New Birth by Robert Brown

"Ye must be born again," Yeshua once said to a 
religious man and a master in Israel.  
This took him by surprise.  He had never heard 
of such a thing, not even an expression like 
that concerning spiritual things.  Looking at 
the Master in amazement, he said: "How can a 
man be born when he is old?  Can he enter a 
second time into his mother's womb and be born?" 
Rabbi Nicodemus saw nothing but the natural birth.  
Yeshua was very tender with him and explained that there 
were two births, a natural and a spiritual birth.  
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh; 
and that which is born of the
Spirit is spirit." (Yn 3:1-6)

This is the secret of a believer's (spiritual) 
life--we must be born again.  You might as well 
try to make the waters of the Niagara
run backward than to try to lead a spiritual life 
without being born again.  Sin is the work of the 
devil, but Yeshua died to restore to us all that 
was lost by the fall.  Man lost the divine nature 
when he yielded to sin.  He receives it again when 
by faith he accepts Moshiach's death upon the tree 
as a full atonement for his sin before Hashem.  
We do not grow into this experience; it is a 
definite transaction between Hashem and man 
executed by the Ruach Hakodesh.  When man fell it
was by the assent of his will to the will of the enemy, 
hence he became his (the enemy's) subject, 
and by nature his child.
Yeshua said of those who were his enemies: 
"Ye are of your father the devil, and his works ye will do."
But when we make teshuvah and turn to Hashem, 
laying hold upon Moshiach's finished Yom Kippur work, 
we are by faith made partakers of the divine nature 
and thereby become the sons and daughters of the Elohim Chayyim.

The writer well remembers when he was bound with 
the chains of the devil, doing his bidding and led captive at 
his will.  For years my nashamah was among the beasts, 
without Hashem and with hope.  But there came a time 
in this awful darkness when I cried mightily to Hashem 
for deliverance and Yeshua heard my prayers 
and came to my rescue.  The conflict raged for 
three days as the enemy contended for my soul 
but the Lion of the Tribe of Yehudah, Yeshua the Seh HaElohim, 
burst the bands that bound me and set me free.  
In the twinkling of an eye I was born from above 
and became a new creature in Yeshua HaMoshiach.  
Then instead of a continual struggle with 
those things that bound me, it became a delight to 
serve Hashem.  It is now over forty years since 
I became a bria chadasha (a new creature) in Moshiach 
and the pathway to heaven grows brighter every day.

This is what Hashem is saying to you who have not had 
a spiritual turnaround new birth in Yeshua, to you 
who may attend a congregation somewhere and be 
respectable like Rabbi Nicodemus who was a master 
in Israel, to you who may be an upstanding officer 
in your religion or even a teacher and yet not have 
the new birth in Yeshua:  "Ye must be born again!"  

The new birth is not reformation or turning 
over a new leaf.  It is not becoming suddenly 
interested in religion.  It is the divine life 
imparted by Hashem through faith in Moshiach Ben 
Dovid Yeshua as our substitute, our Yom Kippur 
scapegoat (Isaiah 53:12; Lev.16:22).  
O mortal man, with an immortal soul, on your way 
to an eternity without an end, "Ye must be born again!"


Under awful conviction those who had given the 
false evidence upon which Moshiach was put on the tree, 
hearing Shimon Kefa witness of Moshiach's death and resurrection 
in fulfillment of prophecy, cried out: "What shall we do?"  
Shimon Kefa answered and said, "Make teshuva (repentance, 
turning with great sorrow and resolve from chet to Hashem and His Word) 
and each of you submit to a tevilah of teshuva in the Shem of 
Yehoshua HaMoshiach, HaAv, HaBen and HaRuach Hakodesh,
for the selichos avon of you, and you will receive the 
matanah of the Ruach Hakodesh."

If you will turn to Hashem with all your heart and forsake 
all your sin and cry to Hashem for pardon, in an instant, 
Hashem will take away your old carnal desires and in their 
place establish His divine nature, the immortal new being 
of G-d's eternal holy child, a new heaven-bound creature, 
which will make it a daily pleasure and an unspeakable joy 
to love and serve your Creator.