Are you Born Twice?

In 1 Chronicles 1:5-27 and Genesis 11:10-26 We see a genealogy of people that were born fathered and died.

 ^“As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.” Genesis 9:7.

The Genealogy for me is that people did multiply. Today women are still giving birth under that same instruction from the Lord to multiply. Birth is the most wonderful thing a parent can experience in their life.

It was Gods purpose after Adam and Eve sinned for the woman to give birth and the husband is to work the field. Today, we have all sorts of work for men and women. It still remains our responsibility to multiply.

It is also known, many have gone away from the instruction of the Lord. This is evident when God’s sacrifice of His son is not accepted. To accept God’s further instruction in our lives we must first accept Him as our Lord and Saviour for the Salvation that He wants us to have to meet him in heaven. We need to be born twice, first, the physical birth and then the birth born of His Holy Spirit.

1. Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. ² He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

³ Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.

⁴ “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

⁵ Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. ⁶ Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. ⁷ You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ ⁸ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

⁹ “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. ¹² I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. ¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

John 3:1-21

The Rainbow of Promise

“The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.” Gen 8:21

^{13 “}I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.” ¹⁷ So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth” Gen9:13-17

After Noah left the ark he built an alter to the Lord. The Lord smelled a pleasing aroma or scent coming from the alter. The blessing of the Lord came into a promise that He wouldn’t destroy man and creatures as he has done ever again.

I believe God wants to smell a sweet aroma from us. Not in a burnt offering because the Lord has already given himself as a living sacrifice on the cross. The sweet aroma He wants from us is our worship, service and thankfulness for Him regardless of our hardhsips. It must have been a bad time to see God destroy man and his creatures on the earth, but Noah still thanked the Lord for what he went through.

God set His rainbow in the sky as a promise He will never do it again. There maybe something we have gone through in our lives that hasn’t been the best of circumstances. Have we thanked our Lord for bringing these hardships in our lives? Noah did with his burnt offerings and God blessed him and the whole earth.

The rainbows of promise won’t come into our lives unless we first give Him the thankfulness of hearts as he much deserves. I pray that we will find our rainbow of promise that God is waiting to give us upon offering up thankfulness to Him for the hardships we have in our lives.

Drifting from the Heart

To the woman he said,

“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.” Genesis 3:16

I have been reading “Cover to Cover Complete through the Bible as it happened.”

One of the very basic elements that has been placed in the heart of a woman to her husband is her desire to him and his rule.

In today’s world this very rule has drifted away by women opposing their husbands or the husband abusing the woman because it’s in the heart of men to rule over their spouse.

¹⁷ To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’

“Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat food from it
all the days of your life.
¹⁸ It will produce thorns and thistles for you,
and you will eat the plants of the field.
¹⁹ By the sweat of your brow
you will eat your food
until you return to the ground,
since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
and to dust you will return.”

Men we have a responsibility to provide food for our wife and family.

It is built in the heart of men to work. Because of sin, today, we have inherited this element in our own lives.

If everything was done in God’s order of instructions their will always be a perfect and peaceful relationship between husband and wife that can be emulated to our children. But we have this battle in our lives of trying to do the right thing. If we trusted God and His instructions we would have a sustainable and happy life in marriage and great relationship to our children.

²¹ Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

²² Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. ²³ For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. ²⁴ Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ²⁶ to make her holy, cleansing^[b] her by the washing with water through the word, ²⁷ and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. ²⁸ In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. ²⁹ After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— ³⁰ for we are members of his body. ³¹ “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”^{[c] 32} This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. ³³ However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Eph 5:25-33

Paul here isn't only referring to marriage in the Church, but also the instructions of what God had said in the garden of Eden. I believe that Adam loved Eve. In reality as husbands we blame our spouse for our own mistakes. To take our own responsibilities as men we become God’s man for God’s glory.

Many times the success of a man comes from a loving and obedient spouse. You see, marriage relationships work in unison.

Men are to love their wives. Let us not abuse them because we have in our hearts to have rule over them.

We can’t blame the woman. If we parallel Genesis 3:16 to that of John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. we can understand that from child birth we all have sinned in the site of God.

We need to allow latitude of understanding that we all have sinned when men rule and wives submit. Let us all pray in Faith as we lead as men and wives submit. God bless.