2026_05_17 The Necessity of New Birth

This is the one thing needful. You can have everything in this world, all that it has to offer you. You can look good on the outside, behave well on the outside. You can go to church, But if you've not been born again, you remain in darkness. And the bible tells us, under God's judgment, headed towards everlasting death. What does anything matter if that's our condition? [00:49:15] (35 seconds)  #OneThingNeedful

But you don't become a Christian by being baptized as an infant and by going to church. You know, one person said going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in a car makes in a garage makes you a car. You know? You need something may a major change. And and apart from being born again, you're not a true believer in Christ. You're not a Christian. You you don't have life. [00:48:48] (27 seconds)  #NotJustChurch

The only way we can get from there over into the light is by being born again. You gotta be born again into that other kingdom. As Jesus says, no one can enter the kingdom of god unless they're born again. Flesh gives birth to flesh and spirit gives birth to spirit. In that one kingdom, it's a perishable seed. One Peter one twenty three, for you have been born again, not of a perishable seed, but of an imperishable to the living word of God. [01:07:07] (32 seconds)  #BornAgainKingdom

That's the problem. Us, sin, death, under God's wrath because of his justice. But there's a solution. It begins with God's love. The good news is that the story doesn't end there. Paul continues, but because of his great love for us, God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. It is by grace you have been saved. [01:03:27] (36 seconds)  #SavedByGrace

New birth is being made alive with Christ. We are joined with Christ, and his life becomes our life. Christ through the spirit enters into us. His very life enters into us. That's being born again, and there's a new life that's implanted there. And it changes everything. We're joined with Jesus. [01:04:03] (29 seconds)  #AliveInChrist

The seed of your parents, your mom, and your dad's a perishable seed. We're all from that those individual seeds. Right? And we're all perishing. We're gonna all die. It's a perishable seed. But the the seed born in us by Christ is a seed of everlasting life. It's imperishable. See, the one is human life. The other is Christ life. Flesh gives birth to flesh, and spirit gives birth to spirit. [01:07:39] (26 seconds)  #ImperishableSeed

The problem is that we're born into a sinful world that's under the dominion of Satan, and that we ourselves are bent towards sin, and we all sin and fall short of the glory of God. In Romans six twenty three says, the wages of sin is death. That's our problem. Born into a dark world, we take on that darkness, we sin. We had the darkness even from birth because our parents walked in the same darkness by nature, and we're under death sentence. [01:02:15] (32 seconds)  #WagesOfSin

It's eternal life because it's Christ's life, and Christ can never die, and he lives in you, and therefore, your inner being can never die. Your body will die, but not your inner being. And the day will come, the bible says, when we will receive new bodies, we'll be raised again from the dead, and God will make a new heaven and a new earth where we'll live in new bodies forever. [01:08:12] (19 seconds)  #ResurrectionHope