What It Means To Be Born Again

John 3:3-7
Jesus answered and said to him, truly, truly, I say to you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, …That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. 

When we talk about being born again, many people do not fully understand what it means. Some see being born again as a wonderful experience that happened when they got convicted and went to the front in church and the Pastor prayed for them for their sins.  Some others think it’s a phenomenon that describes a group of religious fanatics that believe in Jesus Christ. But being born again is way more than that. It is neither just a wonderful spiritual experience nor a religious terminology of a weird group of Christians.

Being born again is the greatest miracle of “Christianity”!  As shown in the above scripture, the term itself was taught by Jesus Christ Himself to refer to the miracle of the recreation of the human spirit.  The original Greek term that is translated to born again is anōthen which when correctly rendered would be “born from above”. What did Jesus mean by born from above? His reference to “above” referred to being born from heaven.  Now when someone says “I’m born again/born from above,” that doesn’t mean the person has made a mental or emotional decision to turn a new leaf.

It also doesn’t suggest that the person has now suddenly transformed his mind and changed his old way of living and now has this new way of living his or her life. The person who’s born again is not someone who has merely been reformed or has made new decisions and resolutions to be a good and nice person.  Thinking this way is minimizing the impact and power of the miracle of the new-birth in Christ.

When someone is born from above, actually what it means is that not only has God completely remitted the person’s sin, but also that the person is completely born anew by receiving a new spirit from God the Father.  Being born again means your human life is completely supplanted with the eternal, divine heavenly life of God. It makes you hundred percent divine, with the innate ability to manifest the life, nature, power and other divine attributes of God.  This new birth is what makes you a new creation (2Corinthians 5v17), with the same life and nature of God. (2 Peter 1v4).

1 John 5:11
And this is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that has the Son has life; and he that has not the Son of God has not life.

When you get born again, it’s not a good experience that just happened to you, actually a spiritual birth that originated from heaven with God took place in your human spirit that gave you a new life and nature on the inside of you.
For example, when a baby is born, its not just a mere experience in that way, but actually a real person with a new life is born and comes on the scene.  And it’s the same when you’re born again, but this happens spiritually.  An actual spiritual birth takes place through the agency of God’s Word and His Spirit.  When this happens, God who is the Father of spirits becomes your Father, which is what makes you a child of God in reality.

Hebrews 12:9
Furthermore we have had Father’s of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?. 

So being born again is much more than an experience or just something a certain group of Christians think has happened with their minds. It’s actually the beginning of the God-life in the human body.  And this eternal, divine life that you receive is what gives you the ability to have a personal relationship with God, “the creator and monarch of the universe,” without a condemnation, fear or guilt.

All this is because of God loves you, that He sent His Son the Lord Jesus Christ to be condemned and judged for your wrongs, and also for the wrongs of all humanity. And you, by believing in Jesus your sins will be completely blotted out, and you’d be able to receive Gods divine life, “eternal life” into your human spirit and be BORN AGAIN.

God bless you, and remember that this is your time!