Just Like Saul, We can be a new person

When we think of be coming a new person, or being "Born Again" we think of it as being a new testiment concept... something that Jesus taught. However, in the book of 1 Samual we see the following:

1Sam 10:6
And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

The "thee" in this verse was Saul, and the "them" is the prophets.

Jesus taught us that in order to go to heaven we must be born again, or become a new man.

John 3:3
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.


Here we see this same truth in the life of Saul. Samuel the prophet of God annoints Saul and he literly becomes a new man. He beings to praise God, and Prophesy with the prophets.


1Sam 10:10-11
And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.
And it came to pass, when all that knew him beforetime saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What [is] this [that] is come unto the son of Kish? [Is] Saul also among the prophets?

This was so uncharacteristic of Saul, that people were astonished. When we devote our lives to following Jesus Christ, and he becomes the Lord of our lives and lives in us ... we should have a change in our lives that is significant. People should be talking about us, saying "What happened to this guy!"

If we have never seen this "born again" experience in our lifes, and we call ourselves a Christian (Of Christ), then we really need to be searching our soul to see if we have really devoted our lives to Jesus Christ. If we find outselves coming up short, then it is time to rededicate your life to serving Jesus Christ. In addition to praying that prayer of rededication, where you cry out to God and turn away from your self and towards him, we need to put some shoe leather on our faith. The book of James says:

Jam 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Often it is when we turn towards Jesus in our actions, that his Holy Spirit meets us and empowers us as it did Saul.