1. A New Life in Christ Regeneration13
A New Life in Christ Regeneration

2. Major Doctrines Inspiration of the Bible Divinity of Christ
Original Goodness
Fall of Man
Reconciliation
Election D. Redemption
Predestination E. Regeneration
Atonement

3. He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Titus 3:5

4. Regeneration
Revivication
Make Alive Again
Born Again

5. O.T. Imagery
Restoration of ISRAEL from slavery
Rebuilding of the Temple

6. N.T. Imagery
Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7

7. N.T. Imagery
Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7
Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17

8. N.T. Imagery
Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7
Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17
Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14

9. N.T. Imagery
Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7
Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17
Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14
Old Man to New Man - II Corinthians 5:17

10. N.T. Imagery Birth to Rebirth - John 3:3-7
Slavery to Freedom - Romans 6:16-17
Stranger to Son - Romans 8:14
Old Man to New Man - II Corinthians 5:17
Darkness to Light - Ephesians 5:8

11. Regeneration
WAS WAS NOT IS AGAIN

12. The gospel describes the regeneration process as a “before and after” picture with the redemptive work of Christ in the middle.

13. Regeneration Before After Live With : Freedom From : Guilt/Fear
Condemnation
Spiritual Death
No True Hope
After
Freedom From :
Guilt/Fear
Acquittal
Eternal Life/Hope

14. Regeneration is not something that we do
Regeneration is not something that we do. It is something that happens to us as a result of what Christ has done on the cross.

15. Old & New Lost to Saved - Mark 16:16 Condemned to Forgiven - Acts 2:38
Sinner to Saint - Romans 1:7
Outsider to Insider - Galatians 3:20
Unrighteous to Righteous - 1 John 1:7-9
Dead to Alive - John 3:5

16. “Born again Christian” … is Redundant.
The Term:
“Born again Christian” … is Redundant.

17. Life Signs
Zeal for Christ

18. Life Signs
Zeal for Christ
Zeal for the Church

19. Life Signs
Zeal for Christ
Zeal for the Church
Zeal for Purity

20. Many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.
- Acts 19:18-19

21. Zeal for Work Life Signs Zeal for Christ Zeal for the Church
Zeal for Purity
Zeal for Work

22. These “Life Signs” separate those who are alive in Christ from those who are dead in Christ.

23. The “Point” of Regeneration
UNREGENERATED REGENERATED
BAPTISM

24. Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born, can he?”
- John 3:3-4

25. Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
- John 3:5

26. Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?
- Romans 6:3

27. Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
- Romans 6:4

28. and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;
- Colossians 2:11

29. having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
- Colossians 2:12

30. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,
- Colossians 2:13

31. He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
- Titus 3:5

32. whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
- Titus 3:6-7

33. God Always Knew that the Atonement of Christ Would Free Believers to Experience New Lives.