Faith Builders

Extract from Chapter 1

BORN AGAIN...INTO THE FAMILY OF GOD

The key which unlocks all the promises of God is this - Jesus taught that a man (or woman) must be born again. The following statements came from the lips of Jesus:

The New Birth is a necessity to being saved. Through the New Birth you come into the right relationship to God.The New Birth is necessary before you can claim any of the benefits of the Bible.

The New Birth is not: confirmation - church membership - water baptism - the taking of sacraments - an intellectual reception of Christianity ... being moral - being cultured or refined - doing good deeds - doing your best - nor any of the many things some men are trusting in to save them.

Nicodemus, whom Jesus addressed concerning the New Birth, possessed most of the qualities we just listed, but Jesus said to him,

The thief on the cross, and others Jesus forgave while on earth, were saved without these things. They simply did the one necessary thing - they accepted Jesus Christ as personal Saviour by repenting and turning to God with the whole heart as a little child.