How Can a Person Become Truly Born Again?
1) Direct Answer
To be truly born again is for the life of Jesus Christ—the Holy Spirit—to come into you and make you a new creation. How? Repent of sin, believe the Gospel, be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. That is the new birth.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Jesus said, “You must be born again… born of water and of the Spirit” (John 3:3-5). Water and Spirit—God’s order.
- Peter preached the same: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). The promise is to all (Acts 2:39).
- The apostles baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and believers received the Holy Ghost (Acts 8:16-17; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 19:1-6).
- The Bible says we are “born again… by the Word of God” (1 Peter 1:23). The Spirit quickens the Word-Seed in you.
- “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His” (Romans 8:9). The Holy Ghost is the new birth.
- “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17). New nature, new life.
- After believing the Gospel, we are “sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise” (Ephesians 1:13).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Now notice: Being born again is not joining a church, not turning a new leaf, not emotion. It is God Himself coming in.
- Repentance means a full turn—confessing sin, forsaking it, making wrongs right where you can.
- Faith anchors in Jesus Christ—His death, burial, and resurrection. You receive Him as Lord over every part of your life.
- Water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Bible way to apply His Name over your life and testify of your burial and resurrection with Him. Search Acts—no one was baptized in titles; they used the Name.
- Then God gives the Holy Ghost—the Spirit of His Son crying “Abba, Father” in your heart (Galatians 4:6). Sometimes He fills before water, sometimes after, but the command stands: repent, be baptized in His Name, and receive the Spirit.
- The true evidence is the life of Christ in you—love for the Word, obedience, victory over sin, the fruit of the Spirit, and agreement with all Scripture. “He that is of God hears God’s words” (John 8:47). Tongues or gifts may follow, but the Token is the Holy Ghost Himself living and ruling in you.
4) Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, the new birth is Christ the Word made alive in you by the Holy Spirit. If you want that life now:
- Turn to God with all your heart.
- Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Ask and receive the Holy Ghost—He is the promise to you today.
God keeps His Word. The same Jesus who saved, baptized, and filled believers in the book of Acts will do it for you right now.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §54
Let us pray. Father God, these rude little remarks coming from a nervous person, but I pray God, that somehow it'll go into the depths of my brothers' and sisters' hearts, that they'll realize, it don't make any difference whether they think that we should have this television program, or this, that or the other. Let us keep our eyes on the Master. Remember to be born again is to have that extreme love and know that we've passed from death unto life. We have the abundance of life, and the abundant life is that over...
You must be born again
61-1231M §14
And then the strange thing, how that His great wise providence, how He works things out. Seems like that love has a funny feeling to it. Not a feeling, but a reaction. And then I look out among the people, as He's called me to be His servant, and I look out amongst the people and see sin creeping in, then I have to just tear in there with all that's in me, you see, to tear it out. And that makes it look hard, to my way of looking at it, why, to say those things. But yet, down at the bottom, true love runs like that...
To whom shall we go?
60-0604 §43
Nicodemus asked the question, "How can I be born again? I'm an old man, enter into my mother's womb the second time?" He said, "Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Now that translation there is really understand. Understand the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is within you, so you couldn't actually see it unless you see it operating. But the only way you will ever be able to understand it, you've got to be born again. To be born again, you've been filled with God's Spirit, then you're i...
Earnestly contending for the faith once delivered
53-0614A §23
...: that I have found the people with a living faith, where they have absolutely caught a hold of something: God out there that gives them a new birth, that puts God into the person, that makes him believe in the supernatural. Now, if you're not born again, you do not believe in the supernatural. And if you do not believe in the supernatural, you haven't been born again. Because when you're born again, you become a son of God; and being a son of God, you're a nature of God. And then you take on the things, and you wa...
Questions and Answers
62-0527 §29
...d, when He passed the judgment upon Adam and Eve, she'd already done the sin before He could pass the judgment. And, listen, did you ever know that the first child was ever born in the world was "born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies"? The very first one that was ever born was born that way. You say, "What about Adam and Eve?" They wasn't born. They were created, see. But the first child ever come was born in sin, so it has to be that line. "A man that's born of a woman is of few days and...