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REGENERATION

Lessons on Salvation by Alban Douglas

  • WHAT IS REGENERATION?

  • NECESSITY OF REGENERATION

  • NATURE OF REGENERATION

  • THE AGENTS USED IN THE NEW BIRTH

  • THE METHOD OF REGENERATION

  • THE EVIDENCE OF REGENERATION

  • THE RESULTS OF REGENERATION
  • WHAT IS REGENERATION?

  • NECESSITY OF REGENERATION

  • NATURE OF REGENERATION

  • THE AGENTS USED IN THE NEW BIRTH

  • THE METHOD OF REGENERATION

  • THE EVIDENCE OF REGENERATION

  • THE RESULTS OF REGENERATION

What is Regeneration?

What is Regeneration?

Rebirth or a re-creation, a new birth, a second birth, a new creation

The person has a second birthday and begins a new life

The actual birth takes place in a second, as one passes from darkness to ligth

Like the first birth, it is an event and not a process

Regeneration is the creation by the Holy Spirit of a new life in man called the "new creation," or the "new man."

What is Regeneration?

What is Regeneration?

TITUS 3:5 (KVJ)

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost...

JOHN 3:3-7

3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

  • The only way to become a Christian is by being born again; born by the power of the Holy Spirit

  • The new birth is the door to salvation and cosequently to heaven

Necessity of Regeneration

Necessity of Regeneration

Who needs to be born again?

  • All need to be born again (John 3:3)

Is there a substitute/exemption to this?

  • There are no exception to this rule (John 3:3,5)
  • There is no substitute for the new birth, to fail to be born again is to be lost

Galatians 6:15 (NIV)

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

The Agents Used in the New Birth

THE WORD OF GOD

James 1:18 (NLT)

He chose to give birth to us by giving us his true word. And we, out of all creation, became his prized possession.

Galatians 3:2 (NLT)

Let me ask you this one question: Did you receive the Holy Spirit by obeying the law of Moses? Of course not! You received the Spirit because you believed the message you heard about Christ.

THE SPIRIT OF GOD - THE HOLY SPIRIT

John 3:5 "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter. . ."

John 3 :6 "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is

spirit." Spiritual life is begotten by the Holy Spirit.

John 3:8 "... so is every one that is born of the Spirit."

Nature of Regeneration

Nature of Regeneration

Being spiritually dead, we cannot change our old nature. We need a spiritual resurrection, a new birth. We were born the first time physically and the second birth is a spiritual birth.

  • It is not baptism

  • It is not reformation

  • It is a supernatural act of God

resulting to spiritual quickening,

a new birth, a new creation

Ephesians 2:1 (NLT)

Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Method of Regeneration

Method of Regeneration

JOHN 1:12-13

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

DIVINE SIDE - GOD'S WILL (v13)

It is a creative act on the part of God - not reformation by man

  • The author of regeneration is God

  • The channel of regeration is Christ

  • The executive of regeneration is the Holy Spirit

Method of Regeneration

JOHN 1:12-13

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

HUMAN SIDE (v16)

  • The human part is to believe and receive

Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour

  • To be born again, believe and receive the Gospel,

the Word of God

Romans 1:16

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes...

Evidence of Regeneration

The one who is born again:

1 John 2:29 (NLT)

Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God’s children.

Lives a righteous life

Does not live a life of sin

Fulfills the command to love (1 John 4:7 ...Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.)

I John 3 :9 (NLT)

Those who have been born into God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are children of God.

Lives an overcoming life( 1 John 5:4 "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world.")

Believes that Jesus is the Christ.

John 5:1(NLT)

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has become a child of God. And everyone who loves the Father loves his children, too.

Results of Regeneration

Results of Regeneration

HEART IS CHANGED

  • Sin is hated
  • Christ is loved

John 4:14(NIV)

...but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

JOHN 7:37-38 (NIV)

...“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink.Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

LIFE IS CHANGED

  • New and holy desires spring up like a well of living water
  • The new life overflows in love and good works to others

A New Heart

Ezekiel 36:24-28 (NIV)

24 “For I will take you out of the nations;

I will gather you from all the countries and

bring you back into your own land.

25 I will sprinkle clean water on you,

and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from

all your impurities and from all your idols.

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new

spirit in you; I will remove from you your

heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.

27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

28 Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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