Not every saved believer is going to understand everything all at once .....Although I will explain what it means. BUT, one that is not “Born of GOD” still “Cannot” [have the Ability] to this understanding what I am saying, but yet understand what I am saying. that you cannot understand what I am saying.
1 Corinthians 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
....or even when they want to understand.... for why we are exhorted to ask for wisdom from the Lord.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
There is a falsehood out there that can apply your statements in the Pentecostal & Charismatic circles to promote seeking to receive the Holy Spirit by a sign as if being born of God has to be felt or seen by the seeker and in these experiences, testimonies will arise of participants losing self control and falling in receiving such signs, but yet God is not the author of confusion for why it is not of Him at all..A person can be a “Christian” and Not “Born of GOD”!
A person can be “Born of GOD” and be a “Christian”.
I am not going Into great details. But These Statements are True and “Theologically Sound”.
Matthew 12:39 But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
1 Corinthians 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Hebrews 11:1Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Galatians 3:14 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith....
...26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Be on guard against those who take what you teach here as saying that believer is not saved or those believers in that church are not born from above.I am setting The Pace to explain, What “Born of GOD” means, I WILL refrain from using the Translated term which is Not “Theologically” sound, “born again“. But a Translated replacement word term FOR “BORN FROM ABOVE”
Now I am only doing this for The ones who do not know what The Biblical term actually means.
“Born Of GOD” That you may be “Sound” and Solid.
But to those who have their own interpretations, you may keep them. This is not meant for you. Each man and women to its own.
And if you do not like, my “Explanation” fine, throw it in the Garbage and keep it moving and Shake The very “Dust off your Feet”!
Part 1. “The Introduction Post.
Nowhere in the N.T. does it allow us to judge someone as not saved or not a brother unless they never had believed in Him in the first place & still don't. John 3:18
Indeed Paul set the example clearly about those who were falling away from the faith even in his day as noted in verse 7 in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-15 as he continues to talk about them in the next chapter for us to rely on the Lord in touching us to help us obey His commandment to withdraw, but not to treat them as the enemy, but admonish them as brothers still.
2 Thessalonians 3:1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.
3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.
4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.
5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.
We can judge one another in correcting one another when those who profess Him are not abiding in Him as His disciple, but to judge that one is not born of God is going beyond what we are called to do, in serving the Lord to recover the lost or those that have gone astray.
1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Timothy 2:24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
So Paul acknowledges that born from above believers can go astray for why God has to peradventure thru us to recover those from the snare of the devil.