The first and most obvious evidence that a person has been born of God is illumination. This is not the same illumination they experienced when the word of the cross was first preached to them and the spirit of grace and supplication was poured out upon them. That initial illumination caused them to look upon Him whom they had pierced, mourn, and come to the Father seeking forgiveness. It led them to repentance. However, there is a further illumination that a person receives when the Father sends forth the Spirit of His Son into their hearts so that they are born as a son of God.
The illumination that comes to a newly born son of God is the understanding given to them by the Son of God when He gives them His life. John declared, ‘We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true’. He is the true Light who has come into the world to enlighten every man. When the Son of God gives His life to a new believer, it gives them the ability to see, comprehend and apprehend the amazing reality of being a son of God. It causes their perspective on life to change completely. They begin to see in the way that a son of God sees things, and respond to the issues of life in the way that a son of God responds.
Great joy and enthusiasm are the outcome of the seed of God’s divine nature germinating within a person. The Light of life begins to dawn in their heart and they ‘exult in the hope of the glory of God’. They have been born of God and become a partaker of the divine nature. They have received the seed of new creation life as a personal possession, and new life has begun to be evident in their lives.
Gal 4:6
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Joh 1:9 There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
Mat 13:20 "The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy."
Rom 5:1-2, 11 (1) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.(11) And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Zec 12:10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn."
2Co 7:9-11 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. (10) For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. (11) For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
Rev 1:7 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.
Joh 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."
Because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
Joh 1:9 There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man.
Mat 13:20 "The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy."
Rom 5:1-2, 11 (1) Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, (2) through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.(11) And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
2Pe 1:4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Zec 12:10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn."
2Co 7:9-11 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. (10) For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. (11) For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.
Rev 1:7 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING WITH THE CLOUDS, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. So it is to be. Amen.
Joh 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, "I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life."
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