What is meant by the new birth?
The new birth is simply the effect of the flowing into the soul of a man of this Divine Love of the Father, and the disappearing of everything that tends to ignorance and error.
As the Divine Love takes possession of the soul, ignorance and error disappear, and the soul becomes of a quality like the great soul of the Father.
The soul of the Father in its quality of love being Divine and Immortal, so, when the soul of man becomes possessed of this quality of love this soul becomes divine also – and the soul is the man – and then the image becomes the substance, the mortal becomes the immortal, and the soul of man, as to love and hope, becomes a part of the Father’s Divinity.
Now to declare this plan of salvation and also the re-bestowal of the great gift of the potentiality of the soul, Jesus came to earth. This was his mission, and none other.
Jesus not only taught the necessity for the new birth, but he also taught the way in which it could be obtained, and that way is just as simple and easily understood as the new birth itself. He taught, and is now teaching, that through earnest prayer to the Father, and faith, which makes all aspirations and soul longings things of real existence, and by the Holy Spirit (which is the Father’s messenger of love to carry His Divine Love) this love will flow into the souls of men in response to such prayers.
By such faith men will realize the presence of this great Divine Love and in this way, and this way only, men will receive the new birth.
This is wholly an individual matter, and without the personal, earnest prayer of the supplicant and faith that comes with the love, a man cannot receive the new birth.
– Luke
Adapted from an Excerpt of a Message from the Spirit World
Received by James E. Padgett – January 4, 1916
Read the complete original message HERE