A New Life in Christ

Major Doctrines

1. Inspiration of the Bible

2. Divinity of Christ

3. Original Goodness

4. Fall of Man

5. Reconciliation

A. Election D. Redemption

B. Predestination E. Regeneration

C. Atonement

D. Redemption

E. Regeneration

Titus 3:5 ESV

5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Regeneration

Revivication

Make Alive Again

Born Again

O.T. Imagery

Restoration of ISRAEL from slavery

Rebuilding of the Temple

N.T. Imagery

A.Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7

B.Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17

C.Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14

D.Old Man to New Man - II Corinthians 5:17

E.Darkness to Light - Ephesians 5:8

Regeneration

WAS

WAS NOT

IS AGAIN

The gospel describes the regeneration process as a “before and after”picture with the redemptive work of Christ in the middle.

Regeneration

Before

Live With:

Guilt/Fear

Condemnation

Spiritual Death

No True Hope

After

Freedom From :

Guilt/Fear

Acquittal

Eternal Life/Hope

Regeneration is not something that we do. It is something that happens to us as a result of what Christ has done on the cross.

Old & New

Lost to Saved - Mark 16:16

Condemned to Forgiven - Acts 2:38

Sinner to Saint - Romans 1:7

Outsider to Insider - Galatians 3:20

Unrighteous to Righteous - 1 John 1:7-9

Dead to Alive - John 3:5

The Term:

“Born again Christian”

… is Redundant.

Life Signs

Zeal for Christ

Zeal for the Church

Zeal for Purity

Zeal for Work

Acts 19:18–19 ESV

18 Also many of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices. 19 And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver.

These “Life Signs” separate those who are alive in Christ from those who are dead in Christ.

The “Point”of Regeneration

UNREGENERATED

Baptism

REGENERATED

John 3:3–4 ESV

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?”

John 3:5 ESV

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.

Romans 6:3 ESV

3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Romans 6:4 ESV

4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Colossians 2:11 ESV

11 In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

Colossians 2:12 ESV

12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Colossians 2:13 ESV

13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

Titus 3:5 ESV

5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Titus 3:6–7 ESV

6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

God Always Knew that the Atonement of Christ Would Free Believers to Experience New Lives.