The Miracle of New Birth in Christ

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The reason we must be born again, however it happens, the reason we must be born again in order to see the kingdom of God Like Jesus says, is because by Nature by birth, we are all spiritually dead. This is the way Paul describes it in Ephesians 2 4. [00:01:04]

Every human being has fallen in Adam and comes into the world without any saving spiritual life at all. We are dead, we are by Nature resistant to God, we do not submit to him by Nature we value things that he has made more than him by nature. [00:01:48]

Unless we feel the weight of the lostness and fallenness, deadness of all humans especially ourselves, nothing about the New Birth is going to make sense in the New Testament. So all of that means if we're going to live, if we're going to know God, if we're going to be happy forever we must have new life. [00:02:46]

Jesus said to Nicodemus John 3 verse 3 will start there truly I say to you unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God then I'll jump to verse six, that which is born of the flesh is flesh that which is born of the spirit is Spirit. [00:03:12]

The spirit is as free in his regenerating New Birth work, and he's as mysterious in that work as the Unseen wind you don't control the wind you don't make the wind come you don't make the wind go it just comes it goes it does what it does and that's the way it is with God's Sovereign spirit. [00:04:40]

Our first conscious conscious experience of this new birth is the arising in our hearts of faith in Christ you might say that the the first Cry of the newborn Christian infant is the Cry of Faith instead of where where where, the heart feels I see him he's beautiful I love him I want him. [00:05:29]

The Holy Spirit does not whisper the gospel in our ear we have to hear about him in the gospel so Paul says in Romans 10 that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ so what we learned then is that faith is a work of the holy spirit in New Birth. [00:07:35]

You have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable that's the spirit of God, through he says through the living and abiding word of God so born of the spirit born through the word. [00:08:17]

The Holy Spirit does not move willy-nilly, randomly, through the world touching random people with the new birth who've never heard the gospel without any reference to the word of God at all no he doesn't do that he moves in tandem with the preaching of the gospel. [00:09:05]

The implication for us is that our essential role in Salvation is to speak the word of God and then trust the spirit of God to do the work, the hard work called the new birth. We don't cause the new birth in ourselves or in anybody else. [00:10:40]

The role we have and it is an absolutely essential role is to speak Faithfully the word of God. Paul asks in in Romans 10. verse 14. how are they to believe in him whom they've never heard, and how are they to hear without someone preaching. [00:11:12]

May the Lord give us great boldness and faithfulness and confidence, that when we speak the word of God, the spirit of God will give life and glorify the Son of God through the Awakening of faith. [00:11:49]

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