1.) When are you perfected as a Born again Believer?
AA.) Its when you have "Worked out your Salvation", and that does not mean to try to attain it or keep it.
Its to have the right MIND...the right THEOLOGY< the Right FAITH, the right UNDERSTANDING that is the same that God has, regarding what it means to be a "CHRISTian". And, regarding what it means to be "not under the law but Under Grace".. and what it means to understand PERFECTLY = , what has happened when the born again have become " a NEW Creation IN Christ".
Its to understand PERFECTLY what it means to have been "Translated from Darkness.. TO LIGHT">
Its to understand perfectly WHY the born again are "seated in Heavenly places" right now.
Good day, Aviel
Great Question!
The miracle of the new birth is a wonderful work of God,
With in the context of the NC....
EZE 36:2626 And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Jer 24:7 I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD, and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
Quoted for you here:
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
When God chooses to do all these things...
He causes us to walk
He makes us His people
He causes us to Obey
He gives us a heart to know Him.
He removes our stony heart
He gives us a new heart
So when God does the things that only he can do we are only then born again believers.
Flesh only produces flesh... we have nothing to do with our flesh birth and noting to do with our "spiritual" birth.
He does all these things in according to His will, (not ours) to birth you again by His Spirit which he put in you.
John 1:13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
In Him
Bill