There is a difference between being born again and being baptized in the Spirit into His church.
John 3, Born again first, enter the kingdom of God second.
Unless first born again, you cannot believe, as Jesus told Nicodemus who at that time did not believe. and said how can these things be true?
Course, all born again will be baptized by the Spirit into His church, this is inevitable as it is the will of God that God gives to Christ all His children. All born again, are of God and are His children who God then teaches by the Spirit, and we come to Christ as believers.
Being born again does not have to be some fantastical emotional experience, it can happen just like the light breeze of a wind that blows on you and you feel the effects on the inside. Being born again changes us on the inside and is entirely according to the working of God within us, we get a new spirit and a new relationship to God, all things are become new between us and God, the old adversarial relationship is gone and the new is here, and all that is of God. We are in Christ as in we are of God and we now hear God as in harken to Him as we belong to Him. Those who are of God hear God speak, if you do not hear, then you are not of God
Ephesians speaks to this, how God determined for us to be born again from the beginning of the creation, then for us to trust Him in Christ and after we trust be sealed into the 'deal', the promised salvation of Christ's New Covenant in His blood
This is an absolute lock, the process being afore determined by God of whom He would save, and it does involve our receiving of Him as we are taught by God to believe in Christ, this is the work God does inside of all of us who have believed.
Look how this is written, we are chosen before time began by the Father to be in Christ
In the fullness of Time, God sent Christ, so we are of His church in the New Covenant, not the Old.
God made known to us the mystery of His will, the Father's drawing and teaching us in our born of God spirits to come to Christ as in entrusting ourselves to Him as Lord.
After we trusted in Him, we Christ gathers us into one flock as believers in Him. And that includes all the saints of God who are in Heaven, we are all of one in Him.
There is no separation of the people of God.
Because the Father drew and taught us, we came to Christ, we were willing.
And after having believed we were sealed by the Holy Spirit to obtain salvation, Him being the guarantor of our eternal inheritance in the saints. And Jesus delivers us from the wrath of God to come on the unbelieving world.
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus:
2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Redemption in Christ
3 Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly
places in Christ, 4
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He [a]made us accepted in the Beloved.
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of
His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and [b]prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10
that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, [c]both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
1
3 In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, 14 who[d] is the [e]guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
John 1 also seals the deal, for those who believe in Him, now have the full legal authorized right of the whole universe to recognize us as the children of God.
John 1 indicates an already prior condition, who has been born which is why the Holy Spirit taught us and we came to Christ, we were granted to come to Christ, God gifted to us our belief in Christ. God taught us to know Christ. We were of God (born again) so we can hear God and trust Christ for salvation.
John 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.
John 8:47
He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
30 And because of him[
e] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
John 1
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His [
c]own, and His [
d]own did not receive Him. 12
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the (legal, God authorized, part of the NC) [e]right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13
who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
1 John 5
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
God called and chose some, all those so called then come to Christ.
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach[
b] to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards,[
c] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being[
d] might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him[
e] you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
