JonHawk said:
Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3
Yes -- Flesh is mad of a woman born under the law and the spirit of flesh. That which is born of Spirit opens up how that carnal spirit works from flesh and how Spirit works that guides that flesh. To be born again is to receive the mind of God who is a Spirit and not flesh. Jesus was born of Gods Spirit in Matt 3:16 and the same happens in all who is born of Gods Spirit, born again from the carnal spirit to the Spirit of Love that God is.
Not very many who say they are born of God actually are like Him as it is to be born again of God and not flesh.
Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; Who has given us a new spiritual life through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
Actually Jesus was my example for how to receive the same as he did from God Himself. Most dont follow the ways of Jesus they think he is a god instead of teacher of the way to God.
He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed for your sake who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him, and so your faith rests in God. 1 Peter 1
Yes Gods anointing has always been with man, Adam was the first to be born again and become like God to know this difference, just as Jesus receieved that same knowledge in Matt 3:16.
Children born not of natural birth, but as a result of a divine promise fulfilled in Christ.
Yes Christ in you, Gods anointing in you, His Spirit in you no different from the anointing Jesus basked in in the Father.
To all who received Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12-13
And not until one receives from God His anointing by His Spirit is one a child of God, His son or daughter. Not many has receieved Him as Jesus did however.
You know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him. 1 John 2:29'
And everyone who is born of God, born again, is righteous and perfect even as our Father in heaven is perfect.
By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practise righteousness is not of God, 1 John 3:10
That is what I keep saying, it isn't hard to see who is like Jesus was in the Father and who isn't. Most are sinners instead of the saint.
To be born of God is to receive the promised Son, Christ.
Yes and all who is anointed of God as Jesus was are His son.
In whom we have redemption;
Yes the same redemption Jesus received from God in Matt 3:16. He was redeemed back to the same image of God as we all are who has received Him to have His same mind.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation; All things were created through Him and for Him; Col 1
I an His son no different from His other son Jesus and in His same image for sure as Jesus receieved from Him to be in His same image as well. .
Chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are offering up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture,
“Behold, I lay in Zion
A chief cornerstone, elect, precious;
Yes everyone is chosen by God but few who choose Him to be like Him as Jesus made that same choice in Matt 3:16. Cant know God at all without the same in you.
They stumble because they do not believe;
Yes Gods Spirit in man, Christ in you, is the big stumbling block for religious minds who cant be like Him and perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect, as He commands of us if we are to be of Him as Jesus was of Him.
But you [believers] are His own people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 1 Peter 2
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Beliefs are not real and one can believe anything about a god but it is another matter when God is manifest in you and you receive in you the same One Jesus received in himself in Matt 3:16 where He opens to Jesus who He is and all of His heaven in that man. .