Scripture Post #1,182: *BORN INCORRUPTIBLE*

1st Peter 1:23: 

"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever."

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Our 1st birth was our natural birth. 

Our 2nd birth was supernatural, or spiritual. 

In our 1st birth, we exited the womb. 

In our 2nd birth, we exited the tomb. (What does it mean to exit the tomb? It means to die to our old man and to put on the new man. Prior to salvation we were all sinners. Sin came naturally to us. But once we became a part of GOD's family, we changed drastically. When we were sinners we were alive to our flesh. Scripture refers to the flesh as being the component in which sin is activated. You cannot be in sin without being in the flesh. Before our 2nd birth—us being born again, born a 2nd time—we must first die to who we've been in our 1st birth. This is what water-baptism represents: the death, burial and resurrection of *us* *in* JESUS CHRIST!)

Our 1st birth is corruptible (we can perish naturally). 

Our 2nd birth is incorruptible (we could never perish spiritually—spiritually, we're 1 with an everlasting GOD)!

Our 1st birth—we're temporal. 

Our 2nd birth—we're eternal. 

Scripture References For How We've Exited The Tomb;

Gal. 5:24: "And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts."

Eph. 4:22: "That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;"

V. 23: "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;"

V. 24: "And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."

Col. 3:9: "Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;"

V. 10: "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:"

Rom. 6:1: "What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?"

V. 2: "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?"

V. 3: "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?"

V. 4: "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

V. 5: "For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:"

V. 6: "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin."

V. 7: "For he that is dead is freed from sin."

Originally Published: Tue. 12/8/15