Pastor Deborah
BORN AGAIN -
THE NEW RE-CREATED SPIRITMAN
Hebrew language is like God's language. it comes from our Creator
1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 NKJV
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may YOUR whole SPIRIT, SOUL, and BODY be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thoughts are in the form of words or pictures
Our soul areas has its own thinking
Emotion comes from your thought. What is going on in your head. It will create emotion.
The body follows the emotion. Too much stress people go into sickness.
God created us
Before the fall, it was never meant to have this emotion
GENESIS 2:7 KJV
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the BREATH (Neshamah) of life; and man became a living SOUL (NEPHESH).
English is the translation, not the original H5397 Breath
Original: נשׁמה
Transliteration: NESHÂMÂH
Phonetic: nesh-aw-maw'
Strong's Definition: From H5395; a PUFF, that is, WIND, angry or vital BREATH, divine inspiration, intellect:- blast, (that) breath (-eth), inspiration, SOUL, SPIRIT.
H5315 soul
Original: נפשׁ
Transliteration: NEPHESH
Phonetic: neh'-fesh
soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
Soul area- your will your mind your emotion
JOB 27:3 KJV
All the while my BREATH (NESHAMAH) is in me,
and the SPIRIT (RUACH) of GOD is in my nostrils;
[the spirit…: that is, the breath which God gave him]
H7307 spirit
Original: רוּח
Transliteration: RUACH
Phonetic: roo'-akh
wind, breath, mind, spirit
Strong's Definition: From H7306; WIND; by resemblance BREATH, that is,
a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions):- air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit ([-ual]), tempest, X vain, ([whirl-]) wind (-y).
EZEKIEL 36:26 KJV
A NEW HEART also will I give you, and a NEW SPIRIT (RUACH) will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
I am a Tripartite being.
We are spirits, we possess a soul, and we live in a body.
You may be a christian, receive Jesus, but ruled by the soul, un-renewed mind
When your bank account getting low, how does your mind interpret? The conclusion your mind made is not enough
Outside influences cause your body
Alone with super active thoughts and some suggestion in the thoughts create emotion that make a person want to commit suicide.
The spirit is a candle/lamp
PROVERBS 20:27 KJV
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,
searching all the inward parts of the belly.
PROVERBS 20:27 NKJV
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the inner of his heart.
Light means that i cannot see properly
The spirit communicated Himself to our spirit
Our spirits are God’s candles;
He supplies the light we need through the HOLY SPIRIT, who searches us,
(our soul) and MAKES KNOWN ALL that is in us to us.
Our spirits are born again, and the role of the born again spirit is different from that of the soul.
Our spirits serve as LIGHT once we are born again EMPOWERED by the HOLY SPIRIT.
See the light on the outside.
This is how the spirit communicates to the soul, by LIGHT and REVELATION.
JOHN 3:1-2 EASY
There was a Pharisee called Nicodemus.
He was one of the Jewish leaders.
He came to speak with Jesus at night.
He said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we know that God has sent you to us.
We have seen the MIRACLES that you are doing.
Nobody could do these things unless God was with him.’
JOHN 3:3 EASY
Jesus replied, ‘I tell you this: Unless a person is BORN FROM ABOVE (born again), they cannot UNDERSTAND (see) the kingdom of God.’
JOHN 3:4-5 EASY
Nicodemus asked, ‘How can a man be born when he is old?
He cannot return into his mother's body.
He cannot be born a second time.’
Jesus explained, ‘I tell you this: Unless a person is born by water
and by God's Spirit, he cannot come into the kingdom of God.
He switched back to the physical realm
JOHN 3:6 EASY
People give birth to what is human.
But God's Spirit gives birth to spirit.
JOHN 3:7-9 EASY
I said to you, “You must be born from above.”
What I said should not surprise you.
When someone is born by God's Spirit, it is like the wind that blows.
The wind blows wherever it chooses to blow.
You can hear it.
But you do not know where it came from or where it is going.’
Nicodemus asked, ‘How can this happen?’
Adam became a living soul by God's breath. God breathed into him
We need breath of life to become alive again
You feel something in the body, you feel peace
JOHN 3:10-11 TPT
Jesus answered, “Nicodemus, aren’t you the respected teacher in Israel, and yet you don’t UNDERSTAND this REVELATION?
I speak eternal truths about things I know, things I’ve seen and experienced—and still you don’t accept what I reveal.
JOHN 3:12-13 TPT
If you’re unable to believe what I’ve told you about the NATURAL REALM, what will you do when I begin to unveil the heavenly realm?
No one has risen into the HEAVENLY REALM except the Son of Man who also exists in heaven.”
Your body can enjoy physical realm
Jesus said the god of this world will be the devil until Jesus comes back again to restore all things
In the spirit we will sin
In John 3, Nicodemus acknowledges that Jesus is a teacher who comes from God, determining that no one can perform the miracles that He does except God be with Him.
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.
Our souls become alive to God when we are born again, they are awakened from a deep slumber, through the light of His Word and Spirit.
Heavenly realm is ours for us to live in
God save us so that we can see this spiritual realm.
Extract from "Being “Born Again” in Hebrew Thought".
By Dr. Yeshaya Gruber
Many Christians take this as a foundational principle of their faith.
But what did this statement of Yeshua/Jesus actually mean in its original first-century Jewish context, before Christianity existed?
The first thing to consider is that the Jewish-Greek word ἄνωθεν (anôthen), often translated “again” in John 3:3, more commonly means “from above.”
In the Septuagint, an earlier translation of the Hebrew Bible, the same word is often associated with heaven, the tabernacle, and visions of God’s throne.
So why did the young rabbi from Galilee mention some kind of “new birth from above”?
Jesus was speaking with a senior Pharisee and member of the Judean ruling council, Nakdimon/NICODEMUS.
Nakdimon saw Yeshua as “a teacher come from God” and was hoping for INSIGHT into the HEAVENLY REALM (John 3:2, 12).
For his part, Yeshua called Nakdimon “the teacher of Israel” and
clearly expected him to understand the points being made (John 3:10).
JOHN 3:9-10 EASY
Nicodemus asked, ‘How can this happen?’
Jesus replied, ‘You are an important teacher of people in Israel.
You ought to understand these things!
This is a key to reading the passage.
The Pharisaic teacher would have understood the "kingdom of God" as a realm of perfect justice, truth, and love centered around Israel.
But what kind of related metaphorical “rebirth” would have been familiar to him?
One strong possibility is the case of the “proselyte” גר (ger) who joined the nation of Israel by choice rather than physical birth.
The biblical term "proselyte" is an anglicization of the Koine Greek term προσήλυτος (proselytos), as used in the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) for "stranger",
i.e. a "newcomer to Israel"; [1] a "sojourner in the land", [2] and in the Greek New Testament[3] for a first-century CONVERT to Judaism, generally from Ancient Greek religion.
It is a translation of the Biblical Hebrew phrase גר תושב (ger toshav).
In the first century many non-Jews (Gentiles) did make this choice, abandoning their former connections and pagan gods.
According to the rabbinic tradition that grew out of Pharisaism, such PROSELYTES or CONVERTS emerged from water immersion “REBORN” to begin a “NEW LIFE” with allegiance to the people and God of Israel.
From this perspective, the conversation between two leading teachers of Torah suggests an analogy between the radical choice of the proselyte and the lifestyle required for anyone to join the REALM of “THE ABOVE.”
God gives us the ability to choose.
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