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Discipling 12
Lesson 7
New Birth
Concept:
As Peter was preaching on the day of Pentecost,
the crowd cried out “What must we do to be saved?”
Peter’s answer was quick and powerful. “Repent and
be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus
Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you
will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 2:38).
Repentance simply means to stop holding on to the
world and the god of this world and to grab a hold
of the true and living God. Repentance will cause
our life direction to change as well as our logical
thinking process. We commonly have called this action
that the crowd experienced a born again experience.
The phrase “born again” was mentioned first in the
Gospel of John in chapter 3. Nicodemus came to Jesus
and asked how He was able to do what He was doing.
Jesus replied that you would never be able to see or
enter the kingdom of God unless you are “born again”.
This was a very difficult concept for Nicodemus to
understand, since he was trying to comprehend spiritual
things with a natural mind. Jesus was not introducing a
new natural birth process but a spiritual birth. Nicodemus
walked away confused. Let’s look at scriptures definition
so we will not have to walk away confused.
Scripture Application:
1. Genesis 2:17
2. Ephesians 2:1-3
3. Romans 5:12
4. Romans 5:15-18
5. Psalms 51:5-6
6. Romans 7:23
7. Romans 3:10
8. Colossians 2:13
9. Revelation 3:1
10. Ezekiel 36:25-27
11. John 8:44
12. II Corinthians 4:4
13. I John 3:8
14. I John 5:18
15. Ephesians 2:8-9
16. Titus 3:5-7
17. II Corinthians 5:17
18. I Corinthians 6:9-11
19. Malachi 3:3
20. Isaiah 1:18
21. Isaiah 43:25-26
22. Galatians 2:20
23. Colossians 1:27
24. Ephesians 3:17-19
25. John 14:7
26. I Corinthians 3:16
27. John 14:20
28. II Corinthians 6:16
29. Ephesians 2:20-22
30. Ephesians 4:24
31. Romans 6:6-23
32. Romans 8:9
33. I Thessalonians 4:3
34. II Thessalonians 2:13
35. Colossians 2:12-17
36. Galatians 4:5
37. Colossians 1:13
38. Galatians 3:24
39. Galatians 4:1-7
40. I John 4:4
41. Genesis 1:26
42. Job 27:3
43. Proverbs 20:27
Summary:
We need to be continually thankful to the
Lord for this great gift of salvation. It
was the grace of God that drove Jesus to go
to the cross for a group of sinners who kept
rejecting the gift and despising the giver.
He paid the debt we could not pay and brought
us into the Holy of Holies so we could be
called a son and a joint heir of the Most High.
Our name was sealed into the book of Life as we
were sealed into the Body of Christ. This free
gift made us a new creation, something that
never existed before. We were transferred from
the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of light,
and the devil no longer has us as his son/daughter.
We now belong to the Lord and are called a son and
a fellow heir. He cleansed us and calls us His own.
Never stop thanking the Lord that He calls you
the Apple of His Eye.
Action:
Meditate on Colossians 1:13 and Colossians 1:27
and allow the truth of those scriptures to
explode in your heart. Remember it is the
revelation of the truth of God’s Word that
sets us free!
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