Born Again: How to Maximize Your New Life In Christ. Ruthven Roy

way, and the truth, and the life, no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). Christ is the only door and the only way to salvation for all Adam’s children.

      Truth Nugget #4: The ONLY way out of humanity’s hell-bound dilemma is through God’s total recall of the Adam-man and his complete replacement by the Christ-man.

      This completely new make-over presents no other alternative for humanity’s redemption. It is the only choice available to the lost human race. No physical or behavioral modification, or intellectual upgrade of the Adam-man, is of any value to his salvation. Absolutely nothing of the old in the BEST of humanity is of the slightest good for God’s use, for nothing pertaining to flesh (or natural life) could ever please the Almighty (Romans 8:8). God’s plan entails making everything new in the perfect life of Christ. Much more concerning this will appear later.

      However, the divine miracle by which God’s redemptive do-over is executed is called the “new birth” or “born-again” experience. The in-coming spirit-life of Jesus, through the Holy Spirit, is humanity’s only hope to bring the race out of a life of sin, condemnation and eternal death, into an endless life of righteousness, justification and eternal peace.

      . . . For if by the transgression of the one [Adam] the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many . . . ¹⁷For if by the transgression of the one [Adam], death reigned through the one [Adam], much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

      Romans 5:15, 17, brackets mine

      The rest of this volume will deal with this “new birth” experience, what it really is, how it is achieved and what the “born-again” life really looks like. So keep reading . . .

      Truth Nuggets Summary

      1.When Adam sinned, all humanity sinned with him, because all humanity was embedded in the seed of his loins.

      2.Humanity’s alienation from God has given the race a false sense of reality and a corrupt understanding of morality and evil.

      3.Humanity cannot change itself or its course towards eternal destruction without deliverance from heaven.

      4.The ONLY way out of humanity’s hell-bound dilemma is through God’s total recall of the Adam-man and his complete replacement by the Christ-man.

      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love.

      Ephesians 1:3, 4