REGENERATION

By Rick Mathes

2 Timothy 3:5 (NASB77) ⁵  holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; and avoid such men as these.

New wine will burst an old wine-skin. Your heart, mind and spirit cannot be repaired by your efforts. You know this because you have tried, tried, and tried again to reform and you have and always will fail. You need a new heart, mind and spirit that only the Holy Spirit in you is a greater miracle than the creation of the universe.

This transaction is what I call a unilateral agreement. God changed your life and you had nothing to do with it. Like metal seeking out and being drawn to a magnet you were irresistibly called to your own exclusive born again experience. It is of Divine origin. You did nothing nor could you do anything to be saved. Jesus did it all on the Cross when He chose you. You can wiggle like a worm on a hook but when Jesus wants you, He will have you: period!

Having His Holy Spirit gives you a spiritual vision which is essential to the process of sanctification: the pursuit of holiness. To be holy you must be wholly His and the only way that’s going to happen is to see with His eyes because your own won’t do.

You are a new creation. Satan ruined the old you and Jesus took the devil’s trash and turned it into His treasure. You are literally a “diamond in a coal mine.” What a rarity you are! Your gack bone is the Bible only, Jesus only, Grace only and Faith only. On the surface, that’s seems clear enough  but Satan is a slick old devil and he will twist and turn the word of God for any loophole he can find by inventing one whenever he has to. He doesn’t cae if you are determined to be born again, repent, get baptized or even become a Christian minister, just don’t do it today!

The Word of God is the devil’s arch-enemy. “It is written” is the sword that will slay the dragon. The “Whore of Babylon” will neer be enticing to you to sin as long as your nose is in the Bible. You obtain the born-again regeneration by faith only. That means, He said it, I believe it and that settles it!