"Ye Must Be Born Again"
February 6-12
FAIR Faithful Resources for Come, Follow Me 2023 February 6-12. John 2-4: “Ye Must Be Born Again.” Find answers to difficult questions to help you in your learning and teaching. Here is a collection of reliable resources to supplement your study of John 2-4. FAIR Resources link to relevant questions which have been answered on the FAIR website. Under Church Resources you’ll find links to the different Come, Follow Me manuals, as well as other helpful links as applicable. Other Resources link to resources outside of FAIR that are trustworthy and helpful.
Main points to ponder
Miracles: “A miracle is an extraordinary event caused by the power of God. Miracles are an important element in the work of Jesus Christ. They include healings, restoring the dead to life, and resurrection. Miracles are a part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Faith is necessary in order for miracles to be manifested” (Guide to the Scriptures, 165).
Miracles don’t always necessarily mean that the laws of physics are going to be broken. Latter-day Saints believe that modern day prophets perform miracles all the time. But, in most cases, in order to realize that a miracle happened, the person must have faith first. Even in Biblical times, prophets may have performed miracles by natural means.
See Mark 6:5–6, John 2:11, 2 Nephi 27:23, Alma 23:6, Mormon 9:10–20, Ether 12:12; also, Bible Dictionary, “Miracles”; Do You Need a Miracle? Elder Larry W. Gibbons
Jesus Christ’s miracles “manifested forth his glory.” Consider what the miracles of Jesus teach you about him as you read John 2:1–11, John 3:1–21. See also Matthew 21:12–15; Luke 5:18–20; Mark 10:51–52; Luke 8:43–44, 46–48; 3 Nephi 17:7–9; John 5:2–9; John 21:4–6.
I must be born again to enter the kingdom of God.
What do these scriptures teach you about being “born again”? John 3:1–21, John 3:5, Alma 5:11–14. See also Mosiah 5:7; 27:25–26; David A. Bednar, “Ye Must Be Born Again,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2007, 19–22.
Heavenly Father shows His love for me through Jesus Christ.
Read and ponder John 3:16–17. Consider also Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, “Tomorrow the Lord Will Do Wonders among You,” Ensign or Liahona, May 2016, 127). How have you felt the love of God through the gift of His Son?
Is God a spirit?
John 4:24, Joseph Smith Translation John 4:24, footnote a. Modern revelation also teaches that God has a body of flesh and bones (see Doctrine and Covenants 130:22–23; see also Genesis 5:1–3; Hebrews 1:1–3).
Christ offers me His living water.
John 4:5–26 What might Jesus have meant when He told the Samaritan woman that whoever drinks the water He offers will never thirst? How is the gospel like living water?
Worship
One of the Savior’s messages to the Samaritan woman was that how we worship is more important than where we worship (see John 4:21–24). What are you doing to “worship the Father in spirit and in truth”? (John 4:23). See also Guide to the Scriptures, “Worship,” scriptures.ChurchofJesusChrist.org; Dean M. Davies, “The Blessings of Worship,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2016, 93–95.
Faithful Resources on the FAIR website:
- Question: How do Latter-day Saints view miracles in other faiths?
- Question: Do Latter-day Saints worship a “different Jesus”?
- Question: When the Bible talks about being “born again,” what does this mean?
- Question: Is Mormon insistence on baptism as an essential ordinance of salvation “unChristian” or “unbiblical”?
- Question: How do Mormons see the relationship between works and grace?
- Why do we worship or praise God?
- Do the Latter-day Saints use praise of God as part of their prayers and songs in worship?
- Is God Only a Spirit?
- Question: Why do the Latter-day Saints believe God has a body?
- Question: What are the common objections to a belief in God’s corporeality?
- Question: Does the doctrine that God has a physical body contradict the Bible?
Find Answers on FAIRLATTERDAYSAINTS.ORG
Ask your question here.
Resources on the Church website:
Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families
Come, Follow Me—For Sunday School
Jesus Turns Water into Wine (John 2:1-12)
Jesus Cleanses the Temple (John 2:13-17)
Jesus Teaches of Being Born Again (John 3:1-36)
For God So Loved the World (John 3:16)
Jesus Teaches a Samaritan Woman (John 4:5-29)
Faithful Resources from other reliable websites:
The Interpreter Foundation
- Come, Follow Me Study and Teaching Helps — Lesson 7: February 6–12, Jonn Claybaugh
- “By the Blood Ye Are Sanctified”: The Symbolic, Salvific, Interrelated, Additive, Retrospective, and Anticipatory Nature of the Ordinances of Spiritual Rebirth in John 3 and Moses 6, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw and Matthew L. Bowen
- Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me New Testament Lesson 7
- Jesus Teaches Using Humor in John 4, Hales Swift
- Scripture Roundtable: New Testament Gospel Doctrine Lesson 5, “Born Again”
- The New Testament in Context: Come, Follow Me Lesson 7
Other Helpful Sources
- Tyler Griffin & Taylor Halverson John 2–4 | Feb 6-12 | Come Follow Me Insights
- Lynne Hilton Wilson John 2-4: New Testament with Lynne Wilson (Come, Follow Me)
- John Hilton III Jesus and Nicodemus, John the Baptist Isn’t Jealous of Jesus, Jesus and the Woman at the Well (Come, Follow Me: John 4)
- Messages of Christ Jesus and the Woman of Samaria – John 4, Living Waters and the Woman at the Well
- The Message of Nicodemus, Keith J. Wilson
- Come Follow Me – John 2-3, Book of Mormon Central Archive
- Living Waters and the Woman at the Well, Messages of Christ
- Our Savior in the Gospels: John 2-3: Christ’s Early Ministry
- Our Savior in the Gospels: John 4: Woman at the Well
- Come Follow Me 2019: John 2-4, Book of Mormon Central
- John 2-4, BYU Studies
- Inline comparison by Glenn Wiskur – a comparison of the King James Version to the Joseph Smith Inspired Version and every change is noted with red strikeouts for what Joseph removed, green highlights for what he added, and plain white for what remained the same. John 2, John 3, John 4
- Follow Him: Dr. Robert L. Millet “YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN” Part 1, Part 2, Youth
- The Scriptures are Real: Brad Wilcox on being Born Again
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