Title: What Does it Mean to Be Reborn? (Gets into inner meaning of baptism)

Topic: Salvation

Summary: Is it really possible for us to change? If so, how?

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
John 3:1
Titus 3:4
Jeremiah 16:10-12
Genesis 6:5
Matthew 19:22-26
Ezekiel 11:16-21; 18:31, Ezekiel 18:34; 36:25, 33
Mark 5:1-17
John 3:27; 15:5
1 Corinthians 4:4, 7
2 Corinthians 3:5
Colossians 3:1-3, 5, 8-11
1 Peter 4:7-8
Galatians 6:14-15
Revelation 21:5
Matthew 3:5-6; 4:17-20; 14:28-31
Luke 22:31-34
Mark 16:11-16
Matthew 20:20-23
Luke 12:49-50

2974. 'Was made over to Abraham as an acquisition' means that these things - the whole nature and extent of regeneration as regards the good and truth of faith, and so as regards all interior and exterior cognitions - were considered to be the Lord's alone. This is clear from the representation of 'Abraham' as the Lord, often dealt with already, and from the meaning of 'an acquisition' as those things that are His, and so are considered to be His alone. It is a leading article of faith that all good and all truth are the Lord's, and so come from the Lord alone. The more anyone acknowledges this inwardly the more he is inwardly in heaven, for those in heaven see with perception that this is so. In heaven a sphere of perception that it is so exists because those there are governed by good which is derived from the Lord alone; and this is called being in the Lord. The degrees of that perception go from the middle to outlying parts, as stated immediately above in 2973.