Holy Spirit and regeneration
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· 22 viewsGod’s Spirit works to bring the gift of new birth and renewal to those who have been called to faith.
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The Holy Spirit’s work is promised
The Holy Spirit’s work is promised
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.
See also Eze 37:14
Jesus Christ proclaims the Holy Spirit’s work
Jesus Christ proclaims the Holy Spirit’s work
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
The Holy Spirit’s work brings salvation
The Holy Spirit’s work brings salvation
Tt 3:5–6 “washing” (apparently a reference to baptism) signifies regeneration.
See also Eph 5:25–27
Regeneration is a creative work of God’s Spirit alone
Regeneration is a creative work of God’s Spirit alone
It cannot be achieved by human means
It cannot be achieved by human means
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
See also Jn 1:13; Jn 3:6
It cannot be achieved through the works of the law
It cannot be achieved through the works of the law
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
See also Ro 2:29; Ro 7:6; Ro 8:2; Ga 3:2