WHAT ARE THE

50 MEANING OF BEING BORN AGAIN IN THE BIBLE?

TEXT: JOHN 3:3
By: Avelino D. Matriano

1. Being born again means receiving the Holy Spirit in our heart and mind.
2. Heavenly birth
3. Becoming a Christian
4. Becoming child of God
5. Becoming a prisoner of Jesus
6. Becoming a slave of righteousness
7. Receiving a ’new heart’
8. You are born again if you understand or beginning to understand what you read
here.
9. You are born again if you hates sin or beginning to hates sin.
10. You are born again if you are learning to love Jesus
11. It means being chosen even before you were born
12. It means being chosen before the creation of the world.
13. It means your name being written in the book of Life mentioned in the Bible
14. Prisoner of Jesus
15. Being deliver from the prison of Satan
16. Spiritually alive
17. Born in the Spirit
18. Learning to love the Bible
19. Learning to forgive
20. Learning to be humble
21. Part of God’s building
22. A part of Jesus’ flock (of sheep)
23. A participant when Jesus marry His bride at His return
24. God’s temple
25. Experiencing forgiveness and justification
26. Receiving the gift of faith & repentance
27. Being sanctified and made holy
28. Seeing again after being blind
29. Hearing once again after being deaf
30. Learning to speak again after being dumb
31. A worshipper of Creator God
32. Not ashame to praise and sing praises to God
33. Knows he/she is a sinner
34. Learning how to pray
35. Learning to appreciate the blood of Christ
36. Learning to fellowship with fellow believers
37. Christ’ letter or epistle
38. Christ’ ambassador
39. Christ’ representative
40. Someone who is involve in Christ’ work
41. Somebody who is involved in a battle against Satan
42. Anybody who recognized his nothingness before his Creator God
43. Anyone who struggles in his battle against himself
44. A disciple and follower or beginning to follow Jesus
45. A burden-bearer and carry his own cross
46. Someone who recognize the reality of ‘unseen matter’ which matter most
47. Someone who understand a few or most of the 50 meaning in this writing
48. Someone who recognized God as a loving Father
49. Someone who is becoming like his Father-God
50. Someone who is a citizen of heaven

Commentary: The list could go on and on. Maybe we could make it 100 or more.
Hopefully, if it will please the Lord Jesus this short article will become a book in the
future consisting of 50 chapters describing fully each meaning mentioned here. The
writer is a pastor in a small church in the Philippines somewhere in Payatas
(dumpsite) in Quezon city.