{"id":2859,"date":"2014-05-10T10:08:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2014-05-10T10:08:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T10:08:33","slug":"%e2%80%9cyou-must-be-born-again-%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%94-john-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2859","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou must be born again.\u201d \u2014 John 3:7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cYou must be born again.\u201d \u2014 John 3:7 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation,  and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are \u201cborn  again,\u201d for there are many who imagine they are, who are not. Be assured  that the name of a Christian\u2014is not the nature of a Christian; and that  being born in a Christian land, and being recognized as professing the  Christian religion\u2014is of no avail whatever, unless there is something  more added to it \u2014 the being \u201cborn again,\u201d by the power of the Holy  Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Regeneration is a matter so <strong>mysterious<\/strong>, that human  words cannot describe it. \u201cThe wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear  its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.  So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it is a change which is known and felt. It is <strong>known <\/strong>by works of holiness\u2014and <strong>felt <\/strong>by a gracious experience.<\/p>\n<p>This great work is <strong>supernatural<\/strong>. It is not an  operation which a man performs for himself. It is a new principle is  infused, which works in the heart, renews the soul, and affects the  entire man. It is not a change of my name\u2014but a renewal of my nature, so  that I am not the man I used to be\u2014but a new man in Christ Jesus. To  wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive!  Man can do the one\u2014God alone can do the other.<\/p>\n<p>If you have then, been \u201cborn again,\u201d your acknowledgment will be, \u201cO  everlasting Father, You are my spiritual Parent; unless Your Spirit had  breathed into me the breath of a new, holy, and spiritual life\u2014I would  have been to this day, \u2018dead in trespasses and sins.\u2019 My heavenly life  is wholly derived from You\u2014to You I ascribe it. \u2018My life is hid with  Christ in God.\u2019 It is no longer I who live\u2014but Christ who lives in me.\u201d  May the Lord enable us to be well assured on this vital point, for to be  unregenerate is to be unsaved, unpardoned, without God, and without  hope!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Spurgeon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou must be born again.\u201d \u2014 John 3:7 Regeneration is a subject which lies at the very basis of salvation, and we should be very diligent to take heed that we really are \u201cborn again,\u201d for there are many who imagine they are, who are not. Be assured that the name of a Christian\u2014is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-regeneration","category-taught-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2860,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions\/2860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}