But To All Who Believed Him And Accepted Him, He Gave The Right To Become Children Of God

JOHN 1:12-13
“But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
”‭‭John‬ ‭1:12-13‬ ‭NKJV‬
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By believing, undeserving sinners can become full members of God’s family; indeed, He gave them the legitimate right to become children of God. Furthermore, He sends His Holy Spirit to each every believer and to help them in their walk with Christ (JOHN 14:15-18).
Therefore, we have no excuses, God has gone beyond all extremities to redeem us and give us everlasting life.
He came to His own people, but instead of a welcome mat, Jesus had the door slammed in His face.
A theme of rejection and reception appears repeatedly throughout the gospel and is very much apparent in this world today.
All who welcome Jesus Christ as Lord of their lives are reborn spiritually, receiving new life from God, a fresh start, a new beginning, and their sins washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Yes, our God sent His only begotten Son to take your place and mine on a cross to pay our penalty of sin.
Through faith, this new birth changes us from the inside out; God starts a good work within us, that changes even the way we think, rearranging our attitudes, desires, and motives.
Being born places you physically in your parent’s family and makes you physically alive (1:13).
But being born again makes you spiritually alive and puts you in God’s family (1:12).
Jesus said, “Don’t be surprised when I say, ‘you must be born again (JOHN 3:7).’
This fresh start is available to all who believe and is eternal.
This new life not only comes with the opportunity of peace of mind and contentment in this life, but with the promise of an eternal future, where God will live among His people; He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying or pain. All these things are gone forever (REVELATION 21:3-4).
But we must all understand, to receive our new life in Christ, we must cooperate with Him; we must let go of our old sinful selves, repent, turn toward God, and walk not in the flesh, but by the leading of the Holy Spirit.
We are all sinners and cannot walk in our own righteousness or strength. If that’s not the case, there would have been no reason for Christ to die for us (GALATIANS 2:21).
We humans cannot keep the Law in our own strength, besides, it is too late for that, for our sin justified our death. But Jesus death and resurrection broke the curse of sin and justified life for all who believe on Him.
My beloved, we all need God’s supernatural help to transform us into a new creation (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17).
Jesus said, ““If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
‭‭John‬ ‭14:15-18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
God has sent the help need to empower each of us to walk in His righteousness, and to teach, lead, and change us into a new Christ-like people, transformed by the renewing of our minds (ROMANS 12:1-2). But one must believe to receive.
God’s gift of life is available to all who believe.
“Peter said, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.””
‭‭Acts‬ ‭2‬:‭38‬-‭39‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
My beloved, this wonderful Good News is available to all. Jesus covered every sin, every curse, and every way in which mankind failed.
Our new life in Christ begins in the very moment one commits whole heartedly to Christ Jesus and shall continue forever.
But “Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭53‬:‭1‬-‭5‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
This wonderful promise is to you and your children, and to as many of your loved ones God chooses to call.
Having received the gift of the Holy Spirit, one must submit to His plans and purposes and walk by His leading, putting to death the lust of his flesh.
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
‭‭Galatians‬ ‭5:16-26‬ ‭NKJV‬‬
Welcome Jesus into your life, ask Him for the gift of the Holy Spirit and to make you a new person; ask Him to start His good work within you.
He is merciful, faithful and true, “And I am certain that God who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day Christ Jesus returns (PHILIPPIANS 1:6).
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.