Topic: New birth

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What elements make up the new birth?

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“There are three that bear record in heaven.” Now, when we’re…Our conversion. The element came from Jesus Christ’s body when He died; there was water, Blood, and Spirit, and these three things make up the new Birth. Is that right, ministers? These three elements make up the new Birth; water, Blood,...

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What does it mean to be born again?

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And I tell you, friends, there’s been a many a man, and is tonight, that’s coming down to the end of the road, will find out that that little shallow religion that you’re holding onto won’t work. Nothing short of being born again will work. Jesus said, “Except a man be born of water and Spirit, he w...

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When you use the expression that if we do not believe the Word, we will be eternally separated from Christ, do you mean the foolish virgin will live eternally, but they will be separated from the New Jerusalem where Christ will dwell with the Bride? Here are those who do not have the Holy Spirit, born again as the Scripture speaks of being born again. If the natural birth requires water, blood, and spirit, does not the spiritual birth require all three stages of grace before the person is truly born again?

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Absolutely, I just explained that this morning, the same, on the same thing. You’ve got to have all stages. You’re begotten of the Spirit, just like a baby is begotten, and in the womb of a mother, but not born until they receive the Holy Ghost. That’s right. You’re born then. You’re not converted,...

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Dear Brother Branham, will all the sons and daughters of true, borned-again believers be saved?

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No, brother; no, they sure won’t. See, as I—as I copied David du Plessis on this remark, “God don’t have grandchildren, see, just sons and daughters.” See, they’ll have to be born just exactly like their father and mother was born of the Spirit. See? That’s what makes a man a new person, is because...

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Now, the next question is: Is it true that you are not saved unless you have received the Holy Ghost?

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There could take about a good five hour discussion on that. When you accept Christ as your Saviour and are then ready for baptism in water, you have not yet been converted; you’re only believing unto repentance. Conversion means “to be changed.” Now, to make this efficient, Jesus said to Peter who...

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Will you please explain what it means by, “Sinneth not” in First John 5:18? My, we’re right at it, I believe here. Maybe it…Got it; turned right straight to it. Maybe the Lord wanted me to read it. All right, First John, We know that whosoever is borned of God sinneth not;…

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Certainly not! I just went through that. He can’t sin; he’s born of God. “Sinneth not,” he can’t sin, the seed remains in him. Another Scripture you might refer to here would be Romans 4:8, 4 and 5-8 where God…David spoke, rather, years ago and said, “Blessed is the man who God will not impute sin t...

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“By one Spirit we are all baptized into the body of Christ.” (You all remember that that was the question I was on. Now that’s found, of course, in First Corinthians 12)…At the time we are…receive the new birth, this takes place. It’s this…Is this the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, or is there a later baptism, or is it a filling?

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Now, there is quite a question, and we could spend the rest of our time right on that one, and tonight and tomorrow night and so forth. It would cover…it would—it would take and tie the entire Bible together. Every Scripture must properly tie together with every other Scripture in the Bible. But ju...

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Can a lost person save himself by reforming or turning over a new page?

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And that’s the way a man is. When you’re lost, brother, I don’t care how much reforming you try to do, you’re absolutely helpless until the Shepherd come get you. That’s…You can’t save yourself. There’s no way at all of doing it. A—a leopard could lick his spots just as hard as he could; you could s...

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Do you have to join the Church to belong to it?

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I’ve been with the Branham family, this coming April the 6th, I’ve been in the Branham family forty-four years, and they never did ask me to join the family. See? Why? I was borned a Branham. I am a Branham by birth, so that just makes me a Branham. See? I don’t have to join the family, because I ju...

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What elements came out of Jesus body at Calvary, and what do they have to do with the new birth?

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For instance, like this: When Jesus died at Calvary, how many—what elements came from His body? Water, blood, Spirit. Is that right? Now, any minister, any believer knows that that’s what constitutes the new birth. Is that right? That constitutes the new birth, Saint John 7:5: “For there are three t...

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Is believing in God enough to be saved?

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I told you the other night that Cain was a believer. And I’ll give you a little stronger meat than that tonight if you want to believe it. The devil is a believer. The Bible says he is. He believes and trembles. The devil is a believer. Now, if belief and faith in God is all you have to have to be s...

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What three elements come with a natural birth, and what are they in the new birth?

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Here, let me show you something in the Scriptures so you won’t be tied up. I don’t have time to teach, but look. For instance, when a baby’s born in this world…A baby born a natural birth, what is the three elements that comes from the body? The first is water. Is that right? Blood. Is that right? T...

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What do the crow and the dove on the ark illustrate?

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Even put it back in the ark, in the destruction of the world. There was the crow and the dove setting on the same roost. One was just as much bird as the other one was. Is that right? But what was it? One was a crow by nature, and the other was a dove by nature. One could fly just like the other one...

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Why did Jesus say 'ye are gods'?

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You see, if a man does not have the Holy Spirit, he cannot believe those things. Because when a man is borned of the Spirit of God, he becomes a son of God. And his nature is likened unto God. That’s the reason Jesus said, “Did not it say in your laws, ye are gods?” Because you’re an attributes of G...

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Is joining a church enough to enter the Kingdom of God?

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If you’re here without Christ, if you’ve belonged to some, “Just join the church…” I believe in joining church, but that ain’t it, you got to be borned again. You’re not born, filled with the Holy Spirit, brother, you, I don’t know. Jesus said, “Except a man be borned again, he will not enter into t...

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Does a person become part of the family of God by joining a church?

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Across the river they went. Said, “What will you ask?” I wish we’d have time to take up before this, the—the Law of Adoption. Pentecost was borned (That’s right.) like the son. But that same son was borned in a family, had to be adopted also. That’s right. And there’s where you missed your calling,...

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What is the new birth?

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The new birth is an experience. It’s a gift of God. It’s the seal of your faith. The Holy Spirit is a Seal. Ephesians 4:30 says, “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you’re sealed until the day of your redemption.” God made Abraham the promise, and Abraham believed God, and was justified by fa...

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What kind of mind does a person have after being born again of the Spirit of God?

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And when a man becomes borned again of the Spirit of God, he becomes an offspring, or a son of God, and then he has the same type of mind that God does, the mind that was in Christ is in us, and we believe for the—for the unseen, for the miraculous, and just anything. See? And then we have the Holy...

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What does being born again have to do with believing the supernatural?

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If it hadn’t…If you haven’t been with the Mate Jesus Christ and been borned of an supernatural, you can’t believe the supernatural. And when a man’s born of the Spirit of God, God’s a Creator. And when part of God is…I’m a part of Charles Branham. He’s my father. He looked like me, or I look like hi...

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How can a person know that Jesus rose from the dead?

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That’s the way it is with every man or woman, when he is born of the Spirit of God, and sees the true resurrection. No man knows that Jesus is resurrected from the dead, unless he has died, himself, in Christ Jesus, and been born again, anew by the Holy Ghost. Every man is only theologically believi...