BORN AGAIN.

YOUR NEW IDENTITY IN CHRIST.

John 3: 1.  There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2. The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.3.  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. 4.  Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? 5.  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.6.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7.  Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.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.

The WTS states differently. "A believer may be baptized in water in symbol of his unconditional dedication to Jehovah God, yet if he does not get the baptism with the holy spirit from God and through Christ, he will never enter the kingdom of the heavens to reign with Christ...Those who are baptized with Jehovah's spirit and thus baptized into Christ's body number finally only 144,000 faithful believers." ("New Heavens and A New Earth," Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Inc., 1953, pp. 306-308).

The WTS teaches that the majority of Jehovah’s Witnesses should expect to enter God’s kingdom here on earth which will be ruled by God from his heavenly kingdom. But God’s Kingdom has a requirement for all who expect to see the place from where God will rule.  "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3). The governing body of the WTS has continued to defend its tapestry of confusion which has complicated this issue, and teaches that only 144,000 will be born again, to rule from heaven with God. This false doctrine has no biblical or theological basis and is in direct conflict to John 3. The doctrine also teaches that the majority will be subjects in a new paradise on earth and that they will be accepted into God’s kingdom without being born again. Jesus has an opposite opinion. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" (John 3:3).

Note in verse 5 that there is no other means of entering the kingdom of God except by being born again. Verse 6 states that this must be a spiritual rebirth not a physical. Verse 7 states that this is a simple requirement. When addressing an issue that differs form God’s Word we should always remember that it is God who will judge. Jesus said. "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" Jesus left no room for an exception to the rule.

John 10: 15.  As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.16.  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

John 10:15 addresses the subject of an earthly and heavenly existence by two different classes of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Here Jesus says that there are not two classes, a heavenly and earthly class but all believers will be united under one fold.

1 John 2: 29.  If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him. 3: 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 5:1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 5: 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 5: 18.  We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

The above verses are presented as evidence, testifying to the importance of being born again. {Born of God.}

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.  {Hebrews. 11:1} While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 {Corinthians 4:18}

Faith is to take God for his word. It is to take God for his word when the world around us says differently. The problem is that we cannot touch God with our physical senses, but we can touch the things that testify against God. Faith is to believe and understand that not only can God talk it, but He can walk it. If God says that being born again is a nonnegotiable requirement, why do the Jehovah’s Witnesses so blindly follow a false doctrine that goes completely against what God says? It all comes down to the slow indoctrination of new converts into the organization through mind control. It is the reprogramming of the new convert’s thoughts and how they view themselves in relationship with God. It is how the person views his/her spiritual standing in the presence of Almighty God. The culprits come as wolves in sheep’s clothing. They come as peers, leaders, and teachers. In Biblical times the shepherds wore clothing made of sheep’s wool {sheep’s clothing.} Jesus was warning us about false teachers {shepherds} that would lead their flock astray. The new convert is introduced to a new identity based on their relationship with the WTS. The individual is deceived and is manipulated into responding positively to what is being done to him/her. The new convert’s mind starts being controlled when the organization slowly starts controlling their behavior, thoughts, emotions, information, customs and relationships. These are powerful tools used by the WTS for seducing new converts. Both the highly intelligent and the ignorant fall prey to these tools.

If a person becomes a hostage, a slave of the Organization, how does the individual get set free?

In order for a Jehovah’s Witness to set himself or herself free them must know that they are a hostage. Almighty God can only set people free when they realize and understand that they are in bondage. How can so many of God’s children be held by this entanglement called the WTS? Paul gives some insight into this situation. He writes in 2 Corinthians.

2 Corinthians 11: 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Paul is concerned that the same snake that fooled Eve fooled the Corinthians of his time. How does the serpent deceive? The serpent deceives by coiling itself inside the mind of the Corinthians. Paul is concerned that the serpent coiled itself inside the thought patterns, so it controls what the Corinthians think, because who controls that mind controls the body.  The Witnesses’ slavery which you see is not the problem, it is the product of the problem that has been put up in his/her mind that produces the slavery that he or she feels or sees. The snake coils up in the mind and produces a deception in the mind that is lived out in the body. Many Witnesses try to address their slavery by dealing with their slavery and not addressing the snake that is coiled around their mind that keeps them in bondage. They cannot get out of their slavery to the WTS until they understand that there is something coiled in their mind. The same snake that deceived Eve and the Corinthians is the same snake that is coiled up in the minds of all the brothers and sisters in the Watchtower Society.

Genesis 3: 5.  For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Satan’s deceived Eve by telling her that she could make it independent of God. The WTS teaches its followers that they cannot make it without the society. The WTS took the place of God as the sole source of their followers’ eternal and spiritual needs. The Society placed itself between God and their followers. 

The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses, identifies itself as God's "sole collective channel for the flow of Biblical truth to men on earth" in these last days (The Watchtower, July 15, 1960, p. 439).

"The WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY is the greatest corporation in the world, because from the time of its organization until now the Lord has used it as His channel through which to make known the Glad Tidings" (The Watch Tower, 1917, p. 22,

The main way Satan makes a person shift his dependency from God to another entity is by deceiving them of their identity. He wants unsaved individuals to think that they are saints, and saints to think that they are sinners. Your identity is who you are at the core or your being. The Jehovah’s Witnesses are confused into doubting who they are, and then are introduced to a new identity, which satisfies their self esteem and gives them significance in life.

A chameleon changes its color to blend with its environment. It changes color so that it looks like the tree it’s trying to blend with, or the grass it’s trying to blend with. And because the chameleon can look like a tree, does not make it a tree. Because it looks like the grass it is not grass. There is a lot of “chameleon Christians,” They walk like a Christian, talk like a Christian, act like a Christian but a Christian they are not. They are chameleons because they are only who they are by birth, not performance.

"God's will is that, to make good his salvation to everlasting life, the believer must be a preacher in this world." (This Means Everlasting Life, p. 137).

"We have to do more than merely accept the Kingdom message in order to be saved.... we must also publicly declare that Kingdom message to others...." (From Paradise Lost of Paradise Regained, p. 249).

In 1988 alone a total of over 785 million hours were given by Jehovah’s Witnesses world-wide. Almost 243 million hours were given in the United States alone. (Watchtower, January 1, 1989, p.7).

The Watchtower Society warns the "anointed" not to become, "...overconfident of our position. We need to keep examining ourselves to be sure that we are really doing what God and Christ require of us (Reasoning from the Scriptures, p. 80).

The requirement of performance confuses Jehovah’s Witnesses with who they really are. The WTS teaches its followers that eternal life is based on the list of rules that they keep, and the list of duties that they perform. They are warped in their thinking because they are taught that their performance defines who they are. They are taught not to have confidence in what God says about their birth, but to rely on their performance to obtain eternal life. The WTS fools its followers into thinking that they need to live out a performance in order to validate who they really are; when they might not be that at all.  Satan deceived Eve by messing with her mind. His method of deception was to put his thought in her mind until she adopted it as her thought, and once she did, he had her. The idea that one does not need to be born again may be Witness’s idea by adoption not by origination. God would never give anyone a wrong idea.

Who is Charles T. Russell? Many will say a great preacher. Who is Judge Rutherford? Many will say a great writer. Now if you will say Russell was a great preacher, and Rutherford a great writer, would you be describing who they are or what they did? You would be describing what they did. A great mistake the Jehovah’s Witnesses make is to determine who they are by what they do. They let their performance give them their identity. A great mistake a person can make is to define himself by what he does. Jehovah’s Witnesses should not define themselves by their performance because they will always mis-define themselves.  Satan knows that if Jehovah’s Witnesses do not discover their true identity in Christ, he can keep them from discovering who they can be. A Witness cannot be free if he does not know who he is.  His spiritual identity is the key that opens the door to victory in every area in his life. Remember one’s identity is always and only in one’s birth.

1 Peter 1: 3.  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 23.  Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Peter says that it is a person’s birth that gives them hope, direction, and classification, not what they do. The best non believers in the world are not acceptable to God. This is because they are born with the inherited sin of Adam. Most people think that if they are good they will go to heaven and they will be acceptable to God. The worst Christians are acceptable to God because of their birth, not their performance. You are the child of your parents by your birth not your performance. By birth a Witness is always their parent’s child regardless of how they act. Who a person is, is always tied to his birth. That is why they have to be born again. It is rooted in their birth. A Spanish person is Spanish by birth; they cannot struggle to make themselves any greater Spanish by what they do, because their birth settled that. Yet we have children of God working to become children of God. Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t need to struggle and suffer to become children of God. Trying has nothing to do with being a child of God. They are either born as a child of God or not born as a child of God.. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses will say that they are Jehovah’s Witnesses because of what they do. They follow the teachings of the WTS. They are describing who they are by what they do. What they do is tied their belief of themselves based on their performance. Since I knock on doors and distribute The Watchtower and Awake magazine, I must be a follower of Jesus Christ. Once Satan can get a Jehovah’s Witness to think that what he does is what he is, then he has him because he can never function outside of his perception of himself, because he is defining himself by that definition. Do not define yourself by your practice. Your practice is never who you are at the core of your being.

2 Peter 1: 4.  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Corinthians 5: 17.  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

When a person is born again God, will deposit in them another nature that never existed before in them. When they are born again God will put in them a new defining nature in the essence of their being, called the divine nature, because it is the very life of God. Any man who is in Christ is a brand new creation. They will not be the same person that they were before, even though they are doing the things they did before. Their identity is not in what they do but in their birth. Many Jehovah’s Witnesses are controlled by their past because they were fooled by a lie from hell. If you find a barking pig, the problem is not the barking, but what the pig thinks of itself. You will never stop the pig from barking, until it stops being confused and understands it is a pig by birth, not a dog by performance.

There were soldiers in training for the Navy Seals. The sergeant made his recruits lie in sand that was infested with sea lice. The men started to scratch, move around and by so give away their position. The sergeant told his men to keep still. They still moved around in discomfort. The sergeant commanded them to be still. But the men still moved around and scratched in discomfort. The sergeant changed his tactics. He said, “Men be still, do you know who you are?” He addressed the same problem and got the same desired result but changed his method. Instead of beating or badgering his men into submission, the sergeant made his men view themselves with a different perspective. They now know that they will someday be the best of the best. When they got the message of who they are, they became still. Their identity informed their actions.

The old things have passed away. All the things that they were, they will no longer be when they meet Jesus Christ.

 Conversion changes your soul and spirit. You are body soul and spirit. Your body is the case, the soul is the personality, and your spirit is your divine nature. You were physically born human and a sinner, but once you meet Jesus Christ a divine nature will be placed in you.

Satan wants to keep everyone from this truth, because if everyone knows this truth, then he cannot control them. They will be operating from the new truth, the core of their being.

Galatians 2: 20.  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Galatians 2 tells you who you are. The life that you will live, you will live by faith in the Son of God that gave his life for you. What ever you are will not live anymore because it will be crucified with Christ. We are not sinners, saved by grace. We were sinners saved by grace. The Corinthians were the most mixed up bunch of Christians around. They would spend their Saturday nights at the cat house getting drunk and showing up for church on Sunday morning intoxicated. They constantly fought amongst themselves. Paul had to write a chapter on love to address their anger and hatred towards each other. They were a miserable bunch of Christians.  But in first Corinthians God addresses them as saints.

 I Corinthians 1: 2.  Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Paul calls them saints, the set apart ones. They are not the same people that they were before they got saved even though they were doing the same things they did before they got saved. “Saint” is not for special people. God calls everyone that puts their faith in Jesus Christ a saint. God uses the term saint 56 times in the New Testament. What counts is what God says you are. Have you ever called mature frog a converted tadpole? No it is a frog. And if you pull off its legs and arms is it now a converted tadpole? No, it’s a legless and armless frog. It will always be a frog, because it transformed into a frog. It is recognizing the greatness of your being that lets you have hope for the changing or your actions. Never forget that you are what God says you are and that is all that you are, and in His perspective, the core of who you are is always defined in your birth.   
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