Regeneration occurs at the moment a person exercises love and faith in Christ Jesus. At that point, his or her sins are forgiven and he or she is born again by the power of the Holy Spirit (through the Sacrament of Baptism) working on behalf of Christ. The new birth is a decisive, unrepeatable and irrevocable act of God. The phrase new birth comes from Gospel John 3:3,7 where Jesus told Nicodemus, a leading Jew "Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God". Jesus meant that people are sinful in God's eyes that they need to be regenerated - recreated and renewed - by the sovereign activity of God's Spirit. - John 3:5-8 -
Therefore, New Birth is an inner spiritual renewal as a result of the power of God in a person's life. Similar words are used elsewhere in the Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible to describe the same general concept.
And for anyone is in Christ there is a new creation; the old creation has gone and now the new one is here. - 2Cor. 5:17 -
See, I am doing a new deed
even now it comes to light; can you not see it?
Yes, I am making a road in the wilderness,
paths in the wilds. - Is. 43:19 -
No one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth on to an old cloak because the patch pulls away from the cloak and the tear get worse. Nor do people put new wine into old wine skins; if they do the skins burst, the wine runs out and the skins are lost. No; they put new wine into fresh skins and both are preserved. - Matt. 9:16-17 -
Before our conversion, our sinful passions, quite unsubdued by the Law, fertilized our bodies to make them give birth to death. But now we are rid of the Law, freed by death from our imprisonment, free to serve in the new spiritual way and not the old way of a written law. - Rom. 7:5-6 -
Although our outer man is perishing, the Christian's inward man is being renewed day by day. In short, all people need the 3 things, the 3 things that last Faith. Hope. Love. Do you believe?
That is why there is no weakening on our part and instead though this outer man of ours may be falling into decay, the inner man is renewed day by day. - 2Cor. 4:16 -
I have been crucified with Christ and I live now not with my own life but with the life of Christ who lives in me. The life I now live in this body I live in faith; faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake. - Gal. 2:19-20 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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