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In the narrower sense, regeneration is viewed as the initial act of God whereby He goes into the very depth of a sinner’s inner existence and translates him from death unto life. This is sometimes called the planting of the seed of regeneration. For most of Gods people, it takes place while they ar
From all this it ought to be evident that regeneration is exclusively a work of God, wherein man is strictly passive, in the sense that he does not and cannot cooperate in his own rebirth. In the deepest sense regeneration is not even as such a matter of his own experience, seeing that it does not t
But although the word "regeneration" occurs only once in the epistles of the apostle Paul, the fact itself is referred to in many places in the epistles of Paul. Thus, for instance, he teaches us that he that is in Christ Jesus is a new creature: old things are passed away, and all things are become
Rev. Martyn McGeown, pastor of Providence PRC in Hudsonville, Michigan Previous article in this series: December 15, 2022, p. 132. Introduction: What regeneration is In the first article of this series we defined the ordo salutis as the logical order in which the Holy Spirit of Christ applies thos
You understand why the Heidelberg Catechism brings up regeneration right here? Though it's not in the section in our deliverance. It's taking it up to prove, to show, to explain what total depravity is. The fact that it takes such a drastic measure as this thing called regeneration in order to
In regeneration, the renewed man has spiritual life, lives in newness of life. In conversion the renewed man becomes active in his new life. Regeneration is the work of God whereby the elect but spiritually dead sinner is born again and so made to pass out of death into life. Conversion is the work
You will recall that regeneration is that first implanting of the new life of Christ in the heart, that the Holy Spirit calls the regenerated sinner into that new life, that God ingrafts him through faith into Christ, the only source of life, and that justification is that gracious act of God whereb
infuses new qualities into the will, which, though heretofore dead, He makes alive; from being evil . . . renders it good… This is the regeneration in scripture . . . denominated a new creation (II Cor. 5:17), a resurrection from the dead (Jn. 5:24, 25), a making alive (Eph. 2:1), which God works in
Regeneration is referred to also, can be understood also as our being united to Christ with a real living union. Always we have been viewed in Christ even before we existed. God viewed us in Christ in eternity. But as we come into being in time, then God comes to us again at some point in time a
In regeneration we are made new creatures; we are given the life of Jesus Christ; we are given the spiritual abilities to love and believe; and we are given new desires and powers to obey God. In the seed of regeneration is included all the potential to grow into a fruit-bearing Christian. This, in