The New Birth: Part III John 3:14-21

Regeneration The act of God by which He imparts eternal life to those who are dead in their sin, thus making them His Children

Piper We do not cause our new birth by an act of faith. Just the reverse: the cry of faith is the first sound that a newborn babe in Christ makes. Regeneration, as we sometimes call it, is all of God. We do not get God to do it by trusting Christ; we trust Christ because He has done it to us already.

The New Birth: Part I!I I.The Sacrifice of Christ

Isaiah 45:22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

The New Birth: Part III I.The Sacrifice of Christ II.The Plan of God a) The Act – God’s Great Love

Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved

Ephesians 3:18-19 …may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The New Birth: Part III I.The Sacrifice of Christ II.The Plan of God a) The Act – God’s Great Love b) The Result – God’s Great Gift c) The Purpose – God’s People III.The Response of Man

The New Birth: Part III I.The Sacrifice of Christ II.The Plan of God a) The Act – God’s Great Love b) The Result – God’s Great Gift

Roman 4:25 …who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.

Roman 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all

John 4:10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

John 6:32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.”

2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

John 17:6 I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.

And Can it Be And can it be that I should gain An interest in the Savior’s blood? Died He for me, who caused His pain? For me, who Him to death pursued? Amazing love! How can it be That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

The New Birth: Part III I.The Sacrifice of Christ II.The Plan of God a) The Act – God’s Great Love b) The Result – God’s Great Gift c) The Purpose – God’s People

Calvin Christ brought life because the heavenly Father loves the human race and wishes that they should not perish.

John 20:31 …these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Wesley To him that in Thy name believes Eternal life with Thee is given; Into himself he all receives, Pardon, and holiness, and heaven.

Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please him…

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith.

Flacius 1.The remote efficient cause, God’s love 2.The approximate efficient cause, the gift of God’s Son 3.The material cause, Christ’s exaltation on the cross 4.The instrumental cause, faith 5.The final cause, eternal life

To God Be the Glory O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood, To every believer the promise of God; The vilest offender who truly believes, That moment from Jesus a pardon receives.

Calvin Whenever our sins press us, - whenever Satan would drive us to despair, - we ought to hold out this shield, that God is unwilling that we should be overwhelmed with everlasting destruction, because He has appointed His Son to be the salvation of the world.