 | Restoration Of Relationship Pt3posted by Everest John Alexander, Group AdministratorFriday, September 10th 2010 @ 5:21 PM  (2 ratings) |
Excerpt From My Ebook -
Understanding the 3 Levels of Salvation: Spirit, Soul & Body
Book One: The Salvation of the Spirit
Restoration Of Relationship
4) Regeneration - Is the pivotal point in the process of salvation!
It’s where your nature is actually changed from Sinner to Saint.
Unrighteous to Righteous! Profane to Holy! Remember, a person’s nature is synonymous with the condition of his spirit.
Regeneration is the recreation of your spirit and the releasing of the life of God in you! Regeneration is when your separated and corrupted spirit ceases to exist and in its place a new spirit is instantaneously recreated
and re-connected to God!
The Holy Spirit then takes up residence in your new spirit and continues to release the life of God in you. You’re once more in the image and likeness of God!
This is what being ‘Born Again’ means! It’s awesome!!!
NOTE: You are spirit! You are soul! You are body! You cannot be a human being and be anything less than this! But the source of your life is God and you’re connected to God through your spirit.
So, the condition of your entire being depends on the condition of your spirit and it’s connection to God. To be born again is a miracle! It is an awesome, stupendous, unimaginable work that only GOD can do and it works like this:
To Be Born Again
First, you hear the gospel of Jesus Christ! What is the
gospel???
It’s the good news that even though you are a sinner on your way to hell, Jesus Christ, God’s champion, took the judgment of your sin upon Him and died in your place, so that you can receive His righteousness and live with Him forever in complete victory.
That’s the gospel in a nutshell! You hear it and when you do, God grants you the grace to receive it! You receive it and it becomes a seed planted in your spirit. That seed is the word that you heard.
The word that you heard becomes that seed. The seed contains the very nature of God. You cannot separate God from His Word, He and His Word are one. They are the same in nature.
The bible says, “…The word was God” John 1:1!
Therefore the nature of God in the form of a seed is planted in your spirit!
So, this God-Seed is planted in your spirit. Now God gives you the faith to act upon that seed. Applying this faith is a process!
First, it means knowing what God said, then believing He has the power to do what He said, next trusting His integrity that He will do what He said and finally, acting in agreement with what He said!
So you act in agreement with Him by confessing out of your mouth the very thing that He promised to do, because of the conviction in your heart! And with this confession there’s a total surrendering of your will over to Him!
This is the application of your faith!
Your confession (prayer) might go like this:
Prayer of Salvation
Lord Jesus, you said in Revelation 3:20 that you’re standing outside the door of my heart, my life, and knocking for me to let you in. I now make a decision to open the door of my heart, my life and let you in.
Please come in Lord Jesus, forgive me and cleanse me from all my sin and make me a child of God! I am sorry for every sin that I have ever committed. I believe in you and accept you alone as my Lord and Savior! Amen!
When you say these words from your heart totally believing that they are true, it acts as a catalyst, germinating the God-Seed inside of you and releasing the life of God within you.
This process is such that the faith you apply acts on the God-Seed cracking it open, allowing
the life of God to flow out into your spirit.
It’s just as if you planted a grain of corn into the ground. The heat and moisture of the earth creates an environment that causes the corn seed to burst open releasing the life of the corn within.
Well, in this case your spirit is the earth and your faith and words are the heat and moisture that creates the environment for the God-Seed to burst open releasing the life of God within you.
As this new life of God flows out, it completely pervades and engulfs your spirit transforming it. Where there was death there’s now life.
Where there was old there’s now new. “…When this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life,” 1Co 15:54. (BBE)
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” 2Co 5:17. Your old spirit dies and your new
spirit lives!
Now, the life of God is synonymous with the nature of God, so as His life flows His nature is released. Receiving the life of God is, therefore, receiving the nature of God! So you now have a new nature, “…He has given to us the greatest and precious promises, that through these ye may become partakers of [the] divine nature,” 2 Pet 1:4 (Darby)
The nature of God is Holiness, which means to be unique, other than everything else, sanctified, consecrated and set a part as extremely special. This is what God is and this is what you have become when you share in His nature.
You have become a different type of human!
You are unique, different, changed from natural to spiritual. You are not the same as you were before. This entire transformation takes place instantaneously within your spirit and directly affects only your spirit! No other part of your being is affected in the same way.
But the change is profound!!!
Since you now share in God’s Holy nature, you have a responsibility to demonstrate His righteous character (2nd Pet. 1:4-8).
However, quite apart from your responsibility to act in a righteous manner, you are actually given a righteous standing in the presence of God. This came about because of the exchange that took place on the cross of Calvary.
On the cross, Jesus took your guiltiness and gave you His innocence!
So when God the Father looks at you as a believer in Jesus Christ, He doesn’t see Ruth or Winston or Sherry, as far as your righteousness is concerned, He sees nothing less than Jesus Christ Himself!
You are a righteous person in a right condition and a right position with God. Your new spirit is now infused with the nature of God, so that you can once more be legally called... son of God!
This is the process of being... Born Again!
Definition:
Regeneration is the instantaneous recreation of a human
spirit in the image and likeness of God and the releasing of the life and Nature of God in that spirit.
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