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.
You must be born again
61-1231M §36
Now, one man could not save the other. Now, it makes no difference what anyone tries to say, no man can save another. No matter how smart, what his office is, let him be a pastor, priest, bishop, cardinal, or pope, he cannot have one thing to do with saving any man's life, because he is a sinner himself---born in sin, shaped in iniquity, come to the world speaking lies. He's a liar to start with, and any word that he would say would be a lie if it was contrary to God's Word and God's plan.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 4:E-136
...ve in that Mormon doctrine of the preexistence of souls any more than I believe in reincarnation or the transmigration of souls. Be careful here and see this. It is not the person that comes predestinated eternally from God, IT IS THE WORD, OR SEED. That is it. Way back there, too far back for the human mind to grasp, the Eternal God with eternal thoughts, thought and decreed, "JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED, (Romans 9:13) AND NEITHER WAS BORN, AND NEITHER HAD DONE GOOD OR EVIL." See, it was the THOUGHT,...
You must be born again
61-1231M §93
Get out there, a stuffed shirt, "Glory to God! Hallelujah!" and then tell me that that's Christ? Christ was humble, meek and gentle. Go into a town and, my, you have to be just brushed off the shoulders, you know, and everything has to be just right, not a wrinkle in your suit; and you have to have the very best or you won't even come at all; guaranteed so much money, you can't have a meeting. Oh, oh, oh, oh, my! All the denominations, they have to pat you on the back. There wasn't a one of them patted Him on the b...
You must be born again
61-1231M §9
And looking now for something to take place during this year. Many visions has been coming to me recently. The other morning a great one again, and all pertaining and looking like a great something fixing to happen. So, I just keep trusting Him. Some of them I don't even understand. And we don't understand visions. They're more like symbolically, and we don't get them just exactly sometimes, but we know that they are true, anyhow. So, they will come to pass. I write them down.
You must be born again
61-1231M §47
...ed on the altar with his sacrifice. After Abel offered his sacrifice and killed his sacrifice for his sin, then he died on the same altar with his sacrifice. In order to be born again, you have to die on the altar with your sacrifice, just as dead as He was---and you're born again. The serpent had no life in it.