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The only life there is, is life in the Son
Part 4 THE BIRTHING continued
Born-again Defined Written
By Warren Litzman
You may have thought life was the way you lived; but the life, the only life there is, is in the Son. Some theologians, who write biblical translations from the Greek, have another translation of that verse that says:
“If any man be in Christ he is a new race of people.” That translation fits what the Scriptures teach. They say we are strangers and sojourners; we are not a part of this earth at all. We are a heavenly people and were never intended to be earthly people. We are an entirely new race of people, but we have no understanding of that. How do you get to be a new race of people? You have to be birthed by a father, but it cannot be the same father you had in the previous race. To be of a new race of people you have to have a father who is of that new race. God does not change us from one thing to another, He has an entirely new race of people on this earth who are not earthly but are heavenly. When you understand the birthing you understand the lifeline of (2 Cor. 5:17), “Old things are passed away behold, all things are become new.” We are now a new race of people because the old has passed away.
Most Christians do not understand this truth and that is why the world is not flocking to Christianity. The liberating secret of Christianity is still in God because we have not allowed the Holy Spirit to reveal it to us.
Paul said these truths were once hid from apostles and prophets but are now made known by the Spirit. The writer of Hebrews said in (Hebrews 1:1-2) that in the last days, God will no longer speak through prophets but by His Son.
This is so because they are a new race of people. They are not old people who have accepted Jesus as their Saviour; they are re-birthed people. If you really knew that your life would be radically changed by that knowledge. You would know the only life that you now live is Christ. You would know there is only life in the Son. You would know the only way you have life is by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. If you understood the essence and the power of that, it would change your world, your mind and your ideas. It would change your health, your problems and your marriage. I am not talking about being a “good Christian” because I do not think you can be a good Christian. I am not talking about being holy. I am not talking about a birthing. I am talking about something God has done in you. God put someone in you who made the difference, who made you different in character and person from what you thought you were. You have been born again.
In (John 3:7) Jesus said you must be born again, and that statement is never used again until the next to the last epistle written in the Bible. In fact it is only used twice in the Bible. In (1 Peter 1:23) it says, “Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible.” You are birthed in the natural because a father and mother cohabited. They performed an act of love; and, as a result, the father put his seed in the mother, and that seed is another person.
There is nothing a mother can do to bring about that new life aside from accepting the father’s seed. The mother may have cohabited; she may give herself; she may give her ovum to encompass that seed and bring out genetic effects in that person created, but that mother cannot produce another person by herself. It is done by the father’s seed. What did Jesus mean when He said: You must be born again? He literally said there must be another father in the picture because only fathers produce fruit. Mothers cannot produce fruit; they only bear it. Believers cannot produce fruit; they are mothers who can only bear the seed that is put in them.
You cannot produce a Christian life. I do not care how many times you are baptised, how many churches you join, how many times you make commitments, how many times you consecrate yourself, how many times you go to the altar or how much good work you do; as a believer, you cannot do any good works within yourself to please the Father. There is nothing you can do to produce Christ-likeness or the Christ-life. You must start with that fact. There are many things you will do, but there is nothing you can do to produce that seed.The seed has to come from a father. That is what Peter is saying in (1 Peter 1:23) He says “you are born again by the Father putting His seed in you.”
Let me tell you what happened the instant you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. First you need to understand that all you needed to do was believe. (Acts 16:31) says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” The instant you believed you cohabited with another Father, and that Father, in an act of love, birthed in you His dear Son. That birthing is an act of love. Notice in (1Peter 1:23) he said, “Being born again not of corruptible seed.” The new creation race was introduced in that verse. The corruptible seed is what happened to you when your natural mother and father came together. When your natural father planted a seed in your mother, you were birthed in corruption. Because of that, you came into this world a sinner with a sin nature needing a Saviour. You were unable to save or redeem yourself. The corruptible seed is the old life, not the life we now live. The life we now live is Christ because He has been birthed in us. This truth is explained more completely in (2 Peter 1:4).
There are a number of things to be said about this verse. How is it this awesome event of another Father birthing in you another person takes place? It takes place by what you believe. How did you become a sinner? You became a sinner because your forefather believed what the Devil said. In the Garden of Eden The progenitor of the human race had God’s Word available along with what Satan said. Instead of believing God, he believed the Devil and thereby took on Satan’s nature. That is why the Scripture says:
“Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble” (Job 14:1). In sin did our mothers conceive us. How did that happen? Because Satan planted the thought in Adam’s mind that if you eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, you will be your own God. Sinners believe they are their own person and can do their own thing. That is from the old nature. Peter said because we believe the promises of God, we have become partakers of a new nature.
Notice what Peter said in both of the verses we have looked at. In (1 Peter 1:23) he says, “Being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God.” We are born again by the Word of God. We are not born-again by a preacher, by baptism, by joining a church, by doing good works or by trying; we are born-again by the Word of God. This all happens by believing “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved” (Acts l6: 31). Look at what Peter says in (2 Peter 1:4) “Whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious promised; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature.”
By God’s Word (the precious promises), you are a partaker of the divine nature. Another Father put His nature in you. That means the nature of God is in the Seed, and the Seed is the life, and the life is Christ. Christ in you. How did you get Christ in you? By believing what the Scripture said, you became a partaker of the same nature of God. Do you know why people keep sinning and doing their own thing? They do not know who they are. No one has ever taught them the birthing. They think they are getting better, or they are going to get better, or will do right tomorrow, but that is false thinking.
When you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, the Father put His perfect Son in you. You may not live like it, talk like it, act like it, or believe it because you do not understand the birthing. Religion and Satan have been instrumental in confusing us. We have not been preaching the Word. We do not preach what God did! Multitudes of people waver back and forth between sin and righteousness because they do not know God’s righteousness is in them. Every time you open your mouth to say a vile word, if you knew the only life in you is Christ, what would happen in what you say? The problem is not sin but rather not really believing Christ has been birthed in you! You have no concept that God’s nature is in you. If you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, God put His seed in you. That is how simple it was when you were born again.
After Christ has been birthed in you, the Father will not depend on you at all. He will depend on His Son in you. As you walk on this Earth, He will not depend on you acting righteous. He will depend on Christ in you, your hope of glory. That is the gospel. Religion says you need to be better; you need to put it all together, you need to get it under control, but you cannot do it. But the nature God put in you was God the Son. You are partakers of His divine nature, and Christ can and will do what you cannot.
Conclusion – In this writing I have detailed how the Bible defines the word birthing for us. The most ironic thing in the Scriptures is that the Apostle Paul never used the expression born again, let alone the word birthing. John paralleled our new birth with natural birth by saying God so loved that He committed an act of cohabitation with the sinner (John 3:16). When the Apostle Paul had his revelation of Christ in him, He saw something John never saw and Jesus of Nazareth never commented on. When it was revealed to him that Christ was in him, the Apostle Paul saw it as a great mystery, which is truly what it is.
The religious world has thrown around the term born again without proper explanation. Paul said it is a mystery that goes far beyond comprehension; therefore, it would have to be revealed to you.
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man
the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath
revealed them unto us by His Spirit” (1 Cor: 2:9-10).
In this writing I have brought out in John’s epistles what the birthing means, but that is not worth a nickel to you until you have a revelation of it. A preacher can say we are born again, but that is not the gospel. The gospel is not something that happens to us as an experience. The gospel is Christ in us. Paul said l46 times that we are in Christ. To be in Christ you must be born again.
Have you been born again? If not you can invite Christ, right now, to come into you with His new life. This is the beginning of what God made you to be, a new creature in Christ Jesus.
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