Regeneration

Ezekiel 36:26-27 

 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: 

and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give

you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, 

and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall 

keep my judgments, and do them."  

    Sanctification actually begins at the time of our conversion, when by an act called regeneration, or the new birth, the principle of spiritual life is planted within us. This work of regeneration is promised in The Old Testament prophecies, "But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." (Jeremiah 31:33).

    In the New Testament, Paul described regeneration in 2 Corinthians. 5:7 "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." and again in Titus 3:5  "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."

    We must pay attention to the radical change that is described in each of these scriptures. God will put His law in our minds and write in on our hearts. That is, He will give us a new disposition that, instead of being hostile to God's law, we actually delight in it. The law which before was merely external, is now written in our hearts by the Spirit of God so that we are moved to obedience.

My Friends, "Renewing grace works as a great change in the soul as the turning of a dead stone into living flesh" (Matthew Henry).

Amen!

Reading: Devotional Scriptures
               John 3:6,8
Ref: HGSB
Discipline of Grace

May God Bless You

And Your Family

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross Life Ministry