Born Again, What Does It Mean?

Romans 10:8-10 "…8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: 9 that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.…"

Mankind is sinful and without remedy for that sin. Christ came to earth to die, it was death of the Perfect Lamb, He is that Lamb, to die for the sins of the whole world. There had to be a shedding of blood, this is just how serious the smallest sin is in our hearts, even before there are actions, the sin in our hearts is enough to condemn us to hell. God the Father cannot look upon us if we do not have Christ. When we have Christ then the Father accepts us as His.

All that is necessary to gain salvation is to express to God that we know we are sinful and believe Him, what He did on our behalf on the cross. He paid the pride for our sin.

When we confess that we believe and want to be cleansed, then Christ sends His Holy Spirit to live in us, beginning the process of cleansing over a lifetime until He comes to take us home, through death or the rapture.

The hope of the believe is immense, we do not look to this life for our joy, happiness and pleasure, we are looking to our heavenly home in which Christ our husband dwells with the Father!

It is interesting that Christ said this to those who have been born again:

John 15:14-16
"…14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.…"