Summary of the new birth

According to the teachings I share from the Lord, you know (many of you) that we must be born again, and that in order to be born again we must first receive the deposit of the Holy Spirit, so that we can be totally sanctified by Him, renewed (renovated), and become new wineskins. For the new wine (the new birth) is not put into old wineskins, but into new ones. 

You also know, according to the teachings, that in order to become new wineskins, we must live by the Spirit, in sanctification, and complete our sanctification, which concerns spirit, soul and body. This also represents the circumcision of Christ, which consists in the stripping off of the sinful nature (the flesh/the old man).

So you know that from the moment we receive the deposit of the Spirit, we must carry our cross, stripping off our sinful nature, until we have totally crucified our old man, and we can put on the new man, created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

I told you in the other teachings, that in order to be able to strip off our sinful nature, we must do it in fasting and prayer, going against the desires of our flesh and resisting temptation by the power we have received (the deposits of the Spirit). We must therefore first give up everything in order to set ourselves apart in this spiritual wilderness, which represents the desert that Jesus went through for 40 days. It was in this desert that he overcame his flesh, resisting temptation and fasting. 

Jesus, as a man, had to go through this desert himself and shed the flesh, before he could do the works of God; and the disciple is not greater than his Master, but every accomplished disciple will be made like his Master. If we want to obtain salvation and moreover do the works that Christ did, we must pass through this wilderness just like the Master. 

Let me remind you briefly of these things so that you may understand what Jesus is saying in this passage: 

Luke 5:33 And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and pray, and the disciples of the Pharisees; but yours eat and drink? 34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the friends of the bridegroom to fast, while the bridegroom is with them? 35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them; then will they fast in those days. 36 He spoke a parable to them, saying, "No one puts a piece of a new garment on an old garment; otherwise the new tears the old, and the piece taken from the new doesn`t fit the old. 37 Neither does anyone put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will break the skins, and be spilled, and the skins will be lost. 38 But new wine is put into new skins, and the two are kept together. 39 And there is no one who, when he drinks old wine, immediately wants new; for, he says, the old is better.

Here the Lord was saying that while he was with the disciples they could not fast, because they had not yet received the deposit of the Holy Ghost; but he goes further in his teaching, for he says that when he is no longer with his disciples they must fast, that they may become new wineskins, and be born again, that is, receive the power from on high. For he says that no one can receive this Power (the new Wine) directly after conversion, otherwise we could not bear it, because of our sinful nature. 

We must therefore totally strip off our sinful nature by the power we have received through faith, the power to overcome the world and the flesh, in order to become truly children of God by the new birth. 

For this reason Jesus, after giving the deposit of the Holy Spirit to the disciples, and visiting them for 40 days to teach them concerning the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, told them to remain in Jerusalem until they were clothed with power from on high; and that after this, the disciples remained in sanctification and fellowship, being daily in the temple, praising and blessing God; while waiting for the promise (the new birth); as we see in Luke 24 and Acts 1.

We, therefore, who have received the deposit of the Spirit, that is, the spiritual water (John 7: 38-39), we must remain at the feet of the Lord, in sanctification, in fasting and prayer, and in fellowship with those who walk this true Way; so that the vessels that we are may be filled more and more with this Water (the Spirit), and that we may finally be filled with it up to the top, totally, so that there may be this transformation, this evolution, and therefore, that this Water may be changed into Wine (John 2:6-9).

I remind you again that the new birth is the only condition of salvation, the only condition to enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:5); and also the condition to be able to see the Kingdom of God (John 3:3) and thus to be able to do the same works as Christ; for the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it (John 5:19-20). 

This is why when Nicodemus spoke to Jesus saying that no one can do the miracles he (Jesus) does unless God is with him; Jesus replied: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:1-3). Thus making a direct connection between seeing the Kingdom of God, and doing the works of God; because, I repeat, as Jesus says: the Son can do nothing of himself, unless he sees the Father doing it. 

So Jesus as a man needed to see the Kingdom of God, to see the Father, in order to be able to do the works that he did. And he tells us that whoever believes in him will also do the works that he did, and even greater ones (John 14:12). He who is born of God can see the Kingdom of God, and he can see God and do his works, and without sanctification no one will see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14), which proves once again that we must complete our sanctification before we can be born again.

Jesus goes into even more detail, saying that no one who is not born of Water and the Spirit can enter the Kingdom of God. He compares being born again to being born of Water and the Spirit. This is another confirmation of what I am saying about the fact that the first seed we receive, which represents the deposit of the Spirit, which the disciples received in John chapter 20, represents Water; and that once we are filled with this Water, it will turn into Wine, and we will be born of the Spirit. This is Water baptism and Holy Spirit baptism, both of which are spiritual.

Notice also that Jesus speaks of being born of Water and of the Spirit, so he is speaking of two things, yet he indicates that the purpose is to be born of the Spirit, for in the rest of the passage he says: that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Do not marvel at what I have said to you: you must be born again. The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it; but you know not whence it comes, nor whither it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit (John 3:6-8).

Jesus makes us understand that the purpose is to be born of the Spirit, and not of water; and he specifies that every man who is born of the Spirit is like the wind, that is to say completely directed by the Holy Spirit. Moreover, John tells us in his epistles that he who is born of God does not sin, and cannot even sin, because the seed of God dwells in him, and he is born of God (1 John 3:9). 

This is a brief summary of the teachings I share from the Lord concerning the new birth, the centre of His true Doctrine, the one and only condition of salvation.