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Many proclaim to be “born again,” but what do the actions of those who
claim to be “born again” reveal? There is more to experience or understand
when the “born again” concept is merely a wishful experience to justify a
Pentecostal pretense. When this born again experience truly occurs, you will
be set free, for when the son sets you free, you will be free indeed! In other
words, your actions determine if you are or if you are not. To be born again
is a reality wherein complete change occurs! You won’t be as you were, for
you will indeed enter the kingdom. Jesus cautioned when He said, “I tell
you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of
water and the Spirit.
Fl e sh g i v e s b i r t h t o f l e sh , bu t t he Sp i r i t g i v e s b i r t h
t o sp i r i t .
You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born
again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you
cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone
born of the Spirit.”
(John 3: 5-8)
Each person is subjected to his/her own individual thinking founded on the
knowledge passed down from generation to generation. However,
knowledge based theories adopted to justify misguided thoughts are
accepted as doctrinal truths—but to what end? Where was the benefit to
Abraham’s descendants [Hebrews and Arabs] thinking each was the seed to
which the prophecy applied? Their thinking was not perfect, and perhaps,
not accurate? Humanity evidences exactly the same misgivings today,
because most minds think they possess the full truth. Rationalization is the
attempt to explain or justify one’s own behavior or the behavior of another
person with logical, plausible reasons, even if they are not true or
appropriate they are perfectly acceptable to the world, as truth, but are only
opinion or misguided ideas—theory is rationalization.
Realizing the distinction between truth and knowledge, Jesus said, “The
knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you,
but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have
abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from
him. This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not
see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the
prophecy of Isaiah: “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you
will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” For this people’s heart has
become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed
their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them. But blessed
are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell
