“You must be born again” (John 3:7)

The subject of today’s devotion is false conversions. When Charles Spurgeon wrote this devotion in the late 1800’s, the main problem was church-goers thought they were saved without being born again. Today, there’s a much bigger problem. Ministers have replaced “you must be born again” with “repeat this salvation prayer”. Follow-up statistics show that 90% of people who repeat the salvation prayer have no Biblical evidence of being born again. 

To learn how the salvation paradigm evolved in the last 130 years, please read The Graham Formula by Patrick McIntyre. 

You can download the free book as a PDF at https://www.christianebooks.com/the_graham_formula.html

You can watch The Graham Formula  video at  https://youtu.be/9idVpM0DbxE?si=wnPwUtCeppQzJz4d

If someone makes a “decision for Christ” and isn’t born again, they’re not saved. It’s a change which is known and felt: known by holy behavior, and felt by a Divine experience. When someone is born again, they have a new nature created by God, with Biblical evidence.

1) If you’re born again,  you have power over sin. “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God” (1 John 3:10).
2) If you’re born again, you keep God’s commandments because you love Him. “This is the love of God, that we keep His commandments” (1 John 5:3).
3) If you’re born again, you know it.  “As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God … The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God” (Romans 8:14-16).
4) If you’re born again, the Holy Spirit will help you bear good fruit. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Galatians 5:22-23).
5) If you’re born again, you’ll do good works. “They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work” (Titus 1:16).