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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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 §50
...s still a perfect circle. And God had no beginning or had no end. And when he puts that Spirit in us, in this flesh that He is brood from the earth. And our phileo love has become to a place that it's overrode by agapao love, then we got eternal life in this calcium and potash that's been fed and brood from the earth. And how much more can the God who made it, raise it up again. Therefore, you must be born again.
You must be born again
61-1231M §107
...r. Davis, was an old lawyer. I went down, and he said, "I want to see you down at the house." I said "All right." I walked in, next day, you know, all swelled out. I said, "How did I do, Dr. Davis?" Said, "The rottenest I ever heard!" I said, "What?" He said, "The worst I ever heard." "Oh," I said, "Brother Davis, everybody was crying." He said, "Yes, they cry at funerals, cry at births, everything else." He said, "What it is, Billy, you never quoted one bit of God's Word. You talked about some mother that had done...
The approach to God
55-0123A §38
...well, what about our heavenly parent, the Lord Jesus? He has to correct us. And the Scripture says, "If we cannot stand chastisement, or whipping, child-correction, then we become illegitimate children, and not the children of God." See, if you're really born again, (Get it now.) if you're really born again, there is nothing can separate you from God. That's right. "Neither starvation, perils, trials, suffering, death, nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus." You say, "Well, I started...
Is your life worthy of the Gospel?
63-0630E §69
Christians, oh, you must have a personal relationship to God. In order to be a son of God, you must become relation to God. He must be your Father, in order for you to be a son. And only His sons and daughters are saved, not the members of a church, but sons and daughters. There's only one thing that will produce that, that's the new Birth. The new Birth is the only thing that will produce relationship to God. That right? [Congregation says, "Amen."] Sons and daughters. Then when this takes place, then the men... H...
You must be born again
61-1231M §81
But if you're born again, you're alive with Christ, and your affections is on things above and not on things of the world. But if you are born again of the Spirit of God, you become a part of God and are eternal with Him. Then death cannot touch you when you're born again. You are eternal. You have changed from a creature of time to a creature of eternity. You have changed from death unto life. I'm talking about eternal---from eternal death to eternal life. If you're of the world, you die here with it. If you love....