Part two of Born again

Michael you are very full of many different doctrines.

Please notice that both these apostles (Speaking in tongues) as the divinely appointed sign that we have received the Spirit of God. It is God's peculiar way of declaring one to be His child. It is the voice of "Him who speaks from heaven", a voice we must not refuse (Heb. 12:25). It is the sound of the ever-moving wind of God.

No man knows another's heart; therefore, the testimony of God's Spirit is the only reliable testimony of true conversion. When the first Gentiles were born again, Peter described it ot his fellow apostles: "Men and brothers.... God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the gospel and belive. "And God who knows the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as He did unto us" (Acts 15:7-8). And what witness did God give so that Peter and his companions would know that those Gentiles were Born Again? We are told, " They heard them speak with tongues and mangify God."

Speaking in tongues when we receive the holy Ghost makes it possible for unbelivers to know know who has received God's Spirit. Because many people claim to be of God, those who are seeking God can become confused; therefore, "tongues are for a sign," Paul affirmed, "to them that believe not" (1Cor.14:22). How the love of God is revealed in THis! He has given a sign for those outside His kingdom who want to be born again!

At the last supper, Jesus described the spiritual condition of those who followed him but had not yet received the Spirit: "When a woman gives birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come. But when the child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because a man is born into the world. Therefore,you also now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one takes from you." (Jn 16:21-22) By comparing his disciples' spiritual condition with a woman in the pangs of childbirth, Jesus was telling them that the hour was near. The disciples had been conceived by the hearts, and now they were no longer of the world (Jn 17:14); at the same time, they were not "in christ" (Jn 17:21). They were "clean under the Law(Jn 15:3), but they were not yet sanctified (Jn 17:17,19). As much as their lives had been made better by following Jesus, their greatest transformation, the New Birth, was yet to come.

Conception is not Birth
Nature itself teaches us that no birth can occur without a seed first being sown. This is true whether one is speaking naturally or spiritually. Nowhere is there a birth without the sowing of a seed.Spiritually, "the seed is the word of God" (Luke 8-11). One must receive this seed in order for the process of New Birth to begin. Nature also teaches us that relativelyh few of the seeds sown actually produce life, and that even fewer mature and bear fruit. According to jesus, only a small portion of the seeds of the kingdom of god that are sown into human hearts actually sprout, or produce righteousness in the life. Sometimes, he said when one hears the Word (Seed), "the wicked one catches away that wich was sown in his Heart" (Mat13:19). The word of God was sown into the hearts of many thousands during Jesus' earthly ministry, yet only about one hundred twenty followers continued in his Word and were born aganin at the first outpouring of the spirit on the day of Pentecost.
Michael many mistake the receiving of the Seed to be the New Birth. You think that receiving the Word of God an being convicted of sin is the same as being Born Again? But cessation from evil, good as thatis, is NOT the New Birth. Repentance does not was away sins; sins are washed away only when the Spirit Baptizes us inot the body of Christ(1Cor. 12:13; Act 22: 16).
The Samaritans, for one example, glady received the Word that Philip preached (Act 8:5-8); still, the washing away of their sins was not accomplished until later, after news of Philip's preahing reached Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God, They sent unto them Peter and John , who when were come, prayed for them, that they might receive the holy Ghost. (For as yet it had fallen upon none of them...)Then , laid they; their hands on them, and thy received the holy Ghost" (Act 8:14-17). As the Samaritans' experience demonstrates,being convicted of sin and turning from it is only the first step toward the New Birth.
One must receive the baptism of the Spirit, and when he does, God will give the sign!
Tragically, many fail to continue in the Word after being convicted by it. Consenquently, they never recive the baptism of the holy Ghost; they are never born again. Such people, and there are millinons of them in Christianity around the world, must be warned that incomplete surrender is no better than none at all. God gives His Spirit only to those who obey Him (Act 5:32); therefore, our first priority must be to know God's will and to do it, not only to receive the baptism of christ, but to obtain the promised Salvation at the end of the way. "Let no man deceive you by any means", my friend; no one will be saved without receiving the holy Ghost and then obeying it (1Peter 3:21; Mk 16:16; Romans 8:14)
Regardles of one's reputation among men, he has no part in the kingdom of God without the Holy Ghost. Pual said, "If any man has not the Spirt of Christ, he is none of His(Rom 8:9)
Part Three later....

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