BORN ANEW (REBIRTH) - 4 June 2019
John 3:3 "Yahshua answered him, I ASSURE you, most SOLEMNLY I TELL YOU,that UNLESS a PERSON IS BORN AGAIN (ANEW, from ABOVE), HE CANNOT EVER SEE (KNOW, be ACQUAINTED with, and EXPERIENCE) the KINGDOM of YAH (God)."
RE-BIRTH comes from the Greek word "PALINGENESIA" (G3824) a New Covenant (Testament) WORD from the ORIGINAL KOINE GREEK MANUSCRIPTS meaning "REGENERATION" meaning: BORN AGAIN, RENEWAL, RE-CREATION.
SPIRITUAL RENEWAL defined: REVITALIZED, STRENGTHENED, FORTIFIED, (encouraged, protected, safeguarded, secured, ARMORED) MOTIVATED, FRESH, RENEWED, TRANSFORMED, NEW, CHANGED, ENERGIZED, REJUVENATED, REVIVED, RESTORED, REPAIRED ...
Biblical RE-CREATION:
When thinking of Biblical RE-CREATION we MOVE INTO THE SPECIAL POWERFUL WORKS of the HOLY SPIRIT arena - meaning RESTORATION, REPARATION and RENEWAL to a state of being TOTALLY a NEW PERSON ... REPENTED and WASHED in the BLOOD of the LAMB - for the Bible tells us that it is the SAME SPIRIT Who RAISED YAHSHUA from the DEAD (Rom. 8:11) ... Who will also RESTORE us ... cause us to be RE-CREATED more and more into the IMAGE of our SAVIOR.
The SPIRIT, the WATER and the BLOOD:
In 1 John 5, we are told that there are THREE WITNESSES, TESTIFYING for US - and on our BEHALF - BEFORE the THRONE of YAH (God):
The SPIRIT of TRUTH (HOLY SPIRIT)
The WATER (BAPTISM) and
The BLOOD (of MESSIAH YAHSHUA Himself by Whom we were BOUGHT).
1 John 5:6 "This is He Who CAME by (with) WATER and BLOOD [His BAPTISM and His DEATH], YAHSHUA the MESSIAH - not BY (IN) WATER ONLY, but BY (IN) the WATER AND THE BLOOD. And it is the HOLY SPIRIT Who BEARS WITNESS, because the [HOLY] SPIRIT is the Truth.
:7 So there ARE THREE WITNESSES ... :8 The SPIRIT, the WATER and the BLOOD: and these THREE AGREE [ARE in UNISON; their TESTIMONY COINCIDES]"
INHERITED RITUAL:
For YEARS ON END, some major Christian denominations are STILL CLINGING to BABY BAPTISM - a RITUAL INHERITED from the "GREAT MOTHER CHURCH" of the CONSTANTINIAN DECEPTION - KEEPING their MEMBERS AWAY from the TRUE BIBLICAL WATER IMMERSION BAPTISM that is a STATEMENT of one's FAITH and PART of REGENERATION (REBIRTH). As in the verses in 1 John, the VERY WATER BAPTISM that TESTIFY before the THRONE of our FATHER on our BEHALF ... the ULTIMATE STATEMENT of our FAITH of DYING to the SELF, LEAVING the OLD BEHIND, AND NOW LIVING a LIFE of NEW-NESS in Messiah Yahshua.
In John 3:5 MESSIAH YAHSHUA tells us that " ... UNLESS ONE is BORN of WATER (BAPTISM) and SPIRIT (through BAPTISM) he CANNOT ENTER into the KINGDOM of YAH (God).
Rom. 6:3-6 "BAPTIZED INTO HIS DEATH ... BURIED WITH Him through BAPTISM ... so that we ... MIGHT WALK IN NEWNESS of LIFE"
YOU MUST BELONG to the CHURCH - IT IS LAW!
INFANT BAPTISM is DEEPLY ENTWINED with the AUTHORITY (GOVERNMENT) of MEDIEVAL and REFORMATION-ERA EUROPE.
YOU MUST BAPTIZE your CHILD - IT IS LAW!
In GOVERNMENTAL AREAS, such as areas under Roman control - citizens were REQUIRED UNDER LAW of PENALTY to BELONG to the STATE-CHURCH and INFANT BAPTISM MARKED the INFANT as a CITIZEN of the ROMAN EMPIRE and as a LOYAL SUBJECT of the EMPIRE - making SURE to GET FULL CONTROL over ALL ITS SUBJECTS - BIG and SMALL.
SADLY many many SINCERE BELIEVERS are MISSING OUT ... KEPT from the TRUTH of the BIBLICAL IMMERSION BAPTISM - KEPT from A NEW START to WALK in NEWNESS of LIFE - KEPT from the POWERFUL WORKS of the HOLY SPIRIT IN them because they were BAPTIZED as INFANTS INTO the CHURCH ... by PARENTS, who just as I, did NOT KNOW BETTER ...
O Abba, forgive me and the multitude of parents out there who do NOT KNOW BETTER ... who are caught up in the religion and the traditions of the church - baptizing their infants INTO the CHURCH ... baptized themselves as infants by parents who did not know better LACKING KNOWLEDGE ... KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING that are WITHHELD or "REASONED" AWAY - BLINDING the EYES and DEAFENING the EARS for the TRUTH - to be KEPT from living in a WHOLEHEARTED RELATIONSHIP with You.
Father You say in Your Word that You have OVERLOOKED our IGNORANCE (Acts 17:30-31) but that we now must make amends and REPENT of our IGNORANCE - REPENT of our WRONGS - and TURN WHOLEHEARTEDLY to You. I pray Father for BONDAGES to be BROKEN, for spiritual BLINDED EYES to SEE and DEAFENED EARS to be OPENED ... for HINDRANCES to be DISMANTLED and TRUTH to SET the CAPTIVES FREE ... In Yahshua Messiah's NAME. Amen.