Born from Above: Experiencing the New Birth

By Mark A. Paxton

It has taken a couple decades to finally put this book into print. Readers will find a to-the-point book describing how to experience the new birth for ones self. The new birth is explained, and then exact directions on experiencing being born from above are given. The final section describes how the new birth is lived out in day-to-day life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490839448

Mark A. Paxton

Mark Paxton is a former pastor and teacher. He has served as pastor to two churches in his career: one in Oklahoma and the other in northeastern Ohio. He has four children, all whom are Christians. Mark lives in Reynoldsburg, Ohio and is an aspiring author.

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Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-3943-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-3944-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014910000

WestBow Press rev. date: 05/30/2014

Contents

I.         Jesus Explains the New Birth

Who Were The Pharisees?

A Midnight Visitor

You Must Be Born Again

Natural Birth vs. New Birth

Insight From Nature

The Heavenly Witness

An Illustration From History

For God So Loved The World

That The World Might Be Saved

Light Of The World

II.      Experiencing The New Birth

For All Have Sinned

Good News And Bad News

Jesus Paid It All

You Shall Be Saved

A Word About Repentance

The Night Jesus Came To My House

III.      Expressing The New Birth

The Presence Of Righteousness

The Absence Of Sin

Love

Victory

Epilogue

May you come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and be

Born from Above

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Jesus Explains the New Birth

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Who Were The Pharisees?

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. John 3:1

Of the three major religious societies of Judaism at the time of the New Testament (the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes), the Pharisees were often the most vocal and influential. The origin of the Pharisees is uncertain, but their movement is believed to have grown from the Assideans (i.e. the pious), who began in the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Greek/Syrian ruler Antiochus IV or Antiochus Epiphanes, around 165 B.C. It was during that roughly 4 centuries between the end of the Old Testament record and the birth of Jesus Christ, prior to the rise of the Roman Empire, that the idolatrous Greek influence was at its