Have you been born again?

Jesus had a conversation with a religious leader who asked him “How can I be born again?” He assumed that what Jesus was talking about was physical but it wasn’t, it was spiritual. Being born again is about the conversion of the heart transforming and resetting the mind. It has physical manifestations, but it’s rooted solely in spiritual intention. 

Scriptures:
John 3:1-12
John 4:26-29
Acts 2:37-40

Notes:
You have to first believe - Nicodemus had drawn a conclusion based on what he had seen and heard. You don’t invest into anything positively or negatively that you don’t believe. (John 3:2) (John 1:12)

Then you accept - He was engaged, intrigued and wanting to know more, so much so Jesus went into spiritual mystery with him and began to teach him, we see this through the supplication of Nicodemus by calling Jesus Rabbi, and he being a Rabbi. (John 3:4-9) 

Then act - The participation of action is the stamped approval upon that not only have you heard, but you’ve believed. Repentance from what was into the is a direct turning and changing of one’s mind toward a situation, person or thing. We see this in (John 4:26-29) Samaritan woman. Also in the book of (Acts 2:37-40) 

Then you live - Your life then becomes an example of all that you’ve accepted, anchored and rooted in a new foundation, steadier and firmer than everything you’ve ever known. (Acts 2:42-44)

Transcript

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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Rumour Reloaded with me, Sean Williams. I hope that you're having a great start to your day. More than that, I hope that you enjoyed our last Bible study. I massively enjoyed our last Bible study. I've enjoyed actually just the whole period since we've started being able to interact with you all, um, share these studies. Please also let me know topics you want to hear. Um, we're attaching the notes to the um the bio description, so I want you to be able to kind of continue and do your own extended reading and study, um, and also let me know what you're gleaning and what the Holy Spirit is speaking to you about. Like, it's massively important to me that we grow together and we study together. So I hope you are all enjoying that. Also, please like, subscribe, share. Rema Reloaded Bible Study and Rima Bible Study. You can find us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube. We are everywhere. So please interact. Also, we're hopefully gonna have some really cool things to announce at the back end of this year. Um, and hopefully, some really cool things for you guys to come to in the front part of next year. Now, let's jump into um the word of God. I have been in the Gospel of St. John, it has been absolutely just smashing me in the best way. Um, I have been, I've reinserted myself back into The Chosen, which is a Christian biblical series that you can find on um Amazon Prime and Netflix, shameless plug there. Um, but not on the basis that I want you to take the chosen as gospel, no. It is one, and I want to put this in context. Um, I saw a very cool um content piece from a Christian biblical scholar called Wesley Huff, or I actually called him just a biblical scholar, um, and he said something that I really agreed with that was amazing. He said that he felt the chosen was the closest thing to us being able to get an organic view of what the emotional um balance would have felt like through times, events, and moments whilst Jesus was on the earth. So, what I like about the chosen is that I get to see almost like a visual version of it, and then I get to refer back to the gospel because obviously the gospel, the word of God, we can we can anchor down in that, okay? Um, and so just as I've been watching it again, I've been like, I need to get back into the Gospel of St. John. Um, and I saw this beautiful episode, season one, uh, I believe it's episode six, and Jesus and Nicodemus just have the most amazing conversation. And I'm gonna be honest, I found myself in floods of tears. I was sitting there and I'm watching the interaction between Jesus and Nicodemus, and I'm like, my brain's like, bruh, hey, you about to start crying? I'm like, shut up, brain, shut up, and my eyes just start to whirl, and I'm sitting there and I start laughing at myself because I'm just like, I am fully crying at this conversation between these two dudes. And I went back into the Gospel of St. John, chapter three, is where you can find it, and as I read or I reread, I should say, the scripture, it became very evident to me why I became so emotional, and also that it had gone past even my soul and hit my spirit. Um, Nicodemus, at the point of the conversation, we're gonna read the scripture, but let me lay the text in context for you. Um, Nicodemus was a religious leader and teacher, um, revered at the time. He was one of the the leading scholars on the law, okay? Um he was he'd heard about this guy from Nazareth just pulling up and shutting down the party with miracles, just bare wine. They ran out of wine. My poetry. They ran out of wine. Jesus' mum was like, listen, they need some more wine. Jesus, like, Mum, too early. She's like, Yeah, great. Whatever he says to do, do it. So we've got the marriage of Keyner. Um, there were also um some other signs and miracles that your reading should take you into. Um, and Nicodemus got to a place where he was just like, I cannot keep hearing about what's happening and not go and investigate this man for myself. Um, Nicodemus was a man that had got to a stage in his life where he to him would have accumulated everything that he would have wanted to. He was comfortable. And yet, at the moment of his life when he would seemingly be slowing down and bringing everything to a halt, God chooses to give him the greatest revelation of his life. Now, we could do a whole Bible study just on that, just on the fact that a lot of the time the Holy Spirit will choose to reveal to you the transformative thing at the moment when you think you've got everything either where you want it or when everything has got to a place where you're just like, I can't even change this situation. Why? Because God's plan and purpose always seeks to live outside the realms of our comprehension. Let me say that one more time. God's plan and purpose always seeks to live outside the realm of our comprehension and understanding. Why? For the simple reason God is infinite, we're finite. I'm literally saying that God is unlimited and we're limited. So, as the Bible says, his ways are far above our ways, his thoughts so far above our thoughts. How can I qualify that? In the book of Genesis, chapter three, when we see the problem in the Garden of Eden, and Satan is basically laughing at God and going, I wrecked your plan.

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God doesn't get angry, He doesn't, he doesn't crash out, He sits and He goes, I tell you what Satan.

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I'm gonna riddle you something. And he just says, The seed of the woman is gonna bruise your head. And the beautiful thing about that riddle is that this conversation with Nicodemus is the manifestation of that riddle in that moment. Now it wasn't a riddle because we understand that God was preparing to send himself through Jesus to buy back all of humanity from the judgment of death, spiritual death and sin. So let's jump into the book of Saint John, chapter three. Um, and I'm going to set the base. Um we are going to entitle today's study Are You or Have You Been Born Again? Okay. Are you or Have You Been Born Again? Okay, so the Book of St. John, chapter 3, starting at verse 1, and it reads, and I am in the new international version. So, guys, you can read the King James version, the New Amplified. I'm just reading the New International Version because, in terms of the language, it's a little less archaic. That's just a really fancy word to say it's old. So this is a more contemporary grammatical expression of the Bible. But whatever version you're reading, because I personally I love the therefores, thou, thus isn't there witches. There aren't any their witches, but you know what I'm trying to say. Um chapter 3, verse 1, and it reads thus. Now there was a Pharisee, that's just a really kind of snooty, scholarly person of the law within the Jewish culture. That's a Pharisee. Pharisees and Sadducees, snooties. Um a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. You see, the Bible verified what I just said, so you know man ain't chatting rubbish. He came to Jesus at night. You only go and see someone at night if you don't want other people to know you're going to see them. You're scared, or it's a sneaky link. So he came to Jesus at night and said, Rabbi, that just simply means teacher. We know that you are a teacher who has come from God. That's a really big statement because much of or many of Nicodemus's colleagues did not even want to recognize Jesus. The son of God, that's blasphemy. That they were not gonna entertain that. A prophet, probably, because the stuff they're hearing, but most of them didn't even want to acknowledge him. So when you've got someone as senior as Nicodemus is coming and going, listen, we we know you're not a normal guy. Um, he said, So we know that you're a teacher who's come from God, for no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him. Jesus replied, Very truly, I tell you, no one, Nicodemus, can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. Crazy. So Nicodemus answers, he says, Oh, how can someone be born again when they are old? Nicodemus asks, Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother's womb and be born. Jesus answered, Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh. So immediately Jesus uh he, what's the word I'm looking for? He qualifies what he's saying by saying, Nicodemus, firstly, you're leaning into the natural sense of what you understand to be born again to mean. Nicodemus instantly lent into the basis of, whoa, whoa, wait, I'm an old man. I can't go back into my mum's womb for her to give birth to me again. What does this lend itself to? It lends itself to the basis that the Jewish people were expecting the Messiah to be a military figure. From all the prophecies that they had contextualized in their own mind, they they only saw Jesus as this big conquering hero that was going to come and defeat the Romans and crush them and bring Israel back to the place of what they call the golden era of their country or their nation's rule, which would have been what we know to be the Davidic reign, the reign of King David, right? So Jesus is sitting there going, No, no, no. Nicodemus, firstly, flesh gives birth to flesh, but the spirit gives birth to the spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, Jesus said, You must be born again. Jesus continued to say in verse 8, the winds blow wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it's going. So it is with everyone that is born of the spirit. How can this be? Nicodemus asked. Jesus looked at him and said, You are Israel's teacher, and you don't understand these things. Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but still you do not accept our testimony. Jesus saying, I try to tell you, Nicodemus. I've tried to tell your colleagues in the synagogue, I've tried to tell the people of our nation, but you don't want to believe. You don't want to hear. Verse 12, I've spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe. So then, how will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven. Here he's giving him another clue. The Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. Verse 16, our most key verse. For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe in him stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. Okay? Now, I want to look at a couple of um points and dimensions in this conversation. Now, we've already established that to be born again on a natural level would mean one going back into their mother's womb and then their mom going through the pregnancy process in order to give birth. When we speak of being born again on a spiritual or in a spiritual sense, then what we are actually looking at is we are looking at spiritual transformation. What do you mean, Sean? When we're talking about being born again, we are looking at the fundamental, foundational purposes of who we are heart and mind. I want to say that to you one more time. When we look at being born again in the spiritual sense, what we are alluding to is hearts and minds. Why? Because in order to be born again, the first thing you have to do is believe. Because before you can accept anything, you first have to believe that that thing is true. Right? Nicodemus, we saw here, had made a conclusion based on what he had seen and what he'd heard. How do we know that? Verse 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, Rabbi, we know that you have to be a teacher who's come from God because no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him. So that tells me, even in an environment that was not promoting or encouraging Nicodemus's belief in this crazy Nazarene, Nicodemus got to a place where he sat and he said, Well, what I read in Torah, what I hear this man say, what I see him do. There is no way that he could do these things unless God was with him. It was the signs of what was being done that turned the heart. Oh, this is good. Sorry, I just got really excited because I know what's coming next. It turned the heart of Nicodemus. The Bible says it's with the heart we believe, but what then seals the deal? It is with the mouth that we make confession, and the mouth is the instrument piece of the mind. It expresses what is going on in the thought palette, okay? So we understand that in order for Nicodemus to get to the place where he was, the first thing he'd done, he had drawn a conclusion based on what he had seen and heard. What have you seen and heard that you are not drawing a conclusion from, positively and negatively? What is it that you're telling yourself it cannot be, or there is no way that can be the truth that is stopping you from giving your heart and your mind to Christ? What is it that you refuse to believe? What is it that you refuse to let go of? What is it that broke your heart so bad that you would rather isolate yourself from the love of God rather than insulate yourself within the love of God? So we see here that Nicodemus is in a situation where he's seeing things that to his knowledge and to his understanding, there is absolutely no way that this can't be exactly what he believes this to be. Okay, so we understand that believing is one of the most important cornerstones and fundamentals in salvation. How do we know this? Because in the book of St. John, chapter 1, verse 12, the Bible says, Yet to all who did receive him, the Christ, to those who believed, okay. Let me say that to you one more time. Yet to all who did receive him, okay, the predication of receiving him was belief. To those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. Why was this a big massive thing? Because the Jews were absolutely sold on the fact that salvation and transformation was purely for them. And here God comes in the flesh, sitting going, no guys, I was merely trying to reflect through you and show the world the type of relationship that I wanted to have. But I really came to save everybody. I was going to first model the relationship through you all, and we saw what happened through the different um time dispensations with the children of Israel, from um the promise that happened with Abraham to Jacob, then um birthing the 12 tribes, to the 12 tribes, then becoming a nation, and then finding themselves enslavement in Egypt, to God breaking them out of Egypt and bringing them into the promise, to them then forsaking God and forsaking who he was and what they had agreed to be in relationship with him, to the point of a dark period for them, for God to then begin to show new clues through David, to then bring us to a point where now he's showing his plan of restoration for the world. So the Bible says in St. John chapter 1, verse 12, yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed. So I want you to write that down, believing matters. Why? Because we believe in our heart, but we confess with our mouth. And the problem that a lot of people have with salvation is what? Is that we give our heart, but we forget to also give over our mind. Okay? So as we saw in John chapter 3 from verse 2, and we saw in John chapter 1 and verse 12, the first thing that we have to do is we have to first believe because belief then becomes the foundational principle upon what we build um our salvation and our most holy faith on. Why? Because the Bible says, He that cometh to God must first believe that he is. Nicodemus said it. Rabbi, you have to have come from God because there is no way that you could do the things that you do unless God has sent him. That opened the door for Nicodemus to be able to get this revelation of who Jesus was. Now, after you've believed, the next thing you have to do is what? Accept. I just said to you that the basis of salvation and being born again is first that you believe that comes through your heart, then you accept what you accept through your mind. I just said to you a second ago, the problem that most of us have with salvation is that we give our heart but we refuse to change our mind. How do we know this? Because in a couple of weeks ago in our Bible study, if you remember when we did um belief to conversion, we saw this, did we not? Peter, in one sense, was saying, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God, and then we get a couple of weeks down the way, and Peter's kind of following Jesus, kind of sneaking, looking what's going on, to the point where he says, I've never seen that man in my life, never seen him in my life. But Jesus had already warned Peter and he said, Peter, listen, Satan desires to have his way with you. But I have prayed that your faith fail you not. When thou art converted. So, what does that tell you? That conversion is an acceptance within the soul realm. Why is it important with the soul realm? Because you control that space, it's your mind, your will, and your emotions. Now, when we sit on the throne of our soul, things aren't always great. The reason they're not great is because we have a massive issue with regulating us beyond what we can see. Let me put that into a simpler form. When life's going good, we feel good. It's the basis of the soul. It processes external information, it looks at your environment, says, Well, what's going on around there? Well, everything looks good, so I guess we must be great. You know what it's like when your environment is not saying that and it starts speaking to your soul, right? David, he exalted us in this. He used to say, Soul, why are thou disquieted within me? He said sometimes he had to tell his soul, soul, bless the Lord. Why? Because his environment, everything surrounding him was going against how he wanted to be feeling. So, what do we then do? Is that we then have to bypass that soul y realm. Why? Because when we allow the soul. Spirit of the living God to sit on the seat and the consciousness of our soul. Guess what we're then doing? We are acknowledging external information, but we are processing off of intrinsic information. We're processing off the fact that, like in Jeremiah 1, when he says, Before I form thee in the belly, I knew thee, sanctified thee, ordained thee as a prophet to the nations, don't worry about their face. Say what I tell you to say. Right? When our spirit is sitting on the throne of our souls' consciousness, we look at Philippians 4 when it says, Rejoice in the Lord all we're gonna say, and again I say, Rejoice, let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. All things prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God. Why? Because the peace, peace is a defense and an offense that passes all understanding. We ain't saucy enough to be able to be manufacturing that level of peace, people. Do you understand me? We ain't got the divine ingredients. In fact, we don't have the ownership of the divine ingredients to be manufacturing that. So that's why we allow the Spirit of God to sit on the seat of our soul's consciousness. Because what it does is it takes belief to acceptance. Acceptance means whether or not it looks like what I think it should look like, that's not gonna change my belief system. Ooh, that's the power of salvation. It anchors you because it's a priceless insurance policy. You tell me what insurance policy pays out before you pay in. Oh, don't worry. I'll wait. The reason salvation is such a priceless insurance policy is because Jesus paid the premium first. He paid out before you paid in. And he said, I also know you're probably not gonna keep paying in consistently as you're going to agree to. So I tell you what. I've got this little attachment within your policy called grace. Oh, I wish I could break some stuff. I wanna break some stuff. I'm gonna calm down though. Grace will catch you before you fall and re-establish you. Okay, so then that then takes me to the the place of what are we then accepting? Okay. Firstly, we're accepting that flesh gives birth to flesh. So to be born again is not a natural thing, it is a spiritual thing that leads to a supernatural happening. I'm gonna say that to you one more time. Being born again is not a natural thing, but a supernatural thing that leads to, it's a spiritual thing, excuse me, that leads to a supernatural happening. Why? Because the Bible says that we become new creatures. So acceptance then leads to action. Okay, the participation of action is the stamped approval upon the thing that you've not only heard but what you have believed. The Bible says that faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I was having a conversation with a person this morning, and I said the most important thing that you can do to regulate you is watch who has your ear. Because if faith is coming from what you hear, then hopelessness and non-faith is coming from what you hear. So you remember when we were talking about undoing anxiety, we said that we're gonna change the atmosphere, counter the information, and then what do we say? Filter the conversation. Philippians 4:8. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are good, honest, pure, true, uh, virtuous. If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things, right? So your action then predicates what your belief system is, or your butt yet, your action then almost backs up and it it re um it re-fortifies what your belief position is. Do me a favor because we're gonna go to the book of Acts, chapter two. I was gonna take you to Saint John chapter four, but I think I'm gonna leave that for um another Bible study that I've got planning. It's called Perception versus Perspective. Um, but I want you to go with me to the book of Acts, chapter two, and we are gonna jump into verse 37. I'm gonna give you just a little bit of a backstory. So um, we are now at the point of Pentecost. Jesus has gone um and ascended to heaven, and he said to the disciples, listen, I need you to tarry, which means wait, just chill in Jerusalem. Listen, I've got a little rooftop penthouse thing for you boys. Go grab it. That's a lie. They went and found that Jesus wasn't like trying to sort out Airbnbs. Um, so they're there, and the Bible says that they were doing something very specific, they were praying. Your prayer life is the most important thing to you when you become a born-again believer. Why? Because it's communication, the basis of success for any successful relationship, communication, not just talking at God, but talking and being spoken into, right? And so we see here uh at Pentecost that the Holy Spirit has come and it sat upon each of them, it sat upon each of them. Um I also want to say that, and I don't mean to be naughty, but to um my Catholic brethren, Mary, the mother of Jesus, was in the upper room. I'm just saying, and the Bible didn't say that all of them spoke with other tongues, and Mary was just in the corner going, This is lovely, well done, my son would be very happy. Oh no, no, she was there magnifying and praising God too. So I'm not saying he was a Pentecostal, I'm just saying when Pentecost happened, Jesus' mama was at the pull-up, pulling up, speaking in other tongues, but we'll leave that alone. So the Holy Spirit has now um he's expressed himself, and he is um he's now dwelling in them, they're speaking with other tongues, they break out of the upper room. The Bible says that they go and start speaking to everybody Medes, Parthians, Grecians, Arabians, Nubians, everybody gets it. And the Bible says that they are talking to them in their tongue, right? And it then spills up to the point where the denier, don't forget, we read that in belief to conversion.

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Peter the denier, he all of a sudden gets bold, all of a sudden he doesn't want to deny Jesus, all of a sudden, yeah, yeah, I know Jesus, that's my guy, that's my king, that's my dude, that's my boy.

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And all of a sudden, the Bible says that after the people had got around them and said to them, these guys have been on the Pentecost liquor, they've been having too much communal wine. Peter says this in verse 37 says, When the people heard this, they were cut to their heart. Peter told them, No, no, no, we're not drunk with new wine. This is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel. You can see this, Joel 2.28, that in the last days I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. When you go do your extra reading, you'll see that. So Peter's exhorting him, he's going, You killed the consolation of Israel, you killed the Son of God, you killed the Messiah, and he was preaching at them and preaching to them. And the Bible says in verse 37, when the people heard this, they were cut to their heart. Now, don't forget, what did we just say in terms of the process of being born again? The heart is where we believe. Okay, and Peter said to the other apostles, brothers, what shall we do? Okay, verse 38. Peter replied to them, okay. So the people that he was preaching at, they they they looked at him, they said, Apostles, like brothers, what are we to do? And then Peter said, right, if you have accepted, if you have believed what you've heard and you've accepted it now, now comes the action. When you believe that Jesus Christ came into the world to die for your sin, for you specifically. Yeah, he came to die for everybody, but he knows you specifically. Why? Because he said he would choose to dwell in you. He said, I want to dwell in you. You will be my people, I will be your God. Why do you think he sent the Holy Spirit? So that you could have him dwelling in you 24/7. He wanted to give you triple A access. Now I work in the entertainment industry. There is a difference between a pass and triple A. Listen, let's keep it all the way 100. People with triple A, you like those people, you want to give them access, let them roam around, be where they want to be. People with just the past, listen, you can get a little access. But Jesus was like, No, the Father sent me so that he may live and dwell in you. John 3 16, 4. God so loved you and me when he talks about the world, he's talking about you and me, that he would sit there and in eternity past come up with a plan to save you and me for a dis from a decision that we made from a decision that we would hold the consequences for. Okay, so it said Peter replied, um, Acts 2 30, repent and be baptized. This is now the action that is now come after the predication of believing and then accepting. He said, Be baptized, repent, and be baptized, every one of you. Now, I want to get into this word repent. A lot of the time we think that repenting is just saying sorry. No, saying sorry is a part of repenting. Repenting is a cognitive thing where you make up in your mind. Why do you have to make up in your mind? Because we are the most populated thing on the planet, yet the most unique. Let that sink in. You're the most populated thing on the planet, yet the most unique. How do you know that? Because you have four identifications that no other living organism on earth has. You find them out, put it in the comments. I've told you before. If you're listening, you'll know. And yet, God had a plan for each and every one of us. But in that plan, he hoped that the thing he loved most in the universe would choose him first. Why do you think God doesn't force himself on you? He gave us choice for a reason. Because he hoped that we would always choose him. The same way he's always chosen you. That's what the power of accepting Jesus Christ is. It's you making the choice to choose him who loved you first and greatest. So Peter said the first thing you have to do is you have to repent. Don't just be sorry, but make a plan to change. To 180 the situation, 180 just means I'm going in the opposite direction. I'm out, I'm done, I'm through. Later's. And that going in the opposite direction meant that you then want to be identified or you want to identify with the greatest offering for the greatest insurance policy you've never had the qualifications or the standing to earn or have. But simply because God loves you, it's something you're entitled to. So we identify with the sacrifice how is that we use the um the process of baptism. When you go down and you're fully immersed in the water, what you're really saying is that the water is symbolic of the blood of Christ that was shed for every single one of us. The Bible tells us that when the soldiers wanted to see what was going on with Jesus, they pierced his side. And out of his side came blood and water. So the water becomes a symbolism that we are burying the old us. Burying him. We don't have the ability to cover what was wrong. But as we are buried in through and through baptism in the water, what that does is that water, like the blood, it washes away everything. It washes away everything. And when you come out of that water, now remember it's symbolic. It's completely symbolic. Because remember, God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Which then means that there is nothing that we can naturally give other than what's been asked, which we can't see, because none of us have ever seen our heart. Some of us may on TV have seen the organ that is the heart within the body that pumps blood around the body, but your heart, your subconscious mind, we can't see that. So we use the symbolism within baptism to signify something that we can't see, that is far more real. Why is it far more real? Because we just said that when we sit on the seat of our soul's consciousness, we are taking in information from the world around us. But we also know that when we allow our spirit to sit on the seat of our soul's consciousness and we take in that information intrinsically that comes from the word of God, and we begin to speak that into our environment. What do we begin to see in our external world? Things start to change. So, Peter, then here in verse 38, he says, Be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are afar off. This is one of the greatest things ever. He breaks this spiritual offer out of one band of people, and he says, No, no, no, this is for you, your children, your children's children, and to all of those that are afar off. So the action then leads you into spiritual benefit because it doesn't just cover you, it's not just for you, it's for everyone. Right? So then after you've now gone through the action, what's the last thing to do? Live. Live God doesn't want to box you up like some I don't know, some some some warehouse have you in a corner. He doesn't get any glory through that. He would see you reflect him in the visible world that he built. Let me say it this way: he is the invisible using the visible to be seen on the visible that he created. The unseen, God, using the scene, us on the scene, the platform of the world. I'm gonna say that to you one more time. The unseen would choose to use the scene on the scene that he created. Why? Because a lot of people's first interaction with God is gonna be through you. So you've heard today. Only you can decide if you you believe. And if you do believe, then accept. And if you've chosen to accept, all you have to do is one action. And after you've done that action, repeat it and live in. Pray with me as we come to the end of our Bible study. Lord, I just want to say thank you. Thank you for this moment, thank you for this time, thank you for this Bible study. You know who's watching, you know who's listening, you know who's going to watch and who's going to listen. We thank you for the gift of salvation. We thank you for sending your son to die on the cross for our sins. We accept it. We accept your gift of love. We thank you for it. And in return, we offer you our heart and our life. We pray that your Holy Spirit will come into every heart that is asking for him, seeking for him, looking for him. And we pray, Lord, that we will be a reflection of your love, your peace, and your grace. Touch every heart, every mind. As you do the things that only you can do, and you transform them as they're born again in you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thanks for watching, guys. We'll see you next time.