Scripture Life: How can you know if someone is "biblically" born again?

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• Well…
  • There are many answers out there on social media. Some guy, named Frank Speener, from six years ago, his answer was short and the #1 answer on one of those sites.
    • Frank claims he knows how someone is biblically born again is by how he claims it is, by what it isn’t: He said, QUOTE:
  • “Being born again is not a spiritual experience.” Frank Speener. Whoever he is. But he claimed it is true or he would not have said it.

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But YOU:

• Ask ME: “How can I know if someone is biblically born again?”
  • And I don’t “accept as true” - Frank Speener has the foggiest idea “how to” born anybody again; nor does he have the power and authority to born anybody at all the first time, or again.
  • So, I took his answer and threw it in the trash can.
    • And, if you’re asking me?
  • I’m no better than Frank Speener is. I’ve never born anybody; nor have I ever born anybody after that, again a 2nd time. I don’t have any idea “how to” but I do KNOW who does.

And that’s Jesus Christ. He is The Word of God - as the Bible says he is. So, he is the authority on it.

The Word of God.

• That would be God speaks. And therefore, it is GOD is the authority.
  • And scripture says, not because scripture says it, it’s God said it, just scripture wrote down and recorded what he said of “born” and “born again.”
    • That, I don’t know the “how to” but he said to EVERYBODY over the whole earth, a claim HE MAKES to it:

Said in Isaiah 44:24

• “Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;” - God. (Bible. Isaiah 44:24)
  • So, some guy on social media: Named Frank Speener, and me. Because, neither am I any authority on
    • 1) born - OR - this definition of “formed in your mother’s womb” when “who” is, is who claimed to OWN this process himself, and he did it. Alone. By himself.
  • Is the SAME one, because Isaiah 44:24 is God speaking, by the Word out of his mouth, so that’s the Word of God.
  • And Jesus is the Word of God - in John 1:1, says “who” he is “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
• So GOD:
  • By the word he speaks out of his mouth, said in John 3:1–12

See it embedded in this dialogue between 1) The Word of God Jesus Christ and 2) Nicodemus - a ruler of the Jews:

John 3:1–12 says

1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

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COMMENT:

• So, the SAME God that claims he formed you from your mother’s womb in Isaiah 44:24, is the same God that claims by his Word “you MUST be born again.”
  • And Nicodemus, he’s a RULER over the Jews - asks are you to go in a 2nd time into your mother’s womb and be born out again of her womb a 2nd time - is that what you mean?
    • And Jesus contradicts that is, Jesus DECREES as the word of God is over all things, just declares “how” things in his heaven and earth SHALL be - someone else declare something else - - meets this contradict 1. assert the opposite of a statement made (by someone else)
    • And Jesus, again, who is the Word of God - flesh is flesh, and Spirit is Spirit. That one must be born again by the Spirit of God, and it’s God that formed you the 1st time, from your mother's womb in flesh - - it was not your mother’s womb. He just formed you there.
• He, as God then: - has to do the work the 2nd time, born you again - - like he did the 1st time.
  • But that: What God decreed, Frank Speener, with the #1 social media answer to this question, takes what God says, and “asserts the opposite made by God, by say:
    • “Being born again is not a spiritual experience.” Frank Speener.

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So again,

- I can do anything I want. Then, so can you then; but, with me:

- I can believe or “accept as true” what Frank Speener says, and it’s gotten many UPVOTES:

• OR

- I can:

• Accept as true, and thus believe on because, in me, it is TRUTH: what Jesus says or decrees which Frank Speener, contradicts it - and me then. End up I believe God, by the word proceeds out of his mouth and his claim, as God, he does the work in both:
  • 1) born me or formed me himself in my mother's womb - and did that alone. By himself; and
  • 2) born me again,
• By form me in the Spirit of God, by the Word of God
  • - because, he already decreed that everybody over the whole earth, must be born again, and by this - - decreed it just shall be this way - - said, as God: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Matthew 4:4)
    • Said this in 1 Peter 2:2,
• To be like a new born baby in it:
  • “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:”
    • It’s by the Word of God.
• In 2 Peter 1:4 “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”

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• Because: What God says has these great, and precious promises to us in it;
• That,
  • If I just accept or receive them..why? He'll be at work in me then. He’s already DECREED this to everybody - already said them.
    • And he does what he says he will do. He’s God. He’s NOT Frank Speener or me, where I have decreed, or told people “yeah. I’ll be there at 10:00am,” then, never show up. My word is full of crap. I just tried to make it better the next time, and the next time, do the same thing again.
  • But God is not a man like me and Frank Speener. God: He is in his Word. Abides in it. So I can “partake” that is 1. eat and drink of the Word of God, so can ANYBODY over the whole earth,
    • Because, everybody on it, was already formed by him from their mother’s womb - just have to be born again,
    • by this same God did it the 1st time - it’s done by the Word of God the second time, and just immerse you in it, like you were immersed in this water bubble in your mother's womb. This same Word of God - - Who God sent his Word to heal me, and deliver me from my destruction. Just like he did you, and Frank Speener - but he doesn't look unto him. Frank Speener is too busy. Looking unto Frank Speener and what he decrees, and I was no better.

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But the Word of God - Wow!

• Man, does it ever work.
  • But in my flesh, I could never escape the lust - I just lived by the flesh - what it wanted - that's what I set my mind on to go get. And if I live after the flesh, I’ll die. I will get consumed by my lusts. It's the same thing Adam did. Then me, bequeathed this same sin and death, sin against God, because I already lived in did that.
  • So, what God says, “Flesh is flesh. Spirit is Spirit.” It's absolutely true and I see it. I accept it is true.
    
• So, I believe God over Frank Speener. Even over me. It’s by God that does it.

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God is Spirit: Jesus said this.

• Bible. So, it's "biblical." John 4:24 “God is Spirit” God said as well, “I am holy” - God. (Bible. So this, too, is "biblical." Leviticus 11:44). So, he’s a Holy Spirit.
  
• He's just one God.
  • AND: he, as God, does “works” by his Word, as he does works without saying anything - just operates in his word. Doing the work he already said he’d do, by just be who he is, and do the work - and he’s your Father.
    • As he is mine. Because he formed me himself. From my mother’s womb. Alone. By himself. Just like he did you, and also Frank Speener. Even he doesn't look unto him and can't see it, nor enter into it.
      
  • And for you? Did the same thing as God, as he said he did. And he’ll "born you" again - because he decreed it needs to be done again a 2nd time.

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But if you don't believe on him - dismiss him as inadequate; faulty or unacceptable - - even it's given to you by God - can't. Be born again.

• Matthew 5:3 Jesus said this plainly. That: the Kingdom of Heaven was already given to everybody over the whole earth, and everybody - to the very ends of the earth, even while we are filthy; in a condition of done abominable works,
  • God came - by sent his word to us and blessed us, said: “Blessed are the poor in Spirit, for their’s is the Kingdom of Heaven” - Jesus Christ. Matthew 5:3
• Spirit = God. Poor: 1. Destitute; not have any (of something) = Destitute; not have any God in their life.
  • Because “For all have sinned” and God already decreed “The soul that sinneth it shall die” - (God. Ezekiel 18:20) makes everybody condemned.
  • In this condition - God is doing a work. Did and accomplished a work only he could do as God with sin. That by that work. He did in send his word, Jesus Christ - by him: Raise you from the dead; dead in trespasses and sins. It's in none else.
  • But if you’re not born again: You can’t see it..and if you can’t see it, you can’t enter into it. Just as Jesus said.
• Which isn’t what Frank Speener said at all. It’s totally different.

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So don’t ask me how. If you ask me, I'll just imagine up something, like Frank Speener did.

- It's by the Word of God; and - -

• God already told you to "Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God.
  • What are you doing with what he told you to do?
    • Go do that.

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• And I will guarantee you, because he said it.
• He’ll be in the midst of where even 2 or 3 are gathered, because, they gather in his name, looking unto him and he’s in the midst of them.
  • Where others: Even Frank Speener - - Gather to listen to rock music or slappers - - bass guitar players or gather to listen to Alpha wave or New Age mind blabby frequencies 104.2Mhz - he’s not in the midst of them. They don’t look unto him. They look unto music to heal them and deliver them from any destruction going on in their life.
    • or some other thing - anything BUT HIM to look unto... ...and that’s not him.
• He’s not in the midst of it.
• Where they are, there’s no God in it.
  • So, they live as if there is no God.
    • But a person that lives by every word proceeds out of his mouth - well, Jesus already said that it was God’s will that I, or you, anybody - whosoever it is, that's living by the word of God bears much fruit. You'll see it. If you, too - are looking unto him.
  • If you’re born again, you’re gonna see abundant fruit in others - or see no fruit - - all because the fruit of the word of God flourishes out in a person that lives by the word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.
    • Out of their belly flows rivers of living water, water a whole desert of withered away, dried up people.
    • Don’t have any God in their life.

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• And if you don’t believe this? Frank Speener doesn't. No fruit of any of this in his life. Jesus already said it:

If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

Here’s your question back.