The other day there was a discussion about being born again. What for and why? The question is interesting, mysterious, for Christ said that without being born again we will not see either the King or the Kingdom of God. But you want to. Otherwise, we’re going to hell. No options.
True, they say, we are already hanging out in hell, without meaning and without hope, so why bother. Let’s go to hell and make some noise there. This is, of course, hysteria, akin to the hysteria that our wise bosses staged with their adventure, starting a military operation in Ukraine. A senseless and cruel hell, a sea of blood, thousands of victims, streams of lies and malice that drowned the country, poured out beyond the borders of a huge empire and are trying to drown Ukraine and the whole world. Of course, from experience, this is perhaps the most heinous and closest to a real hell, but the Lord says that this is the beginning of illnesses. Real hell is ahead. It is terrible, because it is eternal. And if there is still hope in today’s hell, there is no hope in that hell! Absolutely not!
And how to be now? How to get out of hell? How not to end up in eternal hell? You must be born again! So said the Savior of the world, Jesus Christ!
I know one who was saved, He was born again and received Grace. He saw the Lord and His Kingdom.
Then He returned and told us what and how.
Here is his story.
“But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in[a] Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. ” (Phil 3:7-14)
Yuri Sipko, ex-chairman of the RS ECB (Christian Baptist Union in Russia).