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

Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In the highest sense Father means the Lord Himself, the creator. In the generation of natural children it is the father who provides the soul or the most interior receptacle of life, and an internal heredity, and the mother who provides all of the substance that the soul uses to form its body, plus an external heredity. In this process the soul comes from the Lord through the father, and not from the father, since all life is from the Lord. The wise person calls the Lord his father and the church his mother because his interior loves come from the Lord, but are given form and actuality through the truths taught by the church. Those things thus brought forth are a person's spiritual "children". In the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus and the Father, what is meant is the outward manifestation with the divine itself as the soul inside. Because Jesus was born from a natural mother, He had a natural body and a natural Jewish heredity. Throughout his life as He was tempted by the hells, He slowly put off all he had from His mother and replaced it with what He had from Himself inside, the Father. In doing this he made himself one with the Father that was His inmost so He could truly say, "I and my Father are one".