1 John 4:7. God is love. To know love is to know God. God is the source of all, true love. God's love is called agape love. Agape means unmerited favor. This is the love that God has given to us through Jesus Christ. Though we are sinners and disobedient to God, God still loves us. God reveals His unmerited favor (love) toward us by offering us eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ. All we must do is accept His love to be the full beneficiaries of His unmerited favor. This agape love that God shows us is also the love that God asks us to show to others.

For us that are born again Jesus Christ is not only our Savior, but also our Lord. Through Jesus we are fully equipped to be obedient to God and take on the mind of Christ. We only need to have faith in Jesus Christ. Christ is our example of how we relate and totally surrender to God. As we grow in our Christianity, Christ is formed in us. If we return to our sin and disobedience, Christ will stop forming in us. We must renew daily our commitment to Christ as our Lord for Christ to continue forming in us (Galatians 4:19, “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,”).

1 John 3:9. When you are born again, you have God in you in the form of the Holy Spirit. As God cannot be in the presence of sin and disobedience, sin is destroyed in you when the Holy Spirit is in you. As a born again Christian, you have God’s seed in you that provides every thing you need not to sin any more. For you to remain born again, you commit no more sin in your life. The Holy Spirit will keep you from sin, if you let Him (1 John 3:9, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God”).

John 3:6. When you are born again the spirit in you changes. Before becoming a born again Christian your flesh led the spirit in you. You were dominated by fleshly desires and your purpose was to fulfill the lusts of your flesh. When you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior, God’s Holy Spirit enters you changing your purpose and equipping you to be righteous. If you continue to yield to God’s Holy Spirit He will lead you down the path of righteousness.

1 Peter 1:23. A born again Christian is born of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. When we first accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, God’s Holy Spirit enters us. When we are born again we now have God’s incorruptible seed in us. If we will completely surrender to God everyday, God’s word will live and abide in us forever (1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever”).

1 Peter 1:23. The definition of Christian redemption includes being born again. Jesus paid the ransom and took on the punishment for our sin so that we can be saved. But we still have to accept this free gift that Jesus gave to us. We have to believe in Him and accept Him as our Lord and Savior. This is the only way that we will not perish in our own corruptible sins, but have everlasting life (John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”).