Protestants typically mean something quite different when they talk about being “born again.”
For an Evangelical, becoming “born again” often happens like this: He goes to a crusade or a revival where a minister delivers a sermon telling him of his need to be “born again.”
“If you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and believe he died for your sins, you’ll be born again!” says the preacher. So the gentleman makes “a decision for Christ” and at the altar call goes forward to be led in “the sinner’s prayer” by the minister. Then the minister tells all who prayed the sinner’s prayer that they have been saved-”born again.” But is the minister right? Not according to the Bible.
The Names of the New Birth
Regeneration (being “born again”) is the transformation from death to life that occurs in our souls when we first come to God and are justified. He washes us clean of our sins and gives us a new nature, breaking the power of sin over us so that we will no longer be its slaves, but its enemies, who must fight it as part of the Christian life (cf. Rom. 6:1-22; Eph. 6:11-17). To understand the biblical teaching of being born again, we must understand the terms it uses to refer to this event.
The term “born again” may not appear in the Bible. The Greek phrase often translated “born again” (gennatha anothen) occurs twice in the Bible-John 3:3 and 3:7-and there is a question of how it should be translated. The Greek word anothen sometimes can be translated “again,” but in the New Testament, it most often means “from above.” In the King James Version, the only two times it is translated “again” are in John 3:3 and 3:7; every other time it is given a different rendering.
Another term is “regeneration.” When referring to something that occurs in the life of an individual believer, it only appears in Titus 3:5. In other passages, the new birth phenomenon is also described as receiving new life (Rom. 6:4), receiving the circumcision of the heart (Rom. 2:29; Col. 2:11-12), and becoming a “new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17; Gal. 6:15).
Regeneration in John 3
These different ways of talking about being “born again” describe effects of baptism, which Christ speaks of in John 3:5 as being “born of water and the Spirit.” In Greek, this phrase is, literally, “born of water and Spirit,” indicating one birth of water-and-Spirit, rather than “born of water and of the Spirit,” as though it meant two different births-one birth of water and one birth of the Spirit.
In the water-and-Spirit rebirth that takes place at baptism, the repentant sinner is transformed from a state of sin to the state of grace. Peter mentioned this transformation from sin to grace when he exhorted people to “be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:38).
The context of Jesus’ statements in John 3 makes it clear that he was referring to water baptism. Shortly before Jesus teaches Nicodemus about the necessity and regenerating effect of baptism, he himself was baptized by John the Baptist, and the circumstances are striking: Jesus goes down into the water, and as he is baptized, the heavens open, the Holy Spirit descends upon him in the form of a dove, and the voice of God the Father speaks from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son” (cf. Matt. 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22; John 1:30-34). This scene gives us a graphic depiction of what happens at baptism: We are baptized with water, symbolizing our dying with Christ (Rom. 6:3) and our rising with Christ to the newness of life (Rom. 6:4-5); we receive the gift of sanctifying grace and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 12:13; Gal. 3:27); and we are adopted as God’s sons (Rom. 8:15-17).
After our Lord’s teaching that it is necessary for salvation to be born from above by water and the Spirit (John 3:1-21), “Jesus and his disciples went into the land of Judea; there he remained with them and baptized” (John 3:22).
Then we have the witness of the early Church that John 3:5 refers to baptismal regeneration. This was universally recognized by the early Christians. The Church Fathers were unanimous in teaching this:
In A.D. 151, Justin Martyr wrote, “As many as are persuaded and believe that what we [Christians] teach and say is true . . . are brought by us where there is water and are regenerated in the same manner in which we were ourselves regenerated.” (First Apology 61).
Around 190, Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons, wrote, “And [Naaman] dipped himself . . . seven times in the Jordan’ [2 Kgs. 5:14]. It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but [this served] as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean, by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord, from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as newborn babes” (Fragment 34).
In the year 252, Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, said that when those becoming Christians “receive also the baptism of the Church . . . then finally can they be fully sanctified and be the sons of God . . . since it is written, ‘Except a man be born again of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God’ [John 3:5]” (Letters 71[72]:1).
Augustine wrote, “no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ or death for Christ” (On the Soul and Its Origin 1:10 [A.D. 419]).
Augustine also taught, “The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam” (Letters 98:2 [A.D. 408]).
Regeneration in the New Testament
The truth that regeneration comes through baptism is confirmed elsewhere in the Bible. Paul reminds us in Titus 3:5 that God “saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit.”
Paul also said, “Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:3-4).
This teaching-that baptism unites us with Christ’s death and resurrection so that we might die to sin and receive new life-is a key part of Paul’s theology. In Colossians 2:11-13, he tells us, “In [Christ] you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision [of] Christ, having been buried with him in baptism and raised with him through your faith in the power of God” (NIV).
May God bless you; and yours...
Ephesians 1:13-14 Our guarantee of eternal life. John 3:18. First John 5:13
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from this false doctrine that he teaches.
Acts 16:31 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house. John 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that BELIEVETH on me HATH EVERLASTING LIFE. John 3:16 Jesus said it, we believe it, and that settles it. John 3:18. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, physical death, but the GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE through Jesus Christ our Lord. The GIFT of God is eternal life. Not a reward for good behavior, but a free GIFT. Paid in full by the GIVER. John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent me, that ALL that seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
Romans 3:26-28 For He is the just and the jsutifier of them that BELIEVE in Jesus. Where is boasting then? You can not boast in a free gift that we did nothing for.
Matthew 7:21-23 There will be no boasting in heaven. Jesus paid it all and we paid 0.
@@jimkraft9445 If Jesus paid in full everything, what debt do we owe to God to pay?
We don't. Jesus paid the debt we owe God by His one blood sacrifice for all sin. First Corinthians 15:1-4. First John 2:2 He took the punishment we deserve so we would not have to go to hell to pay for our sins. Romans 3:26-28 For He is the just and the justifier of them that BELIEVE in Jesus. Where is boasting then? You can not boast in a free gift. The GIFT of God is eternal life. Romans 6:23 Ephesians 2:8-9. For by grace ye are saved, through FAITH, and that not of yourselves, it is the GIFT of God, not of works. (You can not earn it) lest any man should boast
Matthew 7:21-23 There will be no boasting in heaven. John 6:40 and John 6:29.
Nicodemus came to Jesus at night. Who then witnessed this conversation to be recorded this way some 60 years later?
@Rod 1984 That is your speculation in abstract thinking. It is not written and proved.
If you had read the Bible you had never this question may God give you his wisdom 🙏
@@rohitt7382 I did my dear friend. Maybe you should re-read it again and research who actually wrote the gospel of John. In the end you will never know who. All you may find out through the text is that it was written by a gentile in Greek. 68 times in the gospel, the writer refers to
'the Jews' and has many contradictory statements.
@Rich
The apostle, St. John, in whose Gospel the event is recorded. Think much?
I did ask Jesus into my heart.Then i received the evidence of speaking in tongues.i got that backwards. Sorry
Did Christ mentioned christian? No even the apostle did not mention christian according to KJV.
The term Christian is fabricated. I’m not a Christian. But I sure know I am born again, my soul knew that from a little child.
Either way God is sovereign so everything is irrelevant yet relevant
What?
The gospel is the GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM!
Repent and believe the gospel! Follow Jesus’ teachings!
Jesus is going to return and set up the kingdom of God ON THE EARTH! God’s government ON THE EARTH! The Messiah will resurrect his people! The destiny of the Messiah and his people is to be ON THE EARTH! The renewed restored earth! God also dwelling with them! Rev 21
Jesus said the Father is the only true God!
John 17
3 And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
RSV
Only-monos
God-theos
Monos theos
Monotheism
The Father
Jesus is the one sent by the true God (the Father)!
Jesus never claimed to be God, Jesus said he has a God!
Jesus has a God!
Jesus died!
God can’t die!
God raised Jesus from the dead!
The doctrine that Mitchell C teaches takes away repentance, takes away the words of Christ, takes away the gospel of Christ, takes away the kingdom of God, takes away baptism for the remission of sin, and makes the words of Paul more authoritative than the words of Jesus. His false doctrine takes away large portions of the bible. He does not know the difference between a gentile and a Jew in the bible. Stay away from the false doctrine that he teaches.
Roasted or Knot???
Jesus did NOT say, that you have to be born again to become a christian, HE NEVER EVER USED the word christian! Jesus said that one MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN! That's totally different, because HE also says that "not everybody who calls HIM LORD LORD ( Christians do that a lot!) will enter the Kingdom of heaven" - HE even declares that there will be people who called HIM LORD LORD, BUT HE NEVER KNEW THEM"! ( Matthew chapter 7). Watch what you hear!!!
There’s no such thing as Christian in the bible. Thank you for being awake.
Jimmy carter is the only Christian president in my lifetime. Interesting that he was disliked by evangelicals.
He believes in abortion. Doubt he was a Christian. Thinking its OK to murder babies.
Jimmy Carter is not a Christian and the majority of believers are not Christians.
Most believers are blinded to God’s truth and they do not understand that sickness comes from sin and the devil. So if you currently have an affliction or you can get sick then you clearly are someone who still lives in sin and you certainly are not a Christian. You may foolishly believe otherwise but you are definitely wrong since your sin and sickness is certainly proving that you are a deceived believer who lacks knowledge of scripture. You are unaware of the blessing that Jesus provided for all of mankind and so you never learned how to overcome your sin and your sicknesses.
I am a sanctified disciple of Jesus Christ who can no longer sin nor can I ever get sick and Jesus has given me wisdom about scripture that very very few will ever possess. So I will warn you not to challenge what I am relating since if you disagree then you will be denying truth and you will blaspheme the Spirit with your lies.
Realize that there is not even one scripture where God ever stated that a person who possesses sin and sickness in their life is His child so if you can still sin and you can still get sick then you definitely are not a child of God. There are scriptures though that do relate that if you have afflictions then you are a sinner who does not know God and if you sin then you are of the devil.
Only a small amount of believers truly understand God and scripture and this is why scripture relates that only a remnant will be saved since most believers are completely deceived in their beliefs and they are destined to perish in their sin and their ignorance of truth. Most do not even understand the difference between a Believer, a Disciple, a Christian and a Apostle and so I will now explain.
“Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved.”
Romans 9:27 NKJV
“Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
I Peter 4:18 NKJV
When you first repent of your sins and you accept Jesus into your life you are now a believer but you are still deceived and ignorant about scripture since you have never been sanctified in truth by the Holy Spirit. This is why a believer will still possesses sin and sickness in their life since they still lack knowledge in the word of God.
Once a believer accepts Jesus into their life they were then commanded to surrender their will to the Holy Spirit so that they may allow the Spirt to teach them how to stop sinning. This purification process is called sanctification and it can only be achieved by understanding how to test the Spirits as commanded in 1 John 4. Sanctification takes years and it requires our faith, patience, suffering and endurance since the Holy Spirit teaches us how to overcome our sins. Once we learn how to overcome our sins we now have overcome our sicknesses since afflictions come from sin and the devil. Sadly the vast majority of believers never allow this process to occur since they are deceived in their beliefs and so they remain in their sin and their ignorance their entire lives. Others will actually fall away during the sanctification process just as Judas certainly did and Jesus relates these various believers in the parable of the sower in Luke 8:11-15. Not many believers actually make it through God’s sanctification process and this is why it is referred to as the narrow gate.
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”
Matthew 7:13-14 NKJV
If a believer does surrender their will to God’s purification process they now become a disciple since they are now learning scripture directly from Jesus Himself. Jesus will now teach His disciple how to live just as He did since He now dwells inside His true children. A disciple means “a student who learns from his teacher.” This is why scripture relates that Jesus is our one and only teacher and this is also why the vast majority of religions and preachers are nothing more then false prophets who are only leading believers astray.
It is during the sanctification process that the Holy Spirit teaches us how to live Holy and righteously just as God commanded and He does this by showing us how to overcome our sins. Sanctification is similar to what Jesus endured in the wilderness for 40 days since the Spirit has us confront the devil’s temptations head on. If you end up completing God’s purification process you then become sanctified in truth and you are now a Christian since you are now a sanctified disciple of Jesus Christ who can no longer sin and this is when you are actually born again. A born of God Christian is someone who lives “exactly like Christ,” and this is how the term Christian came about since the original disciples lived exactly like Christ.
Most believers do not realize that Jesus had to train his twelve chosen disciples for three years before they became His apostles. An apostle means someone who is sent, a messenger. Many overlook the prayer that Jesus made for His disciples in John 17:6-19 where He asked His Father to sanctify His disciples in truth. So the disciples had to be sanctified in truth before Jesus could use them as His apostles, His messengers. So an apostle is someone who is a messenger from God and they possess the power of God to prove their anointment.
Realize that God did not instruct us or command us to explain scripture to anyone but yet most are foolishly believing that it is their duty to try and lead others to Jesus. Many deceived believers do not understand that the Great Commission was for God’s chosen disciples who were trained by Jesus and who were sanctified in God’s truth. It was not meant for every believer of Jesus Christ to teach and that is simply a lie that is being fabricated by the devil’s many false ministers.
You might now begin to understand why the majority of believers are nothing more then children of the devil since they are ignorantly blaspheming the Spirit of truth when they willingly relate their misguided beliefs. These ignorant souls were never taught scripture by Jesus nor did they allow Jesus to sanctify their heart in God’s truth. So they are simply spreading their lies about scripture and they are condemning themselves by leading others into sin.
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses! For offenses must come, but woe to that man by whom the offense comes!”
Matthew 18:6-7 NKJV
“My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment. For we all stumble in many things. If anyone does not stumble in word, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle the whole body.”
James 3:1-2 NKJV
Many believers are ignorantly believing that Jesus came to forgive our past, present and future sins. This spoken untruth is having people believe that they can continue in a life of sin and then simply repent and God will forgive them over and over. This is why many believe that if they repent just before they die then Jesus will save their sinful soul. This twisted reasoning would mean that you can continue to steal and then simply repent. You can then lie and then repent. You can then murder and simply repent. You can keep committing whatever sin you desire and simply repent afterwards and you will always be forgiven. This is simply nonsense that is fabricated by the devil to make you believe that you will always sin.
Jesus came to call sinners to repentance since we are all born in sin. This meant for us to stop sinning entirely and to start living holy and righteously just as God commanded. Jesus came to forgive us of the sins that we have already committed and this occurs at the moment that we repent of our sins and we accept Jesus and His Holy Spirit into our life. Once we receive His Holy Spirit we were then commanded to surrender our will to God so that we would allow the Holy Spirit to sanctify our heart in God’s truth. As I stated before, this can only be achieved by understanding how to test the Spirits as commanded in 1 John 4.
So a Christian is someone who is sanctified in truth and they can easily discern a true Christian from a deceived believer in seconds since they now possess the mind of Christ and they are able to judge everyone and everything. They can no longer sin nor can they ever get sick since they are now born of God and the devil can no longer touch them with sickness or disabilities.
“These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.”
I Corinthians 2:13-16 NKJV
“We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.”
I John 5:18 NKJV
I have gone through God’s purification process and I have overcome sin and sickness in my life and this is why God has me relating His blessings in my writings and in my videos.
Many politicians say they are Christian to get those votes but show their true colors in other areas. No True believer and follower of Jesus is going to be pro choice, it completely goes against scripture. Look at Biden for instance.
@@mikerutkowski7265 You are a heretic! You are not free from sin or sickness.
@@gigiis526 you are an ignorant and clueless person whose soul belongs to the devil and that is why you reason the way that you do. I will now expose why you are a child of Satan and why your lost soul is destined to perish for all eternity.
Every day I am confronted by ignorant souls such as yourself who foolishly believe that you are wiser then a sanctified disciple of Jesus Christ and it is quite obvious that the majority of you wicked people have not even watched any of my videos and yet you like to claim that I am a liar or you are claiming that I am wrong. So I have created this comment to expose how you are just pretending to be a Christian and that you have no idea what scripture is even relating and I will also prove how you are a liar who is nothing more then an unbelieving child of the devil
I have been relating in my comments and my videos how it is possible to communicate directly with Jesus Christ and that you can reach a place where Jesus will sanctify your heart in God’s truth and you will then overcome sin and sickness in this lifetime. I have also been relating that sin and sickness is strictly of the devil and not of God as well. You of course are claiming that this blessed life that Jesus has me relating is not possible and that I am wrong.
Now I certainly know that your wicked soul can still sin and you can still get sick and you have no idea what that even means or proves or what scripture is relating about such a person since your ignorant soul chose to follow false preachers like Justin Peters, John MacArthur and the so many others. So since you foolishly believe that I am wrong then try and prove where I have lied with scripture child of Satan.
“Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Mark 9:23 NKJV
Just because someone claims to believe in Jesus certainly does not make that person a Christian since even demons also believe and if you were a Christian then you would have been rejoicing at the overcoming life that I have related about the good news gospel of Jesus Christ. Your comment has certainly proven how you are just a deceived child of the devil who is pretending to be a Christian and that is why you still can sin and that is why you can still get sick. Clearly your ignorant soul overlooked how Jesus did not sin nor did Jesus ever get sick and if you were someone who truly possessed His Holy Spirit then it would be impossible for you to sin or to get sick as well since you are now someone who is being guided by the same Spirit and power that raised Jesus from the dead.
So since you foolishly believe that you are somehow a Christian then explain how your wicked soul can still sin and why you can still get sick and provided the scripture verses that will back up your wicked beliefs. This should be a very easy thing to do if you truly know God and scripture and you possess the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. Also realize that I know how you deceived children of the devil love to twist verses of scripture in order to justify why you possess sin and sickness in your wicked lives. I also know how you wicked souls have no idea how you are condemning your ignorant souls whenever you chose to add your misguided beliefs to the word of God.
“For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
Revelation 22:18-19 NKJV
So understand that I have been sanctified in truth by Jesus Christ Himself and I know scripture very very very well and I will expose any scripture verse that your wicked soul tries to twist in order to justify your wicked beliefs. So give God and myself a good laugh and try and prove that you are a Christian or where I am wrong since I certainly will not banter back and forth with an ignorant child of the devil who has no idea what scripture is even relating.
“But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he knows their day is coming.”
Psalms 37:13 NIV
We must be born again!
Then Jesus has baptized you with the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit do not let you sin anymore!!!
To become born again you have to repent and ask Jesus forgiveness for your sins or ask Jesus in your heart!
A really born again Christian has no future sins!! He is perfect, righteous and the light of the world.
Please study : 1 John 3, Romans 6:6, Romans 8, Gal 5, Eph 4 and Titus 2:14!!!!
He has done warfare and lots of self deliverance. Becomes new, cleansed, regeneration.
@Jan Drost
I have to disagree with you, sir. If what you say is true, "A really born again Christian has no future sins!!", it makes Jesus's teachings on forgiveness of the sins of our brothers and sisters in the Lord non-sensical and ridiculous. At Matthew 18: 21, 22 and Luke 17: 1-4 Jesus says our "brothers" (and, by extension, our sisters') may sin against us, and discusses the bounds of a Christian's patience and forgiveness of our "brothers" (not "pagan's", not "a reprobate's", not "a self deluded person who believes they are saved when they aren't", but a "BROTHER"). We are OBLIGATED to repeatedly and continuously offer our forgiveness to anyone who asks it of us, no matter how heinous the sin ("seven times in a day", "seventy seven times", etc). When the sin we have committed AFTER our repentance and baptism / faith commitment, we are duty bound to CONFESS and SEEK FORGIVENESS for those sins from the offended party and through the Church. Your statement also makes of no effect Jesus's teaching on the confession of sins. We ALL sin, even AFTER an initial conversion and faith commitment. God knew such would be the case and provided for the remission of sins after this to be accomplished through a LIFE of repentance and faith.
@@QuisutDeusmpc
If you still sin you are NOT born again.
You must study the Bible verses I gave you
@@jandrost4664
Why would I study from someone the Apostle John has proved is a "blind guide leading the blind":
If we say that we have no sin, we are a LIAR. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
@@QuisutDeusmpc
You can only sin BEFORE you are born again.
AFTER that it’s impossible to sin because then you are God’s seed.
You must study the Bible verses I gave you
To be born again..Means you recognize Gods Commandments and Obey them..And stop thinking you are saved by obeying Mans commandments. That is what Nicodemous learned from Jesus because he was obeying Pharisees and not God. Christians do the exact same thing..Think they are saved by following Paul instead of God.
Which people around the world are true Christians Jesus followers according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
kathleen.......Get some therapy.
@@carmensiekierke3579 All different churches are true Christians according to the bible Mathew 24:24,2thimoty 4:3-4,2PETER 2:1-3,1JONH 4:1,Mathew 7:21-23?
@@vusimngomezulu2500
Jesus Words are in Matthew 5 6 7. That is Gods Plan of Salvation. The rest of the Bible is stories..men’s opinions and hear say.
@@carmensiekierke3579
Jesus is The Best! You should try Him..sometime.
Spiritual Regeneration is only possible for the few pre-chosen of God..Unconditional Elect...Sproul should be clearly stating who it applies to...always the elephant in the room...
Exactly. Reformed theology is a false doctrine.
Always a catch to it.
@@apilkey - Reformed Theology is water-tight biblical...
@@warrensmith3070 Reformed theology is the furthest thing from being Biblical.
You are deceived.
@@apilkey - you obviously know nothing of correct doctrine...Reformed Theology claims back biblical truth...you deny the full sovereignty of God, your easy believism and man-centred theology is the nonsense...I wanted Sproul to go further in spelling out that spiritual regeneration is limited only to the pre-chosen Elect...
@@warrensmith3070 Wrong. And as a typical Calvinist who has no biblical argument you start throwing out straw man arguments like you just did.
That’s quite telling but very predictable I would not have expected anything else from you sadly.
You’re the one who rejects God’s Sovereignty.
*You can’t just hi-Jack the definition of sovereignty and give it our own definition to fit your beliefs.*
*Sovereignty does NOT mean determinism, it means GOD IS IN CONTROL and His ability to do whatever He wants.*
Sovereignty is translated from “LORD, LORD” and is not even found once in the KJV!
(It’s only found in the ESV 3 times).
Reformers wrongly define the concept of divine sovereignty as meaning “meticulous deterministic control over ever thing, including the evil intentions of creatures.”
The scriptures simply never teach this concept.
Instead, divine sovereignty is reflected as God’s ability to do whatever He is pleased to do (Ps. 115:3)
even if that may include giving the world over to creature’s free dominion (Ps. 115:16).
You can make up your own definition of sovereignty all day long but scripture won’t bend to it and the dictionary is not going to re-write itself on your behalf either.
Jesus did not say everyone must be born again. He said it to people who were living in a world that was about to end in his time.
In fact Jesus came at a time when the world was at the brink of ending.
You can see it in these verses.
Hebrews 9:26
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the END OF THE WORLD hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
and even from what John says.
Matthew 3:10
And now also the AXE IS ALREADY LAID unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
All these therefore spoke about the world Jesus came to at that time. The world where the old covenant existed.
So when you hear John telling you not to love the world, it’s not this world. It’s about the old covenant world. It was about a world who was in its final hour.
1 John 2:17-18
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever. Children, it is the LAST HOUR, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour.
It saddens me to see ignorant and arrogant Christians accusing us to not being able to understand English or tenses.
When Paul said this.
1 Corinthians 7:31
and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world IS PASSING AWAY.
He was speaking to the audience of his day.
Note this is what he said in context.
1 Corinthians 7:29
This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown VERY SHORT. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none…
Now when you read this collectively it is about the world ending at their time.
That world was the Jewish world under the Law. The words “soon” “about to end” all point therefore not to today but the generation Jesus visited.
Matthew 23:36
Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon THIS GENERATION.
As such the generation of Jesus ended in AD70. Since then the world was recreated through the body of Jesus and Israel was reborn.
It became no longer exclusively Jewish. It became neither Jew or Gentile, free or slave, male or female. It became an Israel raised by God in Christ.
That’s what “born again” really means. You and I are now living in a world which is not the one in the Bible. We are living in the new heaven and earth.
The time of the new heaven and the new earth has not come yet because the old ones have not yet passed away. Revelation makes that clear.
@@HearGodsWord Some interesting facts of the Temple and how the temple is described by the contemporary people like Josephus.
The way is the outer court.
The truth is the inner court.
The life is the Holy of Holies.
Jesus was saying he was the new temple. Hence no one comes to the father except through him.
The outer court is called the sea.
The inner court is called the earth.
The holy of Holies is the called the heaven.
That’s why in the book of revelation it says there is no sea.
When Jesus spoke about heaven and earth, he actually mentioned it twice. First in Matthew 5. He also said it here.
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Look at the preamble of the chapter.
Matthew 24:1-2
Jesus left the TEMPLE and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
That’s how “heaven and earth” will pass away. This will happen to the temple.
“Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
That happen in AD70. It was also the God moved his addressed into temples build not by human hands.
We are this new temple. We are this new “heaven and earth”.
@@dafflad1 I still stand by what's explained in the book of Revelation.
@@HearGodsWord Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
Many people read this verse thinking that the world is going to be landed place in the future.
Actually many people do not realise that “heaven, earth and sea” are representations of the Holy of Holies, the Holier place and the Holy place.
When the Bible speaks about the sea disappearing it does not mean there is now no more water.
It just means the new Temple has no need of the Holy place.
Why is that?
The Holy Place is where the sacrifices are killed before they are brought to the Holier place and finally the Holy of Holies.
Jesus is the perfect sacrifice who ended that system of sacrifice. Hence there is no need for the Holy place.
The real temple is a living sacrifice. The reason is because it is the house of God. Romans 12 tells us we are this living sacrifice.
You are the new Temple. You are the Holy of Holies. That is where God dwells. He dwells in you.
You are the Holier place. This is because that’s where the priest operates.
You therefore are the New Heaven and Earth. There is no more need for sea.
Post script
For those of you who asked me “Where it is stated that the Temple was Heaven, Earth and Sea?”
Please note that it is not specifically written there. However this is the common expression of the Jews.
Here’s an excerpt from Josephus a Jewish historian who lived within the generation of the last days before the fall of Jerusalem.
“However, this proportion of the measures of the tabernacle proved to be an imitation of the system of the world: for that third part thereof which was within the four pillars, to which the priests were not admitted, is, as it were, a Heaven peculiar to God…” Josephus, Antiquities, Book 3, Chapter 6, Paragraph 4, Section 123).
“When Moses distinguished the tabernacle into three parts, and allowed two of them to the priests as a place accessible to the common, he denoted the land and the sea, these being of general access to all; but he set apart the third division for God, because heaven is inaccessible to men” Josephus, Antiquities, Book 3, Chapter 7, Paragraph 7, Section 181).
Heaven was accessible to the High Priest.
Earth the Priests.
Sea the common people.
Today we have all become royal priests. It is not just limited to the Levites.
Hence there is no more Sea. We have become the Temple. We are the New Heaven and Earth.
@@HearGodsWord It is pertinent to note every word of scripture is written to bring us comfort.
When we read the words “fiery indignation and judgement awaiting the enemies of God”, we must note Hebrews 10:26-29 is talking about the abolishing of temple sacrifices and thereby the destruction of the Temple.
The Temple is often referred to as “the house of God”. It is his house. Correctly stated it was his house.
When Jesus came he said in my father’s house there are many rooms. What he meant that God’s house was now no longer going to be the Temple. He is saying that this new house is not only going to be occupied by just the Levitical priests.
Peter mentioned this when he said God’s new house is going to built by a royal priesthood. Not just by the Levitical priesthood but a priesthood which includes Gentiles.
The Temple is also called “heaven and earth”. This is because it is the place where heaven meets earth. Jesus said that “heaven and earth” will pass away. It did in AD70.
When the writer said the Temple will be destroyed God will not leave us nor forsake us.
This is because God’s new house is us. Paul calls us the Temple of Holy Spirit. Jesus said “my father and I will be in you”.
You see if the temple was the old “heaven and earth” then you are the new “heaven and earth”. You are the new temple.
That is what Jesus meant by “surely I will be with you always”.
God burnt his old house to move into his new house. It’s you.
That’s why he does not live in a house that is built by human hands. That is also what it means that you are God’s workmanship in Christ Jesus. You are now the Father’s house that has many rooms.
Now invite more people to this house of his. There are many rooms for them too.
Is that false teacher Joyce Meyer in the audience?...at the 18:11 mark.