BORN AGAIN

By Rick Mathes

John 3:7

“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

The command is quite clear, “You MUST be born again.” So that’s not the issue at hand. My question, a fair one, is “How do you know that you are born again?” Are there any guideposts to let you know you are and what directions to take to continue in grace? I can’t be all inclusive here but I would like to give you a few checks in your life that would help.

First let’s look at those who aren’t born again. By definition of being born again, they will die twice: natural and eternal. They won’t be really living in the meantime. They have no life except burnt bridges, ruined relationships and the toys that they don’t need that they will leave their heirs that don’t deserve.

Their emptiness of everything but “feel good” toys and intellectual comic books betrayed their lace of spiritual capacity. Watching “Sponge Bob” is their mental limit. The fellowship of the lost is almost a foretaste of hell. Watch the old popular “Soul Train” dance show with the volume off and hou will be witnessing the prostitutes of Corinth in their devil worship. It’s all nothing more than cotton candy; Tastes good but no substance.

Conversely, you will notice first the born again pray. The Word is in their veins like fire and they just cannot shut up! What can be more important than talking and having fellowship with Jesus. When you know Him and I know Him we join others of like mind we have Church.

It has to be wonderful joy to Him when we lift our hands and sing praises to Him. Every face in glory is beaming a smile while the hornet’s nest of demons in Hell is stirred up to a frenzy and insanity.

It’s in the church, i.e. Body of Christ that we slowly begin to realize our inheritance. I was disinherited by my step-father when I became a Christian. He died and left a busness worth millions to my unsaved step-brothers. They drank and partied it away and with our dismal economy are not living much of a life. Our ministry is worth millions and even though I don’t own anything more than our modest home, I am living like a millionaire. I have my inheritance from my heavenly Father and the best is yet to follow when I occupy that mansion He has prepared for me in glory.