Anu dilahirkeun tina daging nyaéta daging; sareng anu dilahirkeun tina Roh nyaéta roh (John 3:6).
We have a spirit, jiwa jeung raga. The question you might ask yourselves is: am I carnal and do I live after the flesh? Istilah sanésna: does my flesh direct my steps and actions? Or do I live after the Spirit, and does my spirit direct my steps and actions?
You can live after the flesh or you can live after the Spirit. Lamun leumpang sanggeus daging, then the result will be bad. But if you life after the Spirit then the result will be good.
Naon sows lalaki, anjeunna bakal metik. Lamun sow dina daging, you will reap corruption and if you sow in the Spirit, you will reap life everlasting (Baca ogé: Naon anu anjeun sow, Anjeun bakal panén).
But let’s have a look at what Jesus meant by the new birth. What He meant, when He said, that you can only Lebetkeun Karajaan Allah if you are born of water and Spirit. (Jn 3:3, 7)
If Jesus needed to restore the union, it means that union was there once, but was broken. Ku kituna, we need to go back to the Taman Eden to understand the necessity of the new birth.
Throughout human history we see, that people chose the way of the flesh; walking in obedience to the devil, instead the way of the Spirit; walking in obedience to the Father. This started already in the Garden of Eden, where Adam and Eve chose the carnal tree of knowledge rather than the holy tree of life. Because they desired and chose the carnal tree above the holy tree of life, God was compelled to pronounce the sentence of dead upon them.
Adam mangrupikeun jiwa anu hirup
Adam mangrupikeun jiwa anu hirup, lahir tina Roh. Anjeunna hiji sareng Allah. But after he sinned, hukuman pati datang kana manéhna. And God said to him, that as he came from dust, and was dust, he also would return to dust.
Sateuacan Adam dosa, ciri utama nya éta sumanget, but after he became disobedient to God and sinned, his predominant characteristic was flesh.
That sentence of death, that carnal disposition, was passed on to the entire human race. dulur, anu bakal dilahirkeun tina siki manusa, would carry the death. Ku kituna dulur, who is born on this earth is carnal, and is a prisoner of the sin nature. Henteu aya anu ngaluarkeun.
How do you enter the Kingdom of God?
Because we are carnal and carry the sin nature, we cannot enter in this status the Kingdom of God:
Tapi manusa alam teu narima hal Roh Allah: pikeun aranjeunna bodo ka anjeunna: ngayakeun anjeunna terang aranjeunna, Kusabab aranjeunna sacara spirium (1 urang Korinta 2:14)
Ayeuna ieu kuring ngomong, baraya, yen daging jeung getih teu bisa inherit Karajaan Allah; Korupsi ogé henteu ngawariskeun incorruption (1 urang Korinta 15:50)
Gusti mangrupikeun Roh: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (John 4:24)
What is the necessity of the new birth?
Now you see the necessity of becoming born again. Only by the new birth can we receive eternal life and enter the Kingdom of God.
This spiritual life can ONLY be achieved through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Faith is the catalyst that brings us to an encounter with the Holy Spirit, who regenerates us, so that we are born into the heavenly realm just as you were once born into the earthly realm.
Necessity of the new birth emphasised in other places
The necessity of the new birth is emphasised in other places:
- The universal results of sin demands it:
Utana, sakumaha dosa asup ka dunya ku hiji lalaki, jeung maot ku dosa; sarta jadi maot kaliwat kana sakabeh lalaki, pikeun éta kabéh geus dosa (Rom 5:12)
Sakumaha anu ditulis, Henteu aya anu katingali, henteu, sanes (Rom 3:10)
- Unregenerate man is unable to understand or receive the gifts of God
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: pikeun aranjeunna bodo ka anjeunna: ngayakeun anjeunna terang aranjeunna, Kusabab aranjeunna sacara spirium (1 Co 2:14)
- Without the new birth everything we do, unggal dorongan jeung lampah najis
Pikeun ti jero, kaluar tina jantung lalaki, teruskeun pikiran jahat, penjawan, fornications, rajapati, Maling, covetousousness, kajahatan, tipuan, lasciviousness, hiji panon jahat, pitenah, kareueus, Bobohong: Sadaya hal jahat ieu asalna tina jeroeun, sareng defile lalaki (Mar 7:21-23)
- Unless we are born again we have no escape from the judgment of God
And you hath he quickened, anu geus maot dina trespasses jeung dosa; Wherein dina waktu kaliwat anjeun walked nurutkeun kursus dunya ieu, nurutkeun pangeran kakawasaan hawa, the spirit that now worth in the children of disobedience: Diantara saha ogé urang sadayana ngagaduhan paguneman urang dina waktos baheula di Nafsu Nafsu, minuhan kahayang daging sareng pikiran; sareng ku alam barudak murka, komo sapertos batur (Exaya 2:1-3)
