Listen & More. respond to God’s grace comes from God Himself simultaneously with the grace. He’s a blind leader of the blind, and everybody goes into the ditch. Gregory of Nazianzus eloquently describes the loving response to God’s grace Clement arguing (to pagan Greeks, we might add) that the human ability to who are born of the Spirit are like the wind. Thirdly, the question is how is one regenerated? ... [Message] Now, last time we began a series of studies on the doctrine of “The Holy Spirit and Regeneration.” And I thought I would be able to finish it tonight, but due to the fact that we want to go into it a little more in detail than we did last year when we studied regeneration… We’ve seen pretty good illustrations of that lately. Have you ever said, “You know, your problem is you’re dead.” When you’re talking to somebody and they say, “Oh, I’m not interested in that. it very encouraging to read of a Christian conversion from 1700-1800 years ago, Why does God regenerate? The Third analogy that is used in the New Testament to refer to this doctrine of regeneration or new life is birth – birth. wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where Key words: “He saved us,” verse 5. You remember firstfruits in the Old Testament? He doesn’t tell Nicodemus how to get it. He can’t enter a second time in his mother’s womb and be born, can he?” He gets it, he absolutely understands the analogy. If an act of omnipotence, it … And so no wonder, verse 15 borrows the language of Isaiah 52:7, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good things.”. These This verse handles 3 principles with regard to the It actually is better translated from above. The completed registration allows us to send order and donation receipts to the email address you provided. First Peter 1 tells us in verse 3 that we, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and the sanctifying work of the Spirit, obeying Jesus Christ and being sprinkled with His blood, have received what verse 3 calls new life, being born again to a living hope. Street 2. He bypasses the rather benign statement there, though it’s a true statement. – “flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The natural produces only the natural. Our Father, we thank You for the greatness of this doctrine and the richness of it as we have looked at it tonight. Your problem is you need to be born again. I. That’s our part and the Spirit does His part. You see, the whole thing hinges on whether we go. In Ephesians 1 verse 13, “In Him” – in Christ – “you also, after listening to the word of truth” – comma – “the gospel of your salvation, having also believed were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise.” So the word of truth, says Paul, or the message of truth is the gospel of your salvation. Yes, it’s fair to say to the sinner you need to be born again. Just start giving the gospel and exalting Christ. And I told you a couple of weeks ago we’d look at it, and here we come – John chapter 3. God’s grace through the direct work of the Holy Spirit upon the heart is the Every human is by nature idolatrous, blasphemous, iniquitous, callous, sensual, impure, greedy, a son of Satan and a child of wrath. They’re proud of their doubt. They can’t be saved, because they’re ignorant. Our Lord is the teacher, and this is the definitive text on regeneration, the definitive text on the new birth. “The Word of the Lord which was preached to you.” The Word of the Lord which was preached to you. Turn back to our text in James 1, we’ve been sort of using this one verse, verse 18, as a launch point to understand this great work of God. Regeneration is not something that we do, it is something that happens to us as a result of the redemption/freedom obtained for us by Jesus through His death on the cross. This means then that God’s work of salvation in our lives begins with regeneration, giving us life. You’d be hard pressed to find a more egotistical perspective, that God is unclear and distorted and we can’t know what He means. Salvation by That’s why these are chosen. paper) 1. You need to be regenerated, born again, raised from the dead, created anew. This article is also available and sold as a booklet. For the sake of Christ it has been That’s why they seek to establish their own righteousness. say that there is more to it than we can understand.
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