Top Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that she is now born
again, saying the bad things she did in the past, will remain in the
past.
The Actress, Tonto, who recently underwent plastic surgery to fix some parts of her body, preached as though she has become a pastor.
The mother of one took to her Instagram account on Thursday morning
and wrote: “An Entirely New Life! Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
“The term “born again” isn’t a religious cliché, which connotes
turning over a new leaf. When you ask some Christians how they know
they’re born again, some would reply: I know I’m born again, because the
bad things I used to do, I do them no more. I’ve changed my ways, and
now, I behave differently.
“Being born again is much more than that. What you receive when
you’re born again is an entirely new life. There’s no such thing as “The
bad things I used to do, I do them no more,” because the person who did
those things is dead. He doesn’t exist anymore.
“When you received Christ into your life, something actually
happened: your spirit was recreated. You were born of the Word of God
and of the Spirit of God. You now have the life, nature and character of
God. And when a man has the life, nature and character of God, he can
only live like God. So, being born again is actually receiving the
God-nature; becoming an associate of the God-kind.
“Romans 6:6 says, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should
not serve sin.” Your old life or nature isn’t suspended; it’s dead;
you’ve come up a new man; a new species of being; one that never existed
before; one without a past. In the presence of God, everything you were
before you were born again, and everything you did before you were born
again has no record. This isn’t a promise. This is a statement of fact
in the Word.
“If you’re ignorant of this, you could be struggling with your past
or with the sins you committed before you were born again. This,
invariably, could make you ineffective in the things of God. No; you’re
not a sinner. You’re the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, because
you’re born again (2 Corinthians 5:21). Walk in the consciousness of
your righteousness, and new life in Christ: “Therefore we are buried
with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from
the dead by the glory of the Father.”