What Does It Really Mean to be

“Born Again?”

by Pastor Roy Esposito

• John 2:11, 22-23
• John 3:2-6, 10

New Birth –  A re-qualifying experience that opens to the supernatural dimensions of life  – Jack Heyford

• Romans 6:16 – “slaves to sin”
• Psalm 27;13
• Galatians 5:16
• Romans 7:14-25 (NLT)
• Romans 6:23
• Romans 14:17
• Luke 17:21
• James 1:14-15
• John 14:30
• 2 Corinthians 10:4-6
• Hebrews 11:1
• Hebrews 1:13
• 1 Corinthians 13:13
• Ephesians 3:17-18
• James 2:26
• Galatians 5:6  –  Faith working through “love.”
  • Energeo – An aspiration of power with effectual results.

Love:   Informs – Reforms – Transforms

God’s Being – “I Am, that I Love, that I Act“

Personal Holiness – a desire to grow in the knowledge of God; a pressing into Him; a hunger through which all I do and all I experience takes on  the peculiar fragrance of the Lord.

“Embracing Mystery”

By Pastor Roy Esposito

• John 3:16
• 1 John 4:*
• Colossians 1:26-27
• Romans 6:11
• Romans 7:5-6 (KJV)

 Spirit – Pneuma – the“Breath” or wind of the Spirit

•  Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (Message)
• Daniel 11:32b
• James 1:2-4 (Message)
• 1 Kings 3:9  – an understanding heart – a “Hearing” Heart
• Galatians 2:20 (KJV)  –  faith OF the Son of God
• Exodus 3:1-4
• Luke 24:49
• 2 Corinthians 1:20
•  Acts 2:1-13

Two questions for the church to consider

1. What does this mean? – Acts 2:12
2. What must we do?         – Acts 2:37

The degree to which we are able to answer these questions will be the same degree of influence we will have on contemporary society.

• Psalm 18
• Daniel 11:32b
• 1 Corinthians 14:13
• 1 Corinthians 14:19

Steps to Learning God’s Language

1. Motivation  — Desire
2. Equipment
3. Location
4. Humility
5. Patience
6. Assurance – God is pleased by our effort to learn of Him

Divine Arithmetic

by Pastor Roy Esposito

• Matthew 18:18 (AMP)
• 1 Peter 1:15-16, (Leviticus 20:26)
• 2 Corinthians 7:1

The “Promises” 

1. We’re accepted in the Beloved – Ephesians 1:6
2. God will dwell among us and in us – John 1:14, John 14:17
3. God will be our Father – 2 Corinthians 6:18

• Hebrews 4:14
• Ephesians 5:25b-27
• James 4:7-8
• James 4:7-10 (Message)

The Divine Arithmetic

Subtract — worldly inclinations

Add — heavenly qualities

• Ephesians 2:8 – saved by grace
• 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (Message)
• 2 Timothy 3: 5 — (NLT)
• Proverbs 29:18

The Paschal Mystery: 

“Re-Set / Re-Focus”

by Pastor Roy Esposito

• 2 Kings 6:8-23
• 1 Corinthians 13:12
• Colossians 3:2
• Colossians 3:12-15
• Romans 8:1
• Philippians 3:10
• 1 Thessalonians 5:21

“Real Christianity” – Love maturing in us.

• Philippians 2:13
• Hebrews 13: 21
• 2 Corinthians 13:5 (Message)
• James 4:7
• James 4:6
• 2 Corinthians 12:9
• John 14:17 – The Helper not The “Do-er”
• 1 John 4:17

 Suggested questions to ask the Lord while journaling.

1. Is my faith effective? 
   • Are my prayers being answered?
   • Is my life becoming more Godly?
   • Loving?
   • Peaceful?
   • Stable?
2.  If it’s not working for me– why not?
   •  Have I been taught correctly?
   • Am I spending enough dedicated  time seeking the Lord?
   • Am I lazy?
   • In unbelief?
   • Am I out of focus?

1 John 2:5-6 – Not a clone of Him but of the same character with the same intentions – To love God and one another.