To those who follow Jesus, acknowledging His Authority and putting their faith and trust in Him…they have been given the privilege of being called Children of God. Begotten spiritually by the impartation of new life and a new spirit, not by nature but generated in them by the sovereign action of God & the Holy Spirit. It’s called New Birth, Rebirth, to be Born Again, New Beginning, or Regeneration. Peter speaks of this in I Peter 1:23, “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring Word of God.” As Children of God we have been made new…a necessary condition to see and enter the Kingdom of God as heirs & co-heirs with Christ.