Born Again

Today’s newsletter consists of two different e-mails received from two completely different sources received within 12 hours of each other! I am astounded once again at God’s timing in things and direction to what needs to be sent to you, my readers.

On a side note about God’s timing~ Our son was walking down the hall of his work place and asking God what he was to do about a situation requiring a work decision. Immediately after he worded his prayer concerns to God, he got a buzz text on his phone from his sister. Letha. She, completely unaware of the brewing “storm” with his work, gave him the verse; Exodus 14:13-14 about how God would fight for him! And God has been there in the middle of the entire work drama.

And so, we know God is actively busy about our lives, working all things together for good; Romans 8:28.

I want you to take note of the explaination for several uses of the phrase, “born again”. Bro. Carroll makes several good points in his article. He is an excellent author, pastor, musician vocalist and has a variety of music to offer on his website~ www.carrollroberson.com


"There are many "mysteries" recorded in the sacred scriptures. The mystery of the partial blindness of Israel in Romans 11:25. The mystery of the church being made up of Jews and Gentiles in Ephesians 2:1-9. The mystery of the indwelling Christ in Colossians 1:26-27. The mystery that not all believers will face physical death in I Corinthians 15: 51-52. The mystery of the Messiah, how He was God manifested in the flesh in I Timothy 3:16.
The mystery of the new birth does not have the word "mystery" in the text, but it is one of the great mystery passages in the words of Jesus the Christ. It is recorded in John 3:8, "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Our Lord was talking to a very religious man named Nicodemus about how to enter into the kingdom of God. Nicodemus had had many "born agains" in his life. In Judaism, they were said to be "born of water" when a person was born in the flesh. The young boys were pronounced "born again " when they reached the age of thirteen for the bar-mitzphah. The young adult men were "born again" when they married, starting a new chapter in their life. "Born again" was pronounced again when they reached the age of thirty and became a rabbi, and also when they became fifty years old and became a member of the Sanhedrin. So Nicodemus had experienced all of these "born agains", but he had never experienced being "born again" into God’s kingdom, which is being born of the Spirit! Jesus never used that terminology on anyone else, but it was needed in order to reach Nicodemus. According to John 7:50and John 19:39, we can see that Nicodemus was a changed man after his conversation with the Messiah.
May you and I never lose the "wonder" of being in God’s kingdom. It’s supernatural, a working of God’s Spirit in our lives. Enjoy the mystery of it all!
Bro. Carroll