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Salvation Through BORN AGAIN ss your hard work and the fruit of your ground and womb. I will multiply your blessings. 29 If you obey My commands wholeheartedly, I will pour My snow upon you from heaven. I will command the earth, it should give to you double fruit. 30 If you follow My commands and My will, I will make your de- sert like the blossom as the rose. 31 The forest will rejoice. It will be glad so much so that it will si- ng songs. The water flows in the wilderness and the springs of wa- ter flows in the deserts. 32 The waste lands will be turned like the fertilized land. Water will be as the fertilizer to the plants. The poor will have enough food for their stomach. The workers will have enough work in their hands. 33 Your country will be a country which strengthens the weak cou- ntries. The people of your count- ry will strengthen the weak. Your people will be a guide to the blind, dependant to the weak and a tongue to the dumb. 34 Your people will come to kn- ow after they have obeyed My commands that it is I who did all 202 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD these works. 35 Your God,the consuming fire is rejoicing about your country. Like a child who rejoices by looking at his father and mother, so also your God is rejoicing over your country and your pe- ople” – this is the Word of God, the consuming fire CHAPTER 102 The New Birth in the Scriptures IT is said through Jesus that one must be Born Again. There- fore, some says that we live according to the Law of Moses and prophets, but not able to be Born Again from above. 2You say that we reject this main Born Again command because of doubts about it? 3 We write these things about such people who doubt. 4 When the God of gods was walking on the earth, He said to a Pharisee –“Don’t you know about the divine mystery of New Birth since you are a master of Israelites? What do you preach? 5 We preach the thing which we heard from our Father. He said that you won’t agree our prea- Salvation Through BORN AGAIN ching. 6-7 He said to him and people that God the Father said about the New Birth through Moses and prophets in the Old Testam- ent so that whoever comes to the Lord may enter the kingdom of God. 8-9 II In the past, God accepted those He predetermined before the foundation of the world for His eternal kingdom from Adam till eighteenth man Terah. 10 Whomever He accepted, He granted the eternal life freely and glorified them. 11When the weed expanded and filled the earth in the days of Noah tenth man, God, who is the Jud- ge, testified the human races and cleansed the earth with water. 12 In those days, God procla- imed the gospel which tells about repentance with New Birth. 13 The loving God proclaimed His will to them, but like dark- ness, which flees from light, the people of darkness came under the wrath of God, the consuming fire and went into Hades. 14 Noah preached the gospel to them so that they may repent - 15 ‘Behold, all of you repent and 203 The Salvation Is The GIFT Of GOD enter the ark and believe in the Lord’s death, burial and resurre- ction (gospel) so that God may not judge. 16 He testified and proclaimed to all publicly about righteous- ness, justice, forgiveness and lo- ve of God. 17 They were disobedient to the preaching of God’s word and gospel. They were destroy- ed by flood. 18 II When God called Abra- ham, who is called as the father of all believers, he obeyed the call of God. He came to the Pr- omised Land which is God shall give and settled there. 19 Then God appeared and co- mmanded him that all his hous- ehold, including his servants, should be circumcised. It is a sy- mbol to the New Birth which is the change of heart. 20-21 Therefore, we understa- nd that the circumcision is not the outward act but internal. Ha- mor, who was a gentile, took cir- cumcision. But it was external and there was no use of it. 22 II The Spirit of God inspired the daughter of Pharaoh so that she may take the son of Amram