Have you ever wondered, why you must be born again? Why couldn’t humanity stay the way they were, after the fall? Why isn’t a confession of your faith statement, a church visit, reading the Bible, a prayer, စသည်တို့. enough? Why is regeneration necessary? Why do we need to be born again?
That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit
Jesus answered and said unto him, ဧကန်စင်စစ်, အမှန်ပင်, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God (ယော 3:3)
ယေရှုက ဖြေတယ်။, ဧကန်စင်စစ်, အမှန်ပင်, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. 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 (ယော 3:5-8).
နှုတ်ကပတ်တော်ကဆိုတယ်။, that you must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God and to see the Kingdom of God. Only, if you are born of water and of the Spirit, you will enter and see the Kingdom of God. There is no other way to enter nor to see the Kingdom of God.
The reason why Jesus came to this earth
In order to understand the words of Jesus and the necessity of the new birth, you should know the reason why Jesus Christ, ဘုရားသခင်၏သားတော်, came to this earth and what His mission was.
Jesus came to the earth to restore the state of fallen man and to reconcile man back to God.
Jesus needed to restore the state of fallen man and reconcile man back to God, because the union between God and man was broken. Who broke the relationship? Man did. (ဖတ်လည်းဖတ်ပါ။: ‘The peace Jesus restored between fallen man and God‘ နှင့် ‘ယေရှုသည် လဲကျနေသောလူ၏အနေအထားကို ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ခဲ့သည်။‘).
Let’s go back to the moment in the Garden of Eden, in order to understand the necessity of the new birth and the reason why you must be born again.
Man chose the flesh over the Spirit
Throughout the ages, we see that man rather chose the way of the flesh, instead of the way of the Spirit. This already began in the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve chose the carnal tree of knowledge of good and evil, rather than the sacred tree of life.
God had commanded man, to not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God had warned man what would happen if they would eat from that tree. If they would eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they would die.
But despite the warning and commandment of God, Adam and Eve chose to eat from the fruit of the forbidden tree.
They were led by curiosity and began to doubt the words of God. They obeyed the devil and became disobedient to God. Because of their disobedience to God death entered.
The sentence of death came upon them and upon everyone, who would be born of the seed of Adam. Therefore the sentence of death came upon the whole human race.
Adam was a living soul, born of the Spirit. He was one with God (dead for sin). But when he became disobedient to God and sinned, the death sentence came upon him. The spirit in man died, and man came under the authority of death. As he was created out of the dust, he would return to dust.
Before Adam sinned, his predominant characteristic was spirit. But after Adam sinned his spirit died and came under the authority of death and his predominant characteristic was flesh.
Born of the flesh
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God (ရောမ 3:23)
လူသည် သူ့နေရာမှ ပြုတ်ကျသွားသည်။, which God had given to man, and the sentence of death was passed on to the entire human race.
လူတိုင်း, who would be born of the flesh possesses a sinful nature and is sentenced to death. There is no exception! No one is born of the Spirit when (၎)he comes into this world.
Flesh and blood can’t enter the Kingdom of God
အဟီး, that everyone is born of the flesh, အပြစ်သားအဖြစ်, no one can enter the Kingdom of God, in this carnal sinful state, which is the state of အပြစ်သား.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us (1 ယော 1:8-10)
The natural carnal man, who exists of flesh and blood and whose spirit is dead, is unspiritual and can’t comprehend, nor receive the things of the Spirit of God, because it’s foolishness unto the carnal man.
But the natural man receive not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned(1 ကောရိန္သု 2:14)
Now this I say, ညီအစ်ကိုတို့၊, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption (1 ကောရိန္သု 15:50)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth (ယော 4:24)
That which is born of the flesh is flesh. The flesh can’t please God. The flesh is not able to see or enter the Kingdom of God. Therefore a person must be born again in the spirit in order to see and enter the Kingdom of God.
Only when a person becomes born again; born of water and the Spirit, a person shall enter the Kingdom of God and receive eternal life. Water and Spirit, means the baptism in water and the baptism with the Holy Spirit (ဖတ်လည်းဖတ်ပါ။: ‘The meaning of water baptism, ‘Pentecost ဆိုတာ ဘာလဲ။?‘ နှင့် ‘How can a person become born again?‘).
Faith is the catalyst, which brings you to an encounter with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit regenerates you. သောကြောင့်, you are born into the heavenly realm and Kingdom, just as you were once born into the natural (earthly) realm and kingdom.
4 Reasons why you must be born again
Let’s look at the 4 reasons why you must be born again:
1. The universal result of sin demands regeneration
ထို့ကြောင့်, အပြစ်တရားသည် တယောက်သောသူအားဖြင့် ဤလောကသို့ဝင်သကဲ့သို့၊, အပြစ်တရားအားဖြင့် အသေခံ၏။; လူအပေါင်းတို့သည် သေခြင်းသို့ ရောက်လေ၏။, လူအပေါင်းတို့သည် ပြစ်မှားကြပြီ။ (ရောမ 5:12)
ရေးထားသလိုပဲ။, ဖြောင့်မတ်သောသူမရှိ။, မဟုတ်ဘူး, တစ်ခုမဟုတ်ပါ။ (ရောမ 3:10)
2. Unregenerate man is unable to understand the things of God and His Kingdom nor receive the gifts of God
But the natural man receive not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 ကောရိန္သု 2:14)
3. Without the new birth everything you do, every impulse and action is defiled
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, အိမ်ထောင်ရေးဖောက်ပြန်မှု, fornications, လူသတ်မှု, Thefts, လောဘစိတ်, ဆိုးသွမ်းမှု, ပရိယာယ်, ကြင်ကြင်နာနာ, an evil eye, blasphemy, မာန, မိုက်မဲခြင်း: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man (မှတ်သားပါ။ 7:21-23)
4. Unless you are born again, you have no escape from the judgment of God
တစ်nd you hath he quickened, ဒုစရိုက်အပြစ်တို့၌ သေသောသူ၊; ရှေးကာလ၌ သင်တို့သည် ဤလောကလမ်းစဉ်အတိုင်း လျှောက်ခဲ့ကြကုန်၏။, လေ၏ တန်ခိုးရှင်၏ အလိုအရ၊, မနာခံခြင်း၏သားတို့၌ ယခုပြုသော စိတ်ဝိညာဉ်၊: ငါတို့ရှိသမျှသည် ငါတို့၏ဇာတိပကတိတပ်မက်ခြင်း၌ လွန်လေပြီးသော ကာမဂုဏ်တို့၌ ကျင်လည်ကြကုန်၏။, ဇာတိပကတိနှင့် စိတ်၏အလိုဆန္ဒကို ပြည့်စုံစေ၏။; အမျက်ဒေါသ၏ သားသမီးများ ဖြစ်ကြ၏။, အခြားသူများကဲ့သို့ပင် (ဧဖက် 2:1-3)
'မြေကြီး၏ဆားဖြစ်ပါစေ'
