When is a person born again?
A person is born again at the moment they believe the gospel and are saved. In whom also after that you believed, period, plus nothing. God then seals them with the Holy Spirit of promise. At that instant the Spirit indwells, empowers, and keeps them.
Les teaches that a person is not born again by being baptized, but by trusting and believing the gospel. He points to the phrase, 'In whom also after that you believed, period, plus nothing,' and says God then seals the believer with the Holy Spirit of promise. Paul explains throughout his epistles that the moment we believe the gospel—or were saved—we were born again, and at that same moment the Holy Spirit indwells us, empowers us, and keeps us. Baptism and other things follow in their rightful place.