1. Salvation is not repeatable – A natural birth cannot be reversed or repeated. In the Bible when God talks about being reborn he means spiritually. At conception God gives each of us a piece of himself, an eternal spirit. According to the Bible, God has begotten us. God made our physical bodies from the dust of the ground and he placed in that body an eternal spirit. In every sense of the word God is our father. It was actually the Holy Spirit who gave birth to our eternal spirit at conception and we know that the Holy Spirit is God. That’s why we refer to the Holy Spirit as the divine womb.
John 1:12 – But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even those who believe in His name.
1 John 5:1 – Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves Him who is begotten of Him.
1 John 5:18 – We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
At birth our eternal spirit has the sin nature from Adam’s fall in the Garden of Eden. Since Adam was the first man he is our family patriarch. The spiritual law of imputation means every man who came after Adam in his family (us) has Adam’s sin passed on to him. God cannot abide sin and will not allow sin in heaven so therefore our eternal spirit cannot go there in its sinful state. If our eternal spirit can’t go to heaven the only other place it can go is hell. Those are the only two choices we have. Another spiritual law is the wages of sin is death. We are all born in sin and headed straight to hell with no way to save ourselves.
John 3:3 – (Jesus speaking) – Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:6 – (Jesus speaking) – That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:8 – (Jesus speaking) – The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.
God devised a salvation plan for man. To satisfy a just God the removal of the sins of man required a blood sacrifice from a sinless man. Since all men are sinners, we are lost. God had to send his own Son to earth in the form of a man to qualify as that spotless blood sacrifice in our place so that our sins might be forgiven. Even though Jesus Christ died for the sins of all men, that precious gift of divine blood has to be received to be applied. A person must believe in God and that Jesus Christ is the Son of God sent to redeem us of our sins by his sacrificial death on the cross. A person must believe Jesus was crucified, was buried and then arose from the dead on the third day in a resurrected body and now sits at the right hand of God in heaven.
A person by faith must accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. The moment we become believers we are saved unto eternal life by the blood of Christ. The divine womb of the Holy Spirit births a “new” eternal spirit and removes the old one. We get a one for one swap of eternal spirits instantaneously that we can neither feel nor detect. We only know it happens because the Bible says it does. Just remember when we become adopted sons of God our old spirit is exchanged for a new one without sin on it so we can enter heaven when we die. We are born a second time spiritually. We have been reborn in Christ Jesus.
1 Peter 1:3-5 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
For proof in Scripture look at the above verses and understand what it says. It says God has, “begotten us again,” which means God has birthed an eternal spirit in us a second time. The first birth was at conception. Our eternal spirit has been reborn at salvation. Why? So that our sins can be forgiven and we can be translated to the kingdom of God by our faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our “living hope” is to also be raised from the dead and receive a new glorified body like the one Jesus has. Notice also that God says all believers have an inheritance (eternal life) waiting on them in heaven. Furthermore, God says our salvation is “reserved” in heaven which means it’s guaranteed. Most importantly, our salvation unto eternal life is, “kept by the power of God.” God is holding onto our salvation personally until we get to heaven to receive it. If God has our salvation in his hands nothing can loosen his grip on our eternal spirit. God will never let go of us.
John 6:51 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.
John 6:35 – (Jesus speaking) – I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.
John 6:27 – (Jesus speaking) – Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because Gof the Father has set His seal on Him.
Jesus repeatedly uses the metaphor of food and water to represent salvation and eternal life. Just as we need food and water to survive in our physical bodies, so we need faith in Jesus Christ to be given eternal life in heaven. Our spiritual food and water is provided by our faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Salvation is only needed one time for all time; and you can’t lose it. The Bible says once we’re saved God holds our salvation in his hands for us until the last day when our redemption will be completed by Jesus Christ. Once we’re indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God it means we’re saved and the Holy Spirit will never leave us until our death. That’s what it means to be sealed by the Holy Spirit.
When we die the Holy Spirit will take us straight to the presence of Jesus in heaven. The Holy Spirit within us is God’s seal of ownership ensuring we have eternal life. It can never be revoked. Romans 8:38-39, makes it clear that once God has us in the kingdom of God nothing can take us out of his hand. Satan can’t remove us, we can’t sin enough to remove ourselves, and God won’t change his mind and let us go. Once you’ve given your life to Jesus Christ your spot in heaven is secure and it is guaranteed by the power of Almighty God. If you can never lose your salvation you don’t have to worry about having to repeat it.
Romans 8:38-39 – For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 10:28 – (Jesus speaking) – And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
John 10:29 – (Jesus speaking) – My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand.
Luke 1:37 – For with God nothing will be impossible.