ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONALS.

Sunday October 20th, 2024.

Topic : You Need The Born Again Experience.

Memory Verse :John 3:6. A person is born physically of human parents, but is born spiritually of the Spirit.

John 3:1-3 GNB. Key Verse: v3.

There was a Jewish leader named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees. One night he went to Jesus and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him.” Jesus answered, “I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again.”

In the course evangelism the other day, I met a young man. He was very warm and I assumed he was one of us. However before I left, I asked if he was born again. He replied that he is a child of God and that there’s nothing like being born again. He said he became a child of God the day he was baptised. I asked if he will believe in born again experience, if I should show it to him from the Bible and he agreed. I took him to Mark…. “He said to them, “Go throughout the whole world and preach the gospel to the whole human race. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:14-15. I made him understand the process of believing in Christ as you hear the gospel which is demonstrated by baptism to complete the process. I had to use my personal experience to explain that. In a nutshell, I began to hear the gospel at a tender age. When I was mature enough, I made a decision in a church programme I was invited to after listening to the man of God. Few months later I was baptised by immersion and in few months time again, I was filled with the Holy Spirit in another church programme.

“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? 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. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” John 3:4-6 KJV. Many have this mindset of Nicodemus, they wonder within them how mature men can say they are getting born again. I tried to explain to the young man that such is a spiritual transaction that happens in the spirit realm to restore our broken relationship with God because of the fall. Even Jesus told the Samaritan woman by the well of Jacob that God Almighty is Spirit and no one can access or transact any business with him, except the person has capacity to function in the spirit realm in order to reach him.

I then tried to let the young man see that the process includes being born of water and of The Spirit of God. I used some more scriptures to explain spiritual death which every man on the surface of the earth coming from Adam is subjected to. The life Jesus talked about is same life that was lost in Eden. That is not a physical life, but life in the Spirit. “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John 14:6 KJV. This type of life Jesus is taking about here is found only in his Spirit. That is the life of an overcomer which is the power to become…”He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:11-13 KJV.

Prayer :Thank you Father God for giving me Jesus Christ who died to redeem me from my sins. Today I believe he died for my sins and arose for my justification. Lord Jesus, give me your Spirit and help me to live for your glory all my days in Jesus wonderful name…. Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading : Acts 9:1-19.

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