A New Birth: The Key To All of God's Provisions
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: AuthorHouse, 2011
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- Titel
- A New Birth: The Key To All of God's Provisions
- Autor
- Ade Esan
- Verlag
- AuthorHouse
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Zustand
- New
- Einband
- Paperback / softback
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 1456761048
- ISBN-13
- 9781456761042
- Artikelgewicht
- 218 Gramm
Lora and Greg are young and talented professionals, both with graduate degrees and good jobs, engaged to be married. Both are raised by Christian parents and are holding leadership positions among the youths in their church. As part of their marriage preparation, Lora, invited by a friend attended a pre-marital weekend retreat in another city, where she experiences a new dimension of spiritual encounter. Excited, she phones Greg to share the good news with him. To her amazement, Greg is not excited or amused, and he does not even want to hear about it. Really, he is very angry; argues with Lora, and smashes the receiver on the phone. He has not done anything like this in their over five years of relationship. Things seem to be falling apart, and the center is not holding. Is this going to be the end of their relationship and wedding plans or are they going to be able to swim through this muddy water together and end up as husband and wife? This is the challenge this young couple is facing.
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A NEW BIRTH
The Key To All of God's ProvisionsBy Ade EsanAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2011 Ade EsanAll right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4567-6104-2
Contents
Chapter 1: The Kingdom of What?......................................1Chapter 2: Still Don't Get It!.......................................5Chapter 3: A Bunch of Benefits.......................................8Chapter 4: Nontransferable...........................................34Chapter 5: Except a Man is Born Again................................44Chapter 6: Spreading the Good News...................................58Chapter 7: Born Again ... But Don't Feel Like It.....................86Chapter 8: A Happy Ending............................................93
Chapter One
THE KINGDOM OF WHAT?The telephone rang and Greg picked up the receiver. "Hi! Sweetie, I am glad you called, I've been waiting all day."
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"Nothing in particular, just sitting around thinking about you."
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"You know that life is boring without you around, next time I'll have to go with you."
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"I can't wait honey, I'm counting minutes now."
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"How's life over there?"
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"Glad you're having a nice time, but I'm missing you badly here."
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(Suddenly Greg raised his voice) "The kingdom of what? You are kidding me! Look, I don't want to have anything to do with whatever kingdom you are talking about, I don't even want to think about it. Bye." Greg slammed down the receiver and stamped out of the room.
Greg is a young man in his mid twenties, 6 foot 2 inches tall. He is handsome with a good athletic build—a basketball star in high school and later, in college. He has his degrees from one of the most prestigious universities, has an enviable job, and is approaching the pinnacle of his career. He is engaged to his high school sweetheart, Lora, and marriage preparations are underway. Both he and his fiancé are professing Christians, members of the same church. With a few months to their wedding day, a friend invited Lora to a "bride-to-be" retreat in another town, and there she had a life-transforming experience. This is what she was trying to share with Greg on the phone.
On the first evening of the retreat, there had been an expository teaching from the third chapter of the Gospel of John, with emphasis on the first three verses:
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, "Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with him." In reply, Jesus declared, "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." (NIV)
The teacher at the retreat taught that the basic foundation of Christianity is the new birth, and that this is mandatory for everybody who professes to be a Christian. As a house without foundation will eventually fall, he says, so it is for anyone professing to be a Christian who is not born again; such a person cannot go far because he or she does not have any relationship with God in the first place. The new birth is the beginning of a real relationship with God, and anyone in the church who is not born again is merely congregating with others in the church; he or she is not truly a child of God. This second birth is what opens the doors of all of God's blessings and provisions, making them accessible to a person, the teacher concluded. At the end of his teaching, he invited all who had not experienced this new birth and who were now willing to do so to come forward. More than half of the attendees, including Lora, went forward to be led in the sinner's prayer—professing that they believe in their heart that Jesus Christ died on the cross for their sins, and confessing with their mouth that He is Lord, as stated in Paul's Letter to the Romans, chapter 10, verses 8-10:
"The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." (NIV)
Everyone was excited about the experience and thankful for the revelation, which had eluded them during the many years they have been members of local churches and yet had not heard such a teaching from their pulpits. They seized the opportunity to be born again with both hands. Heaven came down and glory filled their souls, and they could barely wait for the service to be over so they could share the good news of their experience with their loved ones.
Immediately following the meeting, Lora is among the first callers; she almost yells as she shares her new-life experience with her fiancé, Greg—that is when the telephone conversation quoted earlier took place—but to Lora's surprise, Greg did not share her excitement. He did want to hear or think about the new birth or the kingdom of God and all the access to all of God's provisions that Lora tries to communicate to him. He smashes the receiver on the phone and walks angrily away. Lora is disappointed and confused. How are they going to work things out? They have been longtime friends and lovers, and they are engaged to be married. In fact, her presence at the retreat had been part of her preparation for marriage. What she had considered a wonderful experience and great news a few minutes earlier has turned out to be a nightmare. When she had picked up the phone to call Greg, she was sure he would listen to her with attention, and that he would ask her to lead him in praying the sinner's prayer. Much to her surprise, things go the opposite way when Greg ends their conversation abruptly, something he has not done in all the years they have been together. This is strange. How is she going to handle this? What can she do to make Greg understand? Can the pastor of their church, their parents, or anybody from anywhere help? Will she have to recant her new birth experience in order to maintain her relationship with Greg, or is this the beginning of the end of their relationship?
She tries to call Greg back several times, but he does not answer the phone. Why does he not answer? What is he doing on the other side: crying or cursing? Is it wise for her to stay until the end of the retreat in two days, or is it better for her to pack up and rush home as soon as possible? These and many other questions are racing through Lora's mind. O God, help Greg so he does not do something foolish, and help me to make the right decision at this point. Please! She kneels down to pray but ends up crying herself to sleep.
Chapter Two
STILL DON'T GET IT!Greg has reasons to oppose Lora's new experience. Both of them had been members of the same local church all their lives. Greg even holds a leadership position among the church youth; he is a shining star among his peers, and everything is going well. All these years their pastor has never preached on the need to be born again, even though one might presume he knows the Bible says this to be true in the Book of John, chapter 3, verse 3.
"... Born again? In order to see the kingdom of God? And to have access to all of His provisions? I...
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