REGENERATION | Answers from bible | Christian short sermons

 

80. How often is this word found in the Bible? 

Twice — Matthew 19:28; Titus 3:5. 

81. What is the meaning of the word? 

Re — again; generate — to create or to beget; tion — act of or state of. Re-genera-tion act of begetting 

again. 

82. What other name have we for this? 

The new birth. 

83. What does our Saviour say about the new Birth? 

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3). 

84. What does Paul say on this subject? 

“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature” (Gala-

tians 6:15). 

85. What is it to be “a new creature?” 

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature; old things are passed away; behold, all things are become 

new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). 

86. Can any man describe the process of regeneration? 

“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” (John 3:8). 

87. How does Paul describe the new life? 

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life that I now live 

in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me” (Galatians 2:20). 

88. Are the children of God born of literal water (John 3:5)? 

“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God” (1 Peter 1:23). 

89. In what sense does Paul consider Timothy and others as his spiritual children? 

“For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel” (1 Corinthians 4:15). Read James 1:18. 

90. What effect has the new birth upon the life? “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin” (1 John 

3:9) 

91. Why? 

“For his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9). “He that commit-

teth sin is of the devil” (1 John 3:8). 

92. Does this mean absolute perfection? 

No. We never get so far along that we can not consistently pray, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 

debtors.” It means that they who are born of God seek all the light they can get, live up to all the light they 

have, and that to them the Lord doth not impute sin, for “the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from 

all sin” (Romans 4:8; 1 John 1:7). 

93. Does it not require a “second work” to fit a man to lead a sinless life? 

The Bible is entirely silent on this point. When John said, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin,” 

he left no room for the much talked about “wilderness life” between regeneration and the “second work.” 

94. If man can not explain the process of regeneration, how may he know that he has the new life in him? 

He may know this because of faith (John 5:24), love of the brethren (1 John 3:14), and a sinless life (Ro-

mans 6:2, 4). 

95. Ought a man to believe anything which he can not fully understand? 

Select the simplest object you can find. After you have learned all about it, so that it is impossible to know 

more about it, ask this question again. 

95. Can any one who is not a believer in the Christian religion experience regeneration? 

“He that hath the Son hath life: and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life” (1 John 5:12).