{"id":36337,"date":"2022-09-13T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-a-person-born-again-if-we-dont-see-any-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-him\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:51:37","slug":"is-a-person-born-again-if-we-dont-see-any-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-a-person-born-again-if-we-dont-see-any-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Is a person born again if we don\u2019t see any fruit of the spirit in him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>John 3:6-8 (CSB), &ldquo;Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again. The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don&#039;t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.&rdquo; &nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>The above verses teach that for one to be truly born again, that person must experience a complete change of nature. That which is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit. One will only be <strong>born again when the fleshly body dies and God resurrects it in a spirit body<\/strong> (1 Corinthians 15:38, 51-53) That will be the rebirth (born again).&nbsp;&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>However, to give us a &ldquo;down payment of our inheritance&rdquo; (Ephesians 1:14-15 CSB), we are said to be <strong>begotten<\/strong> of <strong>the spirit of holiness<\/strong>.&nbsp; This &ldquo;spirit-begetting&rdquo; comes with the <strong>surrendering of our own will to do the will of the Heavenly Father<\/strong>.&nbsp; It begins in us a transformation through the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:1-2).&nbsp;&nbsp;\u200b<\/p>\n<p>If we are led by the spirit (by being obedient to his word), it will develop in us the fruit of the spirit.&nbsp; It will change us into the image of Christ&rsquo;s character (Romans 8:29). Therefore, if we are to be made like Him and see Him as He is (1John 3:2 ), <strong>we must develop<\/strong> his character of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance &#8211; <strong>the fruit of the spirit<\/strong>. We can never be accepted as sons of God and never be born again unless we develop Christ&rsquo;s character.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed study about being a Christian, please download the free PDF: &quot; What Everyone Should Know About Being Saved&quot;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 3:6-8 (CSB), &ldquo;Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again. The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don&#039;t know where it comes from or where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/is-a-person-born-again-if-we-dont-see-any-fruit-of-the-spirit-in-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is a person born again if we don\u2019t see any fruit of the spirit in him?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}