What is True Christianity? (Episode 4)

Name: What is True Christianity? (Episode 4)
Uploaded: 2025-01-14T08:04:50.799Z
Duration: 23 min 11 s
Channel: CHRISTIANITY • Beliefs • Life
Description: Have you ever wondered what it means to be a true Christian? Many believe that just going to church or being raised in a Christian environment is enough. But true salvation isn’t about traditions or rituals—it’s about a personal relationship with God.

CHRISTIANITY • Beliefs • Life

Jan 14, 2025

Have you ever wondered what it means to be a true Christian? Many believe that just going to church or being raised in a Christian environment is enough. But true salvation isn’t about traditions or rituals—it’s about a personal relationship with God.

WELCOME TO OUR THURSDAY'S BROADCAST OF THE GOSPEL TRUTH. ALL OF THIS WEEK I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS TRUE CHRISTIANITY? WHAT SETS CHRISTIANITY APART FROM OTHER RELIGIONS? AND ALSO THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD. THEY BELIEVE HE DIED ON THE CROSS. THEY BELIEVE ALL OF THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF SALVATION, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'RE SAVED. YOU HAVE TO DO MORE THAN JUST ACKNOWLEDGE GOD. SO I'VE BEEN TEACHING ON WHAT IS TRUE CHRISTIANITY. AND I HAVE THIS LITTLE BOOK ENTITLED THE NEW YOU AND THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT WILL DEAL WITH THIS. WE'VE GIVEN AWAY HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF THESE. I HAVE THIS IN SPANISH AS WELL AS ENGLISH. AND THEN WE HAVE CD'S AND DVD'S THAT WERE TAKEN FROM OUR TELEVISION PROGRAM THAT WILL DEAL WITH THIS. AND TOMORROW IS GOING TO BE MY LAST DAY TO DEAL WITH THIS. I'M JUST DEVOTING ONE WEEK TO THIS. AND SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE GO TO THE EFFORT OF GETTING THOSE MATERIALS. I'VE ALREADY SAID A LOT OF THINGS. AND YOU CAN GO TO OUR WEBSITE. YOU CAN WATCH THE ARCHIVED COPIES OF THESE TELEVISION PROGRAMS THAT WILL PUT THINGS INTO A LOT OF PERSPECTIVE. BUT I'VE USED PRIMARILY JOHN CHAPTER 8 WHERE JESUS SAID TO THE JEWS WHO BELIEVED ON HIM, IF YOU CONTINUE IN MY WORD, THEN ARE YOU MY DISCIPLES INDEED AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE. HE SAID THAT TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED ON HIM. BELIEVED ON HIM WHAT? THEY DIDN'T JUST BELIEVE THAT HE WAS A PERSON. THEY DIDN'T JUST BELIEVE THAT HE WAS ALIVE. THEY BELIEVED HIS MESSAGE THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH. THEY BELIEVED. BUT HE WENT ON TO SAY THAT YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE IN GOD'S WORD UNTIL YOU GET MADE FREE. AND THEN FINALLY THESE PEOPLE REBELLED AT ALL OF THAT AND HE TOLD THEM IN JOHN CHAPTER 8 VERSE 44 YOU ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL. HE WAS TALKING TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED ON HIM. SO THAT MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT THERE'S MORE THAN JUST BELIEVING. THERE'S DIFFERENT TYPES OF BELIEVING. THERE IS A BELIEVING THAT IS HEARTFELT AND FROM THE HEART. THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN ROMANS CHAPTER 10 VERSE 10 FOR WITH THE HEART MAN BELIEVES UNTO RIGHTEOUSNESS AND WITH THE MOUTH CONFESSION IS MADE UNTO SALVATION. YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE WITH YOUR HEART NOT JUST YOUR HEAD. YOU NOT JUST HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE SOMETHING IS TRUE BUT YOU HAVE TO COMMIT YOURSELF TO IT AND TRUST IT. YOU KNOW IT'S ONE THING TO LOOK AT A CHAIR AND SAY I BELIEVE THAT THAT CHAIR WILL HOLD ME UP BUT ARE YOU WILLING TO SIT IN IT AND PUT YOUR WEIGHT ON IT AND TRUST THAT YOU AREN'T GOING TO FALL. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE TO THE POINT THAT THERE'S CORRESPONDING ACTIONS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN JAMES CHAPTER 2 VERSE 20. I WANT TO TURN OVER TO JOHN CHAPTER 3 AND USE THE INSTANCE WHERE NICODEMUS ONE OF THE PHARISEES CAME TO VISIT JESUS BY NIGHT AND HE DID IT BY NIGHT BECAUSE MAN IT WAS NOT POPULAR TO BE A DISCIPLE OF JESUS ESPECIALLY IF YOU WERE IN THE RULING CLASS THIS RELIGIOUS RULING CLASS OF THE PHARISEES BECAUSE THEY HAD COME OUT AGAINST JESUS AND DISCREDITED HIM AND YET NICODEMUS WAS TOUCHED DROPPED ON TO JESUS BUT HE WASN'T BOLD ENOUGH TO DO IT BY DAY SO HE HAD TO COME TO HIM BY NIGHT. THE ONLY INSTANCES WE HAVE ABOUT NICODEMUS ARE THIS ONE THAT I'M GOING TO BE SHARING WITH YOU AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER TIME WHEN JESUS WAS BEING ACCUSED BY THE PHARISEE AND NICODEMUS WHO IS ONE OF THE PHARISEES SAYS DOES OUR LAW CONDEMN ANY PERSON BEFORE HE'S HAD AN ANSWER AN OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER ALL OF THE CRITICISM AGAINST HIM AND THEY TURNED ON HIM AND HE SAYS ARE YOU ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES? YOU LOOK OUT OF NAZARETH NO PROPHET COMES AND THEY DISCOUNTED HIM AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER MENTION WE HAVE OF NICODEMUS IS AFTER THE DEATH OF JESUS NICODEMUS WAS ONE OF THOSE WHO WENT AND ASKED FOR THE BODY OF JESUS AND HE ALONG WITH JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA THEY BURIED JESUS SO WE ONLY HAVE THESE THREE INSTANCES WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM BUT HERE IN JOHN CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 IT SAYS IN VERSE 1 THERE WAS A MAN OF THE PHARISEES NAMED NICODEMUS A RULER OF THE JEWS THE SAME CAME TO JESUS BY NIGHT AND SAID UNTO HIM RABBI WE KNOW THAT THOU ART A TEACHER COME FROM GOD FOR NO MAN CAN DO THESE MIRACLES THAT THOU DOEST EXCEPT GOD BE WITH HIM SO RIGHT HERE HE IS SAYING THAT I BELIEVE ON YOU HE SAYS I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE FROM GOD THESE MIRACLES COULDN'T HAPPEN THROUGH JUST A MAN YOU HAVE TO BE EMPOWERED AND ANOINTED BY GOD SO HE WAS WILLING TO BELIEVE ON JESUS THAT HE WAS DEFINITELY ANOINTED AND SEPARATED BY GOD BUT LOOK AT JESUS REACTION HE SAID IN VERSE 3 JESUS SAID UNTO HIM VERILY VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN AGAIN HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD YOU KNOW THE WORD RIGHT HERE BORN AGAIN COULD JUST AS EASILY BE TRANSLATED BORN FROM ABOVE AND THIS TERMINOLOGY WE USE THIS IT'S BECOME NEARLY A CLICHE AND PEOPLE TALK ABOUT IT BUT IT LITERALLY IS SAYING THAT IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU WERE BORN INTO THIS PHYSICAL LIFE YOU HAVE TO BE BORN AGAIN OR BORN FROM ABOVE IN YOUR SPIRIT MAN I COULD SPEND LITERALLY WEEKS TALKING ABOUT WHAT I'VE ENTITLED SPIRIT SOUL AND BODY IT'S YOUR SPIRIT THAT GETS BORN AGAIN NOT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY IF YOU WERE A MAN BEFORE YOU GOT SAVED YOU'RE GOING TO BE A MAN AFTER YOU GET SAVED YET IT SAYS OVER IN SECOND CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5 VERSE 17 IF ANY MAN BE IN CHRIST HE'S A NEW CREATURE OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW THAT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR BODY IF YOU WERE A MAN YOU'RE STILL GOING TO BE A MAN IF YOU WERE A WOMAN YOU'RE STILL GOING TO BE A WOMAN REGARDLESS OF WHAT OUR WOKE CULTURE SAYS YOU CAN'T CHANGE YOUR SEX SO IT'S NOT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY TO SAY AND IT'S ALSO NOT YOUR MENTAL YOUR EMOTIONAL PART WHICH THE BIBLE CALLS THE SOUL BECAUSE YOU STILL WILL HAVE YOUR PERSONALITY NOW IT CAN BE CHANGED AND IT CAN BE INFLUENCED BUT YOU DON'T BECOME A BRAND NEW PERSON MENTALLY EMOTIONALLY THE MOMENT YOU GET BORN AGAIN THE ONLY PART THAT'S LEFT IS YOUR SPIRIT OVER IN FIRST THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 VERSE 23 PAUL PRAYED A PRAYER AND HE SAID I PRAY GOD YOUR WHOLE SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY BE PRESERVED BLAMELESS SO RIGHT THERE HE SAYS THERE'S THREE PARTS TO YOU AND IT'S NOT YOUR BODY IT'S NOT YOUR SOUL THAT GOT CHANGED ALL THAT'S LEFT IS YOUR SPIRIT AND IN THE SPIRIT YOU GET CHANGED OR AS JESUS SAID YOU GET BORN FROM ABOVE IN THE SAME WAY THAT YOU HAD TO HAVE YOU HAD TO HAVE A BIRTH TO GET THIS PHYSICAL BODY AND TO BE ALIVE IN THIS LIFE IN THE SAME WAY TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN YOU HAVE TO GET A NEW SPIRIT FROM GOD AND SEE THIS IS WHAT SO MANY PEOPLE ARE MISSING THEY THINK THAT CHRISTIANITY IS JUST A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES AND REGULATIONS FROM THE MUSLIMS FROM THE BUDDHISTS FROM WHOEVER AND THEY JUST THINK THAT WE JUST BELIEVE THIS AND THAT'S THE REASON SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY WELL THERE'S MANY PATHS TO GOD BUT THEY ALL LEAD TO GOD AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU BELIEVE JUST AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT WHAT JESUS TAUGHT JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14 6 I AM THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE NO MAN COMES TO THE FATHER BUT BY ME HE DIDN'T MAKE IT SO THAT HE WAS A WAY HE IS THE WAY NO MAN CAME TO THE FATHER BUT BY HIM IT ALSO SAYS IN ACTS CHAPTER 4 NEITHER IS THERE SALVATION IN ANY OTHER FOR THERE IS NO OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY YOU MUST BE SAVED THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS MANY DIFFERENT PATHS UNTO GOD YOU EITHER COME TO GOD THROUGH JESUS OR YOU DON'T COME TO GOD THERE IS NO SALVATION IN ANYBODY ELSE AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO RECOGNIZE JUST LIKE THIS IS SAYING THAT NOBODY CAN ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN EXCEPT HE BE BORN FROM ABOVE BORN AGAIN EXCEPT HE RECEIVED THIS NEW SPIRIT AND AS I SAID I COULD TEACH ON THIS FOR WEEKS MATTER OF FACT I'VE GOT TEACHING ENTITLED SPIRIT SOUL AND BODY AND YOU'VE ALREADY GOT IT AND JUST SO MANY OF MY TEACHINGS ARE ALL BASED ON THIS ONE THING THAT WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN IT IS NOT JUST A MENTAL CHANGE WHERE YOU START ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE IS A GOD THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD THAT HE DIED FOR YOUR SINS IT'S NOT JUST AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BUT IT IS A BELIEF FROM THE HEART WHERE YOU ARE LITERALLY COMMITTING YOUR LIFE TO HIM YOU ARE PUTTING ALL OF YOUR HOPE ALL OF YOUR FAITH ALL OF YOUR TRUST IN JESUS AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS THERE IS A CHANGE THAT TAKES PLACE ON THE INSIDE OF YOU IT'S NOT JUST MENTAL IT'S NOT JUST A CHANGING OF YOUR MIND IT'S A CHANGING OF YOUR ENTIRE NATURE YOU GET A BRAND NEW NATURE THAT IS FROM GOD AND THIS NEW NATURE IS DIFFERENT MAN I COULD SPEND AGAIN WEEKS TEACHING ON ROMANS CHAPTER 6 THAT YOU HAVE A BRAND NEW SPIRIT ON THE INSIDE OF YOU THAT IS NOW DEAD TO SIN THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T STILL GO OUT AND SIN AS A CHRISTIAN BECAUSE YOU NOT ONLY HAVE A NEW SPIRIT THAT'S THE PART OF YOU THAT WAS BORN AGAIN OR BORN FROM ABOVE BUT YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME BODY AND YOU STILL HAVE THE SAME MIND MENTAL EMOTIONAL PART AND UNTIL YOU RENEW YOUR MIND YOUR MIND IS KIND OF LIKE A COMPUTER AND IT WAS PROGRAMMED BY THAT SINFUL NATURE THAT ALL OF US WERE BORN WITH AND YOUR MIND WILL CONTINUE TO FUNCTION THE WAY IT WAS PROGRAMMED YOU'LL CONTINUE TO LUST YOU'LL CONTINUE TO BE SELFISH YOU'LL CONTINUE TO PUT DOWN OTHER PEOPLE THROUGH COMPARISON AND ON AND ON IT GOES UNTIL YOU TAKE THE WORD OF GOD AND RENEW YOUR MIND BUT THE TRUTH IS WHEN YOU TRULY GET BORN AGAIN IT'S NOT JUST A CHANGE UP HERE IN YOUR MIND IT IS A HEART FELT THING YOU BELIEVE FROM YOUR HEART AND YOU RECEIVE A BRAND NEW SPIRIT SO SEE CHRISTIANITY IS NOT JUST A SET OF BELIEFS IT INVOLVES A SET OF BELIEFS BUT WHEN YOU BELIEVE WITH YOUR HEART THEN IT PRODUCES A CHANGED PERSON ON THE INSIDE AND THAT MANIFESTATION OF THE CHANGE WILL HAVE VARIANT EFFECTS IN DIFFERENT PEOPLE DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH THEY RENEW THEIR MIND AND HOW CONFORMED THEY COME TO WHAT HAS HAPPENED ON THE INSIDE OF THEM BUT THE TRUTH IS WHEN A PERSON GETS TRULY BORN AGAIN THEY ARE CHANGED AND IT SAYS OVER IN FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 5 THAT WE HAVE A WITNESS IN OURSELF AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE SO A PERSON THAT IS SAYING OH YEAH I'M A CHRISTIAN AND YET THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE NOW AGAIN THE CHANGE CAN VARY BECAUSE IF YOU AREN'T TAUGHT THE TRUTH WELL THEN YOU AREN'T GOING TO BE SET FREE JOHN CHAPTER 8 VERSE 32 FAITH COMES BY HEARING HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND IT SAYS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THE WORD OF GOD TO QUICKEN OUR FAITH SO IF A PERSON COMES TO THE LORD AND TRULY MAKES A HEARTFELT COMMITMENT TO THE LORD THEY COULD BE BORN AGAIN IN THEIR SPIRIT AND YET IT WOULD HAVE A LIMITED IMPACT ON THEIR PHYSICAL BODY THEIR ACTIONS IF THEY DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH IF THEY DON'T GET THEIR MIND RENEWED AND SO TO THE DEGREE THAT WE RENEW OUR MIND AS ROMANS CHAPTER 12 VERSE 2 SAYS BE NOT CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THAT GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD YOU HAVE TO GET TRANSFORMED THROUGH RENEWING YOUR MIND YOU GET CHANGED IN THE SPIRIT INSTANTLY AT THE MOMENT OF SALVATION BUT THEN THE REST OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ISN'T LEARNING HOW TO GET MORE FROM GOD BUT IT'S RENEWING YOUR MIND TO WHAT YOU GOT WHEN YOU WERE BORN AGAIN AND YOU LEARNED TO DRAW IT OUT IT'S NOT DRAWING IT IN IT'S DRAWING IT OUT ONCE YOU GET BORN AGAIN THERE IS A REAL TRANSFORMATION THAT TAKES PLACE IN YOUR SPIRIT AND IF THERE'S ANYBODY WATCHING THIS PROGRAM THAT ALL YOU'VE DONE IS JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE IS A GOD THAT JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD THAT HE DIED FOR YOUR SINS AND YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T COMMITTED YOURSELF TO HIM AND SUBMITTED YOURSELF TO HIM TO THE DEGREE THAT YOU GET CHANGED ON THE INSIDE THEN THAT'S NOT SALVATION HELL IS GOING TO BE FULL OF PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A GOD AND PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD BUT THEY NEVER SUBMITTED THEMSELVES TO HIM NOW AGAIN THERE IS VARYING DEGREES OF SUBMISSION BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE HAVEN'T BEEN TAUGHT THE TRUTH MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THAT ALL THERE IS TO SALVATION IS JUST ASK FORGIVENESS FOR YOUR SINS YOU GET AN ASSURANCE OF HEAVEN AND THEN YOU LIVE THE WAY YOU WANT TO UNTIL WE DIE AND GO TO BE WITH THE LORD SO IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD THE TRUTH YOU MAY NOT BE REFLECTING IT PERFECTLY BUT IF YOU WERE TRULY BORN AGAIN THERE IS A CHANGE IN YOUR HEART LET ME QUOTE TO YOU OUT OF FIRST JOHN CHAPTER THREE IT SAYS BEHOLD WHAT MANNER OF LOVE THE FATHER HATH BESTOWED UPON US THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE SONS OF GOD THEREFORE THE WORLD KNOWS US NOT BECAUSE IT KNEW HIM NOT AND THEN VERSE TWO SAYS BELOVED NOW ARE WE THE SONS OF GOD AND IT DOES NOT YET APPEAR WHAT WE SHALL BE BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM FOR WE SHALL SEE HIM AS HE IS AND THEN VERSE THREE SAYS AND EVERY MAN THAT HAS THIS HOPE IN HIM PURIFIES HIMSELF EVEN AS HE IS PURE IF YOU TRULY HAVE RECEIVED THIS LOVE OF GOD AND IF IT'S A TRUE REALITY SO THAT YOUR NATURE HAS BEEN CHANGED THEN YOU WILL SEEK TO PURIFY YOURSELF EVEN AS HE IS PURE AND IF YOU AREN'T SITTING UNDER A TRUE MINISTRY OF THE WORD OF GOD FOR INSTANCE THERE'S SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN LIED TO AND TOLD THAT GOD DOESN'T DO MIRACLES TODAY THAT THOSE PASSED AWAY WITH THE APOSTLES THEY'RE TOLD THAT YOU CAN'T EXPECT GOD TO MOVE MIRACULOUSLY THAT THOSE THINGS DON'T HAPPEN TODAY WELL THEN YOU AREN'T GOING TO MANIFEST THE HEALING THE PROSPERITY THE JOY THE PEACE THE VICTORY THAT IS AVAILABLE TO US BECAUSE FAITH COMES BY HEARING AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD ROMANS 10 17 AND YOU HADN'T HEARD THE TRUTH BUT IF YOU WERE TRULY BORN AGAIN IN YOUR SPIRIT YOU SEEK TO PURIFY YOURSELF AND A PERSON THAT WOULD SAY OH YEAH I BELIEVE I'M BORN AGAIN BECAUSE AGAIN THAT'S BECOME A RELIGIOUS CLICHE AND PEOPLE THROW THIS AROUND WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT BUT PEOPLE WILL SAY OH YEAH I'M BORN AGAIN BUT THEY HAVE NO DESIRE TO LIVE A GODLY LIFE THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SHACK UP WITH SOMEBODY AND NOT BE MARRIED TO HIM THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE A HOMOSEXUAL THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE A TRANSGENDER THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO COMMIT ADULTERY THEY'RE GOING TO LIE THEY'RE GOING TO STEAL THEY'RE GOING TO LIVE THEIR LIFE THE WAY THEY WANT TO AND YET THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE BORN AGAIN THEY SAY THAT THEY'RE A CHRISTIAN I BELIEVE THAT'S A LIE THAT IS NOT TRUE NOW AGAIN THERE COULD BE VARYING DEGREES OF MANIFESTING THIS HOLINESS IF YOU AREN'T TAUGHT THE TRUTH BUT IF YOU WERE TRULY BORN AGAIN JUST LIKE IT SAYS IN FIRST JOHN 3-3 YOU SEEK TO PURIFY YOURSELF IF YOU AREN'T BEING TOLD THE TRUTH IF YOU ARE HAVING THE TRUTH HIDDEN FROM YOU YOU MAY BE DOING A POOR JOB OF IT AND YOU MAY STILL BE TRAPPED IN SOME TYPE OF SIN BUT IF THAT'S SO YOU ARE MISERABLE YOU HATE IT YOU'RE TRYING TO GET OUT OF IT A PERSON THAT IS ENJOYING SIN AND LIVING IN THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A LIFETIME AND YET CLAIMING TO BE BORN AGAIN YOU'RE DECEIVED MAN THOSE ARE STRONG STRONG STATEMENTS AND MANY PEOPLE WILL REJECT ME OVER THAT BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT JESUS WAS TEACHING UNLESS YOU BE BORN AGAIN BORN FROM ABOVE YOU CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND NICODEMUS SAID UNTO 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 AGAIN HE WAS JUST THINKING IN THE NATURAL PHYSICAL TERMS NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE IS A SPIRITUAL PART OF US AND IN VERSE FIVE JESUS ANSWERED BARELY BARELY I SAY UNTO YOU EXCEPT A MAN BE BORN OF WATER I THINK THAT'S TALKING ABOUT YOUR NATURAL BIRTH COURSE THE EMBRYONIC SACK YOU WERE BORN IN WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THIS NEW BIRTH BORN AGAIN OR BORN FROM ABOVE HE CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH THAT'S TALKING ABOUT YOUR FIRST BIRTH YOUR NATURAL BIRTH AND THAT WHICH IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT THAT'S TALKING ABOUT BEING BORN FROM ABOVE AND IT'S NOT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY THAT GOT BORN AGAIN IT'S NOT YOUR SOUL THAT GOT BORN AGAIN BUT IN THE SPIRIT YOU ARE BORN AGAIN AND YOU HAVE A BORN AGAIN SPIRIT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY CAME THROUGH THAT PHYSICAL BIRTH YOUR SPIRITUAL NEW MAN THIS BEING BORN FROM ABOVE CAME FROM THIS NEW BIRTH HE SAYS MARVEL NOT THAT I SAID UNTO THEE YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN AND THEN HE USED THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU CAN'T SEE THE WIND BUT YOU CAN SEE THE EFFECTS OF THE WIND YOU CAN'T SEE WIND BUT YOU CAN SEE LEAVES BLOWING IN THE WIND YOU CAN SEE TREES SWAYING IN THE WIND BUT YOU CAN'T SEE THE WIND YOU CAN SEE THE EFFECTS OF THE WIND IN THE SAME WAY YOU CAN'T SEE THE SPIRIT OF GOD BUT YOU CAN SEE THE EFFECTS WHEN THE SPIRIT OF GOD ENTERS INTO A MAN AND WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN IT SAYS IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 4 VERSES 6 THAT GOD HAS SENT FORTH THE SPIRIT OF HIS SON INTO OUR HEARTS, CRYING, ABBA FATHER. WHEN YOU TRULY GET BORN FROM ABOVE, YOU HAVE JESUS HIMSELF LIVING ON THE INSIDE OF YOU. THIS IS HARD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE HE'S NOT A PHYSICAL BODY THAT'S INSIDE OF YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, IT'S THE SPIRIT. IT GOES ON TO SAY IN ROMANS CHAPTER 8 VERSE 9, IF ANY MAN HAVE NOT THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST, HE IS NONE OF HIS. SO WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN, IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS DONE LIKE ON PAPER AND WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN, THEN THERE WILL BE AN ACTUAL CHANGE ON THE INSIDE OF A PERSON. NO, RIGHT NOW WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN, ONE-THIRD OF YOU, YOUR SPIRIT PERSON IS AS SAVED AS IT WILL EVER BE. IT'S AS CHANGED AS IT WILL EVER BE. ACCORDING TO FIRST JOHN CHAPTER 4 VERSE 17, AS JESUS IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. IT DIDN'T SAY SO ARE WE GOING TO BE IN THE NEXT WORLD, IT SAYS SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THAT, YOUR BODY IS NOT LIKE JESUS BECAUSE JESUS' GLORIFIED BODY WAS ABLE TO APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND IT SAYS THAT WHEN WE GET A GLORIFIED BODY, WE'LL BE LIKE HIM. SO YOUR BODY IS NOT CHANGED NOW, YOUR MENTAL EMOTIONAL PART IS UNDER THE PROCESS OF BEING CHANGED AND RENEWED. BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU, YOU STILL HAVE SOME CORRUPT THOUGHTS, YOU ARE NOT PERFECT. PAUL SAID NOW WE KNOW IN PART AND WE PROPHESY IN PART BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT IS COME THAT WHICH IS IN PART WILL BE DONE AWAY WITH AND WE WILL KNOW ALL THINGS EVEN AS ALSO WE ARE KNOWN. THAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. SO YOUR BODY AND YOUR SOUL HAVEN'T CHANGED YET BUT IN THE SPIRIT YOU ARE A COMPLETELY BRAND NEW PERSON WHEN YOU GET BORN FROM ABOVE AND THIS SPIRIT NOW IS THE PART THAT GOD RELATES TO. IT SAYS IN JOHN CHAPTER 4 VERSE 24 THAT GOD IS THE SPIRIT AND THOSE WHO WORSHIP HIM MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. IT DIDN'T SAY THIS IS THE BEST WAY TO WORSHIP HIM, THIS IS THE SUPERIOR WAY. IT SAYS YOU MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. SO YOU HAVE TO WORSHIP GOD BASED ON WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR SPIRIT. WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN YOU GET BORN FROM ABOVE, YOU RECEIVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST COMING AND LIVING ON THE INSIDE OF YOU AND YOU HAVE TO APPROACH GOD ON THE BASIS OF WHO YOU ARE IN THE SPIRIT NOT BASED ON YOUR PHYSICAL BODY, NOT BASED ON YOUR MENTAL EMOTIONAL PART. AND BOY THIS IS WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE ARE MISSING OUT ON THE THINGS OF GOD BECAUSE THEY ONLY THINK IN THE NATURAL AND THEY THINK OH GOD I FAILED YOU AGAIN AND THEY COME BEFORE GOD AND THEY THINK HOW COULD YOU EVER LOVE ME. IT'S BECAUSE GOD IS LOOKING AT YOU IN THE SPIRIT. IF YOU'VE BEEN BORN AGAIN HE IS RELATING TO YOU SPIRIT TO SPIRIT AND IN YOUR SPIRIT YOU ARE A BRAND NEW CREATURE. YOU ARE TOTALLY CHANGED AND GOD IS RELATING TO YOU BASED ON THE SPIRIT. NOW HE'S NOT IGNORANT OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR MENTAL EMOTIONAL PART AND WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR BODY. AND SO IF YOU ARE SINNING WITH YOUR ACTIONS IF YOU'RE SINNING IN YOUR THOUGHTS HE'S NOT IGNORANT OF THAT BUT HE LOVES YOU. HE LOVES YOU IN SPITE OF WHO YOU ARE NOT BECAUSE OF WHO YOU ARE HE LOVES YOU BECAUSE YOU CONFESS JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND IN THE SPIRIT YOU NOW ARE A BRAND NEW PERSON AND HE SEES YOU AS RIGHTEOUS AND HOLY AND TRUE AS JESUS IS IN YOUR SPIRIT. BUT HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH THAT HE ALSO IS AWARE OF YOUR SOUL AND YOUR BODY AND HE WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO OVERCOME THESE TEMPTATIONS HOW TO QUIT LIVING IN SIN AND GIVING SATAN AN ENROAD INTO YOUR LIFE. HE WILL TAKE AWAY THE DISCOURAGEMENT THE DEPRESSION THE PROBLEMS THAT SATAN HAS PUT IN YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE YIELDED YOURSELF TO HIM. SO HE LOVES YOU BASED ON WHO YOU ARE IN YOUR SPIRIT BUT HE WILL ALSO HELP YOU TO OVERCOME THINGS IN YOUR SOULISH REALM AND IN YOUR PHYSICAL BODY. BUT UNDERSTANDING THESE THINGS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BORN. IF YOU WERE BORN PHYSICALLY THAT'S WHAT GAVE YOU THIS PHYSICAL BODY AND THIS SOULISH REALM. BUT WHEN YOU GET BORN FROM ABOVE WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN THAT'S WHAT GAVE YOU A BRAND NEW SPIRIT. SO TRUE CHRISTIANITY IS NOT JUST A CHANGE OF BELIEFS IT IS ACCEPTING CERTAIN BELIEFS BUT THEN BELIEVING THEM FROM YOUR HEART TO THE POINT THAT IT CHANGES YOU ON THE INSIDE. YOU BECOME A NEW PERSON ON THE INSIDE.