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.
You must be born again
61-1231M §87
But the true word comes to the true prophet, and he tells you the true word. You follow that true word, and you get a true experience of the Word because the Word is made flesh in you, and you become God's son, and the Word of God is revolving right out of God into you, because you are of His nature, His Spirit is in you and you'll do the works of God. Hallelujah! The Bible said so. Oh, my!
You must be born again
61-1231M §43
...was down there, the little girl just as nice as she could be, her and her boyfriend, sweetly. Oh, I tell you, the blueprint! God's Word is the one to explain the program of how we must be born again.
You must be born again
61-1231M §116
Now look, if we see how it turns out here, and you can't change after death... Now you watch these people that come in, gets all these sensations and things, run out, and tomorrow they're this way. Have you seen it? Hundreds of them, see. And you see what happens. And now what if them people died in that state? Death doesn't change it. So, oh, Christians, in closing these words let me say this. Let us turn to Him and His Word, with all sincerity. Come humbly, like Christians, and be born again of His Spirit. And wh...
You must be born again
61-1231M §122
...here at twelve-thirty, or twenty minutes till one, but my advice is to you, Christian, you who love God. When you come to God's brass altar of judgment, and you want to be born again, just lay yourself upon there. Don't expect to pick up again---you're going to die. That's the end of you, that's all. If you don't do it, if you don't feel like you can do that, don't try it, it won't work---deeply, sincerely. (With about ten pages more of this lesson here, or more, scriptures, I quit.) But lay yourself upon God's br...
The Faith Of Abraham
59-0415E §18
Therefore, that every person that's been born again of the Holy Spirit, truly born ... not just thought they were born, not went through some emotion, not went through some sensation, but was truly born. They could have all the emotion, sensation with it; but you could have the sensation and emotion and not be born. But those who are born of the Spirit of God are Abraham's seed. Not seeds, but seed---the promised seed. For it's through Christ, which was the Son of Abraham. If you can get a hold of this. Then if we...