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.
Questions and Answers, Part 1
64-0823M §65
QUESTION: Dear Brother Branham, will all the sons and daughters of true, born again believers be saved? No, brother; no, they sure won't. See, as I copied David DuPlessis 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 he's born again, reborn. His first birth brings him a natural man on earth; his second birth brings him a spiritual man...
The faith that was once delivered to the saints
53-1129A §25
And when you're borned of the Spirit of God you become a son of God and a daughter of God and without that you just belong to the church then. But when you're borned-again you belong to Christ, and we must be born again. There's one fundamental doctrine that I believe. That's Saint John 3. Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Except a man be born of water, and of Spirit, he will in nowise enter the kingdom. No matter how sincere. Our sincerity has nothing. Go down to Ganges River this afternoon, watch them mothers take their...
Letting off pressure
63-0113M §30
That's the way of a Christian experience. When people are trying to put a cold, formal confession into a powerful Pentecostal church, or experience... Unless that person is built from ground up, built up borned again, regenerated---impersonators of today going around trying to impersonate speaking in tongues, trying to impersonate this, and impersonate that, the gifts---if they are not borned again... And if they are borned again they cannot impersonate because they were built for those things. They're born, regene...
You must be born again
61-1231M §67
One day the old mother eagle come over, and do you think that hen could ever keep him on the ground any longer? No matter how much she clucked, how well... She said, "Come here, honey. I found something right here, come." Oh, my! His affections was on things above, and he went to meet it. No more denominations for him. Can't call him away from it. And a man that's born of God, you cannot call him back into that rotten muss of sin anymore. He's dead, and he's born again. He's a new creature. He's got the nature of t...
The Seven Church Ages
54-0512 §26
What a beautiful type of now, that every person... Them days, they had to be born in a certain lineage, a Levite, before they become a priest, but now it's "whosoever will, let him come," see. And as soon as they come, though, they must... A birth is considered in it, also. "You must be born again." And every man or a woman that's born again, of the Spirit of God, has a right for the (this day) the manna. This manna is the Holy Spirit.