Born Again (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When Nicodemus secretly approached Jesus, he was told, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explores Jesus’ statement and explains how being “born again” changes lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Here's a man in the Bible named Nicodemus. |
| 0:28.9 | He was a Jewish leader who may have considered himself favored by God. |
| 0:33.7 | He secretly approached Jesus at night, and he was told, truly, truly, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. |
| 0:43.2 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explores Jesus' declaration and explains how our lives are changed when we're born again. |
| 0:52.9 | Let's open our Bibles to John Chapter 3. |
| 1:01.4 | Human birth produces people who belong to humanity. |
| 1:09.1 | Human birth produces people who belong to the earthly family of humanity. Jesus says, |
| 1:16.4 | spiritual birth gives birth to spiritual people. That's the contrast. This is a supernatural reality. It is the work of Almighty God bringing about a radical |
| 1:34.3 | change in the nature of an individual. A change that the individual cannot bring about by themselves. That's what Jesus is saying. |
| 1:49.8 | It's not external renovation. It's not cleaning your act up. It's not even illumination, |
| 1:58.0 | being attracted, being intrigued. It's certainly not baptismal regeneration, |
| 2:05.1 | which some of you still hold on to a dangerous position in which to take your security, |
| 2:13.8 | as if somehow or another our condition before Almighty God could be made right by the activities |
| 2:20.5 | of some inferior being in the course of earthly ministry, not for a moment. Becoming a Christian |
| 2:28.9 | is always, and in every case, a miracle. Because God is the cause of the change. It is God who does it. |
| 2:42.8 | So what then is the regeneration of being born again? It is essentially this. It is the bringing of that cosmic reality into the present experience of an individual. The same power by which God will recreate the entire universe is the power that is brought to bear in the life of an individual when he recreates us as the |
| 3:11.4 | children of God. So that being born again in terms of New Testament theology is essentially |
| 3:19.0 | our participation in the inauguration of that great final cosmic renewal. Now we are the children of God, |
| 3:29.4 | but it doth not yet appear what we shall be, because when he appears, we shall be like him. |
| 3:37.3 | In the new birth, what God did cosmically, which will eventually be appearing, he does personally. |
| 3:48.8 | It is a complete change of heart and character produced in a person by the Holy Spirit. It is the power of God to regenerate the entire world |
| 4:04.8 | brought into your heart now. It is miraculous, and it is at the same time mysterious. |
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