How to Be Born Again? Need to Gain Truth From God

By Yan Xi

At the mention of rebirth, I believe that the brothers and sisters in the Lord all know it and may think of the exchange between the Lord Jesus and Nicodemus recorded in the Bible, “Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, Except a man be 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?” (John 3:3-4). We all know that the so-called rebirth is absolutely not the meaning of being born again from his mother’s womb as what Nicodemus comprehended. Then, what does the rebirth mean? Some brothers and sisters believe, “The lord Jesus has taken on our sins. We have gained the Lord’s redemption by belief in Him and are no longer condemned by the laws. Because of this we are reborn.” And some brothers and sisters believe, “As long as we weep bitterly, repent and confess all the sins we have committed before the Lord, and then accept baptism, the Lord will forgive our sins, and bestow us a new life. Thus, we will be reborn.”

I thought of what the Scripture said: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Then, that is to say, real rebirth means that man accepts God’s salvation and has been cleansed of the corrupt disposition. According to these scriptures, it is sufficient to prove that the believers now are out of the state of being reborn. Then, how can we be reborn? What is the path to being reborn?

Later, I constantly examined the scriptures. I saw Jesus said to the Jews believing in Him in John 8:32: “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” From the Lord’s words we see that it is the truth that can make people free. Only after people gain the truth and have the truth and God’s words as the reality of life are they able to overcome Satan, and completely break free from the bondage and restrictions of sins, so as to never sin again to disobey God or resist God. Thus, they will completely break away from the degenerate life of sinning by day and confessing by night, rely on the truth and God’s words to live, truly obey God and worship God, and live a free and liberate life before God. Because the Lord Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life,” it can be seen that if we want to gain life, we must gain the truth from God first. Those who cannot gain the truth will never receive life, and they will forever be bound and constrained by sins, and become slaves of sins. From this, we can see that our belief that we will receive life through repenting and confessing sins before God and then gaining peace and joy of His forgiveness and we are reborn after being baptized are merely our conceptions and imaginations. This is not in conformity with the truth and the Lord’s will at all.

As we all know, after mankind was corrupted by Satan, God has begun His work of six-thousand-year management to save mankind. In the beginning the work of the Age of Law was carried out in Israel, and God issued His laws and commandments according to the needs of mankind at that time, and led them to live on earth, which made them know some common knowledge about mankind’s life and about living as a man, and how to worship Jehovah God, how to live with others, how to build the temple, and so on. Moreover, He also told them that they would be forgiven as long as they offered up a sin offering after they committed sins. Through this, He restricted them not to commit sins. But, at the end of the Age of Law, men became more and more corrupt, to the extent that they couldn’t abide by the law and didn’t have the best offerings to God since they had committed too many sins. They faced the danger of perishing under the punishments for violating the law. Thus, at the time many people were possessed by demons and afflicted by Satan. God couldn’t bear to see man being trampled and fooled by Satan like this, so He ended the work of the Age of Law and began the new work of the Age of Grace. He personally came to earth in the flesh and became the sin offering for man to redeem man from sins and forgive man’s sins. As long as man believes in Him, accepts Jesus as the Savior, and confesses and repents to the Lord Jesus, then he will get the sin offering bestowed by God so as to be forgiven of his sins and no longer be condemned, and live in the state of peace and joy. However, after believing in the Lord, why do man still live in sins and be unable to put into practice the way of the Lord? What is the reason for this? That is because the Lord Jesus’ work was limited to redemption alone and He did not do the work of judging, cleansing and saving man that God of the last days does. The Lord Jesus’ work was clearly to pave the way for the work of judgment in the last days. Therefore, the Lord Jesus said: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come” (John 16:12:13). God said clearly that in the last days He would carry out a step of work based on the needs of mankind to provide man truth and life, which is the way to help man thoroughly free from the dark influence of Satan, cast off satanic disposition, and break away from sins, so that he can gain a new life and be reborn from God’s words.

Now the Spirit of truth has come, He is Almighty God incarnate in the last days. On the basis of the redemptive work of the Lord Jesus and according to the current condition of man’s corruption, Almighty God has expressed several million words to judge all mankind, reveal and dissect the corrupt disposition of all mankind. If man accepts such work of God, then he will be purified and saved thoroughly, and live out the likeness of a true person according to God’s words. And he will be born again because of this. Just as God says: “If one can truly enter into the reality of God’s words from the matters and the words required by Him, then he will be a person perfected by God. It can be said that the work and the words of God are completely effective for this person, that God’s words become his life, he obtains truth, and he can live according to God’s words. After this the nature of his flesh, that is, the foundation of his original existence, will shake and collapse. After one has the words of God as their life they become a new person. The words of God become his life; the vision of God’s work, His requirements of man, His revelation of man, and the standards for a true life that God requires man to achieve become his life—he lives according to these words and these truths, and this person becomes perfected by the words of God. He experiences rebirth and becomes a new man through His words.” From this we can see that after man accepts the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, is capable to truly know and hate his own satanic nature and substance, and casts off the things of Satan, that is, after the foundation of his original existence begins to shake and collapse, and Satan’s laws for man’s life are replaced by God’s words and the truth, then man can lead a new life according to the standard required by God—only thus can he be the one who truly gets reborn. In real life the root reason why we are unable to practice the words of God, to live at peace with others, to bear with others to achieve loving others as ourselves, and to have the singular love to God is because we are restricted and controlled by our satanic corrupt nature. Things of the nature can’t be restrained by man. Only through the judgment and chastisement of God’s words, the revelation of the facts, and moreover, all kinds of trials and refinements, can they be shaken and changed; finally man is able to cast off these corruptions and live by God’s words. Those who put into practice being an honest person, pursue to love God and submit to God, and act as a true creation of God are the ones God loves, the new creatures through God’s words as well.

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God says: “Christ of the last days brings life, and brings the enduring and everlasting way of truth. This truth is the path through which man shall gain life, and the only path by which man shall know God and be approved by God. If you do not seek the way of life provided by Christ of the last days, then you shall never gain the approval of Jesus, and shall never be qualified to enter the gate of the kingdom of heaven….” From these words of God we can see that if man wants to enter the kingdom of God, he must accept the words of Christ in the last days as provision of life, for Christ in the last days is the embodiment of truth. These truths are the reality of the truth mankind should possess, are the only path for mankind to be purified, saved and obtained by God and gain life. If we gain all the truths from the words of Christ of the last days, then we will gain life, in the end be brought into God’s kingdom, and inherit the beautiful blessings and promises bestowed by God. However, if man can’t keep up with the footsteps of Christ of the last days, and can’t gain all the truths Almighty God has expressed for man to be saved, then he will never gain life or be approved by God.

Source: Walk in the Light

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4 Useful Steps to Build a Strong Relationship With God

By Jingnian, the United States

God says: “[E]stablishing a good relationship with God is of the utmost importance to anyone who believes in God; everyone should regard it as a task of paramount importance and the biggest event in their life” (“How Is Your Relationship With God?”). We can see from God’s words that building a normal relationship with God in one’s faith in God is a truth of the utmost importance. If we wish to pursue God’s commendation and serve God’s will, only through building a normal relationship with God can these things be achieved. If we do not have a normal relationship with God, then we do not deserve to be called believers—that is why building a normal relationship with God is so important. So how are we to build a normal relationship with God? Below is a simple fellowship of the four principles.

1. Quiet Your Heart Before God and Truly Pray to God

The Bible says: “Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life” (Proverbs 4:23). The Lord Jesus said: “But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship Him” (John 4:23). God sets great store by the heart of man. Though sometimes we may not say our prayers to God, or we get busy with our jobs, our hearts still draw close to God, God has a place in our hearts, and our hearts obey God in everything we do. In this way, we are able to obtain the guidance, leadership, enlightenment and illumination of the Holy Spirit, and our relationship with God becomes ever more normalized. Therefore, the most important principle to building a normal relationship with God is to quiet our hearts before God.

We live nowadays in this world of infinite distractions, and our fast-paced lives mean that our hearts end up occupied with all manner of people, events and things, thereby giving us very little time to quiet ourselves before God, draw close to God and contemplate God. Because our hearts are often drawn away from God, and because we cannot give our hearts to God, much less obey God in our hearts, we are therefore incapable of obtaining the work of the Holy Spirit, we are without God’s guidance and leadership in our lives, we often end up overworked and exhausted in both body and mind as we busy ourselves with all the various people, events and things in our lives, and nothing we do turns out well. But we have all certainly experienced that, when we quiet our hearts before God, when we look to God and rely on God with our hearts, and we seek the truth in all things, we are then able to obtain God’s guidance and leadership, we become aware of what actions conform with God’s will, what actions cannot satisfy God and, through prayer, we become able to forsake our flesh and let go of the things which are at odds with God’s will. Moreover, when our relationship with God becomes normalized, we have God’s guidance in all things, we can have a more accurate perspective on problems, we can discover the shortcomings and deficiencies in our actions in a timely way, and we can find the right path and achieve twice the result with half the effort in the things we do. From this, we can see that, if we wish to build a normal relationship with God, then giving our hearts to God is of the utmost importance. If we wish to achieve this, then we must consciously pray more to God and frequently contemplate God’s love and grace. That way, we will be moved by the Spirit of God without us even being aware of it, and we will then be able to live always in God’s presence.

2. Often Ponder God’s Words and Practice the Truth

The Lord Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). God’s words are the truth, they can show us the way, and they are the principles by which we act and conduct ourselves. By reading more of God’s words and understanding the truth, and by bringing God’s words into our lives so that we may experience and practice them, we come to live out the reality of God’s words, and our relationship with God becomes ever more normalized.

A lot of the time, we neglect to read God’s words because we are busy with our jobs, or with our families, or with our careers. We cannot quiet our hearts before God, much less put God’s words into practice. We grow farther and farther away from God, our spiritual lives gradually become barren, we fail to understand thoroughly many of the things we encounter in our lives, and we grope blindly around in the darkness, without direction or purpose. If we can read God’s words often and ponder God’s will and requirements within His words, then we will be able to practice correctly in accordance with His words, and our relationship with God will become normalized. As the Lord Jesus said: “Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). We discover in God’s words that God’s essence is faithful, that God loves honest people, that He requires us to be honest people, and that only honest people bear the likeness of a genuine human being and are able to attain God’s salvation and enter into His kingdom. Once we have understood this requirement God has of us, then when in our daily lives we wish to tell lies and engage in deception in order to protect our own interests, we are able to realize that this type of behavior and practice is hated by God. We are then able to consciously seek what we should do to be honest people and what to do to conform with God’s will. Once we have forsaken our flesh and have put God’s words into practice, our spirits feel incredibly at peace and at ease, free and liberated, and our relationship with God draws even closer.

Furthermore, when we come across any of God’s words we do not understand, we must seek out brothers and sisters who do understand the truth and fellowship with them, and through seeking, we will come to understand the truth and put it into practice. In short, only by reading God’s words more and frequently contemplating, fellowshiping and practicing God’s words will our understanding of the truth and our knowledge of God get better and better, and in this way our relationship with God will become normalized.

3. Harbor Right Intentions and Accept God’s Observation in All Things

If we want to build a normal relationship with God, then it is also very important to have the right motive in all things. Though there may be many who believe in God, there are very few who can act on God’s will in all things. Many people’s faith in God comes with their own personal motives and aims, and very little of what they do can be brought before God to receive His scrutiny. Take dedication and service, for example. True dedication and service should be built upon the desire to repay God’s love, without any personal motive or aim. Spontaneous dedication may include giving one’s money, one’s time, or giving one’s whole self. But what is undeniable is that, when we make dedications and we expend ourselves, it always involves numerous personal motives and impure intents. Take me, for example. When I saw God’s words saying, “Bring you all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in My house, and prove Me now herewith, said Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it” (Malachi 3:10), I then actively dedicated a tithe of all my earnings. I believed that everything I was earning was given to me by God anyway, and so I should give some back to God and that this was something I should give as a created being. But my own personal motive was kept hidden within the deepest recesses of my heart. I believed that, now that I had made this dedication, then God would certainly commend me, and I would be bound to receive even more rewards from God; that was the only reason I made such an active dedication. Let’s take another example from the words spoken by Paul the apostle: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: From now on there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day” (2 Timothy 4: 7–8). I greatly approved of these words when I read them, and so I went out preaching the gospel in all weathers, from dawn till dusk, and I established churches and supported the weak brothers and sisters, hoping to use these deeds as capital to buy myself glory and a crown to wear. I trust that there are more than just one or two of us who harbor such ideas. But what we have never considered is that, by making dedications, rushing about and expending ourselves in this way, we are not performing the duty of a created being, but rather we are making deals with God, and we are doing these things to get even greater blessings from God in return. In that case, no matter how much we may dedicate, or how much we may rush about or how much we may suffer, what is the point in any of it? God scrutinizes the innermost heart of man, so how can we be commended by God by trying to deceive God and by using Him in this way? And how can we build a normal relationship with God when we do things like this? The Lord Jesus said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment” (Matthew 22: 37–38). “If you continue in My word, then are you My disciples indeed” (John 8:31). God requires that we follow His way, and He clearly requires that we dedicate ourselves and expend ourselves for Him without any personal motive or impure intent, and without making deals with Him or expecting anything in return. We should expend ourselves for God purely to repay God’s love and out of our love for God, and we should give our all to satisfy God and serve God—this is the way we should follow as created beings, and it is the standard by which it is decided whether or not our faith is commended by God and acceptable to God. Therefore, in order to build a normal relationship with God, we must examine our aims in dedicating ourselves, suffering and expending ourselves for God, and immediately eliminate all the various impurities and improper motives which exist within our faith in God.

4. Seek the Truth in All Things and Submit to God’s Rule and Arrangements

Our lives are filled with uncertainties every day, and we have no idea when we might come across something at odds with our own ideas. If we have no place for God in our hearts and we do not seek the truth, then all we can do is use our brains to analyze and study the things that happen, and we then become mired in the rights and wrongs of things. We are unable to submit to God’s sovereignty and arrangements, we even blame and misunderstand God, and we fall into a darkness of great suffering. Recently, a church friend of mine lost the vote to be Senior Executive in her company, which made her feel like she had lost a lot of face. In terms of qualification and business acumen, she was the best in the company. So why was she not chosen? She took what happened to heart and was unable to quiet her heart before God. A good friend then said to her, “You have to trust in God’s sovereignty with this matter. God’s good will is behind everything that happens to you. You must seek the truth in God’s words, and you must understand what God’s good will is for you now that you have lost the vote, and what lessons you need to learn.” Thanks to the reminder given by her good friend, she went before God to reflect on herself. After praying and seeking many times, and through reading God’s words, she finally saw that God’s good intentions were behind her losing the vote to be Senior Executive. After she had made some achievements in the company, she had become filled with wild ambitions and desires, and had wished to rise higher in the company and have better prospects. In order to realize her plans, for a long time she had kept herself busy only with work, and had neither prayed, nor read God’s words, nor attended church meetings regularly. Her heart had grown farther and farther from God, she had been living in sin without feeling much self-reproach and had even been wantonly sinful. God saw that she was living in pursuit of fame and gain and was unable to free herself, and so He used her losing the vote to remind her and to urge her to come before God in her suffering to reflect on herself, to halt her degenerate ways, to return once more before God, and to conduct herself and act in a down-to-earth manner. My church friend finally saw that what had appeared to be a bad thing actually turned out to be a good thing, and that God’s good intentions had been behind it all! Therefore, seeking the truth in all things, submitting to God’s guidance and practicing in accordance with God’s will are also practices that are crucial to building a normal relationship with God.

Above are the four principles of building a normal relationship with God, and by practicing in accordance with these principles, we will surely be able to establish and maintain a normal relationship with God. Thanks be to the enlightenment and guidance of God! May we all build normal relationships with God, and may our every action meet with God’s acceptance. Amen!

Source: Walk in the Light

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