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Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ...

Do you have the Spirit of God in you?  Are you born again?  Has God changed you?  Born again means God has changed you.  Has that happened to you.  Have you been made by God to be different from the person you once were?  This is what it means to be born again. 

 

If you are born again, you have the Spirit of God, for you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of God when you are born again.  

 

Eph. 1:13  In Whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in Whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

 

No one can follow the Spirit of God unless he has the Spirit of God in him.

 

I Cor. 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

 

So many people go to church and try to be spiritual without having the Spirit of God in them.  They copy other people who seem religious.

 

This will never work.

 

Jude v. 17-19   But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;

18 How that they told you there should be mockers (copiers) in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

 

Do you have the Spirit of God in you?  Are you really born again?  

 

Those who are born again have a personal experience with God.  God changes them from that which they once were.  It is not that you learn to do differently by reading the Bible.  You have done nothing to justify salvation when you are born again.  You are born again through the mercy of God.  God simply revealed Himself to you and gave you HIS Spirit.

 

Changed by God reveals those who are born again by God.

 

II Cor. 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

 

Have you been changed by God?  Or have you just always been religious, going to church?  If this has never happened to you, I urge you to beg God for HIS mercy.

 

John 3:7  Jesus says:  Ye must be born again.

 

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