Because regeneration is the work of God, it is a mysterious thing. All
God's works are shrouded in impenetrable mystery.
Life, natural life, in
its origin, in its nature, its processes, baffles the most careful investigator.
Much more is this the case with spiritual life. The Existence and Being of
God transcends the finite grasp; how then can we expect to understand
the process by which we become His children?
Our Lord Himself
declared that the new birth is a thing of mystery: "The wind blows where
it wills, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell whence it comes,
and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit" (John 3:8).
The wind is something about which the most learned scientist knows next
to nothing. Its nature, the laws which govern it, the causation, all lie
beyond the purview of human inquiry. So it is with the new birth: it is
profoundly mysterious.
Regeneration is an intensely solemn thing. The
new birth is the dividing line between Heaven and Hell. In God's sight
there are but two classes of people on this earth:
those who are dead in
sins, and those who are walking in newness of life.
In the physical realm
there is no such thing as being between life and death. A man is either
dead or alive. The vital spark may be very dim, but while it exists, life is
present. Let that spark go out altogether, and though you may dress the
body in beautiful clothes, nevertheless, it is nothing more than a corpse.
So it is in the spiritual realm. We are either saints or sinners, spiritually
alive or spiritually dead, children of God or children of the Devil. In view
of this solemn fact, how momentous is the question, Have I been born
again? If not, and you die in your present state, you will wish you had
never been born at all.
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God's works are shrouded in impenetrable mystery.
Life, natural life, in
its origin, in its nature, its processes, baffles the most careful investigator.
Much more is this the case with spiritual life. The Existence and Being of
God transcends the finite grasp; how then can we expect to understand
the process by which we become His children?
Our Lord Himself
declared that the new birth is a thing of mystery: "The wind blows where
it wills, and you hear the sound thereof, but can not tell whence it comes,
and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit" (John 3:8).
The wind is something about which the most learned scientist knows next
to nothing. Its nature, the laws which govern it, the causation, all lie
beyond the purview of human inquiry. So it is with the new birth: it is
profoundly mysterious.
Regeneration is an intensely solemn thing. The
new birth is the dividing line between Heaven and Hell. In God's sight
there are but two classes of people on this earth:
those who are dead in
sins, and those who are walking in newness of life.
In the physical realm
there is no such thing as being between life and death. A man is either
dead or alive. The vital spark may be very dim, but while it exists, life is
present. Let that spark go out altogether, and though you may dress the
body in beautiful clothes, nevertheless, it is nothing more than a corpse.
So it is in the spiritual realm. We are either saints or sinners, spiritually
alive or spiritually dead, children of God or children of the Devil. In view
of this solemn fact, how momentous is the question, Have I been born
again? If not, and you die in your present state, you will wish you had
never been born at all.
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