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The author wants to explain to the reader and open his eyes how he is born again, why he will go to heaven and what the death on the cross and the resurrection of Jesus mean for him. He wants to awaken and ignite in him the love for the truth of his salvation, of which Paul writes in his letter to the Thessalonians, so that he will not be lost. This book is a brief summary of the spiritual content of the New Testament. After reading this book, you will have a clearer view of and better understanding of the statements made by the apostles in the New Testament.
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Born Again:
Spiritual Christianity
Hope and Faith in the Last Days
© 2024 Robert Winter
ISBN: 979-8305349733
Independently published
Table of Contents
Foreword
The Son of Man
The Prophetic Announcement
The Cross and the New Covenant
Fulfillment of the Law in Christ
The Word and the Truth: Christ as Revelation
Sanctification: The Path to Holiness
The Role of Faith in the Christian Life
The Kingdom of Heaven: A Spiritual Reality
Understanding Grace: The Gift of God
The Spiritual Christian: Living in Christ
The End Times: A Christian Perspective
Foreword
With this book I would like to explain to you on the basis of the biblical word how and why believers will go to heaven. Why the Son of God, and only the Son of God, died on the cross, and the significance of this mystery of God for the individual believer. I want to give you an understanding of the essential truth of the New Testament, an approach to the grace and glory of God, and to explain to each individual what Jesus has done for them and what God expects of all believers in terms of how they live their daily lives. One of these tasks is to bring people back into a relationship with their heavenly Father, the living God, thus saving them from the inevitable judgement of the world and its misguided ways. I have summarised all this in a short way so that Jesus will not have to wonder what faith he will find when he returns. After reading this book, you will have a basis for deciding on one of the main statements of the Gospel: "Do you believe or not?"After you have read this book, you will see and understand the statements of the Apostles in the New Testament more clearly.
The Son of Man
Caesarea Philippi was an ancient Roman city at the foot of Mount Hermon, now on the Syrian-Lebanese border. It was one of the most important places of worship for the pagan god Pan. Excavations have revealed a cave sanctuary and niches carved into the rock for statues of nymphs. Pan is depicted as an animal, with the hindquarters, legs and horns of a goat; his name means 'to graze'. In Greek mythology, Pan was the god of desolate places, the wilderness, shepherds and nature spirits. Shepherds made sacrifices to him and feared the sight of him. In the Christian Middle Ages, Pan was used to represent the devil.
In the New Testament, the gospels of Matthew and Mark tell us that Jesus and his disciples were in Caesarea Philippi. It is assumed that they passed by the Sanctuary and that Jesus asked his disciples about the Son of Man.
Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?“ And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He says unto them, But whom say all of you that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.1
This conversation reveals the fundamental foundation, the unshakable rock of the Church of Jesus. Peter's confession that Jesus is the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of the living God, is the rock on which the Church, the "called out community", is built and which can never be destroyed. This was revealed to Peter by the Father in heaven, not by logic or understanding, and Peter believed it and publicly confessed it before all others. Death, the curse of sin, cannot harm the community; it is also synonymous with eternal life in heaven instead of damnation through sin. This confession of Peter includes the anointing of Jesus to act in the name of God and with the authority of God, that the truth is to be found in Jesus, that the person will renounce his old way of life, repent and fundamentally renew his thinking and spiritual life.2 It also includes the healing of the heart, soul, physical infirmities and sicknesses, and leads, through faith in Jesus and the recognition of His love for man, to a Christian character and a Christian attitude to life, founded and rooted in love, the inner transformation, the work of Jesus from within to grow and build His Church.3 Through the shed blood of the Son of God, sins are forgiven and the believer receives eternal life as a gift. 4
The name Jesus, the Son of the living God, indicates a loving and intimate relationship with God as the living and loving Father and participation in His divine Trinity.
...a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear all of you him.5
In Peter's beatitude, in Jesus' answer: "Blessed are you, Peter...", we can recognise God's original plan for the salvation of humanity. Blessed is the translation of the Greek word "makarios", which in Greek means "supremely" or "most blessed". Peter, a son of Jonah, recognised that Jesus, the Messiah, was the Son of God. God's chosen people recognised from the Scriptures that Jesus was their prophesied Messiah, who would be and is the greatest possible blessing to humanity.6 But the religious elite of the day, the Pharisees and Sadducees, rejected him because they were worldly-minded, did not know the Scriptures or the power of God for salvation, and neglected the most important things in the Law, namely justice, mercy and faith.7 The Jewish people expected a ruler who would lead them to independence and restore their rule over their own land. Even the devil calls Jesus the Son of God and asks him a tempting question in the desert:
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.8
He tempted Jesus to turn the commandments carved on stone, the Ten Commandments, into the bread of eternal life, or in other words, to conjure it up without fulfilling the prophets and the psalms.
Jesus replied to this discussion by saying: "It is written...“and man should “...live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God". We are not only to live by a part of the Word of God, but by every word. The written Word of God, the Bible, which came forth of the mouth of God and will endure forever.
For Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the Word of God:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.9
"And he Christ was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God10
