Daily Word

Christ is the One born three times!

His first birth:

The Beloved Son, full of God’s "glory," is born from eternity of the Father’s Love.

But He was God’s "only begotten Son," and the heavenly Father desired "many sons" like Him; therefore, He had to descend and be born as a human being.

His second birth:

He was born into this physical world through Mary, supernaturally formed in her womb by the Holy Spirit. The reason He came here was to seek out and save His lost brothers.

His physical birth marked the advent of a kind of human being that had never existed before: "the second man," the first "spiritual" man ever to walk this earth. (1/.)

But to save us and impart to us His divine life of the Spirit, He had to eradicate sin on the cross and rise again as the Victor over the prince of death.

His third birth:

After His unimaginable suffering and incomparable victory on the cross, He rose again as “the firstborn from the dead” through the life-giving power of the Holy Spirit, ascended to heaven, and took His seat at the right hand of the Father as the Glorified Saviour.

In doing so, He received an authority He had never possessed before: the authority to impart His resurrection life—eternal life—to His brothers.

The same Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead makes us alive together with Christ in the miracle of the new birth. We then come to share in His resurrection life, which holds the power that will one day create a brand-new world filled with the glory of God.

As born-again people, we have access to the Kingdom of God and will one day radiate the same glory as our Risen Lord.

He, the three times born, is the prerequisite for our second birth!

(1/. 1 Cor.15:46-47)