Gift #6 Regeneration

When you choose to receive the free gift of salvation, you are given automatically at least seven more free gifts. The free gift of salvation is the only one you must choose. All the others are given freely to you when you choose salvation.

Regenerated = revived; renewed; restored; made over especially in a better form

Jesus Christ gives you and me a new birth spiritually and a new nature that desires to please and obey Him rather than rebel against Him. Sure we still have our rebellious sin nature but now we do not have to obey it. We are free to choose which nature to feed. Jesus Christ makes us new!

Remember the discussion Jesus Christ had with Nicodemus recorded in John 3:

³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

⁴Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

⁵Jesus 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.

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

⁸The 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.

What does it mean to you to be given sight for the kingdom of God?

What does it mean to you to have entered the kingdom of God?

What does it mean to you to have a new birth? You have a new nature, one that wants to serve and obey Jesus rather than rebel against Him.

Titus puts it this way recorded in Titus 3:

³For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

⁴But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,

⁵Not 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;

⁶Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

You and I are regenerated because of Jesus’ love for you and me and because of His mercy.

What does the love of Jesus for you mean to you?

What does the mercy of Jesus for you mean to you?

You and I also have the Comforter, our own personal Guide to all truth shed abundantly on us by Jesus Christ

Paul says it this way recorded in 2 Corinthians 5: ¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The person you were before you chose to receive the free gift of salvation is gone. You have been regenerated, made new and all things about your person are being made new. What does that mean to you?

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine – Fanny Crosby

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine; Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Refrain

This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long.
This is my story, this is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight, Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest, I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above, Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

Hebrews 12:¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God

Dearly Beloved,

Run with your eyes on Jesus alone!

Run in faith that Jesus loves you with an everlasting, unconditional love; has uniquely designed and created only one you; has a good plan for your life; runs with you; and will accomplish His purposes for you and through you!

Run in His strength alone!

Run with your eyes on the prize!

Run with your focus on His mission: to conform you to the image of Jesus Christ!

Run with the desire to finish strong!

Run with the desire to finish with your lamp burning!

Run with the expectation of being in His physical presence when you cross your finish line!

Run to His glory alone!

Run and keep on running!

Coach Patti