Born Again (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Some believe the term “born again” is a self-description used only by overly enthusiastic Christians. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains what this new birth described by Jesus really is, how it happens, and why it is essential for every believer.
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| 0:00.0 | And so. |
| 0:13.0 | And so. When some people hear the phrase being born again, they think of overly zealous Christians. |
| 0:32.3 | But today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg shows us what this phrase really means, how it happens, and why this |
| 0:38.9 | new birth described by Jesus is essential for every believer. |
| 0:50.0 | I invite you to follow along as I read from John's Gospel and from the third chapter and from the first verse, |
| 1:00.5 | John chapter 3 and from verse 1. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus |
| 1:15.2 | by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can |
| 1:25.1 | do these signs that you do unless God is with Him. |
| 1:30.5 | Jesus answered him, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. |
| 1:42.3 | Nicodemus said to him, how can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second |
| 1:49.5 | time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is |
| 1:58.5 | born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, you must be born again. The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear it sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. |
| 2:27.3 | Nicodemus said to him, how can these things be? Jesus answered him, are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not |
| 2:38.1 | understand these things? Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and bear witness to |
| 2:47.3 | what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and |
| 2:54.8 | you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended into heaven, |
| 3:03.7 | except he who descended from heaven, the son of man. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, |
| 3:12.3 | so must the son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. Amen. |
| 3:30.2 | Well, we come this morning to the second of our truly, truly studies. If you were here last Sunday, we made us start at this in the 51st verse of chapter |
| 3:37.5 | one, in which Jesus is explaining that the realities of heaven are brought down to |
| 3:44.6 | earth in his person and in his work. And then you have in chapter 2 the wedding at Cana of |
| 3:52.9 | Galilee, which is the first of the signs that Jesus gave concerning his identity. |
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