The New Birth

Call to prayer

Title: The New birth

By: Michael Ntow

Date: 22/06/2021

No man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
JOHN 10:29

If you are regenerate, you will remain regenerate. It seems to me that this is absolutely inevitable because regeneration is the work of God. Yet there are those who seem to think that people can be born again as the result of believing the truth, and then if they backslide or fall into sin or deny the truth, they lose their regeneration, but if they come back again and believe again, then they are regenerate again as if one can be born again and die and be born again and die an endless number of times! How important doctrine is!

How important it is that we should be clear as to what the Scripture teaches about these things! It tells us that regeneration is the work of God Himself in the depths of the soul and that He does it in such a way that it is permanent. “No man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:29).

“I am persuaded,” says Paul, and let us notice this, “I am persuaded” he is certain “that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39). And when Paul says that, he is expounding regeneration. It is not merely the relationship between us, it is because He has put this life in me that nothing can separate me from Him. And when we come to deal with the mystical union that follows directly from this, we see how still more inevitable this must be. This is a permanent work, and nothing can ever bring it to an end.

Regenerate people cannot go on sinning because they are born of God (1 John 3:9). They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. This is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.

A thought to ponder

Regeneration is the work of God Himself in the depths of the soul, and it is permanent.

Prayer

Let’s pray for the grace to not consent to sin when we are being enticed.

God bless us all🔥🔥🔥